Can you imagine breaking into a house only to find granny waiting with a wheelchair mounted full auto turret? Ya know, the military is getting rid of old planes all the time. Some of those planes had.50 cal chain fed machine guns on them. We could recycle those for the elderly. No punk is going to steal her purse!!!
I just did a Google search to compare a 6 gauge to a 12 gauge and I couldn't find any info on a 6 gauge. Did you mean a 16 gauge? From what I found, for commonly available guns anyway, 10 gauge is the largest. Considering that the lower the number, the larger the bore, a 6 gauge would pack quite a punch. You mentioned recoil rocketing them to safety, that would be the one to do it me thinks. It would probably dislocate a shoulder or break some ribs when fired, but yea, it might get the wheel chair movin' a bit. lol
From what I've read the Left 4 Dead demo is no longer up. They pulled it so the servers could be used just for people who bought the game. Is that incorrect? I have Orange Box for my 360 but I don't have a legit copy for PC. Not really wanting to buy it a second time so I can play this mod, but from seeing the trailer, this mod looks pretty damn awesome so I'll end up buying something so I can play it.
This isn't something that will just come and go. They've been working on this tech since the early 90's and it's been advancing rather well. Considering how well people have embraced touch screen tech the past couple years, something that had been around since when, the 60's? I think this will do quite well, but I also think it will be many years before we see it in heavy use.
I imagine most of the time you'd type as you do now, just like you seldom if ever type with a mouse. Think of this as a replacement for the mouse, or maybe even an additional tool. I guess in that respect it's more like a tablet. You still use your keyboard and mouse but when you need to draw, you bust out the tablet. Maybe you'd use this a lot in Photoshop and not so much in Word.
Then again, there was a time when the mouse didn't yet exist and when people first saw it, I'm sure they thought it was cute but maybe not so practical. We might look back on this thing in 10 years and think "how did we ever get along without it?" which is how I feel about the mouse. I use my mouse all the time. Sure I use it less than most non-geeks because I'm fly with a keyboard using the shortcuts and hotkeys and all that, but my mouse still gets used a lot. I'm thinking this thing could cut my mousing time way down, especially when manipulating media.
Lots of other applications for this as well. Gaming comes to mind. I think the Wii has conclusively shown that people really do like that sort of gaming. I also think future iterations will have a reduction in size of what you wear on your hands and I think technology will at some point advance enough that you no longer have to wear anything on your hands. Maybe by using infrared to detect the heat from your hands, although I wonder how accurate that would be. I'm not questioning the accuracy of the infrared tech but more the issue of your hands being cold or something along those lines. If you've just come in from a blizzard, would it still work? For any advancement in that area to be successful, it needs to work 100% of the time. Going to something the size of a ring would work all the time, and that's what will be needed if we are going to be able to use our mouse and keyboard and tablet and joystick and whatever else still. A couple rings on each hand might work just fine. More so than a glove anyway.
Steam is a steaming pile of crap IMO which is why even though I own a legit copy of HL2, I run a non-steam version that I downloaded from a torrent site. I assume it's still not legal for me to run the non-steam version, even though I own a license for the regular version, but I don't care. They got my money and now I play their game, without having any extra crap installed on my machine.
You point out that Reagan submitted large budgets and in the end, lots of money was spent. I agree with that. The question I'm wondering though is what was the money spent on? Just because a lot was spent doesn't mean it was wasted, although it so often is. Was the large amount of spending justified or was it wasteful? I know Reagan spent a great deal on rebuilding the military which eventually led to the end of the cold war. I'm too lazy to look up any real info regarding the budgets while he was runnin' the show.
And this has what to do with Twitter? With Twitter I can instantly spam all of my friends and keep them abreast of the latest developments in my so called life. With ham radio I can talk to complete strangers on the other side of the globe. Both are cool, but totally different and serve much different needs/wants/purposes.
You apparently know nothing about engines. You don't need to supercharge it to get to 400hp. Just add a nice big nitrous kit. That will give you all the power you need with the added bonus of making really cool explosion sounds as you scatter parts for a half mile.
In all seriousness though, you can get a minivan to 400hp. Some people need the space or like the way it looks or whatever, but want more power. With the iPhone, maybe you like the looks or how it feels in your hand or that it has the touch screen, but maybe you don't like the OS. I agree that it's not currently for people who like to tinker, and that's a shame. I think it would be great if you could actually do whatever you want with stuff you buy.
But how long does it take to hit the top speed? If we can go from 0 to top speed in less than 30 seconds and immediately go into a tunnel and do an inversion or two, I'm thinking ticket sales will be brisk. NHRA cars can do this in around 4 seconds... I think they've gotten up to something like 324 in right about 4 seconds, but they don't take you upside down... in the dark. You could even get Cedar Fair or Six Flags to sponsor it... longest fastest coaster in the WORLD!!!! I wonder what it would do to your body if you were on a coaster for 10 hours... even if it was butter smooth I think you'd feel some serious effects.
Won't work. I'm friends with Bill. We have a system worked out so whenever he rotates in, we swipe stuff. Then when I rotate out I smuggle it down the employee corridor to the break room where I have my backpack in my locker. Easy breezy. If he rotates out first he does the same. Consider we're talking about pilfering from baggage. Items must be small to fit into the baggage and if something is too large, you just leave it and move on. Cameras are small. Take off the lens and still just the body. Then next time, take just a lens. Nikon is famous for lenses that fit lots of cameras. And the bonus is you'd be just like Johnny Cash stealing it once piece at a time!
Wouldn't work. People tend to make friends at work. Friends tend to help each other. "Hey, I'm going to snag a pair of laptops this weekend and you can have whichever one you like if you'll let me through the checkpoint" Or in this situation you could even take orders from your coworkers. Ask them what kind of laptop they want or camera or whatever. Personally, I'd like a shiny new top-of-the-line Nikon but I wouldn't take one from work. Would I turn a blind eye for someone else? Most likely because in this economy I wouldn't want to lose my job and if more than one person is in on it, even if they all got fired I'd be known as the guy who got them fired and it would be a crap place to work from then on. So I wouldn't partake, but I wouldn't do anything about it either. Thankfully I'm self-employed so it doesn't matter, but my point remains. Simply instituting searches on the way out won't work. Not even if you have cameras because nearly anything you put in place can be avoided or circumvented.
In this case the guy had $200,000 worth of merchandise. That's sufficient motivation to put some time and effort into circumventing your searches, videotapings, or whatever else you come up with.
On the other hand, what if we used prison labor and they weren't allowed to leave after the shift? I could see them maybe swiping something and taking it back to their cell, but routine sweeps of the cells would help curtail that. I hear politicians talking about how we need more prisons, here's our chance. lol
A couple weeks ago I drove from San Fran to Orlando and it was a really great trip. Only lasted a week so it was much too short, but all of my trips seem to be like that. I drove not because I hate air travel, although it's going in that direction for me, but because I was moving here and needed to get my car here. That said, some of my family did fly and it wasn't without it's problems. My sister was shot several years back and has pellets in her neck. These set off the detector and she, my mom, and my daughter were all patted down because of it. My sister explained why it was going off, you can see a couple of the pellets right below the skin, the wand only went off in that area, yet they were still detained? And why my mom and daughter? They didn't set off the detector.
No matter what they do, they'll never be able to ensure 100% safety on flights. Every so often you hear about some test of the system where bombs or guns or whatever were brought onto a plane. The system does not work the way it is and any attempts to fix it will ultimately fail. So why can't we just go back to a quick screening and get on the damn plane? I think a bigger threat to our safety is the economy. Companies are going to cut corners on maintaining the planes and there rate of incidence is going to go up. The current state of things is pretty silly. It's like how we can't put anything heavy in the mail box because one guy, a guy they captured, sent bombs through the mail. I'm sure if you really wanted to you could make a powerful bomb that is under the current weight limit. All this regulation does is make sending mail harder for the rest of us, or at least those routinely sending items that weight more than however many ounces the limit is.
You are comparing what the US Gov can do inside and outside of the US. They have much more control here than they do in Iraq or anywhere else. They also have a lot more soldiers and police officers here than anywhere else. I'm not saying that they could actually keep down an uprising if it were to happen, but I'd be damn surprised it they couldn't. Compare the firepower of the two sides. How are ordinary citizens supposed to go up against tanks, planes, etc? It's a bit different today than when Americans were fighting some Nancy's from across the pond. It's not rifle vs rifle anymore. Even if you had a large cache of "assault" weapons, they aren't very effective against armor. Your farm, ranch, house, whatever, won't last long against a single blast from a tank. And how many ordinary citizens have access to anti-tank weapons or know the first thing about defending against bombers or attack choppers?
I think you would need a very large group of people and it would need to be pretty concerted to have any effect. Some of that shock and awe that the Gov is so proud of, turned on them. But then again, why can't we simply remove them from power and replace them with newly elected officials that actually give a damn about what the citizenry wants? Has the system truly failed at this point? I don't think so. I think we've failed the system.
Next month we have two choices for Prez and both are crap, IMO. We voted when we had more choices and this is what we've left ourselves with. Nothing is going to change over the next four years. Nothing significant. We need to elect officials that will stir things up and get us where we want to be, and that will never happen, or at least hasn't happened yet. But what do I know? I'm just one of the lemmings.
I'm a total messy. My desk is cluttered at best and a complete disaster area when I've let it go for longer than a month without a tidy. The rest of my living space is much the same. To others it looks like a tornado hit a trailer park but to me it's quite functional. I'm all about function before form and I care more about how the space works for me, than how it looks to visitors. My kitchen is the exception to my mess as it's spotless and has nice clean open spaces in which to cook.
I'm a Lib that used to be a Repub. I have pretty much nothing on my walls these days and don't have any of the stuff mentioned in the article that would denote one part or the other, not in sufficient quality to be relevant to my political leanings anyway. But then again, as a Lib, I guess my setup really does reflect my leanings.
Not wanting to start anything but I'm just curious who should be paying for the rape exams if not the people who are actually using them? Sure in an ideal world the rapist would be billed but while I can't recall the exact stats, I do remember that most rapes go unreported and of the ones that do, obviously not all are successfully prosecuted. Therefore someone else needs to foot the bill. Why should that be the general taxpayer? I'm not out raping people and I don't feel that I should have to foot any portion of the bill, through my tax dollars. Then again, I don't think the victim should have to pay either, for obvious reasons.
Maybe we could get the company currently making them to donate the tech and setup a program so prisons could begin making them. And they could make other stuff to sell in order to raise money for the materials for the rape kits. Thereby allowing victims access to the kits at no charge. I fully support putting prisoners to work to better society in whatever ways possible.
Are there people who cast their vote based on crap like this? One one hand it's cool to know why someone is supporting someone, so this is somewhat different than the usual "I support Joe" stuff we see plastered all over. I'm tired of all the signs everywhere showing me who the sign owner is supporting. You drive down the street and see signs for every candidate and it does absolutely nothing to further any particular candidate. It serves only as an eyesore. This is why I don't plaster my car with bumper stickers supporting anyone or anything. I live several sports teams but I don't need to announce that to the world on my bumper. In this race I once again can't stand either candidate (the last candidate I really supported in a presidential race was Reagan) and just wish we could get this over so the bloody signs will get taken down.
If terrorists are making their money from pirating DVD's then we're getting much more pathetic terrorists than in my day!
With apologies to The Joker: This world needs a better class of terrorist, and I'm gonna give it to them!
I'd love to see numbers on how much the RIAA has spent with these lawsuits and how much they have received in judgements. Actually received, not just been awarded in court. I don't see it working as a deterrent so in my opinion, to see if it's actually been of any value to them, we need to compare cost vs reward and I'm thinking they have spent considerably more than they've gotten. But I've not seen any numbers.
Even when they were suing people left and right, back at the beginning when they first started targeting individuals, my piracy habits didn't change. I still download all music, movies, tv shows. I do also hit the theater and go to concerts but I don't buy media anymore and haven't for years. The RIAA can sue whoever they want and eventually at this rate they'll at some point sue me. That's ok. I can live with that. What I might have to pay out will likely be considerably less than what I would have paid out for everything I've pirated over the last 20 years.
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Can you imagine breaking into a house only to find granny waiting with a wheelchair mounted full auto turret? Ya know, the military is getting rid of old planes all the time. Some of those planes had .50 cal chain fed machine guns on them. We could recycle those for the elderly. No punk is going to steal her purse!!!
I just did a Google search to compare a 6 gauge to a 12 gauge and I couldn't find any info on a 6 gauge. Did you mean a 16 gauge? From what I found, for commonly available guns anyway, 10 gauge is the largest. Considering that the lower the number, the larger the bore, a 6 gauge would pack quite a punch. You mentioned recoil rocketing them to safety, that would be the one to do it me thinks. It would probably dislocate a shoulder or break some ribs when fired, but yea, it might get the wheel chair movin' a bit. lol
From what I've read the Left 4 Dead demo is no longer up. They pulled it so the servers could be used just for people who bought the game. Is that incorrect? I have Orange Box for my 360 but I don't have a legit copy for PC. Not really wanting to buy it a second time so I can play this mod, but from seeing the trailer, this mod looks pretty damn awesome so I'll end up buying something so I can play it.
This isn't something that will just come and go. They've been working on this tech since the early 90's and it's been advancing rather well. Considering how well people have embraced touch screen tech the past couple years, something that had been around since when, the 60's? I think this will do quite well, but I also think it will be many years before we see it in heavy use.
I imagine most of the time you'd type as you do now, just like you seldom if ever type with a mouse. Think of this as a replacement for the mouse, or maybe even an additional tool. I guess in that respect it's more like a tablet. You still use your keyboard and mouse but when you need to draw, you bust out the tablet. Maybe you'd use this a lot in Photoshop and not so much in Word.
Then again, there was a time when the mouse didn't yet exist and when people first saw it, I'm sure they thought it was cute but maybe not so practical. We might look back on this thing in 10 years and think "how did we ever get along without it?" which is how I feel about the mouse. I use my mouse all the time. Sure I use it less than most non-geeks because I'm fly with a keyboard using the shortcuts and hotkeys and all that, but my mouse still gets used a lot. I'm thinking this thing could cut my mousing time way down, especially when manipulating media.
Lots of other applications for this as well. Gaming comes to mind. I think the Wii has conclusively shown that people really do like that sort of gaming. I also think future iterations will have a reduction in size of what you wear on your hands and I think technology will at some point advance enough that you no longer have to wear anything on your hands. Maybe by using infrared to detect the heat from your hands, although I wonder how accurate that would be. I'm not questioning the accuracy of the infrared tech but more the issue of your hands being cold or something along those lines. If you've just come in from a blizzard, would it still work? For any advancement in that area to be successful, it needs to work 100% of the time. Going to something the size of a ring would work all the time, and that's what will be needed if we are going to be able to use our mouse and keyboard and tablet and joystick and whatever else still. A couple rings on each hand might work just fine. More so than a glove anyway.
Steam is a steaming pile of crap IMO which is why even though I own a legit copy of HL2, I run a non-steam version that I downloaded from a torrent site. I assume it's still not legal for me to run the non-steam version, even though I own a license for the regular version, but I don't care. They got my money and now I play their game, without having any extra crap installed on my machine.
You point out that Reagan submitted large budgets and in the end, lots of money was spent. I agree with that. The question I'm wondering though is what was the money spent on? Just because a lot was spent doesn't mean it was wasted, although it so often is. Was the large amount of spending justified or was it wasteful? I know Reagan spent a great deal on rebuilding the military which eventually led to the end of the cold war. I'm too lazy to look up any real info regarding the budgets while he was runnin' the show.
I've never known a politician to follow through with their campaign promises.
I only know one who is currently in office.
Seeing as how the sky really isn't blue, but just appears that way (remember science class when you were a kid?), this seems oh so fitting.
And this has what to do with Twitter? With Twitter I can instantly spam all of my friends and keep them abreast of the latest developments in my so called life. With ham radio I can talk to complete strangers on the other side of the globe. Both are cool, but totally different and serve much different needs/wants/purposes.
That's pretty damn awesome. Finally a minivan that men can be proud to drive! Men that have $80k to drop on a minivan of course.
You apparently know nothing about engines. You don't need to supercharge it to get to 400hp. Just add a nice big nitrous kit. That will give you all the power you need with the added bonus of making really cool explosion sounds as you scatter parts for a half mile.
In all seriousness though, you can get a minivan to 400hp. Some people need the space or like the way it looks or whatever, but want more power. With the iPhone, maybe you like the looks or how it feels in your hand or that it has the touch screen, but maybe you don't like the OS. I agree that it's not currently for people who like to tinker, and that's a shame. I think it would be great if you could actually do whatever you want with stuff you buy.
Are you going to vote McCain/Palin or are you a sexist?
But how long does it take to hit the top speed? If we can go from 0 to top speed in less than 30 seconds and immediately go into a tunnel and do an inversion or two, I'm thinking ticket sales will be brisk. NHRA cars can do this in around 4 seconds... I think they've gotten up to something like 324 in right about 4 seconds, but they don't take you upside down... in the dark. You could even get Cedar Fair or Six Flags to sponsor it... longest fastest coaster in the WORLD!!!! I wonder what it would do to your body if you were on a coaster for 10 hours... even if it was butter smooth I think you'd feel some serious effects.
I can't find a Firefox button on my AOL!!!! How do I go to this Firefox thing??? PLEASE HELP!!!11
Won't work. I'm friends with Bill. We have a system worked out so whenever he rotates in, we swipe stuff. Then when I rotate out I smuggle it down the employee corridor to the break room where I have my backpack in my locker. Easy breezy. If he rotates out first he does the same. Consider we're talking about pilfering from baggage. Items must be small to fit into the baggage and if something is too large, you just leave it and move on. Cameras are small. Take off the lens and still just the body. Then next time, take just a lens. Nikon is famous for lenses that fit lots of cameras. And the bonus is you'd be just like Johnny Cash stealing it once piece at a time!
Wouldn't work. People tend to make friends at work. Friends tend to help each other. "Hey, I'm going to snag a pair of laptops this weekend and you can have whichever one you like if you'll let me through the checkpoint" Or in this situation you could even take orders from your coworkers. Ask them what kind of laptop they want or camera or whatever. Personally, I'd like a shiny new top-of-the-line Nikon but I wouldn't take one from work. Would I turn a blind eye for someone else? Most likely because in this economy I wouldn't want to lose my job and if more than one person is in on it, even if they all got fired I'd be known as the guy who got them fired and it would be a crap place to work from then on. So I wouldn't partake, but I wouldn't do anything about it either. Thankfully I'm self-employed so it doesn't matter, but my point remains. Simply instituting searches on the way out won't work. Not even if you have cameras because nearly anything you put in place can be avoided or circumvented.
In this case the guy had $200,000 worth of merchandise. That's sufficient motivation to put some time and effort into circumventing your searches, videotapings, or whatever else you come up with.
On the other hand, what if we used prison labor and they weren't allowed to leave after the shift? I could see them maybe swiping something and taking it back to their cell, but routine sweeps of the cells would help curtail that. I hear politicians talking about how we need more prisons, here's our chance. lol
I think you meant "who watches the watchmen?"
A couple weeks ago I drove from San Fran to Orlando and it was a really great trip. Only lasted a week so it was much too short, but all of my trips seem to be like that. I drove not because I hate air travel, although it's going in that direction for me, but because I was moving here and needed to get my car here. That said, some of my family did fly and it wasn't without it's problems. My sister was shot several years back and has pellets in her neck. These set off the detector and she, my mom, and my daughter were all patted down because of it. My sister explained why it was going off, you can see a couple of the pellets right below the skin, the wand only went off in that area, yet they were still detained? And why my mom and daughter? They didn't set off the detector.
No matter what they do, they'll never be able to ensure 100% safety on flights. Every so often you hear about some test of the system where bombs or guns or whatever were brought onto a plane. The system does not work the way it is and any attempts to fix it will ultimately fail. So why can't we just go back to a quick screening and get on the damn plane? I think a bigger threat to our safety is the economy. Companies are going to cut corners on maintaining the planes and there rate of incidence is going to go up. The current state of things is pretty silly. It's like how we can't put anything heavy in the mail box because one guy, a guy they captured, sent bombs through the mail. I'm sure if you really wanted to you could make a powerful bomb that is under the current weight limit. All this regulation does is make sending mail harder for the rest of us, or at least those routinely sending items that weight more than however many ounces the limit is.
You are comparing what the US Gov can do inside and outside of the US. They have much more control here than they do in Iraq or anywhere else. They also have a lot more soldiers and police officers here than anywhere else. I'm not saying that they could actually keep down an uprising if it were to happen, but I'd be damn surprised it they couldn't. Compare the firepower of the two sides. How are ordinary citizens supposed to go up against tanks, planes, etc? It's a bit different today than when Americans were fighting some Nancy's from across the pond. It's not rifle vs rifle anymore. Even if you had a large cache of "assault" weapons, they aren't very effective against armor. Your farm, ranch, house, whatever, won't last long against a single blast from a tank. And how many ordinary citizens have access to anti-tank weapons or know the first thing about defending against bombers or attack choppers?
I think you would need a very large group of people and it would need to be pretty concerted to have any effect. Some of that shock and awe that the Gov is so proud of, turned on them. But then again, why can't we simply remove them from power and replace them with newly elected officials that actually give a damn about what the citizenry wants? Has the system truly failed at this point? I don't think so. I think we've failed the system.
Next month we have two choices for Prez and both are crap, IMO. We voted when we had more choices and this is what we've left ourselves with. Nothing is going to change over the next four years. Nothing significant. We need to elect officials that will stir things up and get us where we want to be, and that will never happen, or at least hasn't happened yet. But what do I know? I'm just one of the lemmings.
I'm a total messy. My desk is cluttered at best and a complete disaster area when I've let it go for longer than a month without a tidy. The rest of my living space is much the same. To others it looks like a tornado hit a trailer park but to me it's quite functional. I'm all about function before form and I care more about how the space works for me, than how it looks to visitors. My kitchen is the exception to my mess as it's spotless and has nice clean open spaces in which to cook.
I'm a Lib that used to be a Repub. I have pretty much nothing on my walls these days and don't have any of the stuff mentioned in the article that would denote one part or the other, not in sufficient quality to be relevant to my political leanings anyway. But then again, as a Lib, I guess my setup really does reflect my leanings.
Not wanting to start anything but I'm just curious who should be paying for the rape exams if not the people who are actually using them? Sure in an ideal world the rapist would be billed but while I can't recall the exact stats, I do remember that most rapes go unreported and of the ones that do, obviously not all are successfully prosecuted. Therefore someone else needs to foot the bill. Why should that be the general taxpayer? I'm not out raping people and I don't feel that I should have to foot any portion of the bill, through my tax dollars. Then again, I don't think the victim should have to pay either, for obvious reasons.
Maybe we could get the company currently making them to donate the tech and setup a program so prisons could begin making them. And they could make other stuff to sell in order to raise money for the materials for the rape kits. Thereby allowing victims access to the kits at no charge. I fully support putting prisoners to work to better society in whatever ways possible.
Are there people who cast their vote based on crap like this? One one hand it's cool to know why someone is supporting someone, so this is somewhat different than the usual "I support Joe" stuff we see plastered all over. I'm tired of all the signs everywhere showing me who the sign owner is supporting. You drive down the street and see signs for every candidate and it does absolutely nothing to further any particular candidate. It serves only as an eyesore. This is why I don't plaster my car with bumper stickers supporting anyone or anything. I live several sports teams but I don't need to announce that to the world on my bumper. In this race I once again can't stand either candidate (the last candidate I really supported in a presidential race was Reagan) and just wish we could get this over so the bloody signs will get taken down.
Q: Are you smarter than a 7th grader?
A: Most likely not this one.
If terrorists are making their money from pirating DVD's then we're getting much more pathetic terrorists than in my day!
With apologies to The Joker: This world needs a better class of terrorist, and I'm gonna give it to them!
I'd love to see numbers on how much the RIAA has spent with these lawsuits and how much they have received in judgements. Actually received, not just been awarded in court. I don't see it working as a deterrent so in my opinion, to see if it's actually been of any value to them, we need to compare cost vs reward and I'm thinking they have spent considerably more than they've gotten. But I've not seen any numbers.
Even when they were suing people left and right, back at the beginning when they first started targeting individuals, my piracy habits didn't change. I still download all music, movies, tv shows. I do also hit the theater and go to concerts but I don't buy media anymore and haven't for years. The RIAA can sue whoever they want and eventually at this rate they'll at some point sue me. That's ok. I can live with that. What I might have to pay out will likely be considerably less than what I would have paid out for everything I've pirated over the last 20 years.