small correction, i should have written "an actor is only ever as good as the words on the page" they are a bounds, the actors may fill it however they can, up to the limitations of the script.
Sorry, but that's still nonsense. Look up scenes of Back to the Future with Eric Stoltz for a case of the same script with a different actor. Look up To Have and Have Not for an example of a script that had to be altered cause there was no denying the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall. Look up Blade Runner and watch the ending which was invented by Hauer on the spot. Look up all the myriad versions of Westlake's The Hunter - one with Mel Gibson was made twice. Or simply go and watch the same play twice.
Actors are living beings and artists. They are not robotic readers and repeaters of lines. They act.
i never mentioned "true value"
So? I'm saying that those movies are not about the twist or the surprise endings - but about everything up to that point.
Memento is not about the twist of finding out the truth - it is about the need to find a meaning to one's existence and how much of it is just based on preconceptions and expectations. And if all else fails, writing yourself a script for your life to get you from A to B.
Same with Fight Club. It's not about men punching each other or pulling pranks and terrorist acts OR about the reveal that tow characters are one and the same person. It's about all the stuff they talk about, their disdain for the world they feel has left them without a reason or a cause, giving them nothing but consumerism in return. Except all that talk is just ramblings of a mad man with fascist tendencies. Which is obvious whether the Durden-twist is shown or not.
6th Sense is about a kid who sees ghosts and who learns how to deal with his fears. Not about Bruce Willis realizing he's been dead all along.
The twist is not the story being told. It's just a cheap plot device to lure in the easy prey. The fact that if a movie is good it can be seen and enjoyed again and again despite knowing every line in it proves that.
and the fact that kids of people attracted to life in uniform are of exactly the opposite mindset needed to go into computer science
There is no "attracted to life in uniform" in Israel. Everyone serves. What there is though are various benefits in service and education for those with high grades in highschool with special attention for those "recruits who have demonstrated outstanding academic ability in the sciences and leadership potential" putting them through more schooling and training after which they do R&D for IDF.
The applicant pool consists of nearly ten-thousand top scorers in a test taken by all graduating high school seniors. 150-200 potential applicants are then subjected to a two-day series of tests.[3] These include further IQ exams, as well as group-tasks designed to test one's social dynamics, all conducted under the supervision of trained psychologists and military personnel. For example, teams of applicants are given a specific task then the instructions are changed while the test is in progress, such as shortening the allotted time or changing the assigned tasks.[3] Final acceptance into the program entails a high security clearance rating, given by the Air Force.
also, there is particular joy in the unexpected. there are things you can only experience the first time.
Only if you don't read much, or watch much, or listen to much... IF you do... you realize the difference between the unknown, the unexpected and the unexplained in the story. Then, pretty much nothing is unexpected apart from a non sequitur or two - and those only work if it is a comedy, otherwise they are a mark of a bad writer.
Particularly with movies there is no such thing as unexpected. A book can have blank covers or no covers at all, with no title or writer known at the time of the reading. Movies come prepackaged into genres, with posters, trailers, titles, directors, companies, actors... Rarely will anyone accidentally watch a movie without realizing what kind of a story it is and what to expect of it.
an actor is only as good as the words on the page.
Sure, sure... Which is why there is no difference in a Hamlet portrayed by Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branagh, Christian Bale, Ethan Hawke or Richard Burton.
but remember, first comes the plot, then comes all the flourishes like humor, drama, wit
Try using "most basic" instead of "first" there and see how it works for ya. Also, a movie with no actors is called a documentary. And just like a painting or a photo or poem or a book... it still tells a STORY.
As for no plot... Look up Memento and Pulp Fiction to see how much of "unexpected" is nothing but simple breaking up of the plot. Or get really wild and go for A Night On Earth or Coffee and Cigarettes for movies where plot is practically non existent - instead it's a theme that makes it all work. And none of those movies' true value is in the "unexpected".
Taxing them more simply means higher prices for all the customers. That would be us, not them.
Apple is already charging their costumers for literally and figuratively imaginary properties of its products. They are charging customers for the Apple IMAGE.
To the people who are image shopping increase of price means diddly squat. Or they are not really serious about keeping up their image of whatever Apple products mean out there. Cool? Hip? Creative? Expensive? Better than others?
So... Making Apple pay what they owe would either have no effect on their sales - or Apple would suddenly stop being cool and only SERIOUS Apple users who really know how to appreciate Apple products would buy Apple once again. Which only leaves the question of are "you" a serious Apple user who doesn't mind a paltry increase in price - or are you just a hipster, trying to be cool?
Encountering new narratives is one of narrative's fundamental pleasures. Novelty is so important to narratives that in many cases entire classes of aesthetic effects and domains of hermeneutic structures depend on an audience's relative ignorance about what happens next.
If one's "narrative" depends on secrecy - it's junk. And if all one has to present to the audience is "won't tell you what happens next" - he/she is a lousy storyteller and a below average writer. Same goes for film makers and any other kind of creative work.
There has to be more to it than just plot for the story to be worth anything beyond the cost of ink and paper. And on top of that DELIVERY is everything. There is a reason why THE Maltese Falcon is the one with Bogart or why THE Scarface is the one with Al Pacino - despite both being remakes. Or why there are a handful of directors for whose movies one can be certain that they are worth a watch regardless of what the movie is about. Or why people still pay money to watch ancient Greek plays in a theater, performed by live actors. I.e. It's not the letters and words, but how you tell the joke.
And unless the one "spoiling" the plot is some kind of genius storyteller who can convey the feel of the story and the scenes in it as vividly as if one is experiencing them from the source (in which case that is a show worth paying for) - then nothing is spoiled. At least to the audience that actually pays attention to more than just words.
Those who can't be bothered to invest some attention and understanding into their own entertainment... Fuck em. It's their own fault they don't know how to enjoy the culture beyond the level of a five-year-old.
"Protect the value of those narratives for future generations"... Holy FUCK what a retarded idea. Here's a clue... That little quip about the spoiler in Oedipus Rex? Any, ANY sense conveyed in that sentence depends on the fact that EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS THE PLOT OF THAT FUCKIN DRAMA.
I.e. Your example about "protecting narratives" only works because of "spoilers" - NOT DUE TO PROTECTION. Had those narratives been "protected" you'd sound like you're babbling nonsense. Instead of just talking nonsense.
Point of the Katyn one is that those executed there were armed soldiers. From a real army. With guns that no civilian anywhere can ever posses - like artillery. Just like Hungarians did, when Zhukov just waltzed in and disarmed entire divisions.
And I also gave you links to what happens when military force, foreign or domestic, decides to topple the government. While civilian leaders end up blowing their own brains out with their own guns.
And that was 20th century. Now... You are deluding yourself that a supposed "armed insurance against tyranny" built-in back in the late 18th century can be of any use in the 21st. Hell, they couldn't even envision repeater rifles or armor back then - or they would have said something about that too. And funny how those white guys back then said nothing about civilians having cannons... Must have just slipped their minds that a tyrant is sure to have artillery...
If your plan is to "fight the government" with guns today... unless you can take down tanks and the air-force and guided missiles and drones... you might as well be waving a feather duster while calling their mothers "whores". While they calmly and casually burn you alive.
Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel. Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[9]
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Those that killed them simply had more guns. And more authority.
The killings were methodical. After the personal information of the condemned was checked and approved, he was handcuffed and led to a cell insulated with stacks of sandbags along the walls and a heavy, felt-lined door. The victim was told to kneel in the middle of the cell, was then approached from behind by the executioner and immediately shot in the back of the head or neck.[35] The body was carried out through the opposite door and laid in one of the five or six waiting trucks, whereupon the next condemned was taken inside and subjected to the same fate. In addition to muffling by the rough insulation in the execution cell, the pistol gunshots were also masked by the operation of loud machines (perhaps fans) throughout the night. Some post-1991 revelations suggest that prisoners were also executed in the same manner at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, though judging by the way that the corpses were stacked, some captives may have been shot while standing on the edge of the mass graves.[36] This procedure went on every night, except for the public May Day holiday.[37]
Meanwhile, both Hitler and Mussolini got their power NOT through the use of guns, but through political means.
When shit hits the fan and "they", whoever they may be, come to take your freedom by force... well... ask Salvador Allende what good is a gun. And Hafizullah Amin might also have something to say on that topic.
Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel. Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[9]
We already know from the summary that Trump is not a real Scotsman.
We don't need more arguing along those lines from Trumpgnostics with a hardon for anything that feels anti-Obama to them. Regardless how retarded it may be.
Q&A . . . Lots of great input, thank you. Hope the answers help. 1) The reason there is not more hype is pretty simple. "Big Steel" emailed we can't even attend their public events because "Flash Bainite competes with their products" made in their $400M furnaces. Big Steel and their Academic friends are dug in pretty deep to protect marketspace and profits. We'd like to work with Big Steel when they're ready but for now favorable licensing is available to others in the supply chain.
2) As for corrosion, Flash 1600 has already passed the 400 hour salt spray test. Paint/bake and chrome plating work well too. E-galvanizing is already used by OEMs so Flash will start in hidden structural parts (not Class A visible) so rust would have to get through other parts first.
3) The reason 7% stronger Flash can make parts 30-50% lighter is that Flash Bainite can be formed/bent into complex shapes at vastly higher strengths than other advanced high strength steels. Flash's extra 7% strength for a given alloy is just a bonus. The US Army did 5mm thick Charpy tests and found no catastrophic ductile to brittle transition down to -40 degrees. There's also energy absorption results on tubing that an OEM allowed to be presented a few years ago at Cambridge Univ which outperformed five leading vehicles' door beams by 15-20% at the same mass.
4) Stress Corrosion can happen in all AHSS but the Steel Industry and Auto OEMs know how to handle this. SCC can happen when hydrogen migrates on the grain boundary surface area. AHSS is highly grain refined thus lots of total surface area. Flash Bainite has notably larger grains so there is expected to be less SCC with much less boundary surface area for hydrogen to move on.
5) I completely disagree that Flash is brittle. Aside from the testing at Auto OEMs withheld due to NDAs, look at the cover photo of the Crush Can at 48 Rockwell C and see how the Flash folded. I am unaware of any other material at 48Rc that can fold to absorb energy without shattering.
6) I don't think Flash in a car is decades away with 2025's 54mpg fast approaching. Three very large OEMs are asking for coils of steel asap and one is about ready for running changes. While we are focusing on a modest production capacity in-house, we are very open to licensing Flash to others to meet the Auto needs . . . And every other Industry looking for lighter, stronger, safer, less costly, readily weldable metal. GaryCola 12th December, 2015 @ 9:43 p.m. (California Time)
Sure, sure... let's just count the money. That way most people's lives aren't worth the sweat off a donkey's balls. And shit like those eggheads playing god with their giant electricity spending machines is beyond waste.
On the other hand... counting technological spinoffs...
Spinoff is a NASA publication featuring technology made available to the public. Since 1976, NASA has featured an average of 50 technologies each year in the annual publication, and Spinoff maintains a searchable database of these technologies. When products first spun off from space research, NASA presented a black and white report in 1973, titled the "Technology Utilization Program Report". Because of interest in the reports, NASA decided to create the annual publications in color. Spinoff was first published in 1976,[14] and since then, NASA has distributed free copies to universities, the media, inventors, and the general public. Spinoff describes how NASA works with various industries and small businesses to bring new technology to the public. As of 2015, there were over 1,800 Spinoff products in the database dating back to 1976.[37]
But the part I love the most is how that "spinoff is a myth" text, though it ignores the fact that those spinoffs are a BYPRODUCT of research for actual completed scientific projects and NOT of direct research with the goal of return on investment - still can't hide the fact, however it may try, that money invested in "NASA activities" RETURNED PROFIT aaaaand accomplished the missions. Missions whose goal was NOT making profit. Science, space capabilities AND free money.
A total of over $21 billion in sales and savings benefits were identified as resulting from NASA activities. However, the report conceded that only about $5 billion of this total was due to actual spinoff, that is "instances in which a product, process, or even an entire company would not have come into existence had it not been for the NASA furnished technology." Most notable among these is the $1.6 billion in medical instruments, frequently cited as a major NASA spinoff. The remaining $16 billion in benefits were in areas where "the NASA technology contributed to the sales, but that contribution can vary widely, from a relatively small percentage of the total sales or savings..." And in this area, additional sales of commercial aircraft accounted for over $10 billion.
Just imagine all the money NASA could have made if they were honesttogod genuine Scotsmen...
Grocery stores buy at lowest price and sell at what market will bear. They are usually buying from large chain suppliers who in turn often import. They too look to buy low and sell high. And they also buy from producers and suppliers who do the same. And if ANY link in the supply chain mislabels their produce in order to get a better price...
The other thing is... all that food being shipped and left sitting there in the store for days means pest control. Or roaches and rats munching on your produce. And that means pesticides. Applied IN STORE by people who have no clue of dosage or which pesticides should be applied. Couple of cans or RAID? Why not?
That's why there are no differences in taste in "organic" vs. "regular" FARMED food - but people buying in supermarkets still complain about the taste. Send them to a farmers market and they'll happily buy and eat pesticide sprayed and GMO produce thinking it's "organic" - cause farmers know what "time to harvest" is for and cause their produce is FRESH.
...that a person who might be paranoid or greedy enough to try to cut the government out of his money, enough to try to invent a currency of his own, would also have tax issues with the government. I'm shocked, shocked to find that out!
but they'll still need to have holsters and bullets.
Holster is there to make carrying and use of a weapon safer and easier. And unless humans start growing or grafting prehensile tentacle - maximum number of objects a person can effectively carry and use with their hands at the same time will remain two or less. Thus pockets. And bags. And belts. All of which can cause one's weapon and or hand to snag on them while getting it out. Ergo - holsters.
As for bullets... As long as conservation of momentum still works in the future, projectiles WILL be transferring the product of their mass and velocity to the object they collide with.
I've got a whole bundle more shibboleths up my sleeve that flag a work of SF as being implausible... futures in which we wear mini-dresses and three-piece suits, drive gas-burning automobiles (or hovercars: it's just a rabbit/smeerp replacement), carry handguns (or blasters: see rabbit/smeerp), eat the kind of food we eat today, live the kind of way we live today, and most importantly think the way we think today.
But as far as guns and food are concerned... whatever his reason for abjection may be it is either genuinely retarded (hrrr-drrr... gun control will take R gunz... hrrr-drrr nobody wants guns... hrrr-drrr handwave-magic-chemistry-denial-field...) or specific to the point of "because" (everyone eating pills...because... everyone eating solar through spliced plant genes...because... everyone eating vegetarian...because... everyone eating cloned humans... because...).
BTW... He also has issues with "Faceless 80's style corporations ruling entire planets (hint: who handles the externalities?)... political structures based on design patterns proven to be unworkable in the context of any society more modern than the late middle ages (empires in space, I'm looking at you): any interplanetary/interstellar setting where the mechanics of trade are lifted straight out of a Joseph Conrad novel, or 1920s era pulps about life aboard a tramp steamer".
The novel chronicles the travels and perils of Freya Nakamichi-47, a gynoid in a distant future in which humanity is extinct and a near-feudal android society has spread throughout the Solar System. Wealthy and self-indulgent "aristos" own and have enslaved most of the populace; the remaining "free" androids struggle to keep themselves independent and can rarely afford the exorbitant costs of interplanetary travel. Freya, a robotic courtesan designed to please humans but activated a century after their mysterious extinction, is considered obsolete and works menial jobs to survive. When she offends an aristo and needs to escape off-world, she accepts a job as a courier for the mysterious Jeeves Corporation and becomes embroiled in a complex and dangerous war among factions conspiring against each other for control of society.
Sooo... near feudalism and slavery and... perpetrated by robots to robots... and faceless, humanless corporations that rule everything. Now... If he had only looked in the mirror and then shibbolethed THAT guy... things would have surely been simpler for everyone.
Religion/Faith is a human specific mental condition specifically manifest to deal with the unpleasantness of the reality in which the subject finds itself.
No... Not Religion/Faith. You're describing ONLY faith.
And it's not quite what we usually consider insanity. No more than love or fear or happiness. It IS illogical... but very, very normal. There is no such thing as a perfectly sane human - cause being a functional human requires feelings and emotions. A perfectly rational human is a psychopath.
Now... You might still be missing the point that I was trying to make - that the CNS itself is what is susceptible to errors and biases. There. We've settled that then.
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Difference is Stewart knows what's getting laughs from pandering to the audience and what you need to do to get laughs from parodying.
He goes up against his own preconceptions when constructing a joke.
Oliver follows his own preconceptions.
It's more like "If it was worth what they are already charging for it they'd be charging more."
Along with "There is no practical reason why would anyone need an Apple device or to pay an Apple price."
small correction, i should have written "an actor is only ever as good as the words on the page" they are a bounds, the actors may fill it however they can, up to the limitations of the script.
Sorry, but that's still nonsense.
Look up scenes of Back to the Future with Eric Stoltz for a case of the same script with a different actor.
Look up To Have and Have Not for an example of a script that had to be altered cause there was no denying the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall.
Look up Blade Runner and watch the ending which was invented by Hauer on the spot.
Look up all the myriad versions of Westlake's The Hunter - one with Mel Gibson was made twice.
Or simply go and watch the same play twice.
Actors are living beings and artists. They are not robotic readers and repeaters of lines. They act.
i never mentioned "true value"
So?
I'm saying that those movies are not about the twist or the surprise endings - but about everything up to that point.
Memento is not about the twist of finding out the truth - it is about the need to find a meaning to one's existence and how much of it is just based on preconceptions and expectations.
And if all else fails, writing yourself a script for your life to get you from A to B.
Same with Fight Club.
It's not about men punching each other or pulling pranks and terrorist acts OR about the reveal that tow characters are one and the same person.
It's about all the stuff they talk about, their disdain for the world they feel has left them without a reason or a cause, giving them nothing but consumerism in return.
Except all that talk is just ramblings of a mad man with fascist tendencies. Which is obvious whether the Durden-twist is shown or not.
6th Sense is about a kid who sees ghosts and who learns how to deal with his fears.
Not about Bruce Willis realizing he's been dead all along.
The twist is not the story being told. It's just a cheap plot device to lure in the easy prey.
The fact that if a movie is good it can be seen and enjoyed again and again despite knowing every line in it proves that.
Farce will be with you... Always.
and the fact that kids of people attracted to life in uniform are of exactly the opposite mindset needed to go into computer science
There is no "attracted to life in uniform" in Israel. Everyone serves.
What there is though are various benefits in service and education for those with high grades in highschool with special attention for those "recruits who have demonstrated outstanding academic ability in the sciences and leadership potential" putting them through more schooling and training after which they do R&D for IDF.
The applicant pool consists of nearly ten-thousand top scorers in a test taken by all graduating high school seniors. 150-200 potential applicants are then subjected to a two-day series of tests.[3]
These include further IQ exams, as well as group-tasks designed to test one's social dynamics, all conducted under the supervision of trained psychologists and military personnel.
For example, teams of applicants are given a specific task then the instructions are changed while the test is in progress, such as shortening the allotted time or changing the assigned tasks.[3]
Final acceptance into the program entails a high security clearance rating, given by the Air Force.
And then there's Mamram, Unit 8200, Ofek...
All when those highly educated techies leave the army... Private sector is ready and waiting.
also,
there is particular joy in the unexpected.
there are things you can only experience the first time.
Only if you don't read much, or watch much, or listen to much...
IF you do... you realize the difference between the unknown, the unexpected and the unexplained in the story.
Then, pretty much nothing is unexpected apart from a non sequitur or two - and those only work if it is a comedy, otherwise they are a mark of a bad writer.
Particularly with movies there is no such thing as unexpected.
A book can have blank covers or no covers at all, with no title or writer known at the time of the reading.
Movies come prepackaged into genres, with posters, trailers, titles, directors, companies, actors...
Rarely will anyone accidentally watch a movie without realizing what kind of a story it is and what to expect of it.
an actor is only as good as the words on the page.
Sure, sure... Which is why there is no difference in a Hamlet portrayed by Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branagh, Christian Bale, Ethan Hawke or Richard Burton.
but remember, first comes the plot, then comes all the flourishes like humor, drama, wit
Try using "most basic" instead of "first" there and see how it works for ya.
Also, a movie with no actors is called a documentary.
And just like a painting or a photo or poem or a book... it still tells a STORY.
As for no plot... Look up Memento and Pulp Fiction to see how much of "unexpected" is nothing but simple breaking up of the plot.
Or get really wild and go for A Night On Earth or Coffee and Cigarettes for movies where plot is practically non existent - instead it's a theme that makes it all work.
And none of those movies' true value is in the "unexpected".
Taxing them more simply means higher prices for all the customers. That would be us, not them.
Apple is already charging their costumers for literally and figuratively imaginary properties of its products.
They are charging customers for the Apple IMAGE.
To the people who are image shopping increase of price means diddly squat.
Or they are not really serious about keeping up their image of whatever Apple products mean out there.
Cool? Hip? Creative? Expensive? Better than others?
So... Making Apple pay what they owe would either have no effect on their sales - or Apple would suddenly stop being cool and only SERIOUS Apple users who really know how to appreciate Apple products would buy Apple once again.
Which only leaves the question of are "you" a serious Apple user who doesn't mind a paltry increase in price - or are you just a hipster, trying to be cool?
Shocked to find that he would be involved in fraudulent activities!
Encountering new narratives is one of narrative's fundamental pleasures. Novelty is so important to narratives that in many cases entire classes of aesthetic effects and domains of hermeneutic structures depend on an audience's relative ignorance about what happens next.
If one's "narrative" depends on secrecy - it's junk.
And if all one has to present to the audience is "won't tell you what happens next" - he/she is a lousy storyteller and a below average writer.
Same goes for film makers and any other kind of creative work.
There has to be more to it than just plot for the story to be worth anything beyond the cost of ink and paper.
And on top of that DELIVERY is everything.
There is a reason why THE Maltese Falcon is the one with Bogart or why THE Scarface is the one with Al Pacino - despite both being remakes.
Or why there are a handful of directors for whose movies one can be certain that they are worth a watch regardless of what the movie is about.
Or why people still pay money to watch ancient Greek plays in a theater, performed by live actors.
I.e. It's not the letters and words, but how you tell the joke.
And unless the one "spoiling" the plot is some kind of genius storyteller who can convey the feel of the story and the scenes in it as vividly as if one is experiencing them from the source (in which case that is a show worth paying for) - then nothing is spoiled.
At least to the audience that actually pays attention to more than just words.
Those who can't be bothered to invest some attention and understanding into their own entertainment... Fuck em.
It's their own fault they don't know how to enjoy the culture beyond the level of a five-year-old.
"Protect the value of those narratives for future generations"... Holy FUCK what a retarded idea.
Here's a clue... That little quip about the spoiler in Oedipus Rex?
Any, ANY sense conveyed in that sentence depends on the fact that EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS THE PLOT OF THAT FUCKIN DRAMA.
I.e. Your example about "protecting narratives" only works because of "spoilers" - NOT DUE TO PROTECTION.
Had those narratives been "protected" you'd sound like you're babbling nonsense.
Instead of just talking nonsense.
Point of the Katyn one is that those executed there were armed soldiers. From a real army.
With guns that no civilian anywhere can ever posses - like artillery.
Just like Hungarians did, when Zhukov just waltzed in and disarmed entire divisions.
And I also gave you links to what happens when military force, foreign or domestic, decides to topple the government.
While civilian leaders end up blowing their own brains out with their own guns.
And that was 20th century. Now...
You are deluding yourself that a supposed "armed insurance against tyranny" built-in back in the late 18th century can be of any use in the 21st.
Hell, they couldn't even envision repeater rifles or armor back then - or they would have said something about that too.
And funny how those white guys back then said nothing about civilians having cannons... Must have just slipped their minds that a tyrant is sure to have artillery...
If your plan is to "fight the government" with guns today... unless you can take down tanks and the air-force and guided missiles and drones... you might as well be waving a feather duster while calling their mothers "whores".
While they calmly and casually burn you alive.
They don't want a theocracy
Theocracy is is exactly what they want.
When they are not planning to bring about Armageddon by looking for loopholes in the Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel.
Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[9]
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Nearly all those executed had both the guns AND were trained soldiers and police officers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those that killed them simply had more guns. And more authority.
The killings were methodical.
After the personal information of the condemned was checked and approved, he was handcuffed and led to a cell insulated with stacks of sandbags along the walls and a heavy, felt-lined door.
The victim was told to kneel in the middle of the cell, was then approached from behind by the executioner and immediately shot in the back of the head or neck.[35]
The body was carried out through the opposite door and laid in one of the five or six waiting trucks, whereupon the next condemned was taken inside and subjected to the same fate.
In addition to muffling by the rough insulation in the execution cell, the pistol gunshots were also masked by the operation of loud machines (perhaps fans) throughout the night.
Some post-1991 revelations suggest that prisoners were also executed in the same manner at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, though judging by the way that the corpses were stacked, some captives may have been shot while standing on the edge of the mass graves.[36]
This procedure went on every night, except for the public May Day holiday.[37]
Or you could read up on Hungarian revolution of 1956.
They too had guns and hundreds of thousands of people.
Meanwhile, both Hitler and Mussolini got their power NOT through the use of guns, but through political means.
When shit hits the fan and "they", whoever they may be, come to take your freedom by force... well... ask Salvador Allende what good is a gun.
And Hafizullah Amin might also have something to say on that topic.
They don't want a theocracy
Theocracy is is exactly what they want.
When they are not planning to bring about Armageddon by looking for loopholes in the Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some Fundamentalist Christians believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ cannot occur until the Third Temple is constructed in Jerusalem, which requires the appearance of a red heifer born in Israel.
Clyde Lott, a cattle breeder in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, is attempting to systematically breed red heifers and export them to Israel to establish a breeding line of red heifers in Israel in the hope that this will bring about the construction of the Third Temple and ultimately the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[9]
We already know from the summary that Trump is not a real Scotsman.
We don't need more arguing along those lines from Trumpgnostics with a hardon for anything that feels anti-Obama to them.
Regardless how retarded it may be.
Q&A . . . Lots of great input, thank you. Hope the answers help.
1) The reason there is not more hype is pretty simple.
"Big Steel" emailed we can't even attend their public events because "Flash Bainite competes with their products" made in their $400M furnaces.
Big Steel and their Academic friends are dug in pretty deep to protect marketspace and profits.
We'd like to work with Big Steel when they're ready but for now favorable licensing is available to others in the supply chain.
2) As for corrosion, Flash 1600 has already passed the 400 hour salt spray test. Paint/bake and chrome plating work well too.
E-galvanizing is already used by OEMs so Flash will start in hidden structural parts (not Class A visible) so rust would have to get through other parts first.
3) The reason 7% stronger Flash can make parts 30-50% lighter is that Flash Bainite can be formed/bent into complex shapes at vastly higher strengths than other advanced high strength steels.
Flash's extra 7% strength for a given alloy is just a bonus. The US Army did 5mm thick Charpy tests and found no catastrophic ductile to brittle transition down to -40 degrees.
There's also energy absorption results on tubing that an OEM allowed to be presented a few years ago at Cambridge Univ which outperformed five leading vehicles' door beams by 15-20% at the same mass.
4) Stress Corrosion can happen in all AHSS but the Steel Industry and Auto OEMs know how to handle this.
SCC can happen when hydrogen migrates on the grain boundary surface area. AHSS is highly grain refined thus lots of total surface area.
Flash Bainite has notably larger grains so there is expected to be less SCC with much less boundary surface area for hydrogen to move on.
5) I completely disagree that Flash is brittle.
Aside from the testing at Auto OEMs withheld due to NDAs, look at the cover photo of the Crush Can at 48 Rockwell C and see how the Flash folded.
I am unaware of any other material at 48Rc that can fold to absorb energy without shattering.
6) I don't think Flash in a car is decades away with 2025's 54mpg fast approaching.
Three very large OEMs are asking for coils of steel asap and one is about ready for running changes.
While we are focusing on a modest production capacity in-house, we are very open to licensing Flash to others to meet the Auto needs . . .
And every other Industry looking for lighter, stronger, safer, less costly, readily weldable metal.
GaryCola 12th December, 2015 @ 9:43 p.m. (California Time)
A fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sure, sure... let's just count the money.
That way most people's lives aren't worth the sweat off a donkey's balls.
And shit like those eggheads playing god with their giant electricity spending machines is beyond waste.
On the other hand... counting technological spinoffs...
Spinoff is a NASA publication featuring technology made available to the public.
Since 1976, NASA has featured an average of 50 technologies each year in the annual publication, and Spinoff maintains a searchable database of these technologies.
When products first spun off from space research, NASA presented a black and white report in 1973, titled the "Technology Utilization Program Report". Because of interest in the reports, NASA decided to create the annual publications in color.
Spinoff was first published in 1976,[14] and since then, NASA has distributed free copies to universities, the media, inventors, and the general public.
Spinoff describes how NASA works with various industries and small businesses to bring new technology to the public.
As of 2015, there were over 1,800 Spinoff products in the database dating back to 1976.[37]
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinof...
But the part I love the most is how that "spinoff is a myth" text, though it ignores the fact that those spinoffs are a BYPRODUCT of research for actual completed scientific projects and NOT of direct research with the goal of return on investment - still can't hide the fact, however it may try, that money invested in "NASA activities" RETURNED PROFIT aaaaand accomplished the missions.
Missions whose goal was NOT making profit.
Science, space capabilities AND free money.
A total of over $21 billion in sales and savings benefits were identified as resulting from NASA activities.
However, the report conceded that only about $5 billion of this total was due to actual spinoff, that is "instances in which a product, process, or even an entire company would not have come into existence had it not been for the NASA furnished technology."
Most notable among these is the $1.6 billion in medical instruments, frequently cited as a major NASA spinoff.
The remaining $16 billion in benefits were in areas where "the NASA technology contributed to the sales, but that contribution can vary widely, from a relatively small percentage of the total sales or savings..."
And in this area, additional sales of commercial aircraft accounted for over $10 billion.
Just imagine all the money NASA could have made if they were honesttogod genuine Scotsmen...
Grocery stores buy at lowest price and sell at what market will bear.
They are usually buying from large chain suppliers who in turn often import.
They too look to buy low and sell high. And they also buy from producers and suppliers who do the same.
And if ANY link in the supply chain mislabels their produce in order to get a better price...
The other thing is... all that food being shipped and left sitting there in the store for days means pest control.
Or roaches and rats munching on your produce.
And that means pesticides. Applied IN STORE by people who have no clue of dosage or which pesticides should be applied. Couple of cans or RAID? Why not?
That's why there are no differences in taste in "organic" vs. "regular" FARMED food - but people buying in supermarkets still complain about the taste.
Send them to a farmers market and they'll happily buy and eat pesticide sprayed and GMO produce thinking it's "organic" - cause farmers know what "time to harvest" is for and cause their produce is FRESH.
...that a person who might be paranoid or greedy enough to try to cut the government out of his money, enough to try to invent a currency of his own, would also have tax issues with the government.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that out!
It's a trap!
but they'll still need to have holsters and bullets.
Holster is there to make carrying and use of a weapon safer and easier.
And unless humans start growing or grafting prehensile tentacle - maximum number of objects a person can effectively carry and use with their hands at the same time will remain two or less.
Thus pockets. And bags. And belts.
All of which can cause one's weapon and or hand to snag on them while getting it out.
Ergo - holsters.
As for bullets...
As long as conservation of momentum still works in the future, projectiles WILL be transferring the product of their mass and velocity to the object they collide with.
You'll only anger it. And then it will catch you and eat you.
It's handguns.
Specifically...
I've got a whole bundle more shibboleths up my sleeve that flag a work of SF as being implausible... futures in which we wear mini-dresses and three-piece suits, drive gas-burning automobiles (or hovercars: it's just a rabbit/smeerp replacement), carry handguns (or blasters: see rabbit/smeerp), eat the kind of food we eat today, live the kind of way we live today, and most importantly think the way we think today.
And much more.
But as far as guns and food are concerned... whatever his reason for abjection may be it is either genuinely retarded (hrrr-drrr... gun control will take R gunz... hrrr-drrr nobody wants guns... hrrr-drrr handwave-magic-chemistry-denial-field...) or specific to the point of "because" (everyone eating pills...because... everyone eating solar through spliced plant genes...because... everyone eating vegetarian...because... everyone eating cloned humans... because...).
BTW... He also has issues with "Faceless 80's style corporations ruling entire planets (hint: who handles the externalities?)... political structures based on design patterns proven to be unworkable in the context of any society more modern than the late middle ages (empires in space, I'm looking at you): any interplanetary/interstellar setting where the mechanics of trade are lifted straight out of a Joseph Conrad novel, or 1920s era pulps about life aboard a tramp steamer".
He wrote Saturn's Children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The novel chronicles the travels and perils of Freya Nakamichi-47, a gynoid in a distant future in which humanity is extinct and a near-feudal android society has spread throughout the Solar System.
Wealthy and self-indulgent "aristos" own and have enslaved most of the populace; the remaining "free" androids struggle to keep themselves independent and can rarely afford the exorbitant costs of interplanetary travel.
Freya, a robotic courtesan designed to please humans but activated a century after their mysterious extinction, is considered obsolete and works menial jobs to survive.
When she offends an aristo and needs to escape off-world, she accepts a job as a courier for the mysterious Jeeves Corporation and becomes embroiled in a complex and dangerous war among factions conspiring against each other for control of society.
Sooo... near feudalism and slavery and ... perpetrated by robots to robots... and faceless, humanless corporations that rule everything.
Now... If he had only looked in the mirror and then shibbolethed THAT guy... things would have surely been simpler for everyone.
Religion/Faith is a human specific mental condition specifically manifest to deal with the unpleasantness of the reality in which the subject finds itself.
No... Not Religion/Faith. You're describing ONLY faith.
And it's not quite what we usually consider insanity. No more than love or fear or happiness. It IS illogical... but very, very normal.
There is no such thing as a perfectly sane human - cause being a functional human requires feelings and emotions.
A perfectly rational human is a psychopath.
But you've answered your own question.
Now... You might still be missing the point that I was trying to make - that the CNS itself is what is susceptible to errors and biases.
There. We've settled that then.