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.

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...

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.

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.

Well, after the AQ gate opening thing, there was the Scourge event that led to the level 60 version of Naxxramas that was almost completely forgotten since it was opened very close to the release of Burning Crusade. The Scourge/Naxx thing was Azeroth-wide, and presented an equal threat to both Alliance and Horde.

Wow. Never thought I would see a Potemkin Village being built—well, draped—quite as brazenly as this.

At first I thought this was a Juke, which was confusing because I didn’t think Nissan made those (and electric Jukes should be a thing.)

I like this. It has a presence that a Camry will never possess, and eats a lightly seared Toyata Prius for lunch, with a dry martini. Its a convertible full-size car, and the last time we saw anything like that its was the Lexus “worn bar of soap” or the Nissan “Wow, we did what?” Murano. It has a gigantunormus trunk,…

Who buys a truck and fails to install a liner in the bed, doesn’t get to whine about dents in said bed.

These people are worse than the ones who created the “re-education” deathcamps under Mao’s Cultural Revolution, or the ones the Khmer rouge operated, or the institutional slavery of the Russian gulags.

Yet I could never even test drive a Miata because the goram footwell was so small my toes were caught in the wiring and crap underneath the dash (even tried it in my stocking feet, but no joy,) and the seat would not slide back enough for my knees to not interfere with the steering wheel.

(The likely content of the article.)

I once thought I was paranoid because I recommended to a friend that they rip the OnStar crap out of their truck due to its craptacular security and potential safety hazards. I don’t think I am, anymore.

I find the Sab 25 appealing not just because of...