no, the 5.56 is a weak cartrige because the army fucked it up.
the original 55 grain cartridge, out of the original AR-15 was a great round, and great gun, but money and politics fucked the M16, and its wonder bullet all it.
If you had an original M16, with the original 55 grain 5.56 round, they had the kick of a.22, and the punch of a.30 cal. It used to rabbit around your insides, chewing you up from the inside, and was very controllable under fully auto.
Then the army ordered more bullets, and went with the leftover gunpowder, and fucked everything up.
1. the old powder was more powerful, so the bullets didn't rabbit, they went throught the targets 2. They were dirtier, and guns jammed, and broke. 3. the rate of fire increase because of the higher power of the cart causing more malfunctions, and destroying gun internals.
So they tweaked the internals, made a heavier bullet to go through body armor, and while the modern M16s (A2s and later), and M4s won't jam, or break, the round is really ineffective, doubly so for short barrel m4s, who have lower barrel pressure, and there effective kill range is from 50m-250m.
The rest of NATO uses 5.56 because we twisted their arms. We have a hard time getting rid of the bullet because its so widely used, it would be very expensive to replace all the guns and bullets of our military and all our allies who use it, but believe me the modern US military has no love for the 5.56
the 5.56 round is popular with gun enthusiasts because of its military status, and the fact its cheaper than similar rounds due to volume of scale, and availability of military surplus.
the M16 style guns, the AR15, are very popular because the design is under the Public Domain, and since they are military, very easy to maintain, and there are more mods and customizations for the AK47 and M16 than any other guns combined.
the AR15 is a "platform" not unlike the linux of guns. Its just a reciever with parts, of which you can customize anyway you want, more so than other guns.
The AK47 is also popular because its a big caliber, and they are cheap comparitively and ammunition is again very inexpensive due to effeciencies of scale. They are also customizable, and easy to maintain, because again, its a military rifle.
1. the authorities for the sure to happen knee jerk overreaction which innocent scapegoats will be arrested as potential shooters, to calm down the public and show their "effectiveness"
2. the media for drumming up the hysteria after every fucking shooting in the first place.
yes and no. sometimes on an internal network, they use private IPs, especially, with IPv4 exhaustion, they don't have an IP for every machine on the network, or they don't want most machines to be accessable directly from the outside. You can the use Network Addresss Translation(NAT), which has the router automaticly route incomming traffic to the right local IP.
example, on your home network, you only get one IP per house, and all computers use it. Locally your hom network uses 192.168.0.something, and some variant is used over and over by lots of computers
There are three address ranges specificly set asside for this, that aren't assigned on the outside internet. Of course you don't HAVE to use these, but if you don't, you can break things. Some people who like to think they are clever, like using random non-spec ranges because they think intruders will never guess them.(Here is a hint, it doesn't work like that, if they can break into your network, whatever tool they use, is going to give away whatever naming scheme you use, even if you don't have DHCP or any other automatic IP naming scheme.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
192.168.x.x 172.16.x.x to 172.31.x.x 10.x.x.x
If your not using those ranges for private networks, your dumb, and you'll cause major issues.
"Look at what Pat Tillman had to write about it," Pat Tillman? you mean that spoilled little brat who wanted to play hero, but got mad when he had to earn his spot on the starting team over again?
Sure, we do a lot of stuff wrong, but only to bring it up when some dumb rich kid got fragged????? Thats a slap in the face to everyone else who's served. Seriously fuck that guy.
With Cannocal's latest move to intergrating online shopping into Unity, it just makes sense to partner with the government of the country who makes all this stuff in the first place.
In other news, new installs of pirate copies of windows have fallen 50% worldwide.
yeah, its because people like Oliver Stone, and film makers really care less about objective facts than news media does.
So when People like Oliver Stone get done with it, its so innacurate, off base, fraught with errors, and re-arranged to make the story better, or fit his own preconcieved notions, you have no idea what the grain of truth in it really is.
Hollywood is hillarious:
first they say "Of course its true, didn't you see movie xyz, it happened just like that!"
next when its pointed out its not the case: "Facts? This is a fictional movie, we have no responsibility to portray facts!"
Then we have half the nation who watches "The Daily Show", and gets their political opinions from a comedy show who's repeatedly stated they have no moral obligation to portray the facts correctly, when corrected, because its a comedy show.
it would be like today, when they all air eachothers dirty laundry, but we would have gotten to seen it all, instead of thinking they were all great people, and blew the cover off the guilden age, and shattered many myths about post-war America
code.org is run by microsoft to promote microsoft products to little kids with government money, and to make sure kids grow up with microsoft approved coding habbits and ideas about programming, before they find alterantives.
They are also trying to put a postive spin on outsourcing tech jobs to foriegners who already grew up exlcusively with the technology they gave them, to replace westerners who demand more money, and think independantly.
This is all helped by a whole host of corporate artists, celebrities, and other proffesional astro-turfers.
20 years ago, MS went around the globe, giving out computers as "charity", today they are going back around the globe to import these now ground children who were raised on nothing but microsoft to be their new tech workers. There is something sick about this.
Not only do they complain less, they are OK with far less pay, and far les independent thinking.
They are allowed to abuse workers more, but the state controlls, subsidizes and determines who and who cannot run a company more.
They promote chineese companies, subsidize ecnomicly strategic industries, and than tax, or harrass foriegn competition. You know what? It works great for them.
Letting china take over solar like they are doing now, with government subsidises is a giant mistake, from an economic standpoint.
"The plan to collect $2 billion from oil and gas revenues is a tax" yes. all companies pay taxes.
wait, oil and gas wind up paying less, and getting subsidies despite being the most profitable industries they are.
They bitch and moan about might having to go out of business when they are the most profitable industries.
And yeah, mabey someone might need to punish the Oil and Gas companies, at least until gas prices come back down while they rake in record profits.
inb4 someone says "yeah, but you don't have to use a car, truck, motorcycle, or other non-oil burning vehicle, or have to heat your home with oil or gas".
This is what this is about. The Times really didn't like Jullian Assage.
I think its because they are titled, old newspaper snobs who think its not only their duty, but their right to decide what the people get and do not get to hear. They are pissed that things like wikileaks exist in the first place and the old order of newsmedia is being shaken up.
The NYT thinks the people OWE the Times news stories, and they should just for them over, as if they are a perennial authority figure on everything news related.
Again with the leaks, they think it was their sole right to censor the government cables of what and what should not be shown to the public.
So althought it was not wikileaks who outed Manning, but a hacker named Adrian Lamo, who Bradley Manning bragged to about leaking the docs.
So what got Bradley Manning caught was ultimately his own big mouth. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/03/adrian-lamo-bradley-manning-q-and-a
This article is nothing more than some weasel words to get potential informats to go back to the news media instead of new media, for all the wrong reasons. I wreaks of typical news trickery, and self-promotion.
He said he wants nothing to do with the crowd who wants to be diffrent
upstart, now unity, now mir.
Ubuntu is at the forefront of non-standard projects that fracture the GNU/Linux community, with software that generally sucks btw.
Mir has yet to be seen but going by upstart and unity, I don't have much hope.
No, I don't want linux to be exlcusive for experts only, I want it to be easy to use, and I want it to use compatible software as everyone else, so what runs on ubuntu runs on red hat, runs on arch, so we have a shared knowledge base.
and ajax has nothing to do with it. The point is there are better ways to do AJAX than java in 2013. In fact, Java is not the go to for ajax anymore. For most interactive web apps, I think flash has taken over from java
the worst part about this is the statement is inherently untrue.
If an attacker where to gain physical access to your machine, I could easily picture a nice denial of service attack one could perform with a hot cup of java on your computer.
here is a hint its the type that destroys the hardware.
I don't know your setup, but I'd also question the stability of your java platform(and the cup too). If you get a user panic error, you could easily destroy your machine.
"that's 99% of the raison d'etre of Java gone for most end users who are downloading the thing in the first place"
mabey in 1996. There are almost no legimimate java web apps anymore.The biggest use for Java today are cross platform executables like i2p, freenet, and other windows-mac-linux cross platform executables. Those are pretty rare too.
the only major mainstreamish(read non darknet), app I can think that needs it is libre office. Other than that its pretty worthless. For most cross platform dev work, I think python has taken over.
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no, the 5.56 is a weak cartrige because the army fucked it up.
.22, and the punch of a .30 cal. It used to rabbit around your insides, chewing you up from the inside, and was very controllable under fully auto.
the original 55 grain cartridge, out of the original AR-15 was a great round, and great gun, but money and politics fucked the M16, and its wonder bullet all it.
If you had an original M16, with the original 55 grain 5.56 round, they had the kick of a
Then the army ordered more bullets, and went with the leftover gunpowder, and fucked everything up.
1. the old powder was more powerful, so the bullets didn't rabbit, they went throught the targets
2. They were dirtier, and guns jammed, and broke.
3. the rate of fire increase because of the higher power of the cart causing more malfunctions, and destroying gun internals.
So they tweaked the internals, made a heavier bullet to go through body armor, and while the modern M16s (A2s and later), and M4s won't jam, or break, the round is really ineffective, doubly so for short barrel m4s, who have lower barrel pressure, and there effective kill range is from 50m-250m.
The rest of NATO uses 5.56 because we twisted their arms. We have a hard time getting rid of the bullet because its so widely used, it would be very expensive to replace all the guns and bullets of our military and all our allies who use it, but believe me the modern US military has no love for the 5.56
the 5.56 round is popular with gun enthusiasts because of its military status, and the fact its cheaper than similar rounds due to volume of scale, and availability of military surplus.
the M16 style guns, the AR15, are very popular because the design is under the Public Domain, and since they are military, very easy to maintain, and there are more mods and customizations for the AK47 and M16 than any other guns combined.
the AR15 is a "platform" not unlike the linux of guns. Its just a reciever with parts, of which you can customize anyway you want, more so than other guns.
The AK47 is also popular because its a big caliber, and they are cheap comparitively and ammunition is again very inexpensive due to effeciencies of scale. They are also customizable, and easy to maintain, because again, its a military rifle.
this +1
soon we are all blaming eachother instead of
1. the authorities for the sure to happen knee jerk overreaction which innocent scapegoats will be arrested as potential shooters, to calm down the public and show their "effectiveness"
2. the media for drumming up the hysteria after every fucking shooting in the first place.
yes and no. sometimes on an internal network, they use private IPs, especially, with IPv4 exhaustion, they don't have an IP for every machine on the network, or they don't want most machines to be accessable directly from the outside. You can the use Network Addresss Translation(NAT), which has the router automaticly route incomming traffic to the right local IP.
example, on your home network, you only get one IP per house, and all computers use it. Locally your hom network uses 192.168.0.something, and some variant is used over and over by lots of computers
There are three address ranges specificly set asside for this, that aren't assigned on the outside internet. Of course you don't HAVE to use these, but if you don't, you can break things. Some people who like to think they are clever, like using random non-spec ranges because they think intruders will never guess them.(Here is a hint, it doesn't work like that, if they can break into your network, whatever tool they use, is going to give away whatever naming scheme you use, even if you don't have DHCP or any other automatic IP naming scheme.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
192.168.x.x
172.16.x.x to 172.31.x.x
10.x.x.x
If your not using those ranges for private networks, your dumb, and you'll cause major issues.
"Look at what Pat Tillman had to write about it,"
Pat Tillman? you mean that spoilled little brat who wanted to play hero, but got mad when he had to earn his spot on the starting team over again?
Sure, we do a lot of stuff wrong, but only to bring it up when some dumb rich kid got fragged????? Thats a slap in the face to everyone else who's served. Seriously fuck that guy.
The rest of it is pretty spot on.
I feel uncomfortable with this, being that context is not brought up.
I do feel its OK to shoot at ALL enemy soliders durring an actual shooting war.
Its NOT ok to intiate a shooting war over a cyber war
With Cannocal's latest move to intergrating online shopping into Unity, it just makes sense to partner with the government of the country who makes all this stuff in the first place.
In other news, new installs of pirate copies of windows have fallen 50% worldwide.
Because we don't pull this happy horse shit.
yeah, its because people like Oliver Stone, and film makers really care less about objective facts than news media does.
So when People like Oliver Stone get done with it, its so innacurate, off base, fraught with errors, and re-arranged to make the story better, or fit his own preconcieved notions, you have no idea what the grain of truth in it really is.
Hollywood is hillarious:
first they say "Of course its true, didn't you see movie xyz, it happened just like that!"
next when its pointed out its not the case: "Facts? This is a fictional movie, we have no responsibility to portray facts!"
Then we have half the nation who watches "The Daily Show", and gets their political opinions from a comedy show who's repeatedly stated they have no moral obligation to portray the facts correctly, when corrected, because its a comedy show.
it would be like today, when they all air eachothers dirty laundry, but we would have gotten to seen it all, instead of thinking they were all great people, and blew the cover off the guilden age, and shattered many myths about post-war America
seems to be history revisionism to suit the current left-vs-right politics of today
Johnson had no qualms with escalating the war in viet nam for all the wrong reasons. He had blood on his hands. So did Kennedy.
the point is pretty clear.
code.org is run by microsoft to promote microsoft products to little kids with government money, and to make sure kids grow up with microsoft approved coding habbits and ideas about programming, before they find alterantives.
They are also trying to put a postive spin on outsourcing tech jobs to foriegners who already grew up exlcusively with the technology they gave them, to replace westerners who demand more money, and think independantly.
This is all helped by a whole host of corporate artists, celebrities, and other proffesional astro-turfers.
20 years ago, MS went around the globe, giving out computers as "charity", today they are going back around the globe to import these now ground children who were raised on nothing but microsoft to be their new tech workers. There is something sick about this.
Not only do they complain less, they are OK with far less pay, and far les independent thinking.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
seriously snopes?
china's "economic freedom" in reality is a joke.
They are allowed to abuse workers more, but the state controlls, subsidizes and determines who and who cannot run a company more.
They promote chineese companies, subsidize ecnomicly strategic industries, and than tax, or harrass foriegn competition. You know what? It works great for them.
Letting china take over solar like they are doing now, with government subsidises is a giant mistake, from an economic standpoint.
China is not full of stupid people.
"The plan to collect $2 billion from oil and gas revenues is a tax"
yes. all companies pay taxes.
wait, oil and gas wind up paying less, and getting subsidies despite being the most profitable industries they are.
They bitch and moan about might having to go out of business when they are the most profitable industries.
And yeah, mabey someone might need to punish the Oil and Gas companies, at least until gas prices come back down while they rake in record profits.
inb4 someone says "yeah, but you don't have to use a car, truck, motorcycle, or other non-oil burning vehicle, or have to heat your home with oil or gas".
AAAAA = American Association for the Abandonment of All Acronyms
This is what this is about. The Times really didn't like Jullian Assage.
I think its because they are titled, old newspaper snobs who think its not only their duty, but their right to decide what the people get and do not get to hear. They are pissed that things like wikileaks exist in the first place and the old order of newsmedia is being shaken up.
The NYT thinks the people OWE the Times news stories, and they should just for them over, as if they are a perennial authority figure on everything news related.
Again with the leaks, they think it was their sole right to censor the government cables of what and what should not be shown to the public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/opinion/keller-wikileaks-a-postscript.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/28/julian-assange-press-wikileaks-documentary_n_1116599.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/new-york-times-assange-wikileaks_n_814434.html
So althought it was not wikileaks who outed Manning, but a hacker named Adrian Lamo, who Bradley Manning bragged to about leaking the docs.
So what got Bradley Manning caught was ultimately his own big mouth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/03/adrian-lamo-bradley-manning-q-and-a
This article is nothing more than some weasel words to get potential informats to go back to the news media instead of new media, for all the wrong reasons. I wreaks of typical news trickery, and self-promotion.
I thought april 20 was the day you "free your mind"
He said he wants nothing to do with the crowd who wants to be diffrent
upstart, now unity, now mir.
Ubuntu is at the forefront of non-standard projects that fracture the GNU/Linux community, with software that generally sucks btw.
Mir has yet to be seen but going by upstart and unity, I don't have much hope.
No, I don't want linux to be exlcusive for experts only, I want it to be easy to use, and I want it to use compatible software as everyone else, so what runs on ubuntu runs on red hat, runs on arch, so we have a shared knowledge base.
This was a reality since glibc became ABI stable.
This is going to be great until a bunch of canadian terrorist hi-jack an airliner.
hosnap, you both are bringing back my 1996
javascript != java.
and ajax has nothing to do with it. The point is there are better ways to do AJAX than java in 2013. In fact, Java is not the go to for ajax anymore. For most interactive web apps, I think flash has taken over from java
perl, python, php, and javascript, and now HTML5.
all three of them too.
the worst part about this is the statement is inherently untrue.
If an attacker where to gain physical access to your machine, I could easily picture a nice denial of service attack one could perform with a hot cup of java on your computer.
here is a hint its the type that destroys the hardware.
I don't know your setup, but I'd also question the stability of your java platform(and the cup too). If you get a user panic error, you could easily destroy your machine.
"that's 99% of the raison d'etre of Java gone for most end users who are downloading the thing in the first place"
mabey in 1996. There are almost no legimimate java web apps anymore.The biggest use for Java today are cross platform executables like i2p, freenet, and other windows-mac-linux cross platform executables. Those are pretty rare too.
the only major mainstreamish(read non darknet), app I can think that needs it is libre office. Other than that its pretty worthless. For most cross platform dev work, I think python has taken over.
python is a far far far better language.