I believe that would fall under the takings clause thus the government would have to provide compensation to all individuals who could no longer own their vehicles. The real bitch would be all of those old collector vehicles that instead of being worth a few thousand dollars are worth 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars. Having just been to one of the largest car shows in the US this past weekend you would be talking a non trivial amount of money even for the US government. Granted the value of these cars varies wildly but a lot of people with those cars have more money in them than they are worth so in such a state how would something be valued under the taking clause, the sum of the parts, appraised value, what ever the US Gov tells you? Add in that almost every one of those vehicle owners would likely file a suite against the government contesting the valuation and things would grind to a halt very quickly.

Considering the sensors, even an ideal lens would still be diffraction limited at this resolution. Granted with some post processing and anti aliasing you can probably still get slightly better resolution than pure diffraction limited but anything beyond about 10-12MP range on those little sensors is just spiking the numbers, and the difference between 8MP and 10MP isn't enough to really matter. This also assumes that the lenses are ideal f1 lenses instead of the typical cheap f2 to f3 lenses that are used in phones and cheap compact cameras.

Simple solution if you don't want one next door is for you to move. How would you feel about a neighbor owning a 10KW CO2 laser?

Also even being up in the north woods of MN I haven't shot a critter I didn't eat, but have discharged a firearm to scare off wildlife a few time. Thing like bears, wolves, cougars, lynx, and coyotes aren't afraid of seeing a gun but the loud bang of a shot being discharged into the ground will send them off. I have even had a close encounter with a bear while out hunting (2 feet), and walked away slowly and after I had put some distance between myself and the bear discharged a round into a tree, and then walked a bit further and discharged another one. Granted this was with a old military bolt action rifle but after that since I often have it slung across my back I decided I wanted something a bit more accessible so I bought a large magnum class handgun since if I was being attacked by a bear I could kill it. In general I prefer to avoid the large predators and I usually do a good job but sometime you come around a fallen tree and there is a bear with it's head stuffed in a hollow log trying to get something else in there.

Why do you want to sodomize someone with your mother's dildo?

I'm pretty sure it was American use of the metric system that produced the Boeing 787 so it would seem that metric is not the differentiating factor here.

So that is how the /. editors are making a living and spending their time.

It is vehicle stories like that which just bring a smile to my face. Someone did it because they can, no other justification is needed. This is the same reason why I want to have my MG Midget be a supercharged alcohol burner with extensive additional modifications to the 1275cc A-series engine.

Not being someone who pays much attention to the audio equipment world is Sennheiser the company that makes the headphones that pilots use? I had a dorm-mate in college who was going to school to be a pilot and he had a pair of headphones that were phenomenal that I got to use a couple of times.

Good thing that Facebook and Google while requiring a "real name" don't have any way to really verify that.

I actually have been using those the whole time. My wife on the other hand believes that things like those as well as real cream and anything not labeled as light is bad for you and I have spent a lot of time retraining her with that. The worst was when she bought some light sour cream which is about the most vile thing I have eaten lately, filled with all sorts of fillers, binders, and texture modifiers all so that you can make something that approximates real sour cream from skim milk.

I have become amazed at the amount ingredients in processed food that are there because it is needed to make it cheaper or to get the flavor or texture right when if you cook similar food it turns out better with less. For example when I make chicken and bean quesadillas (something I saw at the store and my oldest got a free sample of and liked) I brown some chicken, add in black beans, tomatoes and let that cook down for a bit. then I add in some salt, corn starch, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and chile powder to get the seasoning and consistency right. Then put a tortilla in a fry pan with a little oil, put in some cheese, the filling I made, some more cheese and then let it cook for 2-3 minutes per side on low heat. Yet the ingredient list on the prepackaged frozen ones is about as long as this entire post.

For veggies I like to steam them using one of these in a heavy stainless steel pot. Cook them until they are almost to the right stiffness, then take them off the burner and let them finish in the hot pan.

Most of the frying I do I is to sear things so for that I find that olive oil just doesn't work as you really do want a higher heat than can be obtained with olive oil. I love eggs fried up in butter, hashbrowns as well, and when I do feel like making some doughnuts it is time to get out the lard. While I don't like that I have an electric range I do have good pots and pans, 3 cast iron fry pans of various sizes, 2 copper bottom heavy stainless steel fry pans, and a set of copper bottom heavy stainless steel pots.

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None of us are as dumb as all of us./a

Olive oil is fine on bread and salad but if you use anything above a low heat it just smokes.