False equivalence - the Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to travel at any speed you wish.
It also only guarantees the right to bear and keep arms, not the right to do so anonymously. 18 USC 926(a) does give this anonymity from the federal government, but that is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Incorrect - the Constitution outlines powers of the government; ergo, if it's not specifically mentioned as a power in the Articles, then it is not a power that the federal government has, per the 10th Amendment.
A lot of people mistakenly believe that the Constitution outlines our rights, but what it really does is limit the government's power to diminsh our rights.
Trying to finger crypto-currency as "more evil than cash" because it's "easier to use" seems to be cherry-picking scenarios.
It is, and worse, it's a factually incorrect claim.
How to buy drugs with crypto: 1) decide what crypto you want to spend, find a wallet program, and set it up (sometimes easy, sometimes ridiculously hard) 2) acquire said crypto somehow -buy it, mine it, steal it, etc. 3) figure out how to configure Tor, then how to find dark web sites, then find the dark web site run by a drug dealer you want to buy from 4a) if you're lucky, drug dealer already accepts the crypto you have 4b) if not, find an exchange, create another traceable account, wait for transactions to complete, etc 5) trade crypto for drugs (and I guess give out a physical address for shipping?) 6) pray that your drugs don't get stopped, the government isn't monitoring the blockchain, that you don't get busted on your way to pick them up, or that they even shipped in the first place (you didn't really trust a drug dealer, did you?)
How to buy drugs with cash: 1) get cash (many untraceable methods here, YMMV) 2) find drug dealer (try the 'poor' side of town) 3) buy drugs
People will never leave California no matter how much it costs, because...
...the weather is perfect and there's an ocean.
When tens of thousands of acres burst into flames annually, and vast swaths of earth arbitrarily decide it's time to slide off into the ocean, I don't think you can really call the weather "perfect." Unless you're into death and destruction, I suppose; then it probably would seem ideal.
The ironic thing is that people are leaving California... so much of Austin and the surrounding area are "refugees" from there, and tend to be extremely disliked by the locals, especially come SXSW. Of course, they complain continuously that Texas sucks compared to California, why don't the locals hold them in higher regard for coming from a far, superior state, and the only reason they are in Austin is because their paycheck is in Austin.
Funny, we have that same problem in Missouri.
On the other hand, the weather here is wild and unpredictable (I've seen temps drop 30 degrees then regain 20 in the span of 6 hours), and we have pretty harsh winters, so the nuisance is tempered with a bit of schadenfruede - watching Coasties totally lose their shit when a 70 degree week in December is immediately followed by an apocalyptic ice storm the next.
As a tech professional, I would rather eat glass than live in a so called "flyover" state. I have in-demand skills and I have zero desire to live in places that are small minded, lack diversity, and lack interesting and rich culture. The tech sector is chock full of diverse immigrants and unique people who have no desire to live in a conformist mono-chromatic culture. Top tech talents don't want to eat breakfast at the Waffle House.
I don't know what's funnier about that quote - the masturbatory narcissism, or the liberal bigotry; Does everyone on the west coast think the area between the Rockies and Appalachians is 100% homogeneous? Or does it just seem that way because you guys have a lot of loud assholes?
Right wing conservatives are so quick to point out when someone even hints at possibly affecting their second amendment rights but have absolutely no problem at all with stripping away 1st amendment rights.
So, in other words, they're exactly as bad as Left wing liberals, just about opposing topics.
While most don't have a criminal conviction, they do usually have a record of interaction with the police.
... and, interestingly, a prescription for SSRI drugs.
I find it odd that every US mass killer in the last 30 years has been prescribed some form of psychotropic narcotic with a "black box" label, yet pharmaceuticals are almost never part of the conversation.
One thing that might be a start is that if you don't have a conviction but you do have lower-level things (e.g. violence on your school record, DVO/ASBO/whatever, maybe even "police were called" one too many times) you are on probation for N years and can't get a firearm, or perhaps can't get a firearm over a certain level of "power" (e.g. centrefire rifle, anything that holds more than two rounds/shells). The probation can be lifted by having an assessment.
Federally, any felony conviction removes your right to bear arms - even non-violent felonies, like pirating movies.
In addition, many states (yes, even Red ones!) have enacted their own laws targeted at domestic abusers, so that a felony conviction is not necessary to remove firearms from the possession of a potentially violent person.
Oregon just passed a law that basically lets a judge arbitrarily remove the rights of anyone they determine to be "unfit to own a firearm" for over a year - one of the "legitimate" reasons listed in the legislation? Buying a gun in the last 6 months. Seriously, the law says that the mere act of buying a gun makes you unfit to own a gun.
If he's looking for more than that, there's an easy answer. It's called Parenting.
... and, might I add, that parenting means actively teaching your child right from wrong, not leaving it up to television,the internet, and psychotropic pharmaceuticals.
There are violent movies and video games in other countries and they don't have the same issues with gun violence.
This. Trump, and others, are once again trying to blame gun violence on everything but guns.
Please explain to me how guns create gun violence. Specifically.
Or maybe accept that gun violence is prevalent in the US for the same reason knife violence is prevalent in China, or bomb violence is prevalent in Europe, and stop blaming the tool for what the person holding it does.
In fact, the NRA actually funded the rifle training of the shooter.
Wow, you mean the NRA directly gave this guy money for rifle training? What awful monsters!
Oh, no, what actually happened was that he was a member of an NRA-sponsored competition shooting team prior to committing multiple felonies, since, prior to committing multiple felonies, there was no legal reason to deny him entry to the team.
Huh.. well when you put it that way (you know - intellectually honest?), it actually doesn't sound like the damning evidence that the talking heads at Vox want you to think it is.
Who do you blame for having to follow the speed limits?
False equivalence - the Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to travel at any speed you wish.
Yes, people do bad things and you suffer for them, that's life; you didn't learn that in grade school?
In grade school I learned that I am responsible for my actions, and no one else; I also learned that my rights are guaranteed to me, regardless of the actions of other people.
Life isn't the military, and grown-ups don't engage in group punishment for individual action.
Will AI displace certain jobs? Of course, that's the idea. If your job involves taking orders at a counter, you should be worried. If you drive for a living, you also need to start planning for something else.
You don't need AI to take food orders. AI will be targeting the higher-paying jobs, like those in the tech sector, as a means of minimizing labor outlay while maximizing shareholder profits.
McDonald's is happy to employ thousands of minimum wage workers at 20/hrs/wk each. It's the high priced managers and corporate personnel that are costing them the most.
Greed doesn't get to vote. People do. Machines start replacing people too fast and people will destroy the machines. Politically and/or violently. To pretend otherwise is to ignore human nature.
Yea! That's why there are so many buggy whip factories still in operation... oh wait...
Sorry bro, but greed does vote, and it has a much louder voice than yours.
You're a shit business owner if you consider those you pay the most to automatically be your most expensive employees. What about something as sensible as letting go the workers whose work the AI is doing?
Dude - who do you think are going to be the first workers to replace with AI?
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Then you'd lose money.
False equivalence - the Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to travel at any speed you wish.
It also only guarantees the right to bear and keep arms, not the right to do so anonymously. 18 USC 926(a) does give this anonymity from the federal government, but that is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Incorrect - the Constitution outlines powers of the government; ergo, if it's not specifically mentioned as a power in the Articles, then it is not a power that the federal government has, per the 10th Amendment.
A lot of people mistakenly believe that the Constitution outlines our rights, but what it really does is limit the government's power to diminsh our rights.
Trying to finger crypto-currency as "more evil than cash" because it's "easier to use" seems to be cherry-picking scenarios.
It is, and worse, it's a factually incorrect claim.
How to buy drugs with crypto:
1) decide what crypto you want to spend, find a wallet program, and set it up (sometimes easy, sometimes ridiculously hard)
2) acquire said crypto somehow -buy it, mine it, steal it, etc.
3) figure out how to configure Tor, then how to find dark web sites, then find the dark web site run by a drug dealer you want to buy from
4a) if you're lucky, drug dealer already accepts the crypto you have
4b) if not, find an exchange, create another traceable account, wait for transactions to complete, etc
5) trade crypto for drugs (and I guess give out a physical address for shipping?)
6) pray that your drugs don't get stopped, the government isn't monitoring the blockchain, that you don't get busted on your way to pick them up, or that they even shipped in the first place (you didn't really trust a drug dealer, did you?)
How to buy drugs with cash:
1) get cash (many untraceable methods here, YMMV)
2) find drug dealer (try the 'poor' side of town)
3) buy drugs
OK, so you're saying that the mere existence of guns causes people to become murderers.
Idiot answer is obvious.
No, their point is the same as mine - stop focusing on the tool and focus on the reasons a person would use such a tool in such a heinous manner.
You can TOTALLY stop violence, but you have to use your brain.
The two things that use the most power in my household are my furnace (for the blowers) and probably my DVR.
Heating coils and compressor motors are usually your biggest draws.
...the weather is perfect and there's an ocean.
When tens of thousands of acres burst into flames annually, and vast swaths of earth arbitrarily decide it's time to slide off into the ocean, I don't think you can really call the weather "perfect." Unless you're into death and destruction, I suppose; then it probably would seem ideal.
Ironic since most Texans are extremely up front and forward about how their state is the best....
And all generalizations are true! /natch
The ironic thing is that people are leaving California... so much of Austin and the surrounding area are "refugees" from there, and tend to be extremely disliked by the locals, especially come SXSW. Of course, they complain continuously that Texas sucks compared to California, why don't the locals hold them in higher regard for coming from a far, superior state, and the only reason they are in Austin is because their paycheck is in Austin.
Funny, we have that same problem in Missouri.
On the other hand, the weather here is wild and unpredictable (I've seen temps drop 30 degrees then regain 20 in the span of 6 hours), and we have pretty harsh winters, so the nuisance is tempered with a bit of schadenfruede - watching Coasties totally lose their shit when a 70 degree week in December is immediately followed by an apocalyptic ice storm the next.
I don't know what's funnier about that quote - the masturbatory narcissism, or the liberal bigotry; Does everyone on the west coast think the area between the Rockies and Appalachians is 100% homogeneous? Or does it just seem that way because you guys have a lot of loud assholes?
Right wing conservatives are so quick to point out when someone even hints at possibly affecting their second amendment rights but have absolutely no problem at all with stripping away 1st amendment rights.
So, in other words, they're exactly as bad as Left wing liberals, just about opposing topics.
I do not disagree.
While most don't have a criminal conviction, they do usually have a record of interaction with the police.
... and, interestingly, a prescription for SSRI drugs.
I find it odd that every US mass killer in the last 30 years has been prescribed some form of psychotropic narcotic with a "black box" label, yet pharmaceuticals are almost never part of the conversation.
One thing that might be a start is that if you don't have a conviction but you do have lower-level things (e.g. violence on your school record, DVO/ASBO/whatever, maybe even "police were called" one too many times) you are on probation for N years and can't get a firearm, or perhaps can't get a firearm over a certain level of "power" (e.g. centrefire rifle, anything that holds more than two rounds/shells). The probation can be lifted by having an assessment.
Federally, any felony conviction removes your right to bear arms - even non-violent felonies, like pirating movies.
In addition, many states (yes, even Red ones!) have enacted their own laws targeted at domestic abusers, so that a felony conviction is not necessary to remove firearms from the possession of a potentially violent person.
Oregon just passed a law that basically lets a judge arbitrarily remove the rights of anyone they determine to be "unfit to own a firearm" for over a year - one of the "legitimate" reasons listed in the legislation? Buying a gun in the last 6 months. Seriously, the law says that the mere act of buying a gun makes you unfit to own a gun.
It's a lot harder to get alcohol than a gun if you are 18.
No it's not. But you will get arrested for buying the alcohol.
If he's looking for more than that, there's an easy answer. It's called Parenting.
... and, might I add, that parenting means actively teaching your child right from wrong, not leaving it up to television,the internet, and psychotropic pharmaceuticals.
There are violent movies and video games in other countries and they don't have the same issues with gun violence.
This. Trump, and others, are once again trying to blame gun violence on everything but guns.
Please explain to me how guns create gun violence. Specifically.
Or maybe accept that gun violence is prevalent in the US for the same reason knife violence is prevalent in China, or bomb violence is prevalent in Europe, and stop blaming the tool for what the person holding it does.
In fact, the NRA actually funded the rifle training of the shooter.
Wow, you mean the NRA directly gave this guy money for rifle training? What awful monsters!
Oh, no, what actually happened was that he was a member of an NRA-sponsored competition shooting team prior to committing multiple felonies, since, prior to committing multiple felonies, there was no legal reason to deny him entry to the team.
Huh.. well when you put it that way (you know - intellectually honest?), it actually doesn't sound like the damning evidence that the talking heads at Vox want you to think it is.
Who do you blame for having to follow the speed limits?
False equivalence - the Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to travel at any speed you wish.
Yes, people do bad things and you suffer for them, that's life; you didn't learn that in grade school?
In grade school I learned that I am responsible for my actions, and no one else; I also learned that my rights are guaranteed to me, regardless of the actions of other people.
Life isn't the military, and grown-ups don't engage in group punishment for individual action.
Now, now... I doubt that anyone in Washington actually wants to fix the problem.
Every time "the problem" rears its ugly head, Washington does everything it can to expand its own power.
Doesn't sound like it's a problem for Washington. Kinda the opposite.
Reminds me of some folksy wisdom - every time you point the finger, three more are pointing right back at you.
Here's where the headline is misleading.
Will AI displace certain jobs? Of course, that's the idea. If your job involves taking orders at a counter, you should be worried. If you drive for a living, you also need to start planning for something else.
You don't need AI to take food orders. AI will be targeting the higher-paying jobs, like those in the tech sector, as a means of minimizing labor outlay while maximizing shareholder profits.
McDonald's is happy to employ thousands of minimum wage workers at 20/hrs/wk each. It's the high priced managers and corporate personnel that are costing them the most.
Greed doesn't get to vote. People do. Machines start replacing people too fast and people will destroy the machines. Politically and/or violently. To pretend otherwise is to ignore human nature.
Yea! That's why there are so many buggy whip factories still in operation... oh wait...
Sorry bro, but greed does vote, and it has a much louder voice than yours.
You're a shit business owner if you consider those you pay the most to automatically be your most expensive employees. What about something as sensible as letting go the workers whose work the AI is doing?
Dude - who do you think are going to be the first workers to replace with AI?
Seriously, I'd prefer all my output devices be as stupid as digitally possible.
The summary is the article, nigh verbatim:
https://www.reuters.com/articl...