The reason I'd use a biometric vs a keyed trigger lock is for speed and ease of use in the dark. If I have to give it a little squeeze to get it to release, zero concern. Does it secure the firearm? Yes. Is it 100%, no. Show me one that is.

p.s. in a random sampling, the twenty-three 15 year old boys in my algebra class, none of them own or plan to buy a flat piece of bent metal that precisely fits in a lock of this type, let along lock picking tools. The determination that this lock is no good is based on tests that have little to do with the intended function.

No, it's the final 15 seconds of a twenty-three hour video of someone making weird hand gestures to his cat.

Yo! Mon! 23 times? This is what we call OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder! Right guys? You! Me 3rd! Shut up, me 3rd!!!

>> ^chicchorea:

Something is wrong with this video.
I've played it twenty three times and, WHAT SYMPTOMS?

Hush, they'll hear you.

Something is wrong with this video.

I've played it twenty three times and, WHAT SYMPTOMS?



Hush, they'll hear you.

It's not "audiosift", it's a video of rotting fruit!

Lyrics translated by Norsuelefantti:

"Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, forty, forty one, forty two, forty three, forty four, forty five, forty six, forty seven, forty eight, forty nine, fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine, sixty, sixty one, sixty two, sixty three, sixty four, sixty five, sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy, seventy one, seventy two, seventy three, seventy four, seventy five, seventy six, seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine, eighty, eighty one, eighty two, eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, eighty eight, eighty nine, ninety, ninety one, ninety two, ninety three, ninety four, ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three, one hundred and four, one hundred and five, one hundred and six, one hundred and seven, one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred and eleven, one hundred and twelve, one hundred and thirteen, one hundred and fourteen, one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen one hundred and twenty, one hundred and twenty one, one hundred and twenty two, one hundred and twenty three, one hundred and twenty four, one hundred and twenty five, one hundred and twenty six, one hundred and twenty seven, one hundred and twenty eight, one hundred and twenty nine, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty one, one hundred and thirty two, one hundred and thirty three, one hundred and thirty four, one hundred and thirty five, one hundred and thirty six, one hundred and thirty seven, one hundred and thirty eight, one hundred and thirty nine, one hundred and forty, one hundred and forty one, one hundred and forty two, one hundred and forty three, one hundred and forty four, one hundred and forty five, one hundred and forty six, one hundred and forty seven, one hundred and forty eight, one hundred and forty nine, one hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty one, one hundred and fifty two."

Upvote for this, because this G20 was a giant waste of money. All the "big" things they wanted to do got pushed back to Seoul. As for some Canadian law quick facts. In Canada the police can actually arrest you for twenty four hours without charging you. This has been around since I was a kid, and before, because the War Measures act circumvented this, holding people indefinitely. The Public Works Protection act (which has now turned out to be misled by police,) did the same thing in some ways, but people not charged were held to a max of twenty three hours, unless they were charged.

This is a good piece, with some great questions. Some uninformed facts, but a good piece.

I think that Brand did do a better job presenting his side of this debate than Jacobson, but I think it is interesting that in spite of his excellent performance, a room full of some of the most educated minds in the English world shifted 10% away from nuclear by the end of the twenty-three minute discussion.

That was fun.

There aren't many twenty-three minute videos that I'd sit through, but this was one of them.

And he's very right about how we can't measure or predict the future based only on what we know today.

Progress is a synthesis, and the seedlings of unimaginable technology are all around us, right now, waiting to be put together like jigsaw puzzles.

>> ^kurtdh:
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Private businesses are not required to accept pennies. Straight from the Department of the Treasury:
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml
"There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise."


Correct, private businesses are not required by law to accept pennies. If I opened a company and said I'd only accept paperclips as payment, I'd have the right to do that. But, if I opened a company and negotiated a payment plan in paperclips with a client, then when the client wanted to pay I told him he now had to pay me in gold bullion, he wouldn't be obligated to do that because we already agreed that I'd trade him a good or service for paperclips not gold. See the difference?

In the case of the boys paying for their impounded car in pennies, the tow company has posted that it will accept a set amount in US Dollars (in this case, $88 US Dollars). Therefore the US Dollar currency is the agreed upon tender for the transaction, and pennies are part of that currency. Whatever combination of USD he uses to pay is irrelevant. If he gave them two twenties, three ones, six fives, forty quarters, sixty nickels and 200 pennies, and as long as it was in US Dollar currency, then they'd have to accept the money or give over his car without payment.

Hehe, thats like asking a dog which part of his dog-house he lives in.

I live in the part that's technically Burlington, on the western side, south of the I40. Very suburban, these days.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Get out of here. No way. Seriously? Which part?

In reply to this comment by KnivesOut:
Hilarious. Also, I live in Graham currently. Coincidence? Perhaps.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I'm happy to see you finally came out of the gun cabinet, there, gunner. We all had our suspicions.

I'm Heaficus Coillcumhann Weorthmerlow Esquire the Third, but everyone just calls me Harasshole... or Heath. To make money, I work as a freelance Flash Developer. I live in Los Angeles, right now, but I'm originally from a little speck on the map called Graham, North Carolina. I just finished a film, which some of you already know about, and I'm currently showing it around trying to get some buzz behind it. I hope to someday move to Wilmington, NC and get out of LA.

I speak eighty different languages; twenty three of them dead. I have a Guiness World Record for most jumps on a pogo stick: current record is 56,381 jumps. I invented Gobots and Al Gore, so that kind of makes me the original creator of the internets, don't it? I also invented Life cereal. You're welcome. Rottenseed is my sock puppet. I buy batteries in bulk. Let's see, what else? Oh! The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is NOT 42. That's preposterous. It's 42.3728. Use this knowledge gingerly and sparingly.

And, lastly, when gwiz665 is around at night, I tend to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. Just saying.

Hilarious. Also, I live in Graham currently. Coincidence? Perhaps.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I'm happy to see you finally came out of the gun cabinet, there, gunner. We all had our suspicions.

I'm Heaficus Coillcumhann Weorthmerlow Esquire the Third, but everyone just calls me Harasshole... or Heath. To make money, I work as a freelance Flash Developer. I live in Los Angeles, right now, but I'm originally from a little speck on the map called Graham, North Carolina. I just finished a film, which some of you already know about, and I'm currently showing it around trying to get some buzz behind it. I hope to someday move to Wilmington, NC and get out of LA.

I speak eighty different languages; twenty three of them dead. I have a Guiness World Record for most jumps on a pogo stick: current record is 56,381 jumps. I invented Gobots and Al Gore, so that kind of makes me the original creator of the internets, don't it? I also invented Life cereal. You're welcome. Rottenseed is my sock puppet. I buy batteries in bulk. Let's see, what else? Oh! The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is NOT 42. That's preposterous. It's 42.3728. Use this knowledge gingerly and sparingly.

And, lastly, when gwiz665 is around at night, I tend to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. Just saying.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Wait... your neighborhood as TWENTY THREE liquor stores!?!?!


>> ^twiddles:
^
Jealous? No doubt you've gotten lost on the way to the one store in Maine.

The goal is to not have to walk more than 3 steps to buy booze. Making a drunk walk any further is criminally negligent.

Wait... your neighborhood as TWENTY THREE liquor stores!?!?!

On the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and six,
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand City Hall in New York
'Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged 'fore and aft
And how the wild winds drove her
She 'stood several blasts, she had twenty-three masts
And they called her the Irish Rover

We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of stones
We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails
We had four million barrels of bones
We had five million hogs and six million dogs
And seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides
In the hold of the Irish Rover

There was awl Mickey Coote
Who played hard on his flute
When the ladies lined up for a set
He was tootin' with skill
For each sparkling quadrille
Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
With his smart witty talk
He was cock of the walk
And he rolled the dames under and over
They all knew at a glance
When he took up his stance
That he sailed in The Irish Rover

(bridge)

There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee
There was Hogan from County Tyrone
There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work
And a man from Westmeath called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover
And your man Mick McCann, from the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper on the Irish Rover

For a sailor it's always a bother in life
It's so lonesome by night and day
That he longs for the shore
And a pretty young whore
Who will melt all his troubles away
Oh, the noise and the rout
Swillin' poitin and stout
For him soon the torment's over
Of the love of a maid
He is never afraid
An old salt from the Irish Rover

We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out
And our ship lost her way in the fog
And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two
'Twas meself and the captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock; oh Lord what a shock
The bulkhead was turned right over
We turned nine times around - then the poor old dog was drowned
I'm the last of the Irish Rover

I'm happy to see you finally came out of the gun cabinet, there, gunner. We all had our suspicions.

I'm Heaficus Coillcumhann Weorthmerlow Esquire the Third, but everyone just calls me Harasshole... or Heath. To make money, I work as a freelance Flash Developer. I live in Los Angeles, right now, but I'm originally from a little speck on the map called Graham, North Carolina. I just finished a film, which some of you already know about, and I'm currently showing it around trying to get some buzz behind it. I hope to someday move to Wilmington, NC and get out of LA.

I speak eighty different languages; twenty three of them dead. I have a Guiness World Record for most jumps on a pogo stick: current record is 56,381 jumps. I invented Gobots and Al Gore, so that kind of makes me the original creator of the internets, don't it? I also invented Life cereal. You're welcome. Rottenseed is my sock puppet. I buy batteries in bulk. Let's see, what else? Oh! The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is NOT 42. That's preposterous. It's 42.3728. Use this knowledge gingerly and sparingly.

And, lastly, when gwiz665 is around at night, I tend to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. Just saying.