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  1. Re:not beating on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    The preponderant majority of evidence, expert testimony, and jury conclusion points to Travon trying to beat George into the pavement.

    Maybe no-one teaches kids in the "black community" how to fist fight without trying to kill someone when they are already down. But thank God we live in a country where you don't have to just wait for the cops to come while you are being killed.

  2. Re:Trayvon Martin can Life Forever on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 2

    I much prefer a world where you can be beaten to death, but if you fight back and save your life, the guy who was trying to kill you gets asteroids named after him and the president praising him only because of his color.

  3. Re:Hey on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    AKA "The True Disbeliever" phenomenon.

  4. Re:Cross Country Skiing on Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. I was a hired mercenary for the dark ubergovernment of illuminati jews involved in countless illegal wars to advance the agenda of... i forget who. they gave us this big briefing and explained it all but they lost me when they started talking about how the CIA / Kennedys was trying to kill all the Christians AND topple the Godless regimes too. The intro video was good though.

    Anywho... on the topic of military equipment and its use in advancing my jew banker / ubergovernment christian / corpotocracy / and communist new world order (which is tricky, as you can imagine) I would think my opinion SHOULD carry a little bit of weight. More so than say... yet another batshit insane conspiracy theorist or arctic policy expert. At least as it pertains to the ground soldier.

  5. Re:I am just so proud of my government right now.. on Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quonset hut, you fucking retard.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut

  6. Re:Cross Country Skiing on Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I dunno if you have any experience pulling an ahkio sled for several miles with a squad in rucks and overwhites, but it freaking SUCKS. Tennis rackets or white rockets, it doesn't matter, it is an awful experience. There has been no experience in my life (which has experienced some exhausting things) that made me more exhausted.

    When some Canadian "Arctic policy expert" opines that no one needs a small, quiet, efficient prime mover because of a lack of "terrorists", I am reminded why no one asks "Arctic policy experts" about military matters. Same reason I don't ask soldiers about environmental policy.

  7. Re:But to really propel Russia Today to the fore.. on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Be fair. NPR, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times are Obama's Pravda.

    You will rarely if ever hear one of those outlets cast a critical eye towards liberal policies. They are are just as biased left as fox is biased right. u mad that one outlet disagrees with the rest?

  8. Re:Snowden is clearly in good hands on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1, Troll

    A former soviet communist hardliner turned autocratic dictator without a PR wing?

    RT is just Pravda. Interesting I find no mention of Pravda anywhere on this current page load.

    And all this snowden bullshit. You know... blow the whistle on domestic spying is one thing. Running straight to Russia and buying some asylum by blabbing about US spy activities in foreign countries makes him nothing but a traitor.

  9. I'm sure it has nothing to do with educational institutions teaching kids that "computing" means windows/office use or mac consumerism.
    And it has nothing to do with OEMs selling machines with windows only.
    And it has nothing to do with momentum or timing.
    It has nothing to to with PHBs only knowing what they see on TV or in magazine ads, or large advertising budgets.

  10. Re:Sensationalist summary at all? on Building a Full-Auto Gauss Gun · · Score: 1

    Well to be honest. "Gaussian" does blur the lines a bit.

    ba dump bump!

  11. Re:Sensationalist summary at all? on Building a Full-Auto Gauss Gun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really.

    Closed bolt machineguns require fairly precise contrivancnces to make the firing pin strike at the right time during the cycle of function. This includes most Automatic Rifles and Submachineguns that must have select fire capability (semi, burst, full. for example). In some cases, precise headspace is a factor also (how close the bolt face is to the breach when the firing happens), or the machinegun must have a variable headspace. The M2 .50 cal has variable headspace AND timing. Semi autos aren't just fully autos with something to stop them for this reason.

    If an M16 (or M4) was allowed to go full auto without a "disconnector", the hammer would be allowed to fall too early in the cycle. Best case would be failure to fire (cartridge not fully seated on bolt face yet), worst case would be an out-of-battery detonation with hot brass fragments flying out the ejection port.

    Open bolt machineguns, (M60, M249, M240, et al) are more like as you describe. The operating parts (including the bolt) would be more than happy to run away until the belt ran out if it weren't for that damn sear holding them back. Open bolt machineguns are not to be fired semi-automatically. Even purposely single-shooting them (unless only loading single rounds) wears down the sear and can lead to a runaway gun.

  12. Re:slavery and death by a thousand cuts on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    terrorists, pedophiles, yadda yadda

    A lot of people have set the bar even lower: they want free shit.

  13. Re:Facebook does it, Slashdot does it on Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity · · Score: 2

    Organic Astroturf is always more expensive at the store.

  14. Re:Refuse the search? on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is why I always answer the door wearing a balaclava.

  15. Re:150 lashes? on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 2

    Sitting here eating a Tootsie Roll Pop, imagining an Owl asking that question.

    And being glad I'm not a Saudi.

  16. Re:A place and time for anarchy? on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Reading your post, it is clear you never left your tv or computer.

    In two tours, I never saw any of that. I'm sure it happened, how many hundreds of thousands of troops cycled thru there for so many years? But you are talking about the exceptions as if they were the norm... a clear indicator of your ignorance.

    The UN Oil For Food Programme? You mean that thing that Saddam, the French, and the Russians were abusing for massive profits and arms deals for YEARS in spite of a UN embargo? And surprise, surprise... the same countries who threw the biggest fit over the invasion.

    And took what money? We never got any oil, nor did we ask Iraq to reimburse us. They are on their shaky little feet, well on their way to being some kind of country. We did all that and asked for nothing.

    Rule by dividing, huh? You clearly weren't there for countless attempts to get the Shiites, Kurds, Sunnis, and all the other ethnic / religious factions to get along. We were naive to think we could get them to live harmoniously in an artificial nation-state. No one had to divide them. We barely had to convince the Sunni militias in Al Anbar to fight the AQI boys... AQI made enough enemies of the local insurgents on their own, being out-of-towners.

    You've never been anywhere, never done anything. Just enjoy your conveniences. None of the worlds affairs really concern you.

  17. Re:A place and time for anarchy? on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    I handed out soccer balls, hygiene kits, school supplies, and candy. I cleared bombs off roads. I helped transport boxes of ballots filled with votes from people who never got that chance before.

    I never saw anyone getting brutalised who didn't start the gun fight.

    All that and we never took oil.

    So tell me, hero. What the fuck have YOU done?

  18. Re:Technology costs? on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 1

    But medicare and medicaid don't' take into account anything BUT the payment tables.

    YOUR bill is itemized, the government's bill isn't.

  19. Re:So What on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 0

    Government business will send guys with guns to your house to loot your treasury until there's nothing left. The voters are paid off. The fix is in.

    Watch a bunch of zombies eating the last survivor. That is socialism's future.

    Liberals are too fucking stupid to avoid it.

  20. Re:Technology costs? on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We all know that medical procedures require no setup, cleanup, assistance, explanation, or double checking, and of course are only done by one single doctor and no staff. Biling and coding, technology costs and training, facility costs.... those don't count either.

    Clock in, surgery, clock out.

  21. Re:Sounds iffy on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know, right?

    It is virutally impossible to detect Dihydroxen Monoxide once it gets into the ground water.

  22. Re:privacy? on "Smart Plates" Could Betray California Drivers' Privacy · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure that is a BAD use of the data.
    If speeding laws are stupid then we should address that issue.
    The same thing could be accomplished with a couple cops with stop watches.
    If simple math proves you broke the law, I can't really drum up the outrage in this case.
    I really tried though... but it IS thursday....

  23. Re:How does one pee for 24h straight ? on Cell Phone Powered By Urine · · Score: 2

    I heard the new iPhone 6 has the catheter tube in the bottom!

  24. Re:Mob rule on Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder · · Score: 3, Interesting
  25. Re:A whole 100,000 bucks? on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 1

    Acting like the world owes you some "room and board" because you go to college? If you don't go to college, you sill have to live somewhere. If you work, you still have to live somewhere.

    "Room and board" is no more a cost of education as it is a cost of being an aspiring golf pro.

    I provided X service in exchange for Y incentive package. Just like any job. No entitlement, just quid pro quo. Many employers offer something like that.

    At the heart of the issue here is: no one owes you shit, even if you are going to college. Fees, books, tuition... THOSE are costs of education. And back to the origional point: The average college in the US costs less than $100,000 for tuition, books, and fees for a four year degree.