Even larger calibre ammunition poses limited threat. A 7.62 round (think AK47) has a terminal velocity of around 90m/s and weighs around 200g (depending on the round you use). That combination is right on the lower limit of power needed to break the skin if it struck with the point. What actually happens, in most cases, is the bullet twists and ends up flying sideways so you have a larger impact point making it significantly less harmful.
Smaller calibre bullets have a much lower terminal velocity and have a lighter mass so they pose even less of a risk.
So in summary if a falling 7/62 round landed on your head it would hurt, probably quite a lot, but that would be about it. The birdshot referred to above, I actually am not even sure you would notice it. The cloud would be so dispersed by the time it fell to the ground that even if it hit you in the eye you would probably think it was an odd shaped bit of sand.
That type of attack would be very unlikely to cause any structural damage. You would not be able to get close enough to the walls so you will only get splash impact.
It would be a useful anti-personnel weapon but your payload is always going to be cripplingly small for the cost. If you are someone with access to plastic explosive you probably have access to mortars. A mortar will have a much longer range and deliver a much greater payload. In addition it actually strikes the building before detonation rather than being 1+ meters away meaning much greater chance of causing a structural failure.
Depending on the height an air rifle, or if that is illegal a decent slingshot would be a cheaper easier alternative. You don't need to do a lot of damage to bring them down.
If we are talking serious height, chances are you haven't even noticed it is there.
Derren Brown is a quite famous, not quite sure what I would call him, mind fucker I guess. He is English and has a number of shows where he messes with peoples heads to show what is possible.
In one of those shows he convinced a person that he had committed a murder in the space of a couple of hours. He used reinforcing contact, sounds, disconcerting environments etc.
The ban responses come from how they have been operating and are a kneejerk reaction.
If they were a restaurant and they failed health and safety checks and hygiene standards they would be shut down until the complied. I believe many people's call for Uber to be banned come from the belief that Uber is operating outside the law and has no intention of ever complying with those laws.
I believe that Uber should be prohibited from operating until their setup complies. I am not ok with Uber being able to operate outside the law, make profits from that, in the hope that one day they will be compliant.
Walks like a taxi, quacks like a taxi, acts like a taxi, is paid like a taxi, it's a taxi.
Just cause I want to call it "Ride Sharing" doesn't make it not a taxi. Uber drivers are going to a location, picking someone up, and driving that person where they want to go. It is not like the Uber driver happened to be driving from Point A to Point B already.
Have you ever asked yourself why they are rationed? The government doesn't get that 500k each year for every license. They get an amount once at the start. So it's not an ongoing supply of money.
So why ration them in the first place? I'll give you a hint to help you along, it wasn't the taxi companies lobbying for it.
For the same reason that roads are built that go places you don't go. That we have a health system you pay for even if you don't use it. For the same reason you pay for an army which you don't get to decide what it does.
It is what is called a society and a community.
And who says the taxi won't service the boon docks. It is most profitable for a taxi to do mid length trips with a high chance of a return fare. You live too close, taxi says no. You live too far, taxi says no. You end up stranded with no way to get home because other public transport finished at midnight. To say this could be dangerous is a mild understatement.
Fundamentally it is not possible for an Uber driver to be properly licensed unless they bought a taxi plate. If they held one of those, then they would also have the taxi insurance and drivers license.
While this may be the case in some parts of the world it is not true here in Australia.
Uber is operating a taxi service but not operating under the laws that govern taxis. In Australia taxis are considered a part of the wider public transport system and are factored into planning around things like trains and bus services. As a result taxi drivers have a number of restrictions on them. Possibly the most important of those is they cannot refuse a fare. It doesn't matter that your house is miles away from any other chance of a fare they have to take you.
The net impact of this is that taxis have to take on jobs which are nominally a net loss. This is then made up by other routes being more profitable. Uber comes in and says we don't need to participate in this, we will just cherry pick the profitable routes. As a result the taxis that are required to never say no start to lose money and a key part of your cities public transport infrastructure starts to collapse.
So Uber's cost structure attempts to avoid the cost of the taxi plate, and to avoid the greater good requirements placed on taxi firms. The net effect is not positive.
Consider trying lighter loads on the deer. I'm going to guess you get a pretty clean punch through with that ammo and are wasting a lot of the stopping power on the trees behind. Consider trying Igman 7.62x54r 150 gr. SP, still a nice cheap round but could increase the number of drops you have at 100-150yds. If your finding your range starts growing over 200yds go back to the Bears - http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/Mo...
I wish I could use an air rifle / pistol in my country at home. Even though I live on acreage its illegal:(. I shoot an Anshutz 8002 S2 air rifle and a Morini CM162 Short pistol. Everything has to be on a range.
For LR stuff I have a custom rifle - shehane tracker stock, Krieger barrel, a Rem 700 action, Weaver 36x scope, sitting on a farley co-axial rest. In addition I have dies, a press, hi accuracy scales and an Oehler Chrono for testing ammo speed.
Not in my mid 40s. Significantly under it in fact. Have a facebook profile but never use it, I've just never bothered to close it because sometimes I need somewhere to connect candy crush. Never had a problem with my social life.
That said I can acknowledge that Facebook can make group invitations easier.
Steams streaming capability changed the shape of my home arrangements. My loud, large, electricity eating gaming rig went into the garage where it sits off 90% off the time. What I use now is my laptop and I stream the games. It helps that the laptop I have is a latitude with a proper docking station so i'm playing games on a decent screen.
I believe that culture and economics are inextricably linked. The culture of a country determines the type of government that it builds and the type of government it builds effects its economy. A very simple example is the difference between the US and Europe. Both are "western" yet the European system has leant towards a more socialist model which is definitely reflected in their economy.
Japan and China are incredibly different culturally. Japan carries deep in its psyche the fact that it is an isolated island nation. China on the other hand is a nation with large land borders some of which are shared by other significant powers. Japan would love nothing more then to put up a huge wall and never let anyone in or out. China has always looked to expand and assimilate.
As for the debt levels, eventually they will have to reduce their debt levels. However currently the savings rate for Japan sits at close to 20% of GDP. So even though their Gross Public Debt is close to double their national GDP their domestic population continues to save far more then is necessary to cover expansion in that debt.
I am no way saying that continuing to expand the debt is a good thing, it isn't. But I don't believe they have a problem currently as a result of that debt.
I would also add to this that though Japan has seen 0 and slightly negative inflation for a number of years 2013 rate was a positive 1.61%. Low by most standards but still positive and the first time in a long time.
Another thing they do is they mix zinc into the steel they use for the rails. This means it is much much harder to work with but is essentially stainless and will last forever.
Exactly. Australian imports from China $49 Billion. Australian exports to China $101 Billion. Of those minerals made up a significant percentage but so did food stuffs, wine, services, and education. I mean $7 billion of that was for services not even products.
When you consider that Japan is our next biggest market at $50 billion, the Korea $21B, US $16B and India $11B. We really would be up the creak without China.
Take the next logical step though is that the US is our second largest importer at $39 Billion. If China collapsed Australia would lose 27% of its income in one go. If we lose that much income we will buy heaps less and given the US is our second biggest supplier it will hit the US hard as well.
No. I can't agree with this at all. I have been to both countries and there is too big a cultural difference.
You can horribly sum it up by saying the Japanese are all about the group and the Chinese are more about themselves (ie closer to the west).
The Japanese have their problems because their culture is incredibly strict. They could almost immediately solve their shrinking population problem by opening themselves to immigration but it simply isn't going to happen.
You noted that the debt is held domestically, but then implied it would move overseas. It won't without a fundamental change in how they look at things. People will suffer individually before they cause the government to suffer. The domestic market won't claw back its debt from the government. Instead they will keep it in essentially negative bonds for their entire life.
One thing that web apps always fall down on is speed and sync. If I have 100 people using a database and I want real time updating of the data that people have open on their screen you can't use a web app. In particular if you need to cause a client to redo its search because a new entry now matches their criteria.
If you are going down a linux build path you can go down a linux front end. Then you add in puppet and all your clients are identical - new release - push, bad release, pull and its all fixed in seconds.
Be aware that in my experience Lazarus isn't seeing a lot of updating and had stagnated with some difficult bugs (for us amyway). We moved away from it in the end we went with Qt
Probably. Going back a little now in the memory banks. All I can remember is I didn't have a 3dfx card and I really really wanted one! I think I had something like a Matrox 3D card that could almost do it.
At 100 yds the ammo makes limited difference. You don't really see the difference until you get to about 300yds. At that point the difference in muzzle velocity starts to be noticeable, even if you have the rifle held in a vice. What also makes a difference is the weight of the actual bullet. A gram difference will through the bullets out at longer range.
At 100 yds your skill and the quality of the rifle is what has the biggest effect. That rifle has obviously been looked after and had some money spent on it. But even still 1MOA groupings at 100yds shows you are a decent shot.
As for competition, the longer the range the more exponential the errors become. 1 MOA at 1000yds is around a 10" spread and that ammo has a 100+ fps difference in muzzle velocity across 10 shots. If you sighted on a fast round you could easily have a slower round fall short of the target with that level of speed difference. Or even more painful, you sight on a slow round and your other shots clear the target completely and you have no idea where they ended up.
400gb uncompressed 800gb compressed has been more than enough for me so far. I don't try to backup everything. I have a huge tv and dvd collection but I'm not worried about that. Those are infrequently synced with friends so if I lost the lot I could get a lot from them and the interwebs will provide the rest.
The bit I can't replace are photos and camcorders and I haven't cracked 100gb yet.
As for the USB - LTO driver are actually pretty hard to feed with enough data fullstop. You heard the tape spin up and spin down if you can't get the data to it fast enough. I don't know what the impacts of lots of idling are but I can't imagine it is good so I think USB will still be a ways off.
I do a read back on each tape before I wipe and reuse - and it works out roughly that they are on a 6 month cycle.
So far I haven't had a single read back fail. I don't compress the data and it is only roughly 100gb that I backup but so far I haven't had any issues.
My theory is that if the backup system is too hard it wont get used. I have everything on spinning media any way and usually I have 2-3 taps sitting at the MIL. So a worst case scenario is the most recent one is dead and I lose an extra month. My process is on the first of every month a script runs, wipes the tape in the drive, copies the data across and then ejects it. At some point over the next month I will pull that tape out, stick another in the drive and run my check script which copies it all back to my nas and if it has no errors deletes the directory off stuff its copied and exits. If it errors it emails me and freezes. Simple and fairly idiot proof.
Sure it's not perfect, but it is better than most systems people have.
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Even larger calibre ammunition poses limited threat. A 7.62 round (think AK47) has a terminal velocity of around 90m/s and weighs around 200g (depending on the round you use). That combination is right on the lower limit of power needed to break the skin if it struck with the point. What actually happens, in most cases, is the bullet twists and ends up flying sideways so you have a larger impact point making it significantly less harmful.
Smaller calibre bullets have a much lower terminal velocity and have a lighter mass so they pose even less of a risk.
So in summary if a falling 7/62 round landed on your head it would hurt, probably quite a lot, but that would be about it. The birdshot referred to above, I actually am not even sure you would notice it. The cloud would be so dispersed by the time it fell to the ground that even if it hit you in the eye you would probably think it was an odd shaped bit of sand.
That type of attack would be very unlikely to cause any structural damage. You would not be able to get close enough to the walls so you will only get splash impact.
It would be a useful anti-personnel weapon but your payload is always going to be cripplingly small for the cost. If you are someone with access to plastic explosive you probably have access to mortars. A mortar will have a much longer range and deliver a much greater payload. In addition it actually strikes the building before detonation rather than being 1+ meters away meaning much greater chance of causing a structural failure.
Depending on the height an air rifle, or if that is illegal a decent slingshot would be a cheaper easier alternative. You don't need to do a lot of damage to bring them down.
If we are talking serious height, chances are you haven't even noticed it is there.
Derren Brown is a quite famous, not quite sure what I would call him, mind fucker I guess. He is English and has a number of shows where he messes with peoples heads to show what is possible.
In one of those shows he convinced a person that he had committed a murder in the space of a couple of hours. He used reinforcing contact, sounds, disconcerting environments etc.
Really something to watch.
The ban responses come from how they have been operating and are a kneejerk reaction.
If they were a restaurant and they failed health and safety checks and hygiene standards they would be shut down until the complied. I believe many people's call for Uber to be banned come from the belief that Uber is operating outside the law and has no intention of ever complying with those laws.
I believe that Uber should be prohibited from operating until their setup complies. I am not ok with Uber being able to operate outside the law, make profits from that, in the hope that one day they will be compliant.
This was always the killer app for me as well.
The other thing I would have wanted different was the display to have been a translucent overlay, rather than an opaque box in the top right.
Walks like a taxi, quacks like a taxi, acts like a taxi, is paid like a taxi, it's a taxi.
Just cause I want to call it "Ride Sharing" doesn't make it not a taxi. Uber drivers are going to a location, picking someone up, and driving that person where they want to go. It is not like the Uber driver happened to be driving from Point A to Point B already.
Have you ever asked yourself why they are rationed? The government doesn't get that 500k each year for every license. They get an amount once at the start. So it's not an ongoing supply of money.
So why ration them in the first place? I'll give you a hint to help you along, it wasn't the taxi companies lobbying for it.
Seriously???
For the same reason that roads are built that go places you don't go. That we have a health system you pay for even if you don't use it. For the same reason you pay for an army which you don't get to decide what it does.
It is what is called a society and a community.
And who says the taxi won't service the boon docks. It is most profitable for a taxi to do mid length trips with a high chance of a return fare. You live too close, taxi says no. You live too far, taxi says no. You end up stranded with no way to get home because other public transport finished at midnight. To say this could be dangerous is a mild understatement.
If you can't see a problem with this I pity you.
Fundamentally it is not possible for an Uber driver to be properly licensed unless they bought a taxi plate. If they held one of those, then they would also have the taxi insurance and drivers license.
While this may be the case in some parts of the world it is not true here in Australia.
Uber is operating a taxi service but not operating under the laws that govern taxis. In Australia taxis are considered a part of the wider public transport system and are factored into planning around things like trains and bus services. As a result taxi drivers have a number of restrictions on them. Possibly the most important of those is they cannot refuse a fare. It doesn't matter that your house is miles away from any other chance of a fare they have to take you.
The net impact of this is that taxis have to take on jobs which are nominally a net loss. This is then made up by other routes being more profitable. Uber comes in and says we don't need to participate in this, we will just cherry pick the profitable routes. As a result the taxis that are required to never say no start to lose money and a key part of your cities public transport infrastructure starts to collapse.
So Uber's cost structure attempts to avoid the cost of the taxi plate, and to avoid the greater good requirements placed on taxi firms. The net effect is not positive.
Potentially.
The problems I was encountering were to do with virtual trees and lists. At the time these were marked as known bugs in lazarus.
Consider trying lighter loads on the deer. I'm going to guess you get a pretty clean punch through with that ammo and are wasting a lot of the stopping power on the trees behind. Consider trying Igman 7.62x54r 150 gr. SP, still a nice cheap round but could increase the number of drops you have at 100-150yds. If your finding your range starts growing over 200yds go back to the Bears - http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/Mo...
I wish I could use an air rifle / pistol in my country at home. Even though I live on acreage its illegal :(. I shoot an Anshutz 8002 S2 air rifle and a Morini CM162 Short pistol. Everything has to be on a range.
For LR stuff I have a custom rifle - shehane tracker stock, Krieger barrel, a Rem 700 action, Weaver 36x scope, sitting on a farley co-axial rest. In addition I have dies, a press, hi accuracy scales and an Oehler Chrono for testing ammo speed.
Not in my mid 40s. Significantly under it in fact. Have a facebook profile but never use it, I've just never bothered to close it because sometimes I need somewhere to connect candy crush. Never had a problem with my social life.
That said I can acknowledge that Facebook can make group invitations easier.
Steams streaming capability changed the shape of my home arrangements. My loud, large, electricity eating gaming rig went into the garage where it sits off 90% off the time. What I use now is my laptop and I stream the games. It helps that the laptop I have is a latitude with a proper docking station so i'm playing games on a decent screen.
I send a WOL packet - wait 2 mins and away I go.
I believe that culture and economics are inextricably linked. The culture of a country determines the type of government that it builds and the type of government it builds effects its economy. A very simple example is the difference between the US and Europe. Both are "western" yet the European system has leant towards a more socialist model which is definitely reflected in their economy.
Japan and China are incredibly different culturally. Japan carries deep in its psyche the fact that it is an isolated island nation. China on the other hand is a nation with large land borders some of which are shared by other significant powers. Japan would love nothing more then to put up a huge wall and never let anyone in or out. China has always looked to expand and assimilate.
As for the debt levels, eventually they will have to reduce their debt levels. However currently the savings rate for Japan sits at close to 20% of GDP. So even though their Gross Public Debt is close to double their national GDP their domestic population continues to save far more then is necessary to cover expansion in that debt.
I am no way saying that continuing to expand the debt is a good thing, it isn't. But I don't believe they have a problem currently as a result of that debt.
I would also add to this that though Japan has seen 0 and slightly negative inflation for a number of years 2013 rate was a positive 1.61%. Low by most standards but still positive and the first time in a long time.
Another thing they do is they mix zinc into the steel they use for the rails. This means it is much much harder to work with but is essentially stainless and will last forever.
Exactly. Australian imports from China $49 Billion. Australian exports to China $101 Billion. Of those minerals made up a significant percentage but so did food stuffs, wine, services, and education. I mean $7 billion of that was for services not even products.
When you consider that Japan is our next biggest market at $50 billion, the Korea $21B, US $16B and India $11B. We really would be up the creak without China.
Take the next logical step though is that the US is our second largest importer at $39 Billion. If China collapsed Australia would lose 27% of its income in one go. If we lose that much income we will buy heaps less and given the US is our second biggest supplier it will hit the US hard as well.
Things are not just two sided.
No. I can't agree with this at all. I have been to both countries and there is too big a cultural difference.
You can horribly sum it up by saying the Japanese are all about the group and the Chinese are more about themselves (ie closer to the west).
The Japanese have their problems because their culture is incredibly strict. They could almost immediately solve their shrinking population problem by opening themselves to immigration but it simply isn't going to happen.
You noted that the debt is held domestically, but then implied it would move overseas. It won't without a fundamental change in how they look at things. People will suffer individually before they cause the government to suffer. The domestic market won't claw back its debt from the government. Instead they will keep it in essentially negative bonds for their entire life.
This 100 times this.
One thing that web apps always fall down on is speed and sync. If I have 100 people using a database and I want real time updating of the data that people have open on their screen you can't use a web app. In particular if you need to cause a client to redo its search because a new entry now matches their criteria.
If you are going down a linux build path you can go down a linux front end. Then you add in puppet and all your clients are identical - new release - push, bad release, pull and its all fixed in seconds.
Be aware that in my experience Lazarus isn't seeing a lot of updating and had stagnated with some difficult bugs (for us amyway). We moved away from it in the end we went with Qt
Probably. Going back a little now in the memory banks. All I can remember is I didn't have a 3dfx card and I really really wanted one! I think I had something like a Matrox 3D card that could almost do it.
At 100 yds the ammo makes limited difference. You don't really see the difference until you get to about 300yds. At that point the difference in muzzle velocity starts to be noticeable, even if you have the rifle held in a vice. What also makes a difference is the weight of the actual bullet. A gram difference will through the bullets out at longer range.
At 100 yds your skill and the quality of the rifle is what has the biggest effect. That rifle has obviously been looked after and had some money spent on it. But even still 1MOA groupings at 100yds shows you are a decent shot.
As for competition, the longer the range the more exponential the errors become. 1 MOA at 1000yds is around a 10" spread and that ammo has a 100+ fps difference in muzzle velocity across 10 shots. If you sighted on a fast round you could easily have a slower round fall short of the target with that level of speed difference. Or even more painful, you sight on a slow round and your other shots clear the target completely and you have no idea where they ended up.
400gb uncompressed 800gb compressed has been more than enough for me so far. I don't try to backup everything. I have a huge tv and dvd collection but I'm not worried about that. Those are infrequently synced with friends so if I lost the lot I could get a lot from them and the interwebs will provide the rest.
The bit I can't replace are photos and camcorders and I haven't cracked 100gb yet.
As for the USB - LTO driver are actually pretty hard to feed with enough data fullstop. You heard the tape spin up and spin down if you can't get the data to it fast enough. I don't know what the impacts of lots of idling are but I can't imagine it is good so I think USB will still be a ways off.
I do a read back on each tape before I wipe and reuse - and it works out roughly that they are on a 6 month cycle.
So far I haven't had a single read back fail. I don't compress the data and it is only roughly 100gb that I backup but so far I haven't had any issues.
My theory is that if the backup system is too hard it wont get used. I have everything on spinning media any way and usually I have 2-3 taps sitting at the MIL. So a worst case scenario is the most recent one is dead and I lose an extra month. My process is on the first of every month a script runs, wipes the tape in the drive, copies the data across and then ejects it. At some point over the next month I will pull that tape out, stick another in the drive and run my check script which copies it all back to my nas and if it has no errors deletes the directory off stuff its copied and exits. If it errors it emails me and freezes. Simple and fairly idiot proof.
Sure it's not perfect, but it is better than most systems people have.