Do you have some first hand experience with C4 that leads you to make these comments, or are you just imagining that it must be dangerous when it is burned?
I have never handled C4, I have however had a fair bit of experience with C4 precursors. I'm talking about chemicals like hexamine that are very flammable as they come but then are chemically processed to make RDX, composition C1 and eventually C4.
It is the knowledge of these chemicals that causes me to believe that caution is well advised when it comes to dealing with substances like C4. C4 being safer than mercury fulminate or picric acid is still nothing to trifle with.
Exactly. Just like "Battlebots", they're not robots; they're just remote-control whatevers. If it doesn't have AI of some sort, it's not a robot.
For the most part I agree with you, I guess the only point of contention I can find is in how one defines "AI". If it's just repeating the same action with no kind of real calculations involved, it can still be considered a robot.
The red pill (fighting back) is not for everyone, has extra risks but also extra gain. The blue pill (giving up your stuff) has less risks but more loss.
In most cases you will walk away safely if you give up the goods.
I respectfully suggest that you have no fucking idea of what you're talking about.
The statistics show that if you attack a robber (with a firearm) you are LESS LIKELY to be harmed while being robbed than if you comply with the demands of the robber.
For the people who were shot even after doing so, those same people probably would still have been shot if they fought back.
The numbers do not support your conclusion. You are LESS LIKELY to be harmed if you fight back. Do whatever you want to with your life, but at least do it with your eyes open and facts, instead of speculation, at your disposal.
Personally, I'd take the better odds and less dependencies.
Well Lord Kano, fortunately my self respect doesn't fit in my wallet or on my wrist, and I don't drive it to work, so its pretty tough to steal.
Maybe you didn't read my follow-up post to an earlier response to my post, so I'll recap for you.
The material possessions are not what I was referring to. It was the loss of self determination. To live with the knowledge that you are only living and breathing at the sufferance of a criminal.
As my post said, I wouldn't hesitate to hand over a wallet or lapop to avoid injury.
Would you perform a sex act on a criminal to avoid injury? There isn't much difference. Both involve being forced to do something against your will.
I'm not afraid of violence, I just don't think material possession warrant physical altercations.
Can you ever be sure that the mugger will just let you go after you give up everything that you are carrying? If someone is going to threaten you with bodily injury, there is a good chance that they are willing to inflict it. Especially if it's a 2 time felon who wants to make sure that you can't ID him and give him a 25 year vacation.
As crazy as things have been getting recently, every once in a while we get a sign that common sense is not dead yet.
If everyone thought like you, where would we be, hmm?
Of I had money to burn I'd buy all kinds of expensive geeky toys, but financial reality prevents some purchases. OLED Displays and dual proc Athlon 64 computers are on the list of items that I'd like to be an early adopter of but just can't swing it.
It's not like I can't afford one or have a girlfriend to bitch at me for spending the money, and they look really neat.
I can't afford one and I DO have a girlfriend. Well, at least your pr0n will look good.
f you get a wife, you can wake to freshly ironed clothes everyday, the bad side, they talk back,need to be fed, and you have to go through a wedding, which is more than $1700, but a wife won't crash or need to be charged hmmm... decision decisions....
I think you mean "girlfriend". Let me explain...
The shirt ironing robot won't blow you. Neither will a wife. A shirt ironing robot won't cook dinner for you. Neither will a wife.
What you need is a girlfriend, you can get your shirt ironed, your meals cooked, and your penis sucked. Wives and shit ironing robots don't even come close.
Now, I agree with this comment (there's no way that's a robot)
Why not? A robot does not need to walk or talk. Automotive welding and industrial assembly robots are proof of this.
but what is it about those devices is it that makes them a robot?
The ability to perform a task without continuous human control. But I don't think that bomb disposal units count as robots because a human being is constantly in control of it.
How hard is it to understand that ALL horrible acts are horrible?
It's just that somepeople aren't standing on sufficiently stable ground to cry about atrocity. For example, if a child molester starts screaming about how prison rape is wrong, he is in less of a position to be believed than a prison counselor or chaplain.
if you go that route, who's to say it wasnt your destiny to be mugged?
Maybe yours is.
Maybe there was a lesson in it?
To learn to defend yourself. Standing up for yourself isn't an event, it's a way of life. You are either the kind of person who takes shit or your are not. Some thug in the street, or an asshole at work, no difference between them.
What pisses me off is the double standard. If a woman is drunk and has sex she can cry rape. If a man is drunk and has sex, if he cries rape people will tell him to shut up and be happy that he got lucky.
Under most circumstances sex is still seen as something that men do TO women and not something that they do togther. If both parties are drunk, the onus is still on the man. If a guy meets a woman at a bar, they both proceed to get smashed and fuck each others brains out, the woman can cry rape. The man can not.
It's this kind of bullshit that makes it all the more difficult for women who actually do get raped to prove it.
If you're talking about an IBM Linux PPC workstation, give up already; that market's even smaller than Apple's
Here we have the old chicken and egg debate. Is that market so small because of the limited hardware choices or are hardware choices so limited because the market is so small?
If I could buy commodity PPC hardware, I'd build a development server.
LK
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3c509 drivers are a big part of what made me an early linux convert. Quick, cheap and stable. I loved those damned cards.
3Com's biggest problem is that they stayed focused to the corporate world, while the corporate world (SME's) started cutting corners and started buying SOHO stuff instead, because the product was much more adapted to their needs than an enterprise-grade device.
They tried to Out-Cisco Cisco, and they failed it. They also left the potentially lucrative PDA market to be dominated by others. Their mistakes really remind me of Apple, but since their "core products" didn't have the same kind of fanatical following, they didn't fare as well.
There isn't a damn thing I own worth being shot or stabbed over.
How about your self respect? While I concur that none of my material possessions are worth my life, my self respect is more than worth my life. It's worth any mugger's life as well. I have a gun permit and thankfully I have not had to use any of my guns for self defense, I would not hesitate to do so if my life were in danger.
Given my choice, I'd probably do the same. Using small, and I do mean SMALL, quantities of C4 to boil water would be preferable to drinking jungle water.
Well, Taiwan WAS a Japanese colony in 1936, (following the 1894 Sino-Japanese war Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese) and Tibet WAS independent till 1959 when China invaded it.
You are missing the point. Leftists regimes really think that they have the right to dictate history and the "official version" of facts. The ChiComs really love to cry about the Rape of Nanking but seem to forget that Maoists murdered millions of their own people too. LK
TNT is extremely stable, when compared to Dynamite. (Contrary to popular cartoon based opinions, they are NOT the same thing) You can set off a stick of dynamite by just dropping it a ahort distance, or on a bumpy automobile ride. If it sits around it becomes even less stable. If you happen to come across an old stick or two, LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE!
And you DON'T want to try burning it. Seriously
Small amounts of C4 can be used to start a fire, especially when dealing with moist kindling. Same situation though, it's not a game you want to play unless you have no other choice.
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Do you have some first hand experience with C4 that leads you to make these comments, or are you just imagining that it must be dangerous when it is burned?
I have never handled C4, I have however had a fair bit of experience with C4 precursors. I'm talking about chemicals like hexamine that are very flammable as they come but then are chemically processed to make RDX, composition C1 and eventually C4.
It is the knowledge of these chemicals that causes me to believe that caution is well advised when it comes to dealing with substances like C4. C4 being safer than mercury fulminate or picric acid is still nothing to trifle with.
LK
But it has to manipulate things. This is an inflatable ironing board.
It takes a wet and wrinkled shirt and makes it dry and wrinkle free. That arguably is manipulation.
LK
You'd need to embed them in a 130 pound hot water bottle.
LK
Exactly. Just like "Battlebots", they're not robots; they're just remote-control whatevers. If it doesn't have AI of some sort, it's not a robot.
For the most part I agree with you, I guess the only point of contention I can find is in how one defines "AI". If it's just repeating the same action with no kind of real calculations involved, it can still be considered a robot.
LK
The red pill (fighting back) is not for everyone, has extra risks but also extra gain. The blue pill (giving up your stuff) has less risks but more loss.
In most cases you will walk away safely if you give up the goods.
I respectfully suggest that you have no fucking idea of what you're talking about.
The statistics show that if you attack a robber (with a firearm) you are LESS LIKELY to be harmed while being robbed than if you comply with the demands of the robber.
For the people who were shot even after doing so, those same people probably would still have been shot if they fought back.
The numbers do not support your conclusion. You are LESS LIKELY to be harmed if you fight back. Do whatever you want to with your life, but at least do it with your eyes open and facts, instead of speculation, at your disposal.
Personally, I'd take the better odds and less dependencies.
So I guess this means you'll be getting a permit.
LK
I'd rather be a coward than dead. My friends and family (probably) agree.
To be a coward is to endure a living death.
LK
Well Lord Kano, fortunately my self respect doesn't fit in my wallet or on my wrist, and I don't drive it to work, so its pretty tough to steal.
Maybe you didn't read my follow-up post to an earlier response to my post, so I'll recap for you.
The material possessions are not what I was referring to. It was the loss of self determination. To live with the knowledge that you are only living and breathing at the sufferance of a criminal.
As my post said, I wouldn't hesitate to hand over a wallet or lapop to avoid injury.
Would you perform a sex act on a criminal to avoid injury? There isn't much difference. Both involve being forced to do something against your will.
I'm not afraid of violence, I just don't think material possession warrant physical altercations.
Can you ever be sure that the mugger will just let you go after you give up everything that you are carrying? If someone is going to threaten you with bodily injury, there is a good chance that they are willing to inflict it. Especially if it's a 2 time felon who wants to make sure that you can't ID him and give him a 25 year vacation.
As crazy as things have been getting recently, every once in a while we get a sign that common sense is not dead yet.
LK
If everyone thought like you, where would we be, hmm?
Of I had money to burn I'd buy all kinds of expensive geeky toys, but financial reality prevents some purchases. OLED Displays and dual proc Athlon 64 computers are on the list of items that I'd like to be an early adopter of but just can't swing it.
It's not like I can't afford one or have a girlfriend to bitch at me for spending the money, and they look really neat.
I can't afford one and I DO have a girlfriend. Well, at least your pr0n will look good.
LK
f you get a wife, you can wake to freshly ironed clothes everyday, the bad side, they talk back,need to be fed, and you have to go through a wedding, which is more than $1700, but a wife won't crash or need to be charged hmmm... decision decisions....
I think you mean "girlfriend". Let me explain...
The shirt ironing robot won't blow you. Neither will a wife. A shirt ironing robot won't cook dinner for you. Neither will a wife.
What you need is a girlfriend, you can get your shirt ironed, your meals cooked, and your penis sucked. Wives and shit ironing robots don't even come close.
Yes, I am divorced.
LK
Now, I agree with this comment (there's no way that's a robot)
Why not? A robot does not need to walk or talk. Automotive welding and industrial assembly robots are proof of this.
but what is it about those devices is it that makes them a robot?
The ability to perform a task without continuous human control. But I don't think that bomb disposal units count as robots because a human being is constantly in control of it.
LK
But I'm going to wait until production drives the costs down.
LK
How hard is it to understand that ALL horrible acts are horrible?
It's just that somepeople aren't standing on sufficiently stable ground to cry about atrocity. For example, if a child molester starts screaming about how prison rape is wrong, he is in less of a position to be believed than a prison counselor or chaplain.
LK
if you go that route, who's to say it wasnt your destiny to be mugged?
Maybe yours is.
Maybe there was a lesson in it?
To learn to defend yourself. Standing up for yourself isn't an event, it's a way of life. You are either the kind of person who takes shit or your are not. Some thug in the street, or an asshole at work, no difference between them.
LK
What pisses me off is the double standard. If a woman is drunk and has sex she can cry rape. If a man is drunk and has sex, if he cries rape people will tell him to shut up and be happy that he got lucky.
Under most circumstances sex is still seen as something that men do TO women and not something that they do togther. If both parties are drunk, the onus is still on the man. If a guy meets a woman at a bar, they both proceed to get smashed and fuck each others brains out, the woman can cry rape. The man can not.
It's this kind of bullshit that makes it all the more difficult for women who actually do get raped to prove it.
LK
If you're talking about an IBM Linux PPC workstation, give up already; that market's even smaller than Apple's
Here we have the old chicken and egg debate. Is that market so small because of the limited hardware choices or are hardware choices so limited because the market is so small?
If I could buy commodity PPC hardware, I'd build a development server.
LK
3c509 drivers are a big part of what made me an early linux convert. Quick, cheap and stable. I loved those damned cards.
3Com's biggest problem is that they stayed focused to the corporate world, while the corporate world (SME's) started cutting corners and started buying SOHO stuff instead, because the product was much more adapted to their needs than an enterprise-grade device.
They tried to Out-Cisco Cisco, and they failed it. They also left the potentially lucrative PDA market to be dominated by others. Their mistakes really remind me of Apple, but since their "core products" didn't have the same kind of fanatical following, they didn't fare as well.
LK
How will you lose any of your own self respect if you hand over your possessions to avoid being injured?
By losing control of one's own destiny.
It's up to you whether you respect yourself or not.
Regardless of if that respect is deserved.
If another person can take it away from you - or you need a gun just to feel it - then you've got issues dude.
If you allow yourself no more self-determination than a babe in the woods, you have issues.
LK
There isn't a damn thing I own worth being shot or stabbed over.
How about your self respect? While I concur that none of my material possessions are worth my life, my self respect is more than worth my life. It's worth any mugger's life as well. I have a gun permit and thankfully I have not had to use any of my guns for self defense, I would not hesitate to do so if my life were in danger.
LK
Even the political compass has left and right.
LK
I think the above post just shows that "Rightists" regimes are just as effective at propaganda. China's no more "Leftists" than Anne Rand.
Then you don't understand the political spectrum. USSR, China = Left. WWII Italy = Right.
LK
Given my choice, I'd probably do the same. Using small, and I do mean SMALL, quantities of C4 to boil water would be preferable to drinking jungle water.
LK
Well, Taiwan WAS a Japanese colony in 1936, (following the 1894 Sino-Japanese war Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese) and Tibet WAS independent till 1959 when China invaded it.
You are missing the point. Leftists regimes really think that they have the right to dictate history and the "official version" of facts. The ChiComs really love to cry about the Rape of Nanking but seem to forget that Maoists murdered millions of their own people too.
LK
TNT is extremely stable, when compared to Dynamite. (Contrary to popular cartoon based opinions, they are NOT the same thing) You can set off a stick of dynamite by just dropping it a ahort distance, or on a bumpy automobile ride. If it sits around it becomes even less stable. If you happen to come across an old stick or two, LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE!
And you DON'T want to try burning it. Seriously
Small amounts of C4 can be used to start a fire, especially when dealing with moist kindling. Same situation though, it's not a game you want to play unless you have no other choice.
LK
It appears to me that Tesla was really just fogotten, it seems that at one time his inventions (like his "death ray") were considered serious work.
Glad to see it.
LK
In 1984 I was 9 years old.