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Comment Re:Not sure about this. (Score 3, Interesting) 195

Yes. Which is why the clerks in a head shop are careful to explain the pipes and bongs are for tobacco use only, and the customers are urged to play along.

If the defendants advertised carefully, they may have a legal leg to stand on.

When you are offering for sale a product or service that could be operated adjunct to a criminal offense, you'd be wise to do the CYA in triplicate.

Comment Re:Who would have guessed (Score 1) 191

Ever seen a circuit board fried from an electrical surge?

Happens all the time when relying on the multi-plug surge arrestor for one's delicate equipment. They sell a much better unit that takes the place of two breaker spaces in the main panel, for under a hundred bucks.

Oh. And wouldn't you know it? There's no surge arrestor in your organic brain.

Comment Re:Bummer... (Score 1) 191

Undoubtedly, rereading all those comic books made it likely you scored high on the SAT, but nevertheless left an impression that every lab accident could result in superpowers.

Ah, to be naive again.

People always speculate they would like to return to an earlier version of themselves, if they could know what they know now, but forgetting the the awesome sauce of youth is inexperience.

Comment Define A Toy (Score 4, Interesting) 209

It could be reasonably argued that anything outside of survival necessities is a toy. For me, that's two or three Canadian Whiskeys and an equal number of cigarettes.

Every man with a disposable income has a toy collection of one sort or another.

Comment Re:Pretty Cool (Score 1) 92

We borrowed the athletic department's t-shirt gun for testing when we were spit-balling this around.

Most of the employees in Research and Development that we selected for testing were more interested in firing small packages at the guys on the zip line...so you know, being a government contractor, we killed the zip line dev.

Submission + - Nearly 2,000 Chicago flights canceled after worker sets fire at radar center (chicagotribune.com)

SpzToid writes: Nearly 2,000 flights in Chicago have been canceled so far today as federal aviation officials slowly resume operations at O'Hare and Midway airports following a fire that was deliberately set at an FAA radar center, apparently by a disgruntled worker.

The center handles high-altitude traffic across parts of the Midwest. Controllers there direct planes through the airspace and either hand off the air traffic to other facilities handling high-altitude traffic or direct the planes to terminal radar facilities, including one in Elgin, which in turn direct planes to and from airport towers.

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