"Some folks have suggested we put land mines on the border, and the Mexican families fleeing into our country who get blown up aren't our fault because they should know better than to cross an active minefield--as if you didn't force them to choose between whatever has driven them to flee their lives and the risk of horrible death."
Unless you held a gun to their head you didn't force them to do anything. I don't even like that expression, someone with a gun to their head still has a choice, unless you physically overpowered them you didn't force them to do anything because these people were never your responsibility.
There are a lot of people who cross the border illegally for all sorts of reasons. In the US the border is pretty much run by the Latin Kings and other hispanic gangs. There are plenty of baseless assertions about what "most of the people" who cross are both positive and negative but none of them are our responsibility. They have a moral imperative to decide they've had enough, are willing to pay the price, and overthrow the cartels and their corrupt government and actually start teaching their children morals alongside changes in the culture to prevent another generation of the same criminals.
Even in Mexico there is internet and computers widespread enough with skills easily enough learned that Mexico could be competing in the information age and turn the tides on its economy in a decade or two.
So lets cut the crap, illegal immigrants can cross the border, go to any of the dozens of privately operated outsourced MVDs in new mexico and get a drivers license without documentation, and then vote and they vote for the party that wants to keep the border open. Lets also not forget that the Mexican immigrant issue is meant to distract us from real immigration problems. The mythical tech labor shortage, the massive import of legal immigrants to try to close up tech both to stop wage increase and to plug it up with degrees. Currently someone with high intelligence and without a degree can learn skills and be making a reasonable salary in a short time (which is why there is no labor shortage) and that pisses off academics and academia.
You do know psychology was developed as a method of "playing doctor" and manipulating women for personal sexual gain? There is no empirical evidence behind it and any "study" falls outside the realm of science in the same manner as creationism, it begins with a conclusion rather than an observation.
The invention of the subconscious mind was a particularly clever form of manipulation because it introduces doubt that allows another to claim they actually know better than the subjects themselves what they were thinking and/or what their motivations were. This takes thought crime to the next level by inventing the concept you don't even know your own motivations! Psychology is a system of brainwashing and maybe duping someone into thinking things are better could be used to help them in limited circumstances.
Having forgotten psychological diseases are fabricated tools of this system has led to changes in how children are raised. Generation after generation of parenting based on "child psychology" has resulted in astronomical suicide rates that blow away the worst of anything bullies in high school showers ever caused.
Laws that infringe on freedom of speech and therefore distribution of speech and arms by the citizens are themselves illegal. Like drugs and prostitution the federal government hasn't been granted any authority with regard to them.
Yeah but you don't generally get there without a significant amount of expertise and engineering knowledge and you definitely don't get there on something with the tight tolerances of gun parts without those things.
Your typical terrorist or teenager isn't exactly going to pull it off and frankly the ones who are bright enough to do so are bright enough to use a bit of gunpowder, non-compressible fluid, and a gourd to use hydraulic force to demolish something. Or a bit of corn flour and a sparking fan or to discover you can make ammonium nitrate from urine and do any number of things with it. Seriously, let them spend their hours fighting against a plastic gun that will fail after a shot or two if they ever pull it off.
Seriously, anything I've mentioned there has been freely available information for at least 60yrs and most of it available directly from the military upon request and in wide distribution. Focus on the real issue, that we've forgotten psychology isn't based on objective science and we've let it infiltrate the basis for how we raise children and we are raising entire generations who are unstable enough that they actually are doing horrific things and killing themselves.
You should have left the prostitutes and drugs off the list and your argument would have been stronger. Pimps and cartels may be bad guys and using those things to do evil but the rest is consenting adults making choices that other judgmental people never had a right to a say in.
Barely strong enough in the sense that they used special custom materials at the company and the consumer printed version on abs blew up after a shot or two. Other than looking snazzier the only difference between that and the zip guns of the 80's is that you need a machine that costs more than a gun to print one.
In a perfect world sure. Sometimes you get lucky. More often in the real world you spend the next few days fiddling with your print and the file to get the best result.
Anyone can do that, with nothing but a drill press. Legally the receiver is the gun and everything else is just parts. The receiver blanks are "80% complete" to comply with regulations, you can buy them all day long with no restriction. There are templates and instructions to accomplish the other 20% with a drill press. You buy the individual parts or even a handy parts kit and assemble into a complete gun.
There is absolutely nothing preventing you from manufacturing your own gun for personal use. That is 100% legal.
You certainly can build one on a 3D printer just not out of plastic. Or rather you can build one out of plastic but they don't last for more than a shot or two.
A basic income empowers people, it doesn't prevent those who are able to work from working and earning money on top of that income. A guarantee of a job is just a guarantee of minimum wage in a different form.
People aren't begging for a handout, they have built the technology that enables you to replace their jobs. Ideally they should be given stock in the companies that automate their workforce without regard to "new employment" created by importing workers on student visas and other scams.
"Oversupply" means producing enough as an industry to have to shrink rather than continue to grow profit margin across the board. This is how they collude with the other large players so they can maintain an artificial scarcity of diamon... err chips.
"oversupply" is a cute term. This is exactly what they mean by that, the industry is at risk of producing enough to have to lower profit margins instead of continuing to increase them. The entire point of an article like this is to collude and price fix without ever needing to actually have a meeting with their competitors.
Unless you are dumb enough to both be poor AND live in a major metro area (seriously, greyhound can solve that for $50 so you have it coming) the biggest threats when it comes to crime are circumstances and paranoid law enforcement.
Destroy the market? All they can do is dump coin that was already in circulation back in. It isn't removed from circulation it has merely changed hands. Unlike their own currency they print at will cryptocurrency has value in every country around the globe and it is off their books (not that this is as big a deal for the chinese as others but I'm sure there is bound to be something the chinese don't want the UN, NATO, or other nations to know).
Not only do you not get a deduction form if you lose, you get nicked for your individual wins and no deduction for your loses in that light the odds on blackjack become very very far from even.
No, nobody is using cryptocurrency as money... just speculation. Granted it is still a form of gambling but this is hardly gambling on the value of the cryptocurrency which many would have you believe is the only market cryptocurrency is used for.
The President can simply pardon himself, becoming president makes you immune to criminal punishment for anything done prior to and up to the end of your term. Impeachment however, does not require criminal punishment. If people think he is so bad, impeach him, is getting the pound of flesh from punishing him beyond that really so important?
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"Some folks have suggested we put land mines on the border, and the Mexican families fleeing into our country who get blown up aren't our fault because they should know better than to cross an active minefield--as if you didn't force them to choose between whatever has driven them to flee their lives and the risk of horrible death."
Unless you held a gun to their head you didn't force them to do anything. I don't even like that expression, someone with a gun to their head still has a choice, unless you physically overpowered them you didn't force them to do anything because these people were never your responsibility.
There are a lot of people who cross the border illegally for all sorts of reasons. In the US the border is pretty much run by the Latin Kings and other hispanic gangs. There are plenty of baseless assertions about what "most of the people" who cross are both positive and negative but none of them are our responsibility. They have a moral imperative to decide they've had enough, are willing to pay the price, and overthrow the cartels and their corrupt government and actually start teaching their children morals alongside changes in the culture to prevent another generation of the same criminals.
Even in Mexico there is internet and computers widespread enough with skills easily enough learned that Mexico could be competing in the information age and turn the tides on its economy in a decade or two.
So lets cut the crap, illegal immigrants can cross the border, go to any of the dozens of privately operated outsourced MVDs in new mexico and get a drivers license without documentation, and then vote and they vote for the party that wants to keep the border open. Lets also not forget that the Mexican immigrant issue is meant to distract us from real immigration problems. The mythical tech labor shortage, the massive import of legal immigrants to try to close up tech both to stop wage increase and to plug it up with degrees. Currently someone with high intelligence and without a degree can learn skills and be making a reasonable salary in a short time (which is why there is no labor shortage) and that pisses off academics and academia.
You do know psychology was developed as a method of "playing doctor" and manipulating women for personal sexual gain? There is no empirical evidence behind it and any "study" falls outside the realm of science in the same manner as creationism, it begins with a conclusion rather than an observation.
The invention of the subconscious mind was a particularly clever form of manipulation because it introduces doubt that allows another to claim they actually know better than the subjects themselves what they were thinking and/or what their motivations were. This takes thought crime to the next level by inventing the concept you don't even know your own motivations! Psychology is a system of brainwashing and maybe duping someone into thinking things are better could be used to help them in limited circumstances.
Having forgotten psychological diseases are fabricated tools of this system has led to changes in how children are raised. Generation after generation of parenting based on "child psychology" has resulted in astronomical suicide rates that blow away the worst of anything bullies in high school showers ever caused.
Laws that infringe on freedom of speech and therefore distribution of speech and arms by the citizens are themselves illegal. Like drugs and prostitution the federal government hasn't been granted any authority with regard to them.
Yeah but you don't generally get there without a significant amount of expertise and engineering knowledge and you definitely don't get there on something with the tight tolerances of gun parts without those things.
Your typical terrorist or teenager isn't exactly going to pull it off and frankly the ones who are bright enough to do so are bright enough to use a bit of gunpowder, non-compressible fluid, and a gourd to use hydraulic force to demolish something. Or a bit of corn flour and a sparking fan or to discover you can make ammonium nitrate from urine and do any number of things with it. Seriously, let them spend their hours fighting against a plastic gun that will fail after a shot or two if they ever pull it off.
Seriously, anything I've mentioned there has been freely available information for at least 60yrs and most of it available directly from the military upon request and in wide distribution. Focus on the real issue, that we've forgotten psychology isn't based on objective science and we've let it infiltrate the basis for how we raise children and we are raising entire generations who are unstable enough that they actually are doing horrific things and killing themselves.
Of course guerillas and terrorists already have better weapons, we in the US and the Russians have provided them with excellent firearms.
You should have left the prostitutes and drugs off the list and your argument would have been stronger. Pimps and cartels may be bad guys and using those things to do evil but the rest is consenting adults making choices that other judgmental people never had a right to a say in.
This is a federal law, not a state law. But it is worth remembering, the states aren't just granted everything else, the people are.
Ummm no, new tech does not obsolete the Constitution.
Barely strong enough in the sense that they used special custom materials at the company and the consumer printed version on abs blew up after a shot or two. Other than looking snazzier the only difference between that and the zip guns of the 80's is that you need a machine that costs more than a gun to print one.
In a perfect world sure. Sometimes you get lucky. More often in the real world you spend the next few days fiddling with your print and the file to get the best result.
Anyone can do that, with nothing but a drill press. Legally the receiver is the gun and everything else is just parts. The receiver blanks are "80% complete" to comply with regulations, you can buy them all day long with no restriction. There are templates and instructions to accomplish the other 20% with a drill press. You buy the individual parts or even a handy parts kit and assemble into a complete gun.
There is absolutely nothing preventing you from manufacturing your own gun for personal use. That is 100% legal.
You certainly can build one on a 3D printer just not out of plastic. Or rather you can build one out of plastic but they don't last for more than a shot or two.
Objective reasoning. I supplied some rational to support to my assertion immediately following that assertion but you choose not quote that part.
Also I supplied solid ration for why a basic income is not any form of charity or handout but an earned entitlement for past work.
Right because with absolute inside information he was obvious to what was coming... a situation he was completely to blame for.
The mail room had enough inside information to know what was coming, zuckerberg certainly did.
No but it should. All the conditions that made it obvious the stock was going to drop were his fault.
A basic income empowers people, it doesn't prevent those who are able to work from working and earning money on top of that income. A guarantee of a job is just a guarantee of minimum wage in a different form.
People aren't begging for a handout, they have built the technology that enables you to replace their jobs. Ideally they should be given stock in the companies that automate their workforce without regard to "new employment" created by importing workers on student visas and other scams.
"Oversupply" means producing enough as an industry to have to shrink rather than continue to grow profit margin across the board. This is how they collude with the other large players so they can maintain an artificial scarcity of diamon... err chips.
"oversupply" is a cute term. This is exactly what they mean by that, the industry is at risk of producing enough to have to lower profit margins instead of continuing to increase them. The entire point of an article like this is to collude and price fix without ever needing to actually have a meeting with their competitors.
Unless you are dumb enough to both be poor AND live in a major metro area (seriously, greyhound can solve that for $50 so you have it coming) the biggest threats when it comes to crime are circumstances and paranoid law enforcement.
Destroy the market? All they can do is dump coin that was already in circulation back in. It isn't removed from circulation it has merely changed hands. Unlike their own currency they print at will cryptocurrency has value in every country around the globe and it is off their books (not that this is as big a deal for the chinese as others but I'm sure there is bound to be something the chinese don't want the UN, NATO, or other nations to know).
Not only do you not get a deduction form if you lose, you get nicked for your individual wins and no deduction for your loses in that light the odds on blackjack become very very far from even.
Seriously? What is shady about online sports betting? Illegal it may be but its completely harmless.
No, nobody is using cryptocurrency as money... just speculation. Granted it is still a form of gambling but this is hardly gambling on the value of the cryptocurrency which many would have you believe is the only market cryptocurrency is used for.
Bingo.
The President can simply pardon himself, becoming president makes you immune to criminal punishment for anything done prior to and up to the end of your term. Impeachment however, does not require criminal punishment. If people think he is so bad, impeach him, is getting the pound of flesh from punishing him beyond that really so important?