"scoped"?? They can't be more than 100-150 meters away. Easy as pie with iron sights.

I heard a sermon one time about the proper interpretation of "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain". Taking his name in vain is not just about going to hell if you say "god damn", it's about saying "I'm so special that I know exactly what my God wants so I will put words in his mouth". It's one thing to say…

I'll bet that's the first thing that they thought of. ;)

@badedition: there are a lot of people in the middle who think that it is possible to be socially left but fiscally right. There are the blue-dog democrats, for example. The Republican party used to have a very large faction within it (the Rockefeller Republicans) that were far more moderate than the current…

We don't know what he did with his $110 billion, maybe he did give it to charity but didn't seem to have the desire for everyone in the world to know what he did with his money. Maybe we'll never know....

No, he believed that individuals should keep their donations private and/or anonymous and that corporations shouldn't be donating huge sums of other people's money just to get a tax write-off. This was one thing that I kind of agreed with him on. Public ostentatious giving most of the time kind of makes me ill…

garretb1: Google the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy and get back to us.

bigcraig01: Guess what? There are a wide variety of people in this world who are non-theist, and we aren't all exactly the same, any more than every religious person is exactly the same. There are nihilists and narcissists and anarchists, and also a vast majority of humanists. For your information, I don't worship…

Someones been watching too much of this guy

This.

Individually, anti-personnel mines aren't that big or powerful (hand grenade size) and while they make a lot of noise, they won't leave more than a scuff in the armor plating. There have been versions of mine-clearing attachments on combat engineer dozers and also on tanks for decades.

I think FruitbatNT hit the nail on the head with the uncanny valley analogy. I remember the first time I saw a Blu-Ray movie on a truly high-def TV. I was walking through a Best Buy and they had a huge 60" Sony TV playing "Pirates of the Caribbean". It was so high def and "smoothed" that there was no motion blur,…

OKCupid and POF are both free and OKC is 1000 times better than the "pay us and we'll find a soul-mate for you based on 4339 facets of compatibility" bullshit.

I think this is the key. I met my wife on OKCupid, after trying eHarmony and Match. eHarmony was filed with people trying to immediately find their soul-mates and get married, and Match was a little better but both sites relied on them finding your mate for you.

So this study basically invalidates the first 150,000 years of human existence, where we thrived on meat, raw vegetables, and whatever else we could get our hands on? Does this study or other studies targeting carnivorous habits also take into account ANY other factors besides "OMG THAT GUY ATE A COUPLE OF PIECES OF…

If we're going there, then I'll take a Javelin.

The first Gulf War proved the Bradley's worth as a Infantry Fighting Vehicle with tank killing abilities, and the improvements made after the Gulf (the M2A2 ODS version and then the M2A3 version) made it an even more effective APC . Bradley haters who have never had their asses saved by the M2A3's reactive armor…

As a former Bradley gunner, a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle is most definitely not a tank and no one in the Army refers to them in the same class. A personnel carrier is a personnel carrier, and a tank is a tank, and you better not call a Bradley crewmember a tanker to his face!!

The scary thing is, there are actually people who DO think that "the politicians they dislike are some sort of Monty-Burns-Style evil plutocrat who votes against puppies for orphans while laughing maniacally". That's the problem these days.

Hear, hear!! Every time I hear about the right wanting Obama to "fail", I cringe...when the president fails the country fails, too!!