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by r_smart 10y ago
It's interesting you would blame a lack of government progress on businesses. Historically businesses are happy to jump on R&D the government has done and made public. I suppose for any potential innovation there are those that are
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Maybe depends on where you come from in the US. Where I come from I totally believe it. But then, I am fairly open about my childhood abuse, and it makes other people feel okay about opening up, so I could just hear about an inordinate amou
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I would argue that what propaganda that is there is hardly nuanced or subtle, and certainly doesn't qualify as mind control. I also think a component of it comes from how poorly vets have been treated in the past by the culture at larg
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Not all the way through, but just wanted to say thanks for the link. Interesting, and a great summary of how something like the photo in question could get censored. The majority doesn't see it as child pornography, but who's goin
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Sure it's censure. The motivation doesn't change the act, at least not in this case. I don't think anybody finds Facebook to be taking a stance on the Vietnam War here.
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If you're trying to lead me to a specific idea, I'm not following, sorry. To answer you literally: Serious injury or mutilation, wearing some kind of propaganda the censor didn't want you to see, bawdy tattoos. Probably a mil
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>They are murdering and raping people. >I would never utter such an ambiguous and clearly manipulative phrase. Pick one.
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No, the inflation adjusted value allows a person reading it to compare it to the buying power of the time they live in to understand how much money it actually was. Having a monetary figure expressed in a time other than as an analog to the
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Maybe you have a lot of information that I don't (I'm hardly an expert here), but describing it as the main driver seems like a stretch. In the Caribbean, I can see your statement being true. But in the US, as I understand it, it
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Both good points. The second one makes me sad though. I sometimes wonder what, if anything will be the tipping point.
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To be fair: 1) Leadership should be criticized, particularly political decisions leading to war, but I'd steer away from treating soldiers like shit. In a lot of ways this is punching down. It's mostly people from poorer families
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I think our definitions of meaningful are significantly different. I try to picture what the image would be like with a girls head atop a blurry body, and it seems to me a totally different thing. Her being naked is a key part of planting t
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So far as I know, sex is used to sell the world over. Growing up, I remember there was a fascination with racy European commercials. Depictions of sex are more normalized there, so the ads just get sexier. Sorta like violence in the US. &gt
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That's actually technically the law in the US as well, with the addition that the falsehood has to have caused harm (and I think be malicious or grossly negligent -- sorry my journalism training is super rusty). It's just that we&
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There's actually probably an interesting bigger point here. Why is this image the content that sparked so much outrage? As you point out, they ban a lot of things on behalf of other countries. There's been complaints of conservati
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Where in America is 16 and 17 legal for appearing in pornography? There are places with age of consent laws that low, but often times there's still a band around that age that their partner has to fall into (i.e. if you're 45, 16
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America has something like 330 million people in it. I assure you, there are a lot of us who see the basic logic around this and think we should stop worrying about the occasional nipple. In this particular instance though, it's worse
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Didn't they get rid of that because it was protested so heavily?
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This was precisely it for me. I have been excited for this project forever, but just haven't had a chance to filter it up to the top of my priority queue. Sadly, sometimes things remove themselves from your todo list.
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I think my dad was a touch too young at the time, be was born in 1956 I think. >We also went to school during a time prior to the overly structured curriculum. This is probably why there's so much variation. >Part of it may simpl
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I didn't go to the hospital. It was in a large well-ventilated room, so it was bad, but not awful (mostly could just smell something bad). And it never actually caught fire. I did however throw it in a chamber we had fashioned for test
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>it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others. I'm assuming this is just PR, but if not, what a dumb statement. I'm sure there are cases where this might be
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Really? We got a decent amount on Vietnam, though not so much in high school. I remember in middle school one of our teachers had us watch some of the actual newscasts, as well as exposing us to some other things like this picture. I'm
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I confess I didn't try it. The whole casing had ruptured and was warped / distended. It wouldn't have even been close to fitting back in the phone. Also, passing current through it was the furthest thing from my mind. I assur
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I don't know about the battery you're referencing but as far as phones go: I once cooked a Li battery from a Galaxy S5 under a thermostream at 200C (totally not by accident guys!) and it outgassed a lot, but there was no signs of
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Okay, firstly, just because you don't respect the opinions of right-wing politicians, doesn't mean no one does, and it doesn't mean it invalidates my claim. Would you say the same thing about gay marriage ("Show me oppos
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So you've missed the attempts to blame videogames for school / mass shootings? Or do you think that doesn't qualify as an attack on the community?
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I think he correctly points out, though, that the games industry and culture have a massive self-esteem problem. For the most part, when it gets kicked, it just lays there and takes it. He may be a touch effusive in his positivity about gam
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I agree with you, but would also point out that the same is true for movies and books. In the general case, they're not any better off than video games. They've just both had much longer to accumulate classics and genres. You see
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Yeah, I realized that after I posted my comment, and should have probably gone back to edit it. Thanks for pointing it out.

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