The inventor of K'Nex went to Drexel University so he donated *assloads* of K'nex to the school. I was working on K'nex design project freshman year. We made some pretty kick-ass rubber band powered guns that shot the rods. They *really* can hurt.
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Bring to court and bop MPAA lawyers with legos. Won't do much harm but if you get em in the right place they'll look like they have acne.
Give to Richard Stallman so he can enforce the GPL. "Stop or I'll Lego". Poetic geek justice.
Equip all the Jon Katz flamers with one and set up a shooting range. Maybe they'll get it out of their system.
Build a scale model of the MPAA building out of balsa wood and shoot it down with a hundred lego guns at point-blank range. Fun for the whole family!
Build a statue of Natalie Portman naked. Maybe then the trolls would finally shut up. You may use the recent Sun photos as a template.
These are just a few uses for arguably the most important invention of the 21st century to-date!
Thank you. I now return you to your regularly scheduled trolling, hot grits, natalie portman naked and petrified, etc.
If you can't figure out how to mail me, don't.
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This isn't as good as it sounds.
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Great! Now I have to wait ten days before buying my lego A-Wing. Does this mean that legos have become too dangerous for anyone to have other than Approved Law Enforcement Authorities? I hope I'm not too subversive for silly putty-- I'm running out of toys which are not Bad Influences (TM).
Knowing the U.S. Government, this will be classified as a class III weapon by the BATF, causing LEGOs to be banned for importatoin, sale or use!;-)
Damned American Gun Culture
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antizeus
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I predict a flame war over guns and the right to keep and bear arms. I think I'll start it off with a little trolling.
We shouldn't be encouraging our children to glorify weapons with toys. Won't somebody please think of the children?
Studies have shown that you're 7652 times more likely to shoot yourself with a Lego machine gun than you are to shoot an intruder.
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution only grants an organized militia (i.e. the government) to have Lego machine guns.
The need for Lego machine guns is historically obsolete because the playgrounds are run by democratic coalitions of children and not mean kids like in the old days.
If the playground is taken over by mean kids, then Lego machine guns won't help the nice kids because the mean kids will have the overwhelming advantage of possessing Lego tanks and Lego nukes.
did this lego gun get the guy into college so he wouldn't have to take the SAT?
How long 'till they are illegal?
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First of all, the 30 round magazines are illegal. Of course, no non-military person needs such an extreme rate of fire! And don't even get me started on the fact that the plastic bits can be transported through the detectors at the airport. Heck, someone could hijack a plane by building the darned thing after they board!
I know what you're thinking, if we outlaw LEGO then only outlaws will play with LEGO. But at what price? How many stories on the next Columbine do we need to hear from Katz before we wake up to the reality of how dangerous this can be? People can't be safe what with all these robots running around, now possibly armed.
So write your Congress, the MPAA, and anyone else who can be swayed to abuse their power for no reason. Obviously this guy should be locked up since he is telling everyone how to make guns and providing the plans.
According to their creator, The Lego Company (formerly The Lego Group), they are "LEGO Bricks"; the term "Lego" is not to be used to refer to a brick nor "Legos" to multiple bricks.
Also, the word LEGO is formed from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well").
-Sjev
-- %DCL-E-OPENIN, error openingDISK$3:[Sjev]LIFE;
-RMS-E-LNF, life not found
Whilst in college, an EE/ME friend and I tried to develop a project we called the "BeerMaster" -- a range-finding, direction-finding tabletop device, with a gravity-fed magazine of beer cans, and a compressed air launching mechanism.
The basic idea was that if you'd shout "Beer Me!", the device would recognize your call, turn to face you, estimate distance, and launch a beer at you (which you'd naturally grab out of the air).
We had a couple problems that made us give up development:
our targetting was poor. The device was able to direction-find pretty accurately, but the rangefinding wasn't very good -- it would frequently target the wall six feet behind you, or the like.
the launching mechanism required a fair bit of power, that made the device relatively unfeasible for normal home use. For example, we had to attach two cylinders of compressed air, and that didn't last long.
in order to get a clean launch, each can had to be placed in a "non-discarding sabot" -- a jacket that fit over each beer and provided a better fit against the launch mechanism. We only had one such jacket, 'cause it was a pain to make. Cans aren't terribly ballistic, as-is.
since we used compressed air, and we weren't really good at metering it, our launches were of irregular force. It was nearly impossible to get the can flying at exactly the right speed.
In retrospect, we perhaps shouldn't have given up so easily, but when you've had a few too many cans shot at your head, you start to get spooked easily. Plus the cans were able to dent sheetrock, and therefore messed up our walls pretty badly.
Anyone want to take up the effort? It'd be a cool party trick, but don't blame me if you kill someone.
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We made some pretty kick-ass rubber band powered guns that shot the rods. They *really* can hurt.
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Heh, now I can program my 'bots to defend/attack at will. Join me and my army now or I will crush you all smaller than a 1x1 flat brick!
Do really dense people warp space more than others?
I can think of lots of uses for this:
- Bring to court and bop MPAA lawyers with legos. Won't do much harm but if you get em in the right place they'll look like they have acne.
- Give to Richard Stallman so he can enforce the GPL. "Stop or I'll Lego". Poetic geek justice.
- Equip all the Jon Katz flamers with one and set up a shooting range. Maybe they'll get it out of their system.
- Build a scale model of the MPAA building out of balsa wood and shoot it down with a hundred lego guns at point-blank range. Fun for the whole family!
- Build a statue of Natalie Portman naked. Maybe then the trolls would finally shut up. You may use the recent Sun photos as a template.
These are just a few uses for arguably the most important invention of the 21st century to-date!Thank you. I now return you to your regularly scheduled trolling, hot grits, natalie portman naked and petrified, etc.
If you can't figure out how to mail me, don't.
For linux tips: http://www.linuxtipsblog.com
Great! Now I have to wait ten days before buying my lego A-Wing. Does this mean that legos have become too dangerous for anyone to have other than Approved Law Enforcement Authorities? I hope I'm not too subversive for silly putty-- I'm running out of toys which are not Bad Influences (TM).
Knowing the U.S. Government, this will be classified as a class III weapon by the BATF, causing LEGOs to be banned for importatoin, sale or use! ;-)
- We shouldn't be encouraging our children to glorify weapons with toys. Won't somebody please think of the children?
- Studies have shown that you're 7652 times more likely to shoot yourself with a Lego machine gun than you are to shoot an intruder.
- The Second Amendment of the US Constitution only grants an organized militia (i.e. the government) to have Lego machine guns.
- The need for Lego machine guns is historically obsolete because the playgrounds are run by democratic coalitions of children and not mean kids like in the old days.
- If the playground is taken over by mean kids, then Lego machine guns won't help the nice kids because the mean kids will have the overwhelming advantage of possessing Lego tanks and Lego nukes.
OK, that ought to get us started.-- $SIGNATURE
Seriously, it is interesting to see legos, a toy for building creativity, used as weaponry!
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
did this lego gun get the guy into college so he wouldn't have to take the SAT?
First of all, the 30 round magazines are illegal. Of course, no non-military person needs such an extreme rate of fire! And don't even get me started on the fact that the plastic bits can be transported through the detectors at the airport. Heck, someone could hijack a plane by building the darned thing after they board!
I know what you're thinking, if we outlaw LEGO then only outlaws will play with LEGO. But at what price? How many stories on the next Columbine do we need to hear from Katz before we wake up to the reality of how dangerous this can be? People can't be safe what with all these robots running around, now possibly armed.
So write your Congress, the MPAA, and anyone else who can be swayed to abuse their power for no reason. Obviously this guy should be locked up since he is telling everyone how to make guns and providing the plans.
:) TGIF!
Nope.
According to their creator, The Lego Company (formerly The Lego Group), they are "LEGO Bricks"; the term "Lego" is not to be used to refer to a brick nor "Legos" to multiple bricks.
Also, the word LEGO is formed from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well").
-Sjev
%DCL-E-OPENIN, error openingDISK$3:[Sjev]LIFE;
-RMS-E-LNF, life not found
The basic idea was that if you'd shout "Beer Me!", the device would recognize your call, turn to face you, estimate distance, and launch a beer at you (which you'd naturally grab out of the air).
We had a couple problems that made us give up development:
- our targetting was poor. The device was able to direction-find pretty accurately, but the rangefinding wasn't very good -- it would frequently target the wall six feet behind you, or the like.
- the launching mechanism required a fair bit of power, that made the device relatively unfeasible for normal home use. For example, we had to attach two cylinders of compressed air, and that didn't last long.
- in order to get a clean launch, each can had to be placed in a "non-discarding sabot" -- a jacket that fit over each beer and provided a better fit against the launch mechanism. We only had one such jacket, 'cause it was a pain to make. Cans aren't terribly ballistic, as-is.
- since we used compressed air, and we weren't really good at metering it, our launches were of irregular force. It was nearly impossible to get the can flying at exactly the right speed.
In retrospect, we perhaps shouldn't have given up so easily, but when you've had a few too many cans shot at your head, you start to get spooked easily. Plus the cans were able to dent sheetrock, and therefore messed up our walls pretty badly.Anyone want to take up the effort? It'd be a cool party trick, but don't blame me if you kill someone.
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