Why does this woman get to receive a huge cash settlement after this? This opinion might be really un-PC and it'll probably make some people angry, but why would you put 50 grand into a child's education when they have severe mental problems and probably will never be able to contribute to society? it's an investment in nothing. I guess i'm sort of a eugenicist, but it makes little sense to me.

My dad is an ENT surgeon at Mount Sinai hospital in New York City and he surgically installs cochlear implants as a specialty. These things are absolutely incredible, they can make the near-deaf hear close to perfectly and the totally deaf hear (usually not 100% but still very well) for the first time. The interesting thing is that most people who have them installed end up keeping them off for long periods of time when they first get them installed because the transition from total silence to even just the ambient noise of a hospital can be a cacophony in comparison. If you ever need skull base or ear surgery give me a shout, my dad is considered one of the best.

hahahaha, maximoo you're a morbid genius!

I realize that there are very obvious difficulties to who can or cannot take care of themselves, and with the efficiency of this government, every point i made basically amounts to nothing more then idealism because trusting any federal institution to make sound and objective judgement is an exercise in futility (and a dangerous one at that). But i think i then it should work in the opposite direction. The child either can seek these rights by proving their own competence or wait till they reach actual adulthood whichever comes first. For example I could go to a bank and provide some sort of evidence of my own financial competency, perhaps by taking a test.

And regarding 17+, even though my mom would let me go to any R rated movie, it's just a total hassle to have to get her to buy the ticket, especially when a friend drives me. And at Loews theaters if the cashiers are really gung ho corporate suck ups then they won't sell you a ticket unless your parent goes in the film with you. And who wants to watch an R rated film with their mother? I once watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High with my parents, the awkwardness was so thick you could spread it on toast.

tenn,
the you don't know how insulting that is comment was just a hyperbole, you can probably guess how insulting that is. And regarding estate and business control, i added that in the event that it would be detrimental to the child's interest then that can be revoked. I don't exactly expect an 8 year old to control his own funds, but for anyone else who can make rational business dicisions then why not? regarding the 17+ designation for movies it does nothing to tell you what's in a movie. if you say fuck twice, the movie is R rated, but even if you go as far as to torture and kill a person in graphic detail, that movie falls under the same rating. Instead the system should serve purely as a guidline, not aged based but content based (ex. contains blood and violence or contains rude or offensvie language etc.) I understand the limitations because i recognize that many children can't have certain rights for their own safety, but i also understand that as an adolescent with a fairly mature sense of judgement, these laws are unjust and insulting. If someone proves a danger to themselves or others, their rights can and should be limited, just as it would apply to any adult.

No, it isn't. The young do not have complete rights.

you have no idea how insulting that is. But that is wrong though,while we do have limited rights, the first amendment still applies regardless of age. i don't see any age limitations in the bill of rights. But either way that doesn't make it right. Like i said before although i wouldn't exactly give every right to kids for obvious reasons, there are limitations that blatantly disgust me. There are powers adults hold over children that are wrong. For example rights regarding religion, it should be illegal for an adult to force a religion on their child in any way. Not in the way of raising your children in a certain manner, but if they decide to object, the adult should hold no sway. As a former jew and outspoken atheist, this would have been incredibly helpful in my household. Also decisions regarding who cares for you in the event of your parents death, and the right to hold a bank account and property outside your parents estate regardless of age. Currently my parents could liquidate all my accounts if they so pleased, and that is a power they should not have unless it can be proved in a court that it would be dangerous to the child's well being (ex. child actors).

wow yeah that was surprising the word pr'ck gets censored but that huge rant didn't, hmm. i'll repeat that i'm sorry about the harshness i might've had towards anyone on this comment section. i still stand by what i said in comment 69, but that other stuff was just rude. I have a bit of a temper, especially when an issue like this comes into play. Oh and i'm in new york if rossindetroit was reffering to me.

wow that was fast, yeah i did that a good while ago, and i don't like throwing out my age on the internet, but i trust BB boards pretty well. check the link i sent you, i think newsday fact checks, i'm 15 turning 16 in a month.

sorry, i've been coming to this website for a few years, i just got a little angry, i'll tone it down and resubmit that comment if it's really that bad.

what happened to comment 76? wow yeah actlly i'm 15 if you'd really like to knw, i'm sophmore and was born n 1992, here's proof i exist i'm quoted in this article: http://www.newsday.com/community/news/northshoresuffolk/huntington/ny-linorth0411,0,1623861.story

oh and P.S., I know who moves the coke, i was referring partly to the government officials who allowed the Contras to bring it across our borders and then started an ineffective war on drugs to look like they were helping the situation. I've been to Nicaragua, I've seen the cost of this first hand.

I'd like to apologize for in the heat of the moment being so angry, i should clarify that there are plenty of people who i like from previous generations (and hate in my own), actually close to a billion if not more, but for the exceptions that there are, wsh thm nthng bt pn.

ww yh ctlly m 15 f y'd rlly lk t knw, 'm sphmr nd ws brn n 1992, t dsgsts m tht y wld thnk tht 'd hv t b 32 t rrng smthng tht chrntly. prck.

I'm 15, and as a kid i'm subjected to agism constantly and it disgusts me. I'll admit there are kids who make trouble and i get into my fair share of shit, but there are far far more adults committing far far worse crimes then kids. If you really want to deter criminals with proactive engineering then demolish Capitol Hill. The attitude people take towards adolescents is totally ridiculous. They prescribe to puritan ideas that are backwards and outdated by at least 50 years. Just the fact that i can't see an R movie is a goddamn violation of my first amendment rights. Do you seriously think your going to show me something i haven't seen? I grew up with the internet, I know more about sex, drugs and foul language then any of these self righteous adults. And if you seriously think that it will prevent me from seeing the movie is idiotic, because i'll just find the torrent. Jesus, you should just see my DVD collection. But back to the point, real criminals don't sit on steps or stand in front of 7-11 smoking joints, real criminals move coke and guns through ghettos, real criminals sell surplus arms to African warlords, real criminals veto legislation to invest in green energy, real criminals send children to die in the blood soaked desert, real criminals take bribes and send innocent men to jail. Real criminals are adults, and how dare anyone point the finger at me or my generation, I'm inheriting this mess that the baby boomers dropped in my lap, and when i do, I'm gonna be proactive by making sure that all the real criminals are tried and shot. I've sat by and taken this bullshit for too damn long. Greatest Generation my ass.

Do those stairs meet american building codes? cause they have no solid stringers and the treads don't seem like they're secured properly. maybe i'm missing something, but that looks like a scary set of stairs to walk up.

I thought after 50 years copyrights on work ends. This is at least 2500 years old, so I'd imagine that'd be a little bit of a legal hurdle to jump. It might be nice to see all that tacky Egyptian crap tacked all over Vegas to get taken down.

No one ever said a high protein low carb diet won't make you lose weight. Studies have shown that diets low on fat or cut 1/3 of the calories or are low on carbs all work equally well. But eating that much protein through meat and ignoring vegetables is extremely taxing on your liver, which is why the diet is only supposed to be maintained in short bursts. To assert that eating a lot of fat isn't bad for you and lacks scientific basis to formulate an opinion on the matter is frankly, bullshit. If you eat nothing but steaks, your lifespan will be shortened significantly, because there are certain nutrients that can only be found in fruits vegetables that are essential to good health.

Also, I'd like to make the point that most dangerous toxins are fat soluble, so whatever that cow ate, your eating. Ever notice why pesticides concentrate as they move up the food chain? Well we're at the top, so I'd consider that when formulating a meat based diet. Especially when most cows nowadays are corn fed, and non-organic corn is one of the most pesticide laden foods in the market today.

I can't remember if this article was posted here, but there was a woman who's GPS told her to turn onto some train tracks and she did. When she had gotten out of her car to ask for directions, a train plowed into her car.

I also had a friend who's gps told them to take a left into some woods. Lucky he was paying attention.

I don't wanna sound rude, but that's so funny. He was hanging from a noose, and everyone just assumed it was performance art. I hope everyone can appreciate how hilarious that is, while at the same time it's completely tragic.