A lot of long-range shooting enthusiasts use projectiles known as "boat tails" for the same reason.

Instead of having a flat back, they taper down a bit.

By making the surface area of the rear smaller, the size of the negative pressure zone is also made smaller, reducing the effect and raising the ballistic coefficient.

This article makes no mention of what they're poisoned with, or how. It's entirely your assumption it's due to school supplied food.

Poisoning is VERY hard to trace, one of the most famous examples was the Chicago Tylenol Murders back in 1982. 7 people were killed, it costs J&J millions if not billions of dollars, multiple police agencies and the FBI were involved, and they still haven't identified a suspect.

In order for someone to be punished, they first have to be identified and apprehended. It's silly to assume a blind eye is being turned just because the investigation is still ongoing.

Anyone can poison anyone else pretty easily, there's no need for an order or a permission slip.

It's possible it was ordered, but just as possible this is a single extremist, or a terrorist cell, or just some gullible person doing what kids on 4chan tell them to do.

Modern brakes are more than powerful enough to lock all 4 wheels up with ease, and have the thermal capability to stop a car without issue even if you're going twice the speed limit. The traction of the tires is the limiting factor, not the power of the brakes.

In an emergency stop situation, just slamming the brakes is the fastest way to stop.

Downshifting and using engine braking doesn't stop you more quickly, it lets you continue more quickly. Less heat goes into the brakes (less fade over time), and the engine is in the correct gear to accelerate out (faster exits), which means you can achieve faster lap times in a race.

I grew up in an old farmhouse with well water, and any time we had a big storm and lost power, we'd also lose water.

Before storms hit, we'd scrub the bathtubs clean and fill them to the brim with water.

We had a bucket that held just enough water to make the toilet flush if you dumped it in, and a tub was at least a week worth of flushing #2's.

Well, yea, frame it that way and it does seem small.

Frame it against total false calls and market share, and it looks like a much bigger issue.

Total false calls was 919, so this feature on the iPhone14 accounts for nearly 15% of them. A 15% growth in false calls due to a phone feature is noteworthy.

iPhone14 is pretty new and only has about 1% of the total mobile market. Assuming this issue is constant and the 14 gains the same share as predecessors, this might actually become the majority of false calls.

The big thing with entering the iron age is being able to create usable iron. The finding and mining of ore, the refining and smelting, and finally the manipulation into something usable.

Tying something you found on the ground to a stick is still primitive, even if the thing they found is iron.

A youtube tutorial and some patience can get you into basically any safe. It's nothing but a delay to someone with motivation to get inside.

That's why people in this position want them entirely out of reach, or entirely non-functional.

I'd just disable the guns, remove the bolts/barrels, and store the bolts/barrels somewhere remote.

It takes seconds, it renders them all useless, and is totally legal since bolts/barrels are just chunks of metal.

Or, I'd just bring them to a buddy's house and leave them in their safe.

Wouldn't ever cross my mind to just leave fully functioning, unsecured firearms in an unlocked closet of a hospital...

Do you also think the existence of gyms encourages obesity?

Why you think they have badges, why you don't trust them.

They're business owners, not federal agents...

You might want to google what an FFL is and reevaluate your position...

People do do weird stuff under duress, but any responsible gun owner should know the options they have and the laws that apply.

Again, if the concern was a spouse/child doing something dumb with them, you can just pop a part out and disable them fully, and it would be totally legal to store those parts in his office closet.

I can't imagine a single scenario where this would be the only option.

>his kid or wife could have been suicidal and he needed a quick place to store the guns outside the home

Most FFL's will store guns for you.

There's an organization called "Hold My Guns" that was made for just that purpose.

Any decent friend/shooting buddy should let you store guns with them in a situation like this. (I've sure done it for my friends.)

Plus, he could have just removed essential components and stored those in the office if safety was a concern. There would be no legal issue with a bag of bolts and barrels in the closet.

>A place that is secure enough where it won’t get broken into like a mini storage unit or some such.

An unlocked closet in an unlocked room, that other people obviously have access to, is not the more secure option...

>People see “guns” and freak out but to many they are just tools or a hobby.

Just for reference, I'm a massive gun enthusiast. I'm not freaking out about the guns, I'm freaking out that he left fully functional and unsecured guns in the unlocked closet of an unlocked office in a gun-free-zone.

No one in their right mind would store unsecured guns in an unlocked closet of an unlocked room in a gun-free-zone hospital.

This shouldn't even be an option to consider...

Did you ensure the areas you were filling were cleaned and dried before adding the mastic? If not, all that moisture that's now trapped inside will prevent curing.

This is probably a scrape out/re-do scenario, but even that won't work if the issue is the ambient moisture levels or quick exposure to water (like rain after you apply, sprinklers, morning dew, etc)

Haven't heard these in particular, but I have used a bunch of transducers that turn solid panels into speakers (Clark Synthesis/Aurasound/multiple Dayton transducers, and the bass-specific IBeams and Buttkickers), and they all have the same issue.

The material you stick it to has it's own absorption/reflection/resonance properties, which become audible when you use it as a speaker. You can easily tell if it's attached to metal, plastic, wood, or glass. It doesn't sound "like the panel is a speaker", it sounds like "a speaker behind the panel".

For bass, thicker/stiffer materials (or those with less surface area) need more power, which means it effectively reduces the output when used with the same power. Same transducer, same signal, will have wildly different response curves if attached to a side window vs a rear window, or a window vs the dashboard.)

For highs, basically everything absorbs high frequency sound (that's why you tend to only hear low frequency bass outside a loud car or club). No matter what, the high end is neutered, they all lack the "sparkle".

I routinely get called a cheater for shooting people through cover based on sound alone. Good headphones that let you pinpoint sources sure do help.

I'm just happy to know I can save someone else from cleaning up black sludge.

The lesson I learned the hard way was to cover the overflow hole with your thumb before plunging the bathroom sink.

Otherwise, you might spray that nasty stuff out of the overflow and all over your toothbrush.

They make little plungers specifically for sinks, and they're usually <$5.

Totally worth the investment, works great and keeps the toilet plunger out of your sink.

This is akin to asking "Is there a difference between that pen you stole from the doctor's office, and a Bic you bought at the store?"

The answer will always be "maybe?"

Maybe that free pen sources their tubes/tips from Bic, and it's literally the same thing in a different shell. Generally speaking, these companies will straight up tell you their chip/part numbers, to show they're using the same stuff.

Maybe they sourced their parts from high end manufacturers in Germany/Japan, and actually have superior quality. Rule of thumb for these: They'll provide verified test results, like Schiit showing off APx reports.

Maybe they use cheap chinese crap, and it'll be a piece of shit in comparison. You already know the red flags for this stuff. Wish/Alibaba listings, no specifics on hardware, no verified specs, and a focus on claims/features rather than stats/figures.

Point is, without digging deeper into the specifics, there's no way to know.

It's not a theory, it's what the composer (Mike Post) says he did to create it when interviewed about it.

”Post synthesized his chung CHUNG electronically, combining six or seven different sounds to get the right dead-bolt effect. One of the eeriest adds: the sound of 500 Japanese men stamping their feet on a wooden floor. ”It was a sort of monstrous Kabuki event,” he says. ”Probably one of those large dance classes they hold. They did this whole big stamp. Somebody went out and sampled that.”

https://ew.com/article/1993/02/26/law-orders-tune/

I would pinch it between 2 rollers, with a bit of pressure exerted (like spring tension).

Similar to what you'd find in a pasta machine. If it works for noodles, it'll work for string.

The clamping force creates the friction you need to get an accurate reading, the resistance of turning the rollers will create tension you need for a clean wind onto your small spool/card, and you can calculate the length based on roller diameter/revolutions (either with a gear, an optical encoder, or just counting revolutions, depending on how far you want to go).

Sony has been my backup for years.

They have a few earbuds around $15-20 that are actually pretty darn good. Totally serviceable, especially if you forgot your normal buds at home or just don't want to risk them.