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Comment Re:commercials and young kids (Score 1) 163

Why did you allow your kids to be bombarded with commercials at an age where they couldn't cope?

Because there were compensating advantages to those shows. Life is about grey and tradeoffs. And her wanting particular products and getting upset about it while a negative was not a game changer. Your ID is low enough that you are about my age. I'd assume you know this and should be sounding like a teen that hasn't made these tradeoffs.

Comment commercials and young kids (Score 5, Insightful) 163

I remember when my daughter was about 2.5-4 commercials were unbelievable effective. Even those commercials that targeted the mother watching with the kid had an impact and my daughter would often get upset we didn't have the right products. I'd love to just see a ban on advertising for kids under 10, and public financing.

Comment Re:There is no way. (Score 0) 1081

I have to say if I'm poor and accused of a serious crime my best chance for justice might be if it becomes a death penalty case. If I consider an execution to be 80 years removed of life then probably a death penalty decreases the chances of wrongful time. Even if I were to use a number like 500 or 1000 the better scrutiny would still make up for it.

  Our system is not great with poor people. That's a very serious problem. Arguably charging some with capital crimes makes it better not worse.

Comment Re:Politicians will be stupid but scientists/techn (Score 1) 356

Why can't the nuclear industry take care of their own stuff ?

They aren't politically powerful enough. They lost the big battles with the Democrats in the 1970s early 1980s both over non-excessive safety standards, liability, and enrichment. We know they can't take care of their own stuff. I'm not sure what this has to do with solar so I don't agree with GP either but they lost.

Comment Re:Religious fanatics scare me (Score 1) 163

Gaza exists but as a self governing independent territory that's not apartheid. As for Gaza fighting for their survival in 2005 they were fully independent had trade and had a security agreement with Israel. They instead choose to elect a government that refused to cooperate on security with Israel and instead was openly dedicated to Israel's destruction. The Gazans not the Israelis were the aggressors in 2006. This sounds so far fetched since militarily the Gazans are so much less powerful than the Israelis and thus the war has gone badly for them, but I urge you to check the timeline.

If the Gazans want peace: recognize Israel, maintain the sanctity of their border i.e. prevent their territory from being used for terrorists attacks on Israel and that's it. Similarly with Egypt, they need to stop interfering in Egyptians internal affairs and the Rafah crossing will open. They aren't fighting for their survival they are fighting for their bigotry, their right to destroy the territory outside of Gaza. The fact that the Gazans elected a government not too far different ideologically from Al Qaeda is why their lifestyle is deteriorating. Picking a dreadful government usually results in bad consequences. If you want to call that collective punishment it is a the collective punishment that every society and culture is subject to since the beginning of time.

Comment Re:Religious fanatics scare me (Score 2) 163

Inside of Israel proper is a democracy with almost full equality and an Arab Israeli population who is not only keeping up with Israelis overall rapidly increasing standard of living but gaining ground. The Gazans have 0 Jews among them. They live in misery after the withdrawal because they have been unwilling to live in peace. Most of the West Bank is arguably a military dictatorship on issues of defense. But even here the areas that Israel inhabits has very little Palestinians population. The population centers where the Palestinians live (Areas A and B) are self governing.

Israel is not an apartheid state.

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