It was a question: what was the point supposed to be? If you sample a large enough population over a long enough time, you can find some very bizarre behavior. It doesn't say much of anything about the population in general. The correct answer to "what conclusion should we draw about the general population?" is "none".
The general population drives cars without murdering pedestrians and prepares and serves food with murdering diners. If the general population can be trusted not to commit murder in those ways, what makes them prone to commit murder with a gun?
Nope, I actually came out against it when Obama was scapegoating innocent gun owners and Trump was scapegoating innocent Muslims after the San Bernadino attack. I'll be glad to accept an apology.
That's the natural result when you tell yourself a story where a politician is essentially a comic book supervillain. There's no room to coexist with others who don't believe the story. They're all dupes or sheep or collaborators in supervillainy, and the world around you seems to be filled with darkness.
The way out is to stop telling yourself scary stories and try to objectively, dispassionately observe the facts and events.
So when one is presented with a model that works better then ones own one shouldnt try to emulate the more effective model?
A culture isn't "one", a culture is "many". Cultures don't try things, individuals do. I don't get to decide what the culture does. You don't either. The culture does what it does.
If you don't like it, go ahead and say so and see if it helps. I don't think it will help. One new aspect of the US culture is that we collectively seem to be about done listening to lectures from people who don't like us.
You can't have a reasonable discussion with people because you neither reason with people nor discuss with them. Pronouncements aren't reason. Monologuing isn't discussion.
It is the same in Olathe, they will employ any US citizen with suitable skills ahead of a foreign worker as it is less hassle but they can not get enough staff with right skills, in part because Garmin set the bar quite high when it comes to skill levels.
In my experience, this is what actually happens:
People will be interviewed for a position, and they'll decide who they want to hire. If that person needs an H-1b, they'll change the job description to match that person perfectly, so no locals will be qualified. Then they'll advertise the revised position for the legally required amount of time and hire the H-1b guy they had already decided to hire.
It can be a little extra effort to hire the H-1b guy, but the benefit is that H-1b employees can't leave employment without jeopardizing their residency. That's a huge benefit to an employer, and it more than outweighs the extra paperwork that the HR staff has to deal with.
I'm sure there are other situations. But this is what I've seen.
The US isn't China or Europe or Australia or Britain. We have our own unique culture. It has pluses and minuses like any other distinct culture does. And, like any other culture, our choices may seem somewhat alien to outsiders. It requires a certain perspective to understand and appreciate other cultures. Perhaps you may develop that perspective someday.
In other words my coworker is dead because millions of innocent gun owners haven't been arrested, how is that a good thing?.
How many thousands of people would die trying to enforce gun control on a population unwilling to surrender their guns? We tried alcohol prohibition because so many people died In relation to the consumption of alcohol. It turned out to be a mistake.
So rather than generalize from 2 incidents, you want to generalize from "I heard somewhere there were more than two incidents"? That's some steel-trap thinking.
Wow, 2 incidents over the course of 10 years in a population of 300 million people. What conclusion should we draw about the general population from these incidents?
Yeah, this one isn't a hoax. We have all been conditioned to suspect bias incidents are hoaxes because so many of them are, but this one is real and the descriptions of it seem to be consistent across multiple sources.
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Incorrect. The rules you're talking about are easily and routinely gamed. The workarounds are straightforward.
Perhaps I just don't automatically believe every story I hear. Especially the "interesting" ones.
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I can't believe Uber created 13 degree weather. Jerks!
It was a question: what was the point supposed to be? If you sample a large enough population over a long enough time, you can find some very bizarre behavior. It doesn't say much of anything about the population in general. The correct answer to "what conclusion should we draw about the general population?" is "none".
The general population drives cars without murdering pedestrians and prepares and serves food with murdering diners. If the general population can be trusted not to commit murder in those ways, what makes them prone to commit murder with a gun?
In other words, Trump is guilty by association because he didn't disavow one of the 5000 things Trump-haters demand he disavow every day.
Nope, I actually came out against it when Obama was scapegoating innocent gun owners and Trump was scapegoating innocent Muslims after the San Bernadino attack. I'll be glad to accept an apology.
And the modern example of a well-armed populace being crushed by a government crackdown using heavy weapons is ...?
That's the natural result when you tell yourself a story where a politician is essentially a comic book supervillain. There's no room to coexist with others who don't believe the story. They're all dupes or sheep or collaborators in supervillainy, and the world around you seems to be filled with darkness.
The way out is to stop telling yourself scary stories and try to objectively, dispassionately observe the facts and events.
Trump doesn't control what gets shown on TV.
So when one is presented with a model that works better then ones own one shouldnt try to emulate the more effective model?
A culture isn't "one", a culture is "many". Cultures don't try things, individuals do. I don't get to decide what the culture does. You don't either. The culture does what it does.
If you don't like it, go ahead and say so and see if it helps. I don't think it will help. One new aspect of the US culture is that we collectively seem to be about done listening to lectures from people who don't like us.
Go ahead and compare them. But then so what? The US isn't going to become Europe just because someone dislikes one way the US isn't like Europe.
Isn't understanding a culture supposed to be better and more enlightened than judging it against an alien and chauvinistic standard?
Change (or reinterpret) the law to be something less permissive than "guns for everyone!"
It's the Constitution. You can't change it without overwhelming majority support. And gun rights have majority support in the US.
You can't "reinterpret it" either -- it means what it says, and you won't be able to enforce a "reinterpreted" meaning on an unwilling population.
Then reeducate the public to change peoples' opinions and provide a safe way to surrender weapons for disposal.
We have government "by the people". Government "by the people" doesn't "reeducate" the people.
You can't have a reasonable discussion with people because you neither reason with people nor discuss with them. Pronouncements aren't reason. Monologuing isn't discussion.
It is the same in Olathe, they will employ any US citizen with suitable skills ahead of a foreign worker as it is less hassle but they can not get enough staff with right skills, in part because Garmin set the bar quite high when it comes to skill levels.
In my experience, this is what actually happens:
People will be interviewed for a position, and they'll decide who they want to hire. If that person needs an H-1b, they'll change the job description to match that person perfectly, so no locals will be qualified. Then they'll advertise the revised position for the legally required amount of time and hire the H-1b guy they had already decided to hire.
It can be a little extra effort to hire the H-1b guy, but the benefit is that H-1b employees can't leave employment without jeopardizing their residency. That's a huge benefit to an employer, and it more than outweighs the extra paperwork that the HR staff has to deal with.
I'm sure there are other situations. But this is what I've seen.
The US isn't China or Europe or Australia or Britain. We have our own unique culture. It has pluses and minuses like any other distinct culture does. And, like any other culture, our choices may seem somewhat alien to outsiders. It requires a certain perspective to understand and appreciate other cultures. Perhaps you may develop that perspective someday.
In other words my coworker is dead because millions of innocent gun owners haven't been arrested, how is that a good thing?.
How many thousands of people would die trying to enforce gun control on a population unwilling to surrender their guns? We tried alcohol prohibition because so many people died In relation to the consumption of alcohol. It turned out to be a mistake.
Innocent gun owners didn't shoot these guys. Scapegoating and sending the police after innocent people isn't the answer.
So rather than generalize from 2 incidents, you want to generalize from "I heard somewhere there were more than two incidents"? That's some steel-trap thinking.
"Everyone does it" doesn't justify inhumanity or misbehavior.
Wow, 2 incidents over the course of 10 years in a population of 300 million people. What conclusion should we draw about the general population from these incidents?
Congrats on using a tragic shooting to make cheap political arguments. Please consider showing more humanity in the future.
Yeah, this one isn't a hoax. We have all been conditioned to suspect bias incidents are hoaxes because so many of them are, but this one is real and the descriptions of it seem to be consistent across multiple sources.