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AI-powered cameras become new tool against mass shootings

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Post by RaceWon »

onion2k wrote: post #66
RaceWon wrote: post #64

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> The notion that anyone in Britain would ever need a deadly weapon to defend themselves is completely alien here. We just ... don't. I'm American, and Your Country is The Sole reason why we will Not give Up our right to defend ourselves against any Government--And most Especially our own. We Just... Won't. A quick look around the Globe at Nations that Enslave and/or Torture their Citizens because they can, because t…

The reason you aren't enslaved or tortured isn't because you have guns.

> The reason you aren't enslaved or tortured isn't because you have guns.

Of course Not... but it Is the reason We never will be.

Re: AI-powered cameras become new tool against mass shootings

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Post by RaceWon »

mcny wrote: post #47
rayiner wrote: post #39

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Saying it louder doesn’t make the point less ridiculous. Mass shooting deaths have never exceeded 80 per year. Nobody is panicked about West Nile fever anymore, but it still causes 100+ deaths per year. You’d think engineers would be resistant to such blatant emotional manipulation, but I guess not.

Neil Degrasse Tyson tried to use reason. You can't use reason when it comes to things like this. Sure, on a macro level guns kill fewer people than cars do but there are smart people working hard to try to prevent deaths by cars*. Sure, we could and should do better. For example, why doesn't any SUV come standard with built in car seats in the back for infants and children? I watched a ted talk from back in 2009 whic…

> but there are smart people working hard to try to prevent deaths by cars*.

No. There really isn't. The solution is simple and every racer knows what it is: teach skid control and proper use of the brakes. That's half the equation right there; the other half is eye technique which would be more difficult to become proficient in But for God's sakes At Least stop telling people to "watch where you going"--which is certain "death" when the car starts to slide, and instead start telling them to "look where they want the car to go".

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Post by prepend »

onion2k wrote: post #41
prepend wrote: post #27

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Countries have different belief systems and thus are different. The U.K. has a queen, with the best real estate in the country set aside for personal use. While that seems really inefficient to me as a Frenchperson, I understand that British people like it. I’ve categorized this in the category of things that I’ve noticed but am not interested in enough to work toward the explanation, but if I ever learn it I’ll rema…

The U.K. has a queen, with the best real estate in the country set aside for personal use. Most of the state-owned "crown estates" land is open to the public.

Try taking a tour of Buckingham Palace. Compare it to the available of France’s “crown estates” :)

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Post by [deleted] »

RaceWon wrote: post #70
king_magic wrote: post #69

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Some local police forces in the US have firepower comparable to some small nation’s militaries. If any sort of true tyranny came to pass in the US, I don’t have much faith in a bunch of rag tag right wing militia men hiding in the woods fighting back with much success.

> Some local police forces 60 MILLION gun owners... and they All have more than one gun. That's enough guns for Every Man Woman, and Child. Good Luck beating us ;)

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Post by hobos_delight »

braythwayt wrote: post #35
AstralStorm wrote: post #33

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I think this is a Judge Dredd reference, is that correct?

You youngsters! It’s a Westworld reference. No, not the television show. The original 1973 Yul Brynner picture.

ED-209 was from the first Robocop.

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Post by MiroF »

king_magic wrote: post #57
MiroF wrote: post #53

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Let me flip this on you: I care about people who are dying because they don't have healthcare, not your dumb political games on guns. Sure, you can spend a year agitating for laws that will ultimately save a few hundred of people throughout the country, meanwhile people routinely die because they aren't paid a living wage, can't afford basic medication to survive, and can't afford shelter. If you're telling me I'm ab…

It’s profoundly sad that preventing hundreds of people being shot to death per year in the US in mass shootings somehow doesn’t quality for “helping society”. To me, yes, that is absurd. This happens nowhere else . It is insane. It’s not posturing: this is batshit crazy. And guess what, I’m also for expanded healthcare. I just don’t want that to have to include caring for even a fraction of the population having larg…

Let's be clear that the "prevention" being suggested is monitoring high schoolers faces with AI tracking cameras to see if there are any signs of anger or discontent.

Yes, there are some prices too high to pay and that is certainly one of them.

Gun control? Yes, sure most of us can agree on that. But that's not the context that I was responding to you with.

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Post by noir_lord »

hobos_delight wrote: post #75
braythwayt wrote: post #35

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You youngsters! It’s a Westworld reference. No, not the television show. The original 1973 Yul Brynner picture.

ED-209 was from the first Robocop.

It was indeed but I figured they where joking.

Original RoboCop isn't exactly obscure among geeks around my age.

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