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Quis custodiet ipsos asshats?

Asshats can guard themselves.

The most important protection?

The condition of being the guard himself?

I have a couple tips:

-Don't load homemade napalm into a shotgun shell.
-If you do, don't fire it.
-If you do, fire it shortly after loading. I can't think of a particular reason why letting them sit would degrade the integrity of the shell or cap if you follow normal storage practices (cool and dry), but finding out that there was a problem could be catastrophic.
-If you do, don't do it a second time without cleaning the shit out of the chamber and barrel.
-If you do, take video and post it here regardless of outcome. In event of death or loss of fingers, have a friend post it.

Back to the original question, your cobalt oxide will be soluble in methanol. If you want to generate a blue flame just to see it you could use an inert material (nonreactive metal rod) to transfer some of this methanol solution to an acetylene (or equivalent) flame.


As for the shotgun thing (again)... You might try another dry agent to increase the temperature of combustion upon ignition of the round (thermite?) mixed with the Co compound and the powder from the original shell but even if things go well you'd seem likely to horribly scar the barrel of your shotgun.

~edited: "try another" not "dry another"

Who wants to think about Pittsburgh?

What city am I thinking of? (trying to get thread back on track)

It isn't Agartha, is it?

I can not quickly look up the kinds of explosives used to blow the fuck out of mountains for their coal.

It's normally ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) mixtures, as in the OKC bombing.

My vote is for something too subtle to be noticed and labeled as causal.

Because, you know, fuck mountains.

Hey, that's what those mountains get for not burying their precious resources deeper in the first place. Just leaving that wonderful shit right under the surface of the ground for any prying excavation equipment to come across. How could they resist?

Think of a couple hundred feet of bedrock as a Burqa for the mountain. It's just a matter of time before someone rapes it if it goes into public without one.


By the way, did the quoted comment make anyone else think of Blackzilla screwing Mt. Fuji on Chappelle Show?

TSA is federal and will promptly ignore this state law.

Common defense (defence) is a consitutionally enumerate power of the federal government so there is no 10th amendment precedent for federal law not to supersede state legislation on matters concerning the TSA.

If someone wants to poke a whole in this line of reasoning please do, it's not exactly a position that I'm happy to argue from.

Of course, none of that changes the fact that the 4th amendment is still being violated, but it's not the states job to enforce federal constitutional law.

I hope that you get a good show, because you sir have a phenomenal handle.

Peregrinus might have trumped Diogenes in terms of showmanship, but anyone who could spend that much time looking for something that doesn't exist... classic hero stuff.

Dude, why do you have to be a dick to Charley?  He never did anything to you.

You really are a first-rate asshole.  Not in the good way, either.

What?

What is the problem now?

What are you talking about?

What about my comment was "being a dick?"

I bring perfectly legitimate information to the conversation and you talk about elephants? I was an electrician after all.

I was being legit.

Edison electrocuted an elephant named Topsy to discredit Westinghouse's claim that DC was no more dangerous than AC and get the public debate about AC versus DC on his side.

No joke.

There's video of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBU3aYsf0Q

Dude, why do you have to be a dick to Charley?  He never did anything to you.

You really are a first-rate asshole.  Not in the good way, either.

What?

What is the problem now?

What are you talking about?

What about my comment was "being a dick?"

This is quite true, however the usage of electricity was raised to a higher level other than starting random fires and electrocuting things. This was not a natural occurring event but instead is credited to Benjamin Franklin who reportedly was able to actually collect lightening via the intelligent use of such primitive materials such as a kite and a brass key, consumating the experiment in a glass jar.
This, according to all reports was the precursor to modern lighting which replaced gas lighting in the city streets. As a natural extension other inventions were created which were also intended to capture the power of electricity.

Then we will need to move from the basic DC voltage which is lightening over to the advent of AC current. AC current is wave modulation of the sinusodial wave created by artificially creating electricity, which as we all know can be created by various means, among the original of which was water driven turbines.

Originally there was a much heated debate over whether to use DC or AC current with AC winning by a slim margin, unfortunately. If DC had been used then a DC generator could have been placed in the home or business and devices would have been able to operate without wiring, however, the static electricity that was generated as a side effect of the DC generators was undesirable.

Based on this AC was proclaimed the winner and thus began the electrical age. Turn of the century pictures can show the primitive nature of originally running main power wiring to buildings and homes. Today, many newer residential communities have underground wiring. Due to the restrictive cost of underground wiring our high voltage wiring still remains above ground carried by steel towers over 100 feet above the ground.

Less than asthetic wiring is still predominate in almost all cities, again due to the higher cost of underground wiring.

Don't forget about electrocuting elephants. No discussion about AC versus DC is complete without an electrocuted elephant.

Bullshit, we're now talking about Chloe Kardashian, and I'd crack that shit like the skin of a Hawaiian Airlines 737.

Nice.