The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XVIII

[cardgame]

14CV88 is also frowned upon.

 

[madviking]

and ILVTOFU

 

[cardgame]

I love tofu is banned?

Why?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I love tofu is banned?

Why?

Hint: Add two more spaces.

 

[madviking]

I love tofu is banned?

Why?

i love to f u

 

[cardgame]

Less cursing, more tofu.

 

[azzaman333]

I love tofu is banned?

Why?

No one likes tofu.

 

[mayor]

If produced properly it can be quite tasty actually

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I just realised that my name is spelled differently on my Canadian and on my Swedish passport. I looked over my my papers and it seems like I have a different name in each country. Is this an issue?

 

[Cutlass]

I mean something like go to the DMV and say, I want to change my car's license plates. Can you do that?

You have to apply for a vanity plate. And they won't give you just anything that you might want. each state has its own rules on the subject.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I think that would be very situational.

What would be the potential factors to determine it then?

 

[Cutlass]

What would be the potential factors to determine it then?

I would think the hostility would have to be extremely high, at least in the short run, and no real prospect of repairing the situation. Plus there would probably have to be something left in the building that you really didn't want the other side to get their hands on. It's pointless to destroy the building, but the contents might be valuable.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Okay. The situation is an attack by militant and regular army forces. The documents are your typical diplomatic and espionage cables.

 

[Cutlass]

Well you always burn any documents that you can't take with you. But that's rarely going to require blowing the building up. I would expect any embassy building to be equipped with an incinerator.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Well what if the evacuation has to be done post haste?

 

[Cutlass]

Then you set a bonfire



Question: Why use brass instead of steel for shell and bullet casings?

 

[Farm Boy]

My guess would be that brass is softer than steel but hard enough to do the job. If you make the casing "as hard as" the barrel of the gun which fires it(steel), the casings will damage the firearm during use. You clean gun barrels with brass/copper brushes for this reason.

Edit: further thought - I think brass will store better than a steel casing. I'm also not sure if a steel casing could be reloaded.

 

[Flying Pig]

Question: Why use brass instead of steel for shell and bullet casings?

Surprisingly, simple cost

 

[say1988]

Except from my understanding steel cased ammunition is actually cheaper, but the cases cannot be reused.

 

[Farm Boy]

Surprisingly, simple cost

I done be skooled. I think the storage concerns would remain pretty valid though.