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Stopping a 30-06 M2 isn't actually that hard. A half inch of steel will do it easily. If that steel is of the Abrasion Resistant (AR) variety of decent grade (like AR400 or AR500), it will hold up to thousands of shots with virtually no wear.

Of course, a half inch steel plate is very heavy and not the sort of thing an infantryman wants to have to wear. Which is why Type IV plates are made of exotic materials like this.

This armor is actually a laminate. The impact surface is ceramic and very hard. The metal foam is in the middle and it distributes the load over a wider area. The Kevlar layers are presumably there to catch any fragments that penetrate. Actually, it sounds an awful lot like the Chobham that we use on the M1 Abrams.

And, since it is finally on topic, here is a link to a video with a bunch of bullet impacts in slow motion. It is amazing!.

Here's a video of another car auto-parking:

http://www.wimp.com/carparking...

The driver isn't even in the car. The default behavior will be for the car to stop if there's any obstacle. But what if that obstacle is someone who has just collapsed and had a heart attack, a leaking water pipe dripping water onto that parking space. How will it handle a driver coming up at high speed like an ambulance or police car? Other drivers would just move out the way.

My kind of UFO

Relevant video. It is 15 minutes long, however. http://wimp.com/humansapply/

Obligatory George Carlin.

http://www.wimp.com/proudamerican/

Roundabouts work. A recent Mythbusters proved it: http://www.wimp.com/testrounda...

And that's where this comes in. (skip to 6:45)

The idea is that you use the animal to actually grow the organ (such as an ape or large monkey), then you get rid of the animal-specific cells using the solution in the video and put the patient's cells on the organ letting them grow making it the patient's organ, effectively. The animal is just there to grow the base protein structure for the patient's cells to grow from. Then, using scanning technology, you can check the organ for defects before actually putting it in the patient, as a protein structure by itself has less to worry about radiation than living cells do.

It's really fascinating stuff.

On paper we technically live in a Republic.

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernm...

This explains it very simply.

You can exchange a piece of information without exposing the full picture to a 3rd party.

A little complex computation is good for the soul ...

No fear: http://www.wimp.com/nofear/

See http://www.wimp.com/schizophrenicsymptoms/

Article summary should be re-written;

Console market isn't profitable because there are few games being made gamers want.

Fixed that. Seriously, Xbox one is being marketed not as a gaming console but a dvr.

Seriously.

I'm posting just to say they there's no chance they'll put something like ARGUS there just to keep a close eye on the locals. Nope. Not gonna happen.

or an Astro Turfer for a right wing blog. One of the two. People who live in the projects can't afford $1000/mo car payments. Also, the social workers track what kind of car you own. Even the drug dealers don't do that well.

A bmw can be leased for under $400 a month, and a "2012 truck" can be had for under $200 a month. You want to find a parking lot full of undeserving BMW drivers? Try the local high school.

or an Astro Turfer for a right wing blog. One of the two. People who live in the projects can't afford $1000/mo car payments. Also, the social workers track what kind of car you own. Even the drug dealers don't do that well.

There is evidence (TED video) to support your hunch. The gist is that over time, countries trend towards having 2 children per mother. The presenter claims that after crunching the numbers (I haven't seen the calculations), it turns out the world will max out at around 10b people.

I'm unimpressed. To me, magic tricks are supposed to be 'hand-crafted', wherein the person learning the skill has it come from intelligence, predictions and natural sources. As someone else said, this is a form of performance art, not magic or illusion. It's probably cool to watch, but I wouldn't say it's sorcery. It's pressing buttons and standing there moving in time with prerecorded shit.

For anyone arguing that this is better than 'rabbit in the hat' magicians, go watch this.

here's a Warsaw video: http://www.wimp.com/warsawhelicopter/

Want to know why people with jobs kill themselves in China, look at this video http://www.wimp.com/packingcards/. Machines were doing this job is western countries for decades but human labour is cheaper than a machine in China.

Want to compete, than shut the door on inflated corporate profits and bring the jobs back home, Want trade, then fine countries providing equal quality of life for their citizens can trade amongst themselves.

http://wimp.com/handcake/

AND be friendly.

The UK Govt recently admitted that they were programming traffic lights to increase fuel consumption to make more money through fuel tax. I can't find the exact article but here's another one with "Previously the Department for Transport (DfT) had discouraged the systems which reduce fuel use, resulting in less tax being paid to the Treasury." Certainly, in the city where I live, on a major dual carriageway with a 30mph limit from/to the north to the centre, if you drive at 30mph, you will hit every red light. Conversely, if you drive at 15mph or 45mph, you will get a green light. I don't do speeding, so I do 15-20mph average on this dual carriageway. This same dual carriageway has 37 sets of traffic lights over a 2 mile stretch - really, why this much?

Why not remove traffic lights? An experiment at Portishead has shown that traffic has reduced when they switched off a set of traffic lights in the town centre. Recently a roundabout I use often has new traffic lights and I find I waste so much time sitting there waiting for the red to turn green while there is not a single car on the roundabout - I sometimes wait up to 2 minutes. They do have their place, but I'm starting to feel a lot of them are a waste of space & money

Self-explanatory.

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Totally off-topic, but super interesting none-the-less. I noticed your signature, and in fact it has been scientifically proven that you *can* be addicted to placebos. And you have withdrawals when you come off it, the color of the placebo pill matters, the size of the placebo pill matters, etc. Placebos even work if you tell the recipient that it's a placebo! Watch this cool video about all the weirdness of the placebo: http://www.wimp.com/placeboeffect/

http://wimp.com/thegovernment

Watch it 10 times if that's what it takes.

University lectures are outdated anyway: http://www.wimp.com/studentstoday/ Need to change with the times.

http://www.wimp.com/chinesepremier/

I recently came across this video:

http://www.wimp.com/antcolony/

it's about 10 minutes long, and pretty fascinating. They poured 10 tons of concrete into an ant colony, let the concrete die, and then excavated around it. The resulting concrete form is pretty amazing. It's pretty spooky how efficient and awesome it is. I would imagine that if we saw something that looked like this little mini-city on another planet, that we'd assume that it was designed and built by some pretty intelligent lifeforms with some higher level of intellect. Why don't we think of ants this way? What kinds of alien life are all around us that we don't even know?

reminds me of this video which i came across recently:

http://www.wimp.com/satellitesorbit/

It's a pretty cool google earth animation of satellites in orbit.

Yes, there has been a lot of election rigging, but the potential with computerized and net connected is *vast* and it doesn't take near as many people to be in on it. A handful of people tops is all it takes to control a huge election, as opposed to having to have crooks inside every precinct to pull off the same scale of an election fraud.

Link to vid with some congressional testimony about just such a scenario from the programmer who wrote the vote rigging software (that has a good possibility of being used extensively already if you ask me)

http://www.wimp.com/votesoftware/

I love computers, but man I hate computerized voting and having the machines being on the net just makes that worse. I am old school, I want to see an empty plain box, then at the end of the day be able to physically see the ballots for the count. Anything computerized is so easily hackable, just forget it. Voting on the net, insane. I don't even like mail in "absentee" ballots, because then a vote is easily coerced or sold, the potential I mean.

If people can't be assed to go down once a year or two or four and physically vote, well, screw 'em! As to military folks "overseas" not being able to vote then, one, I don't care, they are all volunteers, and two, they volunteer to be wall street mercenaries and fight undeclared wars and "follow orders" overseas for a paycheck, that is what is more important to them. If they don't give a crap about following the real Constitution, and refuse to participate in illegal wars of aggression, then I don't care if they couldn't vote either. Just ban absentee ballots,(and your vacation or business trip isn't as important as a secure and honest vote, sorry, no vote for you either then, wait until next time) and ban computerized voting machines, and hell no to "internet voting" for anything important. Just like slashdot polls, it is just too easy to game the system using the net and it shouldn't be used for anything important like voting.

http://wimp.com/thegovernment

we don't live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic. look it up some time.

http://wimp.com/thegovernment

the only point of a government is to protect minorities. the majority, sans some restricting force, _always_ gets their way. that's called mob rule, and it's what democracy is.

many of our elected officials like to continue to perpetuate the falsehood you are spreading, that "democracy" is what makes America great, but this is false. _limited government_ is what made America what it is, namely, that YOU, the "majority", do NOT get to foist your desires on everyone.

To the extent that the US has turned into an arbitrarily powerful democracy, it has suffered greatly.

You are not only very angry, but you are very confused or misinformed about the structure of the US government.

people like yourself, and politicians, are complicit in violating the law, including laws governing elections and voting. We may not be able to vote them out. And if enough of the voters think like you do -- namely, that whatever the majority can agree upon, ought to be the law, then what's the point of voting at all?

It is for these reasons that the foudners of the nation wrote 2A, and why so many libertarians, who generally abhor violence, are strong 2A advocates.

I think I've decided to no longer consider their brains severely damaged. Their brains seem to be wired in a manor that puts communication (and other things) at a lower priority. The link below is a video demonstrating how a person originally classified as severly mentally disabled was simply unable to communicate in the manor we are accustom to.
http://www.wimp.com/autisticgirl/

I think it's simply evolution. While these people who never last in the hunter/gather world in modern times we care for them and in some cases they are able to lead "normal" lives and reproduce. These traits get past on and eventually perfected to the point where it isn't such a resource drain on their brain. Now, they can pick up those other skills like being able to communicate and function "normally" but with a new specialized part of the brain.

Check out these guys

http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/

You can mop it up with hay - all natural - tons of supply - after you collect the oil infused hay, you can just burn it for fuel

An interesting cleanup proposal:

1. Blow hay on the ocean surface in the middle of the slick.
2. Wait a short while as the waves mix the oil and hay. The oil attaches to the hay.
3. Skim the hay from the surface.
4. Any hay that gets to shore is easier to pick up than raw oil on the sand.

Here's a video demonstration.

http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/

http://wimp.com/oilspills :P

And the company which was sub-contracted to do this job is the same company which caused the 1979 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill (apparently) Link: http://www.wimp.com/oilspills/

Would something like this actually work? You have to believe there's a lot readily available in the SE. http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/

Go next on your video, and you get another that I would have thought to be even more worthy of this day's hi-jinx
http://www.wimp.com/indiapakistan/

I hope I get this guy on the other end: http://www.wimp.com/livechatroulette/

According to Hans, economic ambitions are just a means not an end. Human rights; however, is a true obtainable goal. Here is the video.

Maybe a screen that mimics a natural field of vision could augment the player's comprehension of movement in FPS games? It doesn't solve the "silent character" problem but it might make it easier for the player to become their own actor. Empathic immersion doesn't always depend on having a predefined main character, it could also be achieved by providing a rich set of choices for interaction with NPCs.

Democracy isn't cheap.

Good thing we don't live in a Democracy. However, we're tending that way all the time.

I think they just found his children in the sewers of North Carolina

( Video link, and I should probably put a warning of some sort here.. Warning: Contents may include scary life form )

  http://www.wimp.com/lifeform/

Is it voluntary or compliant?

Funny how there was no income tax until 1913, and now they want to tax some "Imaginary Property" ??

How 'bout we focus on the real problems such as Social Insecurity being broke (I.O.U.S.A.), becoming poor in order to receive benefits, or the outright theft by Haliburton, instead of worrying about virtual ones.

End the bullshit - one simple tax law: 10% of any income. No fucking loopholes. Plain and simple that doesn't requires thousands of wasted pages.

I can't wait when money disappears in the 25th century and people learn to put TRUE stock in something that only increases in value -- themselves -- instead of artificial things.

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"The more corrupt a republic, the more numerous its laws." -- 56 - 117 AD

Well, there are some online Ninjas...Like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VBDcX-RpVA/
Or this:
http://www.wimp.com/purse/

My thoughts as well: it shouldn't be too difficult since it has already been done; however, they might not be able to patent it, because of prior art ... (OTOH, in these days of sitting at my workstation a lot means I can only run for half an hour at most, so even the crappies rechargable battery is good enough for me)

maybe you should have a look at this:

http://www.wimp.com/documentary/

Much better video to this tune:

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