Comment Re: It's obvious all your posts on this are fantas (Score 1) 555
He also seems to have an odd infatuation with Pierce Brosnan.
That or your caffeine has been replaced by amphetamines.
Well, we are talking about Starbucks coffee after all...
I'm one of those leeches. I leech WiFi at Starbucks because my best network connectivity option at home is tethering through my cell phone. I'm too far from the telco switch to get even basic DSL, and cable TV is not available in my rural area. That's just the price I pay for wanting to live on a large property instead of in a suburban tract home.
That should have been "Speed limit enforced by drones". Maybe the signs were made by someone whose first language isn't English, and/or someone who is not that good at it.
The fake signs closely mimic legitimate "speed enforced by aircraft" signs commonly found on California freeways. For example, see the picture in this SF Examiner article about declining use of aerial speed limit enforcement in CA. I agree that the wording is ambiguous, but that's not the fault of the creator(s) of these fake drone signs.
Hi there. I'm a Californian, so let me fill y'all in on some information that non-Californians might not be aware of:
Leland Yee is a drooling idiot.
Huh? Castings are frequently machined down to finished gun components. Aluminum castings are often used as the starting stages of M-14 and AR-15 receivers.
Almost correct. AR-15/M-16 receivers can be (and commonly are) made from aluminum castings, but M-14 receivers are made from high-strength heat-treated steel, just like the M-1A and M-1 Garand. An aluminum M-14 receiver with standard dimensions would fail violently, possibly on the first shot.
The AR-15/M-16 design has the bolt lock into a steel barrel extension, and the receiver mostly just holds the parts in alignment. The assembly of bolt, barrel, barrel extension and case head handle the very high chamber pressure forces alone, allowing the receiver to be made form much lighter and much weaker materials like aluminum or even plastics. This was one of the most revolutionary features of Stoner's design. The bolt extension and gas tube also handle a lot of pressure, though not as much as peak chamber pressure.
In contrast, the M-14 and other designs descended from the M-1 Garand (like the majority of non-blowback rifle designs, for that matter) have the bolt lock into recesses in the receiver. The receiver itself must withstand very high forces from chamber pressure.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
