And that’t the problem with bullet trains. Local would be enough to compete and leave you with two crippled sets of infrastructure.

That is easily the stupidest reasoning I have heard today. If you see no meaningful difference between the feature set of w7 and w10, you go w10 just because it has the longest support lifespan in front of it.

Rubber bullets are only less lethal if used properly. They are not meant to be shot directly at people. They are used for pain compliance in riot control and prisons, and from the ones I have seen, they are intended to be skipped off floors and such to 1) increase dispersion and 2) reduce velocity to be unlikely to…

Yeah that was some serious shit.

The immigration laws have exceptions for migrant workers. the estimates on the rate of illegal immigrants among them are 25%-50%. That’s a huge margin. That problem should not evoke a response of “don’t enforce the law” It should evoke the response of what is wrong with the existing legal program that compliance isn’t…

Actually if they were designed for military use, they would be fully automatic machine guns. However, they are not and have been specifically altered to be semi-automatic rifles. Not to mention a ton of the things classed as “assault weapons” were desinged in the entirety for the civilian market and have never been…

You mean australia that is having ANOTHER amnesty because the confiscations worked so well?

You don’t hang around places guns are used a lot. I’d argue one of the leading causes of cop leg is due to the fashion/sporting goods world. Everyone likes their gore-tex parkas and rain shells or equivalent. As a whole they all now use those little spring loaded cinching toggles. They like to locate them right where…

Is just saying Latin understood to mean both latinas and latinos? I find the whole thing a bit odd to figure out. I don’t bend over backwards to be the most politically correct person, but I try not to offend those I don’t intend to offend, and that usually means taking my direction from those I don’t wish to offend.…

yes, I can even see the point of awarding damages fro breach of contract. However, the stated reasoning is copyright infringement. Which seems incredibly stupid without more detail.

“Ours are terrible by any objective measure.”

Except that’s not practical. At best maybe you might call it “modest” or something. Still very nicely crafted, but filigree “armor” is not practical. Something is not armor when it provides lots of holes for the stuff it is protecting you form to pass through.

Yes, cheating sucks. Yes, it caused demonstrable harm to Blizzard.

I think on paper veterans are treated well. I think people in the system give a shit. I think those who use the military to play politics do not. I think one of the results of that is that battlefield survivability has been greatly increased, and now the system is taxed by a lot more wounded veterans consuming a lot…

Lets see. “Trains” of independent cars. Working together. On a maglev roadway. Because movie. The savings comes from the co-operative actions of the the vehicles. Which could occur on a plain old road.

It’s smug and defensive, yes, but I think the most notable part about it is how it buries anything of use to Hathaway in the middle of it and spends more words on discussing the author, trying to remind everyone that she Anne was disliked, and generally being self absorbed and dickish n a sorry, not sorry kind of way.…

How much cash depends on your lifestyle and tolerance for risk.

Perhaps the best reason to be prepared is not the apocalypse, but so when something shitty happens you can at least not be part of the problem. My prepping is based on what would have made things like the couple weeks post 9-11 and some of the bigger hurricanes/tropical storms go smoother. Plus seeing the ever…

Pretend you are a horse or a fish. Downside is you have to sort out dosing for yourself.

Insurance won’t let you refill too early. They usually don’t give a shit about you being over-prescribed the same med.