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thanks - clear summary without a political rant!

cheers :-)

Seems to me that "Democrat" or "Republican" are USA-specific terms - not sure what's 'global' about that bias? ;-)

Not much use exploring articles about political biases in civil rights articles in the UK using "Democrat" and "Republican" as terms. "Labour", "Scottish National Party", "Plaid Cymru","Liberal" , and "Conservative" (amongst others) might be more useful.

Ok, so I guess it is a good test of an example, whether USA specific articles on the English language have a political bias. Not sure it says much about UK articles (won't be much reference to these terms there as we have neither of those parties) , not sure if those US named parties exist in other countries either.

Peer reviewed reference please. Or I'll just claim you're making it up.

He also said he found that approach so distasteful that he only used it a few times, even though it worked.

From my point of view, porn is more honorable, and less harmful. I considered matters, and decided I didn't need to try the approach Feynman mentioned. (Forget who suggested it to him.) I could tell ahead of time that I wouldn't like the results. (A couple of times I slipped into an analogous position by accident, and it was always something that would have been better avoided.)

Please understand, I'm not saying that it is an inherently unethical or immoral approach. If used honestly, it escapes those problems. But it's still something better avoided, because of it's effects on *you*.

That was my experience too. Of course, I identified several causes that made things worse, and which were, at the time, unusual. Moving every 2-3 years while growing up didn't help at all, e.g. Funny thing, that seems to have become more common.

So quite possibly teenagers are now less socially apt than they were. I don't know. But there are many reasons why this might well be so.

That said, it's quite possible that computer games render recovery more difficult. (Recovery? But what better word is there?) This doesn't make them the proximate cause. I'd be more willing to blame parents keeping their children locked in their homes "for safety's sake". Or moving around more. Or loss of neighborhood schools. Or... Please note that each one of these "possible causative factors" has it's own separate reasons for happening. So fixing the problem isn't simple, and fixing the problem would only help the next generation, not the current one.

Did you confuse Jung and Adler? If not, authority figures don't play a major role in Jung's theories. (OTOH, the definitely do in Adler's.)

Can somebody with more knowledge ofthe US legal system explain what appears to be a tiny penalty for crashing into and permanently disabling two people? I would have expected a more serious punishment.

Is this a typical punishment for this kind of crime?

Bottom line: if you want the US government to fund it, they need to find the money.

They get money by taxing US citizens.

Will the people of the USA agree to higher taxes to fund this?

My suspicion is that while the majority of US slashdot readers might pay an extra 100 dollars a year to help fund it, most US citizens wouldn't agree to this tax rise.

They might all agree to cut 100 dollars off some other government expenditure, but my suspicion is that it would be a total nightmare to get them to all agree on one thing to cut by say, 100 dollars a year. Some would want cuts to the military, old folk might want cuts to children's services, young folk might want cuts to older folks services, and so on....