This old crap again... The per-capita homicide rate in comparable U.S. and European cities (comparable income, education and population) is almost identical. Fewer Europeans are killed with guns, true, but if a gun isn't available angry people find other means. Europe has more fatal stabbings per-capita than the U.S. does, for example.
It's easier to kill someone with a gun then with a knife...
And do *not* kid yourself that removing guns from a population will be easy.
Much easier then launching a worldwide campaign against some idiot in a country on the other side of the world. Oh wait, maybe you're right, to get rid of weapons some level of civilization and brainsis needed. Poor U.S.A.
#2, only around 1,500-2,500 kids die every year from any type of gun violence. In any given year at least 2x that are killed by drunk drivers.
only?
Compare this with W-Europe, where guns are rare.
2500 less shattered futures, when are the Americans going to realize it can be accomplished fairly easy?
#3 on average around 40-50,000 people die in car accidents. Why not ban cars since you have no right at all to own or use them under state law and since public transportation is so much "safer"
Cars are designed for moving people, guns are designed to kill or wound them, that's the diffrence, a big one imho
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Yes, it's appropriate that the US government didn't lend legitimacy to it, and European countries should be ashamed of their compliance.
Are you always solving problems by walking away?
European officials used diplomacy to solve the problem and see, the conference ended pretty positively.
Of course there are idiots w/o degrees and geniuses with several, but there is no good correlation (ie. degree=intelligent) that I have noticed in my admittedly short time on earth. Just a lot of idiots that think they know something because they have a degree.
I agree, for these things you need to be inventive and have a lot of courage, and you don't obtain that at college, you're born with it, or not...
They just replaced a really old system, and decided they could get some PR value from that. [shrug]
Quote: "We want to let researchers from universities, private industry and other government institutions know that we now have this capability and that it is available for their use," said Dr. Barbara Wilson, chief technologist for JPL. Unquote
Isaac Asimov once used this idea of sending robots to colonize other planets so that man could 'simply' take a space-cab and move to that newly colonized planet.
However, he also wrote down the idea that at such a point man is obsolete, a prisoner of its own technology. Whats the fun of moving to another place when that place is the same as the place where you came from, with the same buildings, environment, etcetera?
But apart from that this is pretty interesting, and a much better use of our scientific resources than YADMP (Yet Another Doomed Mars Probe). It makes more sense to understand our own planet before we go haring off into outer space, because despite what techno-fetishists tell you, space is no solution to any of our problems, whereas the sea is a resource we haven't really begun to tap.
I disagree.
I also think research of our oceans is important. But the destiny of mankind is space, the sooner the better. The reason I think that is that in the end life on Earth will be destroyed or made impossible, by nature or by humans (impact by large object, nuclear war, etc).
If there are multiple Earths (with ocean research etc), mankind will likely exist much longer.
In the last century 10's of millions of people lost their lives in wars.
Millions of woman were raped.
Every year thousands of children are shot by guns.
etc etc...
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This old crap again... The per-capita homicide rate in comparable U.S. and European cities (comparable income, education and population) is almost identical. Fewer Europeans are killed with guns, true, but if a gun isn't available angry people find other means. Europe has more fatal stabbings per-capita than the U.S. does, for example.
It's easier to kill someone with a gun then with a knife...
And do *not* kid yourself that removing guns from a population will be easy.
Much easier then launching a worldwide campaign against some idiot in a country on the other side of the world. Oh wait, maybe you're right, to get rid of weapons some level of civilization and brainsis needed. Poor U.S.A.
#2, only around 1,500-2,500 kids die every year from any type of gun violence. In any given year at least 2x that are killed by drunk drivers.
only?
Compare this with W-Europe, where guns are rare.
2500 less shattered futures, when are the Americans going to realize it can be accomplished fairly easy?
#3 on average around 40-50,000 people die in car accidents. Why not ban cars since you have no right at all to own or use them under state law and since public transportation is so much "safer"
Cars are designed for moving people, guns are designed to kill or wound them, that's the diffrence, a big one imho
Yes, it's appropriate that the US government didn't lend legitimacy to it, and European countries should be ashamed of their compliance.
Are you always solving problems by walking away?
European officials used diplomacy to solve the problem and see, the conference ended pretty positively.
Uh, because they're the only two countries with real balls?
No, because the other ones know you cannot solve problems by walking away...
We're all states on this big blue planet... we really should learn to cooperate a little better than bickering children.
You're absolutely right!
Definitely when you are aware of the fact that most nations are just a few hundred years old, a couple of generations...
Greetz,
Of course there are idiots w/o degrees and geniuses with several, but there is no good correlation (ie. degree=intelligent) that I have noticed in my admittedly short time on earth. Just a lot of idiots that think they know something because they have a degree.
I agree, for these things you need to be inventive and have a lot of courage, and you don't obtain that at college, you're born with it, or not...
vinlud
They just replaced a really old system, and decided they could get some PR value from that. [shrug]
Quote: "We want to let researchers from universities, private industry and other government institutions know that we now have this capability and that it is available for their use," said Dr. Barbara Wilson, chief technologist for JPL. Unquote
Nothing wrong with that imho
vinlud
Read "The Caves Of Steel" written by Isaac Asimov
vinlud
This is what I waited for!
Isaac Asimov once used this idea of sending robots to colonize other planets so that man could 'simply' take a space-cab and move to that newly colonized planet.
However, he also wrote down the idea that at such a point man is obsolete, a prisoner of its own technology. Whats the fun of moving to another place when that place is the same as the place where you came from, with the same buildings, environment, etcetera?
I think that's not what I'm waiting for
But apart from that this is pretty interesting, and a much better use of our scientific resources than YADMP (Yet Another Doomed Mars Probe). It makes more sense to understand our own planet before we go haring off into outer space, because despite what techno-fetishists tell you, space is no solution to any of our problems, whereas the sea is a resource we haven't really begun to tap.
I disagree.
I also think research of our oceans is important. But the destiny of mankind is space, the sooner the better. The reason I think that is that in the end life on Earth will be destroyed or made impossible, by nature or by humans (impact by large object, nuclear war, etc).
If there are multiple Earths (with ocean research etc), mankind will likely exist much longer.
We have to get out of our planetary cradle.
V.
In the last century 10's of millions of people lost their lives in wars.
Millions of woman were raped.
Every year thousands of children are shot by guns.
etc etc...
Yeah, praise the Lord!
They dug a 12 mile loop under the earth and spent millions of dollars to get it built. You better make some billions of that :(
VinLud