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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1095 - Jul 16^th, 2007 at 12:15pm clip backwards? odd
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1096 - Jul 16^th, 2007 at 12:57pm Well at least it's better than pointing the gun backwards. Hopefully the clip being backwards won't force a round in the chamber...I've seen enough Elmer Fudd cartoons to know...that would be bad.
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Reply #1097 - Jul 16^th, 2007 at 4:14pm

Fortunately, there is no way to chamber a round backward. The rear of the cartridge is larger than the front (which is what prevents the cartridge from falling out through the barrel) so if the cartridge entered the chamber backward, it wouldn't get seated. As such, the chamber closure safety would prevent the trigger from engaging the firing pin. Even if the firing pin did fall, it'd simply hit the bullet, not the primer, leaving nothing more than a dent.

A lot of people thought the picture was a Photoshop touch-up because they didn't think you could insert a magazine backward. Some guy on AR15.com posted a video to prove them wrong, showing that you can insert a magazine backward with a bit of work. You have to insert it at an angle (like an AK47 magazine) and rock it up into the mag well.

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Reply #1098 - Jul 17^th, 2007 at 9:56am

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003792176_webrecycling16m.html

City to require table-scrap recycling at homes in 2009

By Sharon Pian Chan
Seattle Times staff reporter

All single-family homes in Seattle must sign up for table-scrap recycling in 2009, the City Council decided Monday.

While residents will have to pay for the service, the city will not check whether they are actually dumping food in the new separate bin.

Reducing food trash was a piece of a larger plan the council unanimously approved Monday to reduce the amount of garbage sent to the landfill.

"We can reduce the waste stream," said Councilmember Richard Conlin, chair of the utilities committee. "We can treat waste as a resource and continue to recirculate it as we reclaim, recycle it or turn it into compost."

Starting in April 2009, all single-family homes will be required to subscribe to food-waste recycling, a program that is now optional through the yard-waste collection program. A variety of containers will be available for different rates. Prices have not been set.

Recycling food waste will be voluntary for apartments, as well as for businesses, which produce twice as much food waste as residents.

Conlin said he hopes garbage-collection rates can be adjusted to absorb some of the additional cost homeowners will have to pay for food recycling.

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) will study a ban on putting food waste in the garbage can — and enforcing the ban as it does with aluminum, paper and glass. If businesses, apartments and houses place recyclable material in their trash, violators are fined or their garbage doesn't get picked up.

By 2025, the council hopes, the city will divert 72 percent of its garbage from the landfill.

Seattle recycles 44 percent of its trash now. In 2003, Mayor Greg Nickels hoped to reach 60 percent by 2010, but that goal has been pushed back to 2012.

The council resolution adopted Monday dropped a controversial plan to build a new garbage facility in Georgetown where trash would be transferred from trucks to trains. Neighbors there protested, saying it would increase truck traffic on their streets.

Two existing facilities in Wallingford and South Park will be rebuilt and expanded.

In another effort to reduce landfill waste, the council wants to raise self-haul rates at the transfer station in 2008, and eventually eliminate the do-it-yourself trips to the transfer stations.

The council declined to ban Styrofoam and plastic garbage bags. For now, SPU will study a ban and plastic-bag tax and report back to the council by the end of this year.

What a load of crap.

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1099 - Jul 17^th, 2007 at 10:34am hmm that would really make you wonder what they put in hot dogs...
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1100 - Jul 17^th, 2007 at 10:49am Or, more appropriately, what they don't put in hot dogs! -b0b (...ba dum bum!)
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Reply #1101 - Jul 17^th, 2007 at 4:57pm

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(WCCO) Grantsburg, Wis. Crews rescued a Pine City, Minn. man from the St. Croix River at Fox Landing, near Grantsburg, Wis. after he spent 12 hours stuck in the water. Authorities said the man's weight was a mitigating factor in his delayed rescue.

At about 8:15 p.m. Monday, authorities received a call of someone with a medical condition needing assistance.

According to the Pine County Sheriff's Office, a group had gone tubing on the river when Martin Rike's tube went flat about two miles south of Fox Landing.

After attempting to get out of the water and walk back, Rike, 39, began having chest pains. He had also slipped on irregular rocks, injuring an ankle and a knee.

When crews attempted to rescue Rike by boat, they found the water was too shallow, causing the boat to get caught on the rocks.

Dispatch said Rike weighed about 500 pounds and said his weight was a factor in how long it took crews to rescue him.

At 5 a.m. Tuesday, a hovercraft was dispatched to try to retrieve Rike, who authorities said remained alert and conscious throughout his ordeal. Soon after, authorities reported the hovercraft effort had failed.

"Every resource we had simply did not work until got down to physical manpower," said Chief Deputy Steve Ovick, with the Pine County Sheriff's Department. "The aircraft that found him said they could not lift that amount of weight."

Burnett County authorities said they were trying to recruit a helicopter from Traverse City, Mich., the closest location with a hoist.

Eventually authorities managed to load Rike into a raft made of wood and three canoes.

"There wasn't enough water for it to float, so they physically used that as a stretcher," Ovick said.

Some 40 to 50 rescuers took turns hoisting the boat, carrying it two feet at a time until they found a spot in the river deep enough for the boat to float down to a waiting ambulance.

Rike was pulled from the river around 8 a.m., nearly 12 hours after rescue attempts began.

"It was very taxing. It was probably 70 degrees and the humidity was very high last night," Ovick said. "Lifting him, moving two feet at a time, you get tired real quick with 600 pounds of cargo."

Rike was taken to Burnett Medical Center in Granstburg, where he was reported to be in stable condition.

At least they didn't have to call in a tug boat!

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(...500 frickin' pounds? Stop eating!)

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1102 - Jul 17^th, 2007 at 5:42pm He's not fat! He is jolly.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1103 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 9:21am If that is true, than your mother must be Santa Claus! By the way, I've heard the new Harry Potter book has been leaked on the Intertron. It's available on Pirate Bay. -b0b (...thinks you might be gay if you download it, though.)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1104 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 10:28am it's too late, your already gay bob.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1105 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 11:11am Great comeback, pie face! -b0b (...ooooooooh!)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1106 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 2:08pm To bring back an 80s put down..."Smooth move ex-lax!"
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1107 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 2:29pm why don't you make like a tree and get the fuck out of here!
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1108 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 2:59pm Boondock Saints quote
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Random Stupidity Reply #1109 - Jul 18^th, 2007 at 3:09pm this isn't word association noob!
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