The problem is that if I'm doing better than the people around me (by whatever definition of "better"), then not doing what I can to help others out makes me feel like a selfish shit.
Why?
I mean, if you have the means, it is very nice to help others out. But it isn't a necessity.
There's nothing that obligates you to be your brother's keeper, unless it was your fault that harmed them.
But outside of that....why in the world would this ever occur to you to think that way?
Why do you feel guilt if you're winning the race, so to speak?
Individualist here basically just means selfish, or relatively selfish
I think they need to use a different term for this..the given definition here is putting a bad slant on Individualism, which IMHO is one of the main things that made the US the success it has been to date.
Individualist means that one is self sufficient, able to take care of ones self in life and business...and doesn't need the govt or community really that much for the leading of his life and success (or failure).
That does not necessarily mean the individualist does this at the detriment of others or the community.
They are stuck in poor neighborhoods with inferior schools, dangerous streets, and high crime rates.
And...a lot of that is somewhat self inflicted, due to the culture of large swaths of black communities.
You see them quite often, glamorizing street thug lifestyle, gangsta rappers.....the other main glorified occupation is professional athlete.
Things like getting a good education, study and hard work to succeed in real life, is often looked down upon or called "trying to be white".
I've literally heard the last one there.
Blacks communities also seem to have the largest rate of single mothers raising children, why are the black husbands not staying and helping raise their kids?
I won't even go into the culture of victimhood that seems prevalent in these communities.
I won't argue with you, there has been racism in this country. I would posit that it is less today than ever in US history. I don't think most people have time to go out of their way to think "how can I undermine or hurt folks of xyz race".
I believe a large number of the problems of the black community absolutely can NOT be legislated away.
It has to be fixed from within that community.....and if they would promote positive values in education and family, as mentioned above, I think you'd see a great improvement in the quality of life of black communities and neighborhoods.
And, we cannot dismiss the problem with so many illegal aliens in the US, that either make up, or steal a real US citizen's SS number for their jobs while here.
When my wife's on her period, there's a few days when she's unusually paranoid, hostile, desperately itching to turn any slightest adversity (e.g. that douchebag cut me off in traffic, or we ran out of half-and-half for the morning coffee, or someone at work didn't even try to figure out their problem) into a full-on fight, and she's generally evil.
That's the time of the month, you spend more time with the side girlfriend who isn't on the rag.....
You just gotta match them to make sure neither has period at same time....sometimes, that takes 3 women for less "down time".
The more important issue of treating prostate cancer is the number of false positives, which lead to unneeded operations, and often some pretty nasty outcomes.
This was pretty much what I was alluding to.
Actually, if they want to research and treat the #1 cause of women's premature death, they'd go for heart disease.
If I recall correctly, that's what most women die of....many more than of breast cancer.
It's a partnership now. If it's successful, Oracle will acquire Slack later. If it's not, then Slack will be out of business.
Hey...as long as the creators get $$$$ out of the deal, who cares?
Geez, I wish I could write something that Oracle or MS or whomever would scoop up and buy and make me a millionaire. I'd sell in a heartbeat and live the rest of my life on "easy street".
Yeah, I'm looking at possibly building a computer with Threadripper into a unit for using Davinci Resolve...maybe to even edit 4K footage natively without proxies.
That's a mighty powerful FREE program, but whew...it eats up resources.
It appears Resolve now also works on Linux for the free version. I'd really like to play with that.
as long as those innocent civilian registered gun owners have them locked up when not in use down the range.
Err..that doesn't do you much good when you have someone breaking into your home late at night when you are there.
The most useless thing in the world is an unloaded gun...the second most useless thing is one locked up that you cannot readily access in an emergency.
Gun ownership is an outdated right because civilised society doesn't have the need for guns everywhere
Hmm..sure, just tell that to the criminals that are doing home invasions.
Frankly, if someone kicks down my door, I'd rather meet them with a firearm and blow their ass away, rather than shouting "BOO" at them.
And too, the right to bear arms in the US constitution was also put in there, as a protection from the tyranny of government. And even in these modern times, that could still happen.
IF nothing else, when things go bad, I'd rather be able to protect myself. What happens when the power grid goes down, either through hacking or maybe a sun flare.
Cities and life can turn real nasty when power is out and the police aren't a force. Just see what happens on a small scale in areas with hurricanes, with people looting, etc.
Self defense is a viable reason to have them. Even in the best of times, the police are NOT there to prevent crimes. They just usually get there in time to investigate and cart away the bodies.
In many areas, you can get a pizza delivered faster than you can get a cop to respond, so, you have to provide for your own defense until they can get there.
just tell me about all the peaceful uses of rifles.
Hmm...to date, all of my firearms, handguns, rifles and shotguns ALL have had peaceful use time. In fact, at least once a week , a subset of them gets used peacefully at the range, or at friends' homes that have land where we can go shoot.
In fact, I'd dare say that MOST use of the guns in the US, by gun owners are peacefully used.
Think about it, with as many guns as we have in the US and as many gun owners, if the vast majority of uses were not peaceful, we'd have a lot of trouble here and that simply is not the case.
An observation though: that $2400 camera lens can last you a lifetime. An iPhone X you probably wouldn't use more than 4 years. Even if you take good care of it and replace the non-user-replaceable battery down the road, it's likely that it will no longer receive iOS version updates starting in 4 years time (based on the fact that the iPhone 5S was released in 2013 and doesn't support iOS 11, the current version). For many, of course, they'll be looking to upgrade in 2 years. Between the two purchases, the income used toward a $1000 smartphone seems truly more "disposable".
It depends.
Let's put it this way, I had an iPhone 3GS until I bought the 6s Plus and the 6sPlus wasn't just out on the market, I got it after it had been out about half a year.
There are a LOT of people out there with disposable income.
There are a lot of people out there that $1K isn't that much of an expenditure and won't break the bank or impede on their normal every day budget.
I'm not one of them, I mean, I could dig up $1K quick if really needed, but usually with expensive things, I do what I've always done. I save my money till I can afford to buy what I want.
Hell, I've bought a refurb canon lens that was about $2400 (retail price about $3K). Now, you might ask "who would buy a lens that's almost $3K"...well, me. But I saw I wanted and could use the 11-24mm Canon L lens, and I saved my money till I had the cash to pay for it in full.
I'm happy with the lens, I use it and enjoy it without a bit of remorse.
I don't see me picking up this phone any time soon. My 6s Plus is doing just find and will likely last me a few more moons.
When it is getting time to replace it, I may look at this new iPhone or whatever it is when I get ready and evaluate if it meets my needs and if I want it, I'll buy it.
I just use restraint and don't buy a bunch of piddly crap here and there. I find something I want, I save and I buy when I have the money.
It just takes being an adult about your finances for most of us. Live within your means, and if you want something special, sacrifice some, save and get it.
They also cost at the low end, $20K or so, and you have to go through a Federal background check that usually takes 9mos minimum. There are no new automatic weapons made for sale since the Hughes amendment in 1986...so, the scarcity of legal full auto weapons makes them VERY $$$, and hard to even find for sale.
If this guy had full auto, I"m guessing he did some illegal modifications at home to make them full auto, which is a crime in of itself.
But those against 2 are highly motivated and armed and will refuse to let anyone in who would enact #2,
I many would support #2 IF there were put in sufficient provisions for due legal process for the person accused of such, before that person lost their rights and their property was confiscated.
There are an awful lot of jilted spouses/significant others out there that would use laws like this to hassle someone they had a grudge against.
Most of the laws for taking away ones 2nd amendment rights have the accused as guilty till proven innocent and make it awful tough for someone wrongfully accused/labeled to defend themselves and yet, their property and rights have already been trampled upon.
Apparently you don't know the difference between a disease and a infection. Gun violence may very well be caused by some mental disease and honestly, mentally ill people should not have access to firearms.
"Pissed off" isn't a disease as far as I know.
I"m sure there are *some* mentally ill people that have gone out to kill people like this, but I doubt it is the majority of them. The ones that do likely are quite mentally stable, they just have some religious or political bent that pisses them off, or maybe it is a fit of passion.
But I doubt most of them are mentally ill. Otherwise we'd have more people innocent by reason of insanity than serving time.
Essential Liberty != allowing mentally ill people to purchase automatic weapons
I seriously doubt a mentally ill person could legally purchase a full auto weapon.
He'd have to pass the background check by the feds which takes easily 9mos at the shortest, and pay the $200 tax stamp...AND...have no less than about $15-$20K to buy the cheapest of full auto weapons out there on the market. Which I can assure you, would not be really effective a more than say 100 yards...at least not with aiming.
People like yourself keep conflating "scary" looking semi-automatic weapons, with fully automatic weapons which are very short supply and VERY difficult and expensive to acquire legally.
You've missed the point entirely. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is advocating for FIRING people for exercising their first amendment rights. That is government suppression of free speech.
Well, his advocacy for such firings, has NO POWER OF LAW...in the case of his advocacy for this, he was just publishing his views like any other private US citizen. I don't think he loses that right when he becomes president does he?
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Why?
I mean, if you have the means, it is very nice to help others out. But it isn't a necessity.
There's nothing that obligates you to be your brother's keeper, unless it was your fault that harmed them.
But outside of that....why in the world would this ever occur to you to think that way?
Why do you feel guilt if you're winning the race, so to speak?
Hey..you gotta have SOME way of keeping score...
But I dunno....they say that money can't buy you happiness, but it sure can make misery a WHOLE lot easier to deal with and it usually last less time.
I think anyone that says money can't buy them love, never owned a puppy.
I think they need to use a different term for this..the given definition here is putting a bad slant on Individualism, which IMHO is one of the main things that made the US the success it has been to date.
Individualist means that one is self sufficient, able to take care of ones self in life and business...and doesn't need the govt or community really that much for the leading of his life and success (or failure).
That does not necessarily mean the individualist does this at the detriment of others or the community.
If I recall...that was the same voice that did Nurse Chapel.
And...a lot of that is somewhat self inflicted, due to the culture of large swaths of black communities.
You see them quite often, glamorizing street thug lifestyle, gangsta rappers.....the other main glorified occupation is professional athlete.
Things like getting a good education, study and hard work to succeed in real life, is often looked down upon or called "trying to be white".
I've literally heard the last one there.
Blacks communities also seem to have the largest rate of single mothers raising children, why are the black husbands not staying and helping raise their kids?
I won't even go into the culture of victimhood that seems prevalent in these communities.
I won't argue with you, there has been racism in this country. I would posit that it is less today than ever in US history. I don't think most people have time to go out of their way to think "how can I undermine or hurt folks of xyz race".
I believe a large number of the problems of the black community absolutely can NOT be legislated away.
It has to be fixed from within that community.....and if they would promote positive values in education and family, as mentioned above, I think you'd see a great improvement in the quality of life of black communities and neighborhoods.
Aren't there like 3 of these major credit agencies?
Transunion...and another one.
I was about to say that the Feds have used Acxiom to clean up data before...but I think they may own Transunion, so, that might be redundant.
And, we cannot dismiss the problem with so many illegal aliens in the US, that either make up, or steal a real US citizen's SS number for their jobs while here.
That's the time of the month, you spend more time with the side girlfriend who isn't on the rag.....
You just gotta match them to make sure neither has period at same time....sometimes, that takes 3 women for less "down time".
This was pretty much what I was alluding to.
Actually, if they want to research and treat the #1 cause of women's premature death, they'd go for heart disease.
If I recall correctly, that's what most women die of....many more than of breast cancer.
What, you don't get breaks at work at all?
And besides, I work from home...this is from personal computer right next to the work one.
One does take small breaks during the day at most places of work...no?
Hey...as long as the creators get $$$$ out of the deal, who cares?
Geez, I wish I could write something that Oracle or MS or whomever would scoop up and buy and make me a millionaire. I'd sell in a heartbeat and live the rest of my life on "easy street".
I just can't get any work done with 200 people constantly trying to msg me during the day...some work related, other not.
I turn it off, and have everyone email me, that way I can work a bit more asynchronously....and only answer when I need.
I also note that most folks only email work stuff, but on IM, they just often 'chat'.
I turn on IM when a meeting is on, to screen share or special needs, but for daytime routine work hours..that fucker is OFF.
That's a mighty powerful FREE program, but whew...it eats up resources.
It appears Resolve now also works on Linux for the free version. I'd really like to play with that.
Err..that doesn't do you much good when you have someone breaking into your home late at night when you are there.
The most useless thing in the world is an unloaded gun...the second most useless thing is one locked up that you cannot readily access in an emergency.
Hmm..sure, just tell that to the criminals that are doing home invasions.
Frankly, if someone kicks down my door, I'd rather meet them with a firearm and blow their ass away, rather than shouting "BOO" at them.
And too, the right to bear arms in the US constitution was also put in there, as a protection from the tyranny of government. And even in these modern times, that could still happen.
IF nothing else, when things go bad, I'd rather be able to protect myself. What happens when the power grid goes down, either through hacking or maybe a sun flare.
Cities and life can turn real nasty when power is out and the police aren't a force. Just see what happens on a small scale in areas with hurricanes, with people looting, etc.
Self defense is a viable reason to have them. Even in the best of times, the police are NOT there to prevent crimes. They just usually get there in time to investigate and cart away the bodies.
In many areas, you can get a pizza delivered faster than you can get a cop to respond, so, you have to provide for your own defense until they can get there.
Hmm...to date, all of my firearms, handguns, rifles and shotguns ALL have had peaceful use time. In fact, at least once a week , a subset of them gets used peacefully at the range, or at friends' homes that have land where we can go shoot.
In fact, I'd dare say that MOST use of the guns in the US, by gun owners are peacefully used.
Think about it, with as many guns as we have in the US and as many gun owners, if the vast majority of uses were not peaceful, we'd have a lot of trouble here and that simply is not the case.
It depends.
Let's put it this way, I had an iPhone 3GS until I bought the 6s Plus and the 6sPlus wasn't just out on the market, I got it after it had been out about half a year.
There are a lot of people out there that $1K isn't that much of an expenditure and won't break the bank or impede on their normal every day budget.
I'm not one of them, I mean, I could dig up $1K quick if really needed, but usually with expensive things, I do what I've always done. I save my money till I can afford to buy what I want.
Hell, I've bought a refurb canon lens that was about $2400 (retail price about $3K). Now, you might ask "who would buy a lens that's almost $3K"...well, me. But I saw I wanted and could use the 11-24mm Canon L lens, and I saved my money till I had the cash to pay for it in full.
I'm happy with the lens, I use it and enjoy it without a bit of remorse.
I don't see me picking up this phone any time soon. My 6s Plus is doing just find and will likely last me a few more moons.
When it is getting time to replace it, I may look at this new iPhone or whatever it is when I get ready and evaluate if it meets my needs and if I want it, I'll buy it.
I just use restraint and don't buy a bunch of piddly crap here and there. I find something I want, I save and I buy when I have the money.
It just takes being an adult about your finances for most of us. Live within your means, and if you want something special, sacrifice some, save and get it.
Fully automatic weapons are NOT easily attained.
They also cost at the low end, $20K or so, and you have to go through a Federal background check that usually takes 9mos minimum. There are no new automatic weapons made for sale since the Hughes amendment in 1986...so, the scarcity of legal full auto weapons makes them VERY $$$, and hard to even find for sale.
If this guy had full auto, I"m guessing he did some illegal modifications at home to make them full auto, which is a crime in of itself.
HTH.
I many would support #2 IF there were put in sufficient provisions for due legal process for the person accused of such, before that person lost their rights and their property was confiscated.
There are an awful lot of jilted spouses/significant others out there that would use laws like this to hassle someone they had a grudge against.
Most of the laws for taking away ones 2nd amendment rights have the accused as guilty till proven innocent and make it awful tough for someone wrongfully accused/labeled to defend themselves and yet, their property and rights have already been trampled upon.
"Pissed off" isn't a disease as far as I know.
I"m sure there are *some* mentally ill people that have gone out to kill people like this, but I doubt it is the majority of them. The ones that do likely are quite mentally stable, they just have some religious or political bent that pisses them off, or maybe it is a fit of passion.
But I doubt most of them are mentally ill. Otherwise we'd have more people innocent by reason of insanity than serving time.
I seriously doubt a mentally ill person could legally purchase a full auto weapon.
He'd have to pass the background check by the feds which takes easily 9mos at the shortest, and pay the $200 tax stamp...AND...have no less than about $15-$20K to buy the cheapest of full auto weapons out there on the market. Which I can assure you, would not be really effective a more than say 100 yards...at least not with aiming.
People like yourself keep conflating "scary" looking semi-automatic weapons, with fully automatic weapons which are very short supply and VERY difficult and expensive to acquire legally.
Well, his advocacy for such firings, has NO POWER OF LAW...in the case of his advocacy for this, he was just publishing his views like any other private US citizen. I don't think he loses that right when he becomes president does he?
Tell that to all the dead people in EU that have been victim of being killed by a terrorist using a motorized vehicle as a weapon.