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Actually, their house doesn't necessarily need to be sold. It depends on the local authority. The local authority can pay for part of the care, as a...

Hazir, you appear to be describing some form of restriction on communication/travel/etc. There are already methods in place by various governments...

I hear the kettle calling... Don't watch the news. ...or drug advertisements. Coal has a good future in diamonds.

Amazing how things remain the same

Seeing as you didn't say one word about public education or health in any of those prior posts, but mentioned (apparently at random) news reporting,...

....and every day since Donald Trump has been the elected POTUS, I've been trying to make sense of the every day world. I can't do it. Can you?

I'm tired, too. The 'train of thought' is asking how we fund public education and public health

And maybe "the new normal" means traveling without laptops on airplanes.... Does that make buses and trains safer?

Hazir, could you clarify for me? Who are "they" and "them"? Who is going on these "no phone" and "restricted travel" lists of yours?

Here's a simpler example that exposes conflicting priorities: I might get thousands of dollars exempted from my tax bill if I spend thousands of...

Maybe I'm just tired but I'm struggling to understand what it is you're asking. The train of thought seems to keep jumping.

I'm good with a blanket ban of child marriages of anyone under 16. This isn't the Dark Ages.

The less time I spend on-line, the "happier" I feel. The best decision I made in the last several months was getting a smart phone, and using texts...

Separate reply to wiggin's posts on the costs of "home ownership", and who's to blame for the rising prices: All real estate is local. ...

It's been a while since I was here. Sad to learn the bad things on just the last page! Minx, I'm sorry about your uncle. :( Dying at such a...

From what I read in the article it is not; it puts people in jail for crimes they have not even started preparing. The kind of measures I think of...

Well, it takes a shark-jumper to know a fellow shark-jumper after all... :D

For Hazir, yes. For Lewk, it's probably too discriminating; better just swarm "Muslim neighborhoods" with police officers.

Does it sound like it is?

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.792206?v=03E6BDD3A641DD9F8D20917B0C6E8C8F&v=03E6BDD3A641DD9F8D20917B0C6E8C8F Is this the kind of...

The major issue is that I'm not in agreement with most of the above here. Shelters are indeed open to children, and while I suppose organizations...

Inadequate reporting unfortunately.

A great majority of the child marriages involve girls and adult men. Such a sexual relationship would often violate statutory rape laws, but ...

You're a decoy :mad: Welcome back :noob: Back to neurology again, no more rotations for a year or so, which is both sad and relieving.

About a third of these children were wed to someone over 21 years of age but it's difficult to determine exactly how many of the marriages conflicted...

I have no major principal objections to harmonising laws governing age of consent, statutory rape and marrying age, but I find it worrying that you...