It's true that recent polls have shown the majority of Americans favor surveillance of 'suspicious people,' but among the people I've talked to...
Expand "the people you talk to" to a decent representative sample of registered voters, and I might be interested in the rest of your statement. Of course when you do that, its called a "poll".
The one and only time (so far) I got arrested was about 30 years ago in New Orleans. Not a good place to get arrested. (For the curious, it was for making an illegal left hand turn in traffic with an out of state license. Yes, I was polite as could be.)
While in the communal holding cell I particularly remember one black kid they brought in. He was probably about 5'6 or so, and perhaps 130lbs tops, and was bleeding a bit from the nose. The cops of course were all huge heavy guys, so it didn't take much imagination to figure out how he got that way. One of the guys in the cell got worried about him possibly having internal injuries, so he convinced the kid to ask for medical help. The cops just laughed at him, because they said he wasn't complaining about that when they brought him in.
Of course some times you're damn glad to have those big cops around. They brought in one guy who was probably 6-3, 300lbs and was clearly on something. I'm guessing PCP. The single most violent human being I've ever personally witnessed. It took 5 big cops to wrestle him into the cell. The body language of everyone in the holding cell went from "I'm tough don't mess with me stay out of my space" to "Please Jesus don't let them put him in here" in an instant. Would have been funny if I wasn't one of them. Thankfully he got his own personal cell.
I said it then, I'll say it again. Before I retired, I would never ever ever have gone to a website about alcoholism, mental illness, or suicide.
If I had, and after they traced me out, my job would have given me a choice of being fired, or seeking treatment. Even with treatment, my job would have forever changed.
Either you worked at a very tiny business, or your company already has multiple employees dealing with alcoholism and mental illness (including depression, which is what usually leads to suicide when untreated). If its a halfway professional company, your HR folks should have options for treatment they routinely provide employees for these things as part of their medical coverage.
You may not know about it, because these aren't the kinds of things your coworkers bring up about themselves at the water cooler, but it is that common.
I know when my kids started having trouble with depression, one of the things that shocked me was how well set up my company's medical(/mental health) insurance was for dealing with this kind of thing. I had a lot to deal with, but crippling medical bills and/or static from work was not one of them. And I work in deep red "not one county voted for Obama" Oklahoma. You're telling me you think your company is more regressive than a bunch of Okies?
I bring this up because one of the things I see a lot with mental illness is sufferers being far harder on themselves than anyone else would be. And sometimes these feelings are transferred onto other people who would actually be downright supportive. Believe me, your HR people do this for a living. You won't be their first ever case.
This isn't the 1960's. Depression is usually quite treatable, and there's no reason employing someone on anti-depressants is any more of a problem than employing a diabetic on insulin.
Anecdotal, but heard from friend who took Uber on New Year's Day in Miami that they made over $2000 that night due to surge pricing (close to 10x).
Yeah but how much did they make on 01/02?
My wife's doing Uber currently. She made about a weeks' worth just on New Year's eve/early day alone. However, this week has been her slowest since she started Ubering. I think she said she made $6 yesterday.
Christmas is over, and Kim Jong-un didn't get any presents from the west. He knows we're all real busy, so it probably just slipped our minds. So this is his discreet way of reminding us that, even though he's atheist, he still appreciates Christmas gifts.
North Korea does this every few years. Next there's a lot of diplomacy, we give them lots of food and money, and they promise to never ever, ever, do another nuclear test again. Pinky swear.
The reports I was hearing contained a lot of skepticism. There are a lot of claims that it was likely just an A-bomb artificially boosted to make the explosion bigger so it looked like an H-bomb.
Personally, I don't find that particularly reassuring. Whatever it was, it registered 5.1 on the Richter scale, which is more than enough to ruin the day of a lot of the 25.6 million people in Seoul.
DUI means driving while under the influence of alcohol as measured by your blood alcohol content. It is alcohol in your blood that impairs your ability to drive. It doesn't matter how it got there.
Except that, if you'd actually read the article (or god forbid, the summary), she showed absolutely no symptoms of it at all until it reached ~0.30, which would be enough to kill most of us
That's the part I'm really surprised nobody has brought up. The laws are written so that the offense is for alcohol in your bloodstream, but the breathalyzer test that is typically used to detect it actually measures alcohol in your breath. They tend to be related, but they aren't always (which is why we all get loads of spam offering ways to "beat" the breathalyzer). In this person's case the relation is completely different because of the condition. If they really want to know her blood-alcohol level, they'd have to take a blood sample.
I don't necessarily agree with most of your reply, but I do see your point. However on this...
And I think that either you're the one who doesn't understand what it means, or you really didn't pay attention
Fan service is a term that came out of Anime to describe base titillation added to the work simply for its own sake. Usually impractically large glands and skimpy outfits are involved. Some people extend it a bit into non-sexual topics, but at its base, that's the kind of content that term is for. Even the Wikipedia page shows a chick in a (too small for her body) bikini.
Now while I'll admit Daisy is an attractive woman, that's about where that begins and ends in this movie. We got her in a demi-burka the whole movie, we got one hug between a couple of septuagenarians, and one demure forehead kiss while the guy was in a coma. Frankly, I'm surprised this movie wasn't rated 'G'.
I'm not saying what you're complaining about isn't there, I'm just saying "fan service" isn't really the right term for it.
There was way too much slovenly fan service in that movie
I don't think "fan service" means what you think it means. There was actually very little of that (damn it).
They did rehash a lot of plot elements from the first trilogy, I will give you that. However, it may well be that was cover for the things they did change. We have all just seen the first major top-budget fantasy action movie in my memory with no real white male leads, and there has been very little pushback on that from the usual mouth-breathers. Perhaps that's because they made everything else look so familiar, so those kind of people barely noticed anything off?
I guess we'll find out next movie if this was a diabolical plan to lull everyone before making huge departures, or if he's really just looking to make randomized movies from the automatic Star Wars movie generator machine.
Under the original copyright terms the founders instituted in 1790, TOS would have been out of copyright since 1996 (20 years ago). Under the 1831 extension, it would have been out of copyright since 2010 (6 years ago). It wasn't until the 20th Century that the term got extended so far past the founder's intent that a 47 year old work is still under copyright. And even then, it would have been out of copyright only 8 years from now. It wasn't until 1976 (within my memory) that the current march toward virtual perpetuity really started.
Next question: Would a world where people can make and sell Trek TOS fanfic (both crappy and masterful) really be that bad? Are we, the public, better off this way? We only get new material once a decade or so, and it is almost completely immune to the natural market forces that rule media in general.
If that is true, then as a citizen of the USA, I think, "holy fuck, the EU is doomed"
This isn't significantly different than the USA has with high-growth states dealing with "immigration" from poorer low-growth states (eg: Mississippi to Nevada). There are some residency requirements for things like in-state public school tuition, but for the most part if you are a citizen, you are a citizen.
If the emigrating state has much lower educational standards and health-care standards, and people from there speak funny their whole lives, and have religious and/or social views longtime residents don't agree with, well we just have to deal.
*sigh*. I put a lot of work into researching that answer. Looking up the linguistic consensus on American dialects, finding the proper terms, providing good links, etc. I wish someone had told me ahead of time that simply asserting the parent message is saying nothing of worth with a colorful one-word colloquialism, and then throwing up some fuzzy personal observations, is a sufficient to make a compelling argument. I could have done that in 30 seconds and gone on with my day!
There is no such thing as "standard English". "correct" English in the USA will be "bad English" in England, and both will be "bad" in Australia. Our language has diffuse cultural islands all over the globe, and each has its own "prestige" dialect(s)
The prestige dialect in the USA is the Standard American English (or "General American") dialect. However, nobody really speaks this natively.
"General American" appears to have derived from early American Midlands. That means it isn't really a fair compromise. If you were raised in a culture that primarily uses an American Midlands dialect, then switching to GA is less work for you. (and the penalty for not bothering to switch at all is much less)
The kid should have lost points for vocabulary.
To be fair, this is the exact thought that flashed through my head when he first talked to me about this. But that kind of misses the point. Yes, to his kids "fire hydrant" is probably a vocabulary word that they should eventually know. But for my kids its no more of a "vocabularly word" than "cat" or "hat" are. In other words, his kids have to be smarter than my kids just to get the same score. That's the issue here.
No.... the IQ test as an intelligence test is biased in favor of people with certain experiences, showing lower IQs for Poverty, but only in certain regions, is more evidence against the validity of IQ tests as a measure of fluid intelligence.
This reminds me of a friend from Philly. He had a really smart kid who lost points on one of those standardized tests because he had no clue what a "fire hydrant" was. In Philly where he grew up, those were "fireplug"s. His kid had no chance on that. Basically, the "verbal" parts of those standardized tests are dialect tests. If your native dialect isn't American Midlands, your kids are at a disadvantage.
Note that the native dialects for people from particularly poverty-stricken places tend to be pretty dang different from American Midlands. For the two most poverty-stricken dialects, AAVE and Appalachian, American "verbal" tests often have questions specifically written to trick their speakers. So if you speak Midlands and are competing on test scores with kids from those backgrounds, the test writers have essentially spotted you a bunch of points for growing up in the right place.
Things people actually need costs hundreds to thousands a dollars a month, which they cannot afford, such as regular dental visits, lawyers, tutors, private schools, paid vacations, non-medication based health care, maid service, fully equipped apartment/house, etc.
Those types of things are provided free from the government in Europe.
Whereas the USA blows all that money on silly trivialities like its military that is defending Europe.
rich kid private schools are more likely to pay well, better than local public schools.
I don't know if things have changed in the last 30 years, but when I went to one of those (we called it "preppy" back then), the teachers there told me they got much less than public school teachers got paid. They worked there anyway because they liked the job, and didn't have the right kind of degrees to get a public school teaching job. (Today the former sounds like a rationalization for the latter).
Some of them were really good teachers, yes. But some of my public school teachers were really good teachers too.
If memory serves, what I didn't have there that I had at public schools was a) A lot of the dumber kids (because there were tests to get in), and b) A lot of the poorer kids (because the yearly tuition could buy you a new car). Also, if your behavior became a problem (and your parents weren't obscenely rich) it was trivial to kick you out. Presumably to become the Public School's problem.
It's that most of us realise how much less horror would be in the world if there wasn't constant fighting over the limited fossil fuels that cold fusion would replace.
That's not it at all. If it was, people would be going batshit over renewables right now, since wind is now actually cheaper than natural gas, and solar is getting there. Instead, Natural gas is now the hot new power plant technology that everyone is building.
So no, getting rid of fossil fuels is clearly not that big of a deal to the public at large. Even if it were we wouldn't need some new mythical type of atomic energy to do so. For our big plants, we could all do it in 2 years if we wanted to, and be paying no more for our energy than today.
Guess what else is already publicly available? Your entire state's voter registration records. I know in OK you have to pay the state a processing fee, but you can easily get a nice digital copy of the names, addresses, and registered political party of every voter in your state.
You can even get around the fee by getting it free from your party, if you get yourself designated as a precinct official. Where I live that's as simple as being the one person in my precinct who shows up on the day they are being selected. I have an old copy of that data for my precinct on my hard-drive at home somewhere.
If you bought your house (rather than are renting), that is also a public record that anyone can request.
Names correlated with addresses are just flat out not private information. Never have been.
Third, we do report average flaw density metrics in the appendix of the study, along with a discussion of some of the limitations of this metric. I suggest reviewing the actual study (it's only about 20 pages) and then posting any additional questions.
I might. Got a link? There's no link to it that I could find either here or in any of the links on this story.
You can kinda see their concern, if you read the disclaimer on its own marketing material:
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Happy Fun Board may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Board should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Board, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Board include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy Fun Board has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
I went to the local gun range today and was chatting with the owner. His business spiked since the Paris shootings, with weekly concealed carry classes booked solid through February. With this he's going to have his best Christmas sales season in years.
You should have seen the business those guys did right after Obama got elected in 2008. The story then was that he was going to be taking everyone's guns immediately, so you'd better get yours now. What do you call the opposite of "prophetic"?
And of course the unspoken thing about guns in the USA has always been that you need them to protect yourself from colored folk. So no proof aside from the POTUS' skin color was really needed.
There's been a huge spike in mass shootings since then. But frankly, with all the bogus scare talk going on in those circles, I'm surprised we haven't had more incidents than we've had.
There have been more than 350 mass shootings in the USA this year, and I believe this is the only one carried out by Muslims. The vast majority were carried out by Christians. Several were even referring to their Christian beliefs as part of their rationale for the shooting (including one just last week). Add in all the single shootings perpetrated by Christians in the US, and you are likely in the thousands this year alone.
That's thousands vs. 14. So if banning religions is the solution to this, which should we ban first, to get the most impact?
...in fact, this wasn't even the only mass shooting that day. Another dude in Savannah shot 4 people yesterday, killing one.
Frankly, I'm at the point where I'm sick of hearing about it. Anything that happens daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and nobody gives enough of a shit about to actually try to prevent, is no longer news. How does it help me to report it to me? We should just hand over reporting of these incidents to traffic reporters, so we know where not to drive, and get on with our lives.
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It's true that recent polls have shown the majority of Americans favor surveillance of 'suspicious people,' but among the people I've talked to...
Expand "the people you talk to" to a decent representative sample of registered voters, and I might be interested in the rest of your statement. Of course when you do that, its called a "poll".
The one and only time (so far) I got arrested was about 30 years ago in New Orleans. Not a good place to get arrested. (For the curious, it was for making an illegal left hand turn in traffic with an out of state license. Yes, I was polite as could be.)
While in the communal holding cell I particularly remember one black kid they brought in. He was probably about 5'6 or so, and perhaps 130lbs tops, and was bleeding a bit from the nose. The cops of course were all huge heavy guys, so it didn't take much imagination to figure out how he got that way. One of the guys in the cell got worried about him possibly having internal injuries, so he convinced the kid to ask for medical help. The cops just laughed at him, because they said he wasn't complaining about that when they brought him in.
Of course some times you're damn glad to have those big cops around. They brought in one guy who was probably 6-3, 300lbs and was clearly on something. I'm guessing PCP. The single most violent human being I've ever personally witnessed. It took 5 big cops to wrestle him into the cell. The body language of everyone in the holding cell went from "I'm tough don't mess with me stay out of my space" to "Please Jesus don't let them put him in here" in an instant. Would have been funny if I wasn't one of them. Thankfully he got his own personal cell.
I said it then, I'll say it again. Before I retired, I would never ever ever have gone to a website about alcoholism, mental illness, or suicide.
If I had, and after they traced me out, my job would have given me a choice of being fired, or seeking treatment. Even with treatment, my job would have forever changed.
Either you worked at a very tiny business, or your company already has multiple employees dealing with alcoholism and mental illness (including depression, which is what usually leads to suicide when untreated). If its a halfway professional company, your HR folks should have options for treatment they routinely provide employees for these things as part of their medical coverage.
You may not know about it, because these aren't the kinds of things your coworkers bring up about themselves at the water cooler, but it is that common.
I know when my kids started having trouble with depression, one of the things that shocked me was how well set up my company's medical(/mental health) insurance was for dealing with this kind of thing. I had a lot to deal with, but crippling medical bills and/or static from work was not one of them. And I work in deep red "not one county voted for Obama" Oklahoma. You're telling me you think your company is more regressive than a bunch of Okies?
I bring this up because one of the things I see a lot with mental illness is sufferers being far harder on themselves than anyone else would be. And sometimes these feelings are transferred onto other people who would actually be downright supportive. Believe me, your HR people do this for a living. You won't be their first ever case.
This isn't the 1960's. Depression is usually quite treatable, and there's no reason employing someone on anti-depressants is any more of a problem than employing a diabetic on insulin.
Anecdotal, but heard from friend who took Uber on New Year's Day in Miami that they made over $2000 that night due to surge pricing (close to 10x).
Yeah but how much did they make on 01/02?
My wife's doing Uber currently. She made about a weeks' worth just on New Year's eve/early day alone. However, this week has been her slowest since she started Ubering. I think she said she made $6 yesterday.
Christmas is over, and Kim Jong-un didn't get any presents from the west. He knows we're all real busy, so it probably just slipped our minds. So this is his discreet way of reminding us that, even though he's atheist, he still appreciates Christmas gifts.
North Korea does this every few years. Next there's a lot of diplomacy, we give them lots of food and money, and they promise to never ever, ever, do another nuclear test again. Pinky swear.
The reports I was hearing contained a lot of skepticism. There are a lot of claims that it was likely just an A-bomb artificially boosted to make the explosion bigger so it looked like an H-bomb.
Personally, I don't find that particularly reassuring. Whatever it was, it registered 5.1 on the Richter scale, which is more than enough to ruin the day of a lot of the 25.6 million people in Seoul.
DUI means driving while under the influence of alcohol as measured by your blood alcohol content. It is alcohol in your blood that impairs your ability to drive. It doesn't matter how it got there.
Except that, if you'd actually read the article (or god forbid, the summary), she showed absolutely no symptoms of it at all until it reached ~0.30, which would be enough to kill most of us
That's the part I'm really surprised nobody has brought up. The laws are written so that the offense is for alcohol in your bloodstream, but the breathalyzer test that is typically used to detect it actually measures alcohol in your breath. They tend to be related, but they aren't always (which is why we all get loads of spam offering ways to "beat" the breathalyzer). In this person's case the relation is completely different because of the condition. If they really want to know her blood-alcohol level, they'd have to take a blood sample.
And I think that either you're the one who doesn't understand what it means, or you really didn't pay attention
Fan service is a term that came out of Anime to describe base titillation added to the work simply for its own sake. Usually impractically large glands and skimpy outfits are involved. Some people extend it a bit into non-sexual topics, but at its base, that's the kind of content that term is for. Even the Wikipedia page shows a chick in a (too small for her body) bikini.
Now while I'll admit Daisy is an attractive woman, that's about where that begins and ends in this movie. We got her in a demi-burka the whole movie, we got one hug between a couple of septuagenarians, and one demure forehead kiss while the guy was in a coma. Frankly, I'm surprised this movie wasn't rated 'G'.
I'm not saying what you're complaining about isn't there, I'm just saying "fan service" isn't really the right term for it.
There was way too much slovenly fan service in that movie
I don't think "fan service" means what you think it means. There was actually very little of that (damn it).
They did rehash a lot of plot elements from the first trilogy, I will give you that. However, it may well be that was cover for the things they did change. We have all just seen the first major top-budget fantasy action movie in my memory with no real white male leads, and there has been very little pushback on that from the usual mouth-breathers. Perhaps that's because they made everything else look so familiar, so those kind of people barely noticed anything off?
I guess we'll find out next movie if this was a diabolical plan to lull everyone before making huge departures, or if he's really just looking to make randomized movies from the automatic Star Wars movie generator machine.
Under the original copyright terms the founders instituted in 1790, TOS would have been out of copyright since 1996 (20 years ago). Under the 1831 extension, it would have been out of copyright since 2010 (6 years ago). It wasn't until the 20th Century that the term got extended so far past the founder's intent that a 47 year old work is still under copyright. And even then, it would have been out of copyright only 8 years from now. It wasn't until 1976 (within my memory) that the current march toward virtual perpetuity really started.
Next question: Would a world where people can make and sell Trek TOS fanfic (both crappy and masterful) really be that bad? Are we, the public, better off this way? We only get new material once a decade or so, and it is almost completely immune to the natural market forces that rule media in general.
If that is true, then as a citizen of the USA, I think, "holy fuck, the EU is doomed"
This isn't significantly different than the USA has with high-growth states dealing with "immigration" from poorer low-growth states (eg: Mississippi to Nevada). There are some residency requirements for things like in-state public school tuition, but for the most part if you are a citizen, you are a citizen.
If the emigrating state has much lower educational standards and health-care standards, and people from there speak funny their whole lives, and have religious and/or social views longtime residents don't agree with, well we just have to deal.
Bull. ...
*sigh*. I put a lot of work into researching that answer. Looking up the linguistic consensus on American dialects, finding the proper terms, providing good links, etc. I wish someone had told me ahead of time that simply asserting the parent message is saying nothing of worth with a colorful one-word colloquialism, and then throwing up some fuzzy personal observations, is a sufficient to make a compelling argument. I could have done that in 30 seconds and gone on with my day!
You live, you learn I guess...
Midlands kids also speak a dialect, fire plug is a common synonym. They also speak 'standard English', as should everybody
There are some misconceptions here that have surprisingly non-trivial impact.
The kid should have lost points for vocabulary.
To be fair, this is the exact thought that flashed through my head when he first talked to me about this. But that kind of misses the point. Yes, to his kids "fire hydrant" is probably a vocabulary word that they should eventually know. But for my kids its no more of a "vocabularly word" than "cat" or "hat" are. In other words, his kids have to be smarter than my kids just to get the same score. That's the issue here.
No.... the IQ test as an intelligence test is biased in favor of people with certain experiences, showing lower IQs for Poverty, but only in certain regions, is more evidence against the validity of IQ tests as a measure of fluid intelligence.
This reminds me of a friend from Philly. He had a really smart kid who lost points on one of those standardized tests because he had no clue what a "fire hydrant" was. In Philly where he grew up, those were "fireplug"s. His kid had no chance on that. Basically, the "verbal" parts of those standardized tests are dialect tests. If your native dialect isn't American Midlands, your kids are at a disadvantage.
Note that the native dialects for people from particularly poverty-stricken places tend to be pretty dang different from American Midlands. For the two most poverty-stricken dialects, AAVE and Appalachian, American "verbal" tests often have questions specifically written to trick their speakers. So if you speak Midlands and are competing on test scores with kids from those backgrounds, the test writers have essentially spotted you a bunch of points for growing up in the right place.
Things people actually need costs hundreds to thousands a dollars a month, which they cannot afford, such as regular dental visits, lawyers, tutors, private schools, paid vacations, non-medication based health care, maid service, fully equipped apartment/house, etc.
Those types of things are provided free from the government in Europe.
Whereas the USA blows all that money on silly trivialities like its military that is defending Europe.
rich kid private schools are more likely to pay well, better than local public schools.
I don't know if things have changed in the last 30 years, but when I went to one of those (we called it "preppy" back then), the teachers there told me they got much less than public school teachers got paid. They worked there anyway because they liked the job, and didn't have the right kind of degrees to get a public school teaching job. (Today the former sounds like a rationalization for the latter).
Some of them were really good teachers, yes. But some of my public school teachers were really good teachers too.
If memory serves, what I didn't have there that I had at public schools was a) A lot of the dumber kids (because there were tests to get in), and b) A lot of the poorer kids (because the yearly tuition could buy you a new car). Also, if your behavior became a problem (and your parents weren't obscenely rich) it was trivial to kick you out. Presumably to become the Public School's problem.
It's that most of us realise how much less horror would be in the world if there wasn't constant fighting over the limited fossil fuels that cold fusion would replace.
That's not it at all. If it was, people would be going batshit over renewables right now, since wind is now actually cheaper than natural gas, and solar is getting there. Instead, Natural gas is now the hot new power plant technology that everyone is building.
So no, getting rid of fossil fuels is clearly not that big of a deal to the public at large. Even if it were we wouldn't need some new mythical type of atomic energy to do so. For our big plants, we could all do it in 2 years if we wanted to, and be paying no more for our energy than today.
Guess what else is already publicly available? Your entire state's voter registration records. I know in OK you have to pay the state a processing fee, but you can easily get a nice digital copy of the names, addresses, and registered political party of every voter in your state.
You can even get around the fee by getting it free from your party, if you get yourself designated as a precinct official. Where I live that's as simple as being the one person in my precinct who shows up on the day they are being selected. I have an old copy of that data for my precinct on my hard-drive at home somewhere.
If you bought your house (rather than are renting), that is also a public record that anyone can request.
Names correlated with addresses are just flat out not private information. Never have been.
Third, we do report average flaw density metrics in the appendix of the study, along with a discussion of some of the limitations of this metric. I suggest reviewing the actual study (it's only about 20 pages) and then posting any additional questions.
I might. Got a link? There's no link to it that I could find either here or in any of the links on this story.
Use The Force, Luke.
Let go.
Luke, trust me.
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I went to the local gun range today and was chatting with the owner. His business spiked since the Paris shootings, with weekly concealed carry classes booked solid through February. With this he's going to have his best Christmas sales season in years.
You should have seen the business those guys did right after Obama got elected in 2008. The story then was that he was going to be taking everyone's guns immediately, so you'd better get yours now. What do you call the opposite of "prophetic"?
And of course the unspoken thing about guns in the USA has always been that you need them to protect yourself from colored folk. So no proof aside from the POTUS' skin color was really needed.
There's been a huge spike in mass shootings since then. But frankly, with all the bogus scare talk going on in those circles, I'm surprised we haven't had more incidents than we've had.
Moslems have just killed 14 people in California
Isn't it time to ban *ISLAM*?
There have been more than 350 mass shootings in the USA this year, and I believe this is the only one carried out by Muslims. The vast majority were carried out by Christians. Several were even referring to their Christian beliefs as part of their rationale for the shooting (including one just last week). Add in all the single shootings perpetrated by Christians in the US, and you are likely in the thousands this year alone.
That's thousands vs. 14. So if banning religions is the solution to this, which should we ban first, to get the most impact?
...in fact, this wasn't even the only mass shooting that day. Another dude in Savannah shot 4 people yesterday, killing one.
Frankly, I'm at the point where I'm sick of hearing about it. Anything that happens daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and nobody gives enough of a shit about to actually try to prevent, is no longer news. How does it help me to report it to me? We should just hand over reporting of these incidents to traffic reporters, so we know where not to drive, and get on with our lives.
Someone needs a lesson in set theory.