Or the rate of shootings that go up in cities where guns are banned.
Chicago has the strictest gun laws on the planet and they are the murder capitol of the world.
Utter bullshit.
Even in the most restrictive of your states (California) the gun laws are laxer than in most of the developed world.
Lets get reasonable. It will overheat and catch fire. Often burning down the residence of the crook, or the poor sap that he sold it too.
Poor sap??? Anyone who buys stolen stuff deserves, at the very least, a month-long diarrhea.
robots, seriously
I'm OK with that.
Now, what solution do you propose for the billions of people whose jobs will be replaced by machines? Not the Final Solution, I hope.
Ever wondered how that speaker managed to con a bunch of supposedly savvy and high-powered executives to get the gig?
Maybe she gives head like a porn star.
I just watched the movie "The Core", and if it reflects the current state of science, it seems our understanding of what is inside the Earth is flawed on a more basic level...
No, it reflects the current state of movie making, which is pretty dire.
So a functional society for you is one where some people will have to raise their kids in poverty, hunger and violence
If that is not possible, the society will not last. The attempts to correct that drain too many resources.
Sorry, that's just fact taught by history. You really can't help everyone and if you try, your whole world will eventually crumble.
I'm waiting for your sources. Repeating some memes doesn't make them true, you know.
look at what people with too much time on hands do to this world: crime, gangs, terrorists, cults, drug users --- most of societies ills are AVOIDED by making these people have jobs so they don't have free time.
Completely unsubstantiated claim! As an example: why are there so many of those in the US, where people work crazy hours and have little time?
That's a stupid choice. Current society is the most productive every in history. And it's only getting more.
Nobody should have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet.
A handful of people that cannot feed themselves simply IS less important than keeping a whole society functional.
So a functional society for you is one where some people will have to raise their kids in poverty, hunger and violence in spite of having a full-time job? Do you realise that having a lot of poor people with no education lowers the productivity of the whole society?
Are you a sadist? You want the guy that cooks your hamburgers to suffer? Why?
What the fuck?!? Seriously, are you that stupid or just kidding us?
The gains in productivity will have to be shared by society, instead of being appropriated by a few. Which is what ended up happening with the Industrial Revolution, after all.
I can see a future where everybody will get a wage, even not doing anything. Those who want to work, will. Those who want to spend their free money setting up a business, will. Those who want to spend money on hobbies, will. Nobody needs to be deprived of food, shelter or healthcare. But people who choose to work or set up a business will have more money to spend on whatever they want.
This is not only possible, it's inevitable. The economy will require less and less people working. But if you kick more and more people out of the economy, it will just shrink and collapse.
I don't know what 3rd world shit hole you live in, but more than half of my electricity comes from wind. A significant portion of the rest comes from hydro. Coal is just a small fraction of the whole.
I would trust them do do exactly what they claim: Stop blanket collection of voice telephone conversations of US citizens
While they're at it, why not stopping the blanket collection of voice telephone conversations of NON-US CITIZENS, TOO? See, I'm one of those 96% percent of the world population who are not Americans and kind of don't like being spied on.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
