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• We have lives
  So what if we like to play games online in addition to working/reading etc. Games are a release and are fun. I really feel sorry for people like mbharr who can't accept that adults play and enjoy games just like teens/kids do. I've been a gamer of various sorts for over 20 years and that's not likely to change any time soon. In reply to: "Could Microsoft really be this childish?"

  September 5, 2007

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• Protecting children
  If state and local governments want to protect children from violence and indecent material, then local news should be censored, children should not be allowed to read or attend school and they should all be raised in an underground bunker where they can be isolated from reality. Let's face it, violence is everywhere. There are bullies in schools, gangs and drug dealers both in schools and on the streets, wars going on everywhere. As for indecency, just look at most movies being produced. So let's just lock up all our children so that, when they hit 18, they can be subjected to such severe culture shock that they may never want to come out into the sunshine and be human.

  August 21, 2007

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• Nanny State expands
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  I've seen some good comments about the state of parenting today and I've seen some comments supporting the continuance of the nanny state. Personally, I feel that the problem lies more with the parents than with myspace or any other IM/social network/chat site. This happened all the time between 1997 and 2003 over IM using MSN or Yahoo or ICQ or AIM and you never saw any of those companies being sued. Now that kids have a central location to congregate and predators have that same site to troll for victims, it becomes a news focus. Why?
  
  If parents would take more interest in parenting and what actually goes on when their children get online or leave the house, do you really think this would have happened? Yes, I realize kids lie. So is that the fault of myspace too? Perhaps we should just get rid of the internet and telephones and television completely. That way the predators won't have any access into homes without knocking on doors. Oh and get rid of cars and planes, because those allow these predators to travel to distant places to search for victims. Or we can just sit back and let the government raise our children for us. They take all the responsibility but we pay all the bills. Sound fair? Because that's slowly what's happening.
  
  Someone mentioned moving to an eastern bloc country. Why bother when we're heading that way now. People don't make choices. Advertising and companies make the choices for them. People don't choose to smoke. The tobacco companies hand them the cigarettes and cigars and chewing tobacco and force them to use the products. People don't choose to own guns and kill others. The gun manufacturers give them the guns and then tell them to kill or else.
  
  Where does it all end?
  
  I'm waiting for Ford or GM to be sued next because someone's child was killed by a drunk driver. And, of course, it isn't the fault of the drunk driver. He wouldn't have been driving at all if Ford or whoever hadn't sold him the car.
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  January 18, 2007

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