So you're saying that even with uber-militarized police nothing can be done about gangs? Probably, next you'll advocate arming police with strategic nuclear weapons.
So you don't have any other objections to my post? And no, it's not over-the-top - children statistically are at greater risk from your gun than from being killed by intruders.
So in essence, you want to kill small defenseless children.
There's one common thread in these murders. The overwhelming majority occurred in a "gun free zone" but hoplophobes refuse to acknowledge or address the fact that cowardly murderers prefer defenseless victims.
So you want everyone in a theater to be on guard 100% of time and be ready to shoot back at the sound of a gun discharge? Ok, so you're a nutty idiot. That's pretty clear now.
It's people that ignore reality and push to disarm law abiding citizens and prevent them from protecting themselves, their families, and others that create helpless victims.
No. YOU are ignoring reality - the advanced countries with less guns have less crime and far less murders than the US. So it's you who want people to be killed by guns, especially small children.
You quote a NIH study when the NIH is ideologically opposed to firearm ownership to begin with. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. I dismiss this for the same reasons you'd dismiss a study funded by the NRA that contradicts it.
I won't dismiss a study that is conducted properly. Even if it comes from the NRA. And NIH studies are pretty accurate - they are actually used to working with clinical studies.
The Wiki page you cite does not address mandatory licensed firearm instructor run safety courses in any way.
So pick 5 states. I'll give you details. For example, Washington (where I'm staying right now) doesn't require anything but a cursory background check (which can be avoided through the 'gun show' loophole). No training necessary.
You outdo yourself here with both a baseless ad hominem *and* a sweeping generalization with no evidence whatsoever. How "open minded" and Progressive of you.
So tell me, why do you want to KILL CHILDREN?? Do you hate them so much?
Since you've been in the military, you are a high risk for PTSD. So then, you're fine with being forbidden to obtain a driver's license and placed under constant surveillance, since you might snap at any time and decide to plow through a crowd with your 2-1/2 ton missile or go nuts with an axe, right?
I haven't seen combat so I'm not at higher risk of PTSD. And to get a driver's license in my home country, you actually do have to get a certificate from a mental health hospital that you're not under observation for any mental disorders.
A free and open society comes with risks.
Can I shoot you in the head, please? After all, you so want to live in a free society! And I totally should be free to minimize potential harm to me, right? In ANY way that I'd like, including gunning down all the gun owners.
I'm more at risk of dying from my spouse shooting me or from a weapon-related accident than from being shot at by criminals. See here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
There are laws requiring mandatory safety & competency training for legal handgun owners in nearly every jurisdiction.
FYI, most legal gun owners are more competent and safe with a gun than many, if not most, law enforcement officers, and LEOs carry 24/7, even off-duty.
Complete BS. Most gun owners have trouble distinguishing which end of a gun actually shoots bullets.
It's your right to be a defenseless victim for any armed criminal that comes along. You have no right to make that choice for others.
I also have a right not to be shot by you, because you mess up the safety switch.
Yes, I win the Internets. And yes, the actual law-abiding citizens are much safer when only criminals have weapons.
For the record, I went through military training and I can use automatic weapons, RPGs and grenades. And I still don't even _want_ to have guns at home (And carrying them everyday? That's insane).
Electric cars don't mandate the use of rare earths (apart from minute amounts in LCDs and microelectronics). It's totally possible to use AC motors that don't require anything more exotic than copper. Tesla does this, for example.
Unless you need to transfer A LOT of data from your cluster, Amazon AWS will probably be cheaper than dedicated hardware. Especially if you can use spot instances (that are 5-10 times cheaper than the regular Amazon EC2 instances).
Tesla has liquid battery cooling that can dissipate quite a lot of heat. It was quite difficult to hit throttling even during a race on a real racetrack (and impossible on regular public roads). And they've also reduced the throttling in recent software updates.
I traveled 8000 miles in 1 month on my new Tesla. Range and recharge time is not a problem - superchargers are almost everywhere where I would want to go in the US: http://supercharge.info/
However paying people to do nothing, pen pushers if you prefer, will not improve the economy anywhere near the amount proper investment will.
It will, under specific conditions. Right now simply paying unemployed Greek people to sort matches and then mix them up again WILL improve the economy.
Of course, hiring people to do truly productive work is a better idea.
You read my previous comment, where I specifically said I do not predict exact timing, only the most likely scenarios based on the course of action that is being taken and you immediately goad me into making a TIME BET? What the fuck is wrong with you, what the brain has completely dried out in that idiotic head of yours?
So you're telling me that your predictions are true. But they are just delayed by an unspecified amount of time, rapidly approaching infinity.
How about the same bet for the next 5 years, then? I'd bet for an even longer time, but I have much better use for my money over longer periods.
So how about this - we both put 1kg of gold in an escrow account with a reputable company and in 5 years I take all of it. If in the meantime an incident of hyperinflation happens, then you take all of the gold immediately. Are you willing to follow through your believes?
Don't have 1kg of gold now? I'm willing to give you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! You can place an IOU for $40000 into escrow instead of gold (I'll be placing real gold bullion).
What the fuck are you talking about? My models give predictions that work exactly as they are supposed to, which is why I knew about the coming 2008 collapse
No, you haven't. Where is that hyperinflation caused by all this fiat money? Hiding under the bed? Why hasn't the stock market collapsed once QE had stopped?
the coming USD collapse and of-course as a result of the USD collapse the coming bond market collapse.
Oh, a coming collapse. Is it like the second coming of Jesus? When are we going to see it? The century or the next one?
I'm willing to bet 1kg of gold (or its equivalent in any other reliable currency) that there'll be no USD collapse (defined as sustained hyperinflation or exchange rate collapse) in the coming 3 years. Do you wish to enter this bet?
You are an idiot, provably. Your models give predictions that don't work. Mine do.
So instead of reconsidering your worldview you simply bury your head deeper in your anus. German economic "growth" was caused by forcing all the peripheral countries to carry the inefficiency of the German economy. For example, lazy Germans work 60% of hours compared to Greek workers and enjoy greater labor protections.
"Squeeze"? Syriza government decreased the unemployment (by about 1.5%) during the first months. Before the Fuhrer^W^W^W Angela Merkel decided to squeeze MOAR BLOOD from Greece.
The reality is that Greece needs to be booted out of EU. German people are not interested in donating (and lets be clear, this is a donation, not a loan) more money to the Greeks standing with their hands out.
Yet German people were quite happy to pump their debts into Greece, Spain and Italy over the course of last 15 years. Half of German economic growth was caused by this.
Not the same at all. Debtor's prison threw debtors in jail where they couldn't work off their debts. Greece is not being thrown in jail.
No, it has been thrown into jail. The further cuts will depress the economy even further, increasing the debt load. Also they'll lead to real starvation and homelessness for a large amount of population.
Greece can even service the current debts if they are allowed to borrow at lower rates. That's essentially what the 'bailout' was - the ability to borrow at lower costs to re-finance the debts. Even simply extending the bailout program without imposing new austerity would have been enough to let Greece recover.
And if we continue an analogy with a household, right now Greece has a steady job with enough income to cover the expenses for a fairly well-off lifestyle. However, it has also a crippling underwater mortgage. For a household the simplest way out of this would be a bankruptcy and a new start.
But OK, suppose that we put the interests of the Holy German Empire on the front. The problem is, austerity actually HURTS the creditors by undermining Greek economy. There's really no reasons for austerity except for sadism of Merkel.
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So you're saying that even with uber-militarized police nothing can be done about gangs? Probably, next you'll advocate arming police with strategic nuclear weapons.
Prior to the 1980s there were no GMO organisms anywhere in the world.
Genetically-modified papaya was developed in 1975.
I'm using CapsLock as a layout switching key, lots of other people use it as a second 'esc'.
And why would you remove it, anyway?
Over the top, much?
So you don't have any other objections to my post? And no, it's not over-the-top - children statistically are at greater risk from your gun than from being killed by intruders.
So in essence, you want to kill small defenseless children.
There's one common thread in these murders. The overwhelming majority occurred in a "gun free zone" but hoplophobes refuse to acknowledge or address the fact that cowardly murderers prefer defenseless victims.
So you want everyone in a theater to be on guard 100% of time and be ready to shoot back at the sound of a gun discharge? Ok, so you're a nutty idiot. That's pretty clear now.
It's people that ignore reality and push to disarm law abiding citizens and prevent them from protecting themselves, their families, and others that create helpless victims.
No. YOU are ignoring reality - the advanced countries with less guns have less crime and far less murders than the US. So it's you who want people to be killed by guns, especially small children.
You quote a NIH study when the NIH is ideologically opposed to firearm ownership to begin with. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. I dismiss this for the same reasons you'd dismiss a study funded by the NRA that contradicts it.
I won't dismiss a study that is conducted properly. Even if it comes from the NRA. And NIH studies are pretty accurate - they are actually used to working with clinical studies.
The Wiki page you cite does not address mandatory licensed firearm instructor run safety courses in any way.
So pick 5 states. I'll give you details. For example, Washington (where I'm staying right now) doesn't require anything but a cursory background check (which can be avoided through the 'gun show' loophole). No training necessary.
You outdo yourself here with both a baseless ad hominem *and* a sweeping generalization with no evidence whatsoever. How "open minded" and Progressive of you.
So tell me, why do you want to KILL CHILDREN?? Do you hate them so much?
Since you've been in the military, you are a high risk for PTSD. So then, you're fine with being forbidden to obtain a driver's license and placed under constant surveillance, since you might snap at any time and decide to plow through a crowd with your 2-1/2 ton missile or go nuts with an axe, right?
I haven't seen combat so I'm not at higher risk of PTSD. And to get a driver's license in my home country, you actually do have to get a certificate from a mental health hospital that you're not under observation for any mental disorders.
A free and open society comes with risks.
Can I shoot you in the head, please? After all, you so want to live in a free society! And I totally should be free to minimize potential harm to me, right? In ANY way that I'd like, including gunning down all the gun owners.
Care to explain the (any) logic in that?
I'm more at risk of dying from my spouse shooting me or from a weapon-related accident than from being shot at by criminals. See here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
There are laws requiring mandatory safety & competency training for legal handgun owners in nearly every jurisdiction.
Incorrect. There are no such laws in pretty much EVERY state in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... In most states you can just come in and buy a handgun with only a cursory background check (if that). A nice article: http://www.salon.com/2013/12/0...
FYI, most legal gun owners are more competent and safe with a gun than many, if not most, law enforcement officers, and LEOs carry 24/7, even off-duty.
Complete BS. Most gun owners have trouble distinguishing which end of a gun actually shoots bullets.
It's your right to be a defenseless victim for any armed criminal that comes along. You have no right to make that choice for others.
I also have a right not to be shot by you, because you mess up the safety switch.
Yes, I win the Internets. And yes, the actual law-abiding citizens are much safer when only criminals have weapons.
For the record, I went through military training and I can use automatic weapons, RPGs and grenades. And I still don't even _want_ to have guns at home (And carrying them everyday? That's insane).
As a Californian: not enough.
Electric cars don't mandate the use of rare earths (apart from minute amounts in LCDs and microelectronics). It's totally possible to use AC motors that don't require anything more exotic than copper. Tesla does this, for example.
Unless you need to transfer A LOT of data from your cluster, Amazon AWS will probably be cheaper than dedicated hardware. Especially if you can use spot instances (that are 5-10 times cheaper than the regular Amazon EC2 instances).
They're covering the major highways first. There's a map of projected Supercharger network for 2016 here: http://www.teslamotors.com/sup...
Tesla has liquid battery cooling that can dissipate quite a lot of heat. It was quite difficult to hit throttling even during a race on a real racetrack (and impossible on regular public roads). And they've also reduced the throttling in recent software updates.
I traveled 8000 miles in 1 month on my new Tesla. Range and recharge time is not a problem - superchargers are almost everywhere where I would want to go in the US: http://supercharge.info/
However paying people to do nothing, pen pushers if you prefer, will not improve the economy anywhere near the amount proper investment will.
It will, under specific conditions. Right now simply paying unemployed Greek people to sort matches and then mix them up again WILL improve the economy.
Of course, hiring people to do truly productive work is a better idea.
Why? It worked for Roosevelt, Reagan and Bush.
I never said hyperinflation is inevitable.
You did. Don't lie.
You read my previous comment, where I specifically said I do not predict exact timing, only the most likely scenarios based on the course of action that is being taken and you immediately goad me into making a TIME BET? What the fuck is wrong with you, what the brain has completely dried out in that idiotic head of yours?
So you're telling me that your predictions are true. But they are just delayed by an unspecified amount of time, rapidly approaching infinity.
How about the same bet for the next 5 years, then? I'd bet for an even longer time, but I have much better use for my money over longer periods.
So how about this - we both put 1kg of gold in an escrow account with a reputable company and in 5 years I take all of it. If in the meantime an incident of hyperinflation happens, then you take all of the gold immediately. Are you willing to follow through your believes?
Don't have 1kg of gold now? I'm willing to give you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! You can place an IOU for $40000 into escrow instead of gold (I'll be placing real gold bullion).
What the fuck are you talking about? My models give predictions that work exactly as they are supposed to, which is why I knew about the coming 2008 collapse
No, you haven't. Where is that hyperinflation caused by all this fiat money? Hiding under the bed? Why hasn't the stock market collapsed once QE had stopped?
the coming USD collapse and of-course as a result of the USD collapse the coming bond market collapse.
Oh, a coming collapse. Is it like the second coming of Jesus? When are we going to see it? The century or the next one?
I'm willing to bet 1kg of gold (or its equivalent in any other reliable currency) that there'll be no USD collapse (defined as sustained hyperinflation or exchange rate collapse) in the coming 3 years. Do you wish to enter this bet?
You are an idiot, provably. Your models give predictions that don't work. Mine do.
So instead of reconsidering your worldview you simply bury your head deeper in your anus. German economic "growth" was caused by forcing all the peripheral countries to carry the inefficiency of the German economy. For example, lazy Germans work 60% of hours compared to Greek workers and enjoy greater labor protections.
"Squeeze"? Syriza government decreased the unemployment (by about 1.5%) during the first months. Before the Fuhrer^W^W^W Angela Merkel decided to squeeze MOAR BLOOD from Greece.
The reality is that Greece needs to be booted out of EU. German people are not interested in donating (and lets be clear, this is a donation, not a loan) more money to the Greeks standing with their hands out.
Yet German people were quite happy to pump their debts into Greece, Spain and Italy over the course of last 15 years. Half of German economic growth was caused by this.
Even we forgave all of Greece's debts. They would still be in the negative.
Factually incorrect. Greece has a primary surplus.
Not the same at all. Debtor's prison threw debtors in jail where they couldn't work off their debts. Greece is not being thrown in jail.
No, it has been thrown into jail. The further cuts will depress the economy even further, increasing the debt load. Also they'll lead to real starvation and homelessness for a large amount of population.
And lots of people have left Greece. But there are limits to that even in the US which doesn't have language barriers.
Greece can even service the current debts if they are allowed to borrow at lower rates. That's essentially what the 'bailout' was - the ability to borrow at lower costs to re-finance the debts. Even simply extending the bailout program without imposing new austerity would have been enough to let Greece recover.
And if we continue an analogy with a household, right now Greece has a steady job with enough income to cover the expenses for a fairly well-off lifestyle. However, it has also a crippling underwater mortgage. For a household the simplest way out of this would be a bankruptcy and a new start.
But OK, suppose that we put the interests of the Holy German Empire on the front. The problem is, austerity actually HURTS the creditors by undermining Greek economy. There's really no reasons for austerity except for sadism of Merkel.
Because it takes guts to refuse a bad offer and most of European politicians are spineless amoebas. Including the previous Greek PM.