Whoa, whoa. Don't you put words in my mouth; I never said anything of the sort. Full stop.

All I did was re-print some fatality statistics that showed the numbers argument is worthless when justifying the war on terror. I didn't think my brevity would be taken to mean so much more.

Honestly, you can blast the shit out of [actual] terrorists and I'll cheer, go get em & godspeed. But to state that the reaction to 9/11 and other terrorist attacks is proportionate to the amount of lives and money lost is just not true. If it were, at least some of the other more significant causes of fatalities and monetary loss would have more of a reaction than 9/11. Its not about the numbers, it is about the reaction to being violated. Its about revenge, and making the disproportionate response known... the cost of such future attacks outweigh any benefit.

And the putz thing was a bit too much. My apologies, I'm sure you're not a penis.

I can't let this go.

Estimated US deaths due to alcohol: 80,000... per year. The estimated economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption (in 2006) were $223.5 billion

Lets look at some other numbers from the CDC on deaths in 2010...
Heart disease: 597,689
Cancer: 574,743
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
Alzheimer's disease: 83,494
Diabetes: 69,071
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476
Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364

Homicide: 16,259.
Motor Vehicular-related: 32,885

So don't go on about how the Afghanistan campaign is proportionate. You look like a putz.

Really look at the wheels; they are actually a very well designed machine component. The main design strengths are graceful degradation (inherently long working life), and an excellent balance of material conservation/functionality . A breakdown follows:

1. The center ribs of the wheel are the first structural element, transmitting the forces exerted on the wheel to the hub.

2. The treads are thicker material that provide several functions: provide traction, transmit the forces from the wheels' skin to the center ribs, and lend structure to the center ribs.

3. The skin of the wheel looks to be slightly cambered. Bending the skin of the wheel in such a manner actually creates a suprisingly stable structure that is also slighly flexible. That slight flex means the wheel will survive impacts better a very rigid arrangement. The thin skin also reduces weight. As the wheel skin is dented and punctured, it actually will provide better traction as time goes on. Even when the skin finally begins "fall apart" the arrangement of the tread ribs and center ribs will continue to work as a fully functional "wheel".

These wheels would work even if there weren't any skin on them, they just wouldn't work as long.

Just remember that everything you really need... they'll value-engineer out.

I've A Modest Proposal, if you've an ear to listen...

This is your sense of humor calling to tell you -- calm down, its just a joke. Jeez-luise.

A bag of hurt.

Forgive me, I mistyped... I meant -96 to 0.

You're just plain wrong. In audio plain-jane decibels are useful as a relative measurement of levels. I'm a sound designer and my colleagues and I use them regularly. Even if 1dB and 120dB weren't already defined in an human aural context (which they are, look it up) -- he provides the dynamic range as -90 to 0. All of the sudden the unit-less dB is useful as a comparison of levels in reference to the stated range.

Clue up buddy. That's probably because many people find the streaming selection to be anemic. Also note the constant swapping of available streaming content (not adding to, but swapping). Netflix knows many people will be split between an instantly available (but crappy selection) stream and slow to arrive (but great selection) dvds. They're betting on more than half keeping both services so that Netflix at least breaks even, I'm sure the goal is that more than half will keep both services.

Myself, I'm quitting NF, partially because of the money, but mostly because they blatently lied when they announced the fee hikes. Fuck that, we've got enough to deal with in life without adding more liars to the mix.

I see you haven't met my mother.

If you know how to use them they just may give you a smoother shave than a 5 bladed modern disposable, they do for me (though I've recently switched to a safety razor to save time on upkeep.) Straight razors also cut down on razor-burn and shaving related skin reactions; the single blade doesn't tend to aggravate sensitive skin the way 4, 5, 6 or 7 do. They're also cheaper than disposables in (savings become apparent relatively soon.) Also, they may inspire a manly "screw the corporate-pig-dogs" sort of feeling.

Sounds exactly like New Haven, CT.