Damn AC, you beat me to it. That comment alone made the whole thing worth reading. I was reading along, not really paying attention to who was who, but I got to that line and thought, 'okay, who is THIS yutz?' So I scrolled back and lo-and-behold! It's Stallman.
Someone should make a Richard Lolman pic, "I'm in yer ARPAnet, begging for dates." Or "Online Dating: yer doin' it wrong." Or even "I can has girlfriend?"
I've read both those books. I don't need 'in depth character analysis,' for crying out loud, I just don't want characters that seem flat and unrealistic. One can create realistic characters using few words, you don't need very much verbiage. Even if they are 'Jungian Archetypes,' they don't have to seem flat. Look at Pratt or de Camp's characters, they seem realistic in a way Tolkien's never did for me.
L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, and Robert Howard come to mind. Tolkien's characters are flat and two dimensional compared to his contemporaries, not just those who came after him.
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Oh man, I'm so offended, a whiny AC thinks I'm PLASTIC. Well YOU are totally DUCTILE, you dork.
I know! I mean, it's not like Nazi/Adult Baby BDSM parties are actually illegal. What do I care if my personal pictures of myself dressed as Hitler in diaper getting spanked by a fat cross dressing Eva Braun get distributed over the web? Sheesh, some people are SO whiney!
Man, fucking patchouli. The only substance known to man that can make BO smell WORSE. It's like it highlights the BO, circles it and draws little arrows pointing to it, just in case you missed it.
Who is the God of 'pimping your web consultancy firm?' More importantly, who's His high priest, and how much cash do you have to grease his palms with?
No, it's Hairy Hadron, which is actually a new kind of subatomic particle predicted by stringy-hair theory. It's the particle that makes hippies and geeks smell the way they do. It can also give you telapathetic powers. People will know you're pathetic before you even walk into the room.
Look, buddy, don't you know how science works? First you pick a conclusion you like. Then you find evidence to support your conclusion. Then you cast aspersions on the motives of anyone who contradicts your conclusion. Then you bitch on teh intarwebs about how scientists are all part of a vast conspiracy to keep you down because your ideas are too dangerous.
Holy crap that website is fucking WACKY. And by wacky I mean bug-fuck insane psuedo-science just a scosh this side of time cube. Here's the titles of some other 'scientific' papers on that site:
"What Big Bang?" "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." "Comet Caused Tsunami!" "War in Heaven, War on Earth." "Is Cassini a Kamikaze Deep Space Probe?"
Yeah, like I would EVER trust ANYTHING published on that site.
Well, you are technically correct, but, from the wiki page on shaped charges: "At typical velocities, the penetration process generates such enormous pressures that it may be considered hydrodynamic; to a good approximation, the jet and armor may be treated as incompressible fluids, with their material strengths ignored."
The jet and the armor both behave pretty much like liquids at the pressures involved.
Yes, this 'hit them twice in the same place' technique seems to be common to a number of new weapons systems. And the counter seems to be a renewed interest in Close In Weapons Systems (CIWS) or other Active Protection Systems that can destroy, disrupt, jam, or deflect an incoming projectile before it gets to the armor.
The fact that the penetrator needs to be harder than the armor illustrates why the penetrators formed by EFP are ineffective. You can't line the cavity with a hard material and expect it to form into a penetrator.
You bring up another type of round, which is not so common any more, HESH or High Explosive Squash Head. Basically, the round consists of a plastic explosive and detonator. The plastic explosive squashes into a pancake when it hits the armor and then explodes. It does not penetrate the armor at all, but rather transmits a tremendous shock wave into the vehicle, creating spalling at the armor-air interface inside. But modern chobham armor has many different layers which disrupt the shockwave, as well as Kevlar spall-liners which protect against any metal fragments that do spall off the inside.
I still think there is an entrenched class of people that own and control most of the world's resources, and there is far less social mobility in either direction between this class and the rest of us than many would like to admit.
I would have no problem with capitalism if there were some kind of base level guarantee of resource availability to everyone. As it is, I feel that the owning class uses economic coercion to keep resources out of the hands of the working class. The goal is cheap labor. Almost all conservative policy can be seen as an attempt to devalue labor, and overvalue capital.
While the influences you mention are real and effective, I believe there are conscious counter-forces at work seeking to destroy those effects and maintain the status quo. Corporations as such may be slow moving and unable to deal with these new threats, but corporations are run by a certain class of people. Look at the boards and CEOs of most major corporations and you will see similar backgrounds and attitudes. In fact, many owning class people sit on the boards of many different Fortune 500 companies, even ostensible competitors.
In short, I don't think problems of inequality and injustice will be solved by 'more free markets.' Less regulation of markets will only make it easier for the more ruthless to dominate.
A really humane weapon is one that sits you down for a spot of tea, explains the situation to you, gives you a brief time to put your affairs in order, notifies your next of kin of your impending doom, and then kills you efficiently and painlessly.
Explosively Formed Penetrators are different from regular High Explosive Anti Tank rounds, which do form a molten jet. In the EFP, the charge is in the shape of a shallow dish, and it forms the lining into a solid penetrator. It works at a much greater standoff distance than a regular HEAT, and is not as much subject to disruption by reactive armor. It is not as good at penetrating the armor of a main battle tank, but is quite good at destroying vehicles and emplacements with lighter armor.
In a conventional HEAT, the charge is in the form of a narrow cone, and the liner is projected as a narrow jet of molten metal. It must explode at the correct standoff distance and the correct angle to be effective, but when it works it works quite well against even heavily armored vehicles.
Dynastic wealth is not my primary concern. Based on evidence, I have to agree with your conclusions. Corporations and socioeconomic class issues are far more troubling. A small percentage of the world's population controls a large percentage of the world's resources, corporations and central banks are their tools. A person is not truly free unless they feel secure in their ability to provide for themselves, and our economic system seems designed to make the majority of people feel so insecure in this ability that they simply give in and do whatever the owning class tells th4em to do. While the billionaires of the world may fight each other, that is nothing compared to the viciousness with which they protect each other's interests as members of the owning class. And while theoretically anyone can become a member of the owning class, the indoctrination into that class ensures that almost all wealthy individuals will act according to the same basic game plan.
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The top ten American billionaires include four members of the Walton clan of Wal-Mart fame. Rather undercuts some of your arguments. And the majority of American billionaires did not come from poor working class backgrounds. Many of them came from already wealthy families.
Okay, bear with me here. This is a bit complicated, as it involves bungie cords and dirigibles.
First I'll need a medium sized hydrogen filled aerostat. It doesn't actually have to be a dirigible, any old hydrogen filled aerostat will do. If several thousand dollars worth of fireworks could be hung from the outside, that would be lovely.
Next, I'll need about a thousand feet of bungie cord, a suit made of cotton padding or wick like material, and several gallons of gasoline. Put my corpse in the suit. Attach one end of the bungie cord to the dirigible and the other to my corpse. Securely fasten my corpse to the ground with some sort of quick release mechanism.
Douse my corpse in gasoline. Let the dirigible go until the bungie cord is nice and taut. Light my corpse, and activate the quick release.
If all goes well, my flaming corpse will shoot into the sky and collide with the hydrogen filled, fireworks encased dirigible. Hopefully the resulting explosion will vaporize my body so that not too many steaming gibbets fall back on the amazed crowd.
And that, my friends, is what I would like for my funeral.
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Only, instead of a line of folks, you have a 2D mesh. And instead of running at the opposing team, your teammates hurl you at them.
Damn AC, you beat me to it. That comment alone made the whole thing worth reading. I was reading along, not really paying attention to who was who, but I got to that line and thought, 'okay, who is THIS yutz?' So I scrolled back and lo-and-behold! It's Stallman.
Someone should make a Richard Lolman pic, "I'm in yer ARPAnet, begging for dates." Or "Online Dating: yer doin' it wrong." Or even "I can has girlfriend?"
I've read both those books. I don't need 'in depth character analysis,' for crying out loud, I just don't want characters that seem flat and unrealistic. One can create realistic characters using few words, you don't need very much verbiage. Even if they are 'Jungian Archetypes,' they don't have to seem flat. Look at Pratt or de Camp's characters, they seem realistic in a way Tolkien's never did for me.
L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, and Robert Howard come to mind. Tolkien's characters are flat and two dimensional compared to his contemporaries, not just those who came after him.
Oh man, I'm so offended, a whiny AC thinks I'm PLASTIC. Well YOU are totally DUCTILE, you dork.
I know! I mean, it's not like Nazi/Adult Baby BDSM parties are actually illegal. What do I care if my personal pictures of myself dressed as Hitler in diaper getting spanked by a fat cross dressing Eva Braun get distributed over the web? Sheesh, some people are SO whiney!
I judge people based on whether or not they get their panties in a knot when someone tells an obviously self-deprecating joke.
You fail.
Have you SMELLED those women? I mean, I personally like a little funk in the junk but WHOAH! Smell so dense it's a SOLID, man. I'm talking curds.
Man, fucking patchouli. The only substance known to man that can make BO smell WORSE. It's like it highlights the BO, circles it and draws little arrows pointing to it, just in case you missed it.
Who is the God of 'pimping your web consultancy firm?' More importantly, who's His high priest, and how much cash do you have to grease his palms with?
No, it's Hairy Hadron, which is actually a new kind of subatomic particle predicted by stringy-hair theory. It's the particle that makes hippies and geeks smell the way they do. It can also give you telapathetic powers. People will know you're pathetic before you even walk into the room.
Look, buddy, don't you know how science works? First you pick a conclusion you like. Then you find evidence to support your conclusion. Then you cast aspersions on the motives of anyone who contradicts your conclusion. Then you bitch on teh intarwebs about how scientists are all part of a vast conspiracy to keep you down because your ideas are too dangerous.
Holy crap that website is fucking WACKY. And by wacky I mean bug-fuck insane psuedo-science just a scosh this side of time cube. Here's the titles of some other 'scientific' papers on that site:
"What Big Bang?"
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
"Comet Caused Tsunami!"
"War in Heaven, War on Earth."
"Is Cassini a Kamikaze Deep Space Probe?"
Yeah, like I would EVER trust ANYTHING published on that site.
Well, you are technically correct, but, from the wiki page on shaped charges: "At typical velocities, the penetration process generates such enormous pressures that it may be considered hydrodynamic; to a good approximation, the jet and armor may be treated as incompressible fluids, with their material strengths ignored."
The jet and the armor both behave pretty much like liquids at the pressures involved.
Yes, this 'hit them twice in the same place' technique seems to be common to a number of new weapons systems. And the counter seems to be a renewed interest in Close In Weapons Systems (CIWS) or other Active Protection Systems that can destroy, disrupt, jam, or deflect an incoming projectile before it gets to the armor.
The fact that the penetrator needs to be harder than the armor illustrates why the penetrators formed by EFP are ineffective. You can't line the cavity with a hard material and expect it to form into a penetrator.
You bring up another type of round, which is not so common any more, HESH or High Explosive Squash Head. Basically, the round consists of a plastic explosive and detonator. The plastic explosive squashes into a pancake when it hits the armor and then explodes. It does not penetrate the armor at all, but rather transmits a tremendous shock wave into the vehicle, creating spalling at the armor-air interface inside. But modern chobham armor has many different layers which disrupt the shockwave, as well as Kevlar spall-liners which protect against any metal fragments that do spall off the inside.
I still think there is an entrenched class of people that own and control most of the world's resources, and there is far less social mobility in either direction between this class and the rest of us than many would like to admit.
I would have no problem with capitalism if there were some kind of base level guarantee of resource availability to everyone. As it is, I feel that the owning class uses economic coercion to keep resources out of the hands of the working class. The goal is cheap labor. Almost all conservative policy can be seen as an attempt to devalue labor, and overvalue capital.
While the influences you mention are real and effective, I believe there are conscious counter-forces at work seeking to destroy those effects and maintain the status quo. Corporations as such may be slow moving and unable to deal with these new threats, but corporations are run by a certain class of people. Look at the boards and CEOs of most major corporations and you will see similar backgrounds and attitudes. In fact, many owning class people sit on the boards of many different Fortune 500 companies, even ostensible competitors.
In short, I don't think problems of inequality and injustice will be solved by 'more free markets.' Less regulation of markets will only make it easier for the more ruthless to dominate.
A really humane weapon is one that sits you down for a spot of tea, explains the situation to you, gives you a brief time to put your affairs in order, notifies your next of kin of your impending doom, and then kills you efficiently and painlessly.
Explosively Formed Penetrators are different from regular High Explosive Anti Tank rounds, which do form a molten jet. In the EFP, the charge is in the shape of a shallow dish, and it forms the lining into a solid penetrator. It works at a much greater standoff distance than a regular HEAT, and is not as much subject to disruption by reactive armor. It is not as good at penetrating the armor of a main battle tank, but is quite good at destroying vehicles and emplacements with lighter armor.
In a conventional HEAT, the charge is in the form of a narrow cone, and the liner is projected as a narrow jet of molten metal. It must explode at the correct standoff distance and the correct angle to be effective, but when it works it works quite well against even heavily armored vehicles.
Let me be the first to welcome our overlord joke repeating overlords.
Dynastic wealth is not my primary concern. Based on evidence, I have to agree with your conclusions. Corporations and socioeconomic class issues are far more troubling. A small percentage of the world's population controls a large percentage of the world's resources, corporations and central banks are their tools. A person is not truly free unless they feel secure in their ability to provide for themselves, and our economic system seems designed to make the majority of people feel so insecure in this ability that they simply give in and do whatever the owning class tells th4em to do. While the billionaires of the world may fight each other, that is nothing compared to the viciousness with which they protect each other's interests as members of the owning class. And while theoretically anyone can become a member of the owning class, the indoctrination into that class ensures that almost all wealthy individuals will act according to the same basic game plan.
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The top ten American billionaires include four members of the Walton clan of Wal-Mart fame. Rather undercuts some of your arguments. And the majority of American billionaires did not come from poor working class backgrounds. Many of them came from already wealthy families.
Thanks for your input. I'll obviously need to add rockets to the set up.
Okay, bear with me here. This is a bit complicated, as it involves bungie cords and dirigibles.
First I'll need a medium sized hydrogen filled aerostat. It doesn't actually have to be a dirigible, any old hydrogen filled aerostat will do. If several thousand dollars worth of fireworks could be hung from the outside, that would be lovely.
Next, I'll need about a thousand feet of bungie cord, a suit made of cotton padding or wick like material, and several gallons of gasoline. Put my corpse in the suit. Attach one end of the bungie cord to the dirigible and the other to my corpse. Securely fasten my corpse to the ground with some sort of quick release mechanism.
Douse my corpse in gasoline. Let the dirigible go until the bungie cord is nice and taut. Light my corpse, and activate the quick release.
If all goes well, my flaming corpse will shoot into the sky and collide with the hydrogen filled, fireworks encased dirigible. Hopefully the resulting explosion will vaporize my body so that not too many steaming gibbets fall back on the amazed crowd.
And that, my friends, is what I would like for my funeral.