] This is our little contribution to the Godfather legacy.
] A custom severed horse head pillow that is actually quite
] comfortable to sleep on, albeit a tad on the south side
] of morbid. A great conversation piece for the film buff
] who has everything and whose wife won't let them own a
] revolver. Fans of the Godfather can now unite and sleep
] comfortably, if not uneasily.

The Godfather horse head prop pillow

] The question lingers: Could the $144.4 billion spent on
] Iraq been better used to protect the American people from
] terrorist threats? The Center for American Progress
] offers this answer.

The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research group. Without taking sides for or against the war in Iraq, they examine how the cost of the war (now some 144 BILLON) could have been used to fund security inititives here in the US. Interestingly enough, most of these inititives are things recommended by the 9/11 Commitee, that the Bush Administration has underfunded or completely ignored.

The Opportunity Costs of the Iraq War

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] I Found Some Of Your Life
]
] You are unknown to me.
] Your camera's memory card was in a taxi; I have it now.
] I am going to post one of your pictures each day.
] I will also narrate as if I were you.
] Maybe you will come here and reclaim this piece of your
] life.

A really cool concept, but rather boring reading.

I Found Some Of Your Life

Photos of the hardware all of Google ran on in 1999

Google's Hardware Setup in 1999

I don't know if this qualifies, but I thought if it as I was reading. It is a clear spray that you can put over your license plate that prevents cameras from being able to capture it on film. I found it interesting.

Nice find Stank.

PhantomPlate

] Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the
] technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting
] projects that help you make the most of your technology
] at home and away from home. This is a magazine that
] celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any
] technology to your own will.

I've just contracted with O'Reilly to write an article for their first issue coming out in Spring 2005.

BTW: The Kite/photo rig they show here was used to take aerial photos at FOO Camp, with impressive results.

O'Reilly's Make Magazine

terratogen wrote:
] Maybe they should make guns that don't kill people.

"Guns don't kill people. Physics kills people."
-Dick 3rd Rock from the Sun

Guns don't kill people...

] Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets
] you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks
] toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see
] the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go
] directly to the articles that interest you -- saving you
] time.
]
] A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see this
] icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking
] on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the
] Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live
] Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people
] find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in
] their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

This rules.

Mozilla Firefox - Live Bookmarks

] I, for one will be glad to see this sunset. It was poorly
] conceived and banned individual weapons based upon appearance
] rather than function. The majority of banned weapons were
] imported but for the most part, functionally identical to
] other non banned weapons which happened to have a less
] menacing physical appearance.

Well it looks like everyone bought a round at the I'm retarded bar this weekend.

It doesn't matter how the banned features were ultimately suggested, be it "menacing physical appearance," dice, or even bloody darts. Stop harping on how the items were choosen, because its irrelavent if the banning final features in the bill did have functions that it would be a good idea to protect. IE Stop judging the creation of the bill and judge it on what it does.

Your arguement, and indeed, the arguement that most people against this bill seems to be: This ban didn't reduce bullet size, packing, or rate of fire. Thus the ban is pointless. And the thing is, you are right about the power issue. So what is your problem with the ban then? It doesn't reduce the hole you are going to put in a deer or an intruder in your house.

So, yes, the bill doesn't solve the power issue. What does it do, and what features get banned? Lets exmaine a few:

-You can't have a folding stock, making weapons easier to hide under clothing. Makes sense. Handguns are easy to hide because of size, so we have a law against consealed weapons. This prevents you from making an semi-automatic weapon easier to hide.

-Cannot have flash suppressor. Again, makes sense. In hunting, the animals are gone as soon as they hear the gun fire. So having something to hide the visual notice of where a gun is being fired from is pointless. Sure it looks "scary," but this is a logical item to ban.

-Can't have 30 ammo clips. Shit! Now what will you do in case of Red Dawn?

-Do you even want to defend the grenade launcher? Come on!

The ban doesn't solve the power issue, but it does ban features which really shouldn't effect you anyway. Dismissing the law simply because appearence was a factor is by far the stupidest thing I have ever seen you meme.

RE: Weapons Ban Ends Today