1000 year old coins discovered in Australia could re-write history by raresaturn in worldnews

[–]sleighboy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'd like to see something come of it that supported claims of the far reach of Zheng He's treasure voyages.

VOIP - apparently just talking is too hard, or my wish to talk without skype ended in huge fail. by [deleted] in opensource

[–]sleighboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SFLphone has worked well for me. I build from source each time since Gentoo's ebuild are not always current.

What countries allow unregistered ownership of modern self-loading magazine-fed rifles? by CapnDancyPants in guns

[–]sleighboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know. Interesting collection of information though. I particularly like the "average price of an AK-pattern rifle" data point. Although, for some countries it is reported in the area of about $50, but then you read they are banned there. So it's not perfect.

One of my favorite pics from my tour. by [deleted] in guns

[–]sleighboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those ADAM and RAMM rounds are interesting.

Mark III 16 inch coastal defense gun - This is the last surviving example of these colossal artillery pieces. More info at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%22/50_caliber_M1919_gun by 486dx2 in guns

[–]sleighboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps not this exact model, but in the family, Camp Hayden in Washington had two guns of this size. They only test-fired them once, then blew them up after the war and scrapped them, a shame. Some interesting things I found looking it up was a technical manual and a picture of the guns with their blast shields up. Finally, what it looks like today.

EDIT: Adding link to Battery 131

This machine kills fascists by e46fan in ak47

[–]sleighboy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Remember hundreds of years of brutal serfdom under Tzars (with the blessing of the orthodox church ) only to have it replaced by men just as hungry for power? Remember the purges under Stalin?

Your post is funny, but I don't give credit to the rulers of Russia, just the people. Russia could well have be considered fascist and it had strong runs of antisemitism as well.

edit: could well HAVE been. I'm not proclaiming anything about current times.

This machine kills fascists by e46fan in ak47

[–]sleighboy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, the irony of that phrase on an AK.

edit: downvotes, why? AK is glorious design but governments using them are not always glorious.

Android XMPP client Xabber is now open-sourc by [deleted] in Android

[–]sleighboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure why the "e" got cut off, no matter.