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  1. Donward
    Best animation (Not to derail this awesome thread that I have not contributed anything meaningful to)
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    I have learned from a friend of mine that microwaving a citrus fruit 5-10 seconds increases its juice yield when put through a reamer. However, microwaving it 20 seconds results in a scalding fruit grenade of death when sliced...
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    I always assumed ammo makers under-loaded cartridges because of the lowest common denominator in weapons craftsmanship combined with a litigious society. I always considered the 41 Magnum to be the upper limit in realistic self-defense handgun ammo. Or .44 Magnum, assuming you're using a light special load...
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    Getting stuck with an arrow is going to ruin your - and your comrade's - day. I'm always a bit skeptical about the notion of bows being "superior" to early firearms. If this were the case, you wouldn't have seen everyone get shut of them so fast. Even the Indians were quick to dump bows in favor of even the rustiest, defective trade musket.
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    I'm rightfully leery of buying machinery from Yugoslavia...
  6. Donward
    The mustache is the most frightening aspect of that uniform. It is the stuff of Stranger Danger nightmares.
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    Interesting. In Washington, the ONLY pistol rounds that could reliably be found were .38 Special and .357 (and some oddball .32 ACP, and whatnot). In Alaska when I looked there was no .357 to be had but plenty of .38 in the ammo scare time span.
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    Indeed. But there are raisins for .357 in small frame revolvers including the ability to use .38 Special and the fact that they're non-tactical rounds that get overlooked in ammo scares.
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    Yep. That's why the .357 stayed the standard round of choice for police departments up until the 1980s. Yeah. I get why police departments now use Glocks since they are cheap and hold moar boolitz (in that order of priority). But for the Mark 1 civilian, having a round that can reliably drop anything in the Lower 48 up to a charging black bear, I'm not sure why you really need anything else.
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    Hmm. I guess I didn't see that last paragraph. Whoopsee on that writer's part.
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    While there pretty much seems to be a consensus on how domesticated dogs came about, camp followers scrounging for scraps at the edges of ancient human camps and settlements, there still is plenty of debate where and when this occured, whether it was 15,000 or 30,000 years ago and in Asia or the Middle East. With the revolution of mitochondrial DNA mapping and 3-D computer X-ray analysis, it makes the old days of archaeology with calipers and plaster of Paris casts seem as primitive as the dark ages. http://www.skidmore.edu/news/2015/0205-drake-publishes-new-canine-research.php http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150205/srep08299/full/srep08299.html http://www.archive.archaeology.org/1009/dogs/ I guess the real question is whether dogs were first harnessed by Paleolithic nomad hunter gatherers who would use them as a beast of burden to help carry meat, bones and shelters much like the American Indians on the Great Plains? Or were dogs first domesticated by early farmers who then traded (or had stolen) dogs to nomadic hunters? The former is the traditional and - to me - the most romantic view. But those aren't always the correct ones.
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    The problem would be trying to quantify where the tipping point is outside of the obvious when it comes to obnoxious behavior in the military. When we'd entertain some of guys from my brother's unit at our farm with some light-hearted barbecues/stump pile burning, I noticed one of the guys had a Confederate battle flag in the back window of his lifted pickup. This isn't an abnormal occurrence in country. The fact that it was owned by a six-foot-five black dude was however. And on that day I was introduced to my first genuine black southern redneck with unique views on race and inhabitants of the inner city.
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    Hate to be the one saying it but Vietnam was never unpopular while it was fought. Not with the majority of the American public. The only thing unpopular about it was the perception that more wasn't being done to win it. Win being a subjective term of course. There is a certain amount of the same sentiment today regarding our current conflicts.
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    I was not aware of this "Yoshinoya" and had to use Das Google to discover it. It looks like the closest one to me is on the El Camino Real in Santa Clara, California. There will be no "Road Trip". Fortunately, the amount of Asian restaurants in Seattle is nearly surfeit and I don't have to resort to chains. *Smug*
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    The more things change, the more they stay the same. What the Romans ate. http://www.insidescience.org/content/dinner-pisos/2536 Just like today, the poor ate lesser cuts of meat from street vendors. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an early "McDonald's"-esque street vendor franchise
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    KISS, Marilyn Manson, Insane Klown Posse, Alice Cooper; where would any of your face-painted musical acts be without The God of Hellfire, Arthur Brown? Behold the glory of psychedelic rock and weep at its glory! http://youtu.be/b5hs3IDETcg
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    I'd assume that to be the case. I dig Native American culture and I'm blessed to live in an area that has some of the best Indian artwork produced (Pacific Northwest Indians lived the good life). But they were primitive technologically and their short bows weren't anything to send a smoke signal home about.
  18. Donward
    I miss the good old days when libertarians were about a smaller government, the Constitution and states rights. And Weed. Now they're about Weed. Sovereign Citizenship. Weed. Anti-vaccine. Weed. Weed. And Weed.
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    Reading some accounts of the Old West, the smart guys paying attention had a barometer as to when the Indians were thinking about going on the warpath based on how industriously the squaws and children were salvaging discarded tin cans from refuse piles. Cans = Arrow heads.
  20. Donward
    That is a visual image none of us want to imagine.
  21. Donward
    Grapefruit!!!!!
  22. Donward
    Look. I've done more than my part in deconstructing your argument. And I'm tired of wasting time on it. I'm not here to convince you to change your mind. I'm here for the glory of winning the hearts and minds of the guys reading this. And as a final word, I am not saying every soldier is a spotless hero. Hell, just drive around any military base and you see high crime, strip clubs, prostitution, drug activity, pawn shops and sleazy used car lots. But I do object to lumping most - MOST - service members together as "Dregs". And I think that I've adequately demonstrated this to be the case.
  23. Donward
    Yeah. I can see that. Although that gets into the earlier issue regarding the stresses of electronics while firing the weapon.
  24. Donward
    Pro tip. Most soldiers go to college after serving. It's difficult to get a four year degree while in. You really are being obtuse here.
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    Also, so you're saying the Army should discriminate against blacks and have lower numbers of enlisted personnel of that make up? The same goes for officers, since blacks make up a higher number there too? Why do you assume they are from an economically disadvantaged background? Just because he's black, that automatically makes him a gang-banger from the hood? It couldn't be that black soldiers have a sense of pride in being a soldier and are eager to prove themselves worthy of a heritage that has overcome prejudice while seeking to better themselves at the same time? Also, people of the same economic background generally live in similar neighborhoods. That's how it works in the US. Poor people generally don't live in neighborhoods with waterfront views.
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