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History and List of other places that I advocate reasons to agree and disagree:

Feb 23, 2001 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gooddebate/
May 31, 2004 http://groups.google.com/group/idea-stock-exchange/
Nov 26, 2004 http://www.globalideasbank.org/
Mar 6th, 2005 http://www.halfbakery.com/
Sept 9th, 2005 http://groups.google.com/group/good-idea-promoting-algorithm/
Apr 16, 2006 http://illinoisans-4-mitt-romney.blogspot.com/
May 19th, 2006 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Online-Dispute-Resolution/
Oct, 2010 http://ldsdebate.blogspot.com/

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The Google chrome book is a good buy +5

Reasons to agree: +7

It is light
It starts instantly
It has a good keyboard
Most all hotels have free wi-fi
There is now annoying fan with moving parts that makes noise and breaks.
There is now annoying hard drive with moving parts that makes noise and breaks.
Google has apps to edit documents including spreadsheets, and presentations

Reasons to disagree: -2

It takes getting used to use apps, and keeping your files on Google Drive
It takes getting used to, to use only the backspace, and never use the delete button.

Score:

# of reasons to agree: +7

# of reasons to disagree: -2

# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0

# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0

Total Idea Score: +5

Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change.

Kids are fun +1

Best reasons to agree: +4

Kids remind you what it was like when you were a kid.
Kids connect you to the future.
Kids get to know what you are really like
Kids give you excuses to do stupid stuff. If you didn't have kids, it might be hard to:

go sledding.
go swimming. Its hard to play Marco Polo as an adult.

Best reasons to disagree: -4

Throw up, crying, and whining are not fun
When you go to the museums with kids, you can't take your time, because they have short attention spans.
It is hard to go back-packing in Europe with kids.
It is hard to try new food with kids. All they eat is McDonald's.

Score:

# of reasons to agree: +4

# of reasons to disagree: -4

# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +2

# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0

Total Idea Score: +4-4+2/2=1

Videos that agree:

Beliefs that support this post:

You should back-up family videos to YouTube.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Reasons to agree

All happy families have respect and kindness to each other.
Unhappy families can

Reasons to

Bolingbrook has pretty good parks. -2

Reasons to agree: + 1

There are a lot of Bolingbrook parks.
Kids don't need anything special, but each neighborhood should have open places for kids to play soccer, baseball, or swing on a swing-set. Bolingbrook has that.

Reasons to disagree: -2

Often Bolingbrook parks are occupied by thuggish territorial teenagers (reason to disagree: this happens everywhere, perhaps).
Often Bolingbrook parks have small vandalization.
Bolingbrook doesn't have parking for hardly any of their parks... its mostly just street parking.
Very few of Bolingbrook parks are connected with bike paths

Score:

# of reasons to agree: +2

# of reasons to disagree: -4

# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0

# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0

Total Idea Score: -2

Century Park Bolingbrook, Illinois
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Parking: On the street
Safety:

Parking is an issue, as it gets very congested, and cars are trying to get through the area.

Facilities

Slides
Swings
Small Soccer Field

The kids playing at the park, while J was at Soccer Practice.

Serious

Great Expression. Poor lighting

Videos that agree:

Hidden Lakes

Popular Park, Bolingbrook, IL

Parking: On the street
Safety?

My kid got his finger stuck in the slidey thing.

Facilities

2 slides
2 Swings, 2 child swings
Voice tubes
Volleyball court (bring your own net)

Lots of toads / frogs in the evening

Jonamac apple farm is the perfict farm-tourism destination outside Chicago +4.5

Background, Context, and Assumptions

Jonamac apple farm is a farm-tourism destination outside Chicago. It is located at 19412 Shabbona Rd Malta, IL 60150. Their phone number is (815) 825-2158.

Best reasons to agree: +3

Its good for kids to see farms. Kids should learn the science of producing food. It is good for all of us to try to produce food.
Joanamac is is a good farm.

They have a:

petting zoo with mules, sheep, chickens, and a Lama
apple picking, with a lot of different apple types
pumpkin canon,
a big thing like a trampoline.
old-timy-machines
slides
Kids like to play in the corn silo.
they have an easy corn maze that kids can handle. They have a harder corn maze for adults.
they have a place where you can buy food
they have live music playing
they often have farm equipment on display

Joanamac is close to Chicago. It is 70 miles from Downtown Chicago, and less than that from the suburbs

Link

Best reasons to disagree: -

Jonamac should copy some of the educational stuff from the Lincoln Park Zoo farm display. Jonamac could team up with Illinois Universities to do farm-research or education. They could have signs for stuff. For instance they could say how much corn was a barrel (or bushel?) that day. They could tell you that the corn you let your kids play in won't be wasted because it will be fed to animals, or it was wasted.
Jonamac could have a place for kite flying. Chicago is almost always windy. They have a lot of open space, and there is usually a crowd. Seems like a good place for kite flying.
Jonamac could be closer to the City. You pass an awful lot of farms on the way to Jonamac. You would think that any of these places could copy them, but get more traffic.
Jonamac could team up with Amish type country knick-knack stuff, to give the whole farm experience.
They could have a real farmer's market at Jonamac. In the fall it gets enough traffic that they could probably sell more stuff than just apples, and fudge.

Score:

# of reasons to agree: +3

# of reasons to disagree: -5

# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +11/2 = 6.5

# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0

Total Idea Score: +4.5

Best webpages that agree: +

http://www.jonamacorchard.com/ Bias grade: poor

Best webpages that agree: -

Trampolines are not too dangerous and are good for kids +2

Reasons to agree: +7

Their is little risk of falling off a trampoline if you have netting.
Trampolines are no more dangerous than football.
Trampolines are perhaps no more dangerous than swimming pools, but they are much less expensive, and take less maintenance.
Trampolines with netting on the side are not too dangerous.
Kids jump on beds. You can't stop kids from jumping on stuff.
Cars are dangerous, and we aren't going to stop driving cars are we? Obviously its not that simple. For instance, cars are more important than trampolines. But it is not required that you drive to unimportant places. Therefore, you can compare the danger and importance of driving to a park to jumping on the trampoline: both are recreational activities with some risk. The question is how much risk? How important is the activity? Obviously, a trampoline derives its importance as a form of recreation, and so you can't answer the question without first asking yourself how important recreation is. Recreation is important, because life needs to be enjoyable or else at some point suicide, depression, and associated dangers becomes a risk. Life without exercise is also a risk. To some degree, with our obesity problems, video games, cable, and TV may be more dangerous than trampolines. Some historic background might also be useful. For instance how would the danger of jumping on a trampoline compare to the danger associated with recreation "in the olden days" (like going to the local swimming hole).
Although cars are more dangerous, but we aren't going to stop driving.

Reasons to disagree: -5

The Mayo Clinic says they are too dangerous (logical fallacy: appeal to authority).
Falling off a trampoline or using a trampoline incorrectly can result in strains, sprains, fractures and other injuries — including potentially serious head and neck injuries.
According to Jay L. Hoecker, MD, as writing on the May Clinic's website, "the risk of injury is so high that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that trampolines should never be used at home or in outdoor playgrounds". However the link to this claim on the AAP's website is not provided, and there is no direct quote, indicating that it is a summary. Summaries always result in some degree of misrepresentation.
My brother broke his fiance's leg on a trampoline (but it didn't have a net, and anecdotal evidence does not prove specific probabilities
My brother broke my other brother's leg on the trampoline (but it didn't have a net, and anecdotal evidence does not prove specific probabilities. For instance my brother also broke his arm riding a bike, and few people think bikes are too dangerous).

Score:

# of reasons to agree: +7

# of reasons to disagree: -5

# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0

# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0

Total Idea Score: +2