They're trying to correlation violent activity on part of the player with violent activity in real life. While there are violent demises for sim, there is very little direct violence that the player can engage in and instead the player must engage in Jigsaw-like psychopathic behaviors and design environments which can induce death in a sim. In GTAV you choose how you torture a poor sod (battery, toothpulling, groin smashing with a wrench, and others) and then dump him at an airport afterwards.
Every time a shooting event comes up it's reported in the media and people go into an irrational frothing rage demanding action to prevent an event that they are statistically unlikely to ever experience or have someone that they know or tangentially related to experience. For the sake of comparison, your are more likely to be killed by a lightning strike than killed in a mass shooting incident. There's a fixation on longarm rifles when the statistics show that longarm rifles are not anything close to a majority contributor to firearm related homicides (that's the dominion of handguns where it's over 10x more likely to die to a handgun than rifle). If you're going to die in a homicide, you're more likely to get killed by someone's fists than a longarm rifle.
I've never particularly bought the "firearms are more dangerous" argument as it was quite legal for individuals to own and operate cannon which were far more dangerous and for the sake of argument it's worth pointing out that the only reasons I don't own a self-propelled howitzer are because I don't want one, can't afford one, and am not certain someone capable of making one would sell it to me. If one were to counter by suggesting, that self propelled artillery isn't a problem because it's expensive and not everyone can afford it then I would counter by suggesting then that you are in support of outcome where the rich upper class are only permitted to exercise a right protected to them by the Bill of Rights.
I've also thought that spending money to make schools "safer" was a thorough waste of taxpayer money. They could undoubtedly generate far more positive returns by investing those same funds elsewhere. It's really nothing more than a business payoff for insurance against events that aren't likely to happen just to make parents "feel" safe.
All of this response is nothing more than faulty risk analysis. It's no different from the people that avoid giving their kids vaccines because they're afraid of autism which in turn increases the risk of their child become sick and/or potentially dying. Likewise with airplane crashes where people become paranoid their plane is going to crash and instead travel by car where they are increasing their risk of an injury or fatal accident.
My father recently commented to me about all the threats made against schools that are popping up. There's nothing rare about that. It's common, it's just being reported more frequently. Hell, I had to wait on the bus one day when I was on high school because K-9 times were going through my school due to a bomb threat and that was two decades ago. Kids are assholes and stupid. They think that they can call in a threat and get out of school. I had to illuminate him on the concept of SWATting. He couldn't comprehend why kids would do that.
Here's my stance. I'm up for reasonable gun control but not until you introduce the 28th Amendment. Be honest that your goal is to ban firearms entirely because as long as handguns are out there and the supermajority firearm homicide weapon, going after rifles is really a side diversion. Everything that is being pushed is a method that justifies violating due process and the 4th Amendment or violates the 2nd Amendment with regard to weapons that aren't a significant problem.
Canada and Mexico have already been exempted (25% of imports) and it's likely that other countries will also be exempted. The one country you can be assured will not be exempted is China. We know that China is dumping steel and that they give unfair subsidizes to their steel producers. The EU has already set tariffs against Chinese steel (35.9% if you were wondering) for precisely those reasons.
Sure they should. Parents are only concerned about whether there is a risk that there are additional costs beyond the initial price tag. You're wrongfully assuming that parents understand or care to understand the difference between DLC and loot boxes when they don't.
If, at some point, a legal gaming board determines that loot boxes are gambling then the ESRB will begin labeling games with loot boxes as containing gambling. If they contain loot boxes and DLC then they would be labeled with gambling and in game purchases.
There are no legal requirements to have a driver's license to purchase a vehicle. You would be required to provide proof of your identity for the purpose of titling and licensing the vehicle. It may also be required to provide proof of your identity for some of the financial aspects of the transaction. None of the elements require a driver's license be your proof of identity. State issued ID cards and passports would work.
Supporters is the keyword. They only have about 5 million members but those are dues paying individuals. There's plenty of people that support the NRA and the 2nd Amendment that do not pay dues. Sometimes these individuals will respond to surveys in a way that makes them seem like an NRA member (that's how they once got 16 million in one survey).
Money in politics really only matters for the rich pushing what they need/want or businesses trying to grease the wheels of legislation. If the issue in question has broad reaching appeal and it's a hot bed for voters then politicians are more pliable to what the voters want over whatever moneyed interests might be tossed about because the voters are the threat to the politician retaining power.
Furthermore, this is a relatively pointless "record" with respect to the pointlessness of records. If you want to "break" it, just design a probe to break it. The record is just getting broken incidentally or because the probe is in a position during its mission to snap the photo.
It screams publicity stunt because the state already has the means to force you to pay in USD for the full amount of your taxes. Anyone who does this is almost certainly going to be paying more because the state is going to force the risk of the volatility on the exchanges and that means increased fees for whoever is paying through them.
Now calling something an opioid that's not actually derived from similar sources as opium does seem a bit heavy handed, because that puts this substance on a path to be made illegal to posses or use. It may act in similar ways as opium, however it's not actually opium...
Opiates are drugs that are derived from opium. Opioids are chemicals which bind to the receptors that opium binds to. All opiates should be opioids but not all opioids are opiates. Fentanyl and methadone are two synthetic chemical opioids which are not derived from opium. If kratom binds to the same receptors as opiates then kratom is an opioid and the FDA is classifying them correctly.
You have a structure the height of a 25 story building, built of thin alumium, falling over (after being dragged a couple stories into the water by the heavy engines at the bottom).
There's no need to exaggerate here. The 1st stage of Falcon 9 is not as tall as a 25 story building. That's the whole rocket and payload that reaches that height and they certainly aren't trying to land an entirely intact rocket. The first stage is 38m putting it closer to 12 stories.
The Interstate Commerce Clause grants Congress, and by extension the United States, the power to regulate interstate commerce. That has, thanks to Wickard v. Filburn been construed as all economic activity being inherently interstate. Due to the 10th Amendment, California is prohibited any power to regulate Interstate Commerce because the power has been delegated to the United States.
California's method fucked up and they should have done it in the same manner that Montana did. ISPs will throw a lawsuit, an injunction will be put in place so that ISPs don't have to comply until the case is resolved. The case will be found in the ISPs favor because to do otherwise would be potentially trashing more than 75 years of case law based on Wickard v. Filburn.
That clause in the FCC order is nothing more than an affirmation of the interstate commerce clause. The individuals states have no power to regulate interstate commercial activities.
Union contracts are usually between 3-5 years in length. The big question is whether the union contract is preventing UPS from testing the technology vs deploying. While I consider the outcome inevitable I'm not certain that this contract will be the one in force when UPS wants to or is in a position to mass deploy self-driving delivery. UPS is the first delivery service to run into contract negotiations with the union with the looming automation threat. FedEx and DLH will be going through the exact same issues with their union employees. The companies are going to want to aim for the union contracts ending when they're ready to make a mass deployment.
Yes, but the new article is already out there saying Tesla's auto-pilot is buggy. That's what people will see and read. Then the facts will come in, the article will receive a retraction but since that's weeks or months down the line no one is reading the article anymore. So the information that is disseminated out in conversation is that Tesla's auto-pilot was responsible for the car crashing into a fire truck.
Just one possible example: aging parent originally bought the car, but adult child has been taking over more and more of driving it, and maintaining it. Do they own it now?
No. The title of ownership is still in the parent's name. Until the parent dies or transfers the title to the child the child has no percentage of ownership of the vehicle.
By equipment, golf is less expensive than skiing. What makes them rich people sports is accessibility to places where you can play. Golf is much more accessible with public courses with cheap green fees. However there are still private courses which you have to pay a membership to access as well as golf courses with high greens fees that don't require membership.
Skiing is a rich man sport in the same sense and it's worse than golf. There's capital investment necessary for a ski lodge plus the equipment to enable people to ski down the slopes. This makes it a lot easier to charge higher rates for access than even with golf.
Pretty much. Pleading to the crime as a conspirator or accessory (knowledge but didn't report it) provides evidence proof of the crime occurring. A plea deal over perjury just sets Flynn up as a liar and non-credible witness. Mueller is nailing Flynn because he can and has the evidence for it, or he's lost his mind and is blackmailing Flynn with worse charges for him or his son on the hopes that Flynn might have other info to give up.
Lying to investigators is a crime and guilty pleas are convictions. If you actually need a citation, then you haven't been following closely.
To be a pedant, no conviction has occurred, unless something happened when I wasn't paying attention. A plea bargain between prosecutors and accused in which the accused will be agreeing to plead guilty to a crime will lead to a conviction but the conviction does not occur until the charges are brought forth before a court and judge.
Have you considered adding broccoli to your diet? A 1 cup serving typically has about 6g of carbs of which 2.5g is from fiber. It's a really great source of vitamins and it provides a respectable amount of some minerals.
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Video games causing violence isn't a left/right issue. It's more of an old vs young issue.
They're trying to correlation violent activity on part of the player with violent activity in real life. While there are violent demises for sim, there is very little direct violence that the player can engage in and instead the player must engage in Jigsaw-like psychopathic behaviors and design environments which can induce death in a sim. In GTAV you choose how you torture a poor sod (battery, toothpulling, groin smashing with a wrench, and others) and then dump him at an airport afterwards.
Every time a shooting event comes up it's reported in the media and people go into an irrational frothing rage demanding action to prevent an event that they are statistically unlikely to ever experience or have someone that they know or tangentially related to experience. For the sake of comparison, your are more likely to be killed by a lightning strike than killed in a mass shooting incident. There's a fixation on longarm rifles when the statistics show that longarm rifles are not anything close to a majority contributor to firearm related homicides (that's the dominion of handguns where it's over 10x more likely to die to a handgun than rifle). If you're going to die in a homicide, you're more likely to get killed by someone's fists than a longarm rifle.
I've never particularly bought the "firearms are more dangerous" argument as it was quite legal for individuals to own and operate cannon which were far more dangerous and for the sake of argument it's worth pointing out that the only reasons I don't own a self-propelled howitzer are because I don't want one, can't afford one, and am not certain someone capable of making one would sell it to me. If one were to counter by suggesting, that self propelled artillery isn't a problem because it's expensive and not everyone can afford it then I would counter by suggesting then that you are in support of outcome where the rich upper class are only permitted to exercise a right protected to them by the Bill of Rights.
I've also thought that spending money to make schools "safer" was a thorough waste of taxpayer money. They could undoubtedly generate far more positive returns by investing those same funds elsewhere. It's really nothing more than a business payoff for insurance against events that aren't likely to happen just to make parents "feel" safe.
All of this response is nothing more than faulty risk analysis. It's no different from the people that avoid giving their kids vaccines because they're afraid of autism which in turn increases the risk of their child become sick and/or potentially dying. Likewise with airplane crashes where people become paranoid their plane is going to crash and instead travel by car where they are increasing their risk of an injury or fatal accident.
My father recently commented to me about all the threats made against schools that are popping up. There's nothing rare about that. It's common, it's just being reported more frequently. Hell, I had to wait on the bus one day when I was on high school because K-9 times were going through my school due to a bomb threat and that was two decades ago. Kids are assholes and stupid. They think that they can call in a threat and get out of school. I had to illuminate him on the concept of SWATting. He couldn't comprehend why kids would do that.
Here's my stance. I'm up for reasonable gun control but not until you introduce the 28th Amendment. Be honest that your goal is to ban firearms entirely because as long as handguns are out there and the supermajority firearm homicide weapon, going after rifles is really a side diversion. Everything that is being pushed is a method that justifies violating due process and the 4th Amendment or violates the 2nd Amendment with regard to weapons that aren't a significant problem.
Canada and Mexico have already been exempted (25% of imports) and it's likely that other countries will also be exempted. The one country you can be assured will not be exempted is China. We know that China is dumping steel and that they give unfair subsidizes to their steel producers. The EU has already set tariffs against Chinese steel (35.9% if you were wondering) for precisely those reasons.
Sure they should. Parents are only concerned about whether there is a risk that there are additional costs beyond the initial price tag. You're wrongfully assuming that parents understand or care to understand the difference between DLC and loot boxes when they don't.
If, at some point, a legal gaming board determines that loot boxes are gambling then the ESRB will begin labeling games with loot boxes as containing gambling. If they contain loot boxes and DLC then they would be labeled with gambling and in game purchases.
There are no legal requirements to have a driver's license to purchase a vehicle. You would be required to provide proof of your identity for the purpose of titling and licensing the vehicle. It may also be required to provide proof of your identity for some of the financial aspects of the transaction. None of the elements require a driver's license be your proof of identity. State issued ID cards and passports would work.
Supporters is the keyword. They only have about 5 million members but those are dues paying individuals. There's plenty of people that support the NRA and the 2nd Amendment that do not pay dues. Sometimes these individuals will respond to surveys in a way that makes them seem like an NRA member (that's how they once got 16 million in one survey).
Money in politics really only matters for the rich pushing what they need/want or businesses trying to grease the wheels of legislation. If the issue in question has broad reaching appeal and it's a hot bed for voters then politicians are more pliable to what the voters want over whatever moneyed interests might be tossed about because the voters are the threat to the politician retaining power.
Furthermore, this is a relatively pointless "record" with respect to the pointlessness of records. If you want to "break" it, just design a probe to break it. The record is just getting broken incidentally or because the probe is in a position during its mission to snap the photo.
It screams publicity stunt because the state already has the means to force you to pay in USD for the full amount of your taxes. Anyone who does this is almost certainly going to be paying more because the state is going to force the risk of the volatility on the exchanges and that means increased fees for whoever is paying through them.
Now calling something an opioid that's not actually derived from similar sources as opium does seem a bit heavy handed, because that puts this substance on a path to be made illegal to posses or use. It may act in similar ways as opium, however it's not actually opium...
Opiates are drugs that are derived from opium. Opioids are chemicals which bind to the receptors that opium binds to. All opiates should be opioids but not all opioids are opiates. Fentanyl and methadone are two synthetic chemical opioids which are not derived from opium. If kratom binds to the same receptors as opiates then kratom is an opioid and the FDA is classifying them correctly.
You have a structure the height of a 25 story building, built of thin alumium, falling over (after being dragged a couple stories into the water by the heavy engines at the bottom).
There's no need to exaggerate here. The 1st stage of Falcon 9 is not as tall as a 25 story building. That's the whole rocket and payload that reaches that height and they certainly aren't trying to land an entirely intact rocket. The first stage is 38m putting it closer to 12 stories.
The Interstate Commerce Clause grants Congress, and by extension the United States, the power to regulate interstate commerce. That has, thanks to Wickard v. Filburn been construed as all economic activity being inherently interstate. Due to the 10th Amendment, California is prohibited any power to regulate Interstate Commerce because the power has been delegated to the United States.
California's method fucked up and they should have done it in the same manner that Montana did. ISPs will throw a lawsuit, an injunction will be put in place so that ISPs don't have to comply until the case is resolved. The case will be found in the ISPs favor because to do otherwise would be potentially trashing more than 75 years of case law based on Wickard v. Filburn.
That clause in the FCC order is nothing more than an affirmation of the interstate commerce clause. The individuals states have no power to regulate interstate commercial activities.
Union contracts are usually between 3-5 years in length. The big question is whether the union contract is preventing UPS from testing the technology vs deploying. While I consider the outcome inevitable I'm not certain that this contract will be the one in force when UPS wants to or is in a position to mass deploy self-driving delivery. UPS is the first delivery service to run into contract negotiations with the union with the looming automation threat. FedEx and DLH will be going through the exact same issues with their union employees. The companies are going to want to aim for the union contracts ending when they're ready to make a mass deployment.
They just do what the post office has done for apartments. Ground level lockboxes.
Yes, but the new article is already out there saying Tesla's auto-pilot is buggy. That's what people will see and read. Then the facts will come in, the article will receive a retraction but since that's weeks or months down the line no one is reading the article anymore. So the information that is disseminated out in conversation is that Tesla's auto-pilot was responsible for the car crashing into a fire truck.
Just one possible example: aging parent originally bought the car, but adult child has been taking over more and more of driving it, and maintaining it. Do they own it now?
No. The title of ownership is still in the parent's name. Until the parent dies or transfers the title to the child the child has no percentage of ownership of the vehicle.
If I remember correctly he used passing trains and got people to imagine a bicycle as if they could go faster.
I'm glad you quantified that with 'on Neptune' because the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 would prove you wrong.
By equipment, golf is less expensive than skiing. What makes them rich people sports is accessibility to places where you can play. Golf is much more accessible with public courses with cheap green fees. However there are still private courses which you have to pay a membership to access as well as golf courses with high greens fees that don't require membership.
Skiing is a rich man sport in the same sense and it's worse than golf. There's capital investment necessary for a ski lodge plus the equipment to enable people to ski down the slopes. This makes it a lot easier to charge higher rates for access than even with golf.
Remember kids, don't eat the side of the burger that lacks char. The machine doesn't cook that part so it's raw and shouldn't be eaten.
In a big bag on top of the aircraft. What could possibly go wrong?
36 people die and the technology becomes a boogeyman and shunned.
Pretty much. Pleading to the crime as a conspirator or accessory (knowledge but didn't report it) provides evidence proof of the crime occurring. A plea deal over perjury just sets Flynn up as a liar and non-credible witness. Mueller is nailing Flynn because he can and has the evidence for it, or he's lost his mind and is blackmailing Flynn with worse charges for him or his son on the hopes that Flynn might have other info to give up.
Lying to investigators is a crime and guilty pleas are convictions. If you actually need a citation, then you haven't been following closely.
To be a pedant, no conviction has occurred, unless something happened when I wasn't paying attention. A plea bargain between prosecutors and accused in which the accused will be agreeing to plead guilty to a crime will lead to a conviction but the conviction does not occur until the charges are brought forth before a court and judge.
Have you considered adding broccoli to your diet? A 1 cup serving typically has about 6g of carbs of which 2.5g is from fiber. It's a really great source of vitamins and it provides a respectable amount of some minerals.