It happens in the US too, but people aren’t as willing to throw money around anymore here. China’s going through a “dot com” bubble equivalent with tech companies right now, I think a lot of these companies start off as legitimate attempts with unique ideas, and very quickly realize that they can’t possibly do it with…

It’s almost as if he has no strong opinion or belief in a health care reform, but has been co-opted by the part to oppose obamacare and support the new bill regardless of its content.

The only way to use a gun as a form of protest is to threaten or commit homicide. The video is not advocating for recreational gun use or self-defense, it is advocating for the use and brandishing of guns as a form of protest.

The millions of people who shoot guns for recreation aren’t using them against another human. Are you suggesting the human hunting is recreational sport?

I suppose an issue-targeted approach would be for manufacturers of aftermarket, performance, and enthusiast driven components of cars to lobby against standardization of driverless cars. Safety component manufacturers might also be involved if driverless cars mean fewer crashes and less mandatory safety equipment.

Using a gun for its intended purpose against another human is premeditated murder. The only non-murder you can commit with a gun is to fail to use it properly.

NRA isn’t a rights protection group, they’re a lobbyist group for protecting the gun industry. The NRA hasn’t been an informative and rights-driven group since the 70s.

They were born there, their parents moved there, they had family/friends already there and moved, or they moved there for a job offer. Keep in mind, a vast majority of new yorkers don’t live in the inner city anyway, but in the sprawling greater area where housing rates and transit isn’t so bad.

It’s a situation where if you know what you’re doing, probably less than $500, but the average person is not comfortable tightly budgeting a new PC so they probably couldn’t do it under $700. It takes a lot of understanding compatibility and what your bottlenecks will be, as well as how to overclock or maximize…

That’s been in-line with the GOP since Reagan though, not quite something they hate.

The israelis want to help the US, but not Russia. The US proved that they can’t keep a secret, so helping the US means helping the massive empire looking to expand into your backyard (Russia) too.

We’re not at war with the confederacy anymore. Treason is defined by aiding the US’s declared enemies, not by declaring yourself an enemy of the US.

Press briefings aren’t about telling the press the truth, they’re about the press getting to ask questions. If you turn it into one-sided communication, then you allow the white house to control the conversation, eliminating the possibility for questioning them.

It could serve as a huge starting point for any project you wanted to make off of it. Most game mods have to deal with encrypted/compiled data but having access to the source code would give any programmer easy and free ability to change pretty much anything in the game and release their own versions, right down to…

It’s a common thing when you can monetize the solution.

The missing information is that by providing for those who are sick, they are able to work more and produce for the economy, which lowers healthcare costs overall (since being poor correlates with further health problems) and that will mean better government services, lower prices, better pay, etc. for the economy…

I am inexperienced with these things, can I get an honest answer for someone who wants to understand:

A lot of major coastal cities going underwater will cost more than any of those things. That’s not high-rises or mansions, that’s millions of people who populate port cities.

The “gateway drug” phenomenon was caused by criminalizing weed, which put it in the hands of drug dealers to use as a business tool to push cocaine and heroine onto their buyers. A legal business selling weed is not going to upsell you to hard drugs.

No, we are supposed to let convicted people go now because the laws they broke were wrong, fueled by racist targeting, and never for the best interests of the public. Criminalizing weed with mandatory minimum sentencing didn’t make people safer, it just created a system for funneling tax money into police and prison…