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Why wouldn't it be about stopping violence? Isn't that the point? The death of a beating victim is no less tragic than one in a mass shooting. Mass shootings actually are an extremely small percentage of violent deaths. They're just as tragic, but why focus on them and ignore all the other...

This haunts me. Like I wrote earlier, I was a prison guard for a couple years. I worked at a medium/maximum security prison. The people I guarded seemed like normal people, on the surface. Underneath those facades though, are people that have done the most despicable acts for the most...

I voted guns good. It's not just recreation, even though I enjoy shooting for a hobby. It's not just the "prevention of tyranny", even though I agree with the need. It's because it is my job to keep my girls safe and come home every night. I take that job VERY seriously. I know from...

I see you a steak pic and raise you a steak. This particular one occurred shortly after I landed on the way I cook steaks now. Here's my process. The first is the selection. I mainly look for the marbling. Sometimes it's a ribeye, sometimes a New York, and sometimes a T-bone. The...

I'd be game if I didn't already have a group. I'm pretty lucky on that. We have a weekly group that plays at our house. Some of them have actually been with us for over 4 years. Tabletop games can turn out amazingly epic when you have time to play characters for long periods of time. We've...

Please don't misunderstand me on this one. I make no assumptions about anyone involved with cryptocurrencies. Nor do I make assumptions about anyone's ethics or standards. I don't know anyone personally and we could all be millionaire corporation owners for all I know. So with that in...

There are some glaring issues with bitcoin that most people.... sidestep. The first is the investment. This is in both time and money. The time spent researching, building, maintaining, etc is better spent on a part time job. You'd make more money. The money investment, is better spent...

I like where you're headed here. What if, it's never 100%? Let's say you can "launder" a ship. You can get fake registrations and have it altered in the general database. However, as you suggest, what if it only gets you 90% of the way. Let's say that last 10% is a main database that...

That's no joke. There was some twisted shit that went down there.

Not for laser chainsaws!

Fixed a typo for you there... Honestly though, as easy as it is to both achieve and keep a license here in the states, it's not surprising that this stuff happens all the time. Where I live, there's ice and snow on the road ~5 months out of the year. It never ceases to amaze me how people...

It doesn't have to stop there. Have you read the Night's Dawn trilogy? Lumber can have a place in this universe too. Just because our lumber on earth doesn't have a use in space, doesn't mean that lumber from every planet can't. Maybe there's a world with trees that have better structural...

It sounds like things have worked their way out, thankfully. It did show two very important facts though. The first is that CIG is thinking ahead. They are very carefully approaching a very old MMO problem and look to be one of the few developers in history that are trying to solve it. The...

Well, I think I speak for everyone when I ask, what was in the box? was it a.... Honestly, it was waaaay to difficult to track down that video...

That was pretty much the late 90's for everyone really. We lived our formative years without those fancy twitter books and facie pages. There was no instagram. We didn't skype. Drug dealers were the only ones with pagers, and wall street execs were the only ones with car phones. We didn't...

1996 was an absolutely amazing year. I had just graduated college. I went to the olympic games in Atlanta. The Nintendo 64 was released. Big Blue beat Kasparov in a chess match. The Mars Pathfinder was launched. The internet was really starting to become a thing (1M to 10M sites in that...

It takes a touch more money, but you definitely want to wrap your perforated pipe and gravel with geotextile fabric. We always used Typar (I always thought it was spelled Type R until a couple years ago...). You basically want to make a perforated pipe and gravel burrito. It allows the water...

I think just about everyone thought he was a she when the song came out. Even after we all found out, every time the video would come on the TV it was always met with disbelief.

Holy hot damn that's alot of shame... I mean, a staggering amount of shame.

This is a very important point and a difficult one to really nail down. It's not a universal point. Some things you can buy the cheap version. Some things you should look at the middle range. But some things, you want to buy the top of the line. The septic tank backflow is definitely one of...