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  1. Re:I stopped reading TFS here: on Crytek Dev On Fun vs. Realism In Game Guns · · Score: 2, Informative

    22 caliber, when written, is informal usage. When spoken, the decimal is always assumed to be there unless specified otherwise.

  2. Re:I stopped reading TFS here: on Crytek Dev On Fun vs. Realism In Game Guns · · Score: 1

    Military assault rifles, if we assume that is the context of the article, outside of a few horrible decisions like the OICW are not any more complex in their general controls than civilian weaponry. The only real difference is the safety contains more than one mode of fire, and outside of certain specific situations, single shot is still the one generally used. Especially if one is not dealing with one of the special forces branches. If he is talking about machine guns, they are even simpler in design than select fire weapons. In certain respects, they also take less training to fire than rifles. Although there is the extra training involved in learning to quickly change barrels on certain types.

  3. Re:Only in America? on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    No, we just have crappy driving requirements that only expect you to be able to drive as well as a one-eyed monkey.

  4. Re:This assumes... on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 1

    Until it is demonstrated through replicable testing in the lab that the ECU/software is faulty, the data must be assumed factual.

  5. Re:This study is nothing but Communist propaganda on Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're accusing Paine of being a SOCIALIST? I'm sorry, but even after he became a bitter bastard after his treatment by France and England, he still didn't qualify as socialist. He was, and remained throughout his life, various flavors of anarchist/minimalist. Now, King was a socialist, which is why apart from his views on racial equality he was an idiot.

  6. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    Science is a process, art isn't.

  7. Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real? on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 1

    You expect the Swedish Parliament to give up prosecutorial immunity?

  8. Re:Tradecraft 101 on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 1

    The FBI got too arrogant when playing the one spy, she realized she was burned, and attempted to warn the others. They then had to grab everyone. And they still missed someone.

  9. Re:Hopefully more competent on Dungeon Siege III Being Developed by Obsidian · · Score: 1

    That was GPG. Completely different from Obsidian

  10. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    You mean the "civilians" with AKs and an RPG or two stalking a military patrol in the area that the stringer journos were FOLLOWING AROUND? Those "civilians"? The only people hurt not involved in the conflict were the children, and the fault of their deaths rests SOLELY on the fuckwad driving the van.

  11. Re:AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED BY TURK ON ISRAELI GROU on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    The money going to Israel is realistically the only thing keeping the Israelis from actually going to war with the Palestinians. So, essentially we're saying we'll give you a bunch of blood money if you don't actually go after the population continually attacking you land for the past 50 years.

  12. Re:Magic words... on Physicists Do What Einstein Thought Impossible · · Score: 1

    They don't produce Earth Shattering KA-BOOMs?

  13. Re:No plans on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    If they terminate the flight in the ocean and the aircraft hits anywhere above mach 1 it won't matter if someone is on site to salvage, cause there won't be anything to salvage.

  14. Re:Nuke Engines on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    Heh, Nuclear powered Zeppelin.

  15. Re:Wait a minute.... on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    Assuming that they don't terminate it's run purposefully into the ocean while it still has maneuvering power. Or that there aren't a shitpot of explosives set on it.

  16. Re:Assasination on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, that's what the railgun is for.

  17. Re:Always money for military space projects on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    Get back to me when the military becomes unionized.

  18. Re:since BP fails Fucking Booming School on Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate · · Score: 1

    With the amount of fucking boom they have fucking booming is fucking useless in terms of fucking protecting the fucking wildlife. You could fucking use it for some fucking nice PR shots of a fucking couple of fucking clean beaches though.

  19. Re:This is a joke. on Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Helicopters don't levitate, they fly. They merely fly in a manner that allows them to hover. Still not levitation.

  20. Re:Not very critical, actually. on Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate · · Score: 1

    No, all 'corrected' climate change data is there for people to see. The NOAA and other agencies don't to my knowledge release the raw computer files and current within the last 3 years conditions of each of their temperature stations. Combined with the number of stations that have disappeared in the past 20 years and the current data is fucking useless.

  21. Re:Not very critical, actually. on Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure he owned this as soon as he took the most money from BP of any candidate and waited over 9 days to get anyone at all in the government moving on this.

  22. Re:Not very critical, actually. on Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The biggest debt producing thing Bush passed was Medicare part D. And that was less debt producing than the program that Democrats wanted to pass.

  23. Re:Wait, does this mean... on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km In China · · Score: 1

    Moving on a linear path it is impossible to move faster than the speed of light. Whether it is impossible to get from point A to Point ZZ9 plural Z alpha faster than light can make thesame transition is a different matter entirely.

  24. Re:Time to stop relying on Texas... on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    2+2 can equal 5 in sufficiently strange environments. Just like 0+0 can equal 1.

  25. Re:...Because Texans clearly aren't right wing eno on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    Most houses don't have a second story. Instead they're 'Ranch' style.