it's so funny to see them throwing their weight around right out in the open. They used to at least be discrete about it. I can't blame them though. The working class seems to have given up all pretense of holding them accountable. At least so long as they don't look like those "coastal elites" (read: scientists).
Seriously, these guys were faking blood tests. People could have died. They should be in jail.
Given that most states go out of their way to avoid looking into such things and the Dickey amendment makes in depth research a practical impossibility (it's written in such a way that it doesn't explicitly ban gov't gun research but does for all intents & purposes) we'll probably never know. Maybe if one of those guys goes on an honest to goodness shooting rampage.
in addition to the Gun Show one. Most places have it on the books that if the background check takes more than X days you have to issue the permit. In theory it's supposed to stop Big Government from using Bureaucracy® to keep guns out of the hands of citizens. In practice it's just a big 'ole loop hole to let anyone have a gun or a concealed carry permit.
See here. For an entirely new field of study that touches on particle physics that's not bad. Not everything has to turn a profit right the f now. If we ran things like that it would take centuries to get anything major done, which is exactly what was going on for the first several thousand years of human history.
If we can afford to spend $21 million on a single bomb to drop on Afghanistan to inaugurate President Trump we can spend some money on basic research.
it's when you research something that's not immediately profitable but might be some day. Most of the time it doesn't pan out and when it does it takes decades. But you wouldn't be typing this on a computer if it didn't sometimes pan out because we wouldn't have microprocessors.
A small number of companies have bought up just about everything and they don't compete with each other on wages. Add outsourcing and H1-Bs and wages stagnant. The final piece to the puzzle is that labor is no longer organized and so there's no pressure to increase wages from Unions.
As for why economists aren't talking about this, well, the Koch Bros and the like have been buying out cash strapped University departments with hefty donations. When that doesn't work they just get buddy buddy with deans and the like. And if all else fails these are public Universities and they can use their political connections to get what they want. Some of the big schools like MIT will still buck the trend, but then again they own the media now so they can keep the occasional study that blows up their narrative out of sight and mind.
because the baseline for crypto currencies is and remains drugs and money laundering. What I'm wondering is if governments will ever crack down on that. If they do expect the value to plummet. Currency is worthless if it can't be exchanged for goods/services, and there's almost nobody taking even bitcoin for anything of actual value, let alone all the other currencies out there.
If I sound harsh it's because I'm a little ticked that a buddy of mine spend a bunch of real money on one of those "Proof of Stake" coins that is basically an unregulated security minus anything of value backing it like a company. He didn't spend a lot of money, but OTOH he doesn't have a lot. I'm sick and tired of seeing folks taken advantage. Studies have shown people make bad decisions when they get desperate, and that makes desperate people ideal marks. But all I hear from anybody is Caveat Emptor.
and not just because they're not 'tech savvy'. Age Related Cognitive Decline is a thing.
I don't like Joe Manchin one bit. He just sold us all out to Wall Street (along with a bunch of other Dems ) by repealing Dodd-Frank (in pieces so nobody would notice). Thanks to him and his right wing / pro corp ilk we're gonna have a major crash in about 4-6 years (just in time for a Democrat to take the Whitehouse and the blame). I hate the guy, but this seems reasonable.
MIT proved that. Our entire political system (the Senate & Electoral colleges in particular but gerrymandering and how our voting system makes voter suppression easy) is built from the ground up to protect the interests of wealthy land owners. This isn't a popular thing to say because, well, it goes against deeply ingrained mental conditioning you got when you were a kid. It's hard to get past the lies you're told before your brain is well formed enough to know what a lie is.
to regulate gun violence? I can wait two weeks for a gun show (there's a small one about every 2 weeks where I am, it's a major city though) and pick up a gun with zero back ground checks. I could be a convicted felon or a kid with an obvious fake Id and walk out with an AR-15, a shot gun and plenty of ammo. It might take me a bit of time at Mikky D's to save up the money, but I'd be ready to go in about 6 months tops. 3 if I worked full time.
Read up on the history and design of the AR-15. What's interesting is how much work went into making them ideally for killing men. Slower velocities allow lower calibers to do more damage because the bullet spins and leaves a huge wound in the meat. That's bad for hunting, since you probably want to eat that meat, but great for killing.
We absoultely regulate what's street legal. Where do you think the phrase "Street Legal" came from. There are a variety of modifications that are disallowed. It varies by jurisdiction though, so it's possible that your neck of the woods really has no laws.
And that's a lousy cheap shot at the end. But really, it's all you have. Your not a gun rights advocate per se. Or if you are your a patsy for the NRA. The point of stopping all gun regulation (which is the NRA's stance) isn't to protect your rights. It's to make sure there's nothing between the NRA (a gun industry lobbying group) and a sale. We're letting people die so the NRA's sales don't drop a little bit...
And isn't running again. He'll take the heat for the rest of the party by not allowing a vote. I'm sure he'll be well rewarded. And in a few years when we've all forgotten he'll be back to run for president.
we let hunters cull herds and put fences up to keep them away from busy roads. We also take steps to address automobile accidents, drug overdose, suicide, Homicide, cancer and well, all the examples you cite.
But when it comes to ending gun violence we do next to nothing. We ban convicted felons from owning guns but we leave glaring loopholes in the system that let them obtain them with ease. We allow ownership of weapons intentionally designed to kill people (the AR-15's caliber and bullet velocity are designed to maximize the size of the wound) while regulating how fast a car can go to be "street legal".
You're entire argument rests on a false premise that we should do nothing to prevent gun violence because we haven't completely eliminated all other forms of death. I'm too lazy to look up the name logical fallacy you're employing but it's pretty obvious it's a fallacy.
Oh wait, they got one. Massive tax subsidies for the owners and the jobs still got shipped to Mexico. And _still_ his poll numbers don't budge.
Show up to your primaries people. If we're ever going to fix this mess that's where we're gonna do it. And yes. that means registering for the Democratic party if that's what it takes to vote in their primary. The Dems aren't blameless, but they're not so far gone that they couldn't be made into a pro-working class party again.
by dehumanizing people? You might be over reacting just a _tad_ bit. Ignoring that these are nowhere's near the worst humanity has to offer (they're not even in the same zip code as guys like Hitler & Stalin) you threw in some disturbing tripe about weeding out the weaklings (speaking of Hitler...). Is this the kind of stuff that gets modded +5 on/. now? I mean, I know we're not supposed to complain about the mods, but seriously?
it's not "AI" in the sci-fi sense. It's Job Automation & data mining. Lots of money there. It's still Tax payers paying for basic research that companies will use for their personal profit (privatize the profits, socials the costs). It's especially funny because it's the tax payers paying to put themselves out of work with automation.
to fire the dev team after the app is built. You hire some folks to do the hard work of building it and then you hire jr code monkeys to maintain it afterwards. Video Games do this. Still, it means Oracle isn't planing any major changes to it (or it means they think they can get by with consultants).
if Peter Watt's experience is anything to go by. I'm consistently embarrassed by my country. Hell, We've now had to presidents who support torture for Pete's sake.
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the loophole is there on purpose to make it easier to purchase guns.
it's so funny to see them throwing their weight around right out in the open. They used to at least be discrete about it. I can't blame them though. The working class seems to have given up all pretense of holding them accountable. At least so long as they don't look like those "coastal elites" (read: scientists).
Seriously, these guys were faking blood tests. People could have died. They should be in jail.
Given that most states go out of their way to avoid looking into such things and the Dickey amendment makes in depth research a practical impossibility (it's written in such a way that it doesn't explicitly ban gov't gun research but does for all intents & purposes) we'll probably never know. Maybe if one of those guys goes on an honest to goodness shooting rampage.
in addition to the Gun Show one. Most places have it on the books that if the background check takes more than X days you have to issue the permit. In theory it's supposed to stop Big Government from using Bureaucracy® to keep guns out of the hands of citizens. In practice it's just a big 'ole loop hole to let anyone have a gun or a concealed carry permit.
See here. For an entirely new field of study that touches on particle physics that's not bad. Not everything has to turn a profit right the f now. If we ran things like that it would take centuries to get anything major done, which is exactly what was going on for the first several thousand years of human history.
If we can afford to spend $21 million on a single bomb to drop on Afghanistan to inaugurate President Trump we can spend some money on basic research.
it's when you research something that's not immediately profitable but might be some day. Most of the time it doesn't pan out and when it does it takes decades. But you wouldn't be typing this on a computer if it didn't sometimes pan out because we wouldn't have microprocessors.
spending money on Basic Research is perfectly consistent with the Democratic Party's platform.
we could pay off the national debt in about 15 years from the money we'd save switching to single payer healthcare. Look it up.
A small number of companies have bought up just about everything and they don't compete with each other on wages. Add outsourcing and H1-Bs and wages stagnant. The final piece to the puzzle is that labor is no longer organized and so there's no pressure to increase wages from Unions.
As for why economists aren't talking about this, well, the Koch Bros and the like have been buying out cash strapped University departments with hefty donations. When that doesn't work they just get buddy buddy with deans and the like. And if all else fails these are public Universities and they can use their political connections to get what they want. Some of the big schools like MIT will still buck the trend, but then again they own the media now so they can keep the occasional study that blows up their narrative out of sight and mind.
because the baseline for crypto currencies is and remains drugs and money laundering. What I'm wondering is if governments will ever crack down on that. If they do expect the value to plummet. Currency is worthless if it can't be exchanged for goods/services, and there's almost nobody taking even bitcoin for anything of actual value, let alone all the other currencies out there.
If I sound harsh it's because I'm a little ticked that a buddy of mine spend a bunch of real money on one of those "Proof of Stake" coins that is basically an unregulated security minus anything of value backing it like a company. He didn't spend a lot of money, but OTOH he doesn't have a lot. I'm sick and tired of seeing folks taken advantage. Studies have shown people make bad decisions when they get desperate, and that makes desperate people ideal marks. But all I hear from anybody is Caveat Emptor.
pizza.
and not just because they're not 'tech savvy'. Age Related Cognitive Decline is a thing.
I don't like Joe Manchin one bit. He just sold us all out to Wall Street (along with a bunch of other Dems ) by repealing Dodd-Frank (in pieces so nobody would notice). Thanks to him and his right wing / pro corp ilk we're gonna have a major crash in about 4-6 years (just in time for a Democrat to take the Whitehouse and the blame). I hate the guy, but this seems reasonable.
MIT proved that. Our entire political system (the Senate & Electoral colleges in particular but gerrymandering and how our voting system makes voter suppression easy) is built from the ground up to protect the interests of wealthy land owners. This isn't a popular thing to say because, well, it goes against deeply ingrained mental conditioning you got when you were a kid. It's hard to get past the lies you're told before your brain is well formed enough to know what a lie is.
to regulate gun violence? I can wait two weeks for a gun show (there's a small one about every 2 weeks where I am, it's a major city though) and pick up a gun with zero back ground checks. I could be a convicted felon or a kid with an obvious fake Id and walk out with an AR-15, a shot gun and plenty of ammo. It might take me a bit of time at Mikky D's to save up the money, but I'd be ready to go in about 6 months tops. 3 if I worked full time.
Read up on the history and design of the AR-15. What's interesting is how much work went into making them ideally for killing men. Slower velocities allow lower calibers to do more damage because the bullet spins and leaves a huge wound in the meat. That's bad for hunting, since you probably want to eat that meat, but great for killing.
We absoultely regulate what's street legal. Where do you think the phrase "Street Legal" came from. There are a variety of modifications that are disallowed. It varies by jurisdiction though, so it's possible that your neck of the woods really has no laws.
And that's a lousy cheap shot at the end. But really, it's all you have. Your not a gun rights advocate per se. Or if you are your a patsy for the NRA. The point of stopping all gun regulation (which is the NRA's stance) isn't to protect your rights. It's to make sure there's nothing between the NRA (a gun industry lobbying group) and a sale. We're letting people die so the NRA's sales don't drop a little bit...
And isn't running again. He'll take the heat for the rest of the party by not allowing a vote. I'm sure he'll be well rewarded. And in a few years when we've all forgotten he'll be back to run for president.
we let hunters cull herds and put fences up to keep them away from busy roads. We also take steps to address automobile accidents, drug overdose, suicide, Homicide, cancer and well, all the examples you cite.
But when it comes to ending gun violence we do next to nothing. We ban convicted felons from owning guns but we leave glaring loopholes in the system that let them obtain them with ease. We allow ownership of weapons intentionally designed to kill people (the AR-15's caliber and bullet velocity are designed to maximize the size of the wound) while regulating how fast a car can go to be "street legal".
You're entire argument rests on a false premise that we should do nothing to prevent gun violence because we haven't completely eliminated all other forms of death. I'm too lazy to look up the name logical fallacy you're employing but it's pretty obvious it's a fallacy.
Oh wait, they got one. Massive tax subsidies for the owners and the jobs still got shipped to Mexico. And _still_ his poll numbers don't budge.
Show up to your primaries people. If we're ever going to fix this mess that's where we're gonna do it. And yes. that means registering for the Democratic party if that's what it takes to vote in their primary. The Dems aren't blameless, but they're not so far gone that they couldn't be made into a pro-working class party again.
by dehumanizing people? You might be over reacting just a _tad_ bit. Ignoring that these are nowhere's near the worst humanity has to offer (they're not even in the same zip code as guys like Hitler & Stalin) you threw in some disturbing tripe about weeding out the weaklings (speaking of Hitler...). Is this the kind of stuff that gets modded +5 on /. now? I mean, I know we're not supposed to complain about the mods, but seriously?
we cut all this "wasteful" government spending. Every dollar spent being wasteful if it's not spent in their district...
but there's Youtube videos of a guy debating flat earthers. They've got all sorts of explanations.
For robots anyway.
it's not "AI" in the sci-fi sense. It's Job Automation & data mining. Lots of money there. It's still Tax payers paying for basic research that companies will use for their personal profit (privatize the profits, socials the costs). It's especially funny because it's the tax payers paying to put themselves out of work with automation.
you use rare games in your collection to trade for rare games in other people's production.
to fire the dev team after the app is built. You hire some folks to do the hard work of building it and then you hire jr code monkeys to maintain it afterwards. Video Games do this. Still, it means Oracle isn't planing any major changes to it (or it means they think they can get by with consultants).
if Peter Watt's experience is anything to go by. I'm consistently embarrassed by my country. Hell, We've now had to presidents who support torture for Pete's sake.