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  1. Re:They've thought of everything! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    I don't think it would work in a revolver. The case on an automatic moves up and seals against the barrel. There is too much head space for the barrel to imprint on a revolver casing. If he mean the bullet yes, it would only work on revolvers. But again how would you put a number on a bullet exiting a revolver and wouldn't a sabot just mess with that as well. I can see how you can mess with this imprinting in tons of ways. File off marks, put new marks, add a ton of marks so you cant tell which is which, drop a ton of reloading brass at the scene so they cant tell which was fired, get a gun from out of state, fill the marks with transparent epoxy, keep your brass, Register your marks and trade with a friend online. Put your marks in so they highlight the wrong places, so a 4 becomes a 1 an 8 becomes a 3 or 9,

  2. Re:Collect Yer Brass! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    try definition 3 Merriam Webster dictionary.

  3. Re:Same As the NTSB on No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving · · Score: 1

    I think a financial fine would not do much at all. I would suggest a bigger hit. Take the phone away. If your involved in a vehicle crash due to distracted driving while using a tech device take it for six months or a year. You would have a lot of people stop if they couldn't have a phone.

  4. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    That is completely dependent on the person. George Burns smoked until he was 100. I had a friend in New Mexico that looked like he worked out all the time who drank soda all day long. Each person had a different metabolism and living environment. What they can take and what they can't take should not be dictated by the government but the responsibility for those actions should be theirs as well. I have never asked to government to take care of me, or the effects of my life. I want to be able to choose how I do that and I can't if those responsibilities are taken away.

  5. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    I think that is why he put "tax" in quotes. To denote that it was not a real tax but tax like in its structure.

  6. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    So did drinking after the prohibition in the US. Huge amount of drinking. Then it slowly dropped. Nothing makes someone want to do something like saying they can't do it anymore.

  7. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the education systems in schools. Nothing makes a parent want to quit like their four year old looking at them as saying "Mommy I don't want you to die."

  8. Re:Hard to feel bad for them on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    These girls are working in Taipai not the US or UK. I believe the ones in the US are making on average $40.00 an hour.

  9. Re:If they don't like it on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    Some women have found that they would rather shake their toosh a little, than do other work. Some women have always leveraged their looks over exertion since the beginning of human history. What was the oldest profession? It's not objectification its leveraging of assets. Supply and demand. Heterosexual guys are hardwired to like cleavage and curves. Girls have cleavage and curves. So they use them. There was never any training involved. There is no elementary school that goes "you with the bumps on your chest. Just sit here and look pretty." Children learn pretty quick what makes life easier for them.

  10. Re:disarm the planet on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows to kill space aliens you have to use a virus.

  11. Re:Get a refill.. on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    I pay my taxes, I work hard for my money, I pay for my own health insurance, I have never asked for a government handout. Stay out of my life. Better to just make the people getting social health care programs on limited diet plans. If your going to be poor, jobless and sick then you can get some healthy food. No more food stamps used for 2liters of soda, and a months worth of mac and cheese and canned ravioli. They want a gut buster burger then they can go get a job and pay for it.

  12. True costs on Digging Into the Electrical Cost of PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    True costs - where is the vitamin d deficiency, light sensitivity, prices for bawls and redbull, price for pizza, radon exposure from your mom's basement,depends for long raid nights, divorce costs, hardware costs and software licensing and general lowering of testosterone levels. Of course the benefits are, water savings because of less baths, no social costs (coffee shops, movies, dates, video rentals, vacations, etc), not expensive presents for friends, less electricity used in the house because no other lights are used, furniture reduction, lower vehicle maintenance costs, lower automotive fuel costs, and more leet gear

  13. Re:Penny wide; Dollar foolish. on Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I just slipped right out of the kid's school locker and manged to hop a bus to Oakland. That Siri is far more adept than I ever expected.

  14. Re:Run your own NTP if it matters on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 2

    Irregardless may not be standard but is it found in dictionaries and it is a word. I could not find kthxbai though.

  15. Re:Often overlooked fact re Edison on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    I always saw Steve Jobs as the architect. He did not invent the Ipod but he made sure the design would sell. He demanded that people be able to get any song quickly and easily sending engineers back to the drawing board till they gave him a design he liked.

  16. Re:Tesla on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    If he bent space time I would guess it could have been done after his death.

  17. Re:false equivalency on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    I don't think your house is average. Majority of houses I've seen use normal incandescent or CF lamps. My office uses fluorescent and the majority of my clients use fluorescent only one client uses halogens and then only in 5% percent of the office space.

  18. Re:You joke about DC on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    I've had to replace brushes on alternators. "Mainly because alternators don't have brushes, thus they don't wear out quickly. An alternator doesn't even need to have permanent magnets (an exciter produces a weak magnetic field in a coil, which then gets amplified by mechanical cranking). That means alternators can be extremely small, lightweight, cheap and durable compared to DC motors w/brushes." example: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G7RWVG/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0019IQA24&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1FPVBZ0D431GJEH6Y5GH

  19. Re:CGI wishes on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    I would say it's not even ignorance it's lack of common sense. There seems ( I have no facts to base this on.) to that common sense has flown out the window in the last 30 or so years. Even worse with kids now. But then again it may just be that I'm growing old.

  20. Re:So what's the answer, then? Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    Knowledge of a cell phone detonator in the subway?

  21. Re:Last bastion on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 1

    I think you could also say we have lost space missions because of forcing a change to the metric system instead of just staying on the imperial system.

  22. Re:Don't you have to enter your password? on Federal Court Allows Class-Action Suit Against Apple Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 1

    How old was his wife?

  23. Re:A great band-aid solution on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 2

    I'm starting to think it may be a bad idea having you as a friend.

  24. Re:Secret capability? on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    Or they could just update the systems to stress other components so the defective unit is more likely to fail after warranty than before. Besides who wants a car that can be hacked on the fly so to speak. Car: "downloading new update" Update: "set accelerator to 100%. Shutdown Air bags. Ignore break signal"

  25. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 1

    Technically the random stranger.