Hrmmm - from my perspective (admittadly small) it seems that Russia used this as an excuse to deploy their new toy.

Whatever I find laying around....

I’ve used them twice with success - second time was on a seat bolt on my truck - through the frame and rusted in place - EZ out got it out after every attempt at using the actual bolt head only suceeded in making a nice round stud. (side note - bolt extrators may work if you use them before the bolt has already turned…

If you are lucky and your engine turns to the left (driver side) you can pop a breaker bar on the nut and wedge it - then crank the engine (with the plugs wires off)... instant loose nut :)

WD-40 works wonders....

What makes it real world - You can’t stop someone from changing - but that doesn’t mean you have to like the change. And that does mean sometimes people break up. I don’t find what Archie is saying invalid here - if he doesn’t like the ‘new’ Betty then the relationship isn’t going to work out. This does happen in the…

Yes I know that they had it in Diablo 2 - my sarcasm meta tags must not be working :)

Funny - and here I thought if you had a separate gameplay mode that worked offline and private party only it wouldn’t affect the ‘online’ only part.

ROFL you grandfather had a pension - which couldn’t be taken away in a lawsuit (unlike a 401k) and pays him until he passes away. Pensions in every way imaginable are 10000x better than a 401k. He also had a 50/50 shot roughly of having health insurance - by the 50’s about half of the workforce did (http://content.heal…

Companies in this country make more profit now than ever before in it’s history. Productivity is at an all time high. Wages are at an all time low. There is *plenty* of room for wages to go up without triggering inflation - it’s called ‘non-historic profits’. (That means the companies would need to eat the loss).

Considering that with the cost of shipping overseas the cost increase in price tends to be 10% or less. Yes. I’ll pay an extra 3 dollars on an Iphone for it to be made safe and humane (even if that means paying ‘gasp’ American labor prices). I’d pay 5 bucks more for a manhole cover to ensure the workers have shoes.…

Alright - working on learning about differentials - I get the idea of ‘backlash’ - that’s the movement towards or away from the other gear in a gear set (2 gears - because reality the teeth can move apart or closer while the machine is moving - this is called backlash) - what I don’t get is ‘preload’ and what on earth…

Go figure - try a search on ‘rusted brake lines GM’ and then explain why having a batch of brake lines that rust out isn’t a saftey issue... I don’t understand it still :)

Why does anyone have to say something “bad” about Sarkeesian? You can dismiss her work or not like it (which is actually fine) - the biggest issue most have with the ‘gg’ crowd is that they don’t do that - they go out of their way to personally attack her.

A true failure should have multiple stop points - first the cable snapping - then breaks apply - first fall - at this point honestly the fire dept should arrive and advise you when it’s safe to exit. Assuming however the breaks fail - the second fall should be to the safety cable - then stop. At that point it’s a good…

It’s not free fall - the breaks would kick in - even if they failed they would cause friction - assume however the breaks are gone totally - the elevator is still attached to railing which will cause friction and slow it down - then the air under the car is pushing up against it so that slows it down as well (take a…

Much of it depends on your reaction - a black widow bite can cause issues with breathing depending on the way your body reacts - and in some cases the pain can be very bad. I believe if its bad they will admit you for monitoring - and attempt to let the poison run it’s course without treatment - only administering…

a “rare” bug is one that can’t be repeated with a known set of steps (for example - set health at 50% and press X,Y,Z in that order bug happens) - why it’s “rare” comes down to basically they haven’t figured out what specific set of variables have to be set to cause the program to select a bugged path. Most likely…

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That’s because abortion isn’t murder. If I will only live by using some of your body for my medical need - you have the right to say no.