@Aljosa23: Why are you obsessed with the US? It's fvcking weird.

When I was a kid I accidentally hit my sister with a golf club in the head and almost killed her. I had no idea she was standing right behind me when I swung.

The only thing that can solve this is more restrictions on golf clubs or an outright ban. Or just don't let your kids play golf. ACCIDENTS NEVER HAPPEN!!!!oneone

The gun instructor is wrong FYI. In the military, the first time you fire a machine gun you use more than a few rounds.

Anyways, the instructor made a mistake. Most gun ranges go to extremes to keep everyone safe. Relax, people.

82 people were shot in Chicago over 4th of July weekend this year in Chicago, one of the most anti-gun cities in the US. Only 10 in Houston, the city with some of the most lax gun laws.

That is all. You can shut up now.

Switzerland.

@Aljosa23: Apparently, it's okay to make fun of southern white culture by calling them rednecks, but "ghetto" is off the table to people who, well, live in the ghetto or act like they do. Ghetto culture is a culture, so please, stop acting like it doesn't exist.

@Barbariser: http://www.the-spearhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Gender-Wage-Gap-Final-Report.pdf

Here's one that was contracted by the DOL.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579483752909957472

Just a short WSJ article that uses data from the BLS.

@Barbariser:

My entire post was essentially about the talent pool being smaller for women who ARE STEM majors. Did you even read it?

Where I went to school, the engineering program had only a couple of females in it (my buddy was an engineering major). I was in the finance program and that was also 90% male. (This school has 40,000+ students). So, if only a handful of women are in those programs, that means the talent pool of women candidates is much smaller, which ultimately results in a smaller aggregate average wage for women in these fields. I already explained this, so I'm not going to delve deeper into it. Bottom line, there's going to be much better talent within the pool of men than the pool of women due to just sheer numbers. Like I said, if more women went into high paying fields this effect would be diminished.

I wasn't aware women were forced into any majors. They're free to choose whatever they want.

Oh, and there's plenty of statistics out there that say when you adjust for certain common sense things, the pay gap is essentially non-existent.

@Barbariser: What's your point? STEM majors are where the high paying jobs are and yet women choose other majors. You can't complain about getting "paid less" than men when only a very small fraction of women choose majors that are in high demand. The women talent pool for these jobs is a lot smaller because of this. It's like comparing a large nation's World Cup team to a smaller nations and not understanding why the smaller nation can't compete. The talent pool isn't as large. If more women chose high demand majors than this effect would be diminished.

Use your brain instead of letting emotions control you.

@Barbariser: Let me know when women make up at least half of STEM majors. Until then, shut up.

@jasean79: Fuel efficiency has greatly improved since 2004...