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• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
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• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
  I find it both odd and disconcerting that the same people who would ordinarily have the common sense to argue against carrying concealed pistols on a public airline have somehow convinced themselves that having a folding knife on their person...
• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
  Is this person actually suggesting that the public be permitted to carry pocket knives onto a plane? Perhaps I'm misreading this, but why would we want someone walking onto a plane with a folding tactical knife? And yes, those...
• Commented on Legendary Harvard law prof fights constitutionality of RIAA lawsuits
  I would have to review the complaint, but I would note that pursuant to statute, cable companies routinely sue for unauthorized access based on no more than proof of purchase of a cable descrambler box. Sometimes they recoup large sums...
• Commented on One Laptop Per Child's annual "Give One, Get One" program is on!
  OK. It costs about 40 a month for the wireless carrier for my government laptop. The site says these OLPC things are wireless. What carrier? How much? How is some poor family in Africa supposed to afford monthly carrier charges?...
• Commented on Fold-out HDTV pulls out from under the bed
  Or you could have the TV simply rise up vertically from a foot-board. A friend of mine was over a guy's house and he had his HD TV rigged to lower electrically as soon as you turned it off. Way...
• Commented on Video The Vote
  HTOM is correct. Many states have statutes that prohibit making a record of someone's vote. Sometimes these statutes mention video, more often, they do not. Regardless, a video of someone voting would be illegal in many jurisdictions. You should not...
• Commented on People over 55 dream in black and white?
  So that's it. I was wondering why the electric sheep were only in black and white....
• Commented on TantraChair adds a touch of class to specialized sex furniture
  Guys really make me laugh. A man will buy anything if you pose a nude model on it. You'd never get me or any gal I know on that thing. Actually, I just looked at it again. If you walked...
• Commented on Video: DIY Full Metal Rubber Band gun
  THAT is going to get you arrested on an imitation gun charge in pretty much any metro jurisdiction I can think of, including mine. And #2 is absolutely correct about the whole getting shot thing. Ridiculous looking toy guns painted...
• Commented on Sink in a drawer
  I don't know a lot of people with 2' foot thick bathroom walls or that amount of dead space adjoining the bath area. And the arrangement violates just about every plumbing code in my jurisdiction. But somehow, it's just one...
• Commented on Nite Ize Figure 9 carabiner makes knots unnecessary
  OK. I'm missing something. These are intended for duties like lashing cargo to a car roof and holding it there at 65 MPH but not for climbing? Anybody else but me a little shocked that the stated design parameters for...
• Commented on "Every surface of FORM 6 is smooth and usable for sensation"
  "Perhaps best of all, the new generation of FORM 6 is completely submersible in your bathtub, offering a whole host of new possibilities." Tsunami alert....
• Commented on Review: Duracell Daylite flashlight. Verdict: Small and very bright.
  #1: Absolutely. Great little light that I've had on one of key chains for about a year. Produces about the same light on the 'high' setting as much larger flashlight. Very durable and reliable. For those of you into 123...
• Commented on Chevy Volt hybrid will make judgements about charging based on distance from your home
  I stand corrected. I was confused by the fact it was advertised as an electric car- actually, it's really just another kind of plug-in hybrid. Wiki says to expect maybe 50 MPG unless you plug it in. If this car...
• Commented on Oregon man threatens suit for the right to video-record cops on the job
  I guess the whole HS diploma thing must be optional for the Portland PD. Without launching into boring legalese, it should be sufficient to point out to people like the good Sergeant that all individuals in public suffer a loss...
• Commented on DIY biohacking in the Boston Globe
  MDH: Yes, but for every responsible person like you with the knowledge and expertise to properly handle such things, there are a dozen idiots cracking open old smoke detectors to remove the radiological materials or mixing toilet cleaner with lime...
• Commented on Dumping a sex doll is still littering
  Well, there are at least three guys who agree with you about the best girlfriends being dead. The downside is they all hail from some crap-hole in Wisconsin: http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/090806CorpseSex.html Can't have everything, right?...
• Commented on Chevy Volt hybrid will make judgements about charging based on distance from your home
  If only they hadn't ended up making it a plug-in. Now the millions of urban dwellers, myself included, are totally out of the potential market for this car. After all, when you live in a rented flat, condo or co-op,...
• Commented on Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
  #73: Noting that there is a Biblical injunction against wasting my time arguing with an idiot, I'll try again against all the odds and use small words. I never indicated I thought any of this was justified. I specifically said...
• Commented on A visit with the Los Angeles Carnivorous Plant Society
  I'm holding off on buying one of these until they breed one big enough to take care of those annoying, yippy little dogs all my neighbors seem to have. What a dream. Imagine a world free of tea cup Yorkies...
• Commented on Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
  I think you folks are getting all hung up here on what you think would be common sense exceptions to rules, regulations and laws when, in fact, in many jurisdictions mere possession of certain things is a per se offense....
• Commented on Ortofon 2M turntable cartridge looks great - in a Bondi Blue sorta way
  A "well thought out" audio system? Kind of sounds like "military intelligence" or perhaps "political integrity." At best, a contradiction in terms. I know people who have blown over 100K on an audio system. I don't know what's sadder- the...
• Commented on Ortofon 2M turntable cartridge looks great - in a Bondi Blue sorta way
  Yup. And if you manage to hook that $669 cartridge to a $150,000 Basis Audio turntable and then run $23,000 Opus MM speaker cable to your $250,000 Marten speakers, you'll have a setup that sounds almost as good as a...
• Commented on The Fly: The Opera
  I'm sorry to note that the NY Times, NY Post and CNN all pretty much hated the show. In fact, I've yet to find a good review. It's a shame- after reading the above article, I really got my hopes...
• Commented on Wall-climbing RC car
  Great. $43 bucks for the toy and $430 bucks to repaint the walls after the kids are done playing with the toy. This one was obviously cooked up by a member of the painter's union....
• Commented on Does the US military have some super new capability?
  OOH! OOH! Pick me! Pick me! I know. It's transwarp drive, right? Hey Bob- "if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."...
• Commented on Printable housing
  #3- the first thing I thought of, too. How do you get the rebar and wire net installed? Hate to rain on this parade, but unless this thing squirts out a house in a matter of minutes, you're going to...
• Commented on Trio of nested Klein bottles
  I'd rather have a trio of Calvin Klein bottles. BTW, when are these topological multidimensional theorist types finally going to convert a working monorail to a Mobius strip design? It'd save me a ton of time off my commute. I...