Raise your hand if you are at all surprised that a Chinese patent troll is being protected by the Chinese government.

explosions are revealed. And they’re terrifying.

Guns are not the problem. Religion is. Guns are merely tools, things, and do not act of their own volition. That volition almost always comes from organized religion.

Dammit, we have waaaay too many “felony” crimes in this country, and now this person wants to make TICKET SCALPING a felony?

The DC run had some great stories, too. I still have the nearly complete series.

I’ve been reading this series for the last year, and would love to see your write-up of an MCR Marine suit.

We never had an Apple product in the house. The first was a TI 94 console (I had TI Logo and a speech synthesizer, and they were awesome!) with the large expansion box and RAM bricks. That was supplanted with a collection of Osbornes and Kaypros, till dad brought home a 286 and its been PC’s since.

If you read Friedman’s history of US battleships, he spends some time dealing with this exact question, re: capital ships vs nuclear weapons. The Navy discovered that it was not so much the sheer armor that protected BB’s against overpressure and thermal shock, but the fact that carriers are built like shipping…

Also, an excellent use of the portrait orientation.

Surprisingly, battleships can shrug off a lot of damage, carriers...not so well. However, the power projection ability of a carriers’ flight group far outweighs what a battleship can do, so thats what people went with.

Ok, it was CIG, then...

My new favorite use of a glove box!

This is assuming, of course, that it isn’t another example of a faked scientific study.

The UCI is an utterly corrupt and debased organization. They make Bernie Ecclestone or the the IOC look good in comparison.

I thought I was going to need to look up what a kenny chesly was, then I decided I really wasn’t that desperate to know.

If they put an M1 Garand into regular gameplay, it would be idiotic to not put in the ping the freshly ejected clip makes. There is no reason for a contemporary semiauto pistol to make a ping sound unless something was very wrong.

Ginger, almond milk, coconut fats and sugars, cardamom, I understand, but black pepper? Where did that come from? Yes, I know there are Aztec preparations of chocolate that include a little red pepper, but black pepper has a very different taste and effect on food, and really not one I associate with any of the other…

Just as well there were no gothic abstract surrealists there.

Quit blaming guns for this. The problem is not the tools that a terrorist uses, its the ideology, the toxic memes that they are infected with; it is the fault of his religiosity. Religion created the idea that it was acceptable it do what he did. Suppress these memeplexes, and leave alone the millions who do not go on…

Compared with getting a noob 40-person raid team together, herding cats is trivial.