Dust has left than 2 months left, they’re shutting down the servers Memorial Day.

It’s not quite that bad. The problem is you’re not so much in direct control of a ship as you are its captain, giving relatively simple orders about what to do. So you can say “fly toward X”, or “orbit X at Y distance”, or “fire lasers at this bad guy”. Mostly though you just say “fly to this system”, “mine that…

The frustrating thing is, it wasn’t even that political. The prevailing thinking throughout much of the 20th century was that excessive urban density created poverty, so to save the people from themselves, they had to spread them out and give them lawns and garages, or “towers in a park”. Planners were shockingly…

Pot, meet kettle.

So basically a Stryker or a modernised Warsay Pact BRDM?

The answer is pretty simple. Take the roughly 50% of surface transportation spending that goes to completely worthless highway expansion, and devote half of it to bridge repair and half of it to expanding transit in major cities

Remember that commercial building staircases are often larger than home staircases, and lobby levels can be the equivalent of multiple stories. In my current building, walking up to the 3rd floor is essentially 5 “flights” of stairs.

were it PG-13, they could have gotten away with 1 F-bomb, and this might have actually trumped the 2 best PG-13 F-bombs ever:

Kari firing the minigun is pretty much the standard to which I hold potential girlfriends.

Which probably explains why I’m single.

Well, the Union will have a few early games where they look really good, but they tie or lose on either a late defensive lapse or an egregious example of terrible MLS officiating. Then they’ll settle into a midseason malaise of losing a bunch of 1 goal games, while they make another random run in the Open Cup, losing…

My version of this question is: what is the most fun, fuel efficient car .. with a short wheelbase to parallel park easily ... but still able to fit a 6'4" dude built like a defensive lineman under the steering wheel.

I have to disagree on BttF2. While many aspects of it hold up, the scene where Marty goes backstage while he’s also playing on stage is cringeworthy. Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, The Abyss, The Thing, and plenty of other movies deserve to be there more.

If only there were talented Asian actors with experience in similar genre work. <cough>
Sung Kang (Han, Fast and Furious series)

American “football supporters” blindly mimicking English soccer quirks? Never!

Yup. I live in Philly and on the rare occasion you run into a sixers fan, it either feels Stockholm Syndrome or a casual NBA fan who desperately wants another Iverson era to make the team safe to bandwagon again.

Honestly, I’m not sure. As a very popular and relatively inexpensive choice, it’s popular among beginners. It’s also widely used by law enforcement, and many departments have surprisingly little training. They also have some features (trigger “safety”, pulling the trigger during disassembly) that lend themselves to…

exactly.

the thing is, semi is a trade-off. A higher risk of failure gets you a much larger capacity, rapid reloads, and often a lighter trigger pull. Smart guns don’t make it a more effective killing machine, they just increase the ways in which it won’t shoot.

Logic rarely applies to gun debates. People are more concerned…

It’s actually sort of surprising to people who aren’t dialed in to the world of gun ownership, but a lack of mechanical safeties is often a selling point of guns. Part of why Glocks remain very popular is that their only safety is built into the trigger, and thus doesn’t require a separate action. Many revolvers offer…