Gunstock mounts are quite common. They used to look like a real rifle stock, carved from wood with a tripod fitting at the front to hold the camera, and a cable release fitting connected to the trigger. They form a useful compromise between the freedom of action of a camera alone, and the steadiness of a tripod.
I had one of those in the Sixties; since then they've been built to look much less like a gun, for obvious reasons. Lots of designs to be found on Google.
But who needs this gadget to get a picture of an animal with crosshairs on him? If you can afford an expensive DSLR, can't you afford Photoshop?
L2 made one big mistake. Stepping on a lot of toes? No biggie, happens all the time. Stepping on toes that are in a building with five sides? Might want to think about that.
What Waffle said. A captain is ultimately responsible for the safety of his passengers, and his life is hostage to theirs. That responsibility comes with the pretty uniform and the big paycheck.
Marvel Comics and the 21st century have nothing to do with it. This is a centuries-old social construct that makes it possible for ordinary people to subject themselves to the hazards of the sea with some degree of confidence.
Good management skills? Understand spherical trigonometry? Good for you. Abandon your passengers to danger? Oops, you're a sorry failure as a captain and you should have been sailing a desk at the cruise company.
Few years back, there was an article in the Denver Post, one of those "10 Best Places in Denver" puff pieces. It offered the recently-built upscale subdivision of Highlands Ranch as the "Best Place For Stargazing" because it has "plenty of lights to illuminate the stars"...
Military aircraft had that capability at least as far back as the Cold War. Each piece of classified equipment had a small thermite charge in the top of its case; you would actuate one switch (with a sturdy safety cover over it), and hear thump-thump-thump all over the airplane, leaving gobs of molten metal.
For the most part, by damn well waiting until the ship is docked. You can use a launch -- that's how harbor pilots board a ship -- but the ship still has to be at a near-stop in relatively protected water.
In emergencies, you use a helicopter at great expense and more than a little hazard.
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, it might help to have more women in positions of power?
Yeah, wouldn't that be more peaceful? Let's see...
Penthesilea. (degree of legendariness uncertain) According to Homer, her matriarchal Amazons marauded all over Asia Minor.
Boudicca. After the Romans whipped her and raped her daughters, she raised an army and slaughtered forty thousand Roman men, women and children.
Cleopatra. Used her, um, special talents to induce Caesar and then Antony to crush rivals for her. Even led a squadron of ships at Actium, though the mission was more betrayal than combat.
Zenobia. Took Egypt away from the Romans and held it for a decade.
Mary I. Overthrew and beheaded Lady Jane Grey and fought an unpopular war with France. We salute her with vodka and tomato juice.
Elizabeth I. Sent her boyfriend to sink the Spanish Armada, and defeated and beheaded Mary, Queen of Scots.
If you're in a bar and you find yourself illuminated by a laser, at least in the States, there is a small but nonzero likelihood that it's a laser GUNSIGHT...
There's also fundamental problems with the name they chose, Qwikster. You can see it in your post, as you've spelled it wrong. There are at least 8 different possible spellings for the name (Kwikster, Kwickster, Kwixter, Qwikster, Qwickster, Qwixter, Quickster, Quikster, Quixter)
Hydrogen is half as dense as helium. Trouble is, the number that counts is the difference in density between the lifting gas and the surrounding gas. Run the numbers, and you'll find a hydrogen-filled balloon will lift about 5% more than a helium-filled one.
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Gunstock mounts are quite common. They used to look like a real rifle stock, carved from wood with a tripod fitting at the front to hold the camera, and a cable release fitting connected to the trigger. They form a useful compromise between the freedom of action of a camera alone, and the steadiness of a tripod.
I had one of those in the Sixties; since then they've been built to look much less like a gun, for obvious reasons. Lots of designs to be found on Google.
But who needs this gadget to get a picture of an animal with crosshairs on him? If you can afford an expensive DSLR, can't you afford Photoshop?
If you think productivity will go down tomorrow, wait and see what happens on the 22nd. That's when the new Angry Birds comes out.
I was in the ordinance section
I'm a little dubious about anyone who can't spell what he works on...
It's perfectly legal...just the Invisible Hand working its magic. But usually the Hand has the decency to wait until the body's cold.
L2 made one big mistake. Stepping on a lot of toes? No biggie, happens all the time. Stepping on toes that are in a building with five sides? Might want to think about that.
...like William Sealy Gosset did.
Wait till you hear about derivatives and integrals.
rj
What Waffle said. A captain is ultimately responsible for the safety of his passengers, and his life is hostage to theirs. That responsibility comes with the pretty uniform and the big paycheck.
Marvel Comics and the 21st century have nothing to do with it. This is a centuries-old social construct that makes it possible for ordinary people to subject themselves to the hazards of the sea with some degree of confidence.
Good management skills? Understand spherical trigonometry? Good for you. Abandon your passengers to danger? Oops, you're a sorry failure as a captain and you should have been sailing a desk at the cruise company.
Few years back, there was an article in the Denver Post, one of those "10 Best Places in Denver" puff pieces. It offered the recently-built upscale subdivision of Highlands Ranch as the "Best Place For Stargazing" because it has "plenty of lights to illuminate the stars"...
rj
You left out two words: "in Europe". Google "the day no Filipinos were born".
Military aircraft had that capability at least as far back as the Cold War. Each piece of classified equipment had a small thermite charge in the top of its case; you would actuate one switch (with a sturdy safety cover over it), and hear thump-thump-thump all over the airplane, leaving gobs of molten metal.
rj
I know for a fact you aren't a christian. Your a neocommunist.
I doubt you know that for a fact. But now we all know for a fact you're semiliterate.
rj
Shit, some of those distances are astronomical.
rj
If the atomic number is greater than 92, you'll only find it in a lab for a fraction of a second at a time.
...for varying values of "a fraction of a second". Plutonium is transuranic, and it has a half-life measured in millennia.
Swallow the oxide, not inhale.
rj
For the most part, by damn well waiting until the ship is docked. You can use a launch -- that's how harbor pilots board a ship -- but the ship still has to be at a near-stop in relatively protected water.
In emergencies, you use a helicopter at great expense and more than a little hazard.
What is a grue?
rj
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, it might help to have more women in positions of power?
Yeah, wouldn't that be more peaceful? Let's see...
Penthesilea. (degree of legendariness uncertain) According to Homer, her matriarchal Amazons marauded all over Asia Minor.
Boudicca. After the Romans whipped her and raped her daughters, she raised an army and slaughtered forty thousand Roman men, women and children.
Cleopatra. Used her, um, special talents to induce Caesar and then Antony to crush rivals for her. Even led a squadron of ships at Actium, though the mission was more betrayal than combat.
Zenobia. Took Egypt away from the Romans and held it for a decade.
Mary I. Overthrew and beheaded Lady Jane Grey and fought an unpopular war with France. We salute her with vodka and tomato juice.
Elizabeth I. Sent her boyfriend to sink the Spanish Armada, and defeated and beheaded Mary, Queen of Scots.
Victoria. Colonial wars all over Africa and Asia.
Golda Meir. The Six-Day War.
Margaret Thatcher. The Falklands War.
Seems pretty consistent to me...
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/busted
If you're in a bar and you find yourself illuminated by a laser, at least in the States, there is a small but nonzero likelihood that it's a laser GUNSIGHT...
rj
There's also fundamental problems with the name they chose, Qwikster. You can see it in your post, as you've spelled it wrong. There are at least 8 different possible spellings for the name (Kwikster, Kwickster, Kwixter, Qwikster, Qwickster, Qwixter, Quickster, Quikster, Quixter)
...and if you type Quixtar, you'll get Amway.
rj
I think it was a leather or fabric material, some kind of strap.
rj
the only catastrophic fire that I know of is the Hindenburg disaster
That's because it was considerate enough to crash in front of movie cameras. Google "R-101".
rj
IIRC, hydrogen is more buoyant than helium.
Hydrogen is half as dense as helium. Trouble is, the number that counts is the difference in density between the lifting gas and the surrounding gas. Run the numbers, and you'll find a hydrogen-filled balloon will lift about 5% more than a helium-filled one.
rj
The moon's orbit is actually increasing it's distance from Earth.
...and Bill O'Reilly probably thinks you can't explain that.
rj