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  1. Re: How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    Dropping it on a corner won't destroy it. Just dent the corner and push the whole thing out of square long enough for the latch to pop open. It should snap right back. If it doesn't, you haven't lost much.

  2. Re:It's ok.. on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But aren't the French Canadian keyboards missing two whole verb tenses? Or is that that the Mexican Spanish keyboards.

    All these dialects get confusing.

  3. Re:Time-of-day metering on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wholesale peaker rate is different than wholesale baseload rate.

    The best price of all is for wholesale on peak dispatchable (on demand) power. Which solar isn't.

  4. Is 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' still legal in Australia? It, and just about every other teen comedy, is virtual child porn.

    Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh were both of legal age when they made the movie. But their characters where HS kids. One was a 'freshman'.

  5. Re:Keltec P11 is "child proof" on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's a keltec. I wouldn't count on it.

  6. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    You're not listening.

    It's a binary situation. Ether you fear for your or others life and safety or you don't.

    If you do, you shoot center of mass. If you don't, you don't draw.

    If you draw and shoot them in the leg you will be paying the rest of your life (assuming you live). There being only one story if you kill the mother fucker is a _feature_.

  7. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    10? That's neglect.

    5 is good. With a bb gun, but at the range.

    I took my nephew for his first trip to the range (with his AIR-15) the same day a bunch of panty wetters were having a protest. He told them the 'cold dead hands' line.

  8. Re: How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    You should ask a three (ok twelve) year old for help.

    Your likely trying to open it without breaking it. That's your mistake. Just drop it about 5 feet on a corner on some crete. Should pop open.

  9. Re:verb you must identify on Can Author Obfuscation Trump Forensic Linguistics? (webis.de) · · Score: 1

    An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech -- not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary -- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam -- that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reinclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it -- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb -- merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out -- the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty. German books are easy enough to read when you hold them before the looking-glass or stand on your head -- so as to reverse the construction -- but I think that to learn to read and understand a German newspaper is a thing which must always remain an impossibility to a foreigner.

    Twain.

  10. Re:I thought we all knew this already? on Game Historian: Gygax Swiped Fantasy Rules From a Forgotten 1970 Wargame (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Before editing...

  11. Re: Again? on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    All of which are Ss (Sport). If the lightest benz sports car weighs 4707 they have forgotten what a sports car is. I don't think so.

  12. Re:NYC on Airbus Joins Uber For On-Demand Chopper Rides (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Get on the job and crash that currency. I've almost finished all the $0.99/750ml Brazillian rum I bought the last time one of your reds crashed the real.

  13. Re:Again? on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If true, it just means Mercedes has forgotten what an S class is supposed to be.

  14. Re:Again? on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    10,000psi tanks in every car. What could go wrong?

  15. Re:Wow! Germans? on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know the first step in replacing the brake master cylinder in a new 'bug'?

    Remove the front bumper. Seriously. Terrible cars designed to sell parts. Even Ford makes better cars.

  16. Re:Wow! Germans? on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    VWs are known to be maintenance nightmares. They are a fucking mess.

  17. Re:minimum wage and 29 hours a week max for lot's on Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd have to pay me a lot, to get me to sleep in a coach seat.

    Think of it as the price they pay for not educating their own population. But given most are descended from transported felons, it's not really surprising.

  18. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Lahtis are nothing like that. They are man portable, if the man is determined enough. Don't know how the Finns managed to shoot and scoot with one. Even on skis it had to have been a bitch to move. 20mm bolt action. Still cost a lot to shoot.

    I know what you are saying about the glee.

  19. Re:minimum wage and 29 hours a week max for lot's on Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Punchline:
    St Peter: That's funny, according to your billable hours, you were 85.

  20. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    500ml beers is one area that Europe has America beat.

    Nine euro cases of 20 500ml beers is another.

  21. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What you want is a 20mm Lahti. Shot one at a machine gun shoot. Blew the ring gear, in pieces, clean out of the pumpkin of a school bus.

  22. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The damn bastards had a few breach loading rifles in the revolutionary war. Primitive screw down block.

    All in all, long barreled Kentucky rifles were much more accurate and the breach loaders were so rare they made little difference. But they were the assault rifles of their day.

    The early British breach loaders are worth a fucking fortune today.

  23. Re:Something rotton in the department... on Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    That manager was an idiot.

    In old school companies where you must always make more than your 'down reports', you use the most successful of your 'reports' to drive your own salary up. You don't hold his down, that's just stupid.

  24. Re:minimum wage and 29 hours a week max for lot's on Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    I've actually worked an honest 30 hour day. Including 15 hours billable travel time.

    Wasn't good for much the 'second half' of the day in the office. But I showed up.

  25. Re:Grease is Clogging Seattle Sewers on ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle ... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of a case in SF were a Chinese restaurant thought they had an underground storage tank for waste grease. Turns out they had an access manhole for a buried electric substation.

    The transformers kept the grease nice and warm for the year or so it took to fill. I bet that really stunk.