The last fwe big shootings were all the same. The guns were stolen from a lawful owner. If there were no lawful owners, those shootings would likely have never happened. Of course, pointing that out gets me labeled as a gun grabber, despite the fact I didn't advocate grabbing any guns. Just stating facts. If you don't like them, argue with reality, not me.
The number one source of guns to criminals is theft. Most guns used in crimes were stolen from a lawful owner. Only a few were stolen by the person that used them, but most were sold by people that stole them. Sold into the black market, then resold until in the hands of someone that used them in a crime. Gang members with long rap sheets don't go to Wal-Mart to buy a rifle. They talk to a guy who knows a guy and they buy them out of the trunk of someone's car.
Only a few are strawman sales, but that's easier to track than doing what many places do and require a secure storage location before allowing firearm purchase.
I moved to a place where guns are illegal. I can buy one, but I must have 6 months of training, and must pay for an inspection of my home, where the means of storage will be inspected. Guns aren't solen often. They are easy to buy, once you get your certification, but hard for criminals to get. But such restrictions would be illegal in the US, as the right to own a gun trumps your responsibility to be responsible with it.
Ah yes, the mythical slippery slope. If you give them anything, they'll take everything. There are enough "dumb" guns out there that any attempt to mass-disable guns would likely be met by resistance from those whose guns don't disable. I don't see your scenario as a next step. I see it as a fanciful invention to spread FUD.
I was hoping for more mutant concentration camps and Sentinals running around and killing X-Men and other Mutants. There were some of those that weren't X-Men specific, so we could have a crossover.
Part of the "fun" of the comics is the serial-ness. Even picking up one in the middle of a longer story, they can be followed. The bad guys never die, they just get lost in a river or volcano, and come back later with some story of being saved by mutant porpuses or a rare gas pocket that blew him harmlessly out of danger.
The only exceptions to that are the ones that are reality-based (300) or time traveling (Terminator) to where you arne't allowed a reboot, or a reboot is one paradox away. At the end of every comic (or two if you get the ones that like the cliff hangers) the hero wins, and the villain is vanquished without death. How many times has the Joker escaped from Arkham?
What they teach is the White Man lecturing the Black Man on what he "should" know. At least in the worst of the schools which is what you describe. The magnet schools are doing great. My nephews *love* to go to school. Learning Russian as a 3rd grader is fun and exciting. The program also helped organize a US-Russian hockey game with the Russian students, so they got to practice Russian in Russia. No idea how they did in the tournament.
But back to the worst performing, there is no trust by the parents of the teachers, school, or administrators. Probably because they don't have the student's best interests at heart (certainly not the adminstrators).
I think that the issue is that racists tried to make the schools for blacks worse (As they did explicitly under segregation, now done by targeting "poor" schools), and that betrayal has never been addressed. You can't teach someone that hates you.
If we simply ended truancy and mandatory jail/school, it would probably help. That and make them open for all ages at any time, with expanded night, advanced, and non-traditional classes. Need to work for a few years to support the family at age 14? Fine. Come back any time. Want to take a year off at age 12 to find yourself? Sure, so long as your parents give permission. The jail-like-ness of it prevents education. Especially when teachers can't expel students, and police are on site. It's as close to prison/slavery as we get in our society anywhere.
The problem is whenever we loosen the grip on students, they make poor choices for themselves, when they are legally incapable of making choices. So the question is, do we let uneducated adults in the world, and if so, what do we do when they can't care for themselves? Do we let people die in squalor? Or are we more "civilized" than that? I've never seen a school-lostening plan that didn't (implicitly or explicitly) sentence millions to a horrible death. How would your system handle those who make poor choices for themselves?
And long before the APA existed, left-handedness was classified as a mental disorder. Anything that affects the mind is a mental disorder, whether it's cause is physical or mental.
Why? There are plenty of laws on education. Many explicitly stating minimum standards. We focus so much on meeting the minimums and proving it, that we no longer "educate".
That's a problem with common implementations, not with 2-stroke itself. That's why the guys in the contest (colorado I think) got kicked out. I was hoping someone would call me an idiot for not citing it and link to it. Put valves on the 2-stroke and it fixes all the problems you mention. 2-stroke will be more efficient than a 4-stroke because the heat lost in the 3 non-power strokes reduces efficiency compared to the 1 non-power in a 2-stroke. And if this crankless engine takes off, I see someone coming out with a 2-sided piston for a double-2-stroke, making power on every stroke. They'll make the engine half the size or twice the power. And you could turn off half when not needed. So you make one big enough for single-side operation cruise, and the other side kicks in only for low-battery conditions.
I purposefully included "aside from urban" because I know planners still put them in heavy traffic areas, as if the people caught in stop and go traffic will accelerate when they see minimum speed signs. But that's not the areas he's talking about. Long, open Interstates. Some states have "must not impede traffic" laws, but I know of none with set fixed limits under a road speed. They must be posted, and when the limits went from 55 to 55+ (back in the '80s), those few with them dropped them as the limits rose.
How is that any easier? x*6 = ((X *10)/2)+x That's not a simplification of the problem. I just generally estimate, the only time it doesn't work is one egg for $XX and a dozen eggs for $YY and the estimation isn't granular enough to know which is cheaper per egg. It's not that I don't know XX*10+XX*2, but that the string of simple math to get a minorly complex answer is not calculable to me (and others). But calculus and discrete math is easy.
I'll save you the time - I've done the research already. My state is one of the majority that don't have a statewide ban for of-age drivers.
I don't believe you. I think you are lying. You lied about "usually" a secondary offense. I posted a cite for it being "usually" a primary offense in the US (and most countries outside the US don't have "secondary" offenses), so at this point, I think everything you say is a lie crafted to "win" an argument because you are an immature troll.
Prove me wrong. MD NJ and WV are the only three that have handheld cellphone use illegal as a secondary violation. Hands-free is secondary in more places, but since there is no evidence of it from outside the car, it makes sense. If you see someone talking to themselves, should you arrest them? But, like secondaries where I grew up, the cop asks you after you crash, and if you mention "I was on the hands-free" then you get another ticket.
Gee, and here I thought that "trolling" meant having an intent to cause an argument. I simply hold an unpopular opinion, that laws shouldn't be a knee-jerk reaction to the latest technology scare story or statistically-insignificant fluctuation.
You are lying to prove your point. That's sufficient to prove you a troll. You make statements (for which easy documentation exists to cite), and refuse to cite anything, even when responding to a post with a cite that proves you wrong.
Mount it between two springs with a shock on one side. Fully moving, but not firmly attached. Even with the "best" bushings, a gasoline-powered car still gets vibrations. Most are FWD, so you have the steering firmly attached to the wheels, and the power goes to the wheels, so you have the engine firmly attached to the wheels. There is no way to eliminate that vibration. That there's a new way, with lots of options, makes you go all Luddite. Fear change, you might have to learn something.
It wasn't an "analogy" It was an example of the solved problem. If you like a land-based solution, there are some. Apparently you are ignorant of the problem and too lazy to find out anything for yourself, and you are implying that is a "good thing" somehow.
Autism isn't a "mental illness" - this elementary lack of understanding starts you off in a very weak position;
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes it as a mental illness. If you object, object to them. I'll take their word over that of an AC.
But no, I didn't realize until you objected that there are a class of people who object to "mental illness" as indicating "it's all in your head" like willpower can cure autism. Nobody said or implied that, and a "mental illness" (according to most people including the people who define mental illnesses) can have a physical cause. Why are you so pedantic on this?
I can understand people not enjoying BBT in the same way that many people do not enjoy xkcd: the jokes are unsophisticated, pandering, repetitive, smug, etc. But it's very different to attack something based on a personal misinterpretation rather than merely not like it.
I didn't attack it. That you think so indicates you had an emotional reaction to my post. You might want to ask yourself why.
People who behave "differently" (from any other group, and for whatever reason) are allowed to enjoy and share in humour surrounding their behaviour. When Fresh Prince made jokes about black culture, we didn't say, "Essentially we're laughing at them for being black!" To think so is to completely fail to grasp how and why people use humour.
But we were laughing at them for being black. The difference was that they are black. The actors in BBT aren't that which they portray for our amusement.
Knowing how, and being able to do it aren't the same thing. When I use 33 1/3 to approximate 37, it's obvious I'm not being exact. Did you have something to add, or are you the AC stalker that just trolls me being a little more subtle and less insulting?
To me, it's no different than randomly spewing forth a bunch of things you think are facts. Even if they are actually true, it's irrelevant. I don't need to understand what you think my SAT score was to understand your views about rote memorization.
What are my views on rote memorization? Do you know, or were you too busy attacking me to even bother to stop and understand.
Money isn't the issue because the Republicans keep passing unfunded mandates that cost the schools money, but don't help education. There is no amount of money that the Republican's can't find a way to waste. The "cost" of public school education (in-class spending) is *below* private school cost. But we keep hearing about how public schools are so much more expensive. Why?
Attacks like those don't do a damn thing. I fail to see why people are so obsessed with making random guesses about others, as if it's relevant.
So the views and opinions of the "other side" are irrelevant? That's a little heartless and understanding someone's viewpoint helps understand their views. That you don't understand this indicates you need more rote memorization to make you smarter.
1.37 * 6 is beyond easy mental math for me. 1*6=6, 33*3*2=200, so 1.37 =~8. That's as close as I'd ever come to calculating 6 of something without taking out a calculator. I can calculate the trajectory of a bullet (harder than most think it) but rote memorization is not how my brain is wired. I also don't know the letter after "j" in the alphabet, but have a vocabulary in the 99+ percentile. Not having something "easy" committed to memory is unrelated to being able to do much much harder things.
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The last fwe big shootings were all the same. The guns were stolen from a lawful owner. If there were no lawful owners, those shootings would likely have never happened. Of course, pointing that out gets me labeled as a gun grabber, despite the fact I didn't advocate grabbing any guns. Just stating facts. If you don't like them, argue with reality, not me.
The number one source of guns to criminals is theft. Most guns used in crimes were stolen from a lawful owner. Only a few were stolen by the person that used them, but most were sold by people that stole them. Sold into the black market, then resold until in the hands of someone that used them in a crime. Gang members with long rap sheets don't go to Wal-Mart to buy a rifle. They talk to a guy who knows a guy and they buy them out of the trunk of someone's car.
Only a few are strawman sales, but that's easier to track than doing what many places do and require a secure storage location before allowing firearm purchase.
I moved to a place where guns are illegal. I can buy one, but I must have 6 months of training, and must pay for an inspection of my home, where the means of storage will be inspected. Guns aren't solen often. They are easy to buy, once you get your certification, but hard for criminals to get. But such restrictions would be illegal in the US, as the right to own a gun trumps your responsibility to be responsible with it.
Sure, and when they push that, those with the guns that can't be disabled can request a review of the law. It's s self-fixing problem.
Ah yes, the mythical slippery slope. If you give them anything, they'll take everything. There are enough "dumb" guns out there that any attempt to mass-disable guns would likely be met by resistance from those whose guns don't disable. I don't see your scenario as a next step. I see it as a fanciful invention to spread FUD.
I was hoping for more mutant concentration camps and Sentinals running around and killing X-Men and other Mutants. There were some of those that weren't X-Men specific, so we could have a crossover.
Part of the "fun" of the comics is the serial-ness. Even picking up one in the middle of a longer story, they can be followed. The bad guys never die, they just get lost in a river or volcano, and come back later with some story of being saved by mutant porpuses or a rare gas pocket that blew him harmlessly out of danger.
The only exceptions to that are the ones that are reality-based (300) or time traveling (Terminator) to where you arne't allowed a reboot, or a reboot is one paradox away. At the end of every comic (or two if you get the ones that like the cliff hangers) the hero wins, and the villain is vanquished without death. How many times has the Joker escaped from Arkham?
What they teach is the White Man lecturing the Black Man on what he "should" know. At least in the worst of the schools which is what you describe. The magnet schools are doing great. My nephews *love* to go to school. Learning Russian as a 3rd grader is fun and exciting. The program also helped organize a US-Russian hockey game with the Russian students, so they got to practice Russian in Russia. No idea how they did in the tournament.
But back to the worst performing, there is no trust by the parents of the teachers, school, or administrators. Probably because they don't have the student's best interests at heart (certainly not the adminstrators).
I think that the issue is that racists tried to make the schools for blacks worse (As they did explicitly under segregation, now done by targeting "poor" schools), and that betrayal has never been addressed. You can't teach someone that hates you.
If we simply ended truancy and mandatory jail/school, it would probably help. That and make them open for all ages at any time, with expanded night, advanced, and non-traditional classes. Need to work for a few years to support the family at age 14? Fine. Come back any time. Want to take a year off at age 12 to find yourself? Sure, so long as your parents give permission. The jail-like-ness of it prevents education. Especially when teachers can't expel students, and police are on site. It's as close to prison/slavery as we get in our society anywhere.
The problem is whenever we loosen the grip on students, they make poor choices for themselves, when they are legally incapable of making choices. So the question is, do we let uneducated adults in the world, and if so, what do we do when they can't care for themselves? Do we let people die in squalor? Or are we more "civilized" than that? I've never seen a school-lostening plan that didn't (implicitly or explicitly) sentence millions to a horrible death. How would your system handle those who make poor choices for themselves?
And long before the APA existed, left-handedness was classified as a mental disorder. Anything that affects the mind is a mental disorder, whether it's cause is physical or mental.
Just how profitable do they think that rolling blackouts will be?
Enron made a fortune off them. They just lost two fortunes due to gross negligence.
Why? There are plenty of laws on education. Many explicitly stating minimum standards. We focus so much on meeting the minimums and proving it, that we no longer "educate".
That's a problem with common implementations, not with 2-stroke itself. That's why the guys in the contest (colorado I think) got kicked out. I was hoping someone would call me an idiot for not citing it and link to it. Put valves on the 2-stroke and it fixes all the problems you mention. 2-stroke will be more efficient than a 4-stroke because the heat lost in the 3 non-power strokes reduces efficiency compared to the 1 non-power in a 2-stroke. And if this crankless engine takes off, I see someone coming out with a 2-sided piston for a double-2-stroke, making power on every stroke. They'll make the engine half the size or twice the power. And you could turn off half when not needed. So you make one big enough for single-side operation cruise, and the other side kicks in only for low-battery conditions.
I purposefully included "aside from urban" because I know planners still put them in heavy traffic areas, as if the people caught in stop and go traffic will accelerate when they see minimum speed signs. But that's not the areas he's talking about. Long, open Interstates. Some states have "must not impede traffic" laws, but I know of none with set fixed limits under a road speed. They must be posted, and when the limits went from 55 to 55+ (back in the '80s), those few with them dropped them as the limits rose.
AK is the state abbreviation for Alaska. What, is A the letter after J?
Yup, that's exactly how I do it. I was told it was a sign of dyslexia (by someone certified to make such diagnoses).
How is that any easier? x*6 = ((X *10)/2)+x That's not a simplification of the problem. I just generally estimate, the only time it doesn't work is one egg for $XX and a dozen eggs for $YY and the estimation isn't granular enough to know which is cheaper per egg. It's not that I don't know XX*10+XX*2, but that the string of simple math to get a minorly complex answer is not calculable to me (and others). But calculus and discrete math is easy.
I'll save you the time - I've done the research already. My state is one of the majority that don't have a statewide ban for of-age drivers.
I don't believe you. I think you are lying. You lied about "usually" a secondary offense. I posted a cite for it being "usually" a primary offense in the US (and most countries outside the US don't have "secondary" offenses), so at this point, I think everything you say is a lie crafted to "win" an argument because you are an immature troll.
Prove me wrong. MD NJ and WV are the only three that have handheld cellphone use illegal as a secondary violation. Hands-free is secondary in more places, but since there is no evidence of it from outside the car, it makes sense. If you see someone talking to themselves, should you arrest them? But, like secondaries where I grew up, the cop asks you after you crash, and if you mention "I was on the hands-free" then you get another ticket.
Gee, and here I thought that "trolling" meant having an intent to cause an argument. I simply hold an unpopular opinion, that laws shouldn't be a knee-jerk reaction to the latest technology scare story or statistically-insignificant fluctuation.
You are lying to prove your point. That's sufficient to prove you a troll. You make statements (for which easy documentation exists to cite), and refuse to cite anything, even when responding to a post with a cite that proves you wrong.
Mount it between two springs with a shock on one side. Fully moving, but not firmly attached. Even with the "best" bushings, a gasoline-powered car still gets vibrations. Most are FWD, so you have the steering firmly attached to the wheels, and the power goes to the wheels, so you have the engine firmly attached to the wheels. There is no way to eliminate that vibration. That there's a new way, with lots of options, makes you go all Luddite. Fear change, you might have to learn something.
Oh wait, I see a tiny problem with your analogy.
It wasn't an "analogy" It was an example of the solved problem. If you like a land-based solution, there are some. Apparently you are ignorant of the problem and too lazy to find out anything for yourself, and you are implying that is a "good thing" somehow.
You are technically correct, but would confuse most of the people, therefore wrong. Hopefully you don't work on hybrid car marketing.
Autism isn't a "mental illness" - this elementary lack of understanding starts you off in a very weak position;
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes it as a mental illness. If you object, object to them. I'll take their word over that of an AC.
But no, I didn't realize until you objected that there are a class of people who object to "mental illness" as indicating "it's all in your head" like willpower can cure autism. Nobody said or implied that, and a "mental illness" (according to most people including the people who define mental illnesses) can have a physical cause. Why are you so pedantic on this?
I can understand people not enjoying BBT in the same way that many people do not enjoy xkcd: the jokes are unsophisticated, pandering, repetitive, smug, etc. But it's very different to attack something based on a personal misinterpretation rather than merely not like it.
I didn't attack it. That you think so indicates you had an emotional reaction to my post. You might want to ask yourself why.
People who behave "differently" (from any other group, and for whatever reason) are allowed to enjoy and share in humour surrounding their behaviour. When Fresh Prince made jokes about black culture, we didn't say, "Essentially we're laughing at them for being black!" To think so is to completely fail to grasp how and why people use humour.
But we were laughing at them for being black. The difference was that they are black. The actors in BBT aren't that which they portray for our amusement.
Knowing how, and being able to do it aren't the same thing. When I use 33 1/3 to approximate 37, it's obvious I'm not being exact. Did you have something to add, or are you the AC stalker that just trolls me being a little more subtle and less insulting?
To me, it's no different than randomly spewing forth a bunch of things you think are facts. Even if they are actually true, it's irrelevant. I don't need to understand what you think my SAT score was to understand your views about rote memorization.
What are my views on rote memorization? Do you know, or were you too busy attacking me to even bother to stop and understand.
Money isn't the issue because the Republicans keep passing unfunded mandates that cost the schools money, but don't help education. There is no amount of money that the Republican's can't find a way to waste. The "cost" of public school education (in-class spending) is *below* private school cost. But we keep hearing about how public schools are so much more expensive. Why?
Attacks like those don't do a damn thing. I fail to see why people are so obsessed with making random guesses about others, as if it's relevant.
So the views and opinions of the "other side" are irrelevant? That's a little heartless and understanding someone's viewpoint helps understand their views. That you don't understand this indicates you need more rote memorization to make you smarter.
1.37 * 6 is beyond easy mental math for me. 1*6=6, 33*3*2=200, so 1.37 =~8. That's as close as I'd ever come to calculating 6 of something without taking out a calculator. I can calculate the trajectory of a bullet (harder than most think it) but rote memorization is not how my brain is wired. I also don't know the letter after "j" in the alphabet, but have a vocabulary in the 99+ percentile. Not having something "easy" committed to memory is unrelated to being able to do much much harder things.