Nato 5.56mm rounds (M-16 rounds,.22 cal) are designed to tumble very early. They do a massive amount of damage for a small round, because they are designed to tumble very early upon hitting the body, split in two, and produce some massive cavitation
The 5.56 mm tumblin' bullet thing is a myth. The cavitation effect is not. All bullets tumble when passing through a human body. The rate of tumble depends on the shape of the bullet, its length, mass, velocity and so on. I can't remember the number for the 5.56, but the.308 does a half-turn in about 18 inches when passing through flesh and the 5.56 has a somewhat shorter distance being less massive and shorter. I believe it's about 12 inches for 1/2 turn but it's on the order of a body thickness. One thing for sure - There Is No Wildly Spinning Buzzsaw Effect.
The military did test in the mid 1960's a 40 grain bullet in the M-16 that tumbled much more rapidly when passing through flesh. This round did cause more tissue destruction than the 55 grain bullet but only at short ranges. Being only 40 grains it lost velocity quickly and had very little energy at longer ranges (over 200 meters). It was dropped as testing showed the 55 grain bullet was more effective at stopping people at a variety of ranges. In 1984 the army went to a 70 grain bullet for much the same reason. Range is more important then the tumbling effect. As for cavitation, high velocity rounds make a splash as they pass through soft materials as anyone who has fired a rifle into mud knows. That is, a large (over 10 times the bullet diameter)temporary hole opens up inside the body, a cavity it is called, and this causes much more damage than the tumbling effect anyway. The cavity pulverises organs such as the liver or spleen, but isn't so bad on muscle tissue. Cavitation is almost entirely a function of velocity, and the 5.56 has a lot of that ~3,000 feet per second. It does make a big hole out the back sometimes, then again sometimes not.
The extremely anti-military media of the '60's had a field day with the "tumbling bullet story" even though the short bullet wasn't in use nor was it even effective. The press still prints this stuff from time to time - journalists aren't known for double-checking facts except for "he said she said" kinds of things.
What bugs me about spam is the anonymous nature of the businesses. There is, for example, the practice of using false return addresses. What other business is allowed to lie about who they are? Suppose that your bank's employes all used fictitious names, and the bank had a habit of closing doors and moving, but usually advertised a false address. How long would they get away with that?
That's what bugs me. The part that I can't understand is why does the legislature ignore our cries for relief? There's no money in it for them or the state, and I'm pretty sure they aren't hosting $1,000 a plate dinners for herbal Viagra merchants or the "add 2-4 inches" crowd. Or is it that the members of the legislature still in the 20th century and don't even know about the problem?
When the French first tried to impose the metric system on its own population, there was significant resistance - particularly among tradesman. The ever-efficient French simply applied the death penalty for a tradesman to own a non-metric measuring tool. Catch your builder owning a yardstick meant you didn't have to pay the bill, if you get my drift, so pretty soon the metric system caught on.
Even so, the metric time was so universally ignored that the government had to choose between dropping the time requirement or depopulating the continent. And this was at a time when hardly anyone even had a clock.
Germans have a much deeper understanding of the true nature of the world and current events. Having lived for so long next door under the shadow of the Soviet Union gives them a sense of perspective, or at least it did the ones who would be over 14 years of age.
No, you are clearly a native-born Canadian, envious parasites that they are.
If I win the lottery, I'm going to open a library with every CD that I can think of in it. It's free, all I ask is that you return it in a day or two. That should be enough time to 'listen' to any CD. Or am I describing any college campus?
On second thought, if I win the lottery, I'm going to join the Republican party, hire guards to keep the likes of you away, and get some lawyers. And you should be aware that my lawyers will be on your ass in a flash. I don't know what for, but they'll be on you.
The sun looks white to healthy people. It looks yellow to the rest who have jaundice; no doubt obtained from a hedonistic lifestyle including the consumption of alcohol and raw oysters.
As for me, I haven't seen the sun since I got my copy of Warcraft III beta (on-topic, see?) so I can't tell you what it looks like to me.
Nice summary. My reading of Marx was that Marx said plainly that Capitalist economies would always be able to out-produce Communist economies, but that does not make it "right". That is, factories in the 1900's were immensly profitable and produced wealth for it's owners that never again will be equalled. However, the workers at that time were held in virtual slavery by the society of the time with no escape and the use of the police and army to prevent strikes. What Marx did not expect was the gradual change of society through the political process (and two world wars) eventually brought about a levelling of society and opportunity. He did say that he believed the only country that might be able to move to a communistic society was the United States. Even in the mid-1800's the US was recognized as a bastion of freedom for the everage person (And yes they were ignoring slavery)
The Intellectual Property ownership fight is not about fairness for the people who invent things, or to encourage new ideas. It is solely about bringing into being a new aristocratic class whose composition is the "Board of Directors" of the major corporations. The populace has acquired access and control to most of the resources of society through governmental regulation whether you're talking abou the price of oil of access to banking services. What's left is "Intellectual Property", and through this they can again seize control of the means of production and continue the aristocratic tradition. The first step would be extending the period of patent ownership to some incredible length like "life plus 90 years", but surely Congress wouldn't have the gall to rob the public that way.
The hospital I work at recently got rid of theirs. The reason is like many things that are dumped: it's not what it does when it's working, it's what it does when it's not working.
Every once in a while they get lost. Don't know why, maybe someone messing with it on the elevator, maybe they just get lost just because. Sometimes they break and just stop.
When a person gets lost (lost, not hiding), they wander around until they can ask someone that knows where they are. The robot doesn't even know that it's lost. Chances are no one even knows where it was going. It's probably run into an empty room and is cowering in the dark with one drive wheel stuck on a towel.
Now someone has to go all over the hospital to find the thing. Have you ever been in a large hospital? A twisty maze of passages, all alike. N,N,N,W,W,U,E,S Whom do you send? Ask a nurse to drop what she's doing to look for a lost robot? Hah! You don't know any nurses.
Someday they'll be smart enough to get themselves out of trouble, but they'll wind up thinking like Bender, and it'll be cheaper to hire people again.
The best short distance public transport I've ever seen is Disney World's parking lot shuttle. It costs almost nothing to run and moves more people per unit time than anything else. They could be funded out of general tax revenues so the ridership would be free. Block off all the down-town streets and just run shuttles in loops from parking garages and around town. Why? Consider how much of the cost of running a public transportation is tied up in getting and accounting for individual fares. Thye could probably buy a city-full of Disney shuttles for the salaries are of all the staff involved in fare collection.
Is to get rid of broadcast television and radio. When mandatory encryption is in place for all viewing devices, then everything can be pay-per-view PER USER PER VIEWING. and will be.
The real problem is that anyone at all watches the crap they put out.
It's the mate-once and die attitude of the Tsetse flies that makes them vulnerable.
Suppose aliens began sterilizing millions of human males and released them on earth? We could be wiped out in a few generations. It may have already begun.
But it is not too late! Ladies, prepare for the invasion by copulating with someone different every day. Only through the determined efforts of our women can the species be saved. Be suspicious of anyone who insists on using "protection", they could be the agents of space aliens.
When I was a student at Ga Tech in 1970, I was crossing campus on a cold rainy day when I saw a scampering lizard trip on the curb attempting to cross the street. His deck of punch cards went everywhere and he began to pick them up and then sat down and began crying - it was the week before finals and this had to be his final project.
I swore right then that if Comp Sci could do that to a man, it was evil and I would have nothing to do with computers.
Funny how things turn out, what with my being a sysadmin nowadays and all. I least I've stopped wanting to touch myself when someone loses all their data and calls pleading for help.
If you had ever been around the Marketing/Sales Department of any company of any size, you would know they sales droids get inundated with crap like this every day no matter what their line of business.
The only odd thing about this one was the not so subtle "please distribute this to the world" message.
It's no wonder the Sales guys have to drink them selves to sleep every night. I don't know how they do it anyway. I would be so bad as a salesperson I would fail at handing out free meat samples to wolves.
How big is your company? Is it small enough that you could find out anything about the Vice President's that's over your IT Director?
If it's a very large one, use the IT director.
Learn where he goes to church.
Start going there, get active, Sunday School, Choir, volunteer computer work. Greet the VP/Director, but don't be chummy. Be respectful, but let him know you work for him. (not the company, him)
Show the baby.
One day you'll get a chance to say in front of the VP and the church goers what a great company you work for. What good care they take of you, wife, and child.
Do not drop his name at work.
If you get a chance to say hello at work, do so, but don't try to engage him in personal conversation except to answer his questions.
You love the company and all the people you work for are great.
If those lying assholes start giving you the bad performance review, start letting the people at church know you may have to look for a job, do they know anyone? Either you get a job with people you know, or the VP kills the IT director.
You must start taking night classes to get some kind of degree. Someday, you will be the boss, and someday you will have department of smart kids of your own to look after. Try to remember what is what like for you.
Cynical? Not really. This is how the VP's got their jobs.
I can't seem to find the thread:
"I AM ELEET! SEND ME WAREZ" or I will get medevial on your ass!
I'm not sure how "eleet" was spelled, I think it predated 31337 or whatever.
All I want is just to re-read one little thread and they can't even get that right.
Computers. hrrmph.
Hey, maybe we can form a club of all the people who actually posted to that thread, assuming there was more than two of usand just just a lot of aliases.
Tell you what, bud, why don't you make it fair for the students and Indians.
Post on/. all your parent's financial information, SS#, bank account #'s, family history, and home address. Please include any other information for all your relatives that we may think of coming back for later.
Now see how easy it is to graduate after your entire family is penniless.
I had no idea that you could apply online for your TV License in Great Britain. Or had to have one. Do you have to have one to watch your neighbor's TV through the window?
I would prefer any of these to a vendor that ever thought that making an email product with a default setting of executing embedded code on opening an email was a good idea. And don't get me started on the default install of IIS.
The idea that "unqualified microsoft admins" should be to blame is ludicrous.
Are you not aware that Microsoft sells it products for people to use at home?
How many years of experience and what certifications do you think would be the minimum for my mom to be able to configure her system for safe operation? I ask because it doesn't come that way out of the box. A safe system is not what Microsoft sells.
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Nato 5.56mm rounds (M-16 rounds, .22 cal) are designed to tumble very early. They do a massive amount of damage for a small round, because they are designed to tumble very early upon hitting the body, split in two, and produce some massive cavitation
.308 does a half-turn in about 18 inches when passing through flesh and the 5.56 has a somewhat shorter distance being less massive and shorter. I believe it's about 12 inches for 1/2 turn but it's on the order of a body thickness. One thing for sure - There Is No Wildly Spinning Buzzsaw Effect.
The 5.56 mm tumblin' bullet thing is a myth. The cavitation effect is not.
All bullets tumble when passing through a human body. The rate of tumble depends on the shape of the bullet, its length, mass, velocity and so on. I can't remember the number for the 5.56, but the
The military did test in the mid 1960's a 40 grain bullet in the M-16 that tumbled much more rapidly when passing through flesh. This round did cause more tissue destruction than the 55 grain bullet but only at short ranges. Being only 40 grains it lost velocity quickly and had very little energy at longer ranges (over 200 meters). It was dropped as testing showed the 55 grain bullet was more effective at stopping people at a variety of ranges. In 1984 the army went to a 70 grain bullet for much the same reason. Range is more important then the tumbling effect.
As for cavitation, high velocity rounds make a splash as they pass through soft materials as anyone who has fired a rifle into mud knows. That is, a large (over 10 times the bullet diameter)temporary hole opens up inside the body, a cavity it is called, and this causes much more damage than the tumbling effect anyway. The cavity pulverises organs such as the liver or spleen, but isn't so bad on muscle tissue. Cavitation is almost entirely a function of velocity, and the 5.56 has a lot of that ~3,000 feet per second.
It does make a big hole out the back sometimes, then again sometimes not.
The extremely anti-military media of the '60's had a field day with the "tumbling bullet story" even though the short bullet wasn't in use nor was it even effective. The press still prints this stuff from time to time - journalists aren't known for double-checking facts except for "he said she said" kinds of things.
What bugs me about spam is the anonymous nature of the businesses. There is, for example, the practice of using false return addresses. What other business is allowed to lie about who they are?
Suppose that your bank's employes all used fictitious names, and the bank had a habit of closing doors and moving, but usually advertised a false address. How long would they get away with that?
That's what bugs me. The part that I can't understand is why does the legislature ignore our cries for relief? There's no money in it for them or the state, and I'm pretty sure they aren't hosting $1,000 a plate dinners for herbal Viagra merchants or the "add 2-4 inches" crowd.
Or is it that the members of the legislature still in the 20th century and don't even know about the problem?
When the French first tried to impose the metric system on its own population, there was significant resistance - particularly among tradesman. The ever-efficient French simply applied the death penalty for a tradesman to own a non-metric measuring tool. Catch your builder owning a yardstick meant you didn't have to pay the bill, if you get my drift, so pretty soon the metric system caught on.
Even so, the metric time was so universally ignored that the government had to choose between dropping the time requirement or depopulating the continent.
And this was at a time when hardly anyone even had a clock.
You are not actually a German.
Germans have a much deeper understanding of the true nature of the world and current events. Having lived for so long next door under the shadow of the Soviet Union gives them a sense of perspective, or at least it did the ones who would be over 14 years of age.
No, you are clearly a native-born Canadian, envious parasites that they are.
"endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"
This always bugged me.
It always seemed like my mom would not acknowledge that I had any rights, much less any inalienable ones.
If I win the lottery, I'm going to open a library with every CD that I can think of in it. It's free, all I ask is that you return it in a day or two. That should be enough time to 'listen' to any CD. Or am I describing any college campus?
On second thought, if I win the lottery, I'm going to join the Republican party, hire guards to keep the likes of you away, and get some lawyers. And you should be aware that my lawyers will be on your ass in a flash. I don't know what for, but they'll be on you.
The H and He are in plasma form, so it isn't or transparent thanks to all the free electrons - the same reason it's difficult to see through metals.
The sun looks white to healthy people.
It looks yellow to the rest who have jaundice; no doubt obtained from a hedonistic lifestyle including the consumption of alcohol and raw oysters.
As for me, I haven't seen the sun since I got my copy of Warcraft III beta (on-topic, see?) so I can't tell you what it looks like to me.
So it's even worse than I could imagine. I'm pulling the sheets over my head and not coming out again.
It's either my first marriage license or the subsequent divorce papers.
It didn't understand you because you misspelled "infundibulum"
Nice summary.
My reading of Marx was that Marx said plainly that Capitalist economies would always be able to out-produce Communist economies, but that does not make it "right". That is, factories in the 1900's were immensly profitable and produced wealth for it's owners that never again will be equalled. However, the workers at that time were held in virtual slavery by the society of the time with no escape and the use of the police and army to prevent strikes.
What Marx did not expect was the gradual change of society through the political process (and two world wars) eventually brought about a levelling of society and opportunity.
He did say that he believed the only country that might be able to move to a communistic society was the United States. Even in the mid-1800's the US was recognized as a bastion of freedom for the everage person (And yes they were ignoring slavery)
The Intellectual Property ownership fight is not about fairness for the people who invent things, or to encourage new ideas. It is solely about bringing into being a new aristocratic class whose composition is the "Board of Directors" of the major corporations. The populace has acquired access and control to most of the resources of society through governmental regulation whether you're talking abou the price of oil of access to banking services. What's left is "Intellectual Property", and through this they can again seize control of the means of production and continue the aristocratic tradition. The first step would be extending the period of patent ownership to some incredible length like "life plus 90 years", but surely Congress wouldn't have the gall to rob the public that way.
The hospital I work at recently got rid of theirs. The reason is like many things that are dumped: it's not what it does when it's working, it's what it does when it's not working.
Every once in a while they get lost. Don't know why, maybe someone messing with it on the elevator, maybe they just get lost just because.
Sometimes they break and just stop.
When a person gets lost (lost, not hiding), they wander around until they can ask someone that knows where they are. The robot doesn't even know that it's lost. Chances are no one even knows where it was going. It's probably run into an empty room and is cowering in the dark with one drive wheel stuck on a towel.
Now someone has to go all over the hospital to find the thing. Have you ever been in a large hospital? A twisty maze of passages, all alike.
N,N,N,W,W,U,E,S
Whom do you send? Ask a nurse to drop what she's doing to look for a lost robot? Hah! You don't know any nurses.
Someday they'll be smart enough to get themselves out of trouble, but they'll wind up thinking like Bender, and it'll be cheaper to hire people again.
The best short distance public transport I've ever seen is Disney World's parking lot shuttle. It costs almost nothing to run and moves more people per unit time than anything else. They could be funded out of general tax revenues so the ridership would be free.
Block off all the down-town streets and just run shuttles in loops from parking garages and around town.
Why? Consider how much of the cost of running a public transportation is tied up in getting and accounting for individual fares.
Thye could probably buy a city-full of Disney shuttles for the salaries are of all the staff involved in fare collection.
Is to get rid of broadcast television and radio.
When mandatory encryption is in place for all viewing devices, then everything can be pay-per-view PER USER PER VIEWING. and will be.
The real problem is that anyone at all watches the crap they put out.
It's the mate-once and die attitude of the Tsetse flies that makes them vulnerable.
Suppose aliens began sterilizing millions of human males and released them on earth? We could be wiped out in a few generations. It may have already begun.
But it is not too late! Ladies, prepare for the invasion by copulating with someone different every day. Only through the determined efforts of our women can the species be saved.
Be suspicious of anyone who insists on using "protection", they could be the agents of space aliens.
When I was a student at Ga Tech in 1970, I was crossing campus on a cold rainy day when I saw a scampering lizard trip on the curb attempting to cross the street. His deck of punch cards went everywhere and he began to pick them up and then sat down and began crying - it was the week before finals and this had to be his final project.
I swore right then that if Comp Sci could do that to a man, it was evil and I would have nothing to do with computers.
Funny how things turn out, what with my being a sysadmin nowadays and all. I least I've stopped wanting to touch myself when someone loses all their data and calls pleading for help.
If you had ever been around the Marketing/Sales Department of any company of any size, you would know they sales droids get inundated with crap like this every day no matter what their line of business.
The only odd thing about this one was the not so subtle "please distribute this to the world" message.
It's no wonder the Sales guys have to drink them selves to sleep every night. I don't know how they do it anyway. I would be so bad as a salesperson I would fail at handing out free meat samples to wolves.
How big is your company? Is it small enough that you could find out anything about the Vice President's that's over your IT Director?
If it's a very large one, use the IT director.
Learn where he goes to church.
Start going there, get active, Sunday School, Choir, volunteer computer work. Greet the VP/Director, but don't be chummy. Be respectful, but let him know you work for him. (not the company, him)
Show the baby.
One day you'll get a chance to say in front of the VP and the church goers what a great company you work for. What good care they take of you, wife, and child.
Do not drop his name at work.
If you get a chance to say hello at work, do so, but don't try to engage him in personal conversation except to answer his questions.
You love the company and all the people you work for are great.
If those lying assholes start giving you the bad performance review, start letting the people at church know you may have to look for a job, do they know anyone? Either you get a job with people you know, or the VP kills the IT director.
You must start taking night classes to get some kind of degree. Someday, you will be the boss, and someday you will have department of smart kids of your own to look after. Try to remember what is what like for you.
Cynical? Not really. This is how the VP's got their jobs.
I can't seem to find the thread:
"I AM ELEET! SEND ME WAREZ" or I will get medevial on your ass!
I'm not sure how "eleet" was spelled, I think it predated 31337 or whatever.
All I want is just to re-read one little thread and they can't even get that right.
Computers. hrrmph.
Hey, maybe we can form a club of all the people who actually posted to that thread, assuming there was more than two of usand just just a lot of aliases.
Tell you what, bud, why don't you make it fair for the students and Indians. /. all your parent's financial information, SS#, bank account #'s, family history, and home address. Please include any other information for all your relatives that we may think of coming back for later.
Post on
Now see how easy it is to graduate after your entire family is penniless.
I had no idea that you could apply online for your TV License in Great Britain. Or had to have one. Do you have to have one to watch your neighbor's TV through the window?
Nice checkup in Mr Schmidt.
Thanks for relevant post.
I would prefer any of these to a vendor that ever thought that making an email product with a default setting of executing embedded code on opening an email was a good idea. And don't get me started on the default install of IIS.
The idea that "unqualified microsoft admins" should be to blame is ludicrous.
Are you not aware that Microsoft sells it products for people to use at home?
How many years of experience and what certifications do you think would be the minimum for my mom to be able to configure her system for safe operation? I ask because it doesn't come that way out of the box. A safe system is not what Microsoft sells.
Never gets married to Nicole Kidman to pretend he's straight ...