Sturgeon

Everything Scott says about the modern misuse of smartphones, I agree with. His conclusion that therefore one shouldn't own one, I don't. Yes, smartphone plans are pretty usurious. So is rent, fast food prices, car payments, and a host of other things that we nonetheless put up with. If you are intelligent, you will find people you trust and work well with (such as a family, if yours hasn't been blasted out of existence by Progress), control yourself when considering the options, and end up with something that will much less negatively affect your monthly bottom line. If you don't feel you need what a smartphone offers, great! Buy the $10 pre-paid phone. I disagree, though, that one can't get important work done on a smartphone. It's tiny, doesn't work well, is distracting, has the worst interface imaginable, but it does physically connect you to the internet, just like your old pocket computer, Scott, and you can even read the Iliad on it (though my eyes shrivel and dry at the thought of doing so; I'd rather use my $40 Nook e-reader, which I still insist should be called an "e-book"). In my case, I need to be able to connect to the Internet wherever, and I also need a decent camera, but not a great one. What I agree with, if perhaps he means this instead, is that smartphones aren't essential for modern living. That's obvious.

Oh, I agree. And it wouldn't matter if I didn't, anyway. Like I said, Zinegata is free to make any arguments he chooses, so long as he makes them well. I felt his post was very emotional. ...And emotions are fine, but emotions and arguments don't mix well with serious discourse.

I am not trying to stop discussion. If Zin wants to say what he has just said, but construct it better, with sources, and without such vitriol, I am fine with that. It's quality of posting I'm concerned with, here.

I expect a much higher caliber of posting on my forum than the above.

Not the reactions the Americans expected. My favorite line:

Depends how wide the pillars would be. I also am not sure it would help that much. Maybe using tapered pillars would help? Also, does anyone feel that Cowboy Action Shooting is anything but a bunch of baby boomers acting out their John Wayne fantasies in costume?

"And when Chester's stock finally cracks under recoil at the tang's inletting, as it inevitably will due to his inferior design and obsolete, cheapened manufacturing techniques, I will take him to the gunsmith, prostrate myself before him, and pay him $168.95, according to the custom of my people."

My lame-ass Delta IV/Orion replica:

Going to see them in May, actually.

I think that's generally true, though a certain religion is really struggling with its reputation right now, to the point that I think that holds less true in that case.

Such efforts are clearly well underway, given the existence of Rami the pitbull/dachshund mix.

If you're a hipster faggot like me, then you probably listen to this band: And from their new album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglIHSvHAsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEcMpwgnqOQ

It doesn't. It also has serious QC and reliability issues. LoooSeR, the English translation of that article is pretty unintelligible. I take it the rifles are still subject to testing?

Welp, if I don't post it, colli will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTNp6L8Zd9I#t=667

Now THAT would be cool.

Wow, colli, since when did you get so self-aware? Also, apparently David Bowie has a condition that permanently opened his left eye's pupil. And here I was, thinking it was just because of the drugs.

Mostly proof that 7.62x39 is not a great round for full auto fire, actually. Also, Brandon Novotny is a very cool guy, very ernest and easy to talk to. I do think their MK 47 will find a place in the market. It's different from other AK-magazine using non-AK rifles in that it is properly set up to accept AK mags. Most other rifles do not have the proper support in the magwell, but the MK 47 does.

BOW TO THE DEUS EX POWLIUS SCRIPTOR MACHINA

I literally live right next to Barksdale. kool plain tho

Honestly I play somewhere in between. I don't get all mathy, I have a pretty good intuition for that sort of thing, instead.

I suspect it depends on how much of a stake the leaders have had in the subject nation's future.

Interstate Highway System? That seems like a BFD that folks take for granted. I think huge projects are a good thing, but modern societies seem too short-sighted to really take advantage of them.

I'm not sure what his actual point is, but I suspect all the stuff about leaping around the room and legolasing the shit out of random stuff is probably kinda made up. ...Or existed only in the equivalents of commedia of the period.

That's because it was, I'm pretty sure.

Something Robert Zubrin proposed wouldn't work, operates from bad assumptions, glosses over details, and is exaggerated in effectiveness? Impossible!