You have absolutely no idea how my leftie coworkers talk about the conservatives in the office.. and we're (the conservatives) centrist Democrats. I find that many of the science and engineering types tend to be well reasoned and objective, while many of our liberal arts types tend to be much more emotive and subjective. That's why I asked for the stats in the first place. I'm just getting tired of getting an unsolicited earful since they know a couple of us are into sport shooting and also have concealed carry permits.

No flamage intended, do you have a cite for that? There are some libruhl assholes that need clobbering with this in my workplace.

Get a nice 16 gauge pump shotgun. Just aim in the general direction and you are gonna hit something with one shot.

Yeah, maybe your kid if you're that inept to believe what you just wrote.

I couldn't let this one fly just in case somebody reads this and takes it seriously. The shotgun does not throw a basketball-sized ball of death down the fucking hallway. At 3-4 meters it's more than likely going to be the size of a tennis ball depending on the ammunition used, as well as the choke and other aspects of the weapon in question.

And if you don't think that double-aught buckshot can't burn through an interior wall and whack little Timmy, I've got a bridge to sell you.

In addition, the whole First Amendment issue: I've got friends of mine in the NRA and other firearms organizations who are receiving death threats from left-wing morons. Thoughts on inciting violence? Hmmm??? Was the purpose of the article to inform or inflame? You mentioned that many interpretations are valid. I think the article was written for sensationalism and page hits.

Wally-word. I like that! :) I was at Fort Dix, otherwise known as Fort Disneyland.

Oh, we were fed the same line when I was in the US Army. Snopes says 'no', and to be honest I think any suppression was due to exhaustion from four hours of sleep and twenty hour training days.

Kpop?

in USA, drugs ("speed" and similar) and nutrition (e.g. sexual desire suppressant in food) to alter behavior has been going on since Viet Nam war at least

Amphetamines yes, I've seen the cites. Sexual desire suppressant? Don't tell me you bought into the whole 'saltpeter' horse shit. That was debunked a long time ago.

Agreed. I normally end up with an Asus workstation board with an Intel NIC chipset and it's always worked out fine.. and your point is well taken. I vetted it through Google (and Newegg's customer feedback) before pulling the trigger.

Aren't just plain Intel boards, with Intel NICs and Intel HD graphics supposed to be 'out of the box' open source friendly?

Now you've done it. In which novel(s) did that happen? I seem to remember reading something like that.. even wars between the pods.

Yeah, he might sell more spots in this venture if he gave away a few free bonus spots to some hot young blondes.

They're called 'furniture'.

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Do you really want to play that game? How about we ban anything that can exceed 80mph. Hmmm? Almost a third involving speeding indeed.

That's a great quote but it only serves to highlight the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality of U.S. politics.

That's why I'm not a big fan of Reagan, as previously stated. I do, however, agree with the sentiment of his statement. Own up to your actions.

And yet countries that ban ownership of assault rifles and handguns by the average person don't have these crimes. They just don't.

How many of those countries have the Second Amendment?

Don't even go there with the whole interpretation issue; you'll lose that battle.