God I remembered that in Morrowind. LOVED that game.
I will go one further though and how you really wanted a 3dfx card in order to play Mechwarrior in all its glory. And then with the C64 an Action Replay card that meant you could instantly resume your game just like a console.
And I will go on to add that tape is a ridiculously overlooked solution for home backup. You can pick up a second hand LTO3 drive off ebay for under $100 and it will often come with a handful of tapes. Instant easy safe backup solution.
Got photos and camcorder you just cant replace - stick it on a tape and drop a copy at a relatives place. House burns down, full HDD failure / corruption. The tape is sitting there. God I picked up a box of 20 unopened lto3 tapes for $10. I give 1 to the MIL every month and she takes it home. When I go over there I collect all the older tapes that have built up and recycle them.
People will think nothing of spending $100+ on an external Hdd or similar. Or a recurring fee to an online backup solution. But seem to think tape is out of the question...
In Australia it helps that we dont have any land borders so it is much harder to smuggle weapons into the country.
That said the recent cafe shooting in sydney was done with an auto-shotgun. A weapon that is on the restricted list. I don't think there is any 100% solution. But I do believe that reducing the number of readily available guns does make certain actions harder.
At least here the number of accidental shootings is almost zero. Violent crime still exists and people do get shot. But they are rare enough that they make the national news.
At what range? That is a hell of an accuracy on an M39. Either way that is a damn good result for that rifle. Most decent ones are 2MOA, to be close to one makes it one of the top ones.
That said my experience is that ammo makes a bigger and bigger difference as your range increases. The difference in your muzzle velocity and the weight of the rounds themselves is magnified over range.
Use cheap ammo at 1000 yds and I know I will get some complete misses in a set of 10. If I am using my "I've really taken my time ammo" where each bullet is weighed, matched with 10 others, and then given exactly the same grain load I should have a spread of around 8" at 1000yds across 10 shots. I am using a custom rifle with a 50x scope though.
I don't know if it is helping or not. The laws have been in place since 1996 and we have a very low level of gun crime. If someone fires a weapon it makes the national news.
The major incident that sparked the laws was the port arthur massacre in tasmania. In that 35 people were killed and 20+ more injured, the weapon used was an AR-10. That said Martin Bryant is extremely disturbed and would have found some other way.
And pedestrians, and drivers, and passengers, and other road users.
Simple regulations such as a taxi is not permitted to refuse a fare. It means people don't get left at the side of the road because they want to go somewhere less than ideal for the taxi service.
Taxi regulations ensure that drivers are background checked. In Australia that make it illegal for the taxi driver to refuse a fare. They require the driver to have been assessed at a higher level than your once in a lifetime driving test. They log the hours that are worked by you as a driver so you don't work too many and hence get exhausted.
Is the system perfect? Of course not. But it is definitely better then no regulation.
If you don't follow the law you will get in trouble.
If you were to change the word driving to drilling or perhaps had pharmaceutical companies say "the FDA is subject to delays so we decided to sell out drug anyway" would Uber supporters say "thats ok - regulations are stupid!"
Australian laws are definitely most targeted at hand guns. Rifles in comparison are almost simple to own. That said semi-automatic and automatic rifles and shotguns are outright banned here.
You can have a magazine fed bolt action rifle though and you can cycle through those pretty quickly.
Take away the killing someone aspect and replace it with a sporting aspect and you start to get reasons.
When your coach is trying to get your LR Bench Rest groups to improve having them able to real time see what you see at point of fire would be excellent.
Definitely falls in the pedantic category:P. For the purposes of my example photons have no drop. They also lose no speed through the air which is what makes the calculations for bullet trajectory so difficult.
Not to mention there is a maximum effective range on bullets as below a certain speed they will tumble, go sideways and get to the point that even if they still hit the target they will do almost no damage. It's the reason why people don't die like crazy when morons shoot auto weapons up into the sky. Even if they hit you the falling bullet is very unlikely to do more then hurt like a bitch.
The other huge impact on your accuracy is the ammo. It is why I load my own. I will see a significant increase in spread unless I spend stupid amounts on commercial ammo. Much better to weigh your own.
Well a quick search shows that in Australia the cost of flights in unadjusted dollars is lower today than in 2003 when pricing was fully deregulated. Setting July 2003 as the base point (picked by the ABS as the start of the deregulation period) normalised at a value of 100 then restricted economy (flights where you have to pay to change things) were at 77.3 and full service economy (all inclusive no penalties) are at 120.2
Interestingly full service business class is now at 89.9 which is reflective of the massive increase in competition in that area.
So a full service flight today is 20% more expensive then a flight 12 years ago. But if I don't want to pay for things I don't use they are 13% cheaper. This excludes the fact that wage growth has exceeded that 20% figure over the last 12 years here.
1800 yds is a long way. But high velocity rounds from 1000 yds with a standard scope are more than doable if the target is stationary. If you can setup with a rest and know where your target is a good shooter can put 10 rounds inside a palm sized spread.
It would be fantastic for long range rifle competition training. Having your trainer sat next to you and seeing what you are seeing at point of fire would be highly useful.
Kind of. There are a few systems that improve your accuracy but you definitely still need some solid basics.
Lasers don't have any drop, nor are they affected by wind conditions, so you tag your target with the laser and then the computer on the rifle calculates where you need to aim in order to hit the target. Really advanced ones will test wind conditions, humidity, and temperature before giving you the aim point. Some can also hold the firing till you have a perfect shot lined up. So you hold the trigger and the gun will fire when the target lines up. There is a little more too it than wiggling it around though.
Couldn't agree more. I am flying RETURN from Brisbane to Tokyo in March for AU$379 return. In that ticket price I get food, checked baggage and carry-on. The plane is a brand new Dreamliner.
I have done many many international and in-country flights in various parts of the world. By far the most horrendous was an internal flight in the US from Miami to LA on AA back in 2008. Cramped, dirty and felt rickety as hell. All future flights I have done domestically in the US I have managed to book on Virgin and the quality of those has been excellent.
I can only assume they are referring to the capacity war that is happening here which is seeing more flights, more seats and cheaper prices then ever before.
Oh reading TFA they seem to think that having a cheaper ticket but having to pay extra for checked luggage, a cocktail, food etc, is somehow worse then paying 5 times that amount and getting a whole host of extra services THAT YOU DON'T USE!
So basically go to the airport and see exactly what unbundling will get you. Instead of paying a premium for everything you pay for the components you want and pay less overall. Brilliant.
I didn't want to overly complicate the description. In a modern RO plant the membrane is the primary filtration system. Prior to that they will remove the larger matter using screens, sedimentation tanks and other physical filtration systems. Also the plant you are describing is obviously an older design and if they were to start again they would cut most of those processes out with a modern system.
After the water has passed the membrane, note depending on the contaminant level this may be as low as 60% of the water, the water is essentially pure. From here chlorine is added and depending on your region so is fluoride.
As a side note the chlorine isn't added to the water to keep the water drinkable it is done to protect the pipe system.
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God I remembered that in Morrowind. LOVED that game.
I will go one further though and how you really wanted a 3dfx card in order to play Mechwarrior in all its glory. And then with the C64 an Action Replay card that meant you could instantly resume your game just like a console.
And I will go on to add that tape is a ridiculously overlooked solution for home backup. You can pick up a second hand LTO3 drive off ebay for under $100 and it will often come with a handful of tapes. Instant easy safe backup solution.
Got photos and camcorder you just cant replace - stick it on a tape and drop a copy at a relatives place. House burns down, full HDD failure / corruption. The tape is sitting there. God I picked up a box of 20 unopened lto3 tapes for $10. I give 1 to the MIL every month and she takes it home. When I go over there I collect all the older tapes that have built up and recycle them.
People will think nothing of spending $100+ on an external Hdd or similar. Or a recurring fee to an online backup solution. But seem to think tape is out of the question...
In Australia it helps that we dont have any land borders so it is much harder to smuggle weapons into the country.
That said the recent cafe shooting in sydney was done with an auto-shotgun. A weapon that is on the restricted list. I don't think there is any 100% solution. But I do believe that reducing the number of readily available guns does make certain actions harder.
At least here the number of accidental shootings is almost zero. Violent crime still exists and people do get shot. But they are rare enough that they make the national news.
Where the hell are you? 24hrs behind the wheel and you will be exhausted! There is absolutely no way that is legal in most developed countries.
At what range? That is a hell of an accuracy on an M39. Either way that is a damn good result for that rifle. Most decent ones are 2MOA, to be close to one makes it one of the top ones.
That said my experience is that ammo makes a bigger and bigger difference as your range increases. The difference in your muzzle velocity and the weight of the rounds themselves is magnified over range.
Use cheap ammo at 1000 yds and I know I will get some complete misses in a set of 10. If I am using my "I've really taken my time ammo" where each bullet is weighed, matched with 10 others, and then given exactly the same grain load I should have a spread of around 8" at 1000yds across 10 shots. I am using a custom rifle with a 50x scope though.
I don't know if it is helping or not. The laws have been in place since 1996 and we have a very low level of gun crime. If someone fires a weapon it makes the national news.
The major incident that sparked the laws was the port arthur massacre in tasmania. In that 35 people were killed and 20+ more injured, the weapon used was an AR-10. That said Martin Bryant is extremely disturbed and would have found some other way.
And pedestrians, and drivers, and passengers, and other road users.
Simple regulations such as a taxi is not permitted to refuse a fare. It means people don't get left at the side of the road because they want to go somewhere less than ideal for the taxi service.
I don't agree with you.
Taxi regulations ensure that drivers are background checked. In Australia that make it illegal for the taxi driver to refuse a fare. They require the driver to have been assessed at a higher level than your once in a lifetime driving test. They log the hours that are worked by you as a driver so you don't work too many and hence get exhausted.
Is the system perfect? Of course not. But it is definitely better then no regulation.
Why? All require permits.
Or is it that now we can pick and choose which laws and regulations we follow? Nah this one isn't important to me so sod it?
If you don't follow the law you will get in trouble.
If you were to change the word driving to drilling or perhaps had pharmaceutical companies say "the FDA is subject to delays so we decided to sell out drug anyway" would Uber supporters say "thats ok - regulations are stupid!"
Australian laws are definitely most targeted at hand guns. Rifles in comparison are almost simple to own. That said semi-automatic and automatic rifles and shotguns are outright banned here.
You can have a magazine fed bolt action rifle though and you can cycle through those pretty quickly.
Take away the killing someone aspect and replace it with a sporting aspect and you start to get reasons.
When your coach is trying to get your LR Bench Rest groups to improve having them able to real time see what you see at point of fire would be excellent.
Definitely falls in the pedantic category :P. For the purposes of my example photons have no drop. They also lose no speed through the air which is what makes the calculations for bullet trajectory so difficult.
Not to mention there is a maximum effective range on bullets as below a certain speed they will tumble, go sideways and get to the point that even if they still hit the target they will do almost no damage. It's the reason why people don't die like crazy when morons shoot auto weapons up into the sky. Even if they hit you the falling bullet is very unlikely to do more then hurt like a bitch.
The other huge impact on your accuracy is the ammo. It is why I load my own. I will see a significant increase in spread unless I spend stupid amounts on commercial ammo. Much better to weigh your own.
Well a quick search shows that in Australia the cost of flights in unadjusted dollars is lower today than in 2003 when pricing was fully deregulated. Setting July 2003 as the base point (picked by the ABS as the start of the deregulation period) normalised at a value of 100 then restricted economy (flights where you have to pay to change things) were at 77.3 and full service economy (all inclusive no penalties) are at 120.2
Interestingly full service business class is now at 89.9 which is reflective of the massive increase in competition in that area.
So a full service flight today is 20% more expensive then a flight 12 years ago. But if I don't want to pay for things I don't use they are 13% cheaper. This excludes the fact that wage growth has exceeded that 20% figure over the last 12 years here.
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https://www.bitre.gov.au/stati...
1800 yds is a long way. But high velocity rounds from 1000 yds with a standard scope are more than doable if the target is stationary. If you can setup with a rest and know where your target is a good shooter can put 10 rounds inside a palm sized spread.
It would be fantastic for long range rifle competition training. Having your trainer sat next to you and seeing what you are seeing at point of fire would be highly useful.
Kind of. There are a few systems that improve your accuracy but you definitely still need some solid basics.
Lasers don't have any drop, nor are they affected by wind conditions, so you tag your target with the laser and then the computer on the rifle calculates where you need to aim in order to hit the target. Really advanced ones will test wind conditions, humidity, and temperature before giving you the aim point. Some can also hold the firing till you have a perfect shot lined up. So you hold the trigger and the gun will fire when the target lines up. There is a little more too it than wiggling it around though.
Looking at the photos it kinda looks like it is just left on the driveway. But that said I don't like the idea of being told that I have to remove it.
Would they have more luck if they placed it on a plinth and maybe had it decorated in with a cyberman?
Couldn't agree more. I am flying RETURN from Brisbane to Tokyo in March for AU$379 return. In that ticket price I get food, checked baggage and carry-on. The plane is a brand new Dreamliner.
I have done many many international and in-country flights in various parts of the world. By far the most horrendous was an internal flight in the US from Miami to LA on AA back in 2008. Cramped, dirty and felt rickety as hell. All future flights I have done domestically in the US I have managed to book on Virgin and the quality of those has been excellent.
I can only assume they are referring to the capacity war that is happening here which is seeing more flights, more seats and cheaper prices then ever before.
Oh reading TFA they seem to think that having a cheaper ticket but having to pay extra for checked luggage, a cocktail, food etc, is somehow worse then paying 5 times that amount and getting a whole host of extra services THAT YOU DON'T USE!
So basically go to the airport and see exactly what unbundling will get you. Instead of paying a premium for everything you pay for the components you want and pay less overall. Brilliant.
I agree - but quick google shows it is on the treated side and goes straight into the mains from there.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
But I believe the reservoir is on the treated side of the system, not the untreated.
You are right that I don't care that Giardia is in the streams and rivers. I do care if it is in my tap water.
As long as the bird isn't a vector for a parasite such as giardia.
I didn't want to overly complicate the description. In a modern RO plant the membrane is the primary filtration system. Prior to that they will remove the larger matter using screens, sedimentation tanks and other physical filtration systems. Also the plant you are describing is obviously an older design and if they were to start again they would cut most of those processes out with a modern system.
After the water has passed the membrane, note depending on the contaminant level this may be as low as 60% of the water, the water is essentially pure. From here chlorine is added and depending on your region so is fluoride.
As a side note the chlorine isn't added to the water to keep the water drinkable it is done to protect the pipe system.