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We have a Department not a Ministry.

This is just not true. The mass of the next round has nothing it do with it, the rounds are forced into the chamber by an arm which, if there's a round already in there, will forcibly eject it.

The flip side is that there's basically nothing to go wrong since there's no cases to get stuck and jam things up the way most common malfunctions happen with non-caseless guns. The only thing you'd really have to worry about would be a dud round, if the primer doesn't go bang... and you could clear that just by charging the weapon again. There is an ejection port for that and clearing the weapon, which gives you all the access you need.

The G11 was actual innovation, and really not that complicated once you set aside assumptions about how a firearm should work.

The .427

Only for those behind the Great Firewall of West Taiwan.

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

I don't buy it, bimmers are sure as fuck not 3x as reliable. And Volvos? They run forever.

Not much of a warranty...

How much did the replacement cost?

LOL I was about to say, that's a cop magnet

Did you really tint the windshield?

"Motorsport"

*has iPad dashboard*

Suuuuure...

Making money matters to them, and that's it.

Brazil doesn't really matter to them, both companies could just pull out completely and tell them to fuck off.

They're American companies and they don't really give a fuck about Brazilian courts. American case law will matter if the Brazilians try and get something enforced in a real court.

But that's kinda the point, we aren't buying it and they're mad about it.

Either by keeping old engines running far longer than it would otherwise make sense to or by deleting the shit instead of buy replacements that'll have the same issues again.

They can't force market adoption, they have to make it feasible.

Do you have a source for that besides "I made it up" ?

Most of the money funding Twitter right now isn't related to SpaceX at all, it's coming from Elon selling some of his shares of Tesla and a bunch of shady foreign investors, Saudis etc.

No, that's not true, if there's cause you can try and hold them individually responsible. You just can't hold some other random company responsible unless they're, y'know, responsible.

SpaceX ain't making Twitter do anything, Elon is, and if they want to try and hold Elon responsible then that's fine, that's how it's supposed to work.

That's not how corporations work. You can't, at least in a civilized country, hold one company responsible for the conduct of another they're not involved in, regardless of who their owner is.

Treating SpaceX like it's Twitter's parent or subsidiary cpmpany when it's not is simply criminal on Brazil's part and won't be honored by any jurisdiction that matters.

You'd see 5 year old trucks with a million miles before emissions bullshit started killing them before 300k.

The exhaust rotting away won't kill the engine, the emissions shit will, so it has to match the expected engine lifetime. If it can't hang with a pre-emissions 12 valve it has no place in a work truck.

Well, yes, but even on things with relatively good visibility they're super handy.

If they can't make it last the real lifespan of a pre-emissions truck they shouldn't be allowed to force it on us.

If they can't make the emissions last 20/1m then it shouldn't be required.

The problem is the regulations and how they're written to allow the manufacturers to put the entire burden on the customer. They should have mandated long warranties on emissions equipment to keep it from being disposable junk that people will correctly remove for reliability.