If 1 group is going to blame people killing people on an inanimate object why be surprised that another group points at a different inanimate object/product?
They are not blaming the same types of things. Group 1 is blaming the availability of weapons for allowing super-high body counts by those with suicidal anger. Group 2 is blaming violent video games as the cause of that anger in the first place.
The President thinks he's getting good visibility / PR with these free form live discussions where he can say whatever he wants (without following through on anything).
He'll also look great by agreeing to reasonable stuff in the meeting. Then he'll meet privately with some stakeholder on either side in the discussion and do a 180.
"They aren't going to get what they want just because they were the last group to speak to the President." I wish I could find the source for the Senator who said that, but it's a generic enough phrase that it's hard to search for.
I was not fond of Hillary, and likewise didn't vote for either her or Trump. But the folks who still shout "crooked hillary" every time Trump is mentioned in a non-glowing light sound deranged.
Obama made it so if you need help on your taxes (one of the most complicated tasks most Americans will undertake), you lose your 2nd amendment rights. Good riddance to that stupid law.
That is a gross, gross over-exaggeration. The executive order stated that if you were mentally incapacitated with "severe mental disorders" to the point where you had to go on disability and were incapable of handling any finances, then you would be reported to the FBI's background check system. It did NOT mean that if someone helps you on your taxes you don't have Second Amendment rights anymore. Those are crazy-town NRA-fueled paranoid delusions.
Remember, kids--stepping outside the libtard echo chamber is "flamebait" around here. These days, Slashdot is like Fark with a slightly more technical slant.
When you start using 'libtard', and also say uber-cynical content-free nonsense like assault nails and how blue states will probably require background checks for them, yeah, that's -1, Flamebait. It's needlessly antagonistic and stupid to boot, so quit crying.
So why would you not expect any non-gamer to read what the game journalists wrote and take it to heart?
It's one reason why I've said for years that gaming 'journalism' is absolute shit. Conservatives cry the mainstream media is corrupt? They should try looking at gaming journalism where the standards are ENTIRELY absent.
Switzerland is also a damned tiny, dense (compared to the US) country with a much more homogeneous population. Those are all factors that would affect the success of copying Switzerland's gun control system.
Places with gun control have rampant knife violence, and people shrieking that 'knife control' is needed.
Oh no!! Oh noooo! Someone is running around with a knife! I couldn't possibly outrun him before he gets me. Why, he might even kill two or three people before people swarm-tackles him to the ground. It's so VERY comparable to these 20+ dead mass shootings.
In the last couple decades, I've witnessed the transformation of the NRA from a firearm advocacy group into the armed wing of a very specific type of social conservatives, the Fox News social conservatives that worship Trump as their messiah. I don't know how their "Christian Values" can reconcile with their moral dexterity in accepting an serial sexual predator.
Dan Diamond, a reporter for Politico asked Tony Perkins, chairman of the Family Research Council, if it's hard for Christian Conservatives to square their values with Donald Trump's history -- his lack of Christian empathy, his relationship with and payoffs to Stormy Daniels, and his response was that Trump gets "a pass" because it didn't happen during the presidency. It happened before. Therefore, who cares? Christian forgiveness and mercy all that, which only happens when it's to be applied to someone on "your side." Of course, that also is only supposed to happen when the person is repentant and seeks forgiveness, which Donald Trump absolutely does not, but Perkins and the FRC certainly doesn't need to be consistent with the principles of the New Testament. Not when Trump has given them so very much of what they want.
Perkins said: "There was an interview that Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, just did with my colleague at Politico, Isaac Dovere, where he said, and I quote, "from a policy standpoint, he has delivered more than any other president in my lifetime." He's talking about Donald Trump. And Tony Perkins is 54, so you can do the math. He is saying that Donald Trump has done more for religious leaders than both Bushes, than Reagan, than Nixon and Ford."
As long as Donald Trump is willing to appoint people who favor the evangelicals, then they will overlook or just dismiss his other problems. Turmoil in the White House? People leaving left and right? Who cares! The Office of Refuge Resettlement in the HHS now has a director putting up as many roadblocks as he can in the way of any refugees from getting abortions. You know, people who were raped in war-torn areas are now required when they seek asylum to carry their rapist's baby to term. THAT is what the evangelicals consider most important. Said director has NO experience in refugees. But he is strongly anti-abortion, and that was his qualification to becoming director of the office of refugee resettlement.
This is happening up and down the HHS. They created a new division in the HHS department, Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom to preserve the religious liberty of doctors. Its creation was timed to coincide with the March for Life on Washington, so the religious leaders could talk about how great this was and how much Donald Trump was delivering for them. People actually at the HHS said it was a solution in search of a problem, and there was already a civil rights division at the HHS to handle any civil rights violation, including religious freedom. But this new division was separate from the civil rights division and funded at the same level -- this particular religious freedom in health care division was as important as all other civil rights put together. That should tell you where the priority level was.
When evangelicals say that Donald Trump has gotten a lot done in his first year in office, and liberals are aghast and asking "what do you mean? He has no accomplishments outside the tax plan, and even that is suspect!" THIS sort of thing is what the evangelicals mean.
And lower profits to go with that list of last century technology.
Awesome, gramps.
I love it. The features that work better, lead to better device usability, repairability, and value, are all "last century technology" for old folks. That's a really damning condemnation of the smart phone industry, though one that's well-deserved.
This is stupid. If it's 45C out I'll want at least 30C inside
Most people will still want it to be closer to 20C because they're not trying to be in the hot sun. Outside, in the 45C? You try to spend as little time in THAT as you can. You'll be going from the 20C car to the 20C office or store that you'll be spending most of your time at.
Well, most people, anyway. I want those stores to be at least 30C as well, but I never get my way with that unless I'm in Hawaii.
If you paid any attention to the opposition to letting people pump their own gas in rural areas, you would realize that it is less about caring about the customers and more about not wanting the customers anywhere near gasoline for everyone's safety. Somehow, these people have never learned about pumping gas despite owning a car and truly believe that it will be the end of the world if other people like them are forced to work a gas pump. I'm not sure that they're wrong...
That's not the reason for it, though it's a cute after-the-fact scare rationale. The gas-pumping thing is a jobs program. Nothing more than that. It's meant to keep the gas pumpers employed.
such as the time I brought up the (then new) Lord of the Rings movie in passing to an as it turned out Christian Conservative who now thought depictions of magic were evil and against God.
Too bad, should have told him that Tolkien was Christian, that LotR is quite Christian-compatible, and that the only uses of magic in the series are by angels sent by God to guide mankind against the fallen (like Gandalf, Radagast, those two blue magi you never heard from again) or fallen angels and their corrupted evil (Saruman, the Nazgul). The only exception would be elves, but they are also the chosen of Illuvatar, and as such were called to leave the world of man over the sea. By that point when he wrote the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien was already deemphasizing the "fairy tale" playful-magic elements that were more prevalent in the Hobbit, also bringing it a little more in line with Christian theology. I would suspect C.S. Lewis had a little to do with this, but that's nothing more than suspicion.
Oh yeah, you can also tell him that it's a WORK OF FICTION and as such is not actually magical. Depiction is not practice.
These Democrats are Idiots who have never, and will never get their heads around things like VPNs.
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY Ivan. Yes, they're Democrats. Stupid ones. But no reason for you to single Dems out. There are plenty of stupid Republicans proposing and passing far more dangerous laws. And FYI we're on to you – the Republicans aren't paying for stupid trolling.
The well-deserved association between Democrats and government-mandated pornography blocking greatly predates Russian Internet meddling on Internet discussions, mostly since the 1990s. The Communications Decency Act of 1996, Reno vs. ACLU, CIPA/COPA. It might not be the most FAIR of associations (Jesse Helm and the Reagan administration were active against 'obscenity' in the 80s), but the Democrats earned it in the Internet era legislation.
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Which do you feel is the problem, that LA has a homeless issue or that LA doesnâ(TM)t have more affordable housing?
Both are problems, but offering affordable housing doesn't affect homelessness very much.
People love to invent rules for other people. The more complicated the better. If it's not working, make it more complicated, until it starts working.
Rules exist because people dick each over in the absence of them, not because someone thinks they're fun.
Spain's economy is fairly small and is currently rough but it is still larger than Russia's. Even so, Russia is a major threat to everything right?
Are you really trying to argue that Spain is as much of a threat as Russia? Everyone, including Russia and Spain, would laugh at you for saying that.
Nobody wants to admit that his approval rating is better than Obama's was at this point in his presidency
Probably because it's not true. It is an objectively false statement.
If 1 group is going to blame people killing people on an inanimate object why be surprised that another group points at a different inanimate object/product?
They are not blaming the same types of things.
Group 1 is blaming the availability of weapons for allowing super-high body counts by those with suicidal anger.
Group 2 is blaming violent video games as the cause of that anger in the first place.
Those are really apples and oranges there.
The President thinks he's getting good visibility / PR with these free form live discussions where he can say whatever he wants (without following through on anything).
He'll also look great by agreeing to reasonable stuff in the meeting. Then he'll meet privately with some stakeholder on either side in the discussion and do a 180.
"They aren't going to get what they want just because they were the last group to speak to the President." I wish I could find the source for the Senator who said that, but it's a generic enough phrase that it's hard to search for.
So Japan sees fewer gun deaths than the US but has a far higher rate of tentacle rapes?
Yes.
I watch a lot of Japanese documentaries on the subject.
I was not fond of Hillary, and likewise didn't vote for either her or Trump.
But the folks who still shout "crooked hillary" every time Trump is mentioned in a non-glowing light sound deranged.
Obama made it so if you need help on your taxes (one of the most complicated tasks most Americans will undertake), you lose your 2nd amendment rights. Good riddance to that stupid law.
That is a gross, gross over-exaggeration. The executive order stated that if you were mentally incapacitated with "severe mental disorders" to the point where you had to go on disability and were incapable of handling any finances, then you would be reported to the FBI's background check system.
It did NOT mean that if someone helps you on your taxes you don't have Second Amendment rights anymore. Those are crazy-town NRA-fueled paranoid delusions.
I was exaggerating to underline my point
Don't. It never works. It always works against you.
At best, you're just preaching to your choir. More often, people just roll their eyes and move on.
Remember, kids--stepping outside the libtard echo chamber is "flamebait" around here. These days, Slashdot is like Fark with a slightly more technical slant.
When you start using 'libtard', and also say uber-cynical content-free nonsense like assault nails and how blue states will probably require background checks for them, yeah, that's -1, Flamebait. It's needlessly antagonistic and stupid to boot, so quit crying.
So why would you not expect any non-gamer to read what the game journalists wrote and take it to heart?
It's one reason why I've said for years that gaming 'journalism' is absolute shit. Conservatives cry the mainstream media is corrupt? They should try looking at gaming journalism where the standards are ENTIRELY absent.
Switzerland is also a damned tiny, dense (compared to the US) country with a much more homogeneous population. Those are all factors that would affect the success of copying Switzerland's gun control system.
I am still astonished that people who refer to "Crooked Hillary" voted for Trump with a straight face.
People who say "Crooked Hillary" all the time might not have voted for Trump.
They might not even be eligible to vote in US elections.
Places with gun control have rampant knife violence, and people shrieking that 'knife control' is needed.
Oh no!! Oh noooo! Someone is running around with a knife! I couldn't possibly outrun him before he gets me. Why, he might even kill two or three people before people swarm-tackles him to the ground. It's so VERY comparable to these 20+ dead mass shootings.
The studies are only "lacking" because they didn't come to the conclusion that the Family Research Council wanted to here.
In the last couple decades, I've witnessed the transformation of the NRA from a firearm advocacy group into the armed wing of a very specific type of social conservatives, the Fox News social conservatives that worship Trump as their messiah. I don't know how their "Christian Values" can reconcile with their moral dexterity in accepting an serial sexual predator.
Dan Diamond, a reporter for Politico asked Tony Perkins, chairman of the Family Research Council, if it's hard for Christian Conservatives to square their values with Donald Trump's history -- his lack of Christian empathy, his relationship with and payoffs to Stormy Daniels, and his response was that Trump gets "a pass" because it didn't happen during the presidency. It happened before. Therefore, who cares? Christian forgiveness and mercy all that, which only happens when it's to be applied to someone on "your side." Of course, that also is only supposed to happen when the person is repentant and seeks forgiveness, which Donald Trump absolutely does not, but Perkins and the FRC certainly doesn't need to be consistent with the principles of the New Testament. Not when Trump has given them so very much of what they want.
Perkins said: "There was an interview that Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, just did with my colleague at Politico, Isaac Dovere, where he said, and I quote, "from a policy standpoint, he has delivered more than any other president in my lifetime." He's talking about Donald Trump. And Tony Perkins is 54, so you can do the math. He is saying that Donald Trump has done more for religious leaders than both Bushes, than Reagan, than Nixon and Ford."
As long as Donald Trump is willing to appoint people who favor the evangelicals, then they will overlook or just dismiss his other problems. Turmoil in the White House? People leaving left and right? Who cares! The Office of Refuge Resettlement in the HHS now has a director putting up as many roadblocks as he can in the way of any refugees from getting abortions. You know, people who were raped in war-torn areas are now required when they seek asylum to carry their rapist's baby to term. THAT is what the evangelicals consider most important. Said director has NO experience in refugees. But he is strongly anti-abortion, and that was his qualification to becoming director of the office of refugee resettlement.
This is happening up and down the HHS. They created a new division in the HHS department, Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom to preserve the religious liberty of doctors. Its creation was timed to coincide with the March for Life on Washington, so the religious leaders could talk about how great this was and how much Donald Trump was delivering for them. People actually at the HHS said it was a solution in search of a problem, and there was already a civil rights division at the HHS to handle any civil rights violation, including religious freedom. But this new division was separate from the civil rights division and funded at the same level -- this particular religious freedom in health care division was as important as all other civil rights put together. That should tell you where the priority level was.
When evangelicals say that Donald Trump has gotten a lot done in his first year in office, and liberals are aghast and asking "what do you mean? He has no accomplishments outside the tax plan, and even that is suspect!" THIS sort of thing is what the evangelicals mean.
And lower profits to go with that list of last century technology.
Awesome, gramps.
I love it. The features that work better, lead to better device usability, repairability, and value, are all "last century technology" for old folks. That's a really damning condemnation of the smart phone industry, though one that's well-deserved.
This is stupid. If it's 45C out I'll want at least 30C inside
Most people will still want it to be closer to 20C because they're not trying to be in the hot sun. Outside, in the 45C? You try to spend as little time in THAT as you can. You'll be going from the 20C car to the 20C office or store that you'll be spending most of your time at.
Well, most people, anyway. I want those stores to be at least 30C as well, but I never get my way with that unless I'm in Hawaii.
If you paid any attention to the opposition to letting people pump their own gas in rural areas, you would realize that it is less about caring about the customers and more about not wanting the customers anywhere near gasoline for everyone's safety. Somehow, these people have never learned about pumping gas despite owning a car and truly believe that it will be the end of the world if other people like them are forced to work a gas pump. I'm not sure that they're wrong...
That's not the reason for it, though it's a cute after-the-fact scare rationale.
The gas-pumping thing is a jobs program. Nothing more than that. It's meant to keep the gas pumpers employed.
such as the time I brought up the (then new) Lord of the Rings movie in passing to an as it turned out Christian Conservative who now thought depictions of magic were evil and against God.
Too bad, should have told him that Tolkien was Christian, that LotR is quite Christian-compatible, and that the only uses of magic in the series are by angels sent by God to guide mankind against the fallen (like Gandalf, Radagast, those two blue magi you never heard from again) or fallen angels and their corrupted evil (Saruman, the Nazgul). The only exception would be elves, but they are also the chosen of Illuvatar, and as such were called to leave the world of man over the sea. By that point when he wrote the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien was already deemphasizing the "fairy tale" playful-magic elements that were more prevalent in the Hobbit, also bringing it a little more in line with Christian theology. I would suspect C.S. Lewis had a little to do with this, but that's nothing more than suspicion.
Oh yeah, you can also tell him that it's a WORK OF FICTION and as such is not actually magical. Depiction is not practice.
I'm a white dude. Do you know how many times I've been pulled over by a cop? Dozens. Know how many times he told me to step out of the car? Zero.
What the fuck are you doing that you're getting pulled over dozens of times??
Good lord.
Which is funny since the SV left thinks Hispanics are against Trump.
Most Hispanics are against Trump, but Cuban ex-pats are a very very different crowd.
Not to throw this into the right wing, but is it residents or illegals responsible for the rise in crime? Just curious.
Residents. Illegals commit crime at a much lower rate, since they're trying to lay low in order to avoid ICE attention.
OP just said that he/she had never had a breakin in Durban, not that it was safer in general. Anecdotal but still.
Or he/she never had his/her legs nearly sawed off outside Durban either.
These Democrats are Idiots who have never, and will never get their heads around things like VPNs.
FTFY
FTFY
FTFY Ivan. Yes, they're Democrats. Stupid ones. But no reason for you to single Dems out. There are plenty of stupid Republicans proposing and passing far more dangerous laws. And FYI we're on to you – the Republicans aren't paying for stupid trolling.
The well-deserved association between Democrats and government-mandated pornography blocking greatly predates Russian Internet meddling on Internet discussions, mostly since the 1990s. The Communications Decency Act of 1996, Reno vs. ACLU, CIPA/COPA. It might not be the most FAIR of associations (Jesse Helm and the Reagan administration were active against 'obscenity' in the 80s), but the Democrats earned it in the Internet era legislation.