Maybe because simply pointing it at the animal you intend to shoot would be painful and startling to the animal. Unless you're really good at shooting moving targets, using this as an aim assist on a gun is just stupid. (To say nothing of the personal safety issues mentioned by all my sibling posters.)
Exactly what CraftyCoder said. While there are legitimate uses for a 1W laser, there is no fucking reason for a 1W laser to be available as a handheld model. There's no fucking way that being able to point a 1W laser at anything you want on a whim (or a sneeze) is safe or even sane.
So while you are correct that a laser like this has legitimate uses, this laser does not. You are not going to pay $1000 for a handheld laser if you're planning on mounting it on something for one of the uses you describe. You're going to buy one of the lasers already on the market designed for that exact use case, that probably cost less than $1/W. Selling a product like this is simply irresponsible.
Thank nature for that one. Flame throwers are unregulated and fully legal in most of the US due to insect populations. The absolute safest way to combat swarms of insects is a cloud of firey death. As I heard it, flamethrowers were unregulated and legal to help combat bees and their flying stinging cousins, and remain so just in case their populations happen to surge out of control in the future. Lucky for all of us, flamethrowers are relatively short range weapons, and only cause significant damage if used to set homes or forested areas ablaze. Plus humans have a long history of knowledge of 'Fire Bad!' so the people using flamethrowers irresponsibly are few and far between.
It really should be illegal to sell something as a 'Laser Pointer' when the manufacturer/merchant explicitly tell you not to point it at people, animals, or cars. So that leaves what? Plants and other inanimate objects? It's not exactly a pointer when you have to be damned careful at what you're pointing. Calling it a laser pointer downplays its dangerousness and to me has the appearance of intentionally misleading the customer to increase sales. If anyone ever gets harmed by one of these things, WickedLasers should be charged with criminal negligence and fined for millions of dollars. I don't have anything against them selling high powered lasers, but selling them irresponsibly and describing them to potential customers in a way one might describe a toy is simply inexcusable.
The.300 Winchester Magnum is a special case among handguns in that it bears a rifled barrel. That is why it is accurate at that range. Traditional handguns do not have rifled barrels and as such the bullet begins to tumble and alter its trajectory after only a few hundred feet (could be a bit longer, but not much more than a quarter mile; I'm having trouble finding a good source.) If someone manages to so much as hit you with a 9mm at a mile away let alone takes out an eye, they got extremely lucky.
I'll grant you that on the small scale a firearm can be just as permanently damaging as a high powered laser beam. But on a larger scale, bullets don't reflect off of surfaces with the same velocity as they had before impact, and they also don't split into infinite pieces capable of harming everyone around. Firearms are arguably more deadly than a laser, but lasers are far more dangerous in nearly all situations.
Why do people buy $100K cars that get 5 MPG? Hint: Most are compensating for something. If you can't make friends on your own merits, buy flashy crap to do it for you.
The flashlight is actually more effective than an expensive car at getting you laid. You just shine it in the woman's eyes and have sex with her while she's disoriented. Kind of like those camera flash-bulbs you see in those old merry melodies cartoons.
Haha, I can just see some dumbass trying to use one as a gun sight. "Why the hell these deer keep running away as soon as I target them? This thing sucks!"
That second quote though pretty much supports the argument for requiring a license to own one of these things all by its lonesome. Seriously, if you can't (safely) use it for pointing at things, what the fuck use is it to random Joe Schlub? None.
Three dollars a day is 12.5 cents an hour. Now can you actually turn out more than 12.5 cents worth of bitcoins per hour on what you're renting with that money? Probably not. I haven't visited the site since I'm at work, but I'm guessing the $3 a day figure is for renting a single box for proxied web browsing, not anything capable of doing any heavy lifting.
Guess you've never heard of manual salad spinners, huh? You either depress a spring loaded plunger or turn a crank to spin the water off of the lettuce. No electricity required, just a couple calories.
The OP is trying to inspire the children to go into software development, not dissuade them. Showing 7 and 8 years olds a video of me crying, drinking vodka, and playing Russian Roulette at my desk all day would be a terrible idea.
Seeing as step G is the most important, I suggest pairing the pamphlet with little bottles of vodka and bloody mary mix. It serves double duty for avoiding people talking about work, since they can just break the bottle and attack them with the make-shift knife!
Soul-sucking? That's why we have beer and alcohol! If you're in software development and you're not showing up to work hung over every morning you're doing it wrong. =)
It's about a new mirror that the New York Times is developing that will tell you some bitch down the block is prettier than you are. Lucky for you however it is connected to the internet so you can find that poison apple recipe and even order the ingredients without so much as a second thought!
You won't use it, it will use you. In the end this thing will end up detecting what kind of activity you are partaking in and serve you ads for relevant products. If they give these things away free and pay me to see the ads I'll take one and install it. Of course I'll disassemble it and disable the display first. Yay free money!
Content packages need not be given away for free. All the game producers have to do is maintain the servers and fix bugs. Why? Because that's the bare minimum that you can get by with and still hold onto customers. Giving away content for free at regular intervals (ala Blizzard with WoW) fosters goodwill amongst your userbase however and also helps to keep them paying to play. The way I read what you quoted, is that the developer could choose to release those content packs for free (for the same price) if they felt benevolence was the right thing to do. How this falls under microtransactions I don't know; maybe it's so small it doesn't even exist? You could also read that statement as the developer releasing a base game, then two months later adding a content pack to the base game and charging the same price for it. Existing players have to pay extra to get it, while the new players get it for 'free'. The cost offset for the existing players is that they have been enjoying the game for far longer than someone just buying the game today. It's no different than buying a game in a B&M a few months after release once the price drops, only you're paying the release price and getting additional content instead. Think 'Game of the Year' editions. Come to think of it, the second explanation for that quote makes more sense. Regardless, content need not be free, but its price can be manipulated in order to create an inflated sense of value.
Except that te parents who chose not to vaccinate their kids will not get it because their parents weren't nutjobs.
Makes me hope that children who weren't immunized and get measles call up their grandparents and ask 'Why did you raise Mommy/Daddy to be such a fuckwit?'
Your post makes me think of all those half-baked safety images you see on Chinese products with the stick person doing something stupid and a slashed circle over it.
Do not put Panda Poo(TM) in mouth
Do not wash windows with Panda Poo(TM)
Do not allow children to play with Panda Poo(TM) unsupervised
They show a prideful disdain for the Panda that I find to be rather demonstrative of their real attitude, which is of a Darwinian Socialist attitude that sees the weak as something fit to be crushed, not to be sheltered.
Haha, I'd love to see them approach one with a sharp stick and give it a good poke. When they come back I'll shake their stump for their bravery.
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Maybe because simply pointing it at the animal you intend to shoot would be painful and startling to the animal. Unless you're really good at shooting moving targets, using this as an aim assist on a gun is just stupid. (To say nothing of the personal safety issues mentioned by all my sibling posters.)
Exactly what CraftyCoder said. While there are legitimate uses for a 1W laser, there is no fucking reason for a 1W laser to be available as a handheld model. There's no fucking way that being able to point a 1W laser at anything you want on a whim (or a sneeze) is safe or even sane.
So while you are correct that a laser like this has legitimate uses, this laser does not. You are not going to pay $1000 for a handheld laser if you're planning on mounting it on something for one of the uses you describe. You're going to buy one of the lasers already on the market designed for that exact use case, that probably cost less than $1/W. Selling a product like this is simply irresponsible.
Thank nature for that one. Flame throwers are unregulated and fully legal in most of the US due to insect populations. The absolute safest way to combat swarms of insects is a cloud of firey death. As I heard it, flamethrowers were unregulated and legal to help combat bees and their flying stinging cousins, and remain so just in case their populations happen to surge out of control in the future. Lucky for all of us, flamethrowers are relatively short range weapons, and only cause significant damage if used to set homes or forested areas ablaze. Plus humans have a long history of knowledge of 'Fire Bad!' so the people using flamethrowers irresponsibly are few and far between.
It really should be illegal to sell something as a 'Laser Pointer' when the manufacturer/merchant explicitly tell you not to point it at people, animals, or cars. So that leaves what? Plants and other inanimate objects? It's not exactly a pointer when you have to be damned careful at what you're pointing. Calling it a laser pointer downplays its dangerousness and to me has the appearance of intentionally misleading the customer to increase sales. If anyone ever gets harmed by one of these things, WickedLasers should be charged with criminal negligence and fined for millions of dollars. I don't have anything against them selling high powered lasers, but selling them irresponsibly and describing them to potential customers in a way one might describe a toy is simply inexcusable.
The .300 Winchester Magnum is a special case among handguns in that it bears a rifled barrel. That is why it is accurate at that range. Traditional handguns do not have rifled barrels and as such the bullet begins to tumble and alter its trajectory after only a few hundred feet (could be a bit longer, but not much more than a quarter mile; I'm having trouble finding a good source.) If someone manages to so much as hit you with a 9mm at a mile away let alone takes out an eye, they got extremely lucky.
I'll grant you that on the small scale a firearm can be just as permanently damaging as a high powered laser beam. But on a larger scale, bullets don't reflect off of surfaces with the same velocity as they had before impact, and they also don't split into infinite pieces capable of harming everyone around. Firearms are arguably more deadly than a laser, but lasers are far more dangerous in nearly all situations.
Why do people buy $100K cars that get 5 MPG? Hint: Most are compensating for something. If you can't make friends on your own merits, buy flashy crap to do it for you.
The flashlight is actually more effective than an expensive car at getting you laid. You just shine it in the woman's eyes and have sex with her while she's disoriented. Kind of like those camera flash-bulbs you see in those old merry melodies cartoons.
Haha, I can just see some dumbass trying to use one as a gun sight. "Why the hell these deer keep running away as soon as I target them? This thing sucks!"
That second quote though pretty much supports the argument for requiring a license to own one of these things all by its lonesome. Seriously, if you can't (safely) use it for pointing at things, what the fuck use is it to random Joe Schlub? None.
Three dollars a day is 12.5 cents an hour. Now can you actually turn out more than 12.5 cents worth of bitcoins per hour on what you're renting with that money? Probably not. I haven't visited the site since I'm at work, but I'm guessing the $3 a day figure is for renting a single box for proxied web browsing, not anything capable of doing any heavy lifting.
Guess you've never heard of manual salad spinners, huh? You either depress a spring loaded plunger or turn a crank to spin the water off of the lettuce. No electricity required, just a couple calories.
Bring in some pictures and video.
The OP is trying to inspire the children to go into software development, not dissuade them. Showing 7 and 8 years olds a video of me crying, drinking vodka, and playing Russian Roulette at my desk all day would be a terrible idea.
Seeing as step G is the most important, I suggest pairing the pamphlet with little bottles of vodka and bloody mary mix. It serves double duty for avoiding people talking about work, since they can just break the bottle and attack them with the make-shift knife!
Soul-sucking? That's why we have beer and alcohol! If you're in software development and you're not showing up to work hung over every morning you're doing it wrong. =)
Funny, I searched Google for those pictures you uploaded and the only results I saw were pictures of your wife's purse...
Sadly (in this case only) Mel Brooks is nothing like George Lucas. Which sucks because these things are bound to be annoying as hell.
It's about a new mirror that the New York Times is developing that will tell you some bitch down the block is prettier than you are. Lucky for you however it is connected to the internet so you can find that poison apple recipe and even order the ingredients without so much as a second thought!
You won't use it, it will use you. In the end this thing will end up detecting what kind of activity you are partaking in and serve you ads for relevant products. If they give these things away free and pay me to see the ads I'll take one and install it. Of course I'll disassemble it and disable the display first. Yay free money!
Content packages need not be given away for free. All the game producers have to do is maintain the servers and fix bugs. Why? Because that's the bare minimum that you can get by with and still hold onto customers. Giving away content for free at regular intervals (ala Blizzard with WoW) fosters goodwill amongst your userbase however and also helps to keep them paying to play. The way I read what you quoted, is that the developer could choose to release those content packs for free (for the same price) if they felt benevolence was the right thing to do. How this falls under microtransactions I don't know; maybe it's so small it doesn't even exist? You could also read that statement as the developer releasing a base game, then two months later adding a content pack to the base game and charging the same price for it. Existing players have to pay extra to get it, while the new players get it for 'free'. The cost offset for the existing players is that they have been enjoying the game for far longer than someone just buying the game today. It's no different than buying a game in a B&M a few months after release once the price drops, only you're paying the release price and getting additional content instead. Think 'Game of the Year' editions. Come to think of it, the second explanation for that quote makes more sense. Regardless, content need not be free, but its price can be manipulated in order to create an inflated sense of value.
Except that te parents who chose not to vaccinate their kids will not get it because their parents weren't nutjobs.
Makes me hope that children who weren't immunized and get measles call up their grandparents and ask 'Why did you raise Mommy/Daddy to be such a fuckwit?'
but I can think of plenty of big-eared, big-eyed, skittish ones.
You leave Dobby out of this! He was a good house elf!
I have no problem if we've reached a sort of evolutionary stability.
I do! I want my laserbeam eyes dammit!
They show a prideful disdain for the Panda that I find to be rather demonstrative of their real attitude, which is of a Darwinian Socialist attitude that sees the weak as something fit to be crushed, not to be sheltered.
Haha, I'd love to see them approach one with a sharp stick and give it a good poke. When they come back I'll shake their stump for their bravery.
Oh how I wish I had mod points. Good one mate. Good one. :-)
Well, provided we could trust that singular company to not abuse its monopoly and actually pass the savings on to the consumer... Yes.
Back here in the real world however... Yeah.....
Holy crap. Someone dump AT&T into a vat of molten steel quick! You can break the mother-fucker up, but it just keeps reforming!