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Mythbusters tried this a while ago. Among other things ash coats the coals to insulate them. One of their guys (Adam of course) dug his feet into the coals too much and got burned.

Republic Aircraft circa 1955 might be surprised to hear that. ;)

They don't. Other mines worldwide have shutdown because they couldn't compete with China's pricing.

I don't don't doubt that some call center somewhere has decent pay. But around here they start at a dollar or two above minimum wage.

I've worked at two call centers. I'd say at both places the average employee stayed less than 6 months. Bottom line? Call center pay is usually terrible. Call center jobs are usually insanely stressful. Call center management is usually awful. Call center culture is usually...

Had one growing up in the 80s/90s. My parents held onto it until probably 03-04.

Looks like a variant of the OICW/XM29:

It used caseless ammo. Being able to carry double the ammo load (the cartridges were about half the size and weight of normal 5.56 NATO) would be a pretty compelling argument IMO... especially since most engagements today by normal infantry are at close range. Wonder how you would've cleared...

Yes, that's quite the point. See, I'm not so much giving you flak for taking the picture of the muzzle - I'm giving you flak for your flippant attitude that "the rules are just for stupid people, lol". All of those people shot by unloaded guns made mistakes. Some were blatant, mind...

You don't seem to have the slightest idea how many people have been shot by "unloaded" guns. And if you think they only happen to stupid people, well... I was reading a thread on a gun nut forum a few weeks ago (wish I had a link) where people were sharing their experiences with negligent...

Bought this the other week:

The quicksort algorithm (ripped from wiki): function quicksort('array') create empty lists 'less' and 'greater' if length('array') ≤ 1 return 'array' // an array of zero or one elements is already sorted select and remove a pivot value 'pivot' from...

I'm guessing you haven't done much or any games programming. The .NET libraries have plenty of nice stuff in them, but they cover very little that's needed in games. 3D graphics API's - all C or C++. Essentially all game engines, physics engines, animation engines, scripting systems, etc -...

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That and, I think he's supposed to be scared sh*tless for pretty much the first time ever. Think about where he's at at the beginning of #5. He decided 13 years ago to put down this kid who was supposed to cause trouble for him, but instead gets smacked down himself. He stews over that for...