Ricky, here's a list of Executive Orders signed by current and past presidents: Link.

As you can see, it went well before George HW Bush.

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Hm.... I wouldn't call that highly reliable. :)

Matrix Reloaded was exciting, but it was mostly CGI. Does that count as a real car chase?

In terms of getting it as real as it can, Bullit certainly wins - they *were* actually chasing each other!

Whereas the title "best car chase" can be subjective, there's no arguing that Bullitt really started the whole thing. :)

If I remember correctly, I heard on the radio that when they filmed the Bullitt car chase, the didn't really cordon off the roads or anything like that - they simply put on a siren and started driving like mad. It was lucky that no pedestrian got hurt!

I think it's important to distinguish gun owners and gun nuts. I agree with Anita that gun nuts are a small minority.

Carl, this is a matter of hot debate - I think even the Supreme Court has gone both ways (i.e. saying that the 2nd amendment applies to individual citizens, whereas in other cases it has hinted that it only applies to "well regulated militia"). Correct me if I'm wrong.

See also: Second Amendment

Lest we forget, the Founding Fathers thought it appropriate to put the right to keep and bear arms as the second amendment, only behind the freedom of speech, and well ahead of all the others in the Bill of Rights.

While I don't agree with many of the gun nuts out there, I can appreciate the logic and the intent of the Founding Fathers.

Must be faked. We all know that the moon landing was done in a soundstage :)

OMG! That was ... something else! She went into debt for that?

McQueen did most of the driving, except for the most dangerous parts, which was done by a stuntman Bud Ekin.

According to wiki:

# The Mustang's interior rearview mirror goes up and down depending on who is driving. When the mirror is up, visible, McQueen is behind the wheel, and when it is down, not visible, Ekin is in the car.
# The director called for speeds of about 75 to 80 mph (120 to 130 km/h), but the cars (including the ones containing the cameras) reached speeds of over 110 mph (175 km/h) on surface streets.

I don't think they'll ever do it again: it's much too dangerous to race around a real city like that. Most of the movies probably use bluescreen.

Yes you're right redstripe - I've fixed the typo, er ... wordpo.

Two questions:

If the caption is right, then doesn't that hunk have the equivalent radioactivity as 2 fissile nuclear weapons' worth?

Also, is natural uranium and depleted uranium almost the same? Either are low on the highly radioactive form U-235, but DU has also been shown to have residual radioactivity and can cause cancer in lab animals.

Boston was saying that their response showed their readiness to deal with terrorism, but the boards were up for weeks before someone noticed!

Can't be a bomb, Jglaffick - it has no LED or Mooninite! And igness: hahaha!

Good guesses - but so far, nothing that sounds like the real answer! Come on - a free shirt awaits.

Ah, yeah the locomotive is pulling train. I see what you mean...

Well, he *looks* so Vulcan!

Yeah, the Brits were quite classy. Not like us sniveling Yanks.