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Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up
Browncoat writes "USAToday reports a new phenomenon hitting some of the cubicles of Silicon Valley. It seems that engineers and developers previously confined to sitting in front of their computers are getting their anger out the healthy way: by pummeling each other. From the article 'Inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton, underground bare-knuckle brawling clubs have sprung up across the country as a way for desk jockeys and disgruntled youths to vent their frustrations and prove themselves. "This is as close as you can get to a real fight, even though I've never been in one," the soft-spoken Siou said.'"
I guess we'll have to cut off Scuttlemonkey's testicles, then.
Actually, in my limited time of martial arts sparring when I was young, I noticed that it was the novices and not the experts that seemed to hurt and get hurt more often than the experts. But this was sparring for points, not for damage.
The experts know how to both hit and be hit (and are better at avoiding the hits); they take a lot less damage than novices, and unless they INTEND to deal damage, they deal less damage too.
On the flip side an expert INTENDING to deal damage will deal it a lot more effectively than a novice.
The same is generally true in most sports.
If someone says stop, goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over.
But later on it was dropped, and this was the new third rule
Only two guys to a fight.
Wikipedia talks about it too
.I may be mistaken, but I thought there was no "Ten" in binary. I thought it was one zero. As I understood it, ten was a product of a base 10 system.
... which simply has different representations in different bases, 1010 in base 2, 31 in base 3, 10 in base 10, A in base 16, etc.
Of COURSE there is ten in binary, it's just represented as 1010. The word "ten" refers to the concept of the number ten
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You are right that fist to skull contact is more likely to result in a broken hand. But orbital bones can certainly break under contact with elbow (as sometimes happens in basketball games).
The skull is NOT impenetrable. A properly swung baseball bat can easily penetrate it. More to the point, a properly swung staff or wooden sword can do the job as well. It can most certainly be accomplished with a hammer, but you'd have to be VERY skilled with a frying pan (though you could certainly kill with blunt force).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/0
For the record, one punch can CERTAINLY kill if the person is hit in the correct way. The fact that you have not perished yet does not constitute evidence.
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The region of the skull known as the pterion is a junction of the sphenoid, temporal, frontal, and parietal bones. This area is found around your temple. Along this region runs the middle menengial artery, which gives branches to the interior of the skull.
This area is succeptable to injury, as it is relativly thin. Haven't you ever seen baseball helmets that have a projection specifically to cover this region? Ever wonder why they are there? Damage to the pterion by a substantial blow is likely to cause tearing in these arteries, and subsequent hematoma and intracranial bleeding. This may lead to coma and death.
There is some anatomical variation in the structure of the pterion - maybe that is the case with you and your lack of intracranial bleeding after your numerous traumas. Or maybe you are just hard headed.
Meh
Is it me, or does your ROT13 look a lot like klingon?
I think i know what the universal translator does now. Its just ROT13!!
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> As for the cinderblock, it's about getting your knuckles to move _very_ fast, and then getting them out before the cinderblock returns the energy.
Um... physics doesn't work that way...
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