Where does everyone else’s guacamole go?

You’re right. With both devices, it is the projectile that is banned, not the device itself.
I think it would take more than just switching to jellied fuel, though. Most of these devices are just creating a fuel-air mixture, and wouldn’t even be able to squirt a liquid.
The ones that can squirt gasoline or similar…

You did say “designed as war machines”, not “based on war machines”.
But, your point is valid. These can be very dangerous, and I do agree they are more dangerous than a paintball gun. No one should be using them as toys.
All that said, I think we do agree that based on damage you could do:
paintball gun < consumer…

Read my other comments. I’m not saying to ride the bumper in front of you. Give some room, that’s great.
Just don’t inch forward throughout the duration of the red light. Pick a spot and stay put until it is go time.

These types of devices were designed as war machines for burning out entire squads and causing as much carnage as possible.

If you want a car length of space for safety, that’s cool. Keep being safe.
If you start with 2 1/2 car lengths at the beginning of the red light and then end up 2 1/2 inches from the bumper in front of you by the time the light turns green, this isn’t about safety. You just can’t keep still for 60 seconds.

hit Driving, and enable Creep. 

Seattle journalist Knute Berger tells Business Insider that Amazon’s original headquarters has displaced minority communities there, driven up housing costs, and swelled the city’s population of homeless people.

If someone is already on Whatsapp and resistant to Signal, I’ll talk to them on there. However, I trust Signal more than Whatsapp, because I know there will always be a lag between the time Signal fixes a security issue and Whatsapp adopts Signal’s fix.

I have started replying to SMS/MMS with a link to Signal and that I’m happy to continue the conversation there or on a phone call. I flat refuse to keep playing the SMS game.

H.265 requires paying royalties in most cases. Hardware and OS makers are not in a rush to make their product more expensive to produce.
Many keep hoping an open standard such as AV1 will save the day.

This would be a great time to remind everyone that Signal exists for free, works well on iOS and Android, and has the added benefit of being secure by default.

If I can get my friends to use it (half android, half iOS), then you likely can to.

I’m glad we have good options for every palate.

DD is the worst on the list for me, and Starbucks* the best, drinking them all black. There is this funk in DD coffee that I just can’t stand.

*Exclusion made for Starbucks Sumatra. That stuff is vile, and I’d gladly drink DD over that.

Google might be good at building online services, but “Google knows how to integrate hardware with WiFi” is laughable by many of us that work as network engineers. Apple is also guilty of failing to follow standards and best practices with WiFi, so this isn’t a holy war between the major mobile OS makers.

Both Android…

I’m glad Microsoft is finally making some baby steps here, but encryption needs to be “always on” rather than constantly re-enabled.

I’m so tired of having to convince people to enable encryption. Even when I tried to use Facebook Messenger’s private conversation feature, friends would start a new, non-encrypted chat…

StevenG, I agree and I’m generally pessimistic about CBP and TSA’s legalized bribe schemes.

That said, if they’re going to deny someone the ability to renew, they shouldn’t also keep them in the program for months.

It is yet another data point that proves that these programs are pointless.

The key take-away I have from this: He wasn’t immediately removed from the global entry system, or was contacted.
I remember a local cop one time did a background check of another cop, just for giggles. This was in the 1990's, but the FBI showed up THAT WEEK and asked why the other cop had a background check done. What…

I ended up on her Wiki page. Saw that she changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo so she can actually get a job.

You can hire as many people that earn you more money than they cost you. That’s a pretty simple part of business.
Quit pretending your hiring is charity.
If you hire someone that doesn’t result in you earning more money, then you’re simply making a bad business decision and tax has nothing to do with it.
If you hire…

There is a concept called “critical mass” for social media. Facebook has it.
That means that if the people you want to interact with are all on Facebook, then you should expect that if you choose to go back to email and text, they may not follow you.
I’m working with a local politician that I’d like to help win, and…