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Comment Re:Not a good thing they get no govt money (Score 1) 128

I personally also find it amazing and shocking that as a small island nation the people responsible for pulling drowning people out of the water, going miles out to sea in huge storms to save drowning sailors and rescue fishermen are voluntary and unfunded.

I'd rather entrust my safety at sea to someone who's out there because they want to be there and volunteered to go out there than someone who's only doing it half-assed because they're fed up with the crappy paycheque they get each month. If you catch my...drift.

Comment Re:Better than Uzi Water Guns (Score 1) 547

"Nerf should be fine as long as it's obvious that it IS a Nerf weapon."

Elsewhere in this thread, someone's pointed out criminals painting the tips of their gun barrels orange so they look more like Airsoft guns.

And you can buy gun paint, not just in camouflage, but in a variety of bright flashy colours, to make The Real Thing(tm) look like more like a Nerf gun.

When Bloomberg tried to ban the sale of these paints in NYC, the company making them brought out a special line named for him. Who needs a bright pink pistol? According to the company director 'Women like to accessorize their firearms'. Lovely.
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Submission + - Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC

eldavojohn writes: "While other companies are marrying the obvious functionalities to cell phones (calendar, MP3 player, GPS, etc.), Microsoft is aiming for it to be your next computers. From the article, "Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a research project called "Fone+" that would allow the phone to work with a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video stored on the device to be played back on the television.""

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