In a battle, choose an M14 or an AK47, not an M16, and definitely not an M4.
to see what the better weapon is, look at what the US elite use. They're mostly using M4 series carbines now. Sure, M14s and AK47s get used too, but it sure looks like most operators prefer the M4, especially if they don't need the long-range capability of the M14.
The bigt achilles heel of the M4 is its shorter effective range (compared to the M16), so it's not quite the perfect all-round weapon. But for short and medium range it's ideal, and probably a better compact choice in many situations than a SMG like the MP5.
I've found that even with very complex people, the Meyers-Briggs attributes make it easier to deal with them and understand at least parts of how their minds work.
I agree, I discovered the MBTI (it's spelt "Myers-Briggs" BTW) back in 1998 and it's by far the most useful and interesting psychological instrument I've ever seen.
INFJ male here, by the way. I always feel like a fish out of water!:)
You should read "men are from Mars,...". It helped me understand women better, and now I have fewer arguments with my wife.
I've found that a far better approach for understanding women (or people, for that matter) is to read up on the MBTI, or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The MBTI personality model is the most insightful system I have ever come across.
Good books include Please Understand Me by David Keirsey, and Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers.
Mozilla/Firebird is the most standards-compliant browser around. Perhaps the blame lies with the Slashdot webdesigners?
Take a look at the HTML source, and you'll see what I mean...
These days, whenever a site doesn't render properly in Moz, 99% of the time it's the webdesigner's fault for writing shitty markup/CSS. I'm a webdesigner, I speak from experience:)
Private parties should give money to whoever they want w/o idjits like you saying "what about the children......what about Africa......what about the poor"
Sounds like you could use a grant so you can get some spelling lessons:)
That's pretty screwed up. How would you like it if you got a speeding fine and your father destroyed your car? And instead of trashing the iBook, you could've put it to good use by donating it to someone else who could use it.
In any event, no one here has anymore right to judge my parenting skills than I do. I think I speak for the majority of Mac users by saying that we don't appreciate sarcasm and most of all being talked down to. good day.
Nice troll. I'm a Mac user and I'm glad you don't speak for me.
Let's not insult stupid kids here. These kids were not stupid, they were cruel and sadistic with combat fantasies which eventually spilled over into real life.
Now the law, and reality, is catching up with them.
The game store is supposed to check ID for MA-rated games. I think the question should be, "how did these kids come into posession of this game in the first place?"
I think the rather more important question is, "how did these kids get possession of guns"?
But even then, that is not the real issue. The real issue is that these boys committed a serious crime, and killed (murdered?) somebody. I say the boys themselves should be held responsible for this crime. If not the boys, then at least the parents.
The lead kid was 16 years old. Think about that, he would have been a sophomore or junior in high school. If he still can't tell the difference between right and wrong or video game and reality, society has much bigger problems than simulated violence.
I think these kids knew exactly what the fuck were doing, especially the 16 year-old. They just woke up one day, loaded up a fucking rifle and started shooting up trucks and people because they were bored? Fuck yeah, that's a credible story alright.
If I were one of his victims, I would sue his parents for leaving an unsecured gun around a mentally disabled child.
Let's not insult mentally disabled people here!
When was the last time you saw a mentally disabled child go on a shooting spree? The fuckers knew what they were doing. They did it because they have no regard for human life, they have twisted and cruel fantasies which eventually were realised in real life, and they are just plain evil.
I knew the difference between right and wrong when I was 16, or 14. I think it's more than reasonable to accept that the overwhelming majority of kids do.
Tough shit kids, you murder or maim someone, you go to jail. Reality bites, huh? Guess those combat fantasies weren't worth it after all.
What the victims' families should do is sue the hell out of the murderers/perpetrators. When they get out of jail (unfortunately it seems like they will do so very soon) they should be made to compensate the victims families. Sounds fair?
Fuck no, it isn't fair. No amount of money can make up for the loss of a human life.
I apologise for the excessive swearing. But right now, I am mad as hell that these scumbags can get away so lightly for out-and-out murder.
I work as a library assistant in Sydney, Australia, and at our local public library we haven't collected fines since god-knows-when. The general public doesn't know that though. Just the threat of fines is enough to keep most people in line, and those who keep an overdue book for 2+ years aren't the type who are going to pay a fine anyway.
Your post missed the point. It's not Nielsen who is bothered by this, it's the users who only use Internet Explorer and have never even heard of Mozilla or Opera.
While Internet censorship may be no better than Nazi bookburning ( I would tend to agree ) it doesn't make the act of selling software or routers to the Chinese illegal. In my opinion this is a frivilous lawsuit and should be thrown out. Amnesty should be charged for whatever fees are associated with the case for wasting tax payer dollars.
what lawsuit? Did you even read the article?
and "wasting tax payer dollars"? Amnesty does not accept funds from governments, for the precise reason that it wishes to remain impartial.
Our webmaster is having a horrible time designing a Unv website that complies with the ADA requirements. It's truely a nightmare.
Why is your webmaster having such a difficult time? It's not hard to build a compliant website, if you're even halfway competent with coding HTML and CSS, and understand the separation of content and presentation (the way a webpage is supposed to work). I think his difficulties suggest that his site-building methodology is badly flawed.
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to see what the better weapon is, look at what the US elite use. They're mostly using M4 series carbines now. Sure, M14s and AK47s get used too, but it sure looks like most operators prefer the M4, especially if they don't need the long-range capability of the M14.
The bigt achilles heel of the M4 is its shorter effective range (compared to the M16), so it's not quite the perfect all-round weapon. But for short and medium range it's ideal, and probably a better compact choice in many situations than a SMG like the MP5.
I agree, I discovered the MBTI (it's spelt "Myers-Briggs" BTW) back in 1998 and it's by far the most useful and interesting psychological instrument I've ever seen.
INFJ male here, by the way. I always feel like a fish out of water!
grgyle, you said it. That's exactly what I was thinking.
Can you actually string together something that makes any sense?
I've found that a far better approach for understanding women (or people, for that matter) is to read up on the MBTI, or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The MBTI personality model is the most insightful system I have ever come across.
Good books include Please Understand Me by David Keirsey, and Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers.
And since it doesn't have fingernails, there is no way to tell if its a girl or boy.
Ah, sounds like you need to get Eunux, Open Source OS of choice for genitally-deficient robots.
You know you're drunk when you moderate something obviously meant to be funny as "Insightful".
Lemme guess... "H" went on to become Lieutenant in a Miami-Dade Police Crime Scene Investigations unit, right?
Mozilla/Firebird is the most standards-compliant browser around. Perhaps the blame lies with the Slashdot webdesigners?
:)
Take a look at the HTML source, and you'll see what I mean...
These days, whenever a site doesn't render properly in Moz, 99% of the time it's the webdesigner's fault for writing shitty markup/CSS. I'm a webdesigner, I speak from experience
Private parties should give money to whoever they want w/o idjits like you saying "what about the children......what about Africa......what about the poor"
:)
Sounds like you could use a grant so you can get some spelling lessons
I taught my son a lesson by destroying his iBook.
That's pretty screwed up. How would you like it if you got a speeding fine and your father destroyed your car? And instead of trashing the iBook, you could've put it to good use by donating it to someone else who could use it.
In any event, no one here has anymore right to judge my parenting skills than I do. I think I speak for the majority of Mac users by saying that we don't appreciate sarcasm and most of all being talked down to. good day.
Nice troll. I'm a Mac user and I'm glad you don't speak for me.
The whole point is:
STUPID KIDS DO STUPID SHIT
Let's not insult stupid kids here. These kids were not stupid, they were cruel and sadistic with combat fantasies which eventually spilled over into real life.
Now the law, and reality, is catching up with them.
The game store is supposed to check ID for MA-rated games. I think the question should be, "how did these kids come into posession of this game in the first place?"
I think the rather more important question is, "how did these kids get possession of guns"?
But even then, that is not the real issue. The real issue is that these boys committed a serious crime, and killed (murdered?) somebody. I say the boys themselves should be held responsible for this crime. If not the boys, then at least the parents.
The lead kid was 16 years old. Think about that, he would have been a sophomore or junior in high school. If he still can't tell the difference between right and wrong or video game and reality, society has much bigger problems than simulated violence.
I think these kids knew exactly what the fuck were doing, especially the 16 year-old. They just woke up one day, loaded up a fucking rifle and started shooting up trucks and people because they were bored? Fuck yeah, that's a credible story alright.
If I were one of his victims, I would sue his parents for leaving an unsecured gun around a mentally disabled child.
Let's not insult mentally disabled people here!
When was the last time you saw a mentally disabled child go on a shooting spree? The fuckers knew what they were doing. They did it because they have no regard for human life, they have twisted and cruel fantasies which eventually were realised in real life, and they are just plain evil.
I knew the difference between right and wrong when I was 16, or 14. I think it's more than reasonable to accept that the overwhelming majority of kids do.
Tough shit kids, you murder or maim someone, you go to jail. Reality bites, huh? Guess those combat fantasies weren't worth it after all.
What the victims' families should do is sue the hell out of the murderers/perpetrators. When they get out of jail (unfortunately it seems like they will do so very soon) they should be made to compensate the victims families. Sounds fair?
Fuck no, it isn't fair. No amount of money can make up for the loss of a human life.
I apologise for the excessive swearing. But right now, I am mad as hell that these scumbags can get away so lightly for out-and-out murder.
Nice quasi-intellectual dissection, have you ever read "Mein Kampf", you Nazi piece of shit?
You know, Mr. Myhigheducationlevelmakesmeproud, your entire post is the epitome of irony! And ironically, you probably can't see why.
I work as a library assistant in Sydney, Australia, and at our local public library we haven't collected fines since god-knows-when. The general public doesn't know that though. Just the threat of fines is enough to keep most people in line, and those who keep an overdue book for 2+ years aren't the type who are going to pay a fine anyway.
Try using "em" units to specify font size. It's worked for me so far -- looks the same on all browsers: IE6, IE5, IE5.5, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera.
Your post missed the point. It's not Nielsen who is bothered by this, it's the users who only use Internet Explorer and have never even heard of Mozilla or Opera.
he should be considered a mass murderer and treated accordingly
you're kidding right? Sure we all hate spammers, but that comparison is just absurd.
While Internet censorship may be no better than Nazi bookburning ( I would tend to agree ) it doesn't make the act of selling software or routers to the Chinese illegal. In my opinion this is a frivilous lawsuit and should be thrown out. Amnesty should be charged for whatever fees are associated with the case for wasting tax payer dollars.
what lawsuit? Did you even read the article?
and "wasting tax payer dollars"? Amnesty does not accept funds from governments, for the precise reason that it wishes to remain impartial.
Check your facts before posting.
Our webmaster is having a horrible time designing a Unv website that complies with the ADA requirements. It's truely a nightmare.
Why is your webmaster having such a difficult time? It's not hard to build a compliant website, if you're even halfway competent with coding HTML and CSS, and understand the separation of content and presentation (the way a webpage is supposed to work). I think his difficulties suggest that his site-building methodology is badly flawed.
I'm sure someone somewhere out there has probably made braille pr0n before...
Trial versions don't count as free :(
:(
I've been looking for a free page reader for ages in order to test my webpages... but haven't been able to find any