You should get beyond your 1st or 2nd grade education and move straight to a basic civics class. The 2nd amendment is already a limited right in our country.
The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to bear arms. It's intended to keep the government from infringing on that right.
...if that. Obtaining parts that modify guns into full auto, or modifying them by yourself isn't all that hard...
Yeah? Try it sometime. It's little bit like the fools that say "Making an atom bomb is easy! The plans are all over the internet!". Plans for the Brooklyn bridge are available too. Try building one.
Modding an AR to full auto isn't comparable to building a bridge but it's not just switching out some easily obtainable parts either. Theory is one thing, practice another.
As far as I know, there has never been a shooting with a modded AR in the U.S. Clearly isn't easy to do.
I feel that we first need proof that in-person voter fraud is a big enough problem to require a solution that can potentially disenfranchise vulnerable populations.
And how, without checking state-issued ID do you propose we determine that? Maybe we could ask voters if they are who they say they are, or would that also suppress the vote?
That's exactly what we do in MN. You have to affirm in writing that you actually who you say you are. No ID required, you just say "Yep, that's me". I'm a bit hazy on how this helps prevent fraud but there you are. I suppose they expect fraudulent would-be voters to see the sign, panic and run away.
HOWEVER what is even more dangerous is letting the government have direct sway over what actions companies like Facebook or Twitter can or cannot have over users. You have to be able to let them run platforms as they see fit, then let the market of users and financial consequences dictate what actions are appropriate for a company to take.
Not in America. You can't even refuse to bake a cake for an event of which you don't approve. The government exercises massive power over what companies can and cannot do.
Things can sometime be built cheaply if your labor is valued at zero. My labor cost is quite a bit greater than zero so I bought one.
On the other hand, if it's something I enjoy doing, and building stuff is generally one of those things, then building something that costs more than just buying it is perfectly understandable. Recreation has value in and of itself. I just didn't want to build an antenna:).
I'm pretty sure that was your motivation as well. And it is cool to build something that works well.
Try the alternative. Medical bankruptcy is pretty common.
Common where?
I'm sure that it happens, but I'm in my mid 60's and no one I've ever known even slightly has had a medical bankruptcy.
In a nation of over 300 million people, how many true medical bankruptcies occur a year?
>0 isn't enough for me to embrace the universal poverty of a Socialist America.
"But much smaller culturally homogeneous countries make do with Socialism just fine."
Until that racial and cultural homogeneity starts to break up.
Even though they have a higher suicide rate than the U.S. for some reason.
The true cost isn't the dollars, it's the time required to obtain an ID card. When the nearest office is 2 hours away, and your boss will fire you if you take an entire day off from work to go there, it becomes pretty much impossible. Statistically, minorities are more likely to be in that situation, but it's really just as much an attempt to discriminate against the poorer working population as it is racial discrimination.
Are they really thinking of the children? How will kids call their parents when a shooter with automatic weapons bursts into the school? For something that happens maybe several times per year, this seems rather short sighted.
Oh, wait. It's France.
It's never happened in America either. Not once has anyone shot up a school with an automatic weapon or anywhere else for that matter..
Do inform me when you find a book accurately detailing how to create a nuclear bomb. The FBI would also be interested.
"Dire Dawn" by Hildegarde Hernandez?;-p
More seriously, a basic fission bomb isn't really all that hard to build. We did it with 1940's tech. Any halfway competent nuclear engineering student should know enough to do the design up...
The difficulty isn't the design, it's the actually doing it.,
There fixed it for you. The theory and designs for building Hoover dam are available too. Try it sometime.
Seriously, powerful nations spend years trying to build one that works. You ain't doing it in your garage.
You want that heart bypass surgery? No problem, we'll pencil you in for July 6th, 2028.
An absurd exaggeration that flies in the face of actual data from countries with socialized healthcare systems, but absurdity is guaranteed when your argument has nothing of substance to stand on.
Not at all. I worked for several years on a medical office management system that ran in 12 or so countries. My team had members from Canada and the U.K. and they both had horror stories about the "free healthcare" involving their mothers. For the Canadian mom, she was diagnosed with a heart problem and was told to stay in bed until money was available for treatment. She was told that it shouldn't more than six months. The U.K. mom had breast lumps discovered in a checkup and was scheduled for a biopsy. In six months coincidentally. Both moms were brought to the U.S. right away for treatment even though it wasn't "free".
Regarding the medical office system we were working on, as much as a pain in the ass it was dealing with 50 states worth of insurance companies, the Canadian "single payer" system was A LOT harder to deal with. Unbelievably complex rules about who could get what at what age and in what Province depending on the time of year. This was a while back so maybe it's all rainbow farting unicorns now.
Maybe because Norway wasn't stupid enough to hand over their oil and gas to some corporation?
Or, more to the point, maybe its politicians are not corrupt enough to hand it over for a position in their directorate. Which might also explain why the population there has more faith in its politicians than in crooked and failed countries.
I'm not sure that holding on to a massive fortune so you can wield it's power yourself is necessarily "not corrupt". Just sayin'.
It is almost like the cities that have a body of water have street orientation that follows the shoreline. Like maybe the shoreline was important and stuff to the city and the city grew from the ports along the shoreline. Interesting stuff.
Yep, that's exactly right. Their chart of Minneapolis is incorrect for the main urban part that was built around the Mississippi river.
What's really amazing is that you can actually function pretty well without cash in America these days... at least it Seattle and Tampa. I was really shocked...
Being able to function without cash (most of the time) doesn't preclude the usfullness of cash in other situations.
I was really shocked since the U.S. is basically a 2nd or 3rd world country (this is based on how the wealthy and middle class treat their poor)
And yet poor people are literally dying to get here and native poor people aren't trying to leave. Just shows how stupid poor people are, eh?
On top of this, the world is straight the fuck up, dying. We're not working towards protecting it very well, we're not working towards replacing it (finding a new one elsewhere)
... but it's dreck that's by and large built by professionals and and as expertly aimed as possible at likely consumers.
Combine that with a LOT of bored people and you get a pretty large market. And sometimes the content can have some good stuff mixed in with the bad.
what's the average temperature during the summer where you live?
where i live it's 30C. with 40C days and 30C nights for weeks at a time. with 80-90% humidity to top it off.
so yeah if you can tell me the secret to keep cool without AC during those times, I will take your point. otherwise, it's as stupid as saying "heating is a luxury, you only need to add more layers of clothing"
Keeping cool is a luxury, not a necessity. Getting by day to day in those temps is quite possible if not a comfortable ideal.
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You should get beyond your 1st or 2nd grade education and move straight to a basic civics class. The 2nd amendment is already a limited right in our country.
The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to bear arms. It's intended to keep the government from infringing on that right.
...if that. Obtaining parts that modify guns into full auto, or modifying them by yourself isn't all that hard...
Yeah? Try it sometime. It's little bit like the fools that say "Making an atom bomb is easy! The plans are all over the internet!". Plans for the Brooklyn bridge are available too. Try building one.
Modding an AR to full auto isn't comparable to building a bridge but it's not just switching out some easily obtainable parts either. Theory is one thing, practice another.
As far as I know, there has never been a shooting with a modded AR in the U.S. Clearly isn't easy to do.
I feel that we first need proof that in-person voter fraud is a big enough problem to require a solution that can potentially disenfranchise vulnerable populations.
And how, without checking state-issued ID do you propose we determine that? Maybe we could ask voters if they are who they say they are, or would that also suppress the vote?
That's exactly what we do in MN. You have to affirm in writing that you actually who you say you are. No ID required, you just say "Yep, that's me". I'm a bit hazy on how this helps prevent fraud but there you are. I suppose they expect fraudulent would-be voters to see the sign, panic and run away.
HOWEVER what is even more dangerous is letting the government have direct sway over what actions companies like Facebook or Twitter can or cannot have over users. You have to be able to let them run platforms as they see fit, then let the market of users and financial consequences dictate what actions are appropriate for a company to take.
Not in America. You can't even refuse to bake a cake for an event of which you don't approve. The government exercises massive power over what companies can and cannot do.
Mylar bag? You were lucky.
We had to make our antenna out of dirt.
Wow, an antenna AND the ground all in one!
On the other hand, if it's something I enjoy doing, and building stuff is generally one of those things, then building something that costs more than just buying it is perfectly understandable. Recreation has value in and of itself. I just didn't want to build an antenna:).
I'm pretty sure that was your motivation as well. And it is cool to build something that works well.
Try the alternative. Medical bankruptcy is pretty common.
Common where?
I'm sure that it happens, but I'm in my mid 60's and no one I've ever known even slightly has had a medical bankruptcy. In a nation of over 300 million people, how many true medical bankruptcies occur a year? >0 isn't enough for me to embrace the universal poverty of a Socialist America. "But much smaller culturally homogeneous countries make do with Socialism just fine." Until that racial and cultural homogeneity starts to break up. Even though they have a higher suicide rate than the U.S. for some reason.
If so it's a last brutal "Fuck You" from Musk to the shorts.
So, in other words, the shorts take it in the shorts.
The true cost isn't the dollars, it's the time required to obtain an ID card. When the nearest office is 2 hours away, and your boss will fire you if you take an entire day off from work to go there, it becomes pretty much impossible. Statistically, minorities are more likely to be in that situation, but it's really just as much an attempt to discriminate against the poorer working population as it is racial discrimination.
Bullshit
Let's ban citizens from preparing meals in their households as well. What better to ensure the success of local eateries?
Pol Pot did exactly that. Not a good example to emulate, but that's just my opinion.
Are they really thinking of the children? How will kids call their parents when a shooter with automatic weapons bursts into the school? For something that happens maybe several times per year, this seems rather short sighted. Oh, wait. It's France.
It's never happened in America either. Not once has anyone shot up a school with an automatic weapon or anywhere else for that matter..
"Dire Dawn" by Hildegarde Hernandez? ;-p
More seriously, a basic fission bomb isn't really all that hard to build. We did it with 1940's tech. Any halfway competent nuclear engineering student should know enough to do the design up...
The difficulty isn't the design, it's the actually doing it.,
There fixed it for you. The theory and designs for building Hoover dam are available too. Try it sometime.
Seriously, powerful nations spend years trying to build one that works. You ain't doing it in your garage.
Here's how it will work in real life: To report a felony, Press 1
you'd rather have the government make the rules.
Yes.
You want that heart bypass surgery? No problem, we'll pencil you in for July 6th, 2028.
An absurd exaggeration that flies in the face of actual data from countries with socialized healthcare systems, but absurdity is guaranteed when your argument has nothing of substance to stand on.
Not at all. I worked for several years on a medical office management system that ran in 12 or so countries. My team had members from Canada and the U.K. and they both had horror stories about the "free healthcare" involving their mothers. For the Canadian mom, she was diagnosed with a heart problem and was told to stay in bed until money was available for treatment. She was told that it shouldn't more than six months. The U.K. mom had breast lumps discovered in a checkup and was scheduled for a biopsy. In six months coincidentally. Both moms were brought to the U.S. right away for treatment even though it wasn't "free".
Regarding the medical office system we were working on, as much as a pain in the ass it was dealing with 50 states worth of insurance companies, the Canadian "single payer" system was A LOT harder to deal with. Unbelievably complex rules about who could get what at what age and in what Province depending on the time of year. This was a while back so maybe it's all rainbow farting unicorns now.
Maybe because Norway wasn't stupid enough to hand over their oil and gas to some corporation?
Or, more to the point, maybe its politicians are not corrupt enough to hand it over for a position in their directorate. Which might also explain why the population there has more faith in its politicians than in crooked and failed countries.
I'm not sure that holding on to a massive fortune so you can wield it's power yourself is necessarily "not corrupt". Just sayin'.
It is almost like the cities that have a body of water have street orientation that follows the shoreline. Like maybe the shoreline was important and stuff to the city and the city grew from the ports along the shoreline. Interesting stuff.
Yep, that's exactly right. Their chart of Minneapolis is incorrect for the main urban part that was built around the Mississippi river.
It's a pretty regular grid EXCEPT for downtown.
You would dismiss the vehicle when you no longer need it, you would summon it when you need it.
I've been calling this feature "valet mode" for years.
I'd love this, (if it's reliable!) for rainy days, parking downtown, etc. For me, this would be the top of the list of autonomous features.
Is Kimberly Overbay. A woman. That probably explains it all. She needed to get rid of the old white guy in order to promote diversity.
She sure looks like a woman, but these days...
" is made from a proprietary strain of cannabis"
Full fuckin stop right there.
How is DNA proprietary? If I have two plants at home and they spawn a seed with similar genetics, am I going to get sued for some patent violation?
Yes, if Monsanto(Bayer) owns the DNA.
Funny....
But on a serious note, will be you able to disable and turn the fucking thing OFF??
That's what the extra blankets in the closet are for. If you forgot your thick Alexa cozy to put over the thing.
What's really amazing is that you can actually function pretty well without cash in America these days... at least it Seattle and Tampa. I was really shocked ...
Being able to function without cash (most of the time) doesn't preclude the usfullness of cash in other situations.
I was really shocked since the U.S. is basically a 2nd or 3rd world country (this is based on how the wealthy and middle class treat their poor)
And yet poor people are literally dying to get here and native poor people aren't trying to leave. Just shows how stupid poor people are, eh?
On top of this, the world is straight the fuck up, dying. We're not working towards protecting it very well, we're not working towards replacing it (finding a new one elsewhere)
Then we have the internet, ...
Well, listen to you, Mr. glass half empty.
Almost entirely Somali, though this report doesn't mention that: http://m.startribune.com//minn...
... but it's dreck that's by and large built by professionals and and as expertly aimed as possible at likely consumers. Combine that with a LOT of bored people and you get a pretty large market. And sometimes the content can have some good stuff mixed in with the bad.
what's the average temperature during the summer where you live?
where i live it's 30C. with 40C days and 30C nights for weeks at a time. with 80-90% humidity to top it off.
so yeah if you can tell me the secret to keep cool without AC during those times, I will take your point. otherwise, it's as stupid as saying "heating is a luxury, you only need to add more layers of clothing"
Keeping cool is a luxury, not a necessity. Getting by day to day in those temps is quite possible if not a comfortable ideal.