Until recently, the US Army required that 90% of its enlistment class be high school graduates. In 2003, 94% percent of new recruits did have a high school diploma. That's fallen steadily since the war began though. In 2007, it's fallen to to about 71% of new recruits. So the army used to have a better high school graduate rate than the general population, but that is no longer the case. It is still better than the rate from the 17 worst US cities, which is lower than 50%, but again - why use the worst possible case for comparison, when the average seems a more natural one?
Compare that to kids in the average US city, where 50% do not graduate high school.
I dispute the 50% graduation rate for US cities. The gov't says 85% percent of US citizens over 25 have a high school diploma. The national graduation rate for the class of 1998 was 71%. If you're saying the important bit in your claim is that the graduation rate in US cities is 50%, I'd ask you why you're picking the location with the worst graduation rates to bolster your argument. You might as well say that OpenBSD is more secure than WinodwsME. Well, yeah, but so what?
Accept that the ones that would prosecute them are the department of justice, which in this administration has become a political tool and not a tool for justice. Harriet Myers and Karl Rove both simply ignored a congressional subpoena. Congress sent the criminal case to the department of justice, who declined to prosecute. It'd be the same for this email thing and prosecution under the presidential records act. They would decline to prosecute.
The background is blue. The foreground display, i.e. the important things, are bright red. Having the background be a "non-focusing" color may cause the eye to focus more quickly on the foreground. (But I'm just guessing.)
Yes I know, but religious people are a subset of theists. If you are religious you are by definition a theist. So if the subset is very large in the US, then the set itself is even larger. So my point stands: the United States is one of the most religious countries, yet it seems to be doing pretty well for itself economically.
In an infinite random series you will find every possible combination an infinate number of times. So odds are 1 that you will find your sequence. You will find every possible pattern. Your example is flawed though as in real life there are no infinate amounts of data. Good statistians will compute a confidence level in patterns they find. Almost everything that is not a"real" pattern will have a low confidnence level.
Does this fact make me a math nazi? I hope not. It just makes sense.
- A few people, who likely didn't make it to the site, like to make broad generalizations about geeks of this sort not having sex. I'd like to point out for the record that I'm married, have one child and another on the way. This suggests that I've had sex at least twice. And my wife is very beautiful.
Given the information you gave us, strictly speaking, it's possible that could've only had sex once: she could've been giving birth to twins and was just between them at the exact moment you typed your comment.
That's all well and good, but the topic is the best candidate for technology. None of the things you mention have to do with the topic at hand: "Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment", etc.
Yes, but the OP was talking about gun laws and gun control, not the geiger counter issue. So we were not talking about "BS laws". Both sides of the gun control argument have valid points.
Of course registration of personally-owned Geiger counters is something to get angry about. It is absolutely ridiculous proposal, short-sighted and makes us less safe and less free. But the OP seems to take it a little too far and a little too personally. Read his "fuck you" response to another poster in this thread to see what I mean.
Apparently we have different sensitivites to douche-baggery.:) With his anger, love of guns, and parnanoia, he strikes me as a real Bernard Goetz type. A danger to himself and others. Mostly others.
A thoughful reply, thank you. I don't disagree with anything you wrote, but the OP still scares me more than any street junky or average criminal ever will.
By your post, we'd be pulling numbers out our asses that have no studies or basis. So nice for the extreme attempt. How about a real, solid example of banning guns in a urban environment lowering violent crime in the United States? Any day now, but I can't even google such a thing. Oh, and I mean factual. Not "opinionated".
You don't seem to think that banning guns decreases violent crime. So a correlary to your argument is that increasing gun ownership will lower violent crime. Now this is not the US and not strictly urban, but in Switzerland where gun onwership is (nearly) mandatory, "... has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, coupled with one of the highest rates of gun-related deaths" [1]. In addition, "The majority of gun crimes involving domestic violence are perpetrated with army ordinance weapons, while the majority of gun crime outside the domestic sphere involves illegally held firearms" [same link]. So it seems that domestic violence increases, but violent crime in general does not when you introduce more guns into an area. Those numbers aren't my opinion, they are factual, at least as far as I can tell.
Why?
Are you afraid he's going to shoot you? What in his post gave you any reason to believe that he would do that?
Well, he seems very angry. And anger and guns don't seem like two things you want mixed. Did you see his response where he says, and I quote:
Fuck you. Fuck you and all who think like you. Fuck the pathetic whore that begat you, fuck the government schools that finished the job your congenitally defective parents started of turning what could have been a lovable retard into a pitiful worm fit only to labor under the yoke of the socialists.
So yeah, I think he has a much better chance of shooting me than a large majority of people in this city regardless of how responsible and law abiding he claims to be.
I definitely agree with the 2nd amendment. I agree with everything you have stated about it. In fact, in places with mandatory gun ownership (like Switzerland) there is very little violent crime at all.
From here:
Switzerland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, coupled with one of the highest rates of gun-related deaths.
And:
Some 300 deaths per year are due to legally held army ordinance weapons, the large majority of these being suicides. The majority of gun crimes involving domestic violence are perpetrated with army ordinance weapons, while the majority of gun crime outside the domestic sphere involves illegally held firearms.
So it seems that it leads to a rise in domestic violence without a corresponding drop in non-domestic gun-releated crimes.
I don't really care one way or another, I just thought I would point that out.
I wouldn't live in a place like NYC unless I could keep the damned thing loaded and under my pillow or srapped to my ass when I was walking the crime ridden streets of our major cities...
Holy crap! I'm certainly glad you don't live here!
...Quivering masses of welfare clients on the other hand...
Ah, I see. You're one of those types of people. Please just stay out of our awesome city. We don't need people like you messing it up. If you want to come visit and leave a few tourist dollars, then yeah, but don't stay long and keep to the tourist spots. Thanks.
Unfortunately, most hunger relief programs are simply tax reduction scams. People donate millions of dollars to these 'aid' agencies, who spend 99% on salaries and other fancy stuff, and then deliver a few thousand tons of maize to some harbour in Africa, where it gets dumped on the dock to rot and get eaten by rats.
Can I get a cite for this? Specifically "most hunger relief programs are simply tax reduction scams"?
To deliver real aid, you not only have to deliver 10 Thousand tons of food to a harbour - you have to deliver 10 Million tons of food, plus the trains, trucks, drivers, guards, repair and resupply facilities, tents, generators, building materials, pesticides, drugs, bandages, beds, surgical equipment, doctors, nurses and more, if you wish the relief to be at all effective.
Agreed, but this is orthongonal to your claim above...
Wow. You're one touchy son of a bitch. I point out one little thing and suddenly I'm a nazi. (!) Good luck with that foe list thing. Hope it works out for you.
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I've found a few more stats.
Until recently, the US Army required that 90% of its enlistment class be high school graduates. In 2003, 94% percent of new recruits did have a high school diploma. That's fallen steadily since the war began though. In 2007, it's fallen to to about 71% of new recruits. So the army used to have a better high school graduate rate than the general population, but that is no longer the case. It is still better than the rate from the 17 worst US cities, which is lower than 50%, but again - why use the worst possible case for comparison, when the average seems a more natural one?
I dispute the 50% graduation rate for US cities. The gov't says 85% percent of US citizens over 25 have a high school diploma. The national graduation rate for the class of 1998 was 71%. If you're saying the important bit in your claim is that the graduation rate in US cities is 50%, I'd ask you why you're picking the location with the worst graduation rates to bolster your argument. You might as well say that OpenBSD is more secure than WinodwsME. Well, yeah, but so what?
Accept that the ones that would prosecute them are the department of justice, which in this administration has become a political tool and not a tool for justice. Harriet Myers and Karl Rove both simply ignored a congressional subpoena. Congress sent the criminal case to the department of justice, who declined to prosecute. It'd be the same for this email thing and prosecution under the presidential records act. They would decline to prosecute.
The background is blue. The foreground display, i.e. the important things, are bright red. Having the background be a "non-focusing" color may cause the eye to focus more quickly on the foreground. (But I'm just guessing.)
Ummm - tell them their Moms are in the audience?
Yes I know, but religious people are a subset of theists. If you are religious you are by definition a theist. So if the subset is very large in the US, then the set itself is even larger. So my point stands: the United States is one of the most religious countries, yet it seems to be doing pretty well for itself economically.
This is false. The United States is one of the most religious countries, yet it seems to be doing pretty well for itself economically.
Cite?
Well that's just silly.
In an infinite random series you will find every possible combination an infinate number of times. So odds are 1 that you will find your sequence. You will find every possible pattern. Your example is flawed though as in real life there are no infinate amounts of data. Good statistians will compute a confidence level in patterns they find. Almost everything that is not a"real" pattern will have a low confidnence level.
Does this fact make me a math nazi? I hope not. It just makes sense.
"three sir"
Given the information you gave us, strictly speaking, it's possible that could've only had sex once: she could've been giving birth to twins and was just between them at the exact moment you typed your comment.
That's all well and good, but the topic is the best candidate for technology. None of the things you mention have to do with the topic at hand: "Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment", etc.
Yes, but the OP was talking about gun laws and gun control, not the geiger counter issue. So we were not talking about "BS laws". Both sides of the gun control argument have valid points.
Nope, just childish.
Of course registration of personally-owned Geiger counters is something to get angry about. It is absolutely ridiculous proposal, short-sighted and makes us less safe and less free. But the OP seems to take it a little too far and a little too personally. Read his "fuck you" response to another poster in this thread to see what I mean.
Apparently we have different sensitivites to douche-baggery. :) With his anger, love of guns, and parnanoia, he strikes me as a real Bernard Goetz type. A danger to himself and others. Mostly others.
A thoughful reply, thank you. I don't disagree with anything you wrote, but the OP still scares me more than any street junky or average criminal ever will.
Well, he seems very angry. And anger and guns don't seem like two things you want mixed. Did you see his response where he says, and I quote:
So yeah, I think he has a much better chance of shooting me than a large majority of people in this city regardless of how responsible and law abiding he claims to be.
And:
Some 300 deaths per year are due to legally held army ordinance weapons, the large majority of these being suicides. The majority of gun crimes involving domestic violence are perpetrated with army ordinance weapons, while the majority of gun crime outside the domestic sphere involves illegally held firearms.So it seems that it leads to a rise in domestic violence without a corresponding drop in non-domestic gun-releated crimes.
I don't really care one way or another, I just thought I would point that out.
You can have my sperm when you pry it from my cold dead hands...
Wow. You're one touchy son of a bitch. I point out one little thing and suddenly I'm a nazi. (!) Good luck with that foe list thing. Hope it works out for you.