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It's ironic that your implication is that the media should focus entirely on US problems to the exclusion of any other country's problems - and you think this w
by pekk 13y ago
It's ironic that your implication is that the media should focus entirely on US problems to the exclusion of any other country's problems - and you think this will be unbiased
- rdtsc 13y agoWhat is ironic is the coincidence of "look at shitty Russia with 14 year old brides" when a) US government is shutdown b) Snowden documents keep revealing NSA's dirt form under the carpet.
- cma 13y agoNot to mention the age of consent in some states in the US is as low as 14 (if one partner is younger than 18)...
- bcoates 13y agoThe marriage in the article would be legal in California.
- ScottBurson 13y agoOnly with a judge's approval -- which I doubt would be forthcoming -- particularly if the putative groom sat glumly through the hearing playing video games.
- auctiontheory 13y agoIn Georgia (the US state, not the formerly Soviet country), the age of marriage and sexual consent is 13. source: Wikipedia [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_sexual_consent_in_the_United_States http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_sexual_consent_in_th...]
- vasilipupkin 13y agoAre you sure, because I just looked at Wikipedia and it says 16 not 13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#Georgia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_Americ...
- dreamfactory 13y agoThe internet is pretty much ruined in many ways now. Apart from the snooping, public opinion has become an open battlefield. Comments for any political article on any popular site are now full to the brim with obvious shills of all stripes.
- hnriot 13y agowe still have wikipedia, that alone justifies the cost of the internet. as a data scientist, I am particularly thankful for wikipedia and it's brethren like freebase as a real, up to date corpus and to some extend ontology.