You made no points of your own, you made no counter points to mine. Name calling and ad hominine attacks is not an argument. You didn't bother even checking the FBI website and responding with any sort of numbers to correct my "inaccurate facts".
In other words you are not worth wasting any more time on.
Nice projection of how you feel onto me. Though your analysis is correct in my haste to post I did not proof read.
Let me fix it. The demography that is responsible for 55% of the homicides and 75% of the violent crime is the black male population between the ages of 14 to 30 years old. That group make up approximately 3-4% of the US population.
That is a fancy way of saying "Not all black males commit crime" of course when you put it that way that makes the problem even more concentrated (worse). So what percentage of that 3-4% are the ones committing the crime? 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/10?
It's not racist to point out the hard numbers of what is going on. (Don't like it then go bitch to the FBI. They are the ones keeping track.)
You can't start coming up with a solution until you know what the problems are and who is involved.
The bans on swords and other weapons are being taken up by a group called "Knife Rights". The hired a bunch of NRA tallent and have been systematically taking down 1-3 State bans on various edge tools/weapons every year or two. So far their only "losses" have been State premptively relaxing standards to get KR to back off and not sue them. This is only delaying the inevitable as Knife Rights will gladely take an easy win and save their resources for the more challenging targets. Once they finish with them they'll be back.
Never see that many black people at gun shows. The 3-4% of the population that are black males commit 55% of the homicides and 75% of the property and violent crime. Most of those people steal their weapons or get them from legal owners (friends/familiy members), they don't buy them at gun shows.
The plate scanners are hunting for the strawman purchasers, free types and as a general list of who is armed. A gun owner in 2016 is most likely a gun owner up until they die. A few years of scanning plates will give them a pretty detailed gun registry they've been drooling over for decades.
The problem being is the same government protects the right to photograph anything in public also make it illegal to operate a vehicle on the road without a license plate as well as cover up your face in public. If you could do either the cameras wouldn't do them a whole lot a good.
"A family at poverty level in the US typically has access to about $60,000 in social spending in addition to what ever they are making under the table"
Public school education huh? Your reading comprehension shows.
I'll take option 3. Which is you are a socialist, which means you are jealous of the person making $1 million a year being taxed at 70% and think he should be taxed even more, you know to pay his "fair share".
The poor in the US average less than 15 hours a week working. A two person house hold with both people working 40-60 hours a week in the US are not poor. Funny how that works out.
Some predictions are self fulfilling. Sitting on your ass whining about how life is not fair and that you'll never amount to anything is a good way to make that come true.
The poor by definition do not pay taxes. You don't pay on what you don't have. Even if they did say in a country like the US. They receive so much back in benefits that their effective tax rate is negative.
A family at poverty level in the US typically has access to about $60,000 in social spending in addition to what ever they are making under the table and in direct welfare payments. The poor are not poor.
They'll be arguing about the same inane stuff then as now except it'll be a bunch of AI copies of the same posters that are here today instead of meat bags pecking away at keyboards.
When I was a kid I remember reading a sci-fi story from the 60's. The basic premise was the fall of civilization after a space born organism brought back to earth by astronauts ate all paper products in the span of a year. All books, records, money, contracts, medical records turned to dust.
They have a point, but I'd say that 99.99% of what is digitally recorded is probably not worth saving. Most important things just need to be re-saved in a modern equivalent every so often. Trying to save it all in hardcopy is silly.
It's kind of like all the digital pictures and social media we all have. Are your great-great-great grand kids going to give even the tiniest of rat's asses about all your facebook posts, online rants, and pictures or your crappy art you did as a teen? A few dozen pictures of each family member is probably more than will ever be interesting to them, and that won't be more than to make fun of your hair and clothes.
A great deal of so called "knowledge" the article is worried about produced by academia will also be discard able as the government grant seeking garbage that it is. Most of the actual knowledge will still be in use and in hardcopy/or digital backup in a modern format someplace.
I order to be green you must go red. No not be socialist silly commies, no red as in Mars. (Who do you think is causes most of our problems in the first place?) You can't damage the "environment" of a planet that doesn't have one. We can turn Earth back into wild life park and let all the wolves and tigers eat the dirty hippies stinking up the forests.
How many people are they killing a year by disrupting sleep (which results in accidents) and distracting drivers with those "alert" texts that are rarely applicable?
The current President preached accountability and transparency. Good enough for him, good enough for me. Keep on hacking those email accounts and making the dirt bags career politicians squirm.
This just in "stupid people too stupid to shop on Amazon".
A couple of clicks and a little bit of math and it's pretty easy to figure out what the best deal is.
Price and shipping are but two items on my mental list to go through when I'm looking around. The time and cost of buying it local. Tax. Speed of delivery. Hassle factor if it is broken/wrong item/size etc.
If you can't do the mental arithmetic then you probably shouldn't be allowed on the internet unsupervised.
Duh because video standards don't matter anymore and online delivery of both hardware and media is driving down prices quickly. The consumers are better educated than the previous generation who were still wrapped around the axil over the whole VHS DVD HDDVD Blue ray debacle.
Customers have switched over to Netflix, Amazon, youtube, and a few others as the method for getting content. No waiting around for the various companies to get on board with a set standard. Want to watch in it 720? Go for it. Want 1080? no problem. Want to watch 4K knock yourself out. Still fucking around with ripped DVDs in SD? no one cares have fun.
Not trying to hide the corruption. All you have to do is point at the two main political parties.
Republicans - corrupt
Democrats - really corrupt
Both groups have their agendas both have their problems. I like neither, it's like either being kicked in the balls (Republicans) or kicked in the balls and then raped in the ass and then expected to say thank you for that privilege (Democrats)
What will people do? Easy, grow food, make clothes, build homes, raise kids etc.
We are talking about what humans have been doing for a few hundred thousand years. No jobs you say? So what. As the level of automation goes up prices will continue to fall and it will be even easier to obtain goods. Yes in the short run companies will use it to swell their profits but eventually they'll have to lower them down. Don't believe me then look at that smart phone in your pocket, does it cost $10000 to buy, have a battery that lasts 4 hours, weighs 10 lbs, only works in a single city, only make phone calls, only allows 10-20 people (on the entire network) to make cell calls at the same time, and costs a $1000 a month service in 1980 dollars (About $3000 now). That's what you would have been paying back in the day.
Now part of the price drop problem is the government sucking on the economy like a fat tick pulling an ever larger portion of the profits for itself. This is why prices are slow to fall. It's hard to lower prices through innovation when a greater and greater portion of the price is made up of fees and taxes. Eventually people will figure that out and demand change.
I can see a return to people using all the new automation to simply go Amish. Give me 10 acres of land with some trees on it, a work shop, a source of water, and dirt cheap automation/electronics and I won't need much else.
The problem is in that world poor people still won't take care of themselves and will be demanding that everyone else do it.
Sure I could have my robots feed and clothe the poor, but why waste the cycles when instead I'll just use them to keep the smelly bums off my property.
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In other words you are not worth wasting any more time on.
Let me fix it. The demography that is responsible for 55% of the homicides and 75% of the violent crime is the black male population between the ages of 14 to 30 years old. That group make up approximately 3-4% of the US population.
That is a fancy way of saying "Not all black males commit crime" of course when you put it that way that makes the problem even more concentrated (worse). So what percentage of that 3-4% are the ones committing the crime? 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/10?
It's not racist to point out the hard numbers of what is going on. (Don't like it then go bitch to the FBI. They are the ones keeping track.)
You can't start coming up with a solution until you know what the problems are and who is involved.
The bans on swords and other weapons are being taken up by a group called "Knife Rights". The hired a bunch of NRA tallent and have been systematically taking down 1-3 State bans on various edge tools/weapons every year or two. So far their only "losses" have been State premptively relaxing standards to get KR to back off and not sue them. This is only delaying the inevitable as Knife Rights will gladely take an easy win and save their resources for the more challenging targets. Once they finish with them they'll be back.
The Federal government's military powers comes from else where in the Constitution.
The plate scanners are hunting for the strawman purchasers, free types and as a general list of who is armed. A gun owner in 2016 is most likely a gun owner up until they die. A few years of scanning plates will give them a pretty detailed gun registry they've been drooling over for decades.
The problem being is the same government protects the right to photograph anything in public also make it illegal to operate a vehicle on the road without a license plate as well as cover up your face in public. If you could do either the cameras wouldn't do them a whole lot a good.
Public school education huh? Your reading comprehension shows.
I'll take option 3. Which is you are a socialist, which means you are jealous of the person making $1 million a year being taxed at 70% and think he should be taxed even more, you know to pay his "fair share".
I have wasted 39.4 seconds of my life reading the summary and commenting and burned 1.2 calories.
Some predictions are self fulfilling. Sitting on your ass whining about how life is not fair and that you'll never amount to anything is a good way to make that come true.
A family at poverty level in the US typically has access to about $60,000 in social spending in addition to what ever they are making under the table and in direct welfare payments. The poor are not poor.
They'll be arguing about the same inane stuff then as now except it'll be a bunch of AI copies of the same posters that are here today instead of meat bags pecking away at keyboards.
They have a point, but I'd say that 99.99% of what is digitally recorded is probably not worth saving. Most important things just need to be re-saved in a modern equivalent every so often. Trying to save it all in hardcopy is silly.
It's kind of like all the digital pictures and social media we all have. Are your great-great-great grand kids going to give even the tiniest of rat's asses about all your facebook posts, online rants, and pictures or your crappy art you did as a teen? A few dozen pictures of each family member is probably more than will ever be interesting to them, and that won't be more than to make fun of your hair and clothes.
A great deal of so called "knowledge" the article is worried about produced by academia will also be discard able as the government grant seeking garbage that it is. Most of the actual knowledge will still be in use and in hardcopy/or digital backup in a modern format someplace.
I order to be green you must go red. No not be socialist silly commies, no red as in Mars. (Who do you think is causes most of our problems in the first place?) You can't damage the "environment" of a planet that doesn't have one. We can turn Earth back into wild life park and let all the wolves and tigers eat the dirty hippies stinking up the forests.
How many people are they killing a year by disrupting sleep (which results in accidents) and distracting drivers with those "alert" texts that are rarely applicable?
Yes.
Doing a great job there Russia!
I refuse to bow to buzzwords and marketing speak. May spell correct live on forever.
You do realize Drudge is nothing more than links to everything else, including the so called "real" media.
The robots rule the roost at our locality, so no dirty minimum wage meat bags to get drool on your boxes.
A couple of clicks and a little bit of math and it's pretty easy to figure out what the best deal is.
Price and shipping are but two items on my mental list to go through when I'm looking around. The time and cost of buying it local. Tax. Speed of delivery. Hassle factor if it is broken/wrong item/size etc.
If you can't do the mental arithmetic then you probably shouldn't be allowed on the internet unsupervised.
Customers have switched over to Netflix, Amazon, youtube, and a few others as the method for getting content. No waiting around for the various companies to get on board with a set standard. Want to watch in it 720? Go for it. Want 1080? no problem. Want to watch 4K knock yourself out. Still fucking around with ripped DVDs in SD? no one cares have fun.
lol 120M maybe to set up some of the infrastructure. That 120M won't cover the cost of the last mile/kilometer and the day to day operations.
Republicans - corrupt
Democrats - really corrupt
Both groups have their agendas both have their problems. I like neither, it's like either being kicked in the balls (Republicans) or kicked in the balls and then raped in the ass and then expected to say thank you for that privilege (Democrats)
We are talking about what humans have been doing for a few hundred thousand years. No jobs you say? So what. As the level of automation goes up prices will continue to fall and it will be even easier to obtain goods. Yes in the short run companies will use it to swell their profits but eventually they'll have to lower them down. Don't believe me then look at that smart phone in your pocket, does it cost $10000 to buy, have a battery that lasts 4 hours, weighs 10 lbs, only works in a single city, only make phone calls, only allows 10-20 people (on the entire network) to make cell calls at the same time, and costs a $1000 a month service in 1980 dollars (About $3000 now). That's what you would have been paying back in the day.
Now part of the price drop problem is the government sucking on the economy like a fat tick pulling an ever larger portion of the profits for itself. This is why prices are slow to fall. It's hard to lower prices through innovation when a greater and greater portion of the price is made up of fees and taxes. Eventually people will figure that out and demand change.
I can see a return to people using all the new automation to simply go Amish. Give me 10 acres of land with some trees on it, a work shop, a source of water, and dirt cheap automation/electronics and I won't need much else.
The problem is in that world poor people still won't take care of themselves and will be demanding that everyone else do it.
Sure I could have my robots feed and clothe the poor, but why waste the cycles when instead I'll just use them to keep the smelly bums off my property.