Back in the 80s I was told a trick by the screener to get my large metal belt buckle (Had a silver dollar in it) through the metal detector, an it worked. If you know how those things worked, the method is obvious, and it still works for metal detectors these days too. And no, I won't tell you how because there's enough hassle in my life already.
Admittedly this was before 9/11, so they'd have probably had me jacked up and thrown in a locked room for two days if it happened now, but... I went through the screening, and they were taking a LONG time. They kept running my bag through the xray machine for some reason. So I went over to the two operators and asked what was wrong, so they showed me the xray pic on the screen and asked what 'that' was. I looked up and laughed, "That's the ceramic dragon!". One of the screeners eyes lit up and she pointed and said, "Oh! That's the wing, and there's the head!". That solved the problem pretty fast, but either way, being ceramic it was rather faint on the image so it wasn't metal, and in no way looked like any kind of weapon. (Nobody had heard of ceramic knives at that time either.)
Actually it's totally crappy at detecting someone carrying actual weapons. There have been numerous posts about this with actual videos and photos so that you could see what went through and how the scanner didn't show anything suspicious. Again, the tech is an interesting idea, but the actual application doesn't work up to claimed parameters, thus it's just more 'security theater'.
Actually it takes an explosion to detonate C4 because it's very stable, that's why you have blasting caps. We'd often demil C4 by slapping it on the berm wall of the burning pit and light it.
Actually when to be a member of the group, you have a clearly defined set of rules for allowed and forbidden actions and that anyone who violates those is no longer and actual member despite what they personally might claim, such as in a religion, if there is someone that doesn't abide by those same rules, and yet claims to be one of them, they are in fact, not a true [whatever]. So the whole 'No True Scotsman' thing doesn't apply, especially since to be a Scotsman, the requirement is mostly to be born in Scotland, or possibly to have Scottish parents, neither of which is true with religions, though adolescent indoctrination does play a large part of continued membership, or at least claims of membership.
No, it's to have more than some lazy bum, or some disabled individual, or just to get that fancy new car you couldn't afford on a basic allotment. Why is that some people think if the basics are covered, nobody will strive for more, for luxuries, or whatever.
Exactly. For most of us Quicktime died a long time ago, and iJunk tries to take over your machine. I have no need of either of them, so why bother with the hassle?
Of course the government does or pays for a LOT of that research and testing, but even when it was 100% government funded, it doesn't stop the pharmaceutical companies from claiming massive R&D costs they 'have to recover', despite them not having paid a single cent in the first place. This isn't paranoia or conspiracy stuff, it's well documented and has even been the subject of journalistic investigations and both print & tv articles. I'm sure you can find the references yourself, if you can somehow filter out all the keyword spam the net is bloated with these days.
We've been doing maglev for quite a while now, though few people tried to ride them like a skateboard before. I still haven't seen anything they've done new other than the hype. Now when they don't need a special surface to function, then they can call it a hoverboard.
It will not go nuclear. It can still explode, but it will only be a low order or high order detonation depending on the condition of the case when it goes off. To the ignorant or the stupid that think high order means a mushroom cloud, not it doesn't, that's nuclear. The order, high or low, is defined by the speed at which the explosive burns or detonates. A nuclear explosion is WAY beyond those parameters and so has it's own classification. Off the top of my head, I've forgotten the feet per second on those definitions, but if you really want to know, the info is out there, and it's legal. (That doesn't mean a three letter agency won't take an interest in you, it's not like they really care about the law in the first place.)
That could be a cover story, or it could be real. The military does use 'weapon shapes' for training and such. No reason to risk a actual multimillion dollar mushroom farm for training. After all, more you play with it, the more likely it is that someone will break it.
Yes, but you are talking about an uncontrolled situation that to actually go nuclear, it will have to simulate the controlled, very precise, and a total bitch to replicate even when you're trying to, scenario where exactly 0.01 Keurigs of fecal matter must impact each of the fans blades exactly perpendicular, on both sides, with 8,500 newtons each all within 0.2 picoseconds, and while the fan is on.
Come on people. If making nukes was so fricking easy, every terrorist and nation out there would have them about 2 weeks after they got a kilo of fissionable material.
An improper detonation will not go nuclear, you just end up with a normal explosion scattering radioactive material, aka a dirty explosion. Though with the amount of material spread over the area, individual exposure is more than you'd want, but not actually rated as dangerous. What people are talking about is standard hollywood fud & bullshit. It's NOT real people! As to the odds of an accident like that actually causing a nuclear detonation, it's somewhere close to the probability of a dissolved sugar cube in your tea or coffee suddenly reforming into a cube in the hot liquid. In other words, slightly less than monkeys flying out your ass.
I find it rather funny, and incompetent, that the writer didn't know those simple things. I guess they think the movie 'True Lies' was a documentary.
Kind of like the mugger that just took your wallet probably wasn't wearing a condom when he robbed you.
And yes, I know exactly what I did there, and it was intentional, so before you complain, think about it. If you still don't get it, don't bother, you probably never will.
The narrator for that article sounded like she grew up on Shatner Overacting Tapes. She really needs to learn to talk normal, especially if she's going to keep reporting on the news.
Education, public roads/highways, power system infrastructure, water systems, communications systems (yes, the government made that happen), communication standards, and so many other things that you use every day. I think you need to partake in a bit more of that 'education' thing, because you are sounding like a repligoon who built a business using government business loans that requires use of the government created infrastructure to function and yet claims you did everything yourself without any help from the government.
Don't recognize that one. If it's referring to women as the "us" in that statement, you might be right, if on the other hand it's referring to some food related product or company, it's definitely not, though it is rather disparaging towards males.
When over 90% of the worlds scientists in that field agree on it, it's settled. Well, at least as settled as gravity is, and yes, they are still arguing about that one too.
And a kid knowing that the cops tend to shoot anyone, even if it's a taser, they want, will not convince them to stand there and take it. It will more likely cause them to panic and either run, or attack. This is true of adults as well. The whole hollywood cop yells "freeze" and everyone stops moving is more hollywood bullshit, just like the John Wayne evershoot pistols that have six rounds of ammo, but fire at least 30 before anyone thinks to reload.
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Yes, the detectors that wouldn't even 'turn on'. Yeah, that was a total scam.
Back in the 80s I was told a trick by the screener to get my large metal belt buckle (Had a silver dollar in it) through the metal detector, an it worked. If you know how those things worked, the method is obvious, and it still works for metal detectors these days too. And no, I won't tell you how because there's enough hassle in my life already.
Admittedly this was before 9/11, so they'd have probably had me jacked up and thrown in a locked room for two days if it happened now, but...
I went through the screening, and they were taking a LONG time. They kept running my bag through the xray machine for some reason. So I went over to the two operators and asked what was wrong, so they showed me the xray pic on the screen and asked what 'that' was. I looked up and laughed, "That's the ceramic dragon!". One of the screeners eyes lit up and she pointed and said, "Oh! That's the wing, and there's the head!". That solved the problem pretty fast, but either way, being ceramic it was rather faint on the image so it wasn't metal, and in no way looked like any kind of weapon. (Nobody had heard of ceramic knives at that time either.)
Actually it's totally crappy at detecting someone carrying actual weapons. There have been numerous posts about this with actual videos and photos so that you could see what went through and how the scanner didn't show anything suspicious. Again, the tech is an interesting idea, but the actual application doesn't work up to claimed parameters, thus it's just more 'security theater'.
Actually it takes an explosion to detonate C4 because it's very stable, that's why you have blasting caps.
We'd often demil C4 by slapping it on the berm wall of the burning pit and light it.
Don't worry, they've been aware of this for YEARS
Only the dumb ones.
Actually when to be a member of the group, you have a clearly defined set of rules for allowed and forbidden actions and that anyone who violates those is no longer and actual member despite what they personally might claim, such as in a religion, if there is someone that doesn't abide by those same rules, and yet claims to be one of them, they are in fact, not a true [whatever].
So the whole 'No True Scotsman' thing doesn't apply, especially since to be a Scotsman, the requirement is mostly to be born in Scotland, or possibly to have Scottish parents, neither of which is true with religions, though adolescent indoctrination does play a large part of continued membership, or at least claims of membership.
No, it's to have more than some lazy bum, or some disabled individual, or just to get that fancy new car you couldn't afford on a basic allotment. Why is that some people think if the basics are covered, nobody will strive for more, for luxuries, or whatever.
I'd do it, even if I was getting 800 euro a month. Unless I could get a better job.
Exactly.
For most of us Quicktime died a long time ago, and iJunk tries to take over your machine.
I have no need of either of them, so why bother with the hassle?
Of course the government does or pays for a LOT of that research and testing, but even when it was 100% government funded, it doesn't stop the pharmaceutical companies from claiming massive R&D costs they 'have to recover', despite them not having paid a single cent in the first place. This isn't paranoia or conspiracy stuff, it's well documented and has even been the subject of journalistic investigations and both print & tv articles. I'm sure you can find the references yourself, if you can somehow filter out all the keyword spam the net is bloated with these days.
We've been doing maglev for quite a while now, though few people tried to ride them like a skateboard before. I still haven't seen anything they've done new other than the hype. Now when they don't need a special surface to function, then they can call it a hoverboard.
It will not go nuclear. It can still explode, but it will only be a low order or high order detonation depending on the condition of the case when it goes off.
To the ignorant or the stupid that think high order means a mushroom cloud, not it doesn't, that's nuclear.
The order, high or low, is defined by the speed at which the explosive burns or detonates. A nuclear explosion is WAY beyond those parameters and so has it's own classification. Off the top of my head, I've forgotten the feet per second on those definitions, but if you really want to know, the info is out there, and it's legal. (That doesn't mean a three letter agency won't take an interest in you, it's not like they really care about the law in the first place.)
That could be a cover story, or it could be real. The military does use 'weapon shapes' for training and such. No reason to risk a actual multimillion dollar mushroom farm for training. After all, more you play with it, the more likely it is that someone will break it.
Yes, but you are talking about an uncontrolled situation that to actually go nuclear, it will have to simulate the controlled, very precise, and a total bitch to replicate even when you're trying to, scenario where exactly 0.01 Keurigs of fecal matter must impact each of the fans blades exactly perpendicular, on both sides, with 8,500 newtons each all within 0.2 picoseconds, and while the fan is on.
Come on people. If making nukes was so fricking easy, every terrorist and nation out there would have them about 2 weeks after they got a kilo of fissionable material.
An improper detonation will not go nuclear, you just end up with a normal explosion scattering radioactive material, aka a dirty explosion. Though with the amount of material spread over the area, individual exposure is more than you'd want, but not actually rated as dangerous.
What people are talking about is standard hollywood fud & bullshit. It's NOT real people!
As to the odds of an accident like that actually causing a nuclear detonation, it's somewhere close to the probability of a dissolved sugar cube in your tea or coffee suddenly reforming into a cube in the hot liquid. In other words, slightly less than monkeys flying out your ass.
I find it rather funny, and incompetent, that the writer didn't know those simple things. I guess they think the movie 'True Lies' was a documentary.
Kind of like the mugger that just took your wallet probably wasn't wearing a condom when he robbed you.
And yes, I know exactly what I did there, and it was intentional, so before you complain, think about it. If you still don't get it, don't bother, you probably never will.
The narrator for that article sounded like she grew up on Shatner Overacting Tapes. She really needs to learn to talk normal, especially if she's going to keep reporting on the news.
Education, public roads/highways, power system infrastructure, water systems, communications systems (yes, the government made that happen), communication standards, and so many other things that you use every day.
I think you need to partake in a bit more of that 'education' thing, because you are sounding like a repligoon who built a business using government business loans that requires use of the government created infrastructure to function and yet claims you did everything yourself without any help from the government.
A world doesn't have to be a planet, or even a celestial body.
Think about how the word is used in everyday life, then look up the definition.
Don't recognize that one. If it's referring to women as the "us" in that statement, you might be right, if on the other hand it's referring to some food related product or company, it's definitely not, though it is rather disparaging towards males.
I do remember them if they were annoying or circumvented my ad-blocker, and then I make sure I NEVER BUY THEIR PRODUCT!
When over 90% of the worlds scientists in that field agree on it, it's settled.
Well, at least as settled as gravity is, and yes, they are still arguing about that one too.
And a kid knowing that the cops tend to shoot anyone, even if it's a taser, they want, will not convince them to stand there and take it. It will more likely cause them to panic and either run, or attack. This is true of adults as well. The whole hollywood cop yells "freeze" and everyone stops moving is more hollywood bullshit, just like the John Wayne evershoot pistols that have six rounds of ammo, but fire at least 30 before anyone thinks to reload.