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Clinton, Bush, and Obama were all invited to sit down and talk by North Korea. Trump's dialed up rhetoric didn't lead to this offer. North Korea has sought one on one talks with a U.S. President for decades. Trump is simply the first POTUS to say yes. https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/politics/north-korea-trump-obama-bush-clinton/index.html

Donald Trump plans to sit down and speak face to face with Kim Jong-un. I assume Trump will being asking for North Korean to give up their Nuclear Weapons programs and allow inspectors in to ensure they have done so. Kim Jong-un will most likely be asking for all sanctions to be removed. I suspect the deal they (Trump and Jong-un) come to will be a removal of sanctions in return for no more future testing. Such an agreement is a bigger win for North Korea than the U.S. but it at least would dial down tensions. In my opinion talks between the U.S.and North Korea must include South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia if they are to produce a long term result. China and Russia are North Korea's 2 largest allies and the only reason North Korea hasn't collapsed. While South Korea and Japan are the 2 countries most at risk of North Korean hostility.

Exactly, the OP isn't clear with what they mean. Many people would prefer to be a mechanical engineer over a comptroller.

My understanding is that white collar typically is anything in finance, administration, Human Resources, and etc which do not involve labor while blue collar is anything that involves labor. That broad definition doesn't really speak to pay, education, competitiveness, or anything specific enough for me to take delve too deeply into the OP's question.. Design Engineers for example make great money, have high levels of education in numerous engineering fields (aerospace, electrical, civil, etc), yet still often put on hard hats and turn wrenches. Asking a GE wind turbine engineer who makes 3 figures what's holding them back from white collar work would be silly in my opinion. So I assume the OP has a specific salary, experience, education, or etc starting level or range in mind. Not all labor is low pay and unskilled just as not all office work is high paying and highly skilled. There is highly skilled labor and lowly skilled office staff.

Can you provide your definition of elaborate on your view of White Collar and Blue Collar? I think there are many jobs in STEM that pay very well, require high levels of education, and don't easily fit into the White or Blue category. Also many factors go into why people choose one career over another: pay, geography, hours, commute, work conditions, family tradition, work satisfaction, etc. I don't see it as an able vs unable paradigm.

Gun laws have been so lax for so long and gun ownership conflated with patriotism (in some circles) for so long that 4 guns really doesn't seem like much. I personally know people with seemingly full armories at there homes. I personally think it is crazy. It has taken a decade of debate and numerous mass shooting to even get to a point where large portions of the population are questioning the need for military grade assault weapons in their homes.

That is an inaccurate summary in my opinion. The discussion your reference went on for pages. Truncating it down for the chance to take a petty swipe is childish. It is a dead debate in a closed thread. If you would like to continue that discussion start a thread about whether or not actively costuming gun industry products is counter productive to achieving gun control. Otherwise you are just asking for an off topic argument.

Number one type of firearm related death is suicide. The number one type of firearm used in all firearm related deaths are handgun. Look at where the energy currently: stores choosing not to sell assault weapons, the President openly calling for a ban on bump stocks, student activism capturing the nations attention, and polls showing the majority of the nation supporting an assault weapon ban. After decades of inaction there is finally a chance for action because of the national mood following recent mass shootings. How does saying we should focus on broader issues that don't have even a tenth of the national agreement or momentum help anything? Yes, less people die per year in mass shootings than suicides. Yes, assault weapons kill less people per year than handguns. Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good shall we allow the moment to pass on assault weapons and bump stocks. Shift debate away from those "relatively low incidence" matters and focus on suicides? I don't believe there is any broad agreement about taking action of any kind on handguns. I also don't think there is any broad agreement about how to address firearm suicides. Currently the narrow spot light focused on assault weapons because of mass shootings in actually having an impact. Widening that light would be counter productive at this time. We are all starving. Lets eat some of the low hanging fruit on the few trees we have before trying to plant an entire orchard.

If the criterion for potential policy changes is empirical proof any specific change will eliminate all future mass shootings than we will never have policy change. Traffic laws do not prevent all traffic accidents any more than rape laws prevent all rape. The bar is set ridiculously high when arguments are launched implying specific policy changes aren't perfect; nothing is perfect. If it is better, if it can safe a life, than it is worth trying in my opinion.

It is illegal: Title 18 Section 208 of the U.S. code https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208 With his party and his nominees in control of all branches of govt the law simply isn't being enforced. Highways have speed limits and State Police to patrol them but those State Police aren't required to catch everyone who speeds. There is some discretion allowed in enforcement of all laws. Trump flexes that discretion to what was previously believed impossible. The words constitutional crisis were tossed around a bit prior to Trump's inauguration and since that time things have only gotten worse.

Depends on what's proposed. The cost of building 30ft walls and drawbridges around schools would be very different than including a paragraph about guns in an email sent out to students. I am not sure how we can discuss paying for anything in advance of suggestions.

A change to gun laws takes action from Congress and they have repeatedly refused to act. Surely there must be some small measures schools can take at the local level that would be useful? I don't mean that argumentatively. It just feels to me that waiting and hoping for Congress to do something is an all or nothing at all approach. There must be ways to improve safety while we wait on Congress.

I agree. What do you think would work?

There obviously needs to be a national approach. Congress clearly needs to act. However states, cities, schools, and etc still all have their individual polices that need review. Nationally we have drug laws, each state has their own drug laws, individual cities have their own enforcement standards, and etc. Campus security is a real thing that exists. Those in charge of campus security do need to have a strategy in place for how they can prevent and respond to threats whether that threat is bullying, drugs, or guns. When it comes to underage drinking, unprotected sex, drug use, school bullying, and etc parents and administrators don't throw their hands up in the air and declare those problems can only be solved at the national level. So why take that approach with guns? Kids are raised to be aware of drugs in their community, to be aware of the dangers of drinking and driving, aware of the dangers of unprotected sex, and a so on. We have trained (often armed) police officers at schools all over the country everyday. Their job is more or less in isolation in that they are there to specifically secure the individual campus they are on. So while I 100% agree Congress and the President need to act I also think it is worth considering all levels from the top down. Many colleges have their own campus police forces. A college campus be large and populated as a city. The challenges are abundant. That said Campus police are there to keep the peace. Considering new policies and strategies isn't a total waste of time. It doesn't cost anything to ponder how schools could shore of campus safety with respect to guns. If we accept that Congress must act or nothing can change what are we left with after Congress doesn't act?

1 - bad guys (as defined by individual bias) 2 - John Rambo style

I do not believe it is about liking the sound of ones own voice. There is more purpose to it that than. What conservatives have cultivated for decades and Trump took advantage of is the idea that reality can be willed and lied into existence. By fervently lying about things like climate change and evolution conservatives have successfully muddied the water enough that people are as broadly familiar with the junk science as they are the actual science. They exploit the relationship between what people hear most and what people assume is true; then conflate what is believed with what are facts. "Lock her up" is a great example. No politician alive today has been more thoroughly investigated than Hillary Clinton. Every thing Hillary Clinton has done for the last 30yrs of her life has been put under a legal microscope. No crimes have been uncovered. Yet millions of people feel Hillary Clinton is dishonest and or corrupt. Conservatives willed into existence a broad sense of unease about Hillary Clinton through vigorous lying. Even people who supported Clinton often concede she is deeply flawed. It is a feeling everyone has despite no tangible examples of illegality. Overwhelming the popular narrative with their own brand of the truth has been very successful for conservatives.

Yep! Militia literally meant militia and was not merely place holding word for anybody and everybody for whatever reason.

@rangerx, As the Northern Passage opens to greater extents every year and the amount of land ice in Canada continues to shrink it seems Canada will eventually become a major port of call for international trade. It will be more cost effective for goods to reach North America via the Northern Passage. I think in the future the majority of goods destined for the United States from Asia and Scandinavia will come ashore in Canada. Because of that Canada is in a strong negotiating position with the U.S. with regards to trade.

Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;-And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."

"Yeagley said the gun used in the shooting belonged to Davis' father, but wouldn’t say whether the father had brought the gun to the university's campus in Mount Pleasant, Mich., when picking up his son. It was also unclear whether the gun was the elder Davis’ police service weapon." "Davis Sr. was a police officer in west suburban Bellwood and an Illinois National Guard veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-central-michigan-shooting-arrest-20180303-story.html Good guy with a gun killed with his own gun. This campus murder shows the many challenges schools face. In this case the shooter had been acting erratically. Campus security was aware as were the students parents yet the student still had access to his fathers gun. Somehow the gun still ended up on campus.

Boeing, Lockheed, BAE systems, Northrop Grumman, and many others have large contracts with the Department of Defense (DOD). Trump has already boosted DOD spending for the next couple years. DOD approves new contracts seemingly everyday. It is ironic/stupid but Trump just made all the military upgrades he wants more expensive ( perhaps that was the point). https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Search/foreign/

At least two people have been killed in a shooting in a Central Michigan University dorm, according to troopers with the Michigan State Police post in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/02/2-shot-central-michigan-university-gunman-still-large/388570002/

Religion is often used to argue against science. When religion is being used in that fashion, to argue against science, the poster doing so doesn't get to use god as a shield. Being Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, or etc doesn't mean one is stupid. However using ones own take on religion to argue against evolution is stupid. I my experience posters do not label religion as stupid but rather they label the inaccurate arguments launched using religion as stupid. I think it is fair.

Start up costs for new facilities are steep and output at existing ones are probably already maximized. I doubt new facilities to open based on tariffs. Taxes and Tariffs can be changed anytime so long term investment based on them is a gamble in my opinion. I suspect businesses will just pay extra and pass those costs along to consumers in the short term. In the long term, if the 25% continues, industries will look to supplement with other materials to reduce costs.

Yes, energy and mass are related: In physics, mass–energy equivalence states that anything having mass has an equivalent amount of energy and vice versa, with these fundamental quantities directly relating to one another by Albert Einstein's famous formula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass–energy_equivalence I don't understand what your illustration is attempting to offer. I assume a new form of usable energy? Vortex's are not self propelled. They require external force. A whirlpool isn't moving the flowing water around it but rather the opposite is happening. It takes a conductor cutting (movement by force) magnetic lines of flux to produce electron flow.