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  1. Re: Wrong conversion to International System of U on Tesla Says Its Model 3 Car Will Go On Sale On Friday (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We should have left a sign on the moon with distance to earth, in miles, just to piss you off.

  2. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said upthread: Not even in _crazy_ backward assed, overly restrictive states like England or Japan.

  3. Re: The argument goes on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We will keep it! SC is now safe for our lifetimes. Suck it.

    If the Ds hadn't been so overconfident, at least Ginsburg would have retired and been replaced by Obama. Now the laughs will just keep coming.

  4. Re:The argument goes on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Parents already teach their kids gun safety, usually at an age that would give a public school admin or teacher a heart attack regarding kids having guns. Airsoft by age 5, BB gun by 8, .22 by 10. 22 comes with a lesson and rules, you get a real gun, you can no longer play 'guns' with your airsoft. Even paintball guns are dangerous.

    FAA statistics, new driver stats, plus common sense, tells us that the first 1000 hours in control of a new type of machine are the most dangerous. Most American gun owners got this period over while young teens, plinking.

    The dangerous culture around guns is localized. Hold em sideways and wave em around, for respect. Crime stats are clear on that.

  5. Re:The argument goes on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you also remember the lack of outcry when Clinton started the (modern) free speech zone thing?

  6. Re:Doesn't belong here on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Summarize it...you have 15 seconds. Go.

  7. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole 'use a book as body armor', test with Desert Eagle thing is what does it for me.

    I would guess that this weapon is so sloppy nobody could shoot it accurately. First worn out, then gold plated. If it was stolen, the cops would have been all over it.

    This was 'for profit', the whole world is trying to get a share of that sweet youtube 'slapfight money'. It's what motivates most political trolls, trolling can be profitable now. I'm not sure when that changed, but it did. It's all about the 'views', they thought the gold DE would bring in 1,000,000 views, about the price of the gun.

    Time for the girl to do a gut check. She could get millions of views by posting the video. Will she?

    I admit: I kind of liked the dudes that tied cables to bikes and skateboards and let them get stolen. The high voltage shock collar hidden in the seat. Slow motion leg fractures, overweight bike thieves going over the handlebars. Too bad Youtube took away their money...basically shut them down. They're no fun anymore.

  8. Re: Darwin Award... on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but everybody is remembering the old rules, they changed em. Eliminating the entire 'honorable mention' category, which is where this guy would have landed under the old rules.

  9. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You kids and your aluminum frying pans.

    Cast Iron to the head is the way to go for killing someone with a frying pan. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... You'd probably want to sharpen the edge of an aluminium one, to the extent it would take an edge.

  10. Re:Dark side of the moon, eh? on China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Do we still call it 'darkest Africa'?

    Scotland was once a blank spot on the map.

    Besides which, there is a 'dark side of the moon'. It's not always the same side, but it exists, using clear, non fake-news organization face saving, definitions.

  11. Re:Just FYI: bullets go thru things on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Camouflage isn't cover. But it's better than standing in the open.

  12. Re:I really shouldn't say this but... apk on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the darwins have become PC. Crotchfruit no longer disqualifies.

    They used to have an 'honorable mention' category for just such non-Darwins. But now they qualify, no matter how many went down the chute.

  13. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They use inflatable giant floating 'gerbil balls' now. And fall out, the ball was fine.

  14. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A Quick internet search reveals no fireable DE knockoffs, lots of 'Replicas'. DE is kind of on the edge of workable for an automatic pistol, not easy to knockoff, unless you make it shoot a 9 or something lame like that.

    Other theories? Could just have been worn out, but still fireable, hence relatively inexpensive. High power slide guns don't live long.

  15. Re: I wonder... on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    A lot of variables. He clearly didn't test it adequately.

    Book thickness, paper type, # of pages, moisture content, cover type.

    Plus round type variations. Low velocity, hollow point, unjacketed would likely be the best bet for under penetrating. Practice, won't wear out the gun rounds, not full tilt. Just the kind a kid wouldn't bother buying.

  16. Re:HAHAHAHAHA on China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They make really nice Rolexes.

  17. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    increase ocean salinity.

    End of discussion. Not here to review 'Earth Science'. Smart middle schoolers can see 'the stupid'.

  18. Re:Dark side of the moon, eh? on China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    No. The whole moon has been photographed in about comparable detail.

    'Dark' is just wrong. You could make an argument for 'radio dark', but that's even more unclear. There is a dark side of the moon, just as there is a dark side of the earth. They just move.

    You'd think that CNN would be making extra efforts, right now, to not be clowns...'far side', it's not complicated.

  19. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the gun isn't named Eric?

    Getting a license for a shotgun or rifle, then being forced to store it at a location that you're guaranteed _not_ to be able to get it, if it's ever really needed?

    I'd rather just own a small machine shop and some odd shaped metal bits. No good options under Brit laws.

  20. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    You're, officially, a BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything).

  21. Re:And the sheriff doesn't understand? on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Desert Eagle is not an inexpensive pistol. About $1350 from a quick google search. Sure you can spend a lot more, but it's hardly a KelTec.

    A license for all deadly weapons? Not even in _crazy_ backward assed, overly restrictive states like England or Japan.

    Anybody who can heft a frying pan, owns death.

    Burroughs

  22. Re: Acetaminophen or pain killers in general ? on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't try and make it much more complicated than that either. Using is a choice, it was always a choice. Not an easy choice, but until the choice is made, 'help' is pointless.

    I don't know what to do with the pavlovian, end stage, almost automatons. Giving them a pass, because 'addiction', isn't part of the plan.

    I think the current wave of analogs from China plus local chemical knowledge will bring about de facto legalization. But the system will convulse for decades first and junkies will be dying in droves due to inconsistent strength. Eventually a (sitting congresscritter/SC/federal judge/Governor/First Lady/President) will OD, and they won't be able to cover it up. Then maybe, good old fashioned 'wholesome' Heroin will be decriminalized.

    The first real hardcore, longtime, junkies I knew as a kid was a DuPont grandchild and his scumbag entourage. Rich junkies are the worst. Run away.

    I'm so lucky cocaine makes me feel like I got hit by a truck...cause everybody likes opiates. I'm saving mine for impending death time, nothing would suck more than dying without painkillers. The opium poppy is 'god's gift to the dying', junkies are just opting into 'dying' early.

  23. Re: Finally we know.... on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    They are more 'religious', most for profit churches (which is virtually _all_ of them) are structured as charities for tax purposes. Put another way...many conservatives deduct social club dues as charity giving.

  24. Re: The topic should be updated on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like they speak an entirely different language there...omelet du fromage...

    They can all actually understand english, but only if you speak very slowly and with a fake frog accent.

    Actually: The best way to fake them out and get them to admit speaking English is to learn a little German.

  25. Re:Uh Oh... on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Boozing up your soldiers/sailors is an ancient tradition. e.g. 'Dutch courage'. 'The royal navy runs on rum and sodomy' etc etc.

    Plenty of legitimate things to beat up the Ruskys with.

    In the winter war, you can bet both sides kept flasks on antifreeze on hand.