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jQueryIsAwesome··on "Gun" "Control"
It isn't nice to pretend you could overthrow your government, yeah, is nice as "religion" nice, as "delusional but thankfully uncheckable" nice.
jQueryIsAwesome··on "Gun" "Control"
I was just answering to OP who talked like the fact that it is on the constitution is somehow a valid reason not to change the law.

>Finally, I'm sorry to say this and I know it gets old, but the U.S. constitution identifies a right to keep and bear arms.

But ok; I am going to pile on the other hundreds of comments making noise and tell you what I think America should do.

Decriminalize all drugs first (or at the same time). Then change the constitution and proclaim nobody should have guns except the police/military and some special cases (some bodyguards, bank guards); despite the popularity of "guns don't kill people" is pretty clear that where guns are the number of gunshot victims are always higher. Anyone who thinks they can overthrow the USA government from inside is delusional, before there is even 1000 people organized all forms of communication would be shout down; even internet. Your only hope to overthrow the USA government if such thing ever is required is that some generals and soldiers of the USA army itself revel.

Obviously this change would need to happen gradually; first the high caliber guns and then progressively the others; the government should pay for the guns so citizens have one more incentive to give them away.

jQueryIsAwesome··on "Gun" "Control"
> Who actually believe in the Constitution?

Time goes on; people with guns die, bullets are used and the police arrives where that happens, guns and bullets get oxidized and everyday become harder to get. The career criminals usually want to kill the competence (other carer criminals) or the police; two sides that would remain armed.

>We arguably have comprehensive drug control. How well does that work?

Straw man; when killing another person with cocaine becomes a trend we can start discussing this.

jQueryIsAwesome··on "Gun" "Control"
What is with you Americans and the Constitution? If back then female circumcision would have been considered a good idea and somehow got wrote in the constitution then you will be defending it now days because it is in the constitution?

If the constitution is wrong, it needs to be changed, is just that simple.

jQueryIsAwesome··on "Gun" "Control"
False, you are going to be comfy enough to not start a civil war. Civil wars only start when a government abuse its own people; the American government tries to avoid this but is not very good at it. The abused are usually foreign countries and America have invested way too much money and people in military to be defeated by any other.
jQueryIsAwesome··on Internet porn: Automatic block rejected (UK)
If your line of through were true there would be sites famous among parents for their unexaggerated normal porn videos, so when you have the talk about how normal sex is you would also mention that the desire for watching other people doing it is also normal and you would mention those porn sites. Well, that is never the case; they just teach you about sex and then they keep pretending that you don't want to access stimulating content.
jQueryIsAwesome··on Internet porn: Automatic block rejected (UK)
> Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex.

That is certainly not the opinion of the masses because they don't want kids to see porn even years after they have been educated about sex.

If you need to hide something is gore, sites like Reddit are full of it and contrary as porn it can be a little bit traumatic.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Internet porn: Automatic block rejected (UK)
Hookers and "bad girls" make the risk of STDs higher. Also they all cost money. Also you may end up in places that increase the risk of being robbed, damaged, consuming harmful addicting distances such as alcohol, etc.

The lack of sexual education before sexual encounters is a real issue, not really with porn.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Internet porn: Automatic block rejected (UK)
I don't think unrealistic expectations are the issue, Forrest Gump gives unrealistic expectations about life and success but nobody is trying to ban it; not to mention there is tons of amateur porn with fairly normal sex.

The issue is social perception, dumbness by the masses pretending there is something evil and inmoral about watching other people have sex.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Internet porn: Automatic block rejected (UK)
I wish I could upvote this multiple times. Teenage years are a period usually with low self steam, confusion and doubts. At least porn helps teens to calm their hormones in healthier way than the alternatives: striptease, hookers, "bad girls" or drugs. And with internet they can do it from the safety and privacy of their own home without the risk of doing anything stupid to watch people having sex. And of course, like you mention being gay doesn't help with all of those puberty issues.
jQueryIsAwesome··on Internet porn: Automatic block rejected (UK)
> The worries of the parents.

This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries? What do you think it happens when a kid watchs porn? What negative consequences have been demonstrated to happen? And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of all power by 2030
> That's because any such forcing prevents people from acting on their own best judgement

That is not how societies work, if you believe Hydrogen cyanide is the best thing to paint your house that doesn't mean you are allowed to do it; it doesn't matter if you realize or not how poisonous it is.

jQueryIsAwesome··on I love you, dad
You think chemicals in our brain have something other chemicals don't?
jQueryIsAwesome··on I love you, dad
Humans are not predisposed to care for the weak, find me one science research that says such thing and I shall ask for the revocation of their title. Deformed kids get less empathy than normal kids; even when most of them are usually weaker. Cancer kids generate more empathy than normal kids, but is because non-deformed kids with their big eyes, little chubby hands, round faces and soft voices triggers an evolutionary empathy reaction specially when weak, very useful for keeping the horde alive.

Negative utilitarianism is so silly, happiness and suffering are absolutely subjective and multiple points of perception can't be outweigh because they are all independent and anyone reading this is just one more.

So everyone is suffering from this world except one man, the only reasonable thing is to end the world. Problem is that this conclusion would come from a suffering individual wish the only thing he haves to do to end the world is to kill himself; wish is completely unrelated with the faith of the world perceived by everyone else.

Not to mention the issue with current time, meaning an individual feeling severely depressed for 60 years that today somehow feels extremely happy will say that is not so bad, because emotions are blinding and are usually loosely attach with logic specially statistics.

The other thing is that there should be a way to end the world without provoking more suffering than it will get attempting it for negative utilitarianism to have real-life applications.

jQueryIsAwesome··on I love you, dad
You contradict yourself by saying that bad things are a logical result of multiple events and then saying that you "could" have done something different. Our brains are just a bunch of chemicals that form organic materials called neurons that process and share information using electric-chemical reactions called synapses. Meaning that if you are a murderer you are as responsable for killing as the sun for shining (that doesn't mean we shouldn't lock murderers aways, please don't bring that argument).
jQueryIsAwesome··on New Homepage
"I don't have the time" is an expression for "Is no relevant enough for me to do something about it". If your house gets on fire doesn't matter how busy you are at the moment you will do something about it.
jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
A little test show otherwise: http://imgur.com/hBuzt (Unlogged-in / Cookieless)

Perhaps is related to the kind of subjects you are searching for; or it may just personalization by google.

Or maybe we are both biased for ultimately silly reasons and the truth lies somewhere in the middle but the lack of available data reduces everything to mere speculation.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Gangnam Style in Pure CSS (Easter Egg by Google)

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jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
The bias of individuals play a major role in the historical and biographical accuracy of the articles they write, not so much in obscure songs. Also the credibility reduction in the public eyes is virtually none for mistakes in such things as obscure songs.
jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
I will gladly accept the bet if you can find a trustful way of getting that data, because honestly I can't think about one.

And you overall do have a point, but is not as strong as you think it is.

jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
"Use google please, our searching and listing algorithm is not as good as theirs".

Most people don't return to Google after the initial access to the website, they keep using the Wikipedia interface when they need to search related subjects.

And I will surely throw away some books from the library if random people were allowed to put their books in there.

And the killer blow is the second part.

jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
There is way too many people writing everyday in Wikipedia for time degradation to be a viable solution, plus it doesn't do anything for the problem of source curation.
jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
They came out for a solution for themselves, or do you happen to have the link to their github repo? Otherwise you may want to donate a few million dollars so they can come out with a similar solution.
jQueryIsAwesome··on The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
Its a noise to signal ratio problem; when you search for any person you don't want a list of one thousand people; you probably want to read about the few popularly know ones. Same thing happens with acronyms, dates and abbreviations.

Plus the big problem of sources curation, those are more unreliable in unpopular articles for the lack of eyeballs on them. The amount of work mods have to do would grow exponentially if they didn't take notability into account.

Of course Wikipedia could do better, but it is a hard problem, not an easy one.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Python 3 "Wall of Shame" Becomes "Wall of Superpowers" Today
Here you go; just paste it in the Javascript Console: https://gist.github.com/4264971 (FF and Chrome tested)

Just drag and drop the "requirements.txt" file over the website and that's it.

I sent the gist to the author of the app too (not the submitter) so perhaps he will include it in the code.

jQueryIsAwesome··on Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon
It is until it buys "Fifty shades of grey" and a XXL baby doll.
jQueryIsAwesome··on How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes
Yep, happens the same thing with comments (found out thanks to a mouse malfunction)
jQueryIsAwesome··on 23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
I'm sure that happens a lot; father is sterile so they use artificial insemination and they never let the kid know; is just that OP is one of the few who later found out.
jQueryIsAwesome··on Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM
In most sites those three are enough to crash the tab/browser.
jQueryIsAwesome··on Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM
I was trying to do this but it seems like the implementation haves a little bug: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/box2d-jquery/issues/1
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