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13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Utah mulls making semi... · 2 replies · +3 points

What is it with the media's infatuation with the word semiautomatic? My guess is it's only there to scare the uninformed masses. "Oh my goodness that must be some kind of Uzi or something!" The fact that probably 90% of the handguns sold for personal defense are semiautos is probably lost on them...

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Woman who lied about a... · 1 reply · +22 points

I hope so. She should also foot the bill for any overtime expenses the police ran up.

14 years ago @ AndroidGuys - I Could do Widgout It... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree. The only widgets I've stuck with are Francois Deslandes' weather widget, grid calendar, CurveFish's silent mode toggle, and mippin's batter widget (I like to see the %). Otherwise the rest have been pretty useless to me.

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - No more w... · 0 replies · -1 points

While I agree that speeding in a school zone is dumb, I have very little trust for the motives or competency of police or government agencies to implement things like this.

For those who think "don't speed and you'll be fine", stories like this are not uncommon...

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/parked-truck-get...

The fact that the machines are run by for-profit companies (Redflex, etc) who are solely in charge of validating the accuracy and operation of the devices just makes me ill...

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