Also, if you follow the links of the Anonymous Coward above, you will see that the rates he quotes are not for violent crime, or gun crime.
Dallas and Chicago have the same amount of violent crime and gun crime. However you want to slice it. And as I said before, Dallas has more property crime. Because statistically, guns make jackoffs into bigger jackoffs.
Guns don't make you safer. They only make you a bigger jackoff.
I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a gun owner myself.
Here is some (seriously, not a joke or rick-roll) video of a simple confrontation between neighbors in Texas that turned deadly because guns made some jackoffs even bigger jackoffs. Notice that the two members of the well-regulated militia who are toting guns (but not shirts) had every chance to just turn around, and murdered a guy while they knew they were being recorded on video.
Why then does the gun control utopia of Chicago have such high rates of gun violence (but only some areas oddly), while there is a low rate of violence in places like... Plano, TX, where getting a gun is easy.
Did you know that in Dallas and Houston, where getting a gun is very easy, the rate of violent crime is almost exactly the same as in Chicago? I bet you didn't.
Maybe instead of comparing a suburb of Dallas with an actual city like Chicago, you might compare apples to apples. Plano is basically the Schaumburg of Dallas, and Schaumburg, Illinois has a lower rate of gun violence than Plano, Texas.
Guns don't make you safer. They only make you a bigger jackoff.
Speaking of guns and nerds, I notice that Cody Wilson, the patriotic American who owns Defense Distributed and felt he just had to release the plans for a 3D-printed gun, was charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl he met online, and he's now fled to Taiwan.
Is anyone surprised? "Gun enthusiast" and "kiddie-fucker" are the last two boxes on right-wing jackoff bingo.
I wrote my PhD thesis in Nota Bene, which was very good word processor for DOS. I later switched to LaTeX, because university publishers liked all that postscript shit, and I felt kind of cool being the only one in the English Department who used LaTeX. Plus, I could run it on any of the weak-ass computers the department would give me before I got to be tenure-track. It made it a little complicated to collaborate with my colleagues, but by the time that was an issue, I had other options. I did have several students who submitted graduate-level work in LaTeX though, and I insisted on it for masters or PhD theses.
President Bonespur? He watches Fox News until 11am and doesn't like to read. He's got a button on his desk that he presses and someone brings him a Diet Coke. He's morbidly obese and eats KFC gravy bowls.
No, I one (sic) two. Hillary lost and Trump's a racist. I also predicted that Cody Wilson, the guy who owns Defense Distributed, and who thought it would be clever to release the plans for a 3D printed gun, was a pedophile, and he's just been arrested for assaulting an underage girl he met online.
You idiot, lots of people work weird hours and you are complaining about how you should work less but expect the world to provide convenience to you.
Do you believe that stores that are open 24 hours a day have employees that work 24 hours a day?
Sit down, and let me explain the concept of "work shifts" to you. If you'd ever had a job, you'd know what those are. Further, let me clue you in that 3 people working 8 hour shifts equal 24 hours, but 4 people working 6 hour shifts also equal 24 hours.
If you need me to walk you through the math on this, let me know. I'm happy to help.
I'm not one to say I told you so, but everybody made fun of me a few weeks ago when I said that Elon was going to face some serious consequences for his phony tweet about taking Tesla public.
Or stop paying univeristy presidents high salaries that rival what CEOs make.
Not just the university presidents.
You listed some university presidents with very high salaries. Let's compare to the head football coaches for those same schools.
1. Arizona State: the president makes $1.5mil, the football coach makes $3.2mil.
Your second university listed, University of Texas, paid it's chancellor $1.5mil. In the past three years, they paid their football coaches an unbelievable $54 million.
You can go right down that list and see that university football coaches are making several times more than the presidents of the universities. In fact, in every single case, they are the highest paid public employee of their respective states.
Since we're talking about Nintendo and video games, and this is a site for nerds, I guess it's technically not off-topic to mention that for some reason, the character Toad from Mario Kart is trending on social media. I'm not sure why. Anybody want to google it and find out?
Trump is the president, and the article is partly about this:
But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Department of Justice filed a joint brief in the case several months ago, saying those federal agencies had no problem with Illinois' credit system
So, you're giving Donald Trump full credit for his agencies not having a problem with a system that had been developed in Illinois? Is that really how low you've moved the bar?
It's ironic that Trump is derided for leaving the Paris accord, when he's the only one taking actions to significantly improve the climate.
There is nothing in this story that mentions or involves Donald Trump in any way. And none of the "incentives" to nuclear power discussed in this bill are new.
I dunno, maybe the ship changes size if you solve a complex maths problem.
That's a possibility. But I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that some poor tech-bro is going to use one of his two vacation weeks a year to go on a cruise, where he's going to attend lectures on crypto-currency instead of drinking and relaxing in the sun and having unprotected sex with desperate divorcees.
There is no bluff to call. CA will be sued, CA will lose, people will lose their shit.
There's nothing to sue. This doesn't apply to interstate commerce, so that doesn't apply. There is no Federal law or constitutional requirement requiring state governments to do business with certain corporations over other corporations.
This law will stand and will end up being a model for the rest of the country. At this point, we can just wait out this degenerate administration. Other states are doing the same thing. Other nations are doing the same thing. They know this administration is a leaky boat and they're not going to make any long-term deals with these people.
Haha yeah! I mean screw people who wanna have fun! Us Edge Lords and our "UNQUESTIONABLE WAYS" have everything figured out, it's why we're all gazillionaires and can sit on Slashdot all day giving out stupid, useless opinions about why the world is "going to shit" in an ironic fashion. Hahaha go us, we're so much better than the plebs! You faggot.
Can someone please translate this for me? This young man seems to be all worked up about something and I'm not sure what it is. I'd like to help him if I can.
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Further, gun-grabbing Illinois has a lower rate of actual gun violence than gun-crazy Texas, according to the latest statistics.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Also, if you follow the links of the Anonymous Coward above, you will see that the rates he quotes are not for violent crime, or gun crime.
Dallas and Chicago have the same amount of violent crime and gun crime. However you want to slice it. And as I said before, Dallas has more property crime. Because statistically, guns make jackoffs into bigger jackoffs.
Here you go:
https://www.bestplaces.net/com...
Chicago's violent crime rate is almost exactly the same as Dallas', and Dallas actually has a higher rate of property crime.
I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a gun owner myself.
Here is some (seriously, not a joke or rick-roll) video of a simple confrontation between neighbors in Texas that turned deadly because guns made some jackoffs even bigger jackoffs. Notice that the two members of the well-regulated militia who are toting guns (but not shirts) had every chance to just turn around, and murdered a guy while they knew they were being recorded on video.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/...
Did you know that in Dallas and Houston, where getting a gun is very easy, the rate of violent crime is almost exactly the same as in Chicago? I bet you didn't.
Maybe instead of comparing a suburb of Dallas with an actual city like Chicago, you might compare apples to apples. Plano is basically the Schaumburg of Dallas, and Schaumburg, Illinois has a lower rate of gun violence than Plano, Texas.
Guns don't make you safer. They only make you a bigger jackoff.
Speaking of guns and nerds, I notice that Cody Wilson, the patriotic American who owns Defense Distributed and felt he just had to release the plans for a 3D-printed gun, was charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl he met online, and he's now fled to Taiwan.
Is anyone surprised? "Gun enthusiast" and "kiddie-fucker" are the last two boxes on right-wing jackoff bingo.
#FollowTheWhiteRabbit
I wrote my PhD thesis in Nota Bene, which was very good word processor for DOS. I later switched to LaTeX, because university publishers liked all that postscript shit, and I felt kind of cool being the only one in the English Department who used LaTeX. Plus, I could run it on any of the weak-ass computers the department would give me before I got to be tenure-track. It made it a little complicated to collaborate with my colleagues, but by the time that was an issue, I had other options. I did have several students who submitted graduate-level work in LaTeX though, and I insisted on it for masters or PhD theses.
President Bonespur? He watches Fox News until 11am and doesn't like to read. He's got a button on his desk that he presses and someone brings him a Diet Coke. He's morbidly obese and eats KFC gravy bowls.
Oh yeah, he's lazy.
No, I one (sic) two. Hillary lost and Trump's a racist. I also predicted that Cody Wilson, the guy who owns Defense Distributed, and who thought it would be clever to release the plans for a 3D printed gun, was a pedophile, and he's just been arrested for assaulting an underage girl he met online.
So that makes me three for three.
https://gizmodo.com/3d-printed...
https://www.newsweek.com/3d-gu...
Why do you libs have to make everything about Trump?
Do you believe that stores that are open 24 hours a day have employees that work 24 hours a day?
Sit down, and let me explain the concept of "work shifts" to you. If you'd ever had a job, you'd know what those are. Further, let me clue you in that 3 people working 8 hour shifts equal 24 hours, but 4 people working 6 hour shifts also equal 24 hours.
If you need me to walk you through the math on this, let me know. I'm happy to help.
Or, compare Pinochet's Chile with current day Denmark or Canada. Which one would you rather live in?
No, and yes. Your memory isn't so good.
Considering the events we are watching unfold before the world, I can say definitively that it doesn't always work for TWEETUS.
I'm not one to say I told you so, but everybody made fun of me a few weeks ago when I said that Elon was going to face some serious consequences for his phony tweet about taking Tesla public.
https://youtu.be/lTXoA-QTbJw
Not just the university presidents.
You listed some university presidents with very high salaries. Let's compare to the head football coaches for those same schools.
1. Arizona State: the president makes $1.5mil, the football coach makes $3.2mil.
Your second university listed, University of Texas, paid it's chancellor $1.5mil. In the past three years, they paid their football coaches an unbelievable $54 million.
https://www.businessinsider.co...
You can go right down that list and see that university football coaches are making several times more than the presidents of the universities. In fact, in every single case, they are the highest paid public employee of their respective states.
I hate to burst your little bubble, but that's also the trouble with capitalism.
So, Toad is trending because Ms Daniels likes to play Mario Kart? Nothing else to it?
Since we're talking about Nintendo and video games, and this is a site for nerds, I guess it's technically not off-topic to mention that for some reason, the character Toad from Mario Kart is trending on social media. I'm not sure why. Anybody want to google it and find out?
The ACLU still defends the rights of Nazis and white supremacists. And they're donations have been way up.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
So, you're giving Donald Trump full credit for his agencies not having a problem with a system that had been developed in Illinois? Is that really how low you've moved the bar?
There is nothing in this story that mentions or involves Donald Trump in any way. And none of the "incentives" to nuclear power discussed in this bill are new.
That's a possibility. But I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that some poor tech-bro is going to use one of his two vacation weeks a year to go on a cruise, where he's going to attend lectures on crypto-currency instead of drinking and relaxing in the sun and having unprotected sex with desperate divorcees.
What's happened to the world?
There's nothing to sue. This doesn't apply to interstate commerce, so that doesn't apply. There is no Federal law or constitutional requirement requiring state governments to do business with certain corporations over other corporations.
This law will stand and will end up being a model for the rest of the country. At this point, we can just wait out this degenerate administration. Other states are doing the same thing. Other nations are doing the same thing. They know this administration is a leaky boat and they're not going to make any long-term deals with these people.
Is it just me, or does a cryptocurrency-themed cruise sound like a living hell, or what?
Can someone please translate this for me? This young man seems to be all worked up about something and I'm not sure what it is. I'd like to help him if I can.