It's under intense pressure by the wealthy and it only takes one moment of weakness or corruption by legislators or judges and it's lost forever. Public beaches are written into our constitution and yet wealthy people are chipping away at that right.
At the very least, making any donation public. And making attempts to hide donation source criminal.
You should at least know who is buying which representative and senator. Since 2008ish we can't do that any longer as they are allowed to hide their donations legally.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I've done the research.
Guns enable people to go on murder sprees much easier (short of a festival, the truck deaths would have been much lower).
On the plus side, I agree guns are not evil. They are not suited to areas with high population densities.
However, in dallas, they did have one lgbt protestor give his AR-15 to the police to use quickly at the start as the police were outgunned and it would be suicidal to be carrying a weapon like that if you were not wearing a police uniform during a mass shooting.
Maxo-texas said "All he had to have was one AR weapon and 4 magazines and you'd be looking at 280 dead instead of 80 dead. And he would have probably killed several more police officers too.
Automated cars would prevent terrorism however. Builtin pedestrarian avoidance. Make it impossible to run over a pedestrian and impossible to move if sensors are blinded and automatic wifi-reporting when a vehicle is put in to service mode (it better be at a recognized service location) and constant wifi reporting (if a vehicle goes dark, it becomes suspicious on police checks).
AR type weapons can maintained a sustained rate of fire (including magazine swaps) of 30 shots per 22 seconds while hitting targets smaller than human torsos with a near 100% accuracy rate. Check out the gun enthusiast real time comparison of AR 15 to AK 47 (on youtube). There's a reason NATO declared the AR15 a more effective fighting weapon. Lighter bullets, less kick (you can put it against your nose and pull the trigger without injury also on youtube) means you higher number of bullets (and 5's are fine to kill you. You don't need 7's)."
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How about another actor maintaining over 1 shot per second with accuracy on targets as small as a bowling pin after 4 months training. Note: This is a mixture of AR like weapons, shotguns, and handguns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That means with decent training and no exceptional skill you can hit everything you shoot at under 100' away.
Summary: The death count (especially among the police officers) could have been much much higher if the person owned a modern AR type rifle and spent a few months training to use it and swap magazines.
Guns make it easier to kill lots of people really fast under more general circumstances than trucks.
I'm sure truck countermeasures will be higher going forward (and if you approach a crowded area with a heavy truck and won't stop, you'll be more likely to be killed by police before you get close to the crowds.
All he had to have was one AR weapon and 4 magazines and you'd be looking at 280 dead instead of 80 dead. And he would have probably killed several more police officers too.
Automated cars would prevent terrorism however. Builtin pedestrarian avoidance. Make it impossible to run over a pedestrian and impossible to move if sensors are blinded and automatic wifi-reporting when a vehicle is put in to service mode (it better be at a recognized service location) and constant wifi reporting (if a vehicle goes dark, it becomes suspicious on police checks).
AR type weapons can maintained a sustained rate of fire (including magazine swaps) of 30 shots per 22 seconds while hitting targets smaller than human torsos with a near 100% accuracy rate. Check out the gun enthusiast real time comparison of AR 15 to AK 47 (on youtube). There's a reason NATO declared the AR15 a more effective fighting weapon. Lighter bullets, less kick (you can put it against your nose and pull the trigger without injury also on youtube) means you higher number of bullets (and 5's are fine to kill you. You don't need 7's).
And to the extent that ads raise revenues, all the content producers raise their prices (and salaries) to get part of the increased revenue as well. This happened big time to netflix with Stars.
I've often browsed thru multiple menu trees to a single episode before it tells me I have to pay. The mixture of paid and free content is very offputting.
Paid vs Free needs to be at the top of the choice list and a checkbox on the search function (even a user setting).
However, amazed they get cancelled a lot since it's tied to Prime which is free shipping on Amazon.
What they had 200 years ago were regular famines, often semi rotting food if you were in a city and poor, plagues and a bad tooth could kill you before you were 30.
Given how fast this is happening, I view better childhood nutrition as a likely contributor. It could be flipping certain genes too ( good food = breed slow optimized for good nutrition, bad food = breed fast optimised for lower nutrition and get it over with).
But, they produce a mixture of bad dna and good dna children (ONLY with regard to reproductive fitness at older ages)...
And the bad dna tend to not reproduce while the good dna tend to reproduce.
We are tuned to the current lifespan the same as mayday flies are. But as we show mayday flies could live almost infinitely longer, its possible we could live as long as bristlecone pine trees. (5,000 years).
Among Americans of all ages, 12.4 per 100,000 take their own lives each year, according to 2010 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But among those over 65, the official number is 14.9, and suicide may be under-reported.
"To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now." FBI Directory James Comey, in the sentence immediately following the one in the above misleading quote.
Lying by omission doesn't paint a good picture for your position.
It's one reason I left the republican party after two decades. They started lying about everything. While I'm an independent, as of last election I didn't vote for a single republican candidate because of the "party of NO" bullshit.
I say fact #1 is importance 1, you say it is importance 10. We come to different "rational" conclusions.
It's been shown that some humans with amygdila damage can't think rationally. They can't weight the different facts correctly.It can get really bad with snakes which are flagged as "interesting" but not flagged as "be afraid".
Have you gotten off of traffic stops when you had broken the law? I have at least a few times in my lifetime.
Justice relies on mixing common sense with laws.
That's one of the big problems with racism is that whites get treated with justice while blacks are a) pulled over in the first place when a white wouldn't be. b) searched c) if something found, arrested often when a white wouldn't be. d) more likely to be shot to death somewhere between a and c (even if nothing illegal was going on except a broken tail light) e) convicted more often of the same types of crimes when younger than whites.
the answer isn't to treat whites like blacks and criminalize everyone (tho that would get heat/pressure to get the laws changed). the more reasonable answer is to only resort to criminal law when it's appropriate and give a little mercy otherwise.
Yes, we should be a nation of laws not men, but we have a crazy amount of laws and if you own a car, you break at least 3 laws every 15 to 20 minutes while driving in town (per the police). We are permanently criminalized- it's just a question of watching us to see which law we broke and then deciding to enforce it to make quota in this case.
It's an administrative issue, not a criminal issue per Comey.
She would be reprimanded, and might be fired or suspended for such behavior and the servers would have been taken away from her. She (and no one else except for 1 person in 99 years who was also a spy) would be put in prison.
As head of the state department, the only person who could decide to fire or reprimand her would be her boss, Obama. Other departments could only recommend that she be reprimanded.
I agree and I think it's not just the USA that's fed up with this technique.
I expect taxes will be gathered based on the location of the transacting individuals. i.e. if you see an ad while sitting in texas, you can expect to pay both texas and federal taxes on your profits. And fake franchising fees are not going to stand much longer.
It would be too much to hope they would put some of these people in prison. But that's the way to fix it. Put Zuckenburg and several of his executives in federal prison (one of the "comfy" ones that Martha Stewart went to) for 6 to 12 months and this fake tax shelter crap will stop.
So if you read the transcript or excerpts now appearing on many sites...
Comey says that only one person has been prosecuted for gross negligence (what hillary is accused of) and in that case there was espionage involved as well.
Further...
12:12 p.m. Pushing back on Republican characterizations of his recommendation adhering to a "double standard" when it comes to Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said it would instead be a "double standard" if the former secretary of state was prosecuted.
"You know what would be a double standard? If she was prosecuted for gross negligence," Comey noted. "She was negligent. That I can establish."
11:45 a.m. Comey told the House Oversight Committee that the decision not to recommend an indictment was unanimous among the investigative team.
Of COURSE something less than 100% reliable is acceptable.
Currently autopilot features appear to be much safer than humans. In fact, humans appear to have double the accident rate that autopilot does.
However, every time an edge case is identified, the auto pilot software will get better.
Meanwhile, millions of new novice drivers who are worse than average (and have double the accident rate of humans so quadruple the accident rate of autopilot features) are released on to the roads every year.
At this point, banning autopilot would definitely result in more human deaths.
Based on third party research, Trumps miserly campaign spending, Trump's funneling campaign spending into his own pocket, and Trump's refusal to reveal his tax returns (while asking his VP candidates to reveal their tax returns to him), it is reasonable to conclude that Trump does not have billions. In fact, i seriously doubt he even has 100 million dollars.
I think his tax return might even show that is liabilities are greater than his assets ( so he's technically broke ).
There isn't even an entry for people who were sent to prison for being careless about top secret security clearance.
The most likely occurrence for being sloppy would be a reprimand and extra training classes.
People are prosecuted for intentionally releasing top secret material to enemies or to the public.
People are not prosecuted for being careless or incorrectly configured servers.
It is not true that "anyone but hillary" would do prison time for what happened here. They would get butt hurt and it might even hurt their career (and might get them fired and their clearance withdrawn) but federal prosecution for all practical purposes does not occur in this kind of situation.
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It's under intense pressure by the wealthy and it only takes one moment of weakness or corruption by legislators or judges and it's lost forever. Public beaches are written into our constitution and yet wealthy people are chipping away at that right.
Companies were donating, on record, tens of millions of dollars. And you could see who they were donating to.
Which is probably why the congress and senate worked together to pass a law allowing companies and congress to hide that.
At the very least, making any donation public.
And making attempts to hide donation source criminal.
You should at least know who is buying which representative and senator.
Since 2008ish we can't do that any longer as they are allowed to hide their donations legally.
Provide a separate area for people to view porn.
You could have little stalls with doors for privacy and actually charge them a quarter every 5 minutes or so.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I've done the research.
Guns enable people to go on murder sprees much easier (short of a festival, the truck deaths would have been much lower).
On the plus side, I agree guns are not evil. They are not suited to areas with high population densities.
However, in dallas, they did have one lgbt protestor give his AR-15 to the police to use quickly at the start as the police were outgunned and it would be suicidal to be carrying a weapon like that if you were not wearing a police uniform during a mass shooting.
Maxo-texas said "All he had to have was one AR weapon and 4 magazines and you'd be looking at 280 dead instead of 80 dead. And he would have probably killed several more police officers too.
Automated cars would prevent terrorism however. Builtin pedestrarian avoidance. Make it impossible to run over a pedestrian and impossible to move if sensors are blinded and automatic wifi-reporting when a vehicle is put in to service mode (it better be at a recognized service location) and constant wifi reporting (if a vehicle goes dark, it becomes suspicious on police checks).
AR type weapons can maintained a sustained rate of fire (including magazine swaps) of 30 shots per 22 seconds while hitting targets smaller than human torsos with a near 100% accuracy rate. Check out the gun enthusiast real time comparison of AR 15 to AK 47 (on youtube). There's a reason NATO declared the AR15 a more effective fighting weapon. Lighter bullets, less kick (you can put it against your nose and pull the trigger without injury also on youtube) means you higher number of bullets (and 5's are fine to kill you. You don't need 7's)."
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How about another actor maintaining over 1 shot per second with accuracy on targets as small as a bowling pin after 4 months training. Note: This is a mixture of AR like weapons, shotguns, and handguns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The effective range of AR-15 is over 400 yards fired semi-automatic.
http://www.diffen.com/differen...
That means with decent training and no exceptional skill you can hit everything you shoot at under 100' away.
Summary: The death count (especially among the police officers) could have been much much higher if the person owned a modern AR type rifle and spent a few months training to use it and swap magazines.
AR 15s have 50 shot and 100 shot magazines.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com...
http://www.impactguns.com/ar15...
And you can see the comparison here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
22 seconds for 30 on target shots with targets much smaller than a human torso.
People kill people.
Guns make it easier to kill lots of people really fast under more general circumstances than trucks.
I'm sure truck countermeasures will be higher going forward (and if you approach a crowded area with a heavy truck and won't stop, you'll be more likely to be killed by police before you get close to the crowds.
All he had to have was one AR weapon and 4 magazines and you'd be looking at 280 dead instead of 80 dead. And he would have probably killed several more police officers too.
Automated cars would prevent terrorism however. Builtin pedestrarian avoidance. Make it impossible to run over a pedestrian and impossible to move if sensors are blinded and automatic wifi-reporting when a vehicle is put in to service mode (it better be at a recognized service location) and constant wifi reporting (if a vehicle goes dark, it becomes suspicious on police checks).
AR type weapons can maintained a sustained rate of fire (including magazine swaps) of 30 shots per 22 seconds while hitting targets smaller than human torsos with a near 100% accuracy rate. Check out the gun enthusiast real time comparison of AR 15 to AK 47 (on youtube). There's a reason NATO declared the AR15 a more effective fighting weapon. Lighter bullets, less kick (you can put it against your nose and pull the trigger without injury also on youtube) means you higher number of bullets (and 5's are fine to kill you. You don't need 7's).
Actually, wasn't it a robot overchild.
And to the extent that ads raise revenues, all the content producers raise their prices (and salaries) to get part of the increased revenue as well. This happened big time to netflix with Stars.
I've often browsed thru multiple menu trees to a single episode before it tells me I have to pay.
The mixture of paid and free content is very offputting.
Paid vs Free needs to be at the top of the choice list and a checkbox on the search function (even a user setting).
However, amazed they get cancelled a lot since it's tied to Prime which is free shipping on Amazon.
What they had 200 years ago were regular famines, often semi rotting food if you were in a city and poor, plagues and a bad tooth could kill you before you were 30.
Given how fast this is happening, I view better childhood nutrition as a likely contributor. It could be flipping certain genes too ( good food = breed slow optimized for good nutrition, bad food = breed fast optimised for lower nutrition and get it over with).
Yes but now iterate it another turn.
Those who can't have children late don't.
But, they produce a mixture of bad dna and good dna children (ONLY with regard to reproductive fitness at older ages)...
And the bad dna tend to not reproduce while the good dna tend to reproduce.
We are tuned to the current lifespan the same as mayday flies are. But as we show mayday flies could live almost infinitely longer, its possible we could live as long as bristlecone pine trees. (5,000 years).
Recall that suicides among 70 year olds wouldn't affect this.
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes...
Among Americans of all ages, 12.4 per 100,000 take their own lives each year, according to 2010 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But among those over 65, the official number is 14.9, and suicide may be under-reported.
"To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now." FBI Directory James Comey, in the sentence immediately following the one in the above misleading quote.
Lying by omission doesn't paint a good picture for your position.
It's one reason I left the republican party after two decades. They started lying about everything. While I'm an independent, as of last election I didn't vote for a single republican candidate because of the "party of NO" bullshit.
I say fact #1 is importance 1, you say it is importance 10. We come to different "rational" conclusions.
It's been shown that some humans with amygdila damage can't think rationally. They can't weight the different facts correctly.It can get really bad with snakes which are flagged as "interesting" but not flagged as "be afraid".
Look,
Have you gotten off of traffic stops when you had broken the law? I have at least a few times in my lifetime.
Justice relies on mixing common sense with laws.
That's one of the big problems with racism is that whites get treated with justice while blacks are
a) pulled over in the first place when a white wouldn't be.
b) searched
c) if something found, arrested often when a white wouldn't be.
d) more likely to be shot to death somewhere between a and c (even if nothing illegal was going on except a broken tail light)
e) convicted more often of the same types of crimes when younger than whites.
the answer isn't to treat whites like blacks and criminalize everyone (tho that would get heat/pressure to get the laws changed). the more reasonable answer is to only resort to criminal law when it's appropriate and give a little mercy otherwise.
Yes, we should be a nation of laws not men, but we have a crazy amount of laws and if you own a car, you break at least 3 laws every 15 to 20 minutes while driving in town (per the police). We are permanently criminalized- it's just a question of watching us to see which law we broke and then deciding to enforce it to make quota in this case.
It's an administrative issue, not a criminal issue per Comey.
She would be reprimanded, and might be fired or suspended for such behavior and the servers would have been taken away from her. She (and no one else except for 1 person in 99 years who was also a spy) would be put in prison.
As head of the state department, the only person who could decide to fire or reprimand her would be her boss, Obama. Other departments could only recommend that she be reprimanded.
I agree and I think it's not just the USA that's fed up with this technique.
I expect taxes will be gathered based on the location of the transacting individuals. i.e. if you see an ad while sitting in texas, you can expect to pay both texas and federal taxes on your profits. And fake franchising fees are not going to stand much longer.
It would be too much to hope they would put some of these people in prison. But that's the way to fix it. Put Zuckenburg and several of his executives in federal prison (one of the "comfy" ones that Martha Stewart went to) for 6 to 12 months and this fake tax shelter crap will stop.
So if you read the transcript or excerpts now appearing on many sites...
Comey says that only one person has been prosecuted for gross negligence (what hillary is accused of) and in that case there was espionage involved as well.
Further...
12:12 p.m. Pushing back on Republican characterizations of his recommendation adhering to a "double standard" when it comes to Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said it would instead be a "double standard" if the former secretary of state was prosecuted.
"You know what would be a double standard? If she was prosecuted for gross negligence," Comey noted. "She was negligent. That I can establish."
11:45 a.m. Comey told the House Oversight Committee that the decision not to recommend an indictment was unanimous among the investigative team.
That's an unfortunate over reaction on your part.
Of COURSE something less than 100% reliable is acceptable.
Currently autopilot features appear to be much safer than humans. In fact, humans appear to have double the accident rate that autopilot does.
However, every time an edge case is identified, the auto pilot software will get better.
Meanwhile, millions of new novice drivers who are worse than average (and have double the accident rate of humans so quadruple the accident rate of autopilot features) are released on to the roads every year.
At this point, banning autopilot would definitely result in more human deaths.
I'm pretty sure Trumps assets are of the emporer's new clothes variety.
Based on third party research, Trumps miserly campaign spending, Trump's funneling campaign spending into his own pocket, and Trump's refusal to reveal his tax returns (while asking his VP candidates to reveal their tax returns to him), it is reasonable to conclude that Trump does not have billions. In fact, i seriously doubt he even has 100 million dollars.
I think his tax return might even show that is liabilities are greater than his assets ( so he's technically broke ).
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/re...
There isn't even an entry for people who were sent to prison for being careless about top secret security clearance.
The most likely occurrence for being sloppy would be a reprimand and extra training classes.
People are prosecuted for intentionally releasing top secret material to enemies or to the public.
People are not prosecuted for being careless or incorrectly configured servers.
It is not true that "anyone but hillary" would do prison time for what happened here. They would get butt hurt and it might even hurt their career (and might get them fired and their clearance withdrawn) but federal prosecution for all practical purposes does not occur in this kind of situation.