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Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq
team99parody writes "An 'Active Denial System' weapon that 'fires a 95GHz microwave beam at rioters to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five seconds'
is scheduled for service in Iraq in 2006
according to CNET and the print version of New Scientist. It was recently tested on people playing the part of rioters at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico where they asked the subjects to remove glass and contact lenses to protect their eyes. Hopefully real rioters will get the same courtesy. Police and the Marines are working on portable versions. Sandia Labs also has a nice writeup on this system with pictures of smaller versions of the weapon."
You're not Shinto, are you? It's a hemp worshiping religion.
Um, no. Sorry, but that statement is completely full of crap and also rather insulting to anyone who actually knows anything about Shinto.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
Yes, the ceremonial aspects are important, but it seems to me to be somewhat degrading to say that Shinto is a 'hemp worshipping religion.'
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
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And now the "Flamebait". Tragically bizarre TrollMod, on a post against burning people with rayguns. To which none has responded with a flame. If you silence all of us who see the truth, your own burning hot beam is coming your way even sooner.
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Yes, the ceremonial aspects are important. . .
.but it seems to me to be somewhat degrading to say that Shinto is a 'hemp worshipping religion.'
i.e., hemp is worshiped.
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Would you consider it degrading to say that Shinto is a tree worshipping religion?
What in particular do you feel is degrading about revering a plant second only to rice in importance?
I'm sorry, but from my perspective it is your attitude that that degrades Shinto.
Hemp earned its worship and deserves it. Perhaps you need to step back in time a bit, to a time when no one had yet even considered the vilification of hemp, and reconsider your indignation.
It is a modern insensibility.
KFG
Mods, the unfairness of your modding is quite clear. In your determination to negatively mod only me as off-topic, you only do yourselves a disservice by violating the honesty of the process.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
WTF, why is the parent modded off topic. What he said was insightful and directly relevant to the topic.
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