Let me put this very simply: YOU CANNOT PUNISH A PERSON BEFORE A CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED.
A therapist's opinion is exactly ZERO evidence. Therapist are not precogs. Depriving people of their constitutional rights because they "are far more likely than average to use those guns" is just one step away from detaining people because they "fit the profile of a criminal".
Also, might wanna look up asset forfeiture laws if you actually gave a shit about this issue.
I'm against asset forfeiture laws, too. When you're trying to argue that the government should be handed more power to circumvent the Constitution, it doesn't help to bring up abuses that they already routinely commit.
Capsaicin doesn't actually burn or damage cells. It interacts with the TRPV1 receptor, the protein that responds to heat, so that the neurons are tricked at a molecular level. Bird immunity to capsaicin is because their TRPV1 just doesn't respond to it. Spraying capsaicin in their eyes probably wouldn't be any worse than spraying a saline solution.
You're going to seize property from a person without evidence that a crime has even been committed? Now you're violating at least two constitutional amendments instead of just one. The slippery slope has already begun...
Do you see what kind of slippery slope you would create if a therapist's concern could be sufficient to revoke a constitutional right? The problem, if you call it that, is the right to bear arms is a constitutional right and any method to circumvent that could be equally applied to circumvent other rights.
A fallacy is always a fallacy. You are dismissing criticism of a proposed concept simply by saying that previous ideas were also criticized.
Airship, flying cars, jet packs were all consider impractical and unsafe. Decades later they are still impractical and unsafe.
Do you have anything intelligent to say on the matter or are you just here to snipe?
Of course I'm just here to snipe. The entire proposal has all the rigor and detail of an Alpha Centauri Secret Project cut scene. Nothing intelligent can be said about it.
About 4% of the worlds oil production goes to plastic. Even if they continue to make plastic from oil (which may not be economical), that is still a 96% drop in demand.
What's awful about that? Benignly removing people with the highest sex drives from the gene pool seems like one of the kindest ways of dealing with overpopulation.
a good deal will go looking for entertainment and diversion, ranging from playing video games to gambling, to petty crime, drug use and other unsavory activities.
I think even average people would be more creative with their UBI. There would be some people who create art. Some people might travel. But even if someone gets high and plays video-games, what's actually wrong with that? In the past, there was always plenty of work for people to do, so activities that distracted people from work were discouraged as immoral. But without that moral imperative, in a world that doesn't need human labor, who are you to judge what someone's best life should be?
None of the situations that you describe sound like "upper-middle class".
One of the characteristics of being middle-class is having leisure time. No matter how much money you're making, working 14hours/day, 7 days/week is not middle class, upper or lower.
At its peak, in 2010, 18 Foxconn workers out of 1.3 million attempted suicide. Wisconsin suicide rate is about 12 per 100,000. Apparently, living in Wisconsin is already more depressing than working at Foxconn.
You're not seeing network effects. Most of the 13,000 hired at the factory have families. That's 4-5 consumers supported for every job at the factory: 65,000 people buying food, clothes, etc. That's supports at least a couple dozen restaurants, 4-5 grocery stores, and a couple department stores. That's 800 teachers needed to be hired for schools. Probably a 100-200 police. That's a few hundred construction workers to build, repair and maintain new homes. Then all of the people at those jobs will create additional demand which will create even more jobs. All of the money paid in salaries to the factory workers doesn't just get spent once, its circulates through the community, creating jobs at every step
I grew up in a mining town. The general rule of thumb was that for every job directly created by the mines, it indirectly created 3 more jobs in the community. A factory town would probably be the same.
By your logic, airlines could be operating at Mach 3 because that's the fastest speed obtained by a aircraft. Just because something could hypothetically travel that fast doesn't mean its practical to do so in commercial applications. Until someone actually builds a hyperloop at a reasonable scale, you have know idea what the practical limits will be.
No. Because employment discrimination based on gender is specifically illegal under US and California law. Know-it-all asshats are not a protected class; they can be fired at will without cause.
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That's fine by me. But go easy on that strawman you're beating up.
A therapist's opinion is exactly ZERO evidence. Therapist are not precogs. Depriving people of their constitutional rights because they "are far more likely than average to use those guns" is just one step away from detaining people because they "fit the profile of a criminal".
I'm against asset forfeiture laws, too. When you're trying to argue that the government should be handed more power to circumvent the Constitution, it doesn't help to bring up abuses that they already routinely commit.
Capsaicin doesn't actually burn or damage cells. It interacts with the TRPV1 receptor, the protein that responds to heat, so that the neurons are tricked at a molecular level. Bird immunity to capsaicin is because their TRPV1 just doesn't respond to it. Spraying capsaicin in their eyes probably wouldn't be any worse than spraying a saline solution.
You're going to seize property from a person without evidence that a crime has even been committed? Now you're violating at least two constitutional amendments instead of just one. The slippery slope has already begun...
Like that Black Lives Matter supporter who shot 5 cops in Dallas? That was a year ago and still have seen any new support for gun control.
Do you see what kind of slippery slope you would create if a therapist's concern could be sufficient to revoke a constitutional right? The problem, if you call it that, is the right to bear arms is a constitutional right and any method to circumvent that could be equally applied to circumvent other rights.
That's all taken care of. Musk already got VERBAL GOVERNMENT APPROVAL to build a Hyperloop from New York to DC. LOL.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/2...
The first line of your reply is only important because it demonstrates that you don't understand what a fallacy is.
That's the one real advantage. A ballistic missile is hijacker proof, so maybe you don't need security.
Airship, flying cars, jet packs were all consider impractical and unsafe. Decades later they are still impractical and unsafe.
Of course I'm just here to snipe. The entire proposal has all the rigor and detail of an Alpha Centauri Secret Project cut scene. Nothing intelligent can be said about it.
The old "they laughed at Einstein" fallacy. Thanks for being _that guy_ ...
About 4% of the worlds oil production goes to plastic. Even if they continue to make plastic from oil (which may not be economical), that is still a 96% drop in demand.
What's awful about that? Benignly removing people with the highest sex drives from the gene pool seems like one of the kindest ways of dealing with overpopulation.
I think even average people would be more creative with their UBI. There would be some people who create art. Some people might travel. But even if someone gets high and plays video-games, what's actually wrong with that? In the past, there was always plenty of work for people to do, so activities that distracted people from work were discouraged as immoral. But without that moral imperative, in a world that doesn't need human labor, who are you to judge what someone's best life should be?
One of the characteristics of being middle-class is having leisure time. No matter how much money you're making, working 14hours/day, 7 days/week is not middle class, upper or lower.
Sprint is CDMA. T-Mobile is GSM. How does a merger make sense when they can't even combine current customers onto the same network.
Only if the transfer value is stable, which BitCoin is not.
if Foxconn does bring all 13,000 jobs for which the company would receive $2.85 billion in tax credits over 15 years
Tax Credits NOT Cash.
At its peak, in 2010, 18 Foxconn workers out of 1.3 million attempted suicide. Wisconsin suicide rate is about 12 per 100,000. Apparently, living in Wisconsin is already more depressing than working at Foxconn.
I grew up in a mining town. The general rule of thumb was that for every job directly created by the mines, it indirectly created 3 more jobs in the community. A factory town would probably be the same.
By your logic, airlines could be operating at Mach 3 because that's the fastest speed obtained by a aircraft. Just because something could hypothetically travel that fast doesn't mean its practical to do so in commercial applications. Until someone actually builds a hyperloop at a reasonable scale, you have know idea what the practical limits will be.
And submarines are the same thing as spaceships because they both operate under differential pressure.
By that logic, then maybe something like hyper loop will be viable in 500 years.
Worse... its a commodity that has no utility. I buy pork bellies, I can at least make bacon.
No. Because employment discrimination based on gender is specifically illegal under US and California law. Know-it-all asshats are not a protected class; they can be fired at will without cause.