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To answer your question: based on this thread, the general consensus seems to be that it's highly accurate, but it has problems with certain magazines, the trigger is a little heavy, and the gun will backfire if you try to shoot it after a round fails to chamber completely. A fair number of people on the thread said their rifles would jam, and they had to contact Remington to get them working.

As for whether you should be going out of your way to shoot animals, well, that's another matter.

Ya know, I actually decided to go with the Marlin 795 (597 backwards. Whaaaaat?) because it is a pound lighter, 20 bucks cheaper, and has no waiting period. As in I walk into Gander Mt. and leave with it.

What flash game do you believe is the most revolutionary? (Preferably a flash game made by a generally non-profit organization. A free one, basically)

Looks like griffin.

I saw him, and my mind exploded. I went to the hospital for 3 days, and now I'm back.

Smarty, you seem to be a republican. But my question is what republican candidate would you PREFER to be president.

And, when answering, I don't want you to consider who is more likely to beat out Obama. Just, if you had to pick one that would definitely win. Who would it be?


Mitt Romney seems great. But he is a mormon. :/

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Am I the only one that thinks the sudden arise of prokaryotes seems just stupid?


First. How, how would a cell form? And how likely is it that SOMEHOW DNA also formed. Ribosomes, flagellum, pili, cytoplasm all came with it in a neat little bundle called life. Out of nowhere?

Second, how did it survive? You may or may not realize it. But there are very very few foods that weren't once living. Meat, Cereal (grains), apple and orange juice.

Life comes from life. If there was one prokaryote cell how could it have survived as the only cell on the planet? No trees, no grass. Those didn't come til about 2 billion. BILLION years later.

The entire thing is a theory. Why is it even taught in schools? It's stupid. I can understand teaching proven science, but not mere theories. Clearly, cells exist. Water exists. Trees exist. But you can't teach a theory made up by a bunch of scientists on what happened billions upon billions of years ago!

Deagonx, what do you think about contraception?

I think anyone who isn't married should use contraceptives. Because while I disapprove of before-marriage sexual relations. I cannot stop it completely. But I assume a 16 year old girl wouldn't want a baby and should use contraceptives. If she gets pregnant, it's her fault and the child shouldn't have to pay for that.

Married couples shouldn't use contraceptives unless they already have a child and aren't ready for another.

Out of curiosity, would you pull the plug on someone who is brain dead?

A person who is brain dead has no hope of recovery or any other life. An embryo does have hope for life. Even if brain activity hasn't started for an embryo, it will in short time. If you're brain dead, your brain isn't going to start back up.

What if someone is in a coma with a 0.1% chance of that person waking up and cost $10,000 a month to keep that person alive.  Would you pull the plug even though there is brain activity and hope of recovery?

Ehm... I find the two situations relatively incomparable. 10,000 a month could probably go to homeless shelters and save even more lives.

The situations are comparable, because they both involve possibility of life and a financial cost.  I know both Deagonx and Rob think that the possiblity of life for an unborn fetus is worth the financial cost to not allow abortions.  I am only asking about the coma question to see where one draws the line.  Apparently, Deagonx thinks that $10,000 isn't worth a 0.1% of life.
If there is a 90% chance that the baby is a stillborn and the resulting medical bills without an abortion will bankrupt the eighteen-year-old girl, will you be against her having an abortion?

I would not be against her having an abortion in that case.

But I see what you are doing, you are putting radical examples forward to see where I allow abortions. I assume next you are going to conclude I should be pro choice because of these VERY unlikely EXTREME circumstances?

Okay, so you're saying that scientific evidence is sketchy at best in this area, and that you're a skeptic.

Honestly, I can sympathize, but I think that even the large prokaryote eats little prokaryote theory works better than,
"God did everything 6000 years ago. And then he didn't like it, so he flooded the world, and had a guy take two of each species on a boat, all the way down to microorganisms, accounting for every species except for dinosaurs."

Religion's explanations just don't seem logical to me.

The flood was regional. It didn't cover the entire world.

*facepalm*

Hey, you, yeah you. The idiot. If the flood wasn't regional every species on earth would be based on incest. And how are there so many different species of dogs?

Dude. Read it again and tell me where it says planet or earth.

Out of curiosity, would you pull the plug on someone who is brain dead?

A person who is brain dead has no hope of recovery or any other life. An embryo does have hope for life. Even if brain activity hasn't started for an embryo, it will in short time. If you're brain dead, your brain isn't going to start back up.

What if someone is in a coma with a 0.1% chance of that person waking up and cost $10,000 a month to keep that person alive.  Would you pull the plug even though there is brain activity and hope of recovery?

Ehm... I find the two situations relatively incomparable. 10,000 a month could probably go to homeless shelters and save even more lives.

Granted. Now you understand why your barber can read your mind... oh, wait. Those are psychics.

I wish I could take chemistry and biology in the same year.

Granted, from January to June you can take biology. Then, in that later year, you can take Chemistry from September to december.


I wish we could all just... get along.

I get into the fetal position. I'm afraid of big words.

If one can afford to have an abortion every time one engages in unprotected intercourse, then one ought to be allowed to.

I can afford to buy bullets a gun and kill people. I ought to be allowed to.

So why did he even need to take animals in the first place? I'm sure that there were some animals of a similar species elsewhere in the world.

And, since you're so willing to have this conversation, what do you think about carbon dating?

He took animals to repopulate that region.

What is carbon dating?

["whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"]

But what is the point? Is obama just going to make a press conference and state

"Well, since people have been protesting on wall street about basically nothing. Everyone's life will now get better with this super awesome job plan that fixes the economy and keeps everyone happy."


No. It doesn't work that way. We can't just hold hands and sing Kum Ba Ya to fix the economy. They should spend their time doing something rather than asking the government to. We the people, not we the government.


"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"

Protesting is not this. ^

I set up an ice cream shop 100 feet from the hill. And profit from your carnage for I am too lazy to read 100 pages of people's army formations.