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  1. champu
    The whole Kinder Egg thing is a great example of pearl-clutching nonsense that just about everyone can relate to. It's also a great example of how stupid regulations/bans created due to someone's imagination or a handful of outlier events can be difficult to undo (here we are 77 years later, still ridiculous, still banned) and why many people are so adverse to "doing something" for the sake of having done something. What might go from zero to law in a state legislature or as a ballot proposition in six months can take as many years tied up in courts to get rid of, even if someone goes after it right away.
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    Every time someone uses the word "ilk" I just pretend they said "elk" and my forum-going experience is improved.
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    I got that much, I was just confused as to whether he was saying "Except" in regards to my whole post or just the last sentence. I read it as the former which made it sound a lot more accusatory, oops. In any event, thanks for looking out.
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    I'm drawing a blank on your allusion... let me have it, what have I said...?
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    I'm pretty skeptical of reporting on just about everything. I don't have confidence in journalists' ability to read a scientific paper, a court opinion, a write-up of opinion poll results, nor a law/bill and accurately summarize it. The points in your link are good but step one, especially on the internet, is to find and read the actual thing.
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    Reasonable conclusion: If you have toddlers and/or children around and you want to carry a gun, you need to use a carry method with better weapon retention than carrying it in a purse, fanny pack, etc. And when not carrying it, you need to secure it from unauthorized use. Unreasonable conclusion #1: Nobody but police or the military should be allowed to own guns. Introducing a gun into your home is rolling dice that are loaded against you and your family. Unreasonable conclusion #2: What part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" don't you libtards understand?
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    Point of clarification: Byrne is the host of the show. Fry is the one answering the question. That aside, you're mixing a supposition (God's existence, period) with real-world results (Fry not being smitten) to conclude that God must not be evil, but there's a fallacy there. All you can really conclude is that there is no such all powerful God that is so vengeful that He would surely smite Fry for saying what he said, because if there was He would have done so. That is a tautology. It's remarkably easy to disprove by test/demonstration the existence of any God to which you assign concrete human-like personality traits. If, however, anyone wants to believe in a god whose personality, action, and will are defined solely by the collection of observable physical laws of the universe, then have at it.
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    Indeed.
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    For fixed/structure applications I'm curious how it stacks up (har har) against a sandbag wall in terms of cost/performance.
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    Just got home from the Hawks @ Ducks, very happy with how the Blackhawks played tonight. It's tough to go against the Blackhawks right after they've played the Kings, win or lose.
  11. champu
    Nah, he said "to the nearest percent, 100%" If you take the number of Muslims in the US (~2,000,000) and multiply by 0.0049999 (a number that would round down to 0% if you rounded to the nearest percent) you get 9,999 people. So he's saying there are less than 10,000 Muslims in the US that want to kill Americans.
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    I think the high fertility rate of immigrants and drop-off in the second generation is a phenomenon that doesn't require any kind of domineering explanation, religious or otherwise. I also think changes in racial and religious majorities and pluralities are nothing, in and of themselves, to worry about. Lastly, I think leaders, or those whose goal is to appear to be the like, will always try to get their name associated with events and phenomena, regardless of whether they have anything to do with it. The correct response of anyone who this worries is to double-down on protection of individual liberties. Get rid of crap like the ability to amend the state constitution in California with a simple majority vote on a ballot measure, stop indirectly calling the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution an "obstacle," etc.
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    I think there was, and probably still is, a fairly large gap between how the intelligence agencies operate and how politicians operate. It's similar to how people in the thread have tried to divorce discussion of a soldier from discussion of the war as a whole. (note: this isn't intended to be in conflict with what you just wrote, just expounding.)
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    Muslims have some work to do to fit in in Texas. I think I have an idea... https://www.google.com/search?q=Texas+flag+Hijab&tbm=isch
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    So you're saying Fahrenheit goes to 50? I'm sold.
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    Mmmm.... Sort of like this? There ya go! /edited to add... I've never seen one that goes to 11. Oh my. I hope to some mythical being you're kidding me. Well, is it any hotter?
  17. champu
    stick a radio in it, write an app, and display the temperature however the hell you want on your phone.
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    Yeah, that was a dumb way to make a point that was dumb to begin with. Unless everyone in your family has their own twitch.tv channel, you don't need upstream speeds in parity with your downstream speed.
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    Whomever it's attributable to, I like the term "higher-income Americans." It reminds me of "orange drink" or "cheesy sauce." "Wait, are we talking about the rich? High-income?" "Well... They have higher income..."
  21. champu
    Here are a couple of more detailed photos from one of my rigs...
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    I think pressure from parents anticipating leaving an inheritance is something that's always going to be there, particularly if you don't plan to have kids with your prospective spouse (and your siblings do) and/or if you don't live near your parents and this is someone they've only met a handful of times. It can create a lot of tension if either person isn't, as billvon suggested, willing to discuss it openly. It's a canary if you can't get past it though.
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    Customer: "I'd like ein swastika cake." Baker: "Wait a second... you're not a jew are you?" Customer: "Nein" Baker: "Okay then, coming right up."
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    Most laminate companies offer metal over HP Laminate Indeed, they're just one example I'm familiar with in RF shielding applications.
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    There's a company called Neptco that makes industrial aluminum/polymer laminates if you want something more durable than a survival blanket.