There is crime in wealthy neighborhoods as well. Often more serious crimes. But it often goes under Kids will be Kids, while a minority will be treated more harshly
I'm a bit hesitant to compare egging someones house vs drive by shootings with real (stolen) guns.....
White criminals in the Red states that used to have coal mines have the same issues now. The jobs dried up and they don't have educations or any way out. Of course they turn to meth and stealing copper. It's all there is.
But...but...I thought, you know....white privilege???
It believes the programs involved can lead to biased policing strategies that unfairly focus on ethnic minorities and lower-income communities.
Well, if this is where the majority of violent crime happens, they what is wrong with it?
Are 'facts' now biased if they happened to show it happens more in poor neighborhoods and minority areas?
Are they wanting to ignore this, and have the cops and SWAT patrolling heavily the low crime areas that might be predominately higher income and less brown, just to be politically correct?
I'm glad I live where they do not require any emissions checks on cars here. What a PITA that would be, I'm guessing that takes a lot of the fun out of after market exhaust systems.
Hmm....this sounds suspiciously like what we had, somewhat...when I was a kid.
When I was growing up, early on pretty much EVERYTHING beverage wise (cokes, etc) came in glass bottles.
These were all recyclable, I remember finding bottles laying around as a kid, we'd collect them and take them to the 7-11 or other type store and they'd pay us like $0.05/per bottle.
I guess that all went out the window when plastic bottles came into fashion.
But so much used to be in glass bottles, and frankly, I kinda liked it better.
I tend to buy whatever I can in glass, beer, etc.....
There's no guarantee where you are on the starting line....behind, at the line or advantage of being in front when the start gun goes off.
You have to do the best with what you're dealt.
It can be done, there are PLENTY of people that have succeeded despite starting at the back, there's a lot of folks that started out with life handed to them and lost everything and die drug addicts on the streets.
There are no guarantees, but YOU can do your best to try to get ahead.
I still believe the US gives some of the best opportunities in the world, if you just take them....and often that requires hard work and busting your ass, especially when young and you can stand to do so.
Land of equal opportunities available does not mean equal outcomes.
Its life. You shouldn't have time to whine about it, or play victim...you could better use that time to better your lot in life.
There are lots of good paying jobs out there that don't require a college diploma. Hell, I know plumbers that make 6 figures a year, AC repairmen....etc. Hard work sure, but you can make good $$, enough to save, invest and live a good life with a family on.
Everyone has a different path, but when young, if you start off valuing the education you get for free 1-12....you can start off on the right foot and NOT have to be a $15/hr drone or burger flipper.
Enh. Ubisoft realized that people who literally couldn't afford food and had to go to shelters as a result of the shutdown might just get pissed off at receiving an email saying, "Please, you want to see what real problems are like? Buy our game!" And they further realized that pissed off customers who just had money problems are very likely to respond by not buying your expensive new game(s).
Anyone that can't afford the video games, has more important things they should be doing rather than bitching. And if they can't afford the games in the first place, why would the company care, they weren't going to be customers anyway.
And these people....losing a week/months pay and they are out on the streets?
I think this need to be a wake up call that they need to start saving money....living below the level they are now and spending less, so that they have a saved reserve to fall back on.
These govt jobs are not poverty wages...they should be able to live on those salaries and save. If they can't, then they seriously need to evaluate their lifestyles, live within their means and quit trying to keep up with the Joneses.
So you thought building a $20 billion dollar wall would do something? People already have ways over the existing wall, they don't need to go to one of the points where there is currently no wall. A $10 ladder works if you're desperate.
Well, all sorts of barriers work.
Walls work...just ask China.
On a lighter note....if no wall, why not just get our best military snipers and let them practice at the border.
Hey, sounds like a good place for land mines...make them WELL MARKED and mapped out, but put those along the border and let's see if that drops illegal crossings.
That would be a lot cheaper and easier to manage and monitor than a ton of fragile electronic drones flying around 24/7.
Make a nice, wide no man's land, well marked with land mines....?
Actually, I think one of the main things we all might need to observer from this record long govt. shutdown.
Being that I think they said about 1/3 of the Federal Govt. was shut down for that long and the majority US citizens didn't even notice, and didn't have it really come close to having an effect on their daily, normal lives....says something.
I think it says, we could do just fine with a WHOLE lot LESS Federal govt., and less govt. workers.
I think that's something we should look at as we look back upon this record setting shutdown.
If only the "essential" folks stayed on, and the US didn't really have any major type of failure (I don't consider a little trash in parks as a major catastrophe)...then I think we need to seriously ask if all those folks that were not on the job, are actually really needed on those jobs?
Found the teenager. When i went to school in the 90's pagers and cell phones were banned, if your family even had enough money to afford a cell phone. If you needed to make calls you did it from one of multiple pay phones the school had during your lunch or in passing between classes or after school let out.
Kids should not have or at least not be using these things at school during the time they should be paying attention to their studies. School in the 90's banned far less distracting tech like CD players, tape players, hand held game systems.
Would love one but alas - three dogs. Which means manually cleaning up the lawn on a regular basis, for obvious reasons. What I would pay for a robot that would handle that clean up for me...
Well, it dries up pretty fast, why not just mow it into the grass as fertilizer?
Try getting a wife instead. You eventually end up with basically the same arrangement, but there's also the occasional opportunity for sex.
So, you're saying that pretty much any form of pussy will eventually just hang there with you, sponge off your resources and pay you attention on their whims?
I guess if you let either hang around too long, sure...but if you trade in your woman every few months, you don't risk that, nor do you risk giving half your shit up.
If a cat lover...well, not sure what the benefit is there. Sure, you don't risk losing half of your shit you own, but what really do you get in return? Dogs give you unconditional love...not sure what you get out of a cat.
... and let's not forget that corded cheap ass headphones and earbuds deliver such fantastic, near concert quality, audio.
Let's also not forget that there are a plethora of very good high end headphones out there available for purchase for those that prize better fidelity listening....many of them still corded.
Go look up some of their interviews with AOC where they desperately try to get negative sound bites out of her.
You lost me on this one....
The left channels (pretty much all but Fox)...give AOC nothing but creampuff interviews, and even with those she says stupid stuff and almost blows it.
If someone had AOC there with hard questions, she'd come off as a blithering idiot on most real world questions and scenarios....but her handlers won't allow that.
Even with all her protections, she still has negative sound bites slip out.
The biggest "news" channel in the US is Fox "news."
Fox News is a single cable channel that leans right.
Is that a balance against the other major cable news channels of MSNBC and CNN which lean heavy left and left?
Does that also balance out the 3 major OTA commercial news channels (which are also shown on cable) of NBC , CBS and ABC? Those also lean left, some more than others.
You have all these left leaning networks and you bitch about ONE right leaning network in Fox News?
Wow....at least there is one dissenting voice out there....
The only reason for over-spending +$2K for the MacBook would be a stubborn refusal to learn the radically different process how to move the mouse and click on the Adobe Premiere icon in Windows vs. on a Mac.
Well, then there's OS that could be considered too?
OSX vs Win10?
And, this was awhile back, I think I saw some tests using Adobe Premier on OSX (iMac Pro) vs Win10 (windows PS equivalent hardware), and I believe they had much faster throughput on the Mac, seems there was some threading limiting factor on the Win machine that wasn't there for the Mac.
This was awhile back, granted....but something that might have to be considered?
I too work mostly with Linux, but for my art needs (photography, PS, Premier, LRand now their substitutes of Affinity Photo, FCPX or Davinci Resolve, and On1 RAW.....I do prefer to do those on my mac, and my OLD MacBook pro still stacks up pretty well, although I am now waiting to see what the new Mac Pro looks like and either get that or a loaded up iMac Pro.
But one does need to research how best the apps work on the hardware/OS combo...as that saved time there matters too if you are a fairly high paid worker.
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I'm a bit hesitant to compare egging someones house vs drive by shootings with real (stolen) guns.....
But...but...I thought, you know....white privilege???
How could such a thing happen?
Well, if this is where the majority of violent crime happens, they what is wrong with it?
Are 'facts' now biased if they happened to show it happens more in poor neighborhoods and minority areas?
Are they wanting to ignore this, and have the cops and SWAT patrolling heavily the low crime areas that might be predominately higher income and less brown, just to be politically correct?
I'm glad I live where they do not require any emissions checks on cars here. What a PITA that would be, I'm guessing that takes a lot of the fun out of after market exhaust systems.
When I was growing up, early on pretty much EVERYTHING beverage wise (cokes, etc) came in glass bottles.
These were all recyclable, I remember finding bottles laying around as a kid, we'd collect them and take them to the 7-11 or other type store and they'd pay us like $0.05/per bottle.
I guess that all went out the window when plastic bottles came into fashion.
But so much used to be in glass bottles, and frankly, I kinda liked it better.
I tend to buy whatever I can in glass, beer, etc.....
Well, that's life..it always has been.
There's no guarantee where you are on the starting line....behind, at the line or advantage of being in front when the start gun goes off.
You have to do the best with what you're dealt.
It can be done, there are PLENTY of people that have succeeded despite starting at the back, there's a lot of folks that started out with life handed to them and lost everything and die drug addicts on the streets.
There are no guarantees, but YOU can do your best to try to get ahead.
I still believe the US gives some of the best opportunities in the world, if you just take them....and often that requires hard work and busting your ass, especially when young and you can stand to do so.
Land of equal opportunities available does not mean equal outcomes.
Its life. You shouldn't have time to whine about it, or play victim...you could better use that time to better your lot in life.
There are lots of good paying jobs out there that don't require a college diploma. Hell, I know plumbers that make 6 figures a year, AC repairmen....etc. Hard work sure, but you can make good $$, enough to save, invest and live a good life with a family on.
Everyone has a different path, but when young, if you start off valuing the education you get for free 1-12....you can start off on the right foot and NOT have to be a $15/hr drone or burger flipper.
Well, if you grew up and you or your culture didn't value an education, or make an effort when you had the opportunities....guess where you end up?
Remember the old saying:
"Well, the world needs ditch diggers too..."
I guess it beats flippin' burgers.....
Anyone that can't afford the video games, has more important things they should be doing rather than bitching. And if they can't afford the games in the first place, why would the company care, they weren't going to be customers anyway.
And these people....losing a week/months pay and they are out on the streets?
I think this need to be a wake up call that they need to start saving money....living below the level they are now and spending less, so that they have a saved reserve to fall back on.
These govt jobs are not poverty wages...they should be able to live on those salaries and save. If they can't, then they seriously need to evaluate their lifestyles, live within their means and quit trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Well, all sorts of barriers work.
Walls work...just ask China.
On a lighter note....if no wall, why not just get our best military snipers and let them practice at the border.
Hey, sounds like a good place for land mines...make them WELL MARKED and mapped out, but put those along the border and let's see if that drops illegal crossings.
That would be a lot cheaper and easier to manage and monitor than a ton of fragile electronic drones flying around 24/7.
Make a nice, wide no man's land, well marked with land mines....?
Being that I think they said about 1/3 of the Federal Govt. was shut down for that long and the majority US citizens didn't even notice, and didn't have it really come close to having an effect on their daily, normal lives....says something.
I think it says, we could do just fine with a WHOLE lot LESS Federal govt., and less govt. workers.
I think that's something we should look at as we look back upon this record setting shutdown.
If only the "essential" folks stayed on, and the US didn't really have any major type of failure (I don't consider a little trash in parks as a major catastrophe)...then I think we need to seriously ask if all those folks that were not on the job, are actually really needed on those jobs?
What does NASA stand for??
Need Another Seven Astronauts....
WTF is everyone so damned wimpy and scared of offending anyone?
I mean, wow...so much for jokes, or even free speech if taken to the far extreme (and people do seem to be trying for this).
I mean, get a sense of humor.
Quit looking to be offended. If you don't like something that was said...just fscking ignore it.
Surly you have something better to be doing?
Ok, dating myself, but in my day..they had to ban the Mattel LED electronic football games.
Even if you had the sound off, they still made you turn them off if they caught you playing them in class.
This is nothing new.
Why not just mow the poop into the lawn as fertilizer?
Well, it dries up pretty fast, why not just mow it into the grass as fertilizer?
Goodness....will someone PLEASE think of all the poor displaced illegal immigrants that will be out of work by these new and improved lawn robots?!!??
So, you're saying that pretty much any form of pussy will eventually just hang there with you, sponge off your resources and pay you attention on their whims?
I guess if you let either hang around too long, sure...but if you trade in your woman every few months, you don't risk that, nor do you risk giving half your shit up.
If a cat lover...well, not sure what the benefit is there. Sure, you don't risk losing half of your shit you own, but what really do you get in return? Dogs give you unconditional love...not sure what you get out of a cat.
....to own a dog instead of a cat.
The hell with that....
Dark Side of the Moon baby!!!
Yep..the original Alan Parsons quad mix of DSOTM!!!
Let's also not forget that there are a plethora of very good high end headphones out there available for purchase for those that prize better fidelity listening....many of them still corded.
You lost me on this one....
The left channels (pretty much all but Fox)...give AOC nothing but creampuff interviews, and even with those she says stupid stuff and almost blows it.
If someone had AOC there with hard questions, she'd come off as a blithering idiot on most real world questions and scenarios....but her handlers won't allow that.
Even with all her protections, she still has negative sound bites slip out.
Fox News is a single cable channel that leans right.
Is that a balance against the other major cable news channels of MSNBC and CNN which lean heavy left and left?
Does that also balance out the 3 major OTA commercial news channels (which are also shown on cable) of NBC , CBS and ABC? Those also lean left, some more than others.
You have all these left leaning networks and you bitch about ONE right leaning network in Fox News?
Wow....at least there is one dissenting voice out there....
Well, then there's OS that could be considered too?
OSX vs Win10?
And, this was awhile back, I think I saw some tests using Adobe Premier on OSX (iMac Pro) vs Win10 (windows PS equivalent hardware), and I believe they had much faster throughput on the Mac, seems there was some threading limiting factor on the Win machine that wasn't there for the Mac.
This was awhile back, granted....but something that might have to be considered?
I too work mostly with Linux, but for my art needs (photography, PS, Premier, LRand now their substitutes of Affinity Photo, FCPX or Davinci Resolve, and On1 RAW.....I do prefer to do those on my mac, and my OLD MacBook pro still stacks up pretty well, although I am now waiting to see what the new Mac Pro looks like and either get that or a loaded up iMac Pro.
But one does need to research how best the apps work on the hardware/OS combo...as that saved time there matters too if you are a fairly high paid worker.
I guess autocorrect...should be mighty.