The average age of cars in the US is something like 12 or 15 years, and rising. In 2035 the average car may be from 2018 or earlier, and then there are all the cars above average in age. Gasoline will still be available everywhere, because there will still be millions of gas powered cars on the road, regardless of what is being produced new.
It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It matters that he's a Republican.
All you need do to discover this is incorrect is look for Republicans and conservatives who criticize Trump. There are a lot of them. Plenty of Republicans would be OK as President even if I don't agree with their policies, but Trump is - at best - completely incompetent, regardless of party.
The political parties in this country really whip their members up into a boiling mess, when the other party has a success, though the Democrats seem to be better at that, than the Republicans.
You've got to be kidding. Mitch "my number one priority is making sure Obama is a one term President" McConnell? The affordable care act, which started from a conservative think tank and was only opposed by Republicans because Obama supported it? The Republicans do this all the time.
IMO "no guns" signs should have legal force, but with the understanding that the property owner is accepting responsibility for the safety of the people on the premises, since they're being denied tools of self defense.
Only if they're required to be on that property. For example if they're there for a court appearance. If you see a sign outside a store that says no guns, you're free to enter or not. Since if you don't feel safe you can just leave, I don't see, legally, why the store owner should be responsible for your safety.
Right, and most school shooters are students at the school. So by arming teachers you're asking them to teach (and if they're good teachers care for, encourage, mentor) the students, and also be ready to shoot them. I don't see how so many people think this is a good idea.
Giving the homeless free housing is something that I hope takes off. Salt Lake City found it actually saves money because the people are not taking up police and medical resources nearly as much once they have some place to stay. And of course you can't spend an apartment on drugs.
Why do people think giving money to people is a 'fix' for any problem? it's been proven not to work.
Actually it's been proven to work in poor countries. Whether it will work as well with poor people in a rich country would require more research. Unless you know of research that proves it doesn't.
He's saying of the two presidential candidates, Clinton was the corrupt one so he voted for Trump. I know, it really doesn't make any sense, but there it is.
10" tablets are easy to carry around...put in pocket, I guess...but who does that.
Uh... everybody? You're the outlier here, not people who carry phones in their pockets. Are you a woman who carries a purse everywhere? If not, how do you carry your tablet, just in your hand? And do you always have a bluetooth headset handy, or answer calls on speakerphone, or just not make phone calls any more? And what 10" tablet can do phone calls anyway? Just curious since I don't recall ever hearing of someone ditching their phone for a tablet.
I wish we could have the equivalent of a junk mail filter for unwanted phone calls. Unless the incoming call is from someone in my contact list then don't even ring the phone.
There are numerous Android apps to do this, and I assume the same is true of iOS.
And then have it send a fingernails-on-blackboard screech back into the ear of the caller. And jam the callers line so they can't make any other calls from that phone for at least an hour.
My solution is to simply let al calls go to voicemail unless I recognize the caller.
I finally got an app to send all calls not from my contacts to voice mail (for some reason this option doesn't exist in the OS). My experience lately is like the OP: almost all phone calls are scam robocalls.
If you could make a jet pack (with parachute backup) for maybe $10,000 or less, that could be successful. It dodges pretty much all your showstoppers except maybe energy density. If you can only fly for 5 minutes before running out of fuel that would be a problem. Noise could be another issue. But consider someone with the money to own a fairly nice motorcycle. How much more fun would it be to commute via jet pack? Going to work or anywhere would be an absolute joy.
I'm old enough to remember when computing devices came with both the legacy and the new connector for awhile...
Yeah but on something as small as a phone, that probably doesn't make much sense. USB C is better than micro (or mini) USB. You can plug it in any which way, you can connect two devices with it (which is cool but admittedly hasn't been useful that often), and it supports much faster charging. It's so clearly superior I'm sure it will completely take over fairly soon, and you won't miss micro USB.
That article doesn't even cover his arrest, so I don't see how it can support your claim that the charges against Bundy were dropped out of fear of other people and their guns.
It has more to do with other demographics... In practice, you have only those rights which others are willing to help you defend.
I'm not sure I follow. You talk about racial disparities in policing, which is a fact. So are you saying this happens because black people don't own guns and white people do? Remember the question is whether guns are how our rights are defended. Your paragraph makes sense, but it doesn't seem to support that assertion. Rather what it says is that the power structure is set up to favor wealthy whites over everyone else, which has nothing to do with guns.
The charges got dismissed because otherwise there would have been a lot of other angry white men with guns up in arms about it.
I assume the judge did not make such a statement, and you're inferring the motivations. If so, it seems likely you are inferring them based on your worldview, rather than any evidence.
It takes a mass of like-minded individuals standing "with" you.
So there should be differences in government intrusiveness, oppression, civil rights violations, however you want to phrase it, according to the prevalence of gun ownership in different areas. Any idea if that is the case? Confounding variables could be an issue in any such evidence - have to control for things like income and political orientation.
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The average age of cars in the US is something like 12 or 15 years, and rising. In 2035 the average car may be from 2018 or earlier, and then there are all the cars above average in age. Gasoline will still be available everywhere, because there will still be millions of gas powered cars on the road, regardless of what is being produced new.
I wonder if after the oil collapse, biogas will become more attractive for those people still running a petroleum powered engine.
Why is being a sitting duck considered morally superior?
Do you always use straw man arguments or just in gun debates?
Competency in life includes competency in many things.
Must it include competency in firearms? If so, why?
Very convincing riposte, I am in awe of your debate skills.
It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It matters that he's a Republican.
All you need do to discover this is incorrect is look for Republicans and conservatives who criticize Trump. There are a lot of them. Plenty of Republicans would be OK as President even if I don't agree with their policies, but Trump is - at best - completely incompetent, regardless of party.
The political parties in this country really whip their members up into a boiling mess, when the other party has a success, though the Democrats seem to be better at that, than the Republicans.
You've got to be kidding. Mitch "my number one priority is making sure Obama is a one term President" McConnell? The affordable care act, which started from a conservative think tank and was only opposed by Republicans because Obama supported it? The Republicans do this all the time.
IMO "no guns" signs should have legal force, but with the understanding that the property owner is accepting responsibility for the safety of the people on the premises, since they're being denied tools of self defense.
Only if they're required to be on that property. For example if they're there for a court appearance. If you see a sign outside a store that says no guns, you're free to enter or not. Since if you don't feel safe you can just leave, I don't see, legally, why the store owner should be responsible for your safety.
But if something happens that requires you to draw your gun, your job is the least of your concerns.
Until the next day anyway.
I've never heard of a taxi driver murding anyone.
Well you have an opportunity to learn something.
https://www.google.com/search?...
What does firearm competency have to do with teaching kids?
For anyone not very familiar with firearms, that is a HUGE gun.
http://www.rifleshootermag.com...
Your manager is not a classroom full of children.
Right, and most school shooters are students at the school. So by arming teachers you're asking them to teach (and if they're good teachers care for, encourage, mentor) the students, and also be ready to shoot them. I don't see how so many people think this is a good idea.
If you think the police are lenient on illegal immigrants you live in some sort of fantasy world of right-wing talking heads.
Since he twice referred to people as "cucked" I think that's likely.
Giving the homeless free housing is something that I hope takes off. Salt Lake City found it actually saves money because the people are not taking up police and medical resources nearly as much once they have some place to stay. And of course you can't spend an apartment on drugs.
Why do people think giving money to people is a 'fix' for any problem? it's been proven not to work.
Actually it's been proven to work in poor countries. Whether it will work as well with poor people in a rich country would require more research. Unless you know of research that proves it doesn't.
https://academic.oup.com/qje/a...
even with HUGE influxes of cash (like a lottery win) people go back to being poor within just a few years.
You're not really claiming that proves UBI won't work, are you?
And even if the electricity supply is mostly coal, a large coal-fired plant is much, much cleaner than any car's internal combustion engine.
I don't think that's true.
https://www.citylab.com/enviro...
He's saying of the two presidential candidates, Clinton was the corrupt one so he voted for Trump. I know, it really doesn't make any sense, but there it is.
10" tablets are easy to carry around...put in pocket, I guess...but who does that.
Uh... everybody? You're the outlier here, not people who carry phones in their pockets. Are you a woman who carries a purse everywhere? If not, how do you carry your tablet, just in your hand? And do you always have a bluetooth headset handy, or answer calls on speakerphone, or just not make phone calls any more? And what 10" tablet can do phone calls anyway? Just curious since I don't recall ever hearing of someone ditching their phone for a tablet.
I wish we could have the equivalent of a junk mail filter for unwanted phone calls. Unless the incoming call is from someone in my contact list then don't even ring the phone.
There are numerous Android apps to do this, and I assume the same is true of iOS.
And then have it send a fingernails-on-blackboard screech back into the ear of the caller. And jam the callers line so they can't make any other calls from that phone for at least an hour.
Now that is a (nice) fantasy.
By "text messaging" they may have meant any form of messaging via text, not just SMS. Not sure though.
My solution is to simply let al calls go to voicemail unless I recognize the caller.
I finally got an app to send all calls not from my contacts to voice mail (for some reason this option doesn't exist in the OS). My experience lately is like the OP: almost all phone calls are scam robocalls.
If you could make a jet pack (with parachute backup) for maybe $10,000 or less, that could be successful. It dodges pretty much all your showstoppers except maybe energy density. If you can only fly for 5 minutes before running out of fuel that would be a problem. Noise could be another issue. But consider someone with the money to own a fairly nice motorcycle. How much more fun would it be to commute via jet pack? Going to work or anywhere would be an absolute joy.
I'm old enough to remember when computing devices came with both the legacy and the new connector for awhile ...
Yeah but on something as small as a phone, that probably doesn't make much sense. USB C is better than micro (or mini) USB. You can plug it in any which way, you can connect two devices with it (which is cool but admittedly hasn't been useful that often), and it supports much faster charging. It's so clearly superior I'm sure it will completely take over fairly soon, and you won't miss micro USB.
That article doesn't even cover his arrest, so I don't see how it can support your claim that the charges against Bundy were dropped out of fear of other people and their guns.
It has more to do with other demographics... In practice, you have only those rights which others are willing to help you defend.
I'm not sure I follow. You talk about racial disparities in policing, which is a fact. So are you saying this happens because black people don't own guns and white people do? Remember the question is whether guns are how our rights are defended. Your paragraph makes sense, but it doesn't seem to support that assertion. Rather what it says is that the power structure is set up to favor wealthy whites over everyone else, which has nothing to do with guns.
If you want a bunch of USB C cables, here's a five pack for 16 bucks: https://www.amazon.com/WUXIAN-...
The charges got dismissed because otherwise there would have been a lot of other angry white men with guns up in arms about it.
I assume the judge did not make such a statement, and you're inferring the motivations. If so, it seems likely you are inferring them based on your worldview, rather than any evidence.
It takes a mass of like-minded individuals standing "with" you.
So there should be differences in government intrusiveness, oppression, civil rights violations, however you want to phrase it, according to the prevalence of gun ownership in different areas. Any idea if that is the case? Confounding variables could be an issue in any such evidence - have to control for things like income and political orientation.