Out of 85 officers:
-3 saw the knife prior to contact.
-10 realized that they were being stabbed repeatedly during the scenario.
-72 did not realize that they were being assaulted with a knife.
Won't happen. Mr. 9mm makes plate armor suicidal and renders edged weapons of all kinds a niche tool for close in fighting>
I'm in no way disagreeing with you on any aspect of what you've said, but I'd like to mention that studies from the FBI, among others, have shown that, when edged weapons and firearms are compared at their intended ranges, knives are roughly three times more effective in delivering fatal wounds in the context of a typical urban attack. Why?
1) Knives deliver multiple wounds quickly.
2) A stab tends to lacerate multiple organs.
3) Stab wounds are more likely to remain open (forget the more technical term for this).
Also, one article I read had some rather creepy statistics (unfortunately, I don't have the link on this PC) derived from the researcher's experience. For example, he conducted a training session with a group of Victoria RCMP officers. Part of the exercise involved a "criminal" flashing a chalked fake knife at the officer, screaming "fuck you, pig", and attacking.
73 out of 85 of them failed to notice the knife at any point during the assault, with none of them realizing they had been stabbed (multiple times) until seeing the chalk marks left on their uniforms. One officer, who had controlled the attacker's knife arm with both of his hands, and had looked straight at the hand for fifteen seconds, refused to believe a knife had been involved until they replayed the video for him. Even this statistic assumes that a criminal would be stupid enough to brazenly flash a knife like that. It is of course much more common to merely palm the knife until within striking range.
Er... The format doesn't really make that much of a difference in terms of actual development., and companies still have to buy the cartridges and the equipment to write to them (from Nintendo or a partner thereof, I presume).
I find your bigotocentric world view amusing. Bay area? I grew up on a farm, dude. Ain't no academics plantin' taters there. Hyuck.
Western technology, culture, commerce and government means Westerners are healthier, better educated, longer lived, and more independent than people trapped in Third World countries. That's a simple truth.
Yup. Do you care to wager how long the planet can support 300 million people living the American lifestyle, not even counting other current and future first world countries?
As for myself, I am offended by the anti-Western, anti-globalization know-nothing racist rhetoric spouted by pampered self-loathing white Westerners who blithely deny the value of eveything accomplished in the last 500 years and assume that only they know what's best for their poor non-white Third World brethern. Most of this crowd hates progress so much that they'd prefer to keep their "brothers" in their place tied to subsistence farming, poking sticks in the gorund, so long as they and their buddies can put on their Birkenstocks and fire up the BMW
Man, get it through your head. I'm not saying we should hold back all technology from the third world. I'm saying we should take a lesson from them, in terms of our waste and excess. Frankly, I dislike the Internet. I don't want to hold it back from them, I'd as soon it not exist. But that's a whole other can of worms. And how the hell would this be holding them down? I'm sure the point has been made dozens of times in other comments, but I think we ought to at least start with the food, medicine, (non-telecommunications) infrastructure, and the like before bothering with frivolities like the Internet.
Another point I failed to properly address in my previous post was your attack on the fears of homogenization. Your point of view seems to be that there is nothing worth preserving, and that to want to prevent the Americanization streamroller from passing though is, through some queer twist of logic, racism. Er, right. You realize it should be possible to help them in raising their average standard of living without culturally assimilating them, right?
As for "blithely denying the value of everything accomplished in the past 500 years"... Think of the next five hundred. You know those rainforests? The ones being chopped down to grow McDonalds hamburgers? You realize that stuff doesn't grow back, right? Once the bare ground is exposed, the rain leeches the soil nutrients down to the bedrock, making it infertile. It's why they have to burn so much of it. Do you think that five hundred years from now, people will be looking back at us as favourably as you do at our predecessors?
It is all founded in racism.
Real classy, there. "I disagree with you, therefore, um... OMG WTF YUPPIE RACIST PIG!!!11!!one!!!11!".
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a gluttonous Western society that prefers to gorge itself on everything available to it without thought for the future.
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further
expansion of a morally bankrupt Western society that places the dollar above all else.
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a pampered Western society that is only able to carry on its lifestyle with the labour of the less "fortunate".
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a Western society that has to have an entertainment industry to satisfy its need for pleasure.
And I think it takes a fair amount of Western arrogance and bigotry to think that we're better off than they are, you smug, jingoistic, ass.
I mean, way to go. Let's start training the rest of the world to be over-materialistic consumers, too. It's never too early for cultural homogenization!
Then they took the 3D third person action game to a new level with Oni, where not only could you blow the crap out of people, a la Quake, but also beat the crap out of people, a la Street Fighter.
What the hell? Every review I ever read panned it...
I'd pick one of those suckers up in a second, if I saw it (can't be bothered to order online). I mean, the sheer neat factor of the VMUs alone would be worth it, let alone the mods mentioned above.
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Also, a correction to the figure I stated:
Unlabeled, too.
You can start applauding my organisational skills any time now, folks.
Perhaps if you had read the article, you would have noticed that they're more like MDs than CDs.
Oh wait.
I'm not sure about the X-Box, but the PS2 can use any USB keyboard, which also conveniently addresses your second point.
1) Knives deliver multiple wounds quickly.
2) A stab tends to lacerate multiple organs.
3) Stab wounds are more likely to remain open (forget the more technical term for this).
Also, one article I read had some rather creepy statistics (unfortunately, I don't have the link on this PC) derived from the researcher's experience. For example, he conducted a training session with a group of Victoria RCMP officers. Part of the exercise involved a "criminal" flashing a chalked fake knife at the officer, screaming "fuck you, pig", and attacking.
73 out of 85 of them failed to notice the knife at any point during the assault, with none of them realizing they had been stabbed (multiple times) until seeing the chalk marks left on their uniforms. One officer, who had controlled the attacker's knife arm with both of his hands, and had looked straight at the hand for fifteen seconds, refused to believe a knife had been involved until they replayed the video for him. Even this statistic assumes that a criminal would be stupid enough to brazenly flash a knife like that. It is of course much more common to merely palm the knife until within striking range.
Pardon my digression.
I'm 99% certain the data on the screens was added in digitally.
Er... The format doesn't really make that much of a difference in terms of actual development., and companies still have to buy the cartridges and the equipment to write to them (from Nintendo or a partner thereof, I presume).
You, um, realize they're using a closed network to communicate with other military personnel, right? Right.
My, you are a ratty little troll, aren't you?
Never mind environmental factors, eh?
How long before someone finds a way to use them as cheap ROM dumpers?
Yup. Do you care to wager how long the planet can support 300 million people living the American lifestyle, not even counting other current and future first world countries?
Man, get it through your head. I'm not saying we should hold back all technology from the third world. I'm saying we should take a lesson from them, in terms of our waste and excess. Frankly, I dislike the Internet. I don't want to hold it back from them, I'd as soon it not exist. But that's a whole other can of worms. And how the hell would this be holding them down? I'm sure the point has been made dozens of times in other comments, but I think we ought to at least start with the food, medicine, (non-telecommunications) infrastructure, and the like before bothering with frivolities like the Internet.
Another point I failed to properly address in my previous post was your attack on the fears of homogenization. Your point of view seems to be that there is nothing worth preserving, and that to want to prevent the Americanization streamroller from passing though is, through some queer twist of logic, racism. Er, right. You realize it should be possible to help them in raising their average standard of living without culturally assimilating them, right?
As for "blithely denying the value of everything accomplished in the past 500 years"... Think of the next five hundred. You know those rainforests? The ones being chopped down to grow McDonalds hamburgers? You realize that stuff doesn't grow back, right? Once the bare ground is exposed, the rain leeches the soil nutrients down to the bedrock, making it infertile. It's why they have to burn so much of it. Do you think that five hundred years from now, people will be looking back at us as favourably as you do at our predecessors?
Real classy, there. "I disagree with you, therefore, um... OMG WTF YUPPIE RACIST PIG!!!11!!one!!!11!".
P.S.,
What the fuck are Birkenstocks?
I think you just did a pretty good job yourself, actually.
Excuse me?
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a gluttonous Western society that prefers to gorge itself on everything available to it without thought for the future.
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a morally bankrupt Western society that places the dollar above all else.
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a pampered Western society that is only able to carry on its lifestyle with the labour of the less "fortunate".
I'm sorry that I take offense at the further expansion of a Western society that has to have an entertainment industry to satisfy its need for pleasure.
And I think it takes a fair amount of Western arrogance and bigotry to think that we're better off than they are, you smug, jingoistic, ass.
Not really, no.
I mean, way to go. Let's start training the rest of the world to be over-materialistic consumers, too. It's never too early for cultural homogenization!
No, you just keep on making those quality redundant posts.
The point is that two of the four ports would be tied up with GBAs, limiting the number of players.
Um... How exactly would having the broadband adaptor enable piracy? Last time I checked, Dreamcasts didn't include hard drives and CD burners...
I'd pick one of those suckers up in a second, if I saw it (can't be bothered to order online). I mean, the sheer neat factor of the VMUs alone would be worth it, let alone the mods mentioned above.