The alternative is to switch to a job that actually pays money. Frankly, she should quit her whining. A cellist? I'm sorry, but she's lucky to be making any money at all. I didn't even know you COULD make money as a cellist. Nobody is going to pay money to listen to a cellist at a concert, or buy her CD. I'm sorry if that's harsh, but in this world, you can't always do what your heart desires and also make a living wage off it. A few lucky ones do, but most of us make compromises in our career choice in order to pay the bills.

Nobody in their right mind would attack a tank head-on. The M1 has TERRIBLE fuel efficiency. It eats 1.7 gallons per mile, 10 gallons to start up and 10 gallons per hour idling. You attack the logistics of the tank - its supply convoys.

100 abrams? The US is a big country, with thousands of cities. We don't have enough M1s to put 100 M1s in every city and every point of conflict. On major battle fronts, sure. But we're not talking about a war between nations, we're talking about civil war. And you'd be naive to think that every tank platoon, with families and friends are going to all fight for the same side.

Don't forget Israel. No improvised bomb attacks there.

Violence is largely an socio-economic symptom. The more poor and oppressed a society, the more violence will occur. The US has far worse income inequality than the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. The US has more violent EVERYTHING, not just guns, than those countries, because there is simply more poverty here.

All those COP reality shows don't happen in the Hamptons. They happen in Compton.

Anonymous Coward calls someone a coward.

And yet assault rifles constitute a tiny portion of gun violence. Even in the US, arguably the highest ownership of assault rifles in the world, has less than 1% of gun violence committed with assault rifles.

I have yet to hear a credible counter-argument to MY reason for owning one: LA Riots. During the LA riots, the police force abandoned entire neighborhoods, particularly Koreatown, among many others. Korean homeowners and storeowners were forced to defend their property and lives on their own...many using assault rifles. I hope that never happens to me, but it CAN. And if it does, yeah, I want the most efficient killing weapon available to defend myself against a much more populous, lawless, armed mob.

If you can magically guarantee that civil unrest + police abandonment can never, ever happen again in the US, then I'll turn in my ar-15 right now. Otherwise, please don't ban something that has no effect on actual gun violence just to make YOURSELF feel better.

Forget cheap. Given chinese tendency to install malware on hardware, I wouldn't use a chinese phone to dial 911, much less a smartphone with all my data.

Even places that do have paid sick leave, its rationed. So I will make a decision, each time I'm sort of sick, whether or not its worth it to use one of my 5 sick days, or whether I think I'll get REALLY sick in the future and should save for that day.

Employers need to actively encourage/have contingency plans for sick people. Especially for office workers, to have a working telecommuting policy/system in place so that a person can not only easily work from home on a mildly sick day, but be encouraged to work from home and still be productive without infecting others.

To quote the police, "if the police are doing nothing illegal, they have nothing to fear from being recorded"

They think there is a grey area. If SCOTUS came out with a ruling that said: "recording the police in public is 100% legal in every situation, no exceptions, and obstruction of that recording by the cops who are being recorded is a CRIMINAL offense", then yeah I think the cops would very quickly change their behavior here.

Now, do I think SCOTUS will make such a ruling? Probably not.

Honestly, how the hell I'm I supposed to know which prosecutor has integrity? I already have to know judges, city council members, school board members, propositions, I have to read the fine print on every letter, EULA, cell phone contract, bank privacy statements, etc, etc. I don't have the time to deal with every shady ass org or person that is trying to deceive me.

Well that's comforting to know. I mean, we don't want to prosecute bad cops, only bad citizens.

For heaven's sake, RTFA. They ARE using MITM.

For fraks sake. Will SCOTUS please making a damn ruling that absolutely allows for any and all recording of police officers in a public place no matter what? This is getting ridiculous.

Murder, theft, rape are BEHAVIORS. These are actual morally wrong acts. You have to make certain actions illegal for a basic functioning society. Yet the idea of making the possession of certain things illegal is relatively a new concept. The idea here is that the illegal item is so strongly correlated with an illegal ACTION, that possession implies action. That is why cocaine is illegal. If you possess it, you're guaranteed to be using or selling it, and not simply keeping it safe one day for controlled pain relieving purposes for when SHTF.

Gun control is very different. Unlike cocaine, there is NOT a strong correlation that simply possessing a firearm implies murder. Note, I said murder not kill. Murder is wrong, killing is not necessarily so. Yes a gun's true purpose is to kill. Most people own a gun for self defense, to kill in self defense. Killing in self defense is morally and legally justified. Its justified just like being able to work and earn a living - its far more messier and gruesome, but your right to defend yourself is not less than your right to work and earn a living - both are for the purpose of the pursuit of one's happiness, or life.

I have to admit I'm a bit divided on this. On the one hand, I do believe she was probably intentionally being obtuse and refusing to comply. On the other hand, tasering for every mildly difficult or confrontational situation is ridiculous.

I think every time an officer uses a taser on someone, the officer should receive a taser shot 2x - just to make him evaluate whether the taser is really necessary in a situation.