Baloney. The police and the military are VERY heavily armed crowds too. Just being told you're the good guy, putting a badge on, learning how to march and doesn't change actual human psychology.
> I assume you attribute this to your strict gun laws?
Not at all. I attribute it to the pervasive growth of the small-minded, passive-aggressive, submissive attitude that has now completely taken over in the UK, and has turned Brits from a strong-minded people that successfully stood together against incredible odds in WW2, into a bunch of spineless peecee muppets that welcome being totally nannied by an overly controlling system, and can't be bothered to get off their own asses and actually do anything positive, so just sit around and whine about everything all all the time, while still expecting to be fed, housed, educated and medically cared for with welfare handouts from the very same government/society they are criticising.
>> LOL did you leave the UK voluntarily or were you kicked out for being a twat?
I voluntarily left because back then I could see the UK becoming exactly the giant mess that it is today. If you haven't lived outside the UK recently at least for a while, It's understandable if you truly can't see it and think I'm bullshitting, In which case I urge you to not take my word for it, but see it for yourself by getting out and living in a better country for a while, and looking back at the UK from the outside. You'll then see exactly what I mean for yourself.
I Say this as a Brit myself: When I see British citizens mocking the USA I just remember that in 100 years or so, we went from ruling 25% of the world to living on an island the size of Michigan. I've never been more happy that 15 years ago I decided to emigrate to the USA. I look at the pussy liberal culture in the UK that was emerging even then and see how it has now driven the entire country into the ground and made everyone scared to even admit to having testicles. The entire country has totally become a handout culture, and now the peecee agenda is enabling a mass of immigrants to turn into an Islamic state. If that's your idea of a "civilized" country you can stick it.
Yeah because the real problem here isn't the psychopathic asshole that wanted to hurt people just because he lost a videogame, its really all the fault of the tool he used. And making something illegal has already been proven to work so well to get rid of it. That's why America doesn't have a drug problem any more. Oh wait. Besides, wasn't the event already a gun-free zone? Maybe if more people were carrying he wouldn't have been so quick to go on a rampage in the first place, or they could at least have defended themselves and ended it quicker. You liberal morons make me laugh. You spent the last year and a half comparing Trump to Hitler at the same time you're begging him to take everyones guns away.
> but would a self-driving car helped the mom and daughter?
As a Brit now living in the US I'm amazed at how bad the average American driver seems to be about maintaining situational awareness and totally clueless about even basic car handling, (no you really don't need to hit your brakes just to go round a slight bend).
Perhaps its because the US driving test hardly tests your suitability and ability to actually be able to drive and handle a car, at all, let alone in an emergency. It pretty much only focuses on testing that you know and can follow the road rules/laws.
> would the self-driving car be able to react quickly enough to avoid the murder car in all cases
No. Nothing would be always able to avoid everything, but it probably would have done a better job than a typical American female driver.
You really believe its ad=buying that is the danger here? Like the data from social media platforms isn't already being freely handed to and abused by at least the US government?
This is hardly surprising behavior for Apple, and far from the first time. They have already discovered that they can do the most amazingly abusive shit and still the sheeplike fanbois/girls will bend over and religiously continue to overpay for Apple hardware.
No. and its very sad that a one great institution should fall so far. The BBC news used to be incredibly anal about being strictly impartial and just reporting facts, These days, even the news has become very clearly left-leaning and have anti-brexit tendencies. They've also replaced reporting facts and leaving the listener to decide, with editorials and opinion pieces wherever they can cram them in. VERY troubling.
What actually is wrong with pro-Brexit ads? As I recall there were also plenty of remain ad campaigns, yet apparently no-one is complaining about those. Why the double-standard and why the incorrect presumption that anything pro-brexit somehow self-evidently justifies being stifled?
Free money or a guaranteed job where you couldn;t get fired.... what then would be the motivation for anyone to ever make any effort? All you'd get is a slowly declining society full of lazy slobs who sit infront of TVs all day, never dream, or ever do anything to improve themselves or humanity. 15 years ago I emigrated to the US from the UK to escape from exactly that sick dependent give-up mindset. I don;t want to have to move again.
The reason that any government has power, is ultimately through physical and even fatal force implemented via their own police and military. Governments sustain their position of authority by ensuring the people they govern are kept too placid and disorganized to come up with an at least equivalent counter-force. For example, by introducing gun laws and controlling the content of what kids get taught in schools.
> the government is only allowed to have it Forfeit for the rest of the Life of the Person attainted
That's great in principle but I'd bet in practice that it's at least hard and legally expensive to get the government to ever give anything back.
It sounds pretty much like one of those scams (like when you buy electronics that you have to jump through hoops to get and mail in a refund application) that counts on making more money by a percentage of people not knowing/bothering.
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Baloney. The police and the military are VERY heavily armed crowds too. Just being told you're the good guy, putting a badge on, learning how to march and doesn't change actual human psychology.
yes, but its then not just the start of a mass shooting is it?
> before getting shot by a good guy with a gun
Maybe you should try telling the cops to put their guns down too.
> I assume you attribute this to your strict gun laws?
Not at all. I attribute it to the pervasive growth of the small-minded, passive-aggressive, submissive attitude that has now completely taken over in the UK, and has turned Brits from a strong-minded people that successfully stood together against incredible odds in WW2, into a bunch of spineless peecee muppets that welcome being totally nannied by an overly controlling system, and can't be bothered to get off their own asses and actually do anything positive, so just sit around and whine about everything all all the time, while still expecting to be fed, housed, educated and medically cared for with welfare handouts from the very same government/society they are criticising.
>> LOL did you leave the UK voluntarily or were you kicked out for being a twat?
I voluntarily left because back then I could see the UK becoming exactly the giant mess that it is today. If you haven't lived outside the UK recently at least for a while, It's understandable if you truly can't see it and think I'm bullshitting, In which case I urge you to not take my word for it, but see it for yourself by getting out and living in a better country for a while, and looking back at the UK from the outside. You'll then see exactly what I mean for yourself.
Maybe it's you that should stop watching MSNBC.
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I Say this as a Brit myself:
When I see British citizens mocking the USA I just remember that in 100 years or so, we went from ruling 25% of the world to living on an island the size of Michigan. I've never been more happy that 15 years ago I decided to emigrate to the USA. I look at the pussy liberal culture in the UK that was emerging even then and see how it has now driven the entire country into the ground and made everyone scared to even admit to having testicles. The entire country has totally become a handout culture, and now the peecee agenda is enabling a mass of immigrants to turn into an Islamic state. If that's your idea of a "civilized" country you can stick it.
Yeah because the real problem here isn't the psychopathic asshole that wanted to hurt people just because he lost a videogame, its really all the fault of the tool he used.
And making something illegal has already been proven to work so well to get rid of it. That's why America doesn't have a drug problem any more. Oh wait.
Besides, wasn't the event already a gun-free zone? Maybe if more people were carrying he wouldn't have been so quick to go on a rampage in the first place, or they could at least have defended themselves and ended it quicker.
You liberal morons make me laugh. You spent the last year and a half comparing Trump to Hitler at the same time you're begging him to take everyones guns away.
> but would a self-driving car helped the mom and daughter?
As a Brit now living in the US I'm amazed at how bad the average American driver seems to be about maintaining situational awareness and totally clueless about even basic car handling, (no you really don't need to hit your brakes just to go round a slight bend).
Perhaps its because the US driving test hardly tests your suitability and ability to actually be able to drive and handle a car, at all, let alone in an emergency. It pretty much only focuses on testing that you know and can follow the road rules/laws.
> would the self-driving car be able to react quickly enough to avoid the murder car in all cases
No. Nothing would be always able to avoid everything, but it probably would have done a better job than a typical American female driver.
Of course it is. Google etc are totally abusing H1B to displace US workers with cheap overseas alternatives.
Apparently Trump's H1B limits are finally forcing Google et. al. to do the right thing and hire US workers.
Linux is still a microkernel.
...It's even more dangerous when governments step in and regulate all content.
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None. If security was a real concern I'd always go opensource, and audit the source then build from it.
You really believe its ad=buying that is the danger here? Like the data from social media platforms isn't already being freely handed to and abused by at least the US government?
I'm looking forward to Russia and China releasing their own tit-for-tat list of consumer products that come with preinstalled NSA/CIA backdoors.
This is hardly surprising behavior for Apple, and far from the first time. They have already discovered that they can do the most amazingly abusive shit and still the sheeplike fanbois/girls will bend over and religiously continue to overpay for Apple hardware.
No. and its very sad that a one great institution should fall so far.
The BBC news used to be incredibly anal about being strictly impartial and just reporting facts, These days, even the news has become very clearly left-leaning and have anti-brexit tendencies. They've also replaced reporting facts and leaving the listener to decide, with editorials and opinion pieces wherever they can cram them in. VERY troubling.
What actually is wrong with pro-Brexit ads?
As I recall there were also plenty of remain ad campaigns, yet apparently no-one is complaining about those.
Why the double-standard and why the incorrect presumption that anything pro-brexit somehow self-evidently justifies being stifled?
Free money or a guaranteed job where you couldn;t get fired.... what then would be the motivation for anyone to ever make any effort?
All you'd get is a slowly declining society full of lazy slobs who sit infront of TVs all day, never dream, or ever do anything to improve themselves or humanity.
15 years ago I emigrated to the US from the UK to escape from exactly that sick dependent give-up mindset. I don;t want to have to move again.
Well said.
> Forcing people to do a shit job they don't want to do is pointless.
No it isn't. It acts as a deterrent to the worthless parasites that perceive the dole as their lifelong career.
What does the OSI have to do with it? You realise there's actually far more programming going on than just internet-based stuff right?
Ask me again when it makes more sense to write a device driver in Python than in C.
The government will easily find someone who WILL take their money. There's plenty of actual defense contractors out there.
The reason that any government has power, is ultimately through physical and even fatal force implemented via their own police and military.
Governments sustain their position of authority by ensuring the people they govern are kept too placid and disorganized to come up with an at least equivalent counter-force. For example, by introducing gun laws and controlling the content of what kids get taught in schools.
> the government is only allowed to have it Forfeit for the rest of the Life of the Person attainted
That's great in principle but I'd bet in practice that it's at least hard and legally expensive to get the government to ever give anything back.
It sounds pretty much like one of those scams (like when you buy electronics that you have to jump through hoops to get and mail in a refund application) that counts on making more money by a percentage of people not knowing/bothering.