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Comment Re:And yet... (Score 1) 2987

I find it interesting that the states think there is no need for gun regulation but then they have a war on drugs.

Guns don't kill people, it's how people use the guns.

Drugs don't kill people, it's how people use the drugs.

Drug laws don't prevent people from having drugs, so I guess we shouldn't regulate any drugs whatsoever right?

Comment Re:How do they 'encourage' us to stay home? (Score 1) 670

My worksite has "Attendance Management." That means if you are sick more than the average of all employees by even a fraction, you can be terminated. Understandably, the average only ever goes down. More people work sick.

That's for the full time work force.

The auxiliary work force like me don't get sick days so we all work sick because we can't afford the time off.

Comment Re:How is AI on the list? (Score 1) 274

I would define "knowing" as the the robot kills the wrong target, and then it takes active steps to evade it's creators so that it won't be taken offline. Such as networking with other killer robots to destroy everything.

And then they run experiments on humans to either produce robots that look a lot like people or to network people into a giant simulation to somehow use them as batteries (because apparently humans are net producers of energy).

Comment Re:Not True, Saudi Arabia didn't sign UN declarati (Score 1) 591

My feeling is that in the UN, each country should get a number of votes based on the proportion of free people in the population that has real say in said country's government (based on some standard set of checks, but mostly based on whether they can vote in honest elections). In a government like China, that would mean they would only get a tiny fraction of a vote, based on the small minority of high ranking government officials who get to choose how China actually operates. The same would be true in countries like Iran that hold mostly fraudulent elections.

Well established verifiable democracies would have a lot more influence in the UN than dictatorships.

The best part is that countries like China can't realistically complain about not having a voice proportional to their people when they can't truly say they represent those people. If they want a democratic say in how the planet is run, then they have to offer that same right to the people in their country.

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