"Public schools are always crying poor but they spend more per student than private schools with far poorer results. They never have enough money, but my taxes go up the max every year to pay for teachers and all the administrators between them and the superintendent - none of which are on performance-based reward systems (unions don't like good performers, it would put them out of business).I think teaching as a profession should not be extended to anyone who is under the age of 40 who has not worked in the private sector for at least 10 years. Schools are almost totally devoid of teachers with experiences outside of the shelter of academia."

"Or ban the people that by and large, cause almost all the mayhem.Any mass vehicle attacks going on 10, 20, 50 years ago, in these kinds of numbers?"

"More relevant is using the ink as an indicator. I was taught by an old school machinist to use dykem or a sharpie and a work light to zero a part to a cutter (esp on a lathe). You color the part of known diameter with ink, then run the cutter in a tiny bit at a time until the ink starts to scratch and finally until the mark left is barely perceptible. If you can get this close you're easily within .0005" which is more than good enough for most machining operations. Then you zero the DRO and you have a starting point (the OD)."

"It's a function of the poor tires not meant for sand and that they likely have open differentials. On soft ground you need much wider tires - less PSI to the ground the same way a farm tractor does. Lock the axle and both tires will turn at the same rate regardless of slippage."

"Remember Carbon Motors and their police cruiser?"

"If the car is not driving on a sidewalk, it's the pedestrian's fault."

"The problem is not with the product but with the consumer. Tools, guns, pools, ladders, ropes, silverware, food, cars, streets, cleaning products, drugs, anything that moves, is heavy, is suspended, they can climb, they can open, they can actuate - all inanimate objects incapable of thought or reason. I disagree, Rain - the responsibility <i>is</i> on the parents, 100%. Not necessarily that they supervise them every waking minute but any strategy is usually multi-faceted and a combination of good installation, teaching them right from wrong, supervision, etc. Not the design of the product - if you don't think it's safe enough, don't buy it.Not the manufacturer - it's designed to hold contents, not be used as a climbing structure.Not the children - they should know better, but someone has to teach them.Who's left?"

"That's a great idea regarding stainless; never realized that they had that much of a difference in conductivity.How much torque is required to engage the hose end into the receptacle? Obviously has to be enough to overcome the water pressure and push the valve open. I'm assuming the short amount of time between 100% engagement and the valve opening as you're crewing the hose end into the receptacle the water is kept from coming out by those twin o-rings?"

"There are several misleading representations in this article.The flush mount design does not prevent anything from freezing. A standard hose bib is actually an assembly that includes a long shaft and a valve on the end of the nipple. The kind that screw onto a pipe that is nearly flush with the exterior of your house is called a hose cock. A cock is basically just a valve with a 45° angle male end. A cock offers NO freeze protection. A hose bib does because the valve and seat are actually located on the end of the nipple that goes into the house, some 8-14" from where the valve protrudes from your house. Installed properly (IE: with a very slight downward angle), the water will run out of the opening when the valve is in the off position and the hose is removed, preventing a freeze-up. This device looks like it does the exact same thing. Conversely, if you left a hose connected, water would fill the entire nipple and hose end, and lead to a freeze up. The reason neither this nor a conventional hose bib freezes is because when off, water is held back well within the envelope of the (heated) building. The flush mount deal is just for aesthetics."

"Good on them for changing up their design to meet a market need. Not for me. If I wanted to pay an assload of money for a Ford pickup I'd get a Raptor.I have a Jeep Wrangler and am glad I can still get it in a manual transmission. I wish they'd come sans carpeting and with waterproof seats. I take it offroad, fishing, and use it to haul trailers and skid logs, and it still gets me to business meetings on time dressed in pressed clothing (as much as I'd rather wear jeans and a t-shirt).I don't think these are right or wrong. Let the market decide. They will either sell or they won't. I'll bet they are comfortable!"

"That's a Beretta M9 not a bAretta. Concealment has nothing to do with why they chose it either. It's a full-size semiauto handgun and it's far from standard once you get away from the average soldier. Also, while the weights of other firearms are listed, it's not typical for a soldier to carry the H&K plus an M4 plus a sniper rifle. Often they have one long arm and one sidearm."

"If you're doing "knife week" look into the history of some military fighting knives. I've always wondered the story behind the Marine Ka-Bar, Sykes dagger (british) or the Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife."