Pistol? We're talking about the UK here, where the police regularly say they don't want every constable armed. You should use a metric like "flasks of tea" or "sausage sandwiches" instead - that makes more sense.
I live in a very comfortable climate in Europe, in an old, stone house with good insulation. The temperature doesn't fluctuate that much inside, and is very rarely uncomfortable.
So it's a toy because you think it is. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up - someone should tell Elon and he can wind down his toy company and ask you what to do next.
He's simply stating that up until the point the crime was underway, the shooter was not acting illegally, so all the NRA hysterics about protecting "innocent gun owners" means absolutely nothing. Plus every single one of the guns used in these crimes was, at one point, legally sold to a responsible, legal gun owner. Obviously gun owners can't be trusted, as their guns fall into the hands of criminals. You can't have it both ways.
If what you say is true, then criminals in every single country would be armed to the teeth with all the guns they want. As they are not, you're must be missing something quite important. You also must remember that when a criminal's potential victim has no gun, the criminal doesn't need a gun, and so won't want the increased cost and risk of actually having one. Cocaine and other drugs are public health issues, based on human psychology and physiology (substance abuse, etc.), so comparing the two simply because they are illegal is oversimplifying things to the point of nonsense.
It's not about stopping crime, it's about ensuring when crime does happen, it's as easy to walk away from as possible.
They might have an issue with most torrent trackers using IPv4, because modern ISPs who provide IPv6 connectivity to their customers have a few public-facing IPv4 addresses shared among all their subscribers.
New cars will have external airbags to protect pedestrians and cyclists. Unless a car is not going to touch the ground, it will be dangerous to pedestrians - your claim that cars are designed to protect the occupants more than others is simply because that's the best car designers can come up with at the moment. That will change, however.
You are an idiot. Sorry. I hate being rude, but wow. You think Nostradamus warned us by writing vague nonsense down which only becomes apparent after the very thing you purport it to predict happens? You need help.
That would make a bunch of sense if the sheer amount of human CO2 emissions wasn't so massive. Unfortunately that's not the case - we have to deal with both issues or nothing will get fixed. Poverty and lack of education and healthcare are what drives overpopulation - they need addressing, as well as our desire to output as much CO2 as we currently do. It's easily manageable if people would just look at the facts, and it makes sense even if AGW wasn't even a thing - we live on this planet, so it makes a lot of sense to not mess it up.
Well, as humanity has done in the past, we should probably listen to those who know most about this topic - the scientists who work on it day in, day out, who understand the mechanisms at play far better than anyone else. But lots of people don't because they don't like what the scientists have to say, so we are screwed. Your questions are easily answered by those in the relevant field - will you listen to their answers, or ignore answers you don't find acceptable?
Probably not, but it will give us more time to figure out the larger issues which need to be fixed. It's definitely better than doing absolutely nothing and ensuring we're screwed. Lots of little things add up over time.
The size of the US matters not, as even in densely-populated areas internet access can suck terribly. The "oh but it's so biiiig!" argument just doesn't hold water, and the longer people keep using it to justify their terrible internet service, the longer they will have terrible internet service. I'm happy you can get 50Mbp/s, but that's hardly something to boast about. - there definitely *is* room for improvement.
There you go again - apologizing for the US by making up some nebulous nonsense to explain why the US simply can't adopt modern standards. First you were defending using imperial units in an article about flight (because, according to you, flight was invented in the US), and now you're defending the US's inability to adopt a basic technology that the rest of the world has been using for over a decade. Guess what? Europe has been using magnetic swipe cards for ages, too, and seemed to be able to change without everyone losing their minds. You seem to think that the EU got magnetic swipe cards 6 months before chip+pin was invented. You must be, otherwise your entire post is just gibberish nonsense. You are clearly an intelligent person, so this behavior of yours of defending this nonsense is worrying.
Your belief is specious and unfounded, based only on your prejudices of the "'liberal' type". You do see how mass generalisations are not a great idea, right? They make you look the knee-jerky type you (judging by the rest of your comment) seem to not want to be.
When law-abiding citizens don't have guns, criminals don't need them, and so don't have them (as the massive jail terms for being caught with one do act as a deterrent). That means your robbing-at-gunpoint would have been a robbing-at-knifepoint or robbing-at-threats-of-fisticuffs. If you seriously think being robbed at gunpoint is better than the alternatives, well, you might want to think this through a bit more.
Consolidating pollution in the power stations makes it far easier to implement pollution-mitigating upgrades, and batteries can be recycled rather easily. Japan's nuclear accident has nothing to do with this discussion.
So we have the death penalty because you think the only way to get closure on death is more death. Brilliant. Just lock them up - it's no picnic in prison. Yes - you get to wake up every day as a free person, and the convict (who may or may not be guilty) gets to wake up in a prison, deprived of freedom. If you can't see the difference, and how one is massively worse than the other, you might want to go get some help.
It costs more to execute people than it does to house them for the rest of their natural lives. So unless you also call for abolishing due process (which is the expensive part) you have absolutely no point whatsoever - all you've done is show everyone you don't really know much about this subject, but think you know enough to call for the deaths of countless people, including innocent people, with complete sincerity, while patting yourself on the back for being a great human being. You suck at this whole "being human" thing.
There is a way to make it harmless - use it in a breeder reactor. It's already been patented, obviously, as this is not news to anyone. The waste that comes out is not very radioactive, and will be comparable to background radiation levels within hundreds of years, not thousands, and storage for that time period is clearly easily manageable.
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Pistol? We're talking about the UK here, where the police regularly say they don't want every constable armed. You should use a metric like "flasks of tea" or "sausage sandwiches" instead - that makes more sense.
I live in a very comfortable climate in Europe, in an old, stone house with good insulation. The temperature doesn't fluctuate that much inside, and is very rarely uncomfortable.
So it's a toy because you think it is. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up - someone should tell Elon and he can wind down his toy company and ask you what to do next.
He's simply stating that up until the point the crime was underway, the shooter was not acting illegally, so all the NRA hysterics about protecting "innocent gun owners" means absolutely nothing. Plus every single one of the guns used in these crimes was, at one point, legally sold to a responsible, legal gun owner. Obviously gun owners can't be trusted, as their guns fall into the hands of criminals. You can't have it both ways.
If what you say is true, then criminals in every single country would be armed to the teeth with all the guns they want. As they are not, you're must be missing something quite important. You also must remember that when a criminal's potential victim has no gun, the criminal doesn't need a gun, and so won't want the increased cost and risk of actually having one. Cocaine and other drugs are public health issues, based on human psychology and physiology (substance abuse, etc.), so comparing the two simply because they are illegal is oversimplifying things to the point of nonsense.
It's not about stopping crime, it's about ensuring when crime does happen, it's as easy to walk away from as possible.
They might have an issue with most torrent trackers using IPv4, because modern ISPs who provide IPv6 connectivity to their customers have a few public-facing IPv4 addresses shared among all their subscribers.
He didn't invent the light bulb, fyi.
"Envy of the world" [citation needed]
New cars will have external airbags to protect pedestrians and cyclists. Unless a car is not going to touch the ground, it will be dangerous to pedestrians - your claim that cars are designed to protect the occupants more than others is simply because that's the best car designers can come up with at the moment. That will change, however.
You are an idiot. Sorry. I hate being rude, but wow. You think Nostradamus warned us by writing vague nonsense down which only becomes apparent after the very thing you purport it to predict happens? You need help.
Yeah - sea ice area vs. sea ice volume. The former may increase, but the latter is definitely decreasing.
That would make a bunch of sense if the sheer amount of human CO2 emissions wasn't so massive. Unfortunately that's not the case - we have to deal with both issues or nothing will get fixed. Poverty and lack of education and healthcare are what drives overpopulation - they need addressing, as well as our desire to output as much CO2 as we currently do. It's easily manageable if people would just look at the facts, and it makes sense even if AGW wasn't even a thing - we live on this planet, so it makes a lot of sense to not mess it up.
Well, as humanity has done in the past, we should probably listen to those who know most about this topic - the scientists who work on it day in, day out, who understand the mechanisms at play far better than anyone else. But lots of people don't because they don't like what the scientists have to say, so we are screwed. Your questions are easily answered by those in the relevant field - will you listen to their answers, or ignore answers you don't find acceptable?
Probably not, but it will give us more time to figure out the larger issues which need to be fixed. It's definitely better than doing absolutely nothing and ensuring we're screwed. Lots of little things add up over time.
The size of the US matters not, as even in densely-populated areas internet access can suck terribly. The "oh but it's so biiiig!" argument just doesn't hold water, and the longer people keep using it to justify their terrible internet service, the longer they will have terrible internet service. I'm happy you can get 50Mbp/s, but that's hardly something to boast about. - there definitely *is* room for improvement.
And yet people in most US cities don't even get the Portugal level of service. Weird.
There you go again - apologizing for the US by making up some nebulous nonsense to explain why the US simply can't adopt modern standards. First you were defending using imperial units in an article about flight (because, according to you, flight was invented in the US), and now you're defending the US's inability to adopt a basic technology that the rest of the world has been using for over a decade. Guess what? Europe has been using magnetic swipe cards for ages, too, and seemed to be able to change without everyone losing their minds. You seem to think that the EU got magnetic swipe cards 6 months before chip+pin was invented. You must be, otherwise your entire post is just gibberish nonsense. You are clearly an intelligent person, so this behavior of yours of defending this nonsense is worrying.
You are comparing an entire country to a religion's entire followers, which makes you a fool. A racist, ignorant fool.
Your belief is specious and unfounded, based only on your prejudices of the "'liberal' type". You do see how mass generalisations are not a great idea, right? They make you look the knee-jerky type you (judging by the rest of your comment) seem to not want to be.
When law-abiding citizens don't have guns, criminals don't need them, and so don't have them (as the massive jail terms for being caught with one do act as a deterrent). That means your robbing-at-gunpoint would have been a robbing-at-knifepoint or robbing-at-threats-of-fisticuffs. If you seriously think being robbed at gunpoint is better than the alternatives, well, you might want to think this through a bit more.
Consolidating pollution in the power stations makes it far easier to implement pollution-mitigating upgrades, and batteries can be recycled rather easily. Japan's nuclear accident has nothing to do with this discussion.
So we have the death penalty because you think the only way to get closure on death is more death. Brilliant. Just lock them up - it's no picnic in prison. Yes - you get to wake up every day as a free person, and the convict (who may or may not be guilty) gets to wake up in a prison, deprived of freedom. If you can't see the difference, and how one is massively worse than the other, you might want to go get some help.
It costs more to execute people than it does to house them for the rest of their natural lives. So unless you also call for abolishing due process (which is the expensive part) you have absolutely no point whatsoever - all you've done is show everyone you don't really know much about this subject, but think you know enough to call for the deaths of countless people, including innocent people, with complete sincerity, while patting yourself on the back for being a great human being. You suck at this whole "being human" thing.
The very epitome of an ad hominem. Well done.
There is a way to make it harmless - use it in a breeder reactor. It's already been patented, obviously, as this is not news to anyone. The waste that comes out is not very radioactive, and will be comparable to background radiation levels within hundreds of years, not thousands, and storage for that time period is clearly easily manageable.