Gun violence is actually falling as more guns are sold
More guns are being sold, but to a smaller percentage of people.
The percentage of the population that owns guns is actually falling. Maybe that's why gun violence is going down. On the other hand, the number of guns owned by the average gun owner is going up. Maybe that explains why the number of gun suicides is also going up.
I believe, as a lifelong gun owner, that the trend for more guns in the hands of a diminishing percentage of people is an overall negative because it speaks to a level of isolation and obsession. We don't know for sure because there is an irrational fear of real research into gun violence, so all we get is research done by people with an agenda. It's as if the gun lobby believes knowledge is dangerous. The rising number of gun suicides is also a problem, but it would be nice if we could figure out a way to prevent people who commit suicide by gun from killing a bunch of innocent school kids first.
"People who risk their money to finance the building and innovation of human civilization don't earn anything," says entitled message board poster without a hint of irony whilst using technology that the richest people on Earth didn't have 50 years ago.
Said by someone who participates in commie inventions like social security and public schools, public libraries, national parks, etc. Believes everyone should have to pitch in to pay for the President's golf trips and a pension for life, but doesn't realize that there are stock markets and private investment in socialist countries too.
And he makes these opinions known on a worldwide network that was initially developed using public funds.
The government allowing individuals to keep more of what they earn (what is theirs?) is a problem?
Yes, as long as our economic system is little more than a tool for siphoning wealth from the middle class and below and giving it to the top 0.1%.
Anyway, we're not talking about "what they earn". We're talking about people who own shit for a living. A fraction of the top percent. They don't "earn" a goddamn thing.
Actually I think the federal government needs to radically downsize
We can start with the $716 billion we're spending on this shit. It adds up to $5682 for each household in the US. Every year. Year after year, and it goes up 10% every year even though the only time it gets used is for useless fuckery in third world sandboxes like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. And that's not counting our nuclear arsenal, which doesn't get included in the defense budget.
Based on the video I saw, she was practically invisible until she entered the car's headlight beams.
I think you're seeing the limitations of the camera. There were two streetlights nearby, and if the headlights on the car were anywhere near focused properly, a human driver would have easily seen her.
The road was poorly lit, and she had dark clothing, no reflectors on the bike and no lights.
In most of the US, large animals, like deer, commonly enter a roadway. Deer do not wear reflectors or have LED lights. If a self-driving car can't see a lady standing in the road with a bicycle, what is it going to do with a deer or other large animal?
I suspect that most of the big self-driving car aficionados don't really care that much about a pedestrian getting killed, but if a little autonomous vehicle hits a deer at speed, there's a good chance the passenger can be hurt. Then you'll see a real discussion of safety of these vehicles.
Kendall is obviously a retarded Trump-supporting faggot of no value intellectually.
That's really not called for. You can disagree with someone's political beliefs without calling them names.
SuperKendall is actually a pretty decent guy outside of his obviously wrong political views. I know a couple of liberals that I'd trade for him if I was making a run for the playoffs and needed to put another right-handed bat in the lineup.
More expensive Chinese goods means that the repair-replace balance will be thrown to the left, and money can be made repairing existing hardware vs tossing it out and buying another special at Walmart.
Where do you think the parts are made that you will use to repair that formerly-cheap, now-expensive tech bauble?
Snow no longer lasts more than a day. It’s more rain and fog these days. Getting 70 degree days in December and Jan and dev. It was a lot different in 2010 when I moved down here.
2014 was the 4th snowiest winter in Chicago since 1884. I know because I was there shoveling that shit and it lasted one hell of a lot longer than a day. We were unable to get our car out of the garage because the alley couldn't be plowed for over a week and the drifts lasted until March. There was snow piled against our back door so we couldn't get out of the house and we had to have my daughter crawl out the window to move enough snow so we could open the door so I could shovel a path to the snowblower.
When you say "moved down here", was it from some frozen tundra in Wisconsin or Minnesota? Because if you ask people who are from Chicago, I doubt they'll tell you that winters are any shorter or less severe.
I want the slickest, meanest, slimy, ugly motherfucker on my team. We're up against Russia and China, who have no problems murdering anyone to get ahead (or just to make a point).
Obama was a massive pussy in their worldview. They walked all over him, and we suffered for it.
Now we're doing the walking. Put your boots on, or shut the fuck up.
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey said he believes that bitcoin will become the world's single currency within 10 years.
Am I the only one who's starting to get the impression that the people who are running these immense dot-com behemoths might not be as bright as we've been led to believe?
Could it really be that the so-called leaders of the tech sectors are really just a bunch of shallow jackasses with zero self-awareness?
Literally the only people in Chicago who wish they had more winter are the Streets & Sanitation guys who drive snow plows and make overtime salting the streets.
So if you're lamenting the "warmest winter ever", you're not a Chicagoan.
How did they do when asked to name a famous man leader in tech?
Well let's see...you got Clippy, you got Jeeves, you got the guy from Apple who throws the thing through the face of big brother, the annoying guy from the Verizon commercials who I think started a company...
That's about all I got. Wait, is Clippy male? I'm pretty sure he is, but I never got close enough to check.
Pullman was very successful. Also, you shouldn't use the past tense, because it's still one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city and it's even been designated as a National Monument. If you want to compare Facebookville with some negative planned industrial communities, you probably should look for examples other than Pullman.
The very best place to start if you want to get into comics is your local comic book store. You will find people there who will be glad to make recommendations, and better still, they'll show you what they're recommending so you can try them on. You'll be able to see the artwork and decide which worlds you want to visit. The people in those stores are generally nice, and weird, and sometimes really great. They have time to talk to you and they truly love the subject. There's no better way to get introduced to something than that. Don't feel the need to take the recommendations though. Let the books speak to you and decide where you want to go.
Plus, you'll be supporting a local business and you may make some new friends. Those are good things.
I'd rather cycle in Chicago in the middle of winter than on a pristine cycle path in sunny California in a Facebook village for overpaid yuppies.
As someone who has cycled in Chicago in the middle of winter AND on a pristine cycle path in sunny California, I can say with confidence that you are bullshitting. After about ten minutes of getting hit in the face with sleet and your bike sliding on icy streets and the hairs freezing in your nose and cars splashing a colloidal mixture of slush, road salt and filth onto you, it gets kind of old.
Also, you're likely to find just as many overpaid yuppies in Chicago as you would in Menlo Park. If you've ever cycled down Halsted Street or Ashland near Division or Diversey & Sheffield, or Lincoln Ave toward downtown or Dearborn past Chicago Ave., the place is crawling with overpaid yuppies. The difference is that in California, you are more likely to see those yuppies wearing cropped t-shirts and short-shorts with their butt cheeks hanging out (even the women!) and that can make all the difference when it comes to quality of life.
So a data collection agency is now making decisions?
Yes, they participate in telling the Trump campaign who to target. If they were just providing data to the campaign, it would be OK.
I guess then you also hold Hillary Clinton and the DNC as 100% guilty via their hiring of Christopher Steele!
No, see above.
Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps it's easier to avoid the entire thing than try to do the legal amount without running into the issue we have here?
So, what you're saying is that you believe Cambridge Analytica instructed their staff to lie to authorities because it was "easier" and you're OK with that? Remember, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica confessed on camera to serious crimes and CA's own legal team warned them about foreign nationals in decision-making roles.
But clearly, if you think CA was an issue - then the hiring of Christopher Steele - a British Citizen - was clearly an issue for you too, correct?
No. See above. As you have pointed out, it's not illegal to hire a foreign national as a contractor, as long as they're not in a position to make decisions or participate in making decisions. Part of Cambridge Analytica's role in the Trump campaign, when they were using bribery, blackmail or human trafficking, was telling the Trump campaign who to target with their ads. Steele's role was doing research and then putting that research in a dossier.
Now I bet you can see the difference between the two if you're being honest with yourself.
There is no law prohibiting hiring a foreign worker for a campaign.
I'm sorry old friend, but that's just not true. If you read through that link to the FEC, you'll see that there can't be any foreign workers in a "decision-making" capacity or "participating" in decision making.
Here's the language:
Participation by foreign nationals in decisions involving election-related activities
Commission regulations prohibit foreign nationals from directing, dictating, controlling, or directly or indirectly participating in the decision-making process of any person (such as a corporation, labor organization, political committee, or political organization) with regard to any election-related activities. Such activities include, the making of contributions, donations, expenditures, or disbursements in connection with any federal or nonfederal elections in the United States, or decisions concerning the administration of any political committee. Foreign nationals are also prohibited from involvement in the management of a political committee, including any separate segregated fund (SSF), nonconnected committee, or the nonfederal accounts of any of these committees. See Explanation and Justification for 11 CFR 110.20 at 67 FR 69946 (November 19, 2002)
And further, this also would apply to volunteers...
However, the Commission cautioned that the foreign national could not manage or participate in any of the campaign committee’s decision-making processes.
Now (and pay attention here, Rooster, because I see your eyes starting to glaze over), members of the Cambridge Analytica staff have already snitched that CA was give legal guidance by their own lawyers warning them not to have foreign nationals in key positions and that advice was ignored and laws have been broken. This isn't me saying this, it's Cambridge Analytica legal counsel. And beyond that, staff was instructed to lie about it to authorities.
Note to younger Slashdotters: Listen to rtb61. Use duckduckgo as your search engine. You never really know, but it doesn't appear that they're collecting your info or selling your eyeballs. Don't fall in love with any dot com. Be prepared to switch up at a moment's notice.
Big corporations mean you no damn good. They will sell you out cheap. Treat them accordingly.
Also, don't do drugs and stay in school. We're rooting for you.
I remember before you were born. The world was a better place. We'll get your starting score from +2 to +1. Just watch us.
As long as I'm living in your head rent free, do you think you could do something about the cockroaches? Also, the radiator makes a lot of noise when it turns on in the morning.
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More guns are being sold, but to a smaller percentage of people.
The percentage of the population that owns guns is actually falling. Maybe that's why gun violence is going down. On the other hand, the number of guns owned by the average gun owner is going up. Maybe that explains why the number of gun suicides is also going up.
I believe, as a lifelong gun owner, that the trend for more guns in the hands of a diminishing percentage of people is an overall negative because it speaks to a level of isolation and obsession. We don't know for sure because there is an irrational fear of real research into gun violence, so all we get is research done by people with an agenda. It's as if the gun lobby believes knowledge is dangerous. The rising number of gun suicides is also a problem, but it would be nice if we could figure out a way to prevent people who commit suicide by gun from killing a bunch of innocent school kids first.
Said by someone who participates in commie inventions like social security and public schools, public libraries, national parks, etc. Believes everyone should have to pitch in to pay for the President's golf trips and a pension for life, but doesn't realize that there are stock markets and private investment in socialist countries too.
And he makes these opinions known on a worldwide network that was initially developed using public funds.
Yes, as long as our economic system is little more than a tool for siphoning wealth from the middle class and below and giving it to the top 0.1%.
Anyway, we're not talking about "what they earn". We're talking about people who own shit for a living. A fraction of the top percent. They don't "earn" a goddamn thing.
We can start with the $716 billion we're spending on this shit. It adds up to $5682 for each household in the US. Every year. Year after year, and it goes up 10% every year even though the only time it gets used is for useless fuckery in third world sandboxes like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. And that's not counting our nuclear arsenal, which doesn't get included in the defense budget.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
I think you're seeing the limitations of the camera. There were two streetlights nearby, and if the headlights on the car were anywhere near focused properly, a human driver would have easily seen her.
In most of the US, large animals, like deer, commonly enter a roadway. Deer do not wear reflectors or have LED lights. If a self-driving car can't see a lady standing in the road with a bicycle, what is it going to do with a deer or other large animal?
I suspect that most of the big self-driving car aficionados don't really care that much about a pedestrian getting killed, but if a little autonomous vehicle hits a deer at speed, there's a good chance the passenger can be hurt. Then you'll see a real discussion of safety of these vehicles.
I think that's what's called a paradox.
That's really not called for. You can disagree with someone's political beliefs without calling them names.
SuperKendall is actually a pretty decent guy outside of his obviously wrong political views. I know a couple of liberals that I'd trade for him if I was making a run for the playoffs and needed to put another right-handed bat in the lineup.
Where do you think the parts are made that you will use to repair that formerly-cheap, now-expensive tech bauble?
2014 was the 4th snowiest winter in Chicago since 1884. I know because I was there shoveling that shit and it lasted one hell of a lot longer than a day. We were unable to get our car out of the garage because the alley couldn't be plowed for over a week and the drifts lasted until March. There was snow piled against our back door so we couldn't get out of the house and we had to have my daughter crawl out the window to move enough snow so we could open the door so I could shovel a path to the snowblower.
When you say "moved down here", was it from some frozen tundra in Wisconsin or Minnesota? Because if you ask people who are from Chicago, I doubt they'll tell you that winters are any shorter or less severe.
There's my buddy. Where you been?
DO NOT CONGRATULATE
Nonsense. Next, you'll say that choosing a crooked New York real estate developer as a political leader might not be the best idea.
Am I the only one who's starting to get the impression that the people who are running these immense dot-com behemoths might not be as bright as we've been led to believe?
Could it really be that the so-called leaders of the tech sectors are really just a bunch of shallow jackasses with zero self-awareness?
Literally the only people in Chicago who wish they had more winter are the Streets & Sanitation guys who drive snow plows and make overtime salting the streets.
So if you're lamenting the "warmest winter ever", you're not a Chicagoan.
According to Weather Underground, it's 34 degrees F in Chicago right now. Second day of Spring.
Let's not BS here. Chicago gets plenty winter these days. If you live there, you know they get more than enough.
Well let's see...you got Clippy, you got Jeeves, you got the guy from Apple who throws the thing through the face of big brother, the annoying guy from the Verizon commercials who I think started a company...
That's about all I got. Wait, is Clippy male? I'm pretty sure he is, but I never got close enough to check.
Pullman was very successful. Also, you shouldn't use the past tense, because it's still one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city and it's even been designated as a National Monument. If you want to compare Facebookville with some negative planned industrial communities, you probably should look for examples other than Pullman.
The very best place to start if you want to get into comics is your local comic book store. You will find people there who will be glad to make recommendations, and better still, they'll show you what they're recommending so you can try them on. You'll be able to see the artwork and decide which worlds you want to visit. The people in those stores are generally nice, and weird, and sometimes really great. They have time to talk to you and they truly love the subject. There's no better way to get introduced to something than that. Don't feel the need to take the recommendations though. Let the books speak to you and decide where you want to go.
Plus, you'll be supporting a local business and you may make some new friends. Those are good things.
As someone who has cycled in Chicago in the middle of winter AND on a pristine cycle path in sunny California, I can say with confidence that you are bullshitting. After about ten minutes of getting hit in the face with sleet and your bike sliding on icy streets and the hairs freezing in your nose and cars splashing a colloidal mixture of slush, road salt and filth onto you, it gets kind of old.
Also, you're likely to find just as many overpaid yuppies in Chicago as you would in Menlo Park. If you've ever cycled down Halsted Street or Ashland near Division or Diversey & Sheffield, or Lincoln Ave toward downtown or Dearborn past Chicago Ave., the place is crawling with overpaid yuppies. The difference is that in California, you are more likely to see those yuppies wearing cropped t-shirts and short-shorts with their butt cheeks hanging out (even the women!) and that can make all the difference when it comes to quality of life.
In Soviet Cambridge Analytica, data encrypts you.
http://www.pulse.ng/the-new-yo...
Yes, they participate in telling the Trump campaign who to target. If they were just providing data to the campaign, it would be OK.
No, see above.
So, what you're saying is that you believe Cambridge Analytica instructed their staff to lie to authorities because it was "easier" and you're OK with that? Remember, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica confessed on camera to serious crimes and CA's own legal team warned them about foreign nationals in decision-making roles.
No. See above. As you have pointed out, it's not illegal to hire a foreign national as a contractor, as long as they're not in a position to make decisions or participate in making decisions. Part of Cambridge Analytica's role in the Trump campaign, when they were using bribery, blackmail or human trafficking, was telling the Trump campaign who to target with their ads. Steele's role was doing research and then putting that research in a dossier.
Now I bet you can see the difference between the two if you're being honest with yourself.
I'm sorry old friend, but that's just not true. If you read through that link to the FEC, you'll see that there can't be any foreign workers in a "decision-making" capacity or "participating" in decision making.
Here's the language:
And further, this also would apply to volunteers...
Now (and pay attention here, Rooster, because I see your eyes starting to glaze over), members of the Cambridge Analytica staff have already snitched that CA was give legal guidance by their own lawyers warning them not to have foreign nationals in key positions and that advice was ignored and laws have been broken. This isn't me saying this, it's Cambridge Analytica legal counsel. And beyond that, staff was instructed to lie about it to authorities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
I prefer a more natural approach to the prostate exam.
Note to younger Slashdotters: Listen to rtb61. Use duckduckgo as your search engine. You never really know, but it doesn't appear that they're collecting your info or selling your eyeballs. Don't fall in love with any dot com. Be prepared to switch up at a moment's notice.
Big corporations mean you no damn good. They will sell you out cheap. Treat them accordingly.
Also, don't do drugs and stay in school. We're rooting for you.
As long as I'm living in your head rent free, do you think you could do something about the cockroaches? Also, the radiator makes a lot of noise when it turns on in the morning.