democracy and stupidity – this is a very interesting, if slightly loose, rambling and sometimes fallacious. worth the read for the thoughts it should spark though.
also from mefi, this was in a popular mechanics/science mag a two years ago – it’s about the oicw gun (with laser rangefinded grenades) etc. the funny thing is that they are the same photos as well.
sometimes, i get annoyed enough at ignorant posts to go through the trouble of joining and refuting them, but the feeling quickly passes. /me goes back to work .