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  1. I think and I have a lawyer, therefore I am too dangerous to touch.

    SLAPP suits are evil, clearly. Be wary and suspicious of activist judges. But what of good people using strategic lawsuits as mostly bloodless weapons of revolution instead of to opress.

    My...
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    Re: The Dambusters 70 years ago today

    And history did repeat itself. Geneva Protocol 1, which banned among other things, dambusting and nuclear combat, wasn't passed until 1977.

    The Americans got the idea in their thick heads to take...
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    Re: The Dambusters 70 years ago today

    http://youtu.be/wS3eyLIWTEo?t=4m30s
    They up engined them big time. Goodbye 33kn thrust Saphires, 49kn Olympuses, 58kn Conways, 67 kn Super Olympus 7...
    Hello Rolls-Snecma BOI 21. Things made 89 KN...
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    Re: The Dambusters 70 years ago today

    garbage like the F-35 are you kidding me? Someone in british government is guilty of capital treason.

    Have you seen what some later vulcan derivatives could do. Subsonic my foot.
    Those thick...
  5. Kids are growing up really fast these days.

    They keep saying middle schoolers are acting way too much like adults.
    But what if they were taught to act like actual mature adults.

    Unrealistic trivializing depictions of violent and/or sexual...
  6. Re: On the subject of personal responsibility, education, law and explosives.

    Education is much more effective than regulation. We got quantity and power of education in spades. We don't have much quality though.
    And no matter who you are and what position you take someone...
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    HTC Superphone beta review

    HTC has gotten serious about the whole long lasting eco electronics thing.

    Really liking the One V. Not the old One V (as in Vee). Roman numerals- One Five.
    It comes after the One X, One XL and...
  8. Re: Imbecile-Cretin-Retard-Special-Scope-Diverse... Stop!

    Great story and the leaders have brains and mortality is real even though it is sometimes temporary. Original intent was for the series to be PG-13

    The Foglios mean something else when they say...
  9. Re: Imbecile-Cretin-Retard-Special-Scope-Diverse... Stop!

    Ancient piece of shart. Literally. Used as a swearword in girl genius, my all time favorite adult comic.
    http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100111
  10. Imbecile-Cretin-Retard-Special-Scope-Diverse... Stop!

    K, folks lets end this.

    There are plenty of ways of degrading someones intelligence and judgement that aren't insulting to those with mental disabilities....
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    TV and video games with brains.

    As it turns out you can get anything past the radar.
    Sex, Killing, Even hardcore educational content can get on the air.

    Consider the following movies and TV shows:
    Magic School Bus
    Kim...
  12. Re: netflix blows it again - loses 2000 movies

    Bittorrent for watching on your computer. Version 7.8 is a darknet client in everything but name.
    Then purchase blu ray or dvd to support artists.

    As for music there is bandcamp and cd baby and...
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    Re: Leaning toward the Torqeedo.

    The Torqueedo is delicate and is not field repairable.
    The motor itself is tiny and fast spinning and low voltage.
    The gearbox is small and not silent.
    It is overpriced.

    The company behind are...
  14. On the subject of personal responsibility, education, law and explosives.

    I have been and am for legal fireworks and explosives and guns for responsible people.
    My anger is towards using them while drunk/raving stupid.
    Unfortunately inconsiderate moron + dangerous...
  15. Re: BLASPHEMY!!!!!! Throw the scoundrel out!

    I took a 9 week night school course in machining when I was 17.
    If not for numerous absences causing me to miss out on important ancillary skills and techniques I would have left there as a...
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    Re: Artillery of the Great War

    By my library there is a 3 inch gun better than anything we have today aside from it's small size.

    What I believe to be Hydrovaccum phase change recoil brakes, two of them.
    Pistons behind them...
  17. Re: They have really redone Lowell and Umass Lowell.

    Yeah.
    Meehan has been good to the university, the Lowell Sun hasn't been fair to him.
    They reelected Phillip Geoffry to SGA Treasury. Student government doesn't have much authority but does have a...
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    Re: I miss Tom Lehrer

    Nope, in America.
    Any linkers/proxies to recommend. With regards to law and morals I would think "whistleblowing" and "discrimination by nationality" are bigger fish to fry than copyright.
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    Re: I miss Tom Lehrer

    Yeah loved his stuff. Perfect for the pacifist, the communist, the rebel with a cause and a clue, the one who thought going too far to protect the innocence of children has blood on their hands, the...
  20. They have really redone Lowell and Umass Lowell.

    The University and the town have made some impressive changes in the past few years.
    The city modernized properly in expectation of future changes.

    The pride of the new system is the new dorm...
  21. So some chinese creditors came knocking...

    Transportation...
    Went from gas guzzling garbage and playing pretend with the chevy Dolt
    http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?156200-Quit-calling-the-Chevrolet-Volt-quot-electric-quot
    To...
  22. The little engine that could... almost pull the world off axis

    They made some drastic changes to Mark Timothy 9, a ZB class miniaturized to 15 inch gauge.
    http://www.steam-loco-design.co.uk/zb_article_2.html
    Of note is the decision NOT to upgrade to a...
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    Re: NOVA Communists

    And yeah, love garlic, mom kept complaining about me using too much of it when cooking.

    Vampires are a tad disturbing but the pose no real threat.

    Now underage atom scientists and rocket...
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    Re: NOVA Communists

    If you had heard my description at age 8 of what I expected the non painful aspects of a vampire bite to feel like you would have called child protective services....
  25. Re: the man who let nk build a nuke says we're in deep doo doo

    There isn't really any way to make a country stop building a nuke.
    Not all nukes are created equal and not all nukes are equally difficult to create.

    They aren't going for compact megaton...
  26. Re: 4000+ HP Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone breathing fire

    Oh yes the culverin, what I what I wanted to say, forgot names.
  27. Re: God wants Iran to stop their Nuclear Program

    A made in USA earthquake at an Iranian nuclear facility is exactly what we are trying to prevent.
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    NOVA Communists

    Northern Virginia doesn't seem like a fun place to be a "commie".

    You have probably heard of the NRA being headquartered in Fairfax.
    You have probably never heard of the ASSRA. They do have a...
  29. Re: 4000+ HP Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone breathing fire

    As for the Jumo 20X series it was a diamond in the rough.
    Mostly in the pistons, injector system, bearings, and provisions for thermal expansion, and the 11 degree phase angle.
    Read the link and be...
  30. Re: 4000+ HP Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone breathing fire

    Sort of, British rail ran the Napier Deltic, an advanced derivative of the Napier Nomad, which was a license built jumo 204 clone and not quite as advanced as the 205 series.
    The Deltic D18-25 was 3...
  31. Nuclear weapons: not as bad as thought, not as difficult to make as thought.

    Don't click the links if you want to keep/get clearance.

    Most people base their understanding of the power of nuclear weapons on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of high megaton...
  32. Re: 4000+ HP Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone breathing fire

    From what I remember...
    The Duplex Cyclones and Twin Wasp Seniors were carbureted engines. The carburetors were squarebore strombergs with needle jets the size of stone arrowheads that had a...
  33. Re: Why do Superheroes/Villains wear so much leather?

    False assumptions:

    1: Associating sex, especially recreational/kinky/promiscuous with "bad" and "dangerous", slut shaming and fear thereof, misunderstandings of the logic and nature of actual...
  34. Why do Superheroes/Villains wear so much leather?

    ...In kids shows

    And just how did Nickelodeon manage to get Sheego and Dr. Drakken past the FCC radar with a PG rating?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcUigdvKDc...
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    Re: Bronze pr0n

    You into Brass and Gears?

    Believe it or not within the context of the story these links are entirely SFW.
    http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20050318.jpg...
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    Re: Well, so much for religious freedom

    The Devil will have a good christian upbringing...

    I grew up in NOVA.
    This clip is from the adult version of The Prince of Egypt.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcg5rN-jlaw
    Michelle Pfeiffer...
  37. Re: On hot cats and old (but not elderly) ladies.

    No, not really.
  38. Re: On hot cats and old (but not elderly) ladies.

    In my neck of the woods there isn't much to choose from.
    The young women here are mostly insufferable idiots living down to expectations.
    Pretty much all men past legal drinking age look like the...
  39. On hot cats and old (but not elderly) ladies.

    There is a lot of confusion regarding the older woman younger man thing.

    At least where I am from the "cougar equation" is no longer really used.
    About a fifth of the adult female population is...
  40. The real story behind the "saucer bases".

    There is life out there, it is staying out there.
    Lot of crazy stuff at Roswell, all entirely anthropogenic in origin.
    Two main crash incidents. The first was a series of unmanned nuclear test...
  41. Re: Being a politically incorrect feminist ...

    I got a lot of flack for complaining about lack of fair trials for sex offenders and the "guilty until proven innocent" standard and the "treat every man is Schrodinger's Rapist" paradigm. I...
  42. Re: Being a politically incorrect feminist ...

    As far as I was taught...
    All the crimes and wrongs against women that I could think of were originally inspired by something that boiled down to guarding inheritence.

    In ancient times (pre...
  43. Re: Being a politically incorrect feminist ...

    I was raised right. I do judge people, I judge them by the content of their character.
    I bother all peoples equally.
    I don't ManSplain, I insultsplain to people who are being idiots or are treating...
  44. Re: What's next a schoolgirl arrested for molesting a squid.

    Defiant? Suspicious? Disrespectful of privacy? Disruptive? Worrying?
    Yes on all counts.
    Was harm done? Yes but not much.

    No money or property stolen, No threats, No blackmail, No property...
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    Re: Exactly what does a Pope do?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSajE72Tpjs
  46. Re: Teacher posts harmless photo and could get fired.

    So long as bad is taken seriously and not portrayed as good and there are in universe consequences to actions good or bad there is little on this earth that is unsuitable for eighth graders.

    Some...
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    Re: New build : Stick-up sharpie

    Reminds me of the Vaurien dinghy, is it a derivative of it?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QADMUtGKchk

    The Vaurien was a low cost french design. If lightly loaded it would plane for anything,...
  48. Thread: Boats Kill

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    Re: Boats Kill

    Open motorboats are very numerous, in small sizes are cheap, and the risks don't always feel "real" enough.
    When I had my first boat inspected by an EnviroPol cop in a parking lot at a zoological...
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    Re: Georgia baby shot dead

    I didn't bother to read the second half of the first page.
    I knew from the title this would be arguing about guns.
    Obvious trolls are obvious.
    I am not even going to bother with a cogent...
  50. Re: Teacher posts harmless photo and could get fired.

    She probably did have that permission. That isn't necessarily a good thing.
    American schools hand out a permission slip at the beginning of every school year.
    It seeks consent to have any...
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