It's like buying a white BMW for your kid and them getting whiny because it's not red. Grow up and quit bitching already.
If I had mod points you would get them as sadly that is how I got my first BMW for cheap so that actually does happen. The guy I bought it from originally got it for his daughter (divorced parents so probably trying to buy love) had every little defect and issue resolved and she didn't want it because it was white not red. The poor guy sunk several thousands of dollars into the car getting the brakes, suspension, and interior, like new as well as replacing all belts, hoses, engine gaskets, and cam yet the little brat didn't want it. It was even a California car and was rust free and was basically like new. I paid $2700 for it which was a little below market value for it but didn't have any of the annoying issues with an older used vehicle as they were all repaired on someone else's dime.
Correct those other things actually exist or existed in the physical world. They also have or had the force of law to back them up which is something that bitcoin lacks. You do seem to be a true believer much like the Austrian goldbugs are in your chosen form of currency, so enjoy it while it lasts. You may want to become familiar with the Hunt brothers for some further insight. I hear people pushing various silver schemes now using data points from the era of the Hunt brothers like those were rational markets at that time and it seems like you are doing the same with bitcoins.
I might have to use the Finnish M39 I acquired on a drive and see what a FMJ 148 grain 7.62x54r round would do when shot into the spindle. It may not be as fast but it will be carrying a similar amount of energy, although using a 203 grain soft point may produce a more dramatic effect.
I actually use 7.62x39 cartridges against old hard drives as they rip right through hard drives and don't send them bouncing down range. My point was that I don't think a.45 handgun round (exception for the.454 casull) wouldn't do much even though it sounds impressive. Also most handgun rounds are hollow point and easily deform so comparing it to something I have actually seen, a 20 gauge slug against a hard drive, seemed appropiate as the performance of a.45 ACP is much closer to that of the 20 gauge slug than a 7mm mag,.223, or 7.62x39 cartridge.
their destruction process is more certain than shooting a hard drive with a.45.
Sounds like they need to have better aim and/or use more than one shot. As powerful as a.45 may seem (probably.45ACP) they really aren't that impressive. For example I have seen one of my buddies shoot an old hard drive with a 20 slug and it dented the case and platters nicely but really didn't go in and sent the drive bouncing down range. The drive had 3 aluminum platters a steel cover and aluminum case. Now granted a.45 ACP and a 20 gauge slug (about.61) aren't exactly the same but from some quick searching the 20 gauge slug delivers substantially more energy (typically about 3 times as much) than a.45 ACP. As such I would assume that the increased cross sectional area of the 20 gauge slug is compensated for by the increased velocity and by extension energy and thus a.45 ACP would produce similar damage to the 20 gauge only on a smaller scale. If they are talking about a.45 long colt then it is pointless but a.454 casull is an entirely different beast.
Old hard drives are one of my favorite targets. I usually take the magnets out first and then shoot them with my SKS. My only complaint is they don't dance like empty pop cans do (hit them near the top or bottom and watch them spin and jump). Once they are so full of holes you have a better chance of going through an existing one than hitting metal they go into the recycle bin as at that point what is left is just the aluminum case and coated aluminum platters as the motor has been shot off at that point.
Of course I bet his list of possible judges includes only religious ones
That is what I was thinking. This seems like a very rigged game to garner headlines when the judge decides against science. Much like 3 card monte it seems simple enough except for the slight of hand or in this case the pre-approved list of judges.
Well it basically happens here in Minnesota with sex offenders. After they have finished their jail or prison term they get them committed to a mental institution because they might offend again. This has been held up the courts as this is a civil commitment and not a criminal one even though the individual does not wish to be held. Thus no ex post facto or double jeopardy things preventing this. As they are convicted sex offenders no one really wants to remedy the problem and no politician will touch the issue with a 10 foot pole.
I have never seen a real gun for that cheap. The cheapest I typically see are Mosin-Nagent rifles for around $90 or a Nagent revolver for around $125. At $25 that puts you at the low end of BB guns. Even non functional CMP guns are more than that. Are you sure you aren't shopping at Billy Bob's Hot Gun shop?
While the min spec for Quake was a Pentium it could run on a 486 DX4, I did it and while playable it wasn't what I would call a good experience. I didn't get my ass handed to me in death match but I was never very good because of the lag. At that time there seemed to be a number of pieces of software that was min speced for a Pentium that would run on a DX4 without issue. The CD burner I had claimed a similar thing but I never had problems with it on that DX4.
I mostly played duke 3d on my DX4-75 laptop with 36MB ram when I was in college and that rocked (and now I feel old). That machine also could manage Quake but it wasn't anything impressive and pretty low res. Before that it was duke 3d on a DX2-66 with 32MB ram and that was still pretty good.
I have wondered the same but have never bothered to investigate but maybe having a ceramic inner portion (for hardness) with the lands and groves coated with something like titanium nitride then wrapped in in carbon fiber until you reach the desired ability to withstand the pressure. Although at that point just buying a regular metal barrel would be cheaper. I still don't know if it would withstand a bullet traveling down the barrel and not shatter the ceramic liner.
Note, I'm not saying that using a Raspberry Pi as an xbmc set top box is a bad idea, just that there are a lot of things that you can do if you get out of the mindset that it's an entertainment device and recognize that it is so much more.
That is the point I try to make to people but it seems like a lot of it falls on deaf ears. The Pi is just another tool with its own feature set and price point. For one of my projects it seems like an ideal solution since what I want is to create a survey quality GPS system so I need something with more processing power than an Arduino could provide. So for about $300 to $350 in parts plus my effort I can build survey quality GPS system with base station and roving unit that would have cost me at least $15,000 to buy. Additionally once I have that basic setup I could invest a bit more money and effort to create a fully functional navigation unit on top of it that would be capable of turn by turn directions using a program like NavIT or GPSDrive (I need to look into these a bit more but one should be a reasonable fit).
The point of the spread of buckshot vs a single slug was that at a close range the buck shot can be treated as a single projectile for aiming purposes and given that why not just use a slug instead. At a distance of a few 10s of feet buckshot spreads out a few inches I think it is close to 5 but that isn't much.
Even out to 25 or 30 yards a slug is going to go through a man sized target (I have seen this with deer) but a most slugs I have seen are hollow point and they expand massively which really increases tissue damage. The slug is going to cause a lot of cavitation as it passes through but the buckshot would shred more tissue but it will lose energy quicker. Either way it is going to be a bad day for what ever is on the receiving end of either one.
From what I have read on hydrostatic shock it seems to be more dependent on the size of the projectile than total energy or number of projectiles. I have shot deer with both slugs and with rifles and a clean shot to the vitals with a shot gun the deer is usually stunned and disoriented for a few seconds and then because they bleed out so much they just tip over where as with a rifle they run a little bit once they hear the sound, then tip over dead.
As far as recoil knocking someone around yes shotguns have a lot of kick, especially when shooting slugs but it isn't unreasonable. As far as the pain from it I haven't had issue as it seems a lot of people don't shoulder it correctly or tight enough. When shooting clays with my friends we go through 2 or 3 boxes of clays (1 each) and I have never been soar after doing so and neither have my friends.
Yes my shotgun is a Mossberg 500 and has worked wonderfully for deer and pheasant hunting. I use the 3" shell loaded with #2 or #3 steel when pheasant hunting as that is the best low cost replacement for the lead pheasant loads according to the MN DNR study from a few years back. As the steel shot spreads less (it distorts less as well) I use an open choke early in the season as the birds flush so close and eventually will go down to a modified for late season hunting as they will flush much farther.
But they have also ruled that we have a right to the same arms that are appropriate for use by a militia . The US government even argued that this was the case and that is what the second amendment was meant to protect (see point 4). So according to the existing rulings and law derived from them I am constitutionally allowed to own things like:
M2 machine guns (the big.50 cal belt fed one)
M16s (the selective fire ones, not the semi auto AR15 ones)
what ever the current 9MM pistol is that is standard issue every where
various.50 cal Barret rifles (sniper rifles)
various Mosin-Nagents and their derivatives
Various AKs
various RPGs
Various.30 cal medium machine guns
Thompson sub machine guns
Hell even a Davey Crockett recoilless gun (Yes, Virginia, you are constitutionally allowed to own a nuclear weapon)
I could continue but at this point you get the drift. So while they have ruled that the government can restrict some small arms they have said that it clearly protects a specific set of arms. So it might not protect your little AR15 but it would protect ownership of my SKS or Mosin-Nagents as they are and have been used by various militias. Same thing with my shotgun which is the same model that is currently used by the US military, even though it is a low end pump action one that is fairly common.
A shotgun with rifled slugs (not the.50" sabots) would be really devastating in close quarters. Even buckshot would be really bad but not like a slug as buckshot penetrates less. In close quarters buckshot would not spread out much to increase your chance of a hit so if going for the most devistation a slug would seem to be better. Add in the hydrostatic shock from one massive slug over the buck shot and this would get bad qucik.
To put things in perspective for those unfamilar with shotguns I will used mine as an example. This is a fairly common pump action shot gun and there isn't anything special about it and was actually fairly low cost at only $225 (it came with a bird barrel, rifled slug barrel, and scope for the slug barrel) on sale 6 years ago. It holds 7 rounds (6 in the mag 1 in the chamber) for 3" shell and possibly 8 if they were 2.75" shell without the plug. I don't own any 2.75" shells so I have never tired to see how much it can hold. This isn't a fancy or high end shotgun and after thinking about it using something like a Saiga 12 would lead to an absolute blood bath, and even those aren't that expensive as I have seen them for sale for around $600.
Also, for the love of god, learn how to aim, if you need 17 rounds, you're clearly not somebody whose gun skills are very good.
No there are situations where there are multiple targets or something where more firepower is needed. For instance several years ago while deer hunting I was heading back in at dusk for the day. Ahead of me across the trail a timber wolf appeared and attempted to drive me back from where I came. At the time I had an SKS with a 30 round detachable mag and was quite glad I did as wolves hunt in packs and this one was trying to drive me back into his waiting buddies. A shot fired in front of the wolf blocking my path drove him off, if it hadn't the next one was going to be going through him. As I continued to walk I could hear the pack not far off the path as they followed me back to the road. In that situation I was glad to have a firearm with a large capacity mag.
Then there was last deer season when I was walking through the forest and came across a bear with it's ass hanging out of a log, it wasn't hibernating yet (warm fall) and I hustled past quickly and given that the 7.62x39 round isn't very effective against a black bear having multiple shots is a good thing as it would take several to quickly kill a charging bear.
Even the first time I went deer hunting, 6 years ago, I was glad to have multiple with the SKS shots as I was able to take 2 deer right at the start of legal shooting hours, legally in that area I could take 5. The were right nest to each other and I managed to shoot them both taking one shot each about 3 seconds apart. Each on only ran about 15 yards before they fell over dead. Every deer I have ever shot I only shot once and the longest one ever ran was 50 yards and that was a decent sized 9 pointer.
So they read the skymall catalog instead. Sorry but did you change the location of the life vest from the last time I flew on this model of plane? no? well then I'm goign to shop for a solid gold dog watering bowl.
I need to read through skymall more closely as most of the stuff I have seen is always cheap crap. At least a solid gold dog dish wouldn't be cheap and the dog probably wouldn't destroy it.
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It's like buying a white BMW for your kid and them getting whiny because it's not red. Grow up and quit bitching already.
If I had mod points you would get them as sadly that is how I got my first BMW for cheap so that actually does happen. The guy I bought it from originally got it for his daughter (divorced parents so probably trying to buy love) had every little defect and issue resolved and she didn't want it because it was white not red. The poor guy sunk several thousands of dollars into the car getting the brakes, suspension, and interior, like new as well as replacing all belts, hoses, engine gaskets, and cam yet the little brat didn't want it. It was even a California car and was rust free and was basically like new. I paid $2700 for it which was a little below market value for it but didn't have any of the annoying issues with an older used vehicle as they were all repaired on someone else's dime.
Some still do.
Correct those other things actually exist or existed in the physical world. They also have or had the force of law to back them up which is something that bitcoin lacks. You do seem to be a true believer much like the Austrian goldbugs are in your chosen form of currency, so enjoy it while it lasts. You may want to become familiar with the Hunt brothers for some further insight. I hear people pushing various silver schemes now using data points from the era of the Hunt brothers like those were rational markets at that time and it seems like you are doing the same with bitcoins.
I might have to use the Finnish M39 I acquired on a drive and see what a FMJ 148 grain 7.62x54r round would do when shot into the spindle. It may not be as fast but it will be carrying a similar amount of energy, although using a 203 grain soft point may produce a more dramatic effect.
I actually use 7.62x39 cartridges against old hard drives as they rip right through hard drives and don't send them bouncing down range. My point was that I don't think a .45 handgun round (exception for the .454 casull) wouldn't do much even though it sounds impressive. Also most handgun rounds are hollow point and easily deform so comparing it to something I have actually seen, a 20 gauge slug against a hard drive, seemed appropiate as the performance of a .45 ACP is much closer to that of the 20 gauge slug than a 7mm mag, .223, or 7.62x39 cartridge.
Hell you don't need to build a burner. A cheap propane/MAPP dual fuel brazing torch will do the same thing in just seconds as well.
their destruction process is more certain than shooting a hard drive with a .45.
Sounds like they need to have better aim and/or use more than one shot. As powerful as a .45 may seem (probably .45ACP) they really aren't that impressive. For example I have seen one of my buddies shoot an old hard drive with a 20 slug and it dented the case and platters nicely but really didn't go in and sent the drive bouncing down range. The drive had 3 aluminum platters a steel cover and aluminum case. Now granted a .45 ACP and a 20 gauge slug (about .61) aren't exactly the same but from some quick searching the 20 gauge slug delivers substantially more energy (typically about 3 times as much) than a .45 ACP. As such I would assume that the increased cross sectional area of the 20 gauge slug is compensated for by the increased velocity and by extension energy and thus a .45 ACP would produce similar damage to the 20 gauge only on a smaller scale. If they are talking about a .45 long colt then it is pointless but a .454 casull is an entirely different beast.
Old hard drives are one of my favorite targets. I usually take the magnets out first and then shoot them with my SKS. My only complaint is they don't dance like empty pop cans do (hit them near the top or bottom and watch them spin and jump). Once they are so full of holes you have a better chance of going through an existing one than hitting metal they go into the recycle bin as at that point what is left is just the aluminum case and coated aluminum platters as the motor has been shot off at that point.
That god sounds like one sick fuck.
Of course I bet his list of possible judges includes only religious ones
That is what I was thinking. This seems like a very rigged game to garner headlines when the judge decides against science. Much like 3 card monte it seems simple enough except for the slight of hand or in this case the pre-approved list of judges.
there is a detectible difference between a picture, for example, that has hidden data and one that does not
which is why you should use an original image not one that already exists.
You don't need to learn all of it just one sign. Let them know they are #1 or #4 in binary
Mine was a DX4-75 so it wasn't a speed demon by any measure but it did run Quake.
So does Minnesota, although we prefer to have them civilly committed to a mental institution instead thus avoiding some legal issues.
Well it basically happens here in Minnesota with sex offenders. After they have finished their jail or prison term they get them committed to a mental institution because they might offend again. This has been held up the courts as this is a civil commitment and not a criminal one even though the individual does not wish to be held. Thus no ex post facto or double jeopardy things preventing this. As they are convicted sex offenders no one really wants to remedy the problem and no politician will touch the issue with a 10 foot pole.
I have never seen a real gun for that cheap. The cheapest I typically see are Mosin-Nagent rifles for around $90 or a Nagent revolver for around $125. At $25 that puts you at the low end of BB guns. Even non functional CMP guns are more than that. Are you sure you aren't shopping at Billy Bob's Hot Gun shop?
While the min spec for Quake was a Pentium it could run on a 486 DX4, I did it and while playable it wasn't what I would call a good experience. I didn't get my ass handed to me in death match but I was never very good because of the lag. At that time there seemed to be a number of pieces of software that was min speced for a Pentium that would run on a DX4 without issue. The CD burner I had claimed a similar thing but I never had problems with it on that DX4.
I mostly played duke 3d on my DX4-75 laptop with 36MB ram when I was in college and that rocked (and now I feel old). That machine also could manage Quake but it wasn't anything impressive and pretty low res. Before that it was duke 3d on a DX2-66 with 32MB ram and that was still pretty good.
I have wondered the same but have never bothered to investigate but maybe having a ceramic inner portion (for hardness) with the lands and groves coated with something like titanium nitride then wrapped in in carbon fiber until you reach the desired ability to withstand the pressure. Although at that point just buying a regular metal barrel would be cheaper. I still don't know if it would withstand a bullet traveling down the barrel and not shatter the ceramic liner.
Note, I'm not saying that using a Raspberry Pi as an xbmc set top box is a bad idea, just that there are a lot of things that you can do if you get out of the mindset that it's an entertainment device and recognize that it is so much more.
That is the point I try to make to people but it seems like a lot of it falls on deaf ears. The Pi is just another tool with its own feature set and price point. For one of my projects it seems like an ideal solution since what I want is to create a survey quality GPS system so I need something with more processing power than an Arduino could provide. So for about $300 to $350 in parts plus my effort I can build survey quality GPS system with base station and roving unit that would have cost me at least $15,000 to buy. Additionally once I have that basic setup I could invest a bit more money and effort to create a fully functional navigation unit on top of it that would be capable of turn by turn directions using a program like NavIT or GPSDrive (I need to look into these a bit more but one should be a reasonable fit).
The point of the spread of buckshot vs a single slug was that at a close range the buck shot can be treated as a single projectile for aiming purposes and given that why not just use a slug instead. At a distance of a few 10s of feet buckshot spreads out a few inches I think it is close to 5 but that isn't much.
Even out to 25 or 30 yards a slug is going to go through a man sized target (I have seen this with deer) but a most slugs I have seen are hollow point and they expand massively which really increases tissue damage. The slug is going to cause a lot of cavitation as it passes through but the buckshot would shred more tissue but it will lose energy quicker. Either way it is going to be a bad day for what ever is on the receiving end of either one.
From what I have read on hydrostatic shock it seems to be more dependent on the size of the projectile than total energy or number of projectiles. I have shot deer with both slugs and with rifles and a clean shot to the vitals with a shot gun the deer is usually stunned and disoriented for a few seconds and then because they bleed out so much they just tip over where as with a rifle they run a little bit once they hear the sound, then tip over dead.
As far as recoil knocking someone around yes shotguns have a lot of kick, especially when shooting slugs but it isn't unreasonable. As far as the pain from it I haven't had issue as it seems a lot of people don't shoulder it correctly or tight enough. When shooting clays with my friends we go through 2 or 3 boxes of clays (1 each) and I have never been soar after doing so and neither have my friends.
Yes my shotgun is a Mossberg 500 and has worked wonderfully for deer and pheasant hunting. I use the 3" shell loaded with #2 or #3 steel when pheasant hunting as that is the best low cost replacement for the lead pheasant loads according to the MN DNR study from a few years back. As the steel shot spreads less (it distorts less as well) I use an open choke early in the season as the birds flush so close and eventually will go down to a modified for late season hunting as they will flush much farther.
But they have also ruled that we have a right to the same arms that are appropriate for use by a militia . The US government even argued that this was the case and that is what the second amendment was meant to protect (see point 4). So according to the existing rulings and law derived from them I am constitutionally allowed to own things like: .50 cal belt fed one) .50 cal Barret rifles (sniper rifles) .30 cal medium machine guns
M2 machine guns (the big
M16s (the selective fire ones, not the semi auto AR15 ones)
what ever the current 9MM pistol is that is standard issue every where
various
various Mosin-Nagents and their derivatives
Various AKs
various RPGs
Various
Thompson sub machine guns
Hell even a Davey Crockett recoilless gun (Yes, Virginia, you are constitutionally allowed to own a nuclear weapon)
I could continue but at this point you get the drift. So while they have ruled that the government can restrict some small arms they have said that it clearly protects a specific set of arms. So it might not protect your little AR15 but it would protect ownership of my SKS or Mosin-Nagents as they are and have been used by various militias. Same thing with my shotgun which is the same model that is currently used by the US military, even though it is a low end pump action one that is fairly common.
A shotgun with rifled slugs (not the .50" sabots) would be really devastating in close quarters. Even buckshot would be really bad but not like a slug as buckshot penetrates less. In close quarters buckshot would not spread out much to increase your chance of a hit so if going for the most devistation a slug would seem to be better. Add in the hydrostatic shock from one massive slug over the buck shot and this would get bad qucik.
To put things in perspective for those unfamilar with shotguns I will used mine as an example. This is a fairly common pump action shot gun and there isn't anything special about it and was actually fairly low cost at only $225 (it came with a bird barrel, rifled slug barrel, and scope for the slug barrel) on sale 6 years ago. It holds 7 rounds (6 in the mag 1 in the chamber) for 3" shell and possibly 8 if they were 2.75" shell without the plug. I don't own any 2.75" shells so I have never tired to see how much it can hold. This isn't a fancy or high end shotgun and after thinking about it using something like a Saiga 12 would lead to an absolute blood bath, and even those aren't that expensive as I have seen them for sale for around $600.
Also, for the love of god, learn how to aim, if you need 17 rounds, you're clearly not somebody whose gun skills are very good.
No there are situations where there are multiple targets or something where more firepower is needed. For instance several years ago while deer hunting I was heading back in at dusk for the day. Ahead of me across the trail a timber wolf appeared and attempted to drive me back from where I came. At the time I had an SKS with a 30 round detachable mag and was quite glad I did as wolves hunt in packs and this one was trying to drive me back into his waiting buddies. A shot fired in front of the wolf blocking my path drove him off, if it hadn't the next one was going to be going through him. As I continued to walk I could hear the pack not far off the path as they followed me back to the road. In that situation I was glad to have a firearm with a large capacity mag.
Then there was last deer season when I was walking through the forest and came across a bear with it's ass hanging out of a log, it wasn't hibernating yet (warm fall) and I hustled past quickly and given that the 7.62x39 round isn't very effective against a black bear having multiple shots is a good thing as it would take several to quickly kill a charging bear.
Even the first time I went deer hunting, 6 years ago, I was glad to have multiple with the SKS shots as I was able to take 2 deer right at the start of legal shooting hours, legally in that area I could take 5. The were right nest to each other and I managed to shoot them both taking one shot each about 3 seconds apart. Each on only ran about 15 yards before they fell over dead. Every deer I have ever shot I only shot once and the longest one ever ran was 50 yards and that was a decent sized 9 pointer.
So they read the skymall catalog instead. Sorry but did you change the location of the life vest from the last time I flew on this model of plane? no? well then I'm goign to shop for a solid gold dog watering bowl.
I need to read through skymall more closely as most of the stuff I have seen is always cheap crap. At least a solid gold dog dish wouldn't be cheap and the dog probably wouldn't destroy it.