The problem is with endless compensation due to logical ownership of something which no longer costs practically anything.
Physical property theft always has a victim and loss. Copying something illegally is technically theft but the effects are nowhere near physical property theft.
The plot thickens when we then consider legal copying and then illegal sharing. After all, I could buy a book and lend it to a friend and that's fine but if it's an Ebook then that's not fine. I can share my DVD with mates but if it's a movie download then not. But what if it's legal to share with freinds. Is there a legal definition of friend that we can actually enforce? What if I have 1200+ friends? (If my facebook bitch armada really counts as friends)
Personally If I like something and think it is of value I happily pay for it. I have DVDs of PC games that I have never actually opened as the physical copy was not required. Yet I paid because I valued the work.
But let's go back to your point of justification. Actually my using content even for free in its entirety is of immense value. Like songs on a radio. Somewhere along the chain I have paid something in related fees.
I paid for the broadcasting license, I paid for the cable TV channel or indeed the cinema ticket etc etc. What if I did not pay for any of those? -there is still value for the people that made the effort to create the "intellectual property" as I am likely to recommend something I enjoyed or see value in whether that is the film itself or something in it.
As any aspiring artist will tell you, just having people to listen, view, read and enjoy the material is an achievement in and of itself. Does it pay the rent? yes, it literally does. Can you be greedy and want more? yes, always.
Look at "youtube stars" there was no such thing once. No one promised them money. They did not ask for any but their POPULARITY gives them earning potential. Films make money not by being good they make money by being popular. If I somehow chose to see a film for free and liked it and told someone else the value is X.
X because that person might choose to watch the film as well in the cinema or buy the merchandise, mug, t-shirt, squeaky toy or get the cable channel with the awesome movies.
So you might be thinking the value is quite possibly 0 but it isn't. It's certainly a non-zero sum. When you watch a film you may think it's you paying for some intellectual property but I'm sure we all realise there is a lot more going on. Huge company are vying for mind share. A share of your mind, your psyche.
The hot chick drinking coke zero? she aint there cause she likes coke. The cool dude with the Ray Ban glasses got paid to wear them. You are sold products, ideas, lifestyles, looks and popularity all the time. Why? so you can CONSUME. Food, products, ideas etc.
Imagine for a moment that you can release content that will be viewed by a milling people, for free. Is there no value in it for you? Can you not think of how this actually pays? You think studios do not know their movies will be copied? showed a billing times on network TV? -they are not selling a story, a film is a product of immense complexity.
But forget all that because when studios bill themselves internally for editing their own movies and other shenanigans just to produce a net loss so they don't pay tax it really does not help endear the argument to "pay for the effort" when it can often big a big scam. The artists get paid. The actors get paid, the camera crew, sound crews etc etc that is part of the cost to make the film. The studio counts profit and then counts theoretical profit it may have had should you have actually paid for your illegal copy.
Here's the real kicker. Illegal downloaders are statistically more likely to PAY FOR FILMS. The rate of consumption for these people has often outpaced their ability to pay the fees. Which means they never had the money to buy it to begin with...but even if they did ha
What I mean is that they will be dying a slow death and their days are numbered.
Once the big screen was the only choice...then with TV it still had unparalleled quality, then TVs started catching up and it still had size still amazing sound, all these advantages are evaporating.
Technology wise theatre will be pointless when VR movies hit mainstream. 2D Flatland and even IMAX 3D will be undesirable at the possibility of true 3D.
What will the "theatre experience" with its queues, inconvenient travel, annoying kids, dumb anti-piracy forced fed messaging and stupidly priced popcorn have to offer if you can have the same quality of sight and sound from the comfort of your own home?
Theft has been part of human existence since the dawn of time. More over, copying differs from theft in the sense that no one actually loses property.
If anything you can start working now on a secure content delivery that is locked down to MITIGATE against most piracy strategies but it cannot be eliminated.
Honestly, I cannot wait until we cut out all the long line of middle men between the final cut and the end user. If movies were the price of coffee it would also make piracy less common; not forgetting it will boost the number of paying customers and increase the likelihood of people paying for multiple films in a month.
But the cinema? it might hold on a while longer to combine VR physical simulators "4D" style maybe...I say maybe because omnidirectional treadmills etc are already being produced for VR.
AMD is saying there's a x5+ performance improvement in specific workloads.
Sounds like cherry picking? think again. One such specific workload is 8k res terabyte file (for render) operations. Fuck it let Charlie tell you how it is -> http://semiaccurate.com/2016/0...
Every so often this innovative company just changes the game. Don't you wish you bough their stock when it hit $1.8?
I didn't even need to reach into the ether and draw parallels with it supposedly promoting Zionism.
Fucking Pikachu, I somehow knew he was up to no good but now I have proof?
I think a review of Zionist promoting things should be conducted so we can ban them all...although, I do wonder...
If religious people in Saudi believe god created everything, who are they to say god does not prefer people choose to be pure rather than use the evil, Zionist promoting pokemon?
Next step for Saudi, ban thinking. They already did all the thinking for you. Don't worry about it.
What is rational is not necessarily logical. Are we speaking of some objective notion of logic or subjective?
Science does not give access to all information so even if we could assess information perfectly we are still prone to error for lack of data.
Is there a better way to assess outside of the scientific method? -scientific or not we base our decisions on what we think/believe to be the best course of action or option.
We need the scientific method to help in objective analysis. If you read Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational" book you may notice there is a certain logic at work when people make irrational decisions that seem perfectly reasonable and rational to them.
Science is not perfect but unlike some religious belief systems science changes, improves and gets better. Through science we have advanced our understanding of reality beyond the confines of "God did it".
Imagine a world in which everyone does everything based on "because god said so". If you consider just the lack of consensus on which religion is the "true religion" and how one asses the will of god (Being mortal and incapable on understanding god's wishes) it would be a very scary world indeed.
Why won't you share your data? we're the police, the good guys!
Apparently if I don't share my data the terrorists win.
How many terrorists did sharing my data help apprehend? - bulk surveillance is useless for prevention there's just too much of it.
We don't need these reports to know the police and other organisations with access will abuse the data. We have human nature and history to teach us all we need on the subject.
Only share what you absolutely must. The reasons to obfuscate and purposefully give false information when possible are plentiful and sound. From protecting yourself from unnecessary span and "market research" firms to trolling and plain abuse by the government.
All these real ID and real name attempts by different companies and bodies will never convince me. If the police force that is supposed to be of a higher than average moral stature abuse it I have no doubt that companies like FB, MS and all the rest with no exceptions are doing things they should not.
My mail, email, social media, phone records etc. It's all my private information. Wanna read which amazing value loan offer I got yesterday? get a fucking warrant!
Huge corporations and political interests of other countries will do a lot to crush this initiative.
This is practically communism ruining capitalism.
Big money will look at what their market is worth (considering piracy not much) but the precedent and perception is far more expensive. I expect palms to start getting greased right about the time the growing pains of this new method reach a peak.
Next they will want to invalidate software patents. Must be shot down quick.
What the heck is this? they are policing their fans? writing rules on how fans can contribute to the zealot-like following?
Are they doing their best to alienate the fan base? -some starting sci-fi series, books etc would kill to have the sort of mass drone following of Star Trek.
An exercise to protect their work only diminishes their profits with bad press and unhappy fans.
They want to police how fans interact with their product?! I say screw Star Trek products! -Vote with your wallet.
Isnt Star Trek getting (just for the past couple of decades) a bit same old same old? - Sci-Fi needs to be about more than semi-emotional human look-alikes, red shirt deaths and the enterprise.
Remember, Telegram only promises high grade encryption for Secret Chats.
This is something you get for free with Telegram and no big corporation can spy on you.
Sorry, you should be very upset about the lack of spying in Secret chats. Stop using Telegram right now before you continue!
You should immediately use WhatsApp which uses your data in ways that will make you shit yourself.
Oh, and also; PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop using Telegram. A huge consortium of eaves dropping government bodies and gigantic greedy corporations know what's best for you.
Presumably the top notch engineers involved installed the patch and changed registry keys to reject the upgrade; but then Microsoft changed the patch status from "Extremely super critical" to "We'll ram it down your throats".
It's quite possible no one will ever update windows again by kill the update service and blacklisting all MS IPs.
It can be funny but when you run an organisation an unwanted upgrade can cause serious damages.
It was the radio once...essentially the end of music as we knew it.
Cassette players and recorders were the doom of all revenue for recording artists and labels.
A bit later lycos MP3 search killed all the artists and dried up all the cash flow streams.
Napster came. The great satan of music. The record labels lost more money and more artists went hungry...Napster stole food from their baby's mouths it was awful.
Then was Kazaa, Bearshare, Morpheus and a slew of gnutella apps - these truly put the nail in the coffin of countless poor studios.
Everyone moved on to torrents and then there was The Pirate Bay and ISO hunt. After these came about there were no more artists in the world because there was no money it.
So really I don;t even know who is complaining about youtube, a sharing platform. After all, all the artists moved on to working for a living (read performing) and there were no more record labels or studios left as they all ran out of business because of evil file sharers.
Let them sue YouYube. Let them sue the next platform that HELPS THEM spread their work and by popularity HELPS THEM secure more lucrative deals that end up HELPING THEM become richer.
If records labels are to be believed they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Looking at some of the later figures it seems they have lost more money than the music industry is worth.
Imagine an average person that was wrong in such a way; having lost more money than he could make even when counting his friends claimed salaries put together. Wouldn't you demand at least more money than the damages have caused?
The poor label will now have to rebuild their shattered empire on a mere $395k + stamps and change.
I still remember those days when the RIAA website was hacked and they kindly offered everyone a chance to download and appreciate the good music of Linkin Park. Why would anyone want to wrong these generous individuals is simply beyond me.
My heart really goes out to these honest, hard working folk. When I read of their suffering I weep.
It doesn't matter I guess because in the end justice was served, was it not? all the record labels won. I salute your victory in ASCII:
Funny but in all seriousness paraphernalia to prevent facial recognition systems from working are going to pick up.
We can no longer trust our governments not to abuse data they collect and they already collect the data before it was even approved!
Some say it's already too late because of driver's licenses and passports but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Facial recognition is coming to a CCTV near you! if it's not already there. Minority report style tracking is not that far fetched in our lifetime.
It's the usual argument right, what do you have to hide? -so why can we not read all the FBI's internal memos? what do they have to hide?
I have nothing to hide but letting someone arbitrarily read my mail is not something I agree to. I don't give a shit if it's only my water bill, it's no ones fucking business but mine.
If I can be so bold as to fine-tune that one entry to how I think it should be defined:
Atheist - A person that lacks belief in gods.
The distinction is due to the idea that before there was someone to think thought were absent. Not believing is the default state. Therefore to start believing in something existing or not is a change from the initial state of having no belief.
If, for arguments sake we conclude god does not exist then what is there to believe about non-existence? -that is to say why believe gods do not exist if they do not exist?
This is why I think the correct definition (if we must have one) is that Atheists lack belief in gods.
By using social media to show people the statistics. The amount of mass shootings in the US has no parallel in the "western world".
Americans seem to think liberty and owning a gun are one and the same. So is there a solution that allows both guns for US citizens and somehow reduce mass shootings?
Gun control. At the very lease require a policy background and mental health assessment as a prerequisite to own a gun.
Why doesn't the US use is ridiculously inefficient education budget to actually educate people about guns. Guns safety, reasons for gun control and restriction.
We heard all the arguments about gun control before. The fact is that when one person in 100,000 has a gun and a bad mood tens of people can die. This does not happen in other countries with strict gun controls because it cannot.
Sometimes I see the news and yet another mass shooting in the US and the cynic in me laughs. How fucking stupid do you have to be until you do something about these awful, half-assed gun measures and the cancerous NRA lobby? -sometimes I get really fucking angry because I'm done crying about it.
America advocates peace and tranquillity in the world often accused of being some world police. Look to your own country. Some of the crime statistics are just mind boggling. War on drugs, war on terror, war on fucking everything. -where did this get you? -I humbly suggest the real "war" you should be waging is on your violent nature. It's an easy war to win. Put the fucking guns down.
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The problem is with endless compensation due to logical ownership of something which no longer costs practically anything.
Physical property theft always has a victim and loss. Copying something illegally is technically theft but the effects are nowhere near physical property theft.
The plot thickens when we then consider legal copying and then illegal sharing. After all, I could buy a book and lend it to a friend and that's fine but if it's an Ebook then that's not fine. I can share my DVD with mates but if it's a movie download then not. But what if it's legal to share with freinds. Is there a legal definition of friend that we can actually enforce? What if I have 1200+ friends? (If my facebook bitch armada really counts as friends)
Personally If I like something and think it is of value I happily pay for it. I have DVDs of PC games that I have never actually opened as the physical copy was not required. Yet I paid because I valued the work.
But let's go back to your point of justification. Actually my using content even for free in its entirety is of immense value. Like songs on a radio. Somewhere along the chain I have paid something in related fees.
I paid for the broadcasting license, I paid for the cable TV channel or indeed the cinema ticket etc etc. What if I did not pay for any of those? -there is still value for the people that made the effort to create the "intellectual property" as I am likely to recommend something I enjoyed or see value in whether that is the film itself or something in it.
As any aspiring artist will tell you, just having people to listen, view, read and enjoy the material is an achievement in and of itself. Does it pay the rent? yes, it literally does. Can you be greedy and want more? yes, always.
Look at "youtube stars" there was no such thing once. No one promised them money. They did not ask for any but their POPULARITY gives them earning potential. Films make money not by being good they make money by being popular. If I somehow chose to see a film for free and liked it and told someone else the value is X.
X because that person might choose to watch the film as well in the cinema or buy the merchandise, mug, t-shirt, squeaky toy or get the cable channel with the awesome movies.
So you might be thinking the value is quite possibly 0 but it isn't. It's certainly a non-zero sum. When you watch a film you may think it's you paying for some intellectual property but I'm sure we all realise there is a lot more going on. Huge company are vying for mind share. A share of your mind, your psyche.
The hot chick drinking coke zero? she aint there cause she likes coke. The cool dude with the Ray Ban glasses got paid to wear them. You are sold products, ideas, lifestyles, looks and popularity all the time. Why? so you can CONSUME. Food, products, ideas etc.
Imagine for a moment that you can release content that will be viewed by a milling people, for free. Is there no value in it for you? Can you not think of how this actually pays? You think studios do not know their movies will be copied? showed a billing times on network TV? -they are not selling a story, a film is a product of immense complexity.
But forget all that because when studios bill themselves internally for editing their own movies and other shenanigans just to produce a net loss so they don't pay tax it really does not help endear the argument to "pay for the effort" when it can often big a big scam. The artists get paid. The actors get paid, the camera crew, sound crews etc etc that is part of the cost to make the film. The studio counts profit and then counts theoretical profit it may have had should you have actually paid for your illegal copy.
Here's the real kicker. Illegal downloaders are statistically more likely to PAY FOR FILMS. The rate of consumption for these people has often outpaced their ability to pay the fees. Which means they never had the money to buy it to begin with...but even if they did ha
What I mean is that they will be dying a slow death and their days are numbered.
Once the big screen was the only choice...then with TV it still had unparalleled quality, then TVs started catching up and it still had size still amazing sound, all these advantages are evaporating.
Technology wise theatre will be pointless when VR movies hit mainstream. 2D Flatland and even IMAX 3D will be undesirable at the possibility of true 3D.
What will the "theatre experience" with its queues, inconvenient travel, annoying kids, dumb anti-piracy forced fed messaging and stupidly priced popcorn have to offer if you can have the same quality of sight and sound from the comfort of your own home?
Theft has been part of human existence since the dawn of time. More over, copying differs from theft in the sense that no one actually loses property.
If anything you can start working now on a secure content delivery that is locked down to MITIGATE against most piracy strategies but it cannot be eliminated.
Honestly, I cannot wait until we cut out all the long line of middle men between the final cut and the end user. If movies were the price of coffee it would also make piracy less common; not forgetting it will boost the number of paying customers and increase the likelihood of people paying for multiple films in a month.
But the cinema? it might hold on a while longer to combine VR physical simulators "4D" style maybe...I say maybe because omnidirectional treadmills etc are already being produced for VR.
Except of course if you happen to be very young and unable to regulate your body temperature as efficiently as a fit adult...
Oh and if you're very old...because same....and if you're pregnant..and well I think it's obvious such heat is dangerous.
Reported on 129.2FM? All I get is static -why is that modded Informative?!
They have burkinis.
AMD is saying there's a x5+ performance improvement in specific workloads.
Sounds like cherry picking? think again. One such specific workload is 8k res terabyte file (for render) operations. Fuck it let Charlie tell you how it is -> http://semiaccurate.com/2016/0...
Every so often this innovative company just changes the game. Don't you wish you bough their stock when it hit $1.8?
What is this? a technicality? -will they say it's the "largest current production seaplane"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
When your Mars orbiter crashes on another planet costing everyone years of work and billions of dollars it's not so funny.
The scientists and engineers etc involved all used standards...but the problem was that it was not immediately obvious AT A GLANCE which standards.
Next time, if you wonder which standards use dd/mmm/yyyy so when I say I told you so on 22/Jul/2016 everyone knows what date was referenced.
To your credit I'd say that at least you recognise that my way is right.
I once worked in a company that had a UK and US presence. They had a great idea to do some sort of joint system but the date format got them stumped.
I proposed what could only be thought of by several managers as pure genius; the dd/mmm/yyyy format.
From that day Americans no longer got confused with a 31 month calendar.
Now replace "Jews" with any persecuted ethnic minority...
I banned Pokemon because I thought it was shit.
I didn't even need to reach into the ether and draw parallels with it supposedly promoting Zionism.
Fucking Pikachu, I somehow knew he was up to no good but now I have proof?
I think a review of Zionist promoting things should be conducted so we can ban them all...although, I do wonder...
If religious people in Saudi believe god created everything, who are they to say god does not prefer people choose to be pure rather than use the evil, Zionist promoting pokemon?
Next step for Saudi, ban thinking. They already did all the thinking for you. Don't worry about it.
It's just not that simple.
What is rational is not necessarily logical. Are we speaking of some objective notion of logic or subjective?
Science does not give access to all information so even if we could assess information perfectly we are still prone to error for lack of data.
Is there a better way to assess outside of the scientific method? -scientific or not we base our decisions on what we think/believe to be the best course of action or option.
We need the scientific method to help in objective analysis. If you read Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational" book you may notice there is a certain logic at work when people make irrational decisions that seem perfectly reasonable and rational to them.
Science is not perfect but unlike some religious belief systems science changes, improves and gets better. Through science we have advanced our understanding of reality beyond the confines of "God did it".
Imagine a world in which everyone does everything based on "because god said so". If you consider just the lack of consensus on which religion is the "true religion" and how one asses the will of god (Being mortal and incapable on understanding god's wishes) it would be a very scary world indeed.
Why won't you share your data? we're the police, the good guys!
Apparently if I don't share my data the terrorists win.
How many terrorists did sharing my data help apprehend? - bulk surveillance is useless for prevention there's just too much of it.
We don't need these reports to know the police and other organisations with access will abuse the data. We have human nature and history to teach us all we need on the subject.
Only share what you absolutely must. The reasons to obfuscate and purposefully give false information when possible are plentiful and sound. From protecting yourself from unnecessary span and "market research" firms to trolling and plain abuse by the government.
All these real ID and real name attempts by different companies and bodies will never convince me. If the police force that is supposed to be of a higher than average moral stature abuse it I have no doubt that companies like FB, MS and all the rest with no exceptions are doing things they should not.
My mail, email, social media, phone records etc. It's all my private information. Wanna read which amazing value loan offer I got yesterday? get a fucking warrant!
Huge corporations and political interests of other countries will do a lot to crush this initiative.
This is practically communism ruining capitalism.
Big money will look at what their market is worth (considering piracy not much) but the precedent and perception is far more expensive. I expect palms to start getting greased right about the time the growing pains of this new method reach a peak.
Next they will want to invalidate software patents. Must be shot down quick.
What the heck is this? they are policing their fans? writing rules on how fans can contribute to the zealot-like following?
Are they doing their best to alienate the fan base? -some starting sci-fi series, books etc would kill to have the sort of mass drone following of Star Trek.
An exercise to protect their work only diminishes their profits with bad press and unhappy fans.
They want to police how fans interact with their product?! I say screw Star Trek products! -Vote with your wallet.
Isnt Star Trek getting (just for the past couple of decades) a bit same old same old? - Sci-Fi needs to be about more than semi-emotional human look-alikes, red shirt deaths and the enterprise.
Remember, Telegram only promises high grade encryption for Secret Chats.
This is something you get for free with Telegram and no big corporation can spy on you.
Sorry, you should be very upset about the lack of spying in Secret chats. Stop using Telegram right now before you continue!
You should immediately use WhatsApp which uses your data in ways that will make you shit yourself.
Oh, and also; PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop using Telegram. A huge consortium of eaves dropping government bodies and gigantic greedy corporations know what's best for you.
Thank you for your cooperation netizen.
I only turn it on when he makes a FB status update via the app. Legit.
AdBlocking does not only load pages faster, helps block tracking and other semi-malicious activities but it also saves battery time!
Ads are big revenue streams, someone has to bury this before the word spreads to the uninformed masses.
Presumably the top notch engineers involved installed the patch and changed registry keys to reject the upgrade; but then Microsoft changed the patch status from "Extremely super critical" to "We'll ram it down your throats".
It's quite possible no one will ever update windows again by kill the update service and blacklisting all MS IPs.
It can be funny but when you run an organisation an unwanted upgrade can cause serious damages.
It was the radio once...essentially the end of music as we knew it.
Cassette players and recorders were the doom of all revenue for recording artists and labels.
A bit later lycos MP3 search killed all the artists and dried up all the cash flow streams.
Napster came. The great satan of music. The record labels lost more money and more artists went hungry...Napster stole food from their baby's mouths it was awful.
Then was Kazaa, Bearshare, Morpheus and a slew of gnutella apps - these truly put the nail in the coffin of countless poor studios.
Everyone moved on to torrents and then there was The Pirate Bay and ISO hunt. After these came about there were no more artists in the world because there was no money it.
So really I don;t even know who is complaining about youtube, a sharing platform. After all, all the artists moved on to working for a living (read performing) and there were no more record labels or studios left as they all ran out of business because of evil file sharers.
Let them sue YouYube. Let them sue the next platform that HELPS THEM spread their work and by popularity HELPS THEM secure more lucrative deals that end up HELPING THEM become richer.
Ignorant twats.
If records labels are to be believed they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Looking at some of the later figures it seems they have lost more money than the music industry is worth.
Imagine an average person that was wrong in such a way; having lost more money than he could make even when counting his friends claimed salaries put together. Wouldn't you demand at least more money than the damages have caused?
The poor label will now have to rebuild their shattered empire on a mere $395k + stamps and change.
I still remember those days when the RIAA website was hacked and they kindly offered everyone a chance to download and appreciate the good music of Linkin Park. Why would anyone want to wrong these generous individuals is simply beyond me.
My heart really goes out to these honest, hard working folk. When I read of their suffering I weep.
It doesn't matter I guess because in the end justice was served, was it not? all the record labels won. I salute your victory in ASCII:
\o/
Funny but in all seriousness paraphernalia to prevent facial recognition systems from working are going to pick up.
We can no longer trust our governments not to abuse data they collect and they already collect the data before it was even approved!
Some say it's already too late because of driver's licenses and passports but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Facial recognition is coming to a CCTV near you! if it's not already there. Minority report style tracking is not that far fetched in our lifetime.
It's the usual argument right, what do you have to hide? -so why can we not read all the FBI's internal memos? what do they have to hide?
I have nothing to hide but letting someone arbitrarily read my mail is not something I agree to. I don't give a shit if it's only my water bill, it's no ones fucking business but mine.
Back my ass. Leaving is for quitters and I aint no quitter you insensitive clod!
If I can be so bold as to fine-tune that one entry to how I think it should be defined:
Atheist - A person that lacks belief in gods.
The distinction is due to the idea that before there was someone to think thought were absent. Not believing is the default state. Therefore to start believing in something existing or not is a change from the initial state of having no belief.
If, for arguments sake we conclude god does not exist then what is there to believe about non-existence? -that is to say why believe gods do not exist if they do not exist?
This is why I think the correct definition (if we must have one) is that Atheists lack belief in gods.
By using social media to show people the statistics. The amount of mass shootings in the US has no parallel in the "western world".
Americans seem to think liberty and owning a gun are one and the same. So is there a solution that allows both guns for US citizens and somehow reduce mass shootings?
Gun control. At the very lease require a policy background and mental health assessment as a prerequisite to own a gun.
Why doesn't the US use is ridiculously inefficient education budget to actually educate people about guns. Guns safety, reasons for gun control and restriction.
We heard all the arguments about gun control before. The fact is that when one person in 100,000 has a gun and a bad mood tens of people can die. This does not happen in other countries with strict gun controls because it cannot.
Sometimes I see the news and yet another mass shooting in the US and the cynic in me laughs. How fucking stupid do you have to be until you do something about these awful, half-assed gun measures and the cancerous NRA lobby? -sometimes I get really fucking angry because I'm done crying about it.
America advocates peace and tranquillity in the world often accused of being some world police. Look to your own country. Some of the crime statistics are just mind boggling. War on drugs, war on terror, war on fucking everything. -where did this get you? -I humbly suggest the real "war" you should be waging is on your violent nature. It's an easy war to win. Put the fucking guns down.