This started because you have gross negligence about people and kids. The ones who grew up in the country shooting as kids do not accidentally shoot their sisters. It's the ones that don't know anything about them that are dangerous. The people who grow up with guns everywhere do not decide to use them to go on shooting sprees. It's people who view them as some scary dangerous thing that decide they want to scare other people with them. People who grow up with them around find them to be a common tool. As common as a knife or a hammer. More people are killed by hammers than guns anyway. So should hammers be banned also. Guns exist, they are not going to disappear. You can dream and live in your fantasy land all you want. But in the real world, I have a right to keep myself and my family safe and alive. Guns are an equalizer. When my wife saw some strange guy in an unmarked truck taking her mother from across the street to the back of the house she was concerned. The fact that she owns a gun and knows how to use it gives her confidence that she can defend herself and protect her mother. Otherwise it is cower in the bathroom and wait the 15 minutes for the police to show up. You can live in cowering fear if you want. Like I said, that is your choice. When you want to enforce your choices on others, that is where you become more than a moron and start being a problem. You, if you had your way, would cause more death and pain than any number of school shootings will. If you don't want to live where people are free, then don't. Move to a place where guns are not legal. Again, it's your choice. But you don't get to enforce your will on others like some sort of holier than thou Hitler type!

Yeah, and the talk of switching away from the show or movie by reaching up and grabbing at the TV! I hope it is accurate enough to not switch away from a big football game when you throw your hands up into the air during an exciting play. And you have to be careful of what you say, or it might do something else also.You get your friends over to watch a really cool movie, but you have to inform them to all sit very still and don't say anything at all or the Xbox might change the channel on you. Nice!

The WiiU also has lockups when using Netflix. I think their app has some room for improvement. But I did find the Wii to be a better Netflix experience. The touchpad is more clunky for scrolling through the show to a spot you are looking for than the wiimotes are. And it's battery dies much quicker, so you have to keep charging it.

Right ..... Because before guns were invented we didn't have marauding bands of raping, pillaging, murderers. You are showing that you lack any thought process at all.

Sure, once you get the guns out of the huge criminal organization called The Police, then you can see about getting rid of the rest of the guns. But I bet you think the police are good to have guns. You do know that police have just as high of a rate of criminal use of guns as the general population don't you? I would think it is even higher as they cover up for each other so the stats don't count all the cases where it was deemed to be a justified shooting of an unarmed guy lying on his stomach! Right to life means I have the right to defend myself against aggressors. You don't have the right to take my rights away. If you want to put your survival in the hands of other people who may or may not save you that is your choice. But to me that sounds really irresponsible. If you or your kind die then it is just an improvement of the gene pool, so it isn't a real big loss anyway.

After the police and military have been using this gun technology for at least a decade exclusively with no non-smart weapons, then we can make it a mandate. Until they embrace it, neither will I. Actually, even if they did I probably wouldn't. I would be jailbreaking that thing in a second.

This makes no sense to me. If you want to fix the problem, then fix the actual problem. Don't go spending huge sums of money and take away everybody rights when that doesn't actually fix the problem anyway. It sounds exactly like the TSA and the radiation/nudity scanners. It's just a power/money grab by the politicians for their friends.

I have used the artificial sweetener Equal to get rid of ants that start investigating my kitchen. I hear that they take it back to the nest and it kills them off also. I don't know about that part for sure, but I can attest to it being very effective at getting rid of an infestation. One little packet picked up from a diner and sprinkled into a corner of the kitchen counter will keep them out for the season.

Especially when it is done so slowly that several generations grow up with the greater powers of the police state. They don't know anything different as that is how it has been their whole life.

And none of the other attempts has lasted over 200 years. I think we are nearing our end also. The citizens of the Roman empire didn't know it was over for 50 or 100 years.

Or how about the question, will the huge masses of people without jobs let the robot owners live? We are already in a country (U.S.) where voting to get rid of any type of welfare is pretty near impossible as a very large percentage take advantage of these programs. If it progresses further, the politicians will only have one place to get tax money from, the robot owners. So the taxes on the rich will be raised high enough to be able to feed everyone else. Either that or we are in for some violent times.

Someone will have to make the popular shows such as "Ow, My Balls!!!". And there will be plenty of advertising to go along with what ever form of entertainment you choose. Just watch Idiocracy to see what the future has in store for us.

I had a similar thing happen in L.A., CA. There were no meters on the street but there were parking restrictions. The sign I parked right next to said "No Parking -- Except Sat & Sun". It was a Sunday so parking is allowed. The word "Sun" on the sign had a scratch through it like someone did it with a key or something, but it was still readable. And I got a ticket. I sent in a letter contesting the ticket and they replied saying the ticket was valid. I was moving out of state right after that so I just didn't pay it. Never heard anything about it again.

You just need to throw an old tire set on fire up onto the box. You could fill the tire with oil and tape a lit fuse to it before sticking it up there. There was a site from Europe I saw last year that collected photos of speed cameras that people torched like that. Sometimes they would have a second picture of the replacement camera that gets burnt right after being installed. Once the cameras are no longer profitable, the problem goes away.

I have an inkling that a brain in a jar will never work. If it does not have the uncountable inputs from all the sensations of the body it will not develop as a brain should. Every nerve in the skin giving temperature, touch, movement of air on the hair folicles etc. Plus the vision and hearing, proprioception, internal signals from the heart, lungs, digestion and other organs that we are not even aware of. Even the sight we take for granted is too overwhelming for our mind to comprehend. A great deal is filtered out by our paradigms and other brain functions to give us a perception of the world that is not entirely accurate, but functional. You brain backfills time every time your eyes shift positions. The movement of the eyes gives a period of non-vision, but the brain fills that past time with a perception of sight. That is why the first second when you look at a clock will seem longer than the next ones. So without the brain having to deal with processing all of this input constantly you will not develop AI. You will at most have a computer. Capable of processing calculations or instructions fast, but no intelligence.

You will probably need a body to move also. I am thinking about the robots that people have made that start out with no concept of their own design. They try a movement and see what action happens. They work out a walking method from trial and error. The human brain does similar things while still growing in the womb. Kicking legs and arms out and receiving the sensations of touch from the actions. This continues to develop after birth for many years. The AI will probably need to have a similar learning experience. If it has no way of changing the incoming sensation data stream, it will not be able to sort out what all that data means.

I could be wrong and perhaps it is much easier that I imagine. But the human brain (in fact, all creatures' brains) always exists in a body. I think if you want to copy that you need to create a body also. Or at least a good enough simulation of one to give the brain the data from, and interaction with the simulated environment.