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None of the scum that killed police recently are Conservatives.

By "recently", you must mean, "this week".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Shaun King, the racially confused white "black" guy with a personal agenda as your source? He is the darling of the far far left "Daily Kos" and plays fast and loose with data to make it fit his personal crusade to prove that he is just as black as any real black guy. His stories are just propaganda.

In an effort to research a discussion point in another venue last week, I linked to a command and imperative filled screed from a Shaun King story on the Daily Kos stating that black on black crime is NOT a real phenomenon. Shaun King smugly linked to a Tim Wise study that seemed to confirm that assertion. I clicked over to the Tim Wise study and immediately found the discrepancy in the stated premises of his data set. Tim Wise's analysis disregarded FBI aggregate data and analyzed data from killings with ONLY a SINGLE perp on either side, white or black, involved in the killing. The glaring error of this is obvious to anyone. Most of the black on black and black on white homicides are from GANG killings or groups of two or more teen perps bent on homicidal mayhem. It is the "safety in numbers" egotism that infects and reinforces racial and violent crime on the street. His data set therefore eliminated all those multiple attacker occurrences, which are the bulk of the killings. Small wonder that he could arrive at the conclusion he did with that myopic view!

Well, you'll never know, will you?

Well, you could get some gun nuts to reenact it - http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

None of the scum that killed police recently are Conservatives.

By "recently", you must mean, "this week".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Excuse me, ... while your sleight of hand is impressive (and good for mod points), you aren't playing this straight. The article you link to doesn't list conservatives, it lists white people. That isn't the same. One deals with skin color, the other deals with ideas. There is nothing contradictory about being black and conservative:
  Clarence Thomas
  Thomas Sowell
  Herman Cain
  Larry Elder
  Sheriff David Clark
  Condoleezza Rice

Also note that there doesn't appear to be any common thread among the killers in that article as there is among the killings with connections to either Black Lives Matter or the New Black Panther Party.

None of the scum that killed police recently are Conservatives.

By "recently", you must mean, "this week".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Yes, SCR 9 is unenforceable. They did get a porn-sniffing dog, a labrador called "URL", which isn't a bad name for a dog. He can sniff out hard drives and SD cards.

He was a fucking congressman in the 90's for god sake

Oh, that's a good point. So was Charles Rangel. Oh, wait, he still is a Congressman, unlike Mr. Duke.

Now, unlike Duke, Representative Rangel's was cited for 11 ethics violations — yet Hillary Clinton not only wouldn't "repudiate" him upon learning of his endorsement, she actively campaigned with him in NYC.

But, at least, for all his faults and crookedness, Charles Rangel does not seem to be a racist personally. Unlike Al Sharpton, for another example — who is as bona-fide anti-Semitic as one can get in America. The riots he encouraged and personally participated in led to an actual killing of at least one man. And yet, Hillary Clinton not only welcomed Al Sharpton's support this year, she gave a speech at his organization.

A well deserved storm because it's not often that presidential candidate defends probably the most famous racist in the country

Maybe, if Trump went to give a speech at a KKK-organized conference — and campaigned together with Mr. Duke on the streets — it would've been comparable... As things are, you can't even see your own hypocrisy jumping in front of you and screaming into your ear...

Yes, the church did some horrible things throughout history,

They still are:

One case, and another, and a few more, and a few more, just for good measure. Even down under boys aren't safe. Nor are dogs.

Even the UN called out the Vatican for its systemic adoption of policies allowing priests to rape and sexually abuse tens of thousands of children.

But as always, these are just isolated cases.

In white neighborhoods there aren't random shootings.

Meet Christy Sheats - white, Baptist, Republican Trump supporter and Second Amendment activist:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/everi...

This is what she did yesterday:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Who, specifically, do you wish to revoke the 2nd Amendment for in this referendum?

How about we start with this lovely Christian woman and self-avowed Second Amendment activist who shot and killed her two young daughters today?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

She had been posting on Facebook recently that Obama was going to come and take away her guns. Well, if he had, she and her daughters would still be alive today. So, I'm suggesting going back to those old days (pre-2008) before there was an individual right to own and carry guns.

We already have laws that take away her guns. Mental instability and violent crime both work for that... And considering how many ways there are to kill people, can you be sure they would be alive, and not run over with a car or drowned in a bathtub? Both have been done before...

Who, specifically, do you wish to revoke the 2nd Amendment for in this referendum?

How about we start with this lovely Christian woman and self-avowed Second Amendment activist who shot and killed her two young daughters today?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

She had been posting on Facebook recently that Obama was going to come and take away her guns. Well, if he had, she and her daughters would still be alive today. So, I'm suggesting going back to those old days (pre-2008) before there was an individual right to own and carry guns.

I suspected that Putin is funding many of the nationalist right wing groups in Europe. In other words, he likes stirring the shit. Brexit doesn't benefit the UK or Europe or even the US. It doesn't help when austerity is punishing the working class all across Europe and their voices are being ignored. It makes them easy marks for nationalist and right wing groups and con men. As the UK begins to negotiate its exit the EU will play hardball because if they make concessions, other countries might bolt too. A disunited Europe is exactly what Putin craves for. And if the US chooses the wrong president, it won't be their to help hold Europe together.

On a separate but related note: Texas secessionists are smart enough to understand what Brexit is and have been emboldened by it. Expect to hear more about Texit if Hillary becomes president.

Of course, you'd have to be pretty bloody stupid to rob a country house...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Home alone Alabama boy, 11, shoots armed intruder: 'He started crying like a little baby'

Kid's obviously never been shot, and being a kid he's immature, so he's stupid and making tough remarks, but the fact is, rural robberies are a serious problem. Not even counting the problems they have with drugs. Like the robber, who was apparently a meth addict. In fact, other articles will tell you that this person had robbed other homes in the area before, and allegedly even that home.

So obviously he got away with it for a good long while. Why was nothing done? How many others are out there? How many victims are there?

But the kid's lucky, he only shot the burglar once. Twice, he'd likely end up like the idiot in Minnesota. Well, maybe not, being a kid, they might just put him somewhere till he turned 21. On the other hand, it being Alabama, that'd likely be worse than actual prison. Just one shot though, he's just going to get a little news coverage, and hopefully it won't warp his attitudes too much.

I will say, if his parents consider themselves Christian though, they need to go back to church.

If you live on a farm your most valuable assets are all outside, so a lock isn't going to protect them at all.

Quite true... the cows were probably worth more than the house... :)

Then there is the barn, and the tractor, and so on...

Of course, you'd have to be pretty bloody stupid to rob a country house...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Home alone Alabama boy, 11, shoots armed intruder: 'He started crying like a little baby'

Everyone wants to focus on guns...

Terrorists killed 3,000 people using box cutters 15 years ago...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

One person killed 87 people using matches and gasoline...

If you want to kill people, you don't need guns to do it. This hyper focus on guns completely misses the point.

Mental health, security in crowded locations, having an environment where families who know someone is unstable can do something about it, etc...

More guns, less guns, and tech, won't do anything to stop this.

Everyone wants to focus on guns...

Terrorists killed 3,000 people using box cutters 15 years ago...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

One person killed 87 people using matches and gasoline...

If you want to kill people, you don't need guns to do it. This hyper focus on guns completely misses the point.

Mental health, security in crowded locations, having an environment where families who know someone is unstable can do something about it, etc...

More guns, less guns, and tech, won't do anything to stop this.

Real estate "developers", venture capitalists, and other bacterial forms typically buy up buildings filled with rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments with the intention of illegally forcing the tenants out so that they can quadruple the rent.

Manhattan landlord Steve Croman hit with indictment charging he threatened, sued rent-protected tenants to force them out
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/nyc-landlord-steve-croman-arrested-threatening-tenants-article-1.2629980

2 Brooklyn Landlords, Accused of Making Units Unlivable, Are Charged With Fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/brooklyn-landlords-joel-and-aaron-israel-arrested.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0

Top real estate broker says his own nephew screwed him out of $100M deal
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/top-broker-nephew-screwed-100m-deal-article-1.2339737

Real estate "developers", venture capitalists, and other bacterial forms typically buy up buildings filled with rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments with the intention of illegally forcing the tenants out so that they can quadruple the rent.

Manhattan landlord Steve Croman hit with indictment charging he threatened, sued rent-protected tenants to force them out
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/nyc-landlord-steve-croman-arrested-threatening-tenants-article-1.2629980

2 Brooklyn Landlords, Accused of Making Units Unlivable, Are Charged With Fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/brooklyn-landlords-joel-and-aaron-israel-arrested.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0

Top real estate broker says his own nephew screwed him out of $100M deal
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/top-broker-nephew-screwed-100m-deal-article-1.2339737

Monday's Child Is Fair of Face

It s saying you hate ugly people (a disability). Attractive people are more likely to land job interviews: study

This would say you're wrong: http://www.nydailynews.com/lif... and so would this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

That winning team includes three Asian names, and a head coach and assistant coach each with an Asian name.

That such a coach became a teacher and got into this position — despite the lingering anti-Asian bigotry — may itself be thanks to increases in accountability... School-principals and fellow teachers may still dislike them, but have to weight that dislike against their school quantifiably falling behind in Math.

Same may be true about the pupils themselves. They are still bullied, but, maybe, not as much now that school employees need them to help keep their school's averages higher.

I don't think that the team is winning because educational standards went up.

Well, you certainly aren't substantiating your opinion. No, I do not either... But I make a better effort...

Possibly invented by the now out of work ex-drivers.

While everyone is concentrating on the technical aspects of the driverless vehicle revolution, I see precious little about the human aspects.

Even aside from the destructive folks making a mess out of the vehicles, what about preferences? There are otherwise normal people who have an aversion to going through areas with a high population of "chocolate" people, and would shit themselves being in a driverless car in an area populated by them. Yeah, that will go over well.

And will Lyft try to emulate the traditional taxi experience, by programming the vehicles to ignore African Americans? http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Technical factors can sometimes be the easy part - human factors? Not so much.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opi...
Learning to code is overrated: An accomplished programmer would rather his kids learn to read and reason
BY Jeff Atwood
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, September 27, 2015, 5:00 AM

Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York Cityâ(TM)s public schoolchildren will take computer science classes. But as a career programmer who founded two successful software startups, I am deeply skeptical about teaching all kids to code.

When I became fascinated with computers as a teenager in the early 1980s, computers booted up to a black screen and a blinking cursor. You had to learn the right commands to get them to do anything at all. In other words, you were forced to become a computer programmer in order to be a computer user.

One of the great achievements of modern computing is that we no longer need to be programmers to create, build and get things done with the amazing supercomputers that everyone carries around in their pockets.

Thatâ(TM)s a victory we should claim for our kids â" rather than purposefully, almost gleefully sending them back to the era before computers became user-friendly tools.

Iâ(TM)m not saying young people should be oblivious to the way the sausage is made, any more than they should be oblivious to where their food comes from. Indeed, in the coming decades, there are thousands if not millions of good jobs waiting for skilled programmers and creative thinkers who understand the logic of programming.

But as someone whoâ(TM)s been immersed in the digital world for most of his life, I can attest: Computer science is less an intellectual discipline than a narrow vocational skill.

If someone tells you âoecoding is the new literacyâ because âoecomputers are everywhere today,â ask them how fuel injection works. By teaching low-level coding, I worry that we are effectively teaching our children the art of automobile repair. A valuable skill â" but if automobile manufacturers and engineers are doing their jobs correctly, one that shouldnâ(TM)t be much concern for average people, who happily use their cars as tools to get things done without ever needing to worry about rebuilding the transmission or even change the oil.

Thereâ(TM)s nothing wrong with basic exposure to computer science. But it should not come at the expense of fundamental skills such as reading, writing and mathematics â" and unfortunately today our schools, with limited time, have tons of pressure on them to convey those basics better.

Iâ(TM)ve known so many programmers who would have been much more successful in their careers if they had only been better writers, better critical thinkers, better back-of-the-envelope estimators, better communicators. And aside from success in careers, we have to ask the broader question: What kinds of people do we want children to grow up to be?

Itâ(TM)s true. Anyone can learn to code. But very few people can explain why they wrote a line of code, what that code does or convince other people to use it and help them build it. These are all essential human skills that have everything to do with the art of communicating with other people, and nothing at all to do with the writing code that a computer can understand.

Learning to talk to the computer is the easiest part. Computers, for better or worse, do exactly what you tell them to do, every time, in exactly the same way. The people â" well . . . youâ(TM)ll spend the rest of your life figuring that out. And from my perspective, the sooner you start, the better.

I want my children to understand how the Internet works. But this depends more on their acquisition of higher-order thinking than it does their understanding if ones and zeroes. It is essential that they that treat everything they read online critically.

...the New York Daily News article is by Shaun King, and that is what I was referring to: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Most of what's been pinned on Trump supporters has actually been paid and planted people from the Hillary camp

How about this Trump campaign worker with the Nazi tattoos? Is she a Hillary plant too?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Swastikas sound just a tad suspicious, innit?

Not at all. The Trump campaign is littered with nazis:

http://fortune.com/donald-trum...

Also, who could forget this nice lady working for the Trump campaign with stormfront tattoos and "88" tattooed on her hand.:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

You were just named a vice presidential candidate, Ms Fiorina. So why the long face?

http://assets.nydailynews.com/...

The movie suggested that the "Titanic" wasn't strong enough to support half its weight, levered and elevated, unsupported in the air. In the movie, the ship snapped in two (without the pieces fully separating).

This would have happened somewhere around 2:40 in the simulation video.

I guess this is just another illustration that Titanic buffs disagree with each other.

This professor's simulation indicates it did break--but not the way Cameron's movie showed!

Don't need islam for that.

Every time a some one kills their kid because they might be gay, that's an honor killing.
Every time a husband kills his wife because he thinks she cheated on him, that's an honor killing.

It's best to approach the location really fast.

I don't expect much from the submitters and editors here, but it's kind of pathetic to see jabs like the "And on the other side of the isle, everyone surely already knows how likely Republican nominee Donald Trump feels about illegal aliens." one in the summary.

Of course, "isle" should be "aisle", but that's not the editorial problem I'm referring to here.

It's the unnecessary attack on Trump that just isn't needed or valuable here.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Trump's position on illegal aliens. Upholding America's immigration and citizenship laws is something that a great many Americans feel is extremely important.

Even if left-leaning folks, like the submitter and perhaps the editors here, don't like Trump, they're going to have to accept that Trump is very likely going to be the next President of the United States of America.

A majority of Americans do support him now, and will support him during the election, even if they can't publicly admit it at this time.

In fact, by resorting to such pathetic jabs on such a constant basis, those on the left are actually driving more and more people to support Trump for President. These normal Americans are getting tired of leftists shitting all over American values and American laws. These normal Americans are getting tired of the disrespect that the left so often directs at them. These normal Americans are going to elect President Trump.

Nothing wrong with Trump's position on illegal aliens? Would that include his position that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States is "30 million, it could be 34 million." (July 24th, 2015, MSNBC Morning Joe)? Or his position that he "denies that he was aware of the working conditions at the site in 1980 or that any of the demolition workers were undocumented immigrants ...said he had resisted efforts to settle the case out of court. ''It would be cheaper, but on principle I won't,'' he said. ''We did nothing wrong.''" http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06... which he settled in 1999 http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...? Or the position that it would be possible to have 11 million people deported?
Frankly, I'd put more credence to the position that 70 years ago a bunch of joyriding Martian teens slammed their interplanetary scout craft into Roswell. That has at least a slight possibility of possibility.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

not watching the mainstream news?
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

I could go on with the dozen other famous cases since start of year but you lose already

Sanders is talking about "free" collage education. That is 100% pure socialism.

Like the G.I. Bill that kicked off one of most robust periods of American Capitalism in the 20th century?

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m), known informally as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It was available to every veteran who had been on active duty during the war years for at least one-hundred twenty days and had not been dishonorably discharged; combat was not required. By 1956, roughly 2.2 million veterans had used the G.I. Bill education benefits in order to attend colleges or universities, and an additional 5.6 million used these benefits for some kind of training program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill/

When you take money from one person and give to another. that is socialism.

That's called taxation. Who else is going to pay for civilization?

Trump has never labeled himself a conservative, nor acted like one.

Apparently, he did. You need to pay closer attention.

"I am a conservative person. I am by nature a conservative person," the outspoken billionaire said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I never looked at putting a label on myself, I wasn't in politics."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-insists-conservative-article-1.2332241/

The biggest group in this country is conservative [...]

Uh, no. Independents are 43%, Democrats are 30% and Republicans are 26%.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/180440/new-record-political-independents.aspx

Look at Obamacare, it is starting to crumble because it could never work.

Because of ObamaCare, my monthly premiums for healthcare from my employer went from $500 to $180. That's for better coverage at a lower cost.

Nothing is free.

You should take your own advice and stopped listening to the "fact free" drivel that comes out of the right wing echo chamber.

Agreed. Here we would never want people to die because they are overworked:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/greyhound-bus-crash-kills-2-injures-18-article-1.2501658
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/48bb2x/nyc_uber_driver_fell_asleep_at_the_wheel_and/
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/05/garbage_truck_crashes_into_west_new_york_building.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-engineer-apologizes-train-derailment

Anonymous declares war on city of Orlando (28/Jun/2011)
Anonymous vs. Zetas: Hackers Taking On The Drug Cartel (02/Nov/2011)
Anonymous wages war on Westboro Baptist Church (17/Dez/2012)
Anonymous Declares War on Singapore (06/Nov/2013)

There is almost no funding for gun violence research because the gun lobby knows it will produce more papers like this one.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Hopefully that will change, but i think the U.S. will switch to the metric system first.

Where this simply a case for statistics. I'd support it... But Algebra underpins it all — there are good arguments for introducing children to Algebra before Arithmetic (Robert Heinlein, actually, floated this idea decades ago).

polynomials and logarithms, and is required by the new Common Core curriculum standards used by 47 states and territories, drives dropouts at both the high school and college levels

Oh, wow — just when America started doing something right about Math, someone wants to mess with it. So, if people drop out because of it, it should be abolished? The logic sounds sort of like that about narcotics — people keep doing it despite efforts to the contrary, so it should become legal. Oh, he only talks about Algebra II — the "complicated" stuff... Well, how elitist of him — what about the poor kids, who fail basic Algebra en masse?

But, hey, how about we abolish the "Common Core" instead and allow the decisions on what to teach be made at the local level — and compare the results? Yes, some schools will be in error, but not all — while national curriculum created in Washington carries the risk of forcing everybody to make a mistake...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...

Donald Trump to Foreign Workers for Florida Club: You're Hired
By CHARLES V. BAGLI and MEGAN TWOHEY
New York Times
FEB. 25, 2016

Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., describes itself as "one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world," and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.

Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers there. But according to federal records, only 17 have been hired.

In all but a handful of cases, Mar-a-Lago sought to fill the jobs with hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries.

In his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Trump has stoked his crowds by promising to bring back jobs that have been snatched by illegal immigrants or outsourced by corporations, and voters worried about immigration have been his strongest backers.

But he has also pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago since 2010, according to the United States Department of Labor, while hundreds of domestic applicants failed to get the same jobs....

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Marco Rubio brings up Donald Trump's Polish history, noting undocumented Polish immigrants helped build signature Trump Tower
BY Ginger Adams Otis, Denis Slattery
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
February 26, 2016

Now he wants a wall -- but 30 years ago, Donald Trump didnâ(TM)t worry about having illegal immigrants build his signature tower on Fifth Ave.

Confronted about his checkered past by GOP presidential rival Marco Rubio, Trump dismissed it as ancient history.

"He brings up something from 30 years ago," Trump whined. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy." ...

“These values remain less than one-tenth of 1% of federal reporting guidelines,” the company said in a statement, adding the higher levels are “fluctuations that can be expected as the material migrates.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

And it's Tritium being leaked. Aka Relatively harmless

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/...

Once? Not even close.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Meteors are for proving the world actually is overpopulated. It should be obvious that the more people, the greater the chance a random strike will kill someone. It's been a long time coming, but the proof is here now.

How about teaching English, Math, Science and such first? US students are in many cases barely able to read and fail miserably at math. Let's get everyone up to a first world level before we worry about computer science for everyone. CS should be an elective.

Jeff Atwood for Education Secretary.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opi...
Learning to code is overrated: An accomplished programmer would rather his kids learn to read and reason
BY Jeff Atwood
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, September 27, 2015, 5:00 AM

Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public schoolchildren will take computer science classes. But as a career programmer who founded two successful software startups, I am deeply skeptical about teaching all kids to code.

When I became fascinated with computers as a teenager in the early 1980s, computers booted up to a black screen and a blinking cursor. You had to learn the right commands to get them to do anything at all. In other words, you were forced to become a computer programmer in order to be a computer user.

One of the great achievements of modern computing is that we no longer need to be programmers to create, build and get things done with the amazing supercomputers that everyone carries around in their pockets.

That’s a victory we should claim for our kids — rather than purposefully, almost gleefully sending them back to the era before computers became user-friendly tools.

I’m not saying young people should be oblivious to the way the sausage is made, any more than they should be oblivious to where their food comes from. Indeed, in the coming decades, there are thousands if not millions of good jobs waiting for skilled programmers and creative thinkers who understand the logic of programming.

But as someone who’s been immersed in the digital world for most of his life, I can attest: Computer science is less an intellectual discipline than a narrow vocational skill.

If someone tells you “coding is the new literacy” because “computers are everywhere today,” ask them how fuel injection works. By teaching low-level coding, I worry that we are effectively teaching our children the art of automobile repair. A valuable skill — but if automobile manufacturers and engineers are doing their jobs correctly, one that shouldn’t be much concern for average people, who happily use their cars as tools to get things done without ever needing to worry about rebuilding the transmission or even change the oil.

There’s nothing wrong with basic exposure to computer science. But it should not come at the expense of fundamental skills such as reading, writing and mathematics — and unfortunately today our schools, with limited time, have tons of pressure on them to convey those basics better.

I’ve known so many programmers who would have been much more successful in their careers if they had only been better writers, better critical thinkers, better back-of-the-envelope estimators, better communicators. And aside from success in careers, we have to ask the broader question: What kinds of people do we want children to grow up to be?

It’s true. Anyone can learn to code. But very few people can explain why they wrote a line of code, what that code does or convince other people to use it and help them build it. These are all essential human skills that have everything to do with the art of communicating with other people, and nothing at all to do with the writing code that a computer can understand.

Learning to talk to the computer is the easiest part. Computers, for better or worse, do exactly what you tell them to do, every time, in exactly the same way. The people — well . . . you’ll spend the rest of your life figuring that out.

If correlation = causation, there may be something else we need to take a look at: http://politicsthatwork.com/gr...

The rest of these point out that you're statement of "easy access to firearms actually protects people" is most likely bullshit.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/...

http://www.nationaljournal.com...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

http://www.inquisitr.com/18064...

http://www.deseretnews.com/top...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/50...

Fails as I don't drink.

So because you don't drink, nobody every drinks? Well argued. Guess this didn't happen then. or this. or this. or this. or this. Aren't the things that don't happen amazing?

- I then stab my spouse to death because the gun wouldn't fire. outcome worse than 'bad'.

So it's ok to kill people while on methamphetamine, because people high on coke also kill people sometimes?

Well argued.

Scenario 2: (a) the burglar isn't a burglar, he's a home invader.

And also, he's constantly chasing a long legged bird with the aim of capturing/killing said bird with products he has purchased from ACME corporation. And you forgot to mention he is a coyote.

(b) daughter knows not to sneak in.

Oh. that's all right then, I guess. We don't need to worry about the dead kids.

(c) try finding this actually happening. Removing a firearm from an armed person's hands only really happens in the movies. It's too easy to just shoot somebody trying to snatch your weapon.

OK then

(d) bad conservative/libertarian police: So what? It's the intruder's fault for breaking in. If he doesn't want to risk getting shot, he shouldn't be breaking in.

Sure. We don't need to worry about the dead kids. Just pile em up out back.

How about working to have more than half of high school graduates reading at grade level? http://m.nydailynews.com/news/...

And we have over 120 people shot in Chicago in the first 10 days of 2016. Over 12 per day... Gun control works!

/sarc

There is a finite limit to the number of people who can help with a particular person or in a particular scenario. This law explicitly exempts media, emergency peeps, and victims, so clearly it's not helping the victim that comes to mind first. If the media is on scene and no first responders, then they could still take pictures and not help. Reporters have never been known to do thatthat before

I was unaware that carrying a suitcase full of cash was usually illegal...

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Welcome to America.

"Smart" gun means two things:
(1) it will fire when it is supposed to fire
(2) it will not fire when it is not supposed to fire.

These are the classic types of errors, type-1 error and type-2 error. The lock on your door, for example, has two failure modes: not opening when it is supposed to, or opening when it's not supposed to.

As is always true, you can make the rate of one type of error arbitrarily close to zero by making the other type of error higher. You can lower the failure rate of your door not opening when you want it to, for example, by removing the lock entirely. That increases the failure mode "will open when it's not supposed to," since it now opens to anybody who wants to enter, whether you want them to or not.

The question for "smart" guns is, can you improve the option "won't fire when it's not supposed to" without seriously increasing the probability of it failing to fire when it is supposed to?

The failure mode "gun fires when it isn't supposed to" covers cases such cases as, your 4-year old finds it and shoots somebody, or somebody grabs your gun and shoots you, or even you drop the gun and it fires.

Right now, the recommended solution to the failure mode "make sure the gun doesn't fire when it's not supposed to" is "keep the gun in a locked gun safe", and, if you want to make it even safer against that failure, "store the ammunition somewhere else." This does have the problem that when you do want to make the gun fire, you have to unlock the gun safe, take out the gun, and then go to the separate location to load the gun. This solution is so cumbersome that--surprise--a lot of people don't implement it.

1938 storm 'The Long Island Express'
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"Cars also took a beating - roughly 26,000 vehicles sustained damage in the storm - while 2 billion trees were reportedly wiped out across New York and New England."

Today you can't even tell 2 billion trees were knocked down. And it has happened multiple times.