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Comment Re:to answer your last comment first (Score 1) 600

I can reload a 6 shot revolver in less than 2 seconds, guys that competition shoot can do it in less than that. bullet capacity is only a concern for dumb people that dont know anything about guns.

Do not be afraid of the moron with a 100 round drum magazine that is spraying randomly. Be afraid of the guy that holds his breath, takes a moment to aim and drops a round in your forehead with a bolt action single round rifle.

Only the dumbest of the dumb are concerned with magazine capacity. Because reloading near anything takes almost no time. And the police are not trained in a real firefight so they dont know what to do in one.

Comment Re:Not comparable (Score 1) 600

A hammer is a weapon of war that has been barely domesticated.
A Baseball Bat is a weapon of war that has been barely domesticated.
A long stick is a weapon of war that is barely domesticated.

I'm guessing you know nothing at all about "weapons of war".

Bows and arrows, crossbow, spears, rocks... go watch a skilled sling user, you can kill a man at a distance with some leather and a rock, and that is what it was designed for. Humans make crap to kill each other then discover , "hey this has more uses"!

Patents

US Patent Office Seeking Consultant That Can Stamp Out Fraud By Patent Examiners 124

McGruber writes: A month after Slashdot discussed "Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office," the USPTO issued a statement that it is "committed to taking any measures necessary" to stop employees who review patents from lying about their hours and getting overtime pay and bonuses for work they didn't do.

USPTO officials also told congressional investigators that they are seeking an outside consulting firm to advise them on how managers can improve their monitoring of more than 8,000 patent examiners. The Patent Examiners union responded to the original Washington Post report with a statement that includes this line: "If 'thousands' of USPTO employees were not doing their work, it would be impossible for this agency to be producing the best performance in recent memory and, perhaps, in its entire 224 year history."

In related news, USPTO Commissioner Deborah Cohn has announced plans to resign just months after a watchdog agency revealed that she had pressured staffers to hire the live-in boyfriend of an immediate family member over other, better-qualified applicants. When he finished 75th out of 76 applicants in the final round of screening, Cohn "intervened and created an additional position specifically for the applicant," wrote Inspector General Todd Zinser in a statement on the matter.

Comment Whiny babies.... (Score 1) 215

Yes they need a working prototype. Even if it's printed crap from inkjets. These guys are whiny that they cant run their scam.
tons of other groups have funded their board games and card games via kickstarter and they had most of it prototyped and demonstrated before they ran the kickstarter.

This is how it is supposed to work.

Comment Re:Muppets (Score 2) 222

No that term is reserved for most Android owners and reviewers

And yes I was a sheep like moron for buying an HTC phone... the M8 is the worst android phone ever made.

All the morons all over the sites for a year hyping on how it's SOOOOOOOO AWESOME...... when in reality 99% of android reviews are made by people that have never touched the damn device.

My fault for straying from a google play nexus.

Comment Re:I just want the new Nexus. (Score 2, Insightful) 222

Right here.

google wallet is clunky to use. I tried using it several times and it always gave me fits to where I finally gave up and used the card in my wallet.

I really hope apple figured out how to make it work a LOT better than GW does. Because having to log into the app and waiting for it to sync takes longer than opening my wallet and swiping the card.

Comment Re:Cart FIRMLY in front of horse! CHECK! (Score 4, Informative) 444

And here in Grand Rapids Michigan we have several places that do it. The Van Andel Institute for example is covered in solar on their roofs and their solar program is very successful even through last winter when we saw more snow than Minnesota saw.

How about instead of wild speculation you actually look up the places that ACTUALLY have done it and have been running that way for years successfully?

Even Michigan Tech way the hell up against Lake Superior has a successful Solar power generation system in a place where they get on average 6 feet of snow falling per winter storm and over 30 feet of snow fall for the winter.

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