They can use parts of the razor sharp dell cases as machetes to kill people in different tribes, thus reducing the amount of people in the country and creating an increase of food available per capita.
Pretty much all (Western and Eastern) European home construction is concrete / brick based and this extends through most of Russia and large parts of the rest of the world. Building out of wood is a foreign concept for a large number of people in the world. Many countries don't exactly have huge forests either - nothing like what we enjoy in North America. Basically Europe is completely deforested. There are forests, sure, but they would be gone pretty quickly if people started building homes out of wood.
As for the engineering aspects - concrete is strong and you can easily drop a concrete slab as the floor on your second story if you use walls of reasonable thickness - or you can use wood flooring suspended on a central beam(s) or one of dozens of other ways that builders use to suspend a floor in a wood house. Very few houses in Europe are only 1 story.
I've seen pre-fabed buildings being put together (and quickly) in Poland and Eastern Europe using both methods - a crane, a few hours and a welder is all it takes to get the structure done since the buildings come on the truck with rebar in place, holes and supports already in the concrete. Pretty cool actually.
Assembling a house out of brick isn't terribly difficult either - many people in Eastern Europe build their own houses, by hand, slowly, after they come back from their day jobs or whatever. Try doing that with wood construction and you'll end up with a crooked house that falls down in a year.
There is also a newer technology under the category of "insulated concrete forms" (ICF) - basically big hollow styrofoam blocks that you assemble like legos and fill with concrete (they have internal structure and rebar holding them together)
A house built with ICF has superior insulating properties (and does a fair job of blocking wifi signals too;)
Well, LAX had people standing outside in half mile long lines in front of the airport (as opposed to inside the terminal), but yeah. Even if you ignore the possibility of someone with malicious intent, having people stand around on the asphalt at a major airport was stupid and dangerous to those in line.
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The only people in the case with a conscience are the jurors, the prosecutor and the judge had no qualms. That's not really a surprise though, not too many defense attorneys become judges. In fact, the more people you imprison as a prosecutor, the better your chance to become a judge or hold public office - this combined with prosecutorial immunity - and the fact that charges are rarely filed against prosecutors who engage in clearly illegal behavior such as destroying evidence - is why the legal system in the USA is so fucked up.
And, as you can clearly see, the idiots on the juries on each and every single one of these cases ate the bullshit the prosecution's expert witness threw at them. The lack of funding to defense attorneys by the state ensures that the prosecution's witness is the only one your average jury will see. And because most juries are composed of people who have barely completed what passes for a "high school education" in this country, the will smile and nod their head and convict you.
My only concern with a locked and loaded pistol is that it will fire and cycle if there is a house fire. I'll probably not be around, but it could endanger firefighters as well as anyone down range...
For handguns, I always lock the slide back and insert the lock through the barrel instead of through the side (the lock has a protective coating, so the barrel doesn't get scratched. Seeing something is run through the barrel ensures that a round wasn't left in the chamber either...
IIRC, if the loaded magazine is stored in a separate locked container you're ok, but gun laws are such a patchwork, check with your local cops or whoever.
ATF will no longer approve ATF Form 6 applications for importation of any frames, receivers, or barrels for firearms that would be prohibited from importation if assembled. No exceptions to the statutory language, for example for "repair or replacement" of existing firearms, will be allowed.
Not sure when you went to school, but chemistry has sort of devolved into "balance this equation and then do the same to the next 300 equations" instead of actually teaching kids about chemistry and promoting creative thinking. I see the same thing helping my younger siblings with their homework and it's rather depressing. This is in stark contrast to chemistry textbooks I picked up from the '60s and '70s. Suppose it depends on your teachers.
Conversion to full auto is a relatively trivial thing to do on most semi automatic firearms - heck, the SKS goes full auto pretty frequently by accident. If you've never worked with metal, sure, it might be a little difficult, but you can learn.
Besides, do you really need full auto when you can buy a mosin nagant for $65 that will rip through pretty much every single piece of body armor on the market - this is the rifle that got Simo Häyhä 505 confirmed kills in a 3 month period...
In most states you don't need any kind of a permit to buy handguns (and especially nothing to buy ammo)
I'm not even an American and bought several handguns, rifles and shotguns without a permit of any kind in Oregon and would be able to purchase and own firearms like that in the majority of states. I get delayed 3 hours or whatever it takes the NICS folks to get an all clear but never had a problem otherwise..
To make it clear, the states that require licenses and registration are a very small minority.
The only difference is that this case is being brought by people who have a vested interest in keeping their reputation "clean". Intent is also important on the other side.
It probably comes from my "I don't give a half fuck about you, your friends at school and your social circle" view on life. I really don't care what Alice was wearing to school and how hot she looked. I don't care about your mom and her cookies. I REALLY don't care about your fucking history assignment. I'm not alone. There are dozens of services that create audio links between you and (only) your friends, if you want to chat about stuff that other people don't care about, use one of those services. Otherwise, you're just the same as an asshole on a bus yelling into his phone about his herpes test.
I'll have to admit that a small part of me wanted someone to drive up in a large vehicle and drive through the lines outside the airport killing and injuring dozens when the TSA retards had people lined up outside of the airport buildings in the last "security crisis"
It usually consists of a strip search with a cavity check performed by homosexual TSA agents who derive "great pleasure" from conducting one. That and missing your flight.
Although I despise the "voice trolls" and think that voice chat has become pretty much useless because of them, I'm really confused by people who sit their 8 year old kids in front of a screen and let them play counterstrike or other violent games and then complain about vulgar language.
I really don't see how you can feel that it is OK to have little Timmy splatter someone's brains all over a wall with a gun but it is patently offensive if he hears (or sees in text chat) the word "goddamnit".
Don't even get me started on parents who play CS with their 3 year old kids sitting in their lap.
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Bitching about multipart rars? Grow the fuck up.
Ditto here, nary a fucking glimpse of this "controller"
Are you using RTM? The hybrid sleep mode as you describe it failed virtually all of the time for me in RC1 on an acpi compliant system.
They can use parts of the razor sharp dell cases as machetes to kill people in different tribes, thus reducing the amount of people in the country and creating an increase of food available per capita.
Pretty much all (Western and Eastern) European home construction is concrete / brick based and this extends through most of Russia and large parts of the rest of the world. Building out of wood is a foreign concept for a large number of people in the world. Many countries don't exactly have huge forests either - nothing like what we enjoy in North America.
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Basically Europe is completely deforested. There are forests, sure, but they would be gone pretty quickly if people started building homes out of wood.
As for the engineering aspects - concrete is strong and you can easily drop a concrete slab as the floor on your second story if you use walls of reasonable thickness - or you can use wood flooring suspended on a central beam(s) or one of dozens of other ways that builders use to suspend a floor in a wood house. Very few houses in Europe are only 1 story.
I've seen pre-fabed buildings being put together (and quickly) in Poland and Eastern Europe using both methods - a crane, a few hours and a welder is all it takes to get the structure done since the buildings come on the truck with rebar in place, holes and supports already in the concrete. Pretty cool actually.
Assembling a house out of brick isn't terribly difficult either - many people in Eastern Europe build their own houses, by hand, slowly, after they come back from their day jobs or whatever. Try doing that with wood construction and you'll end up with a crooked house that falls down in a year.
There is also a newer technology under the category of "insulated concrete forms" (ICF) - basically big hollow styrofoam blocks that you assemble like legos and fill with concrete (they have internal structure and rebar holding them together)
A house built with ICF has superior insulating properties (and does a fair job of blocking wifi signals too
Well, LAX had people standing outside in half mile long lines in front of the airport (as opposed to inside the terminal), but yeah.
Even if you ignore the possibility of someone with malicious intent, having people stand around on the asphalt at a major airport was stupid and dangerous to those in line.
Really, though, what did you expect from Texas?
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The only people in the case with a conscience are the jurors, the prosecutor and the judge had no qualms. That's not really a surprise though, not too many defense attorneys become judges. In fact, the more people you imprison as a prosecutor, the better your chance to become a judge or hold public office - this combined with prosecutorial immunity - and the fact that charges are rarely filed against prosecutors who engage in clearly illegal behavior such as destroying evidence - is why the legal system in the USA is so fucked up.
And, as you can clearly see, the idiots on the juries on each and every single one of these cases ate the bullshit the prosecution's expert witness threw at them. The lack of funding to defense attorneys by the state ensures that the prosecution's witness is the only one your average jury will see. And because most juries are composed of people who have barely completed what passes for a "high school education" in this country, the will smile and nod their head and convict you.
USA! USA! USA!
My only concern with a locked and loaded pistol is that it will fire and cycle if there is a house fire. I'll probably not be around, but it could endanger firefighters as well as anyone down range...
For handguns, I always lock the slide back and insert the lock through the barrel instead of through the side (the lock has a protective coating, so the barrel doesn't get scratched. Seeing something is run through the barrel ensures that a round wasn't left in the chamber either...
IIRC, if the loaded magazine is stored in a separate locked container you're ok, but gun laws are such a patchwork, check with your local cops or whoever.
Firearm ownership rights, on the federal level, have not deteriorated at all.
Importation rights sure have been affected...
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/071305openletter.htm
ATF will no longer approve ATF Form 6 applications for importation of any frames, receivers, or barrels for firearms that would be prohibited from importation if assembled. No exceptions to the statutory language, for example for "repair or replacement" of existing firearms, will be allowed.
Not sure when you went to school, but chemistry has sort of devolved into "balance this equation and then do the same to the next 300 equations" instead of actually teaching kids about chemistry and promoting creative thinking. I see the same thing helping my younger siblings with their homework and it's rather depressing.
This is in stark contrast to chemistry textbooks I picked up from the '60s and '70s.
Suppose it depends on your teachers.
Conversion to full auto is a relatively trivial thing to do on most semi automatic firearms - heck, the SKS goes full auto pretty frequently by accident.
If you've never worked with metal, sure, it might be a little difficult, but you can learn.
Besides, do you really need full auto when you can buy a mosin nagant for $65 that will rip through pretty much every single piece of body armor on the market - this is the rifle that got Simo Häyhä 505 confirmed kills in a 3 month period...
.4089 chey tac isn't a bad round either....
My bad.
In most states you don't need any kind of a permit to buy handguns (and especially nothing to buy ammo)
I'm not even an American and bought several handguns, rifles and shotguns without a permit of any kind in Oregon and would be able to purchase and own firearms like that in the majority of states. I get delayed 3 hours or whatever it takes the NICS folks to get an all clear but never had a problem otherwise..
To make it clear, the states that require licenses and registration are a very small minority.
How about giving him a call and talking to him about this situation...
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The same bill goes to all of their clients that happened to have cases pending...
You clearly don't live in the USA...
accountability, lol.
The only difference is that this case is being brought by people who have a vested interest in keeping their reputation "clean". Intent is also important on the other side.
Hey, in that case, I'm all for it. But if your kid is playing a "Postal" ripoff, I really don't see how swearing is offensive.
It probably comes from my "I don't give a half fuck about you, your friends at school and your social circle" view on life.
I really don't care what Alice was wearing to school and how hot she looked. I don't care about your mom and her cookies. I REALLY don't care about your fucking history assignment.
I'm not alone.
There are dozens of services that create audio links between you and (only) your friends, if you want to chat about stuff that other people don't care about, use one of those services.
Otherwise, you're just the same as an asshole on a bus yelling into his phone about his herpes test.
Because just pointing to a security hole would actually result in something getting changed.
Clearly the TSA listens and has people smart enough to create countermeasures.
Oh wait... Even after all this fucking publicity, the fucking hole is still fucking open, MONTHS FUCKING LATER.
At least they're spending their (your) money on frivolous prosecution. That must be worth something right?
Right?
I'll have to admit that a small part of me wanted someone to drive up in a large vehicle and drive through the lines outside the airport killing and injuring dozens when the TSA retards had people lined up outside of the airport buildings in the last "security crisis"
It usually consists of a strip search with a cavity check performed by homosexual TSA agents who derive "great pleasure" from conducting one.
That and missing your flight.
Although I despise the "voice trolls" and think that voice chat has become pretty much useless because of them, I'm really confused by people who sit their 8 year old kids in front of a screen and let them play counterstrike or other violent games and then complain about vulgar language.
I really don't see how you can feel that it is OK to have little Timmy splatter someone's brains all over a wall with a gun but it is patently offensive if he hears (or sees in text chat) the word "goddamnit".
Don't even get me started on parents who play CS with their 3 year old kids sitting in their lap.
Am I missing something here?