I think you have a point, to an extent. Your water bottle is a good example. But some of the things they are talking about are just ridiculous. Pay a fee to use WiFi AND a fee per e-mail/text/tweet etc. sent is completely outrageous, especially when the connection is poor and service doesn’t work for a large portion…

I hope this is a self correcting problem. When things get too bad, people will stop paying and these revenue streams will all start to dry up. But I guess this is the new capitalist era where businesses compete to rape you for every dollar and consumers turn their nose up at brand loyalty to get the best bargain…

The original movie was made in 62. I suspect it would have been virtually impossible to get a Nagant back then. Frankly, I’m impressed the used a revolver - I would bet 99.9% of the movie going public, even today in the age of the internet, wouldn’t know about Nagants, silenced revolvers, etc.

Ahh, the Mateba was the other one I was forgetting about. I knew there was another one besides the Nagant but I couldn’t remember the name.

You can silence a Nagant revolver, which has a gas seal system where the cylinder slides forward right before firing and seals the breech. Quite a few were setup like this by the KGB. That said, when the movie was filmed they probably weren’t available since they were commbloc guns, so they made due.

Whoa, that’s some craziness! “Knights of the Silencers” sounds like some “gang” invented by a bunch of dorky middle schoolers. Not that I’d mess with them. And I imagine dudes on an AQI assassination squad are no-fucks-given kind of guys, so “step-up” seems right up their ally.

Develop a good natural point of aim. It’s the same thing the trick shooters do, guys like Jerry Miculek, where they draw from the holster and shoot the target without ever actually bringing the pistol up to aim. If you practice enough, you’ll develop a good, instinctive sense of where the gun is pointing. Certainly…

From all the pictures I can see, it looks like they are actually back to using an external screw with no shroud. However many of these are artists renderings, not too many photos of exposed screws are available in the public domain. So it’s possible they may have shrouded screws, hard to say. But I don’t think anyone…

Thanks again, Tyler, and thanks to your author for yet another great read. I love that you are getting this information out there about the submarine community. It’s a really great community and I am so proud to have been a part of it.

Close, they use a propulsor. It’s all done external to the boat, but it’s basically a screw in a shroud and from an engineering standpoint, it’s very similar to how a pump works.

Again, man, right in the feels. Getting a little teary eye’d here thinking of the ustafish.

The Navy, especially the submarine force, is incredibly distrustful of technology and automation. Reliability is king, and while humans are stupid, you can at least count on that.

I served a few years on a fast attack boat, and it is honestly the most accurate sub movie out there if you want to know what life is really like on a sub. I mean like real, day to day shit.

Just like Fords and Jeeps with exploding airbags, or basically every Japanese car out there with Takata claymore mines airbags.

Actually, the WRX got sold for a CBR1000RR.

Quite a few years ago I went up to New Hampshire with my girl friend at the time visit her best friend. It was late fall and our plan was to spend the weekend staying at the friend’s house in the guest bedroom. The trip started off bad. I got out of work late, traffic was a mess, and we hit a bad storm and lots of…

I couldn’t agree with this any more.

A few points here -

You’re right. It wasn’t a good purchase... it was the BEST purchase.

I love that Australia has made burnouts into a sport. I don’t know what that appeals to me, I don’t even do burnouts. But I appreciate that an entire continent of people enjoy it enough to make it a sanctioned competition.