Nothing more than the 22,000 federal, state, and local gun laws already on the books? Nothing more than, at a minimum, being 18 years old and undergoing a federal background check? No, I guess I'm not willing to do more.

Statistics bear out that licensed CCW holders, are overwhelmingly (like, well over 99.5%) law-abiding, and of the <0.5% who break the law, even fewer still of them discharge firearms.

"If you are carrying concealed weapons into populated areas for "self-protection," you are also asking society a basic question: Who wants to die today by my hand?"

A sentiment held by one our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson:

Hideaway Knife. Always open. Almost impossible to break. Huge leverage when cutting. Very hard to see. </thread>

Irish wristwatch. Irish wristwatch. Irish wristwatch.

Because there aren't any hackers who could bypass such an airtight barcode system...

The Coming Ice Age:

You're right and wrong...

"You can only tie the low altitude record."

"So I guess we should all behave the same way and we should teach a singular set of values and behaviors to all people and ignore the differences that varying personalities bring to society."

Trilogy of Terror

No, it's ridiculous to imagine that a group of dancers and their parents, who have put time, effort, and money into a production, shouldn't be upset by the disruptions of one of the members. They should. Having one of the team deliberately screwing up the performance is not part of the program. Clearly, the girl on…

It would seem the staff member who entered with the (toy) pistol violated the "no tolerance" policy and should be summarily fired, as should be any conspirators who knew of and encouraged him or her.

Mach 1 *can* be measured at sea level, but it is usually observed at much higher altitudes, since it is easier to achieve there. Only fighter jets (and perhaps experimental aircraft) can get the number on the deck, but even big, fat airliners cruise at around Mach 0.83, at altitude. At sea level, that speed is 660…

Am I reading it wrong, or are the map and graph displayed in the article from the 2012-13 flu season, i.e. last year's data?

Dead bird. Gonna put it on you.

My, goodness, that is sure a scary graph. And to think of all that worrying I just finished doing about the Coming Ice Age.

I, too, have lost signal in flight after TO, and have also gained it on final as we slowed to landing speed. At low altitudes, I think it has more to do with the jet's speed through the cells (some kind of a handoff issue) than radio reception, although that's just my own anecdotal-evidence-based guess. At high…

5000 feet wouldn't be much of a problem, since the jet is legally limited to under 250 KIAS below 10,000 feet and is within ~2 miles of the towers it overflies, but 35,000 would be a stretch, both because now the jet is going 500 knots and is 7 miles away from the towers.