Given what would be considered a BB gun there is a lot of variation. Yes you have the smooth bore .177 cal Daisy ones that you can pick up for like $30 these are fairly harmless but good for starting out on. On the ultra high end of things you have .22 and .25 cal ones that are just barely sub sonic and shoot a fairly heavy projectile out of a properly rifled barrel that can cost well over $1000, and then there is everything in between. Personally I am using a $250 .22 cal air rifle that is just barely subsonic and while it will shoot through raccoons and possums it usually takes 2 shots to kill them quickly (just not enough expansion from the projectile), smaller things like rabbits and squirrels just tip over dead. If I could find a .25 cal one I would probably jump up to that if it wasn't too expensive.

Hey the MOA has the Lego store so it isn't all crappy overpriced food and clothing stores. That and don't forget about the amusement park.

I would imagine that the jokes made at the time were fairly dark. Having spend a fair amount of time in Israel the people there have a fairly dark sense of humor around terrorism and war as well. When you see a tee-shirt with "Guns and Moses" written on it with a couple of crossed Kalashnikovs on it it becomes apparent pretty quick. Besides humor is one of the ways we deal with stressful situation.

Or course. I've got a 3D printer and the kids love it. You don't have to look far to find models of popular toys, and they can be envy of the other kids at school if they're the only ones with glow-in-the-dark Minecraft Creepers (glow in the dark filament is pretty cool!)

Just another case of technology running ahead of the existing rules.

You are also forgetting about the fine/fee/tax (pick your wording as it seems to be some sort of quantum superposition of them) that is assessed if you do not carry health insurance or the right kind of health insurance.

Actually I think it would be the iClinton.

But then I always wiped my Lenovo to install Ubuntu anyway.

That sounds like some crazy alien talk right there.

Quick I found one!

Your monkeys are deficient in randomness.

Of course truly random monkeys would contain many random mutations many of which are not going to be viable, which means that room no matter that it is infinitely big, is going to be full of the stench of dead, decaying monkey flesh. The whole damn metaphor stinks.

Hey I want some of those moneys. I'm at a keyboard doing my bit, so where are my moneys?

Well said. If I had not already posted here, I would have given you a mod point. Probably "insightful", but "informative" would also work.

Parent post presents a reasonable argument. But the argument depends on an unstated assumption that cannot be verified and is most likely not true. The assumption being that our observational skills are so highly developed that we would recognize a break in causality if we saw it.

On every scale from the dark matter/energy that makes galaxies the way they are to the mysteries of quantum foam, there are a multitude of indications that we really are not very good observers. For if we were, there would be a lot fewer oddities that the science teachers kick into the corner and tell the students to ignore them.

The work on that level, love or hate the tea party that is what they did. Go an run a bunch of like minded candidates in the primary election so that the only option is a candidate from your party that holds the correct views. Also by getting involved at the local precinct you can get rid of the incumbents by ensuring that they aren't on the ballot. Finally by getting involved at the local precinct level you can help shape the state party platform so you get to help define the litmus test used for future candidates.

You speak as if you live in a reality where there can be an objective third party point of view, and where physics has some kind of existence outside human imagination. How 19th century quaint.

The Copenhagen interpretation is the best we've got since the upsets by Heisenberg et al.. To whit: physics is our best imaginary model of what the Universe might be like. That's not only as good as it gets, by the very nature of things that's as good as it can ever get. There is no objective reality. It is all in your head.

Which is not to say that you cannot shape your imagination so that it is congruent with (but still separate from) somew of what is actually out there. Leading to things like the Apollo project, the Manhattan project, etc.

"I can't believe I used to think that what I thought was happening was really going on." --The Sugar Beats