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Flesh and Blood
Why is the weight of the Blotter used to calculate the charges in an LSD case?
they should chemically analyse the cocaine or crack and charge you by the number of molecules of the prohibited drug found in your posession. That could include blood tests for people who are just really jumpy.
basic chemistry and math tells us the expected number of cocain Molecules and we would have a consistent policy.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 12:07 PM on July 16, 2008
MeFi post:
America's Pastime
I'm not sure how many of you are confused, but they didn't build a baseball field. They aren't playing baseball. They can't play wiffleball on a baseball or softball diamond.
A Wiffleball field is absolutely tiny compared to even a little league diamond.
you could probably fit their entire feild in the infield of a baseball diamond.
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at 3:05 PM on July 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Matt is back
World Music +
Goofy Dance+
X
=
profit
(he figured out X was sponsorship from Stride Gum)
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 6:02 PM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Heller v. D.C. Decided
let me demonstrate my psychic powers.
If some of you had your way and banned guns across the US, you would have thousands of mogadishus and ramadis starring whatever mercenaries or federal agents you sent out to collect those illegal weapons.
You have no idea of the thousands of rounds of armor piercing high velocity rifle rounds that are floating around the cities and towns of this nation. (just about any decent rifle can go through most body armor)
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 4:28 PM on June 26, 2008
MeFi post:
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
Coal plants release radiation into the air that you breath in the form of Thorium, Radium, and nearly every other radioactive isotope and element. if you were to count on one hand the number of people accidentally killed by reactors designed after 1965 you would have 5 fingers left. Incompetence and bureaucracy were needed to even make the incredibly dangerous RBMK design of Chernobyl explode.
Solution, don't put incompetent bureaucrats in charge of nuclear plants. Have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 6:34 PM on June 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Keep the lolxtian talk to a minimum
If I have the compass from my car and my solar powered watch I would invent longitude and be the only person who can navigate across worlds oceans.
When you look at the huge amount of money that successful ocean voyages earned, you could live pretty well off them.
BTW, my French is bad, and my spanish is worse, but, both are probably enough to convince somebody you speak a little bit of latin.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 3:05 PM on June 11, 2008
MeFi post:
The Bush White House "upgrades" the e-mail system.
We put Jim Lovell in orbit around the moon in less time than it has taken the Bush whitehouse to figure out it's email backups.
From the day Kennedy challenged the nation at Rice University, to the December 1968 Apollo 8 Lunar orbit was approximately 7 years and 3 months. In that Time Bush hasn't accomplished a single God damned thing. Kennedy and LBJ and fought a bloody war, held off the Russians and still fucking got things done!!
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 6:03 PM on April 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Out of the mouths of babes...
"you're looking over the majority of your country and plotting a reckoning." A Reckoning against those who say that an atheist can't be a patriot be definition? A Reckoning with those who say that the tolerance of some of my best friends and my wife's mere existence causes hurricanes and terrorist bombing. A reckoning with those who would give those most dangerous and unstable 10% power because they tell them what they want to hear? Why would I want a reckoning with those fine folks?
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at 12:57 PM on April 28, 2008
MeFi post:
On Having A Black Name
Just to nitpick on thing: (like a nitpicking white person) (as if that characterization isn't racism in and of itself)
I wish I had an ethnic name to use as an excuse for all the times my resume was dumped in the slushpile. Resumes get rejected. That's why you send out so many of them.
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at 10:38 AM on April 24, 2008
MeFi post:
'World Peace' Hitcher Murdered.
“Hitchhiking is choosing to have faith in other human beings, and man, like a small god, rewards those who have faith in him.”
He sometimes rewards them like Abraham and sometimes like Jephthah's daughter.
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at 3:15 PM on April 21, 2008
MeFi post:
But don't talk back to Darth Vader! He'll get ya!
I like the way she says "We blowd it up together" like she participated in the battle against the deathstar. I wish anything in my life seemed as exciting to me as this movie apparently was to her even broken into 3 parts over 3 days.
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at 11:29 AM on March 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Biplanes are for sissies
I would go with the French made NATO BLU-107 Durandal or a Chinese 200-4 if in Asia.
Both are designed to fire a rocket downward for penetration and then set off a charge to create a 15 meter crater in hardened runways. I imagine monster skin is not as tough as hardened concrete. And even if it is, if the monster is 150 meters tall, that is a tenth of its hight as a hole in its back. like an exploding bullet would be to a human.... [more]
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at 4:57 PM on March 5, 2008
MeFi post:
HP -1
It saddens me that he had to hurry up and get buried so he can start spinning when 4th edition comes out in June.
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at 4:48 PM on March 4, 2008
MeFi post:
when they pry it from my cold, dead hands
I love the fact that they all had Highlighters displayed on their shirts. you can clearly see how many people were there as seat fillers. This makes me so angry, i want to find the person who authorized it and just kick his ass. I don't have fancy corporate tricks, just steel toed boots.
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at 11:52 AM on February 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Gettysburg in Lego
I like the guy who gets killed...and then his hat gets shot off. A reversal of the scene from Saving Private Ryan.
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at 11:49 AM on February 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Crime fighting robots are finally here
It is not a "water Cannon" it is a Super Soaker. Think less MLK, more Bozo. If he has permission from the land owner to demand they leave and they refuse, he isn't assaulting them by attacking them with non-lethal force. The Cop apparently hasn't read Georgia Law very carefully.
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at 11:29 AM on February 26, 2008
MeFi post:
The South will Rise
Call me a lunatic, but if the 35th parallel was set as the legal boundary and some surveyor fucked that up, the boundary is still the 35th parallel. If Tennessee voted to make southern Maine part of their state because some guy fucked up a survey that wouldn't make it so.
Georgia extends all the way to 35 degrees N Latitude. That is a fact no matter what people may wish to believe and will stay that way until we choose to sell or give that land away.
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at 11:48 AM on February 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Mythbusting Canadian Health Care
I can't resist pointing out that Blenderfish's "men with guns" are paid with the same tax money that other "men with guns" take from him.
Of course other "men with guns" hired "men with sliderules" to design the essential devices that made Blenderfish's job and all other computer related jobs possible.
"Men Without Hats" live in Canada so they already have healthcare.
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at 4:36 PM on February 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Whaling the Planet with Modern Whalers
""their grand "experiment" was to see if wrapping mobile homes in polycarbonate would help them survive hurricanes."
You obviously "watched" with your eyes closed and the sound off. They wrapped the trailer in carbon fiber composite, and they brought the standard mobile home anchors but they wouldn't work properly in the desert soil.
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at 12:44 PM on January 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Dice!
I just bought some dice...I didn't need more but I couldn't resist the vintage style plastic dice these guys sell. It's just like 3rd grade in 1979
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at 12:22 PM on January 28, 2008
MeFi post:
What’s Behind Those Offers to Raise Credit Scores
Wouldn't it be more fun to pay 1300 bucks to have your enemy's credit linked with a loan that is about to Default?
Imagine...for a few bucks you could force your Boss to drive the same year old Beamer instead of leasing a new one every year.
We should start a fund to destroy the credit of the rich. Sorry sir, no caviar for you!! Hookers and Cocaine aren't free you know!
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at 12:58 PM on January 21, 2008
MeFi post:
The Fallout 2 Restoration Project
It may be time to dig out the old CD!
I always loved using pick pocket to plant Plastic explosives on people and then...sauntering away to watch them blow up.
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at 11:39 AM on January 17, 2008
MeFi post:
The Taxman Cometh
Sheee-it! I'll tell you something, man, the fans are like women. When you're hitting, they love you, and when you're not, they just as soon spit on you as look at you! (The Fan)
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at 6:33 PM on January 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Keys to the Kingdom
I liked Star Trek IV better than 3 or 5
I liked Alien 4 better than 3
in my opinion there's no consistency on 4th movies sucking.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 11:39 AM on January 4, 2008
MeFi post:
gnignis sdrawkcab
Baby_Balrog, carsonb, How is lip syncing backwards cooler than actually singing backwards?
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at 11:25 AM on December 27, 2007
MeFi post:
The Bus reaches the Cross-road.
""After your switch is flicked, it will take a a minimum of 8 years to fill up the ranks again, if you can find the professors to teach and the researchers to research.""
I guess this means we need to stop worrying about getting rid of Mexicans and start worrying about getting more Indian Phds.
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at 1:09 PM on December 22, 2007
MeFi post:
Pepsi BlueCross BlueShield
Just because everybody gets free medical care doesn't mean that the rich aren't free to pay extra for solo rooms and all the extra special care they think they won't get with socialized medicine.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 10:40 AM on December 19, 2007
MeFi post:
Salvation Lies Within
The fact that they jumped from a hole 30 feet in the air over a 15 foot high fence 15 feet away and then walked away impressed me more than anything else in the case.
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly
at 10:45 AM on December 18, 2007
