That's because most loonie people are not motivated to be thorough.

It's too bad we can't have a mental health requirement for gun ownership.

I think most people who shoot someone already have a gun in hand. Especially in domestic violence cases. I don't think folks go, "Dagnabbit! I'm going to go to the gun shop, buy a gun and shoot my spouse!". They get in argument, reach in the closet and pull out whatever is handy.

Actually, it's pretty easy to kill someone with a knife. And seemingly peripheral wounds can easily be fatal without prompt expert medical attention. However, guns do make it a) much easier to fatally wound someone, b) easier to avoid injury to yourself and c) get past the difficult part of actually committing the…

TeXworks is a nice into to Tex

When I was in grad school we spent two years telling people that the card readers were going away on such and such a date. The day after we shipped them out a whole gang of people show yup with boxes of cards. A enterprising EE student bought one and hooked it up to a original IBM PC and made huge beer money…

I used a IBM "super computer" (System 4371 I think) that cost $25 million AND was less powerful in every way than my current phone.

I feel your pain.

We have loads of machines running obsolete OSs connected to weird lab instruments because we're too cheap to buy new software or the software doesn't run on modern systems. Right now, I'm looking at three $3000 GPS units I can't use because I need a modern version of the crappy propitiatory software you need to talk…

Could someone please give these people about 100 million dollars?

No Culture GSVs??

Perhaps male viewers weight women in the image more highly than men? It could be that the average male finds women to be more interesting or notable than men. Let's do this study using gender preference as a treatment and see what results we get.

Cronenberg, more uncomfortable with sex or technology? Discuss.

I think Scrawler fainted.

Ummm, federal agents are required to take a desk job or retire at 54. Just happened to a friend of mine. He opted to retire and play blue grass music. At his retirement party, someone suggested he could go into local law enforcement. His reply, " I think I'd like to try a job where I don't have to wear a…

My nephew used to eat breakfast with Ford on a regular basis. There's a diner in Jackson Hole where they both liked to eat at the counter. All of the locals made a point to treat Ford like everybody else and he loved it.

Studio Exec: "We need Mick dead."
Keith Richards: (pulls out knife) "About fukk'n time."

My wife married me, which is proof positive that women have strange tastes.

I'm guessing he is a poorly-groomed, grating, flabby, boring couch potato who thinks it's other people's fault he's always "in the friend zone".

I'm pretty sure all Australian PMs look like this..