MChristopherson

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by MChristopherson 6y ago
I agree, and should have expanded my "not a direct comparison" more clearly to expand on the more nuanced situation. But, I mean my point kind of at the more general level that the topic concerning Amazon often starts at: everyone
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by MChristopherson 6y ago
"Many retailers reserve some of their best shelves paces for their private label products" A key difference is that in those situations (a grocery store, for example), the marketplace owners have already purchased all the products
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by MChristopherson 7y ago
Thanks for the correction! Fixed.
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by MChristopherson 7y ago
That is an important point that struck home with me when I came to realize just how minuscule the amount of carbon dioxide is in the air relative to other gases: it's nigh-on a rounding error. I think many of us just haven't inter
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
I agree that an honest debate on the topic is what can lead to a reasonable and valuable process of dealing with the issue in terms of law. And it's because of that that the term "assault rifle" has always bugged me, because, let me be quit
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
Was genuinely curious. The term kind of took over in the last couple decades, but I've come to realize that it's a very vague term, with not a lot of actual agreement as to what it means. To be quite honest, I've never been quite clear what
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
Hunting rifles with magazines are quite common. However, you do zero in on the effective difference between supposed "assault rifles" and semi-automatic hunting rifles: the magazine / number of rounds available. I think this is an important
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
He did not build an AK. He built a copy of the defanged, non-fully-autmatic, "for gun enthusiasts" version of the gun. He did not build a fully automatic machine gun. He built something that is in every way equivalent to a hunting rifle you
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
Note as well that, as far as I can tell, he did not build an AK-47. He built a copy of the semi-automatic version that is available to gun enthusiasts. He did not build what your average user of an AK would call an AK: a fully automatic mac
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
How do you personally define "assault rifle" ?
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by MChristopherson 13y ago
I scanned through the video included in the link. At the risk of sounding like a militia-bound gun nut, the video got me a bit annoyed: "fully functional AK-47" is tossed about rather often, when in fact the guy simply made a rather heavy h