Get a grip old son. It sure as hell WILL happen if we all don't fall on it like tigers.
Remember good old Bill C-68, the one that banned all sorts of firearms? It does not pass muster with the Charter, not least because it confiscates legally owned property without due process and without compensation. There are other more disturbing reasons, but that will do for starters.
But as if by magic the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have recently decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the bill satisfied the "pith and substance" of the Charter even though if you just read the words it clearly does not. "Pith and substance" is lawyerspeak for "we don't care what the Charter says."
Thus you could easilly face a 10 year prison sentence for the mere posession of an object that you bought legally and paid 8% GST and 7% PST on to boot.
So yes, it could happen that you may be facing a 10 year prison term for "posession" of the klez virus that some doofus e-mailed you. Yes, your ISP could get stuck with 200+GB per month of government mandated storage coming right out of their bottom line which of course comes right out of your hide. And hell yes, some RCMP squeeb could cruise your e-mail and surfing habits at will (depending on how the law gets writ) and come to your house at 3AM for a nice no-knock warrant service because you annoyed his brother in law.
You think these Liberals give a shit what happens to you? Guess again! That ended in the 1950's if it was ever true at all.
"But the real main issue is: If this takes off, what will happen to all the people like the background characters, costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc."
Do you really think CGI is going to get good enough to fool human beings any time soon? Or even any time at all?
The human brain is designed among other things to detect subtle motions that indicate emotional state, physical condition, intentions, a host of things with just a look. To generate a synthetic character that could be as popular as Julia Roberts, one would have to know and duplicate the visual traits that make her popular. Not going to happen soon, if ever. It is easy to CGI a robot or a monster, probably impossible to do it for a human.
Second is the sheer number of pixels to be calculated. If you want something to look real on screen, you pretty much have to duplicate the dot size of 35mm film. At 32 frames per second, that's a hell of a lot of computing which is not that cheap.
Third, where are you going to get all the motion capture to program all those "extras"? No two human beings move the same way, therefore all the extras will have to be "performed" to the same level of complexity as the lead characters. That is one hell of a pile of work for the CGI team to do. If they don't do it, the result will be cartoonish, which will spoil the "realism". Which means ten seconds of "random bum on street corner" will cost the same as ten seconds of "Julia Roberts".
It will probably ALWAYS be cheaper to photograph real humans than create fake ones, so all the set painters etc. will still be needed. CGI is great for impossible special effects, monsters, all that stuff, but it will not replace humans.
However even if it did, I have to ask why anybody should care if a bunch of Hollywood painters etc. lose their jobs. Ask yourself when the last GM car was painted by hand from the factory.
Bring this to the attention of the NRA and the rest of the gun lobby. They hate registration/licensing of all kinds, and they kick ass bigtime in Washington. Just ask Algore.
Yes, you use your opponent's momentum to slam his head into the floor, not your own. You suggest we should punch them in the fist with our face.
Lawmakers will understand that they won't be sucking off the public teat in 2002 if they pass this crap into law, if and only if you make it your business to tell them so.
So you can make silly proposals like this, or you can make yourself useful by telling Disney and the Democrats you won't take their shit.
Strap on a pair and get busy. Tell some Republicans while you're at it.
I disagree. Who keeps Democrats in office even though their socialist policies always fail? Big media.
Who wants the US government to spend gigabucks on this dumbass idea to license hardware and software? Biiiig media.
Who's balls do we have to kick to keep this travesty from coming to pass? Big media AND politicians.
Do you want to win this fight or just whine about who's fault it is? Get on the stick and start the letters flowing. Disney and Uncle Fritz Hollings would be a damn good place to start.
I know damn near all there is to know about gun control, including how it gets passed in Congress. First lots of FUD, then lots of Democratic Party pushing for it. I heard no cries of anguish from the Dems when the DMCA passed. That I heard nothing from the Republicans either is simply indicative of the depth of the rot. Probably they get money from Disney too.
Content control means "they" decide what you will see and what you will watch it on, what you will say and what you will type it on. Gun control is the insurance policy they take out to make sure you can't shoot them when they come to arrest you for violating the content control rules.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the wonderful world of gun control. You are now experiencing exactly the same thing that the NRA has been at war with since 1964. Having fun yet?
I hope it has not escaped anyone's attention that Fritz Hollings is a DEMOCRAT. The Democrat party has consistently pushed for internet taxes, the Clipper chip, encryption restrictions, the DMCA, and now this outrage. Republicans are not blameless, but the Dems are the ones ramrodding this crap.
Why do you suppose that is? Because the big media companies like AOL/Time/Warner and Disney have been keeping them in business, and this is payback time. Also, this is a pure a form of socialist control as you are ever going to see. This is not about Capitalists rulling the world, this is about Liberal Socialists getting a propaganda lock on your TV, computer and reading material.
Therefore let us not be confused as to the source of this. This is originated by Big Media and implemented by socialists. The only way to fight it is the same war the NRA fights the lies about private ownership of firearms. Boycott, demonstrate, VOTE, organise, basically raise all hell with your government representatives of both parties.
The NRA cost Algore the presidency in 2000. You can tell by the complete lack of any gun control talk in the media right now. Should the Dems start pushing this "Computer Registration Act", Slashdot people can join with the rest of the conservatives (read pro-freedom forces) and cost them the 2002 and 2004 elections as well. At the very least the Hon. Senator Hollings should lose his seat over this.
You do not reason with, cooperate with or otherwise work with these people. You fight them and defeat them at all levels from the grass roots to the Oval Office. If you don't, you are going to be standing in line at the Department of Computers every year getting your annual Official Computer Licence upgrade, and running Microsoft Windows, the Officially Sanctioned OS. Y'think Big Media is going to let Linux live? BWAHAHA!!! We will all be trading illegal CDs in Linux speakeasies because web servers will all be run by the NSA.
What, you think they won't do that? Go try to buy a gun in California, New York or Washington DC and tell me they won't! Guns are protected by the Constitution, computers are not.
The Matrix was a fun movie, but I sure as hell don't want to live in it.
Open Source is a hobby with most people. They are very serious about their hobby. They are the same type of guys/gals that grow prize roses, build hotrods that cost a ton, race in the Sportsman class, build ships in bottles, etc.
They don't do it for money, they do it for geek points, fun, to pass the time, whatever. Tell the Congressman to haul his head out and check with the real world once in a while. Hobby produced work almost always equals or exceeds "professional" work in quality and attention to detail at the highest levels.
Open Source, Free software etc. will usually surpass the commercial (M$) version because tons of people are going through it by hand in search of the perfect code, each one trying to do better than the last guy. No company can purchase that kind of dedication.
Car: A machine that takes you from right where you are to exactly where you want to go, when you want to go there, FAST, for pennies per trip. Customizable with personal touches too.
Public Transit: A machine that isn't where you are, that only goes sort of where you want to go (more or less), that you will have to wait up to half an hour for after you walk to where it is, that you have to share with every unwashed drunk in the city, in which you stand a fair chance of being robbed, harassed or otherwise fucked with, and which costs more than one dollar per trip (sometimes more than two dollars), AND for which you pay extortionate taxes even if you never use it. Plus,it is slower than a 386 running Windoze and you don't even get to pick the colour.
Yep, them cars is stupid. We need more public transit. NOT!
There's also the little issue of COST of titanium parts. Not only is the raw material expensive the stuff sticks to tooling like gum on the sidewalk, making it a bitch to work with.
It also sticks to other metals after it has been made into a finished part, which is why you don't see titanium wrist pins,cams,rods, pistons,lifters, cranks etc. in high end racing engines. If it moves, you can't use titanium.
People don't really get it about what a breakthrough the all-titanium SR71 Blackbird was, and why nobody has made any more since the 60's. The Lockheed experience with the Blackbird was one of the main driving forces behind the development of composite construction and ceramics.
Titanium is a monumental pain in the ass to work with, plain and simple.
I mean, just think about it. Here you are, 13 years old and you instantly know what a crock this idea is. I'm 45, I've been in some REAL crappy schools and I've seen a lot of dumb shit in my life, but this takes the cake. Murderers get more slack than this.
Just imagine what a dick the guy must be who thought this up, eh?
But don't sweat it. School ends eventually, even school run by dicks. And the best part is, you get to pick Mom and Dad's old folks home. Remind them of that if they stick you in one of these high tech fishbowls.
Christ, and I thought my highschool career sucked. Imagine being peered at by cameras all day, every day while you do all the stuff highschoolers do. Check out chicks, pass notes, scratch your whatsit... all on TV. Where Mum and Dad can see you. At will, in secret.
Can you say pressure?
Add to this the possibility of being suspended or even jailed for offhand comments about people you are pissed at. Even drawings for crap sakes. My average public school notebook cover would get me suspended for life these days.
My kid is going to private school, I don't care if it bankrupts me. This is friggin' madness.
Clearly, the probes have crossed the Warp Field Barrier out past Pluto. Gravity pulls different out there, away from the disturbing influence of the Sun.
Now all they need to do is fire up their Warp Bubble Generator(TM)and haul ass for Alpha Centauri at C^3 (That would be cube of lightspeed, for you Sociology/English majors). Hooya!
It would be nice, given that the series apparently is placed before ST TOS, if the writers give us some REASON for the Prime Directive. Being nice to the aliens isn't in human nature, there would have to be a very big payoff in following such a policy. A payoff on the order of "the human race doesn't go extinct". Otherwise nobody would bother with it.
It would also be nice if the show reflects humans in a situation where they can't invent a new technology every time they get screwed up someplace.
In other words, spend some effort on the damn scripts, gentlemen.
"...any chance you could enlighten us with the solution to our problem?"
That's easy. You buy a really BIG gun, put it in the back window of your pickup, drive down to Redmond and do something really stupid with it. Rise up ye masses, throw off your chains and be free in the smoking ruins of your formerly great country. Thus spake Ektanoor.
EVERYBODY makes a compromise between cooperation and freedom. The median wavers back and forth. Big deal. You wanna be totally free, go live in Antarctica. Eat penguins.
I think a more reasonable solution would be to just boycott the crap out of Mickeysoft, myself. If they want to play nasty like this, f**k 'em. Wild Bill will watch his market share slump and smarten right up.
Pardon me if I am repeating this, but it seems to me that if you don't like the flavour they're serving you don't have to use their service.
It's not like the worst thing that could ever happen to you is that the TV gets turned off, right?
If you don't like the newfangled computer controls on your car, buy an OLD car. If you are too much of a weenie to wrench on your own junk, PAY somebody else to do it. Novel idea I know, but worth considering.
Not to appear negative, but do you have any idea what free oxygen is going to do to the metal in your engine, not to mention the MUCH higher heat of combustion? Hydrogen/oxygen is a bad fuel for a reciprocating engine, it will burn holes in your pistons pretty quick. Using straight oxygen in the fuel/air mix will do it even quicker.
Plus there is always the dandy possibility of the fuel mix detonating in the intake manifold. This is why Top Fuel dragsters have chains attached to the supercharger: it keeps the blower out of the grandstand if the fuel blows up in the manifold. 70 foot trajectories are not uncommon. In a normal car it will just blow the living crap out of your manifold and carb, and maybe start a nice fire.
Try an NOS injection system. Nitrous Oxide is the poor man's supercharger. It won't help the mileage, but it WILL help you smoke your tires at the stoplight. Nitrous is the only safe way to introduce more oxygen into the mix without a blower or a turbo.
Water injection is somewhat beneficial as another poster mentions, but tends to rot the cast iron parts rather fiercly. Plus, there is the danger of vapour lock. Water is incompressible! Saw a rod out of a motor that vapor locked on a drag strip once. It was bent in every possible dimension. Extensive repair required, big bucks.
What does a Marine need with a non-lethal weapon? Marines are the fast reaction force that goes in to places like Bosnia or Kuwait, kills people and blows shit up. War, in other words. They are not POLICE, they are SOLDIERS.
Plus, what use is a maser going to be to a guy in the field? Either it is mounted on a vehicle instead of a machine gun (rendering the vehicle hopelessly vulnerable), or some poor grunt has to hump the friggin huge battery on his back.
Control of mobs in a war is simple: Gas them, then shoot the ones at the front until the ones at the back run away. War is ugly. Get over it.
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You guys DO realize you could use this thing for a spray booth, right? In fact I have a spray booth for my airbrush that probably has a lower CFM rating than this box. Likely sounds like a 747 when it spools up.
Why not get a "normal" case, stick a couple of cheapie fans in it, screw a handle on and be done with it? Spend your money on RAM.
Paint flames on if you want a cool custom look, maybe a little metal flake. ~:D
I saw that. What an idiot. Probably thinks antibiotics are some kind of Nazi scheme too.
Me, I'll take all the upgrades I can get. I've got 20/20, if I can get 20/10 with contacts I'm on board!
Broken and healed bones ARE weaker. The origional patterns are interupted, which makes a stress riser at the repair site. Same goes for ligaments, tendons etc. When they heal at all, they are weaker.
This is why football players usually can't compete after age 30. All the injury sites are too weak to handle the stess of play.
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Get a grip old son. It sure as hell WILL happen if we all don't fall on it like tigers.
Remember good old Bill C-68, the one that banned all sorts of firearms? It does not pass muster with the Charter, not least because it confiscates legally owned property without due process and without compensation. There are other more disturbing reasons, but that will do for starters.
But as if by magic the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have recently decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the bill satisfied the "pith and substance" of the Charter even though if you just read the words it clearly does not. "Pith and substance" is lawyerspeak for "we don't care what the Charter says."
Thus you could easilly face a 10 year prison sentence for the mere posession of an object that you bought legally and paid 8% GST and 7% PST on to boot.
So yes, it could happen that you may be facing a 10 year prison term for "posession" of the klez virus that some doofus e-mailed you. Yes, your ISP could get stuck with 200+GB per month of government mandated storage coming right out of their bottom line which of course comes right out of your hide. And hell yes, some RCMP squeeb could cruise your e-mail and surfing habits at will (depending on how the law gets writ) and come to your house at 3AM for a nice no-knock warrant service because you annoyed his brother in law.
You think these Liberals give a shit what happens to you? Guess again! That ended in the 1950's if it was ever true at all.
"But the real main issue is: If this takes off, what will happen to all the people like the background characters, costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc."
Do you really think CGI is going to get good enough to fool human beings any time soon? Or even any time at all?
The human brain is designed among other things to detect subtle motions that indicate emotional state, physical condition, intentions, a host of things with just a look. To generate a synthetic character that could be as popular as Julia Roberts, one would have to know and duplicate the visual traits that make her popular. Not going to happen soon, if ever. It is easy to CGI a robot or a monster, probably impossible to do it for a human.
Second is the sheer number of pixels to be calculated. If you want something to look real on screen, you pretty much have to duplicate the dot size of 35mm film. At 32 frames per second, that's a hell of a lot of computing which is not that cheap.
Third, where are you going to get all the motion capture to program all those "extras"? No two human beings move the same way, therefore all the extras will have to be "performed" to the same level of complexity as the lead characters. That is one hell of a pile of work for the CGI team to do. If they don't do it, the result will be cartoonish, which will spoil the "realism". Which means ten seconds of "random bum on street corner" will cost the same as ten seconds of "Julia Roberts".
It will probably ALWAYS be cheaper to photograph real humans than create fake ones, so all the set painters etc. will still be needed. CGI is great for impossible special effects, monsters, all that stuff, but it will not replace humans.
However even if it did, I have to ask why anybody should care if a bunch of Hollywood painters etc. lose their jobs. Ask yourself when the last GM car was painted by hand from the factory.
Progress baby! Suck it up!
Bring this to the attention of the NRA and the rest of the gun lobby. They hate registration/licensing of all kinds, and they kick ass bigtime in Washington. Just ask Algore.
Yes, you use your opponent's momentum to slam his head into the floor, not your own. You suggest we should punch them in the fist with our face.
Lawmakers will understand that they won't be sucking off the public teat in 2002 if they pass this crap into law, if and only if you make it your business to tell them so.
So you can make silly proposals like this, or you can make yourself useful by telling Disney and the Democrats you won't take their shit.
Strap on a pair and get busy. Tell some Republicans while you're at it.
I disagree. Who keeps Democrats in office even though their socialist policies always fail? Big media.
Who wants the US government to spend gigabucks on this dumbass idea to license hardware and software? Biiiig media.
Who's balls do we have to kick to keep this travesty from coming to pass? Big media AND politicians.
Do you want to win this fight or just whine about who's fault it is? Get on the stick and start the letters flowing. Disney and Uncle Fritz Hollings would be a damn good place to start.
I know damn near all there is to know about gun control, including how it gets passed in Congress. First lots of FUD, then lots of Democratic Party pushing for it. I heard no cries of anguish from the Dems when the DMCA passed. That I heard nothing from the Republicans either is simply indicative of the depth of the rot. Probably they get money from Disney too.
Content control means "they" decide what you will see and what you will watch it on, what you will say and what you will type it on. Gun control is the insurance policy they take out to make sure you can't shoot them when they come to arrest you for violating the content control rules.
Explain to me how I'm missing the boat here.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the wonderful world of gun control. You are now experiencing exactly the same thing that the NRA has been at war with since 1964. Having fun yet?
I hope it has not escaped anyone's attention that Fritz Hollings is a DEMOCRAT. The Democrat party has consistently pushed for internet taxes, the Clipper chip, encryption restrictions, the DMCA, and now this outrage. Republicans are not blameless, but the Dems are the ones ramrodding this crap.
Why do you suppose that is? Because the big media companies like AOL/Time/Warner and Disney have been keeping them in business, and this is payback time. Also, this is a pure a form of socialist control as you are ever going to see. This is not about Capitalists rulling the world, this is about Liberal Socialists getting a propaganda lock on your TV, computer and reading material.
Therefore let us not be confused as to the source of this. This is originated by Big Media and implemented by socialists. The only way to fight it is the same war the NRA fights the lies about private ownership of firearms. Boycott, demonstrate, VOTE, organise, basically raise all hell with your government representatives of both parties.
The NRA cost Algore the presidency in 2000. You can tell by the complete lack of any gun control talk in the media right now. Should the Dems start pushing this "Computer Registration Act", Slashdot people can join with the rest of the conservatives (read pro-freedom forces) and cost them the 2002 and 2004 elections as well. At the very least the Hon. Senator Hollings should lose his seat over this.
You do not reason with, cooperate with or otherwise work with these people. You fight them and defeat them at all levels from the grass roots to the Oval Office. If you don't, you are going to be standing in line at the Department of Computers every year getting your annual Official Computer Licence upgrade, and running Microsoft Windows, the Officially Sanctioned OS. Y'think Big Media is going to let Linux live? BWAHAHA!!! We will all be trading illegal CDs in Linux speakeasies because web servers will all be run by the NSA.
What, you think they won't do that? Go try to buy a gun in California, New York or Washington DC and tell me they won't! Guns are protected by the Constitution, computers are not.
The Matrix was a fun movie, but I sure as hell don't want to live in it.
Open Source is a hobby with most people. They are very serious about their hobby. They are the same type of guys/gals that grow prize roses, build hotrods that cost a ton, race in the Sportsman class, build ships in bottles, etc.
They don't do it for money, they do it for geek points, fun, to pass the time, whatever. Tell the Congressman to haul his head out and check with the real world once in a while. Hobby produced work almost always equals or exceeds "professional" work in quality and attention to detail at the highest levels.
Open Source, Free software etc. will usually surpass the commercial (M$) version because tons of people are going through it by hand in search of the perfect code, each one trying to do better than the last guy. No company can purchase that kind of dedication.
Car: A machine that takes you from right where you are to exactly where you want to go, when you want to go there, FAST, for pennies per trip. Customizable with personal touches too.
Public Transit: A machine that isn't where you are, that only goes sort of where you want to go (more or less), that you will have to wait up to half an hour for after you walk to where it is, that you have to share with every unwashed drunk in the city, in which you stand a fair chance of being robbed, harassed or otherwise fucked with, and which costs more than one dollar per trip (sometimes more than two dollars), AND for which you pay extortionate taxes even if you never use it. Plus,it is slower than a 386 running Windoze and you don't even get to pick the colour.
Yep, them cars is stupid. We need more public transit. NOT!
There's also the little issue of COST of titanium parts. Not only is the raw material expensive the stuff sticks to tooling like gum on the sidewalk, making it a bitch to work with.
It also sticks to other metals after it has been made into a finished part, which is why you don't see titanium wrist pins,cams,rods, pistons,lifters, cranks etc. in high end racing engines. If it moves, you can't use titanium.
People don't really get it about what a breakthrough the all-titanium SR71 Blackbird was, and why nobody has made any more since the 60's. The Lockheed experience with the Blackbird was one of the main driving forces behind the development of composite construction and ceramics.
Titanium is a monumental pain in the ass to work with, plain and simple.
What you said, kid. Damn.
I mean, just think about it. Here you are, 13 years old and you instantly know what a crock this idea is. I'm 45, I've been in some REAL crappy schools and I've seen a lot of dumb shit in my life, but this takes the cake. Murderers get more slack than this.
Just imagine what a dick the guy must be who thought this up, eh?
But don't sweat it. School ends eventually, even school run by dicks. And the best part is, you get to pick Mom and Dad's old folks home. Remind them of that if they stick you in one of these high tech fishbowls.
Christ, and I thought my highschool career sucked. Imagine being peered at by cameras all day, every day while you do all the stuff highschoolers do. Check out chicks, pass notes, scratch your whatsit... all on TV. Where Mum and Dad can see you. At will, in secret.
Can you say pressure?
Add to this the possibility of being suspended or even jailed for offhand comments about people you are pissed at. Even drawings for crap sakes. My average public school notebook cover would get me suspended for life these days.
My kid is going to private school, I don't care if it bankrupts me. This is friggin' madness.
Clearly, the probes have crossed the Warp Field Barrier out past Pluto. Gravity pulls different out there, away from the disturbing influence of the Sun.
Now all they need to do is fire up their Warp Bubble Generator(TM)and haul ass for Alpha Centauri at C^3 (That would be cube of lightspeed, for you Sociology/English majors). Hooya!
It would be nice, given that the series apparently is placed before ST TOS, if the writers give us some REASON for the Prime Directive. Being nice to the aliens isn't in human nature, there would have to be a very big payoff in following such a policy. A payoff on the order of "the human race doesn't go extinct". Otherwise nobody would bother with it.
It would also be nice if the show reflects humans in a situation where they can't invent a new technology every time they get screwed up someplace.
In other words, spend some effort on the damn scripts, gentlemen.
Amen.
PBS is of use only to welfare "artists" and leftist propagandists gobbling at the public trough. Let 'em spend their OWN money.
"...any chance you could enlighten us with the solution to our problem?"
That's easy. You buy a really BIG gun, put it in the back window of your pickup, drive down to Redmond and do something really stupid with it. Rise up ye masses, throw off your chains and be free in the smoking ruins of your formerly great country. Thus spake Ektanoor.
EVERYBODY makes a compromise between cooperation and freedom. The median wavers back and forth. Big deal. You wanna be totally free, go live in Antarctica. Eat penguins.
I think a more reasonable solution would be to just boycott the crap out of Mickeysoft, myself. If they want to play nasty like this, f**k 'em. Wild Bill will watch his market share slump and smarten right up.
Pardon me if I am repeating this, but it seems to me that if you don't like the flavour they're serving you don't have to use their service.
It's not like the worst thing that could ever happen to you is that the TV gets turned off, right?
If you don't like the newfangled computer controls on your car, buy an OLD car. If you are too much of a weenie to wrench on your own junk, PAY somebody else to do it. Novel idea I know, but worth considering.
As for cars, so for computers.
Not to appear negative, but do you have any idea what free oxygen is going to do to the metal in your engine, not to mention the MUCH higher heat of combustion? Hydrogen/oxygen is a bad fuel for a reciprocating engine, it will burn holes in your pistons pretty quick. Using straight oxygen in the fuel/air mix will do it even quicker.
Plus there is always the dandy possibility of the fuel mix detonating in the intake manifold. This is why Top Fuel dragsters have chains attached to the supercharger: it keeps the blower out of the grandstand if the fuel blows up in the manifold. 70 foot trajectories are not uncommon. In a normal car it will just blow the living crap out of your manifold and carb, and maybe start a nice fire.
Try an NOS injection system. Nitrous Oxide is the poor man's supercharger. It won't help the mileage, but it WILL help you smoke your tires at the stoplight. Nitrous is the only safe way to introduce more oxygen into the mix without a blower or a turbo.
Water injection is somewhat beneficial as another poster mentions, but tends to rot the cast iron parts rather fiercly. Plus, there is the danger of vapour lock. Water is incompressible! Saw a rod out of a motor that vapor locked on a drag strip once. It was bent in every possible dimension. Extensive repair required, big bucks.
Don't try this at home kids!
What does a Marine need with a non-lethal weapon? Marines are the fast reaction force that goes in to places like Bosnia or Kuwait, kills people and blows shit up. War, in other words. They are not POLICE, they are SOLDIERS.
Plus, what use is a maser going to be to a guy in the field? Either it is mounted on a vehicle instead of a machine gun (rendering the vehicle hopelessly vulnerable), or some poor grunt has to hump the friggin huge battery on his back.
Control of mobs in a war is simple: Gas them, then shoot the ones at the front until the ones at the back run away. War is ugly. Get over it.
You guys DO realize you could use this thing for a spray booth, right? In fact I have a spray booth for my airbrush that probably has a lower CFM rating than this box. Likely sounds like a 747 when it spools up.
Why not get a "normal" case, stick a couple of cheapie fans in it, screw a handle on and be done with it? Spend your money on RAM.
Paint flames on if you want a cool custom look, maybe a little metal flake. ~:D
I saw that. What an idiot. Probably thinks antibiotics are some kind of Nazi scheme too. Me, I'll take all the upgrades I can get. I've got 20/20, if I can get 20/10 with contacts I'm on board!
Broken and healed bones ARE weaker. The origional patterns are interupted, which makes a stress riser at the repair site. Same goes for ligaments, tendons etc. When they heal at all, they are weaker.
This is why football players usually can't compete after age 30. All the injury sites are too weak to handle the stess of play.
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