If you can't test it, it isn't science. If you can't falsify it, it isn't science.
If you believe something in the absence of evidence, it's faith.
BSW
]]>As far as who benefits, I am partial to the idea that sabotage of their own pipelines is a way for the Russians to warn the EU that their pipelines can also be sabotaged if the EU continues to support Ukraine and/or increases sanctions.
]]>The simplest explanation is corruption. On a multibillion Euro project there's a lot of money to be made in substituting substandard materials, using unqualified workers, or both.
]]>In living memory we invade other countries and force regime change, we don't have that done to us.
And it makes me sad about what this says about the 'sophisticated' western cultures.
]]>*Does phone sex count as sex for the purpose of consumption a marriage?
]]>To be sure, there are bullets available for 556 nato rifles that have a lot more penetrating power than 9mmP, but reasonable people wouldn’t issue those to cops in a city.
]]>Not that the next person in line (Nancy Pelosi) is a spring chicken either.
]]>You're correct that the P226 is like a revolver in that it doesn't have a user selectable safety, which is what almost anybody who's talking about guns refers to as a safety.
The P226 (and the whole series) have an internal safety that prevents the firing pin from moving forward to hit the primer of the cartridge and the sear blocks the hammer from moving forward until the trigger is pulled. There is also a spring that retracts the hammer from the firing pin.
]]>The Sig P226 doesn’t have an external safety that the user can set. It has several internal safeties built into it but the shooter controls those by pulling the trigger.
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