too easy:

• Survivor - starving people struggle to survive while uncaring overseers with video cameras heartlessly record their plight
• Amazing Race - people, probably ones who escaped from the island in Survivor, flee pursuit while overseers with cameras record their crimes against the state
• Thursday Night Football - FFA - Future Felons of America
• CSI / Miami / New York - DNA always tells the truth
• Bluebloods - The elite Chief of Police presides over a nepotistic dynasty, as is right.
• Person of Interest - hackers can't escape from the loving all-seeing AI
• NCIS / Los Angeles / New Orleans / JAG - we'll get you if you fuck with the Navy.
• Two Broke Girls - occupy Brooklyn
• Two and a Half Men - perennial loser's son is one of the disappeared. Stay in line, don't let this happen to you.
• Hawaii Five O - again, don't fuck with the Navy.
• The Mentalist - we can read your mind, resistance if futile. And the police will lie and trick you.
• Mike an Molly - police officers are likable normal joes, not crazed thugs with pepperspray and tazers.
• The Good Wife - a party apparatchik leverages her political connections to get ahead.
• Madam Secretary - hey look, we're really good guys, we don't really want to bomb you. but you need bombing.
• Big Bang Theory - annoying geniuses who make the bmbs for those who need bombing like ISIS
• Scorpion - hackers can be good, too. They work for the State.
• Elementary - Winston Smith solves crimes for the police.
• Criminal Minds - that's you. There's no escape.

In before "Why didn't the eagles fly the One Ring to Mount Doom" and/or "Why didn't the eagles fly the company of Dwarves to the Lonely Mountain."

Suspension of Disbelief: Spiderman exists and has super powers and is the only one capable of stopping The Lizard.

Terrible Writing: Some guy in New York totally knows all the crane operators in New York, knows the location of Spiderman as well as his destination, and at a moments notice is able get all his crane operator buddies to line up a dozen or more cranes on building tops along a single street and extend them so that Spiderman may web sling from them.

Hollywood: The cops hate Spiderman and want to capture him, but after seeing The Lizard they have a change of heart and love Spiderman. To show their newfound love for their new favorite superhero, a police helicopter hovering just above the roof Spiderman is on shines its spotlight onto the cranes that were lined up for him. Showing Spiderman the way to swing, swing, swing, swing, swing toward the Lizard Man is a nice gesture, but it would have been faster, easier, less dangerous, and a hell of a lot more practical to just give him a ride in the fucking helicopter.

Most of the viewers are not smart, let alone geniuses either.

The show isn't trying to portray smart people, it's trying to portray dumb people's idea of what smart people are probably like..

Another Yank without a clue. "Child molesting" is rape, and is a crime. Possession or creation of "child pornography" (i.e. portrayals of child rape) is a less serious crime, but quite rightly still a crime.

Simply being a paedophile and not acting on it is no more illegal than being a Holocaust denier or goat-fucker.

pedophile pedfl/ noun noun: paedophile; plural noun: paedophiles; noun: pedophile; plural noun: pedophiles a person who is sexually attracted to children.

Mysidia seems to be thinking along the lines of supreme court decisions regarding obscenity. Obscenity is difficult to define and the definition depends on intent - naked pics intended to get the viewer horny vs naked pics in a medical textbook intended to educate. Maroney's lawyers had them removed from a site called porn.com. Porn.com is aptly named - it's a porn site. Naked pictures of an attractive young woman on porn.com are probably there to be used as porn. It's porn.com, after all.

When children are involved, you don't need definitions that are quite as nuanced because you don't have quite the same first amendment issues. There's nto really any valid reason to film kids doing anything sexual, so the law can be more clear-cut. Here's a sample definition from one state:

Sec. 43.25. SEXUAL PERFORMANCE BY A CHILD. (a) In this section: (1) "Sexual performance" means any performance or part thereof that includes sexual conduct by a child younger than 18 years of age. (2) "Sexual conduct" means sexual contact, actual or simulated sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual bestiality, masturbation, sado-masochistic abuse, or lewd exhibition of the genitals, the anus, or any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola. (3) "Performance" means any play, motion picture, photograph, dance, or other visual representation that can be exhibited before an audience of one or more persons.

A vital detail that those outside the city (and many within it) don't know - and of course won't get from the inflammatory OMG! NANNY STATE! headline/summary - is that the City of Seattle doesn't have a local landfill. Hasn't for many years; there's no nearby space. Instead, all garbage is loaded onto train cars - hundreds of them a day - and sent by rail to a landfill in rural Oregon, about 250 miles away. That was the cheapest alternative for the city, even though it involves paying twice (once to transport it, and again to the landfill operator). But it's still expensive. Given that it's in the best interest of the City _and_ its ratepayers to reduce the amount of landfillable waste (aka number of train cars) in favor of more economic alternatives; specifically, recycling and composting, both of which are able to be handled within a few dozen miles of the city, at much lower cost than the landfill trains. The alternative is to have even more and longer trains and higher rates for garbage for everyone. Kind of the opposite of a nanny state; this is pure and simple economics. If the spectre of a few $1 fines for the few residents who can't be bothered to separate their greasy pizza boxes into another bin makes everyone's garbage rates lower, then I'm all for it.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to segreagate your waste according to the government's specifications. You're always free to load your garbage in your car, find a privately run landfill who will accept it as-is, and bring it there.

Not a good explanation at all, just a clumsy attempt to justify poor writing.

When the vast majority of the population talks of 'wasting food' they mean one thing - allowing otherwise edible material to become inedible. What happens AFTER it becomes inedible does not matter in the slightest. It does not matter if you put the stuff into the trash or compost, as far as being FOOD it has been wasted.

A headline of 'Seattle Passes Law to Encourage Recycling Organic Material' would actually convey what happened. You may or may not agree with such a law, but at least you know what it is.

A headline of 'Seattle Passes Law to Keep Residents From Wasting Food' tells you NOTHING about what they actually did. Are they going to restrict how many groceries a family can buy? Are they going to check your refrigerator to make sure you don't let leftovers go bad? Are they going to fine you for discard any food? The only reason to write such a stupid headline is as flamebait.