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Re: Populism why do so MPs say it like it's a bad word ..
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wolf_norris
on 15/08/2018, 17:45:21 UTC
Wow, so much anger. Thanks for explaining what populism is. I actually wasn't so familiar with the word before. I'm not sure if politician really hate people. I think that they often don't even know what they want when they run for office. It's like a goal to have a big title on your resume. To get some "power". To makes some "changes". Then when they finally win, they often don't know what to do. They spend so much time just trying to get people to calm down, to do just enough so the people won't complain so much. I'm sure a lot of politicians are happy when their term finally ends.
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Re: What will the cities of the future look like?
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wolf_norris
on 14/08/2018, 11:04:33 UTC
Full of empty shops and tents with homeless living in them all over the pavements ..

Amazon many tech online companies also Dapps Apps will reduce the workforce in the high street   bars clubs and what not BUT if no many have money then your bars clubs and what not will be EMPTY ..

So i imagine it to be like this NOW remember the TECH industry rules in this part of the world and yet still with all the monies floating around you see this..
Oh and it wont get better because   WELL i let you work it out..

 https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=san+francisco+homeless&&view=detail&mid=2F163CEA47432A8D20292F163CEA47432A8D2029&&FORM=VRDGAR

ENJOY  THE FUTURE ^^^^


Why such a pessimistic prognosis? What are Dapps Apps? How about you explain your logic a bit more? I can't "work it out". So, you think that companies like Amazon will take a lot of jobs from people. They will run other companies out of business? What makes you think that people won't have any money? There are plenty of ways people make money other than in retail. Many of the homeless people in San Francisco actually choose to live that way. There are so many programs available to help people, that they could get out of it if they really wanted to.
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Re: What will the cities of the future look like?
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wolf_norris
on 13/08/2018, 16:36:17 UTC
To be honest, I think our future will realize all our scifi fantasies! Think about it… It’s all starting -AI, self-driving cars or flying cars, then there’s blockchain tech and virtual currencies. Then there are talks now about space colonization as well as immersion into a virtual world. Mind-blowing, right? I just read about it in this discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/transhumanism/comments/91g7yd/should_we_focus_on_space_colonization_or_digital/.
One thing is for sure –our future will be so high-tech and way beyond what our imagination can create.
I opened up the link. It does all look fairly interesting. Could you elaborate on the virtual world thing. The thread on Reddit seems to just mention it as if we should already know what they're talking about. Is this something like the Matrix? People would just be connected to a computer and live in a virtual world? I don't really think that's a great idea. I think it could be cool to go to a world like that for brief periods of time, but it's much nicer to just live in the real world. I just had one idea though. Maybe everybody's homes could be in a virtual world. Then you would just require one spot in a chair per person, instead of actually building huge houses. That could be an interesting thing to explore.
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Re: Knowledge is the foundation
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wolf_norris
on 12/08/2018, 12:36:55 UTC
It is needful to say that before the completion of a magnificent building, it starts from the foundation, therefore, to excel as a crypto enthusiast you must start from the foundation, which is through the acquisition of knowledge.
I will not deny the fact that learning is a continuous process, but whoever is coming newly into crypto, should try as much as possible to learn first the rudiments before venturing into any aspect of crypo in order to avoid making costly mistakes.
What you already know cannot be taken away from you...
So, start from the foundation today and get the best from the crypto space.
I agree. This is key. A lot of people just jump into the deep end, it seems. I mean, they can be a way of learning. You learn quite quickly from failure usually. It comes at a great cost though. It's best to learn as much as you can in advance, so you can get off to a good start. It costs a bit more time, but it takes a lot less losses in money typically.
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Re: What's your opinion of gun control?
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wolf_norris
on 11/08/2018, 15:56:12 UTC
⭐ Merited by Flying Hellfish (1)

I agree that life is risky, of course. I realize that we will never get to "zero", but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't aim for it. You think it's better to aim for 1 murder per year? Per day? Maybe 10 murders a month? Is that a good goal? Of course you want to stop all of them, even if you know you won't be able to.

It absolutely DOES mean that 'we' would NOT 'aim for it.'  It will be hugely expensive in a number of ways to try to grab all guns and has zero chance of being effective anyway.  The only thing which it will accomplish in the U.S. is that the ratio of armed responsible citizens to armed criminals will be vastly less, and there will be a blood bath.  Most of the blood will be that of the responsible civilians since criminals will switch from non-confrontational crime to confrontational crime when they can do so safely.

Currently criminals cannot rely on confrontational crime in rural areas with very low police protection, and there is limited such protection because it is simply not economically feasible to employ a large police force in such areas.  The guiding hands funding/motivating the 'gun grabbers' are fully aware of these dynamics, but they also tend to believe that citizens should be aggregated into dense population centers where they can be more easily monitored and the rural areas should be minimally inhabited (mostly by their own staff engaged in resource extraction.)  Rampant crime will provide another justification for population movements.
You still don't really answer the question. You don't think it would be good to have zero gun violence. I understand that it is pretty much an impossible number to attain. What do you think is a good goal then? How would you put it? You seriously think that criminals don't commit crimes because they know that other people have guns? Why don't criminals with guns commit many crimes in Canada, for example, when they know that people almost definitely won't have guns? Do you have an explanation for that?
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Re: What's your opinion of gun control?
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wolf_norris
on 10/08/2018, 14:22:27 UTC
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The U.S. has plenty of gun control and these problems are at a tolerable level and most of them dropping.  Those which are not dropping will only get worse as citizens are dis-armed.
What is a tolerable level of gun crime, accidental gun deaths, gun suicides, and police shootings? That seems like a ridiculous statement. How much gun violence is okay in your mind? Is it tolerable until your kid accidentally shoots your wife? Is it tolerable until the cops start shooting at you? Where can you draw the line? I don't think any of those statistics should be tolerable. Everything should be done to get them as close to 0 as possible.

All your questions are things that gun control by government promotes. The difference is that government controls it all rather than everyday people controlling.

If you want to live free, you have to stand up and take responsibility for how you live. You control your guns with your kids all the time. You train your kids how to be responsible for their actions. You don't leave your guns lying around so your kids can get them without proper overseeing.

Gun control by government is simply all the crimes being done by government because government has the strength if they have the gun control.

Cool
Well, I don't see how you can control whether the cops shoot you or not. Cops shooting innocent people is a part of the gun culture. Any slight movement can be interpreted as somebody going for a gun. How about just gun violence in general? You think that it's okay if people just rob you at gun point a little bit? So that it's tolerable?
I personally know of no-one who has accidentally shot their wife or husband.  I do know of situations where a person has accidentally hit their wife on the head with a sledge hammer driving fence posts.  Fortunately it did not severely injure her.  I know of a situation where a person ran over his wife while trying to jump-start an automobile.  Unfortunately this did result in a fatality.

Being alive and actually doing things in the real world is a risky thing (but some weirdos actually enjoy it...go figure.)  Sitting on the couch an watching TV all day helps...until you reach about age 50 then it still helps, but mostly it helps the medical/industrial complex.

A skilled engineer will almost never try to get to 'zero.'  We know the trade-offs which occur most of the time, and we balance these in a coherent manner.  A starry-eyed utopian dreamer will always shoot for zero.  More commonly so will a brainwashed retard who listens to their bullshit.  Or more often they are listen to a cold and calculating engineer who is spinning yards of utopian bullshit for the masses but who has an entirely different agenda in mind.
I guess to some extent your answer goes right along with what I'm saying. Do people accidentally shoot themselves or their loved ones? Absolutely, and this obviously happens more where there are more guns. You don't know anybody that this has happened to and, therefore, it's tolerable to you. I think it would be a different conversation if you were one of the "tolerable" statistics.

I agree that life is risky, of course. I realize that we will never get to "zero", but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't aim for it. You think it's better to aim for 1 murder per year? Per day? Maybe 10 murders a month? Is that a good goal? Of course you want to stop all of them, even if you know you won't be able to.
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Re: What's your opinion of gun control?
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wolf_norris
on 09/08/2018, 11:51:46 UTC
The U.S. has plenty of gun control and these problems are at a tolerable level and most of them dropping.  Those which are not dropping will only get worse as citizens are dis-armed.
What is a tolerable level of gun crime, accidental gun deaths, gun suicides, and police shootings? That seems like a ridiculous statement. How much gun violence is okay in your mind? Is it tolerable until your kid accidentally shoots your wife? Is it tolerable until the cops start shooting at you? Where can you draw the line? I don't think any of those statistics should be tolerable. Everything should be done to get them as close to 0 as possible.
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Re: What's your opinion of gun control?
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wolf_norris
on 08/08/2018, 12:18:27 UTC
Gun ownership control against tyranny of a Government has no relevance.
Private guns against Government guns is a no contest.

Unless you are keen to go out in a bullet blaze of glory - gun ownership does not increase your survival chances.

Government tyranny and control develops slowly - in the minds of people. If you have a gun you will be isolated and disarmed. One by one.

I see people terrorized by police in the USA now. People shot because police think they have a gun.

Massacres that are happening in gun toting countries - you cannot convince people in such a society that their guns are responsible for it.

How effective is any resistance against a modern equipped army with handguns and rifles ? The weapons that are effective are already banned in the US.
Anyone got an RPG ? Surface to air missiles? armed aircraft ? Machinegun made after 1986 ?

One of my US friends told me his neighbor shot herself yesterday. Suicide by gun (by far the easiest method) is 46 times higher in the USA than in the United Kingdom.


Lack of gun control means:

More gun crime
More accidental gun deaths
More gun suicides
More police shootings
Increased likelihood of an armed intruder in your home.

Proper gun control means:
People with mental health issues do not have access to guns. Criminals do not have easy access to guns. People should not need have to have guns for "protection". (It would imply that criminals have access to guns)

A perfectly sane person should be able to have recreational use of a gun.  Tank ? Hell yeah - I want one of those.
Man, this really is an endless debate. You make a very good point about civilian guns vs. government guns. If you imagine a guy with a pistol vs. the army, then he probably doesn't have much of a chance. The fact that countries with more guns have more gun violence, suicide by gun, and cops killing people who look like they might have a gun, but don't, that's more than enough for me to not want to life in a country with a big gun culture. Do you think there's a solution for the US? How could you make it less of a gun country? Wouldn't it be hard to get rid of the mass amount of weapon that are already out there?
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Re: What's your opinion of gun control?
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wolf_norris
on 07/08/2018, 15:23:47 UTC
Stalin, Hitler and Mao were some of the biggest supporters of gun control, and together they killed as many as 200 million. How did they do it? They used the guns they had control of. How did they get control of the guns? Through gun control.


LOL what a load of bullshit ! Back up that statement with historical facts. Here are some historical facts:

Hitler

Most of the gun control in Germany came from the Versailles Treaty around 1919. Germans were banned from possessing firearms.

Treaty of Versaille, imposed by the allied powers
Article 169 "Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, German arms, munitions, and war material, including anti-aircraft material, existing in Germany in excess of the quantities allowed, must be surrendered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers to be destroyed or rendered useless."

In 1928, the gun control laws were made less severe.
The Nazis actively campaigned against gun control legislation.
Hitler didn't come to power till 1933 ! Hitler didn't take guns, he made it easier for people to get guns !
Hitlers 1938 law actually weakened gun control and made it easier for everyone except Jews to own guns !
In 1938 the legal age at which guns could be purchased was lowered from 20 to 18.
By 1938 Hitler had so much control that no matter how many guns the Jews had it wouldn't have saved them.
The Russian Army lost 8-10 million men fighting the Wehrmacht and another 14 million civilians - the Russians had machine guns, tanks, anti aircraft guns, aircraft, explosives etc.

https://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

Mao

Mao didn't take away guns. Not only did people living in the country have rifles for hunting, some communities even had small artillery pieces and anti aircraft guns.    

Of course it was under the proper direction of the party. It wasn't hard to get or own a gun during Mao's time.

It is only after Deng Xiao Ping took over that the militias were gradually banned, and their weapons were confiscated.  

Stalin

Private citizens could own hunting weapons if they had police permission. Police and militia could confiscate guns of people that showed "irresponsible behaviour"

In 1929-30 there was a clampdown on guns. - so Stalin exercised gun control.

Of the 6 million people that perished under Stalin it is said that 3 million starved to death. Maybe they could have eaten their gun if they still had one.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/little-gun-history/

Thanks for this very detailed post. It's annoying when people throw around statements without any facts. I like it when people do their research. I'm not really sure what to take of all this though. So, these three leaders were responsible for the death of millions. For at least some time, the all had very lax gun control laws. So, will more murders happen when there is less gun control? Or will there be less? Or perhaps it's not correlated at all?
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Re: Who Poisoned Mr. Skripal?
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wolf_norris
on 06/08/2018, 18:47:57 UTC
The most logical explanation is that the event was ordered by the " Deep State", and the hit was done by a German EU asset working in Porton Down. Had the Russians done it, then it would have been a professional hit, not the amateur botch up that one expects from EU "assets". There is no conceivable reason for the Russians to have done it, by the way.

That is the only explanation that fits all of the "facts" that have come to light.
Could you explain in a little more detail? Why wouldn't the Russians have any motivation? Didn't Skripal betray Russia? What would make Germans want to kill him? The article I shared implies that they've identified several Russians that were involved in the assassination attempt. You don't believe that? What makes you think that Russian assassins are better than Germans?

A simple cost-benefit analysis would show that clearly, a blatent poisoning like this has much more damage back home than it does good. Putin isn't stupid, if he really wanted revenge then he would do it in a way that wouldn't point all the evidence back to him. Russians are certainly not clumsy when it comes to spy work.

So who did it then? Well the "evidence" that the poison came from Siberia is far from damning--anyone can waltz across the border to Kazakhstan and then hop on the next flight to London with a bit in his pocket. But it certainly is a good way to lay the blame on someone...
You didn't really answer as to why you think the Russians are better at assassinations than the Germans. Why do you think the Germans would do it at all? If they did, they perhaps they did a pretty damn good job, if they made it seems like the Russians did it. If Putin is so concerned about damage being done "back home", why isn't he more forthcoming in helping in the investigation? It sounds like you watch a lot of Russian propaganda. You write as if you think it's impossible for the Russian government to do something stupid.
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Re: Who Poisoned Mr. Skripal?
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wolf_norris
on 05/08/2018, 13:13:32 UTC
The most logical explanation is that the event was ordered by the " Deep State", and the hit was done by a German EU asset working in Porton Down. Had the Russians done it, then it would have been a professional hit, not the amateur botch up that one expects from EU "assets". There is no conceivable reason for the Russians to have done it, by the way.

That is the only explanation that fits all of the "facts" that have come to light.
Could you explain in a little more detail? Why wouldn't the Russians have any motivation? Didn't Skripal betray Russia? What would make Germans want to kill him? The article I shared implies that they've identified several Russians that were involved in the assassination attempt. You don't believe that? What makes you think that Russian assassins are better than Germans?
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Re: Who Poisoned Mr. Skripal?
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on 04/08/2018, 13:12:04 UTC
There has been a bunch of news since this case came up. Just a month or so ago a women found a perfume bottle in a park with poison in it. She has since died. This event helped them identify some suspects on CCTV cameras. They are Russians. I don't think it's hard to believe that Russia would try to kill Skripal. They consider him a traitor to their country. You can read more details about what's new here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/19/police-identify-skripal-novichok-salisbury-poisoning-suspects
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Re: Racism
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wolf_norris
on 03/08/2018, 15:14:33 UTC
Racism has been on increase in some countries like never before, there are some countries that if you don't have a particular colour of skin, hair, eyes you can't just enter some places or gathering. This is an unfortunate occurrence.
I think Africans especially black Africans are the most affected by this anomaly.
FIFA, UEFA are taking a drastic measure against whosoever that is guilty of racism in football. We are all one, let all united to discourage racism.
Wow, are there really places that still have segregation like that? Could you please share some examples? I haven't heard of anything so blatant like that recently. It's a little funny that you say "especially black Africans" suffer racism. Do you think that white Africans suffer racism more that other white people? I feel like you are right about black people though. The segregation was horrible in the US before. They had different toilets and different drinking fountains for black people. They had separate designated seats on buses. I think they even had separate cinemas. Is there a place like that now?
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Re: What will the cities of the future look like?
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wolf_norris
on 02/08/2018, 12:50:29 UTC
Well, i see cities in future using high technologies. A lot of gadgets that can be use to make living easy and convenient. We dont need to go out everything is done online. Even houses are using remote controlled gadgets. Those things i see in the future.
It seems like you're talking about now. There are so many gadgets that make things more convenient. In big cities you don't really need to go out at all, if you don't want to. You can order groceries or cooked food online. You can have teachers come teach you at home or via the internet. Even if you get sick, you could have a doctor come to you. I've never heard of it, but I'm sure it would even be possible to have a dentist come to you. If I didn't want to, I think I could almost never leave my apartment. Sometimes I do go for 2 or 3 days without going outside.
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Re: What will the cities of the future look like?
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wolf_norris
on 01/08/2018, 14:26:55 UTC
since IOT(internet of things) is on the process of being a part of our daily life, imagine all things being automated, cabs w/out drivers, high rise buildings with a robot assistant to welcome you a smokefree ride and maybe some old school bicycles for those that support environmental care but i would not remove beggars from the future city or include flying cars as it would not be practical putting in our world's gasoline reserves unless there would be a modern way of transportation that does not depend on gas, yeah there are electrically dependent mobiles but not that efficient to make an airplane fly or a ship move in water.
It's fascinating that most of the things we are discussing here are just a continuation of what we already have. We even think in terms of limitations we are familiar with. There actually already are electric planes. You're right, it is more challenging to make electric planes because of our limitations on battery technology, but if it's already possible, there's a good chance the technology will only make it more possible. Between 2015-2016 a solar powered plane circumnavigated the whole world! You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse. Maybe the future we be even cooler than we can imagine.
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Re: Racism
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wolf_norris
on 31/07/2018, 13:33:13 UTC
there are two sides:
no discrimination in relation to people on the one hand, it is unfair
the second side: i'm against migration, because i do not want another people to live in my country where I pay taxes and build the opportunities for my family and children, not for  others.
I'm very curious about what country you are from. Almost all countries have a long history of immigration. Did your ancestors never migrate? I doubt that. Migration is natural it has been happening throughout all the history of the world. If you are from a poorer country, maybe you are getting immigrants from a country that's even poorer. That could be a problem. If your country has good immigration policies, they can recruit many highly qualified immigrants than can bring much to your country's economy. Migration can be a very good thing for both parties, the immigrant and the receiving country.
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Re: Racism
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wolf_norris
on 30/07/2018, 11:15:15 UTC
In my country in Indonesia, racism is rampant. between religions has begun to happen. but we are 1 country, but still racist minded to different religion. I'm confused myself can happen something like this. we as human beings should help each other, love and appreciate. not hate or insult. I hope all human beings understand each other

This has nothing to do with race but religion so this is not racism.
It could have something to do with racism, if most people from one race are from one religion. This can have strange results. You could take Arabs, for example. Most Arabs seem to be Muslim, but certainly not all of them. There are many Christians in Egypt, for example. They are ethnically Arabs, but their religion is Christianity. Some people may have some bigotry towards Muslims. If they associate Arabs with Islam, then that may be racist towards Arabs that aren't even Muslim based on race because they've associated all Arabs with Islam in their head.
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Re: Racism
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wolf_norris
on 28/07/2018, 11:55:55 UTC
Hi! Today, I want to talk about a topic that I've experienced multiple times in my life, in this country. And that's racism! How do you view racism? Is it still alive in this country, in your opinion? Have you ever experienced racism in your life? How did you handle your racist experience?
This sounds like something an American would write. "This country"? As if everybody who speaks English is from your country? Maybe you should start by saying what country you're writing from. I look Caucasian and thus I haven't really ever felt like I've been discriminated against. I can remember one time while I was traveling through Africa, when I was treated different. It took me 8 hours to cross the border between Egypt and Sudan. A few hours before the end, one of the border officials called me into his office. I was the only white person on the border. We just apologized for the wait and let me sit in the air conditioned room the whole time. It was a bit awkward because everybody else was waiting in the heat, but I was grateful.
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Re: What will the cities of the future look like?
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wolf_norris
on 27/07/2018, 16:52:56 UTC
Cities that already exist will look very different from new cities that will arise. I remember recently reading an article about a city that they are planning to build somewhere in the Middle East. It said that the entire city will have an environmental control system to keep it cool in the desert heat. I think that an ideal new city will take care of all transportation. Nobody will be driving cars. It should be easy for all people to get anywhere they need to with some kind of automated system. They should also have an efficient way to get good into the city. Perhaps they could bring containers of good into the city through some kind of underground tunnels. I agree that buildings will probably keep getting taller. Renewable energy will become more and more pervasive.
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Re: Reasons for political instability among citizens of a country?
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wolf_norris
on 26/07/2018, 16:32:50 UTC
I think that a big cause of political instability can be when people are greatly divided in a country or region. If half the people want one type of government and half want another this can cause big problems. There will often be minority governments. Of course, one person will always get elected, but half the population will be unhappy. They will protest so many of the decisions that are made. They can even cause a reelection to happen. If there actually is a reelection and they win, then the other half of the population can be unhappy. I don't know what it is that can cause such great divides, but something I think it's done on purpose. It's all a big show. Companies throw around big money behind the scenes.  They want people to be divided and focus more on that than what the real problems their country is facing.