(Not an expert marksman by any means, but I can hit what I shoot at...)
seriously though, what do you think a guy like me would find so hard about pulling a handgun up, aiming down the sights,
You forgot to get a proper stance.
and squeezing without flinching (set your aim off)
You forgot breathing. (Not to mention loading the damned thing...)
- or holding a rifle square in your shoulder,
Err... did you zero that rifle? And, again, you need proper posture whether you're standing up, in the prone or sitting down.
aiming down the sights,
Cheek to stock weld? Sight picture?
holding his breath, and
Holding your breath is the opposite of what you want to do. You breath normally and after a few breaths you pause to acquire your sight picture and fire.
squeezing again without flinching?
Of course, since you were breathing *after* you aimed your sight picture has moved around. And you have to "follow through" as golfers say when you squeeze the trigger so that it's fully depressed.
now shooting with a person in front of the barrel and living with it - thats a different story - you could go to a shooting range all the time, be an olympic class marksman, and it'd still drive you to a mental ward...
As I understand, combat vets will develop PTSD after extended combat, and very few PTSD sufferers are institutionalized.
So I'm pretty sure shooting one person isn't going to put you in the loony bin. Grief stricken, maybe, but if someone was trying to kill me I think I could handle it.
If we're talking political abuse-of-science, can I link to this essay by Michael Crichton about "environmentalism as religion" just to remind everyone that things like this cut both ways?
Nope. Note in the rules:
The subject of the cartoons must relate to political interference in science in the federal government.
In other words, the subject of the cartoons must be the Bush administration.
I'm not happy with everything the current administration does, but comparing Bush to Stalin is outrageous and deeply insulting to the victims of Stalinism.
It's also lame. I've seen propositions for a Bush corollary to Godwin's law. (Though there should have been one for Clinton too.)
The problem we have on PCs is that the OS lets anything execute and then we run AV software that tries to stop a list of things running. What we need to do is have the OS whitelist good software, not blacklist all the bad.
Mobile phone OS designers have made the exact same mistake and in an environment that is far more conducive to viruses.
I find it ironic that you used an M-16 as an example of 'reliable'. In the Vietnam War/Confict/Police Action, the M-16 had a terrible reputation for reliablity.
Hi folks, just wanted to point out some off-topic kharma whoring from someone who probably never fired an M-16. (Yup, I'm active duty Army, and, no, I'm not debating this. Just flagging someone who's a hypocrite, a poseur and a kharma whore.)
A camera that could Auto-focus without any moving, mechanical parts
I'm not sure if that would work.
From TFA:
The only snag with the new device is its long focusing time of about three minutes. This is because the lens is relatively large (9 mm), which means that molecular diffusion across it is slow. However, this should not be problem in micro-sized lenses in which the estimated response time is around 1 second at room temperature.
I assume they're talking about lens diameter. It might work for smaller cellphone type cameras, though.
It takes us farther away from what I'd like to see in a car, namely a self-steering one. I'd prefer one that detects an oncoming truck as oncoming and tries to get out of the way.
Not at all. I can think of a few people I'd buy one for.
while some people really are complete assholes, I'd bet a significant fraction of the posts here would NEVER be said in a face-to-face conversation.
I disagree. I know a number of guys who are 10 years younger than me. They tell me I should kick some ass when someone is disrespectful, to stand up for myself. (Apparently they've never seen "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong.")
Being a few years wiser, I couldn't help but notice that the people who talk the most about kicking ass almost never do it themselves when they are in such situations. I've even been threatened myself several times and nothing came of it. I've threatened others, nothing.
People certainly do fight, no doubt about it, but only if one side has a definite advantage or someone is drunk/stupid. From my experience, the claim that certain insults just wouldn't get said in a face to face conversation is simply wrong.
No, their only recourse is to ask people to leave. The cops cannot simply remove someone since they lack the power to do this (no crime was committed, etc.).
If you refuse to leave when asked, you're trespassing. You don't have to wait until a crime is committed to ask the police to help with a disruptive situation.
Preferably something at least as blatant as CBS's Killian Documents from the Rathergate episode of 60 minutes. Or the exploding GM gas tank from NBC's Dateline.
You forgot CNN's Tailwind coverage. I think the reason people like Fox News is that while it's hokey, it's just hokey and they don't put up a ridiculous pretense of objectivity like NPR.
You just blamed a news outlet for starting a war, causing a trade deficit, budgetary and foreign relations problems and mistakes... at the behest of corporations?
When the person's ideology only allows a limited set of responses to any crisis, they simply blame everything on something that they're ideologically allowed to respond to. Since puppet shows and protests only work against politicians and corporations here in the US, everything has to be Bush's fault or Fox News.
It's rather like the guy searching for his keys under the lightpole. In this case you have to ignore 95% of TV media, all of print and the entire Internet to single out Fox News. It's astounding.
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Well, there may be plenty of buglers but they aren't enlisting. It's a good gig: you get E-6 almost right away.
It's a real problem for the modern Army. We're moving away from the Cold War structure of having a different MOS for every imaginable job to moving many jobs over to the civilian side of things. Example: when I was in advanced individual training, a guy in my platoon was reclassing from Stinger operator. His one and only job was to hump a Stinger around with him. In his new line of work (and mine, of course) he drives Bradleys, HMMWVs, does forward recon, calls in fire, and is qualified in the Javelin and at least half a dozen other weapon systems.
Since it's a military funeral, you can't have a civilian do it. Since old veterans die all the time it's a full time job. It seems to me that it's an unavoidable consequence of a necessary change.
And as much as I respect the tradition, if it were my funeral, I'd really rather not gouge the taxpayers to have someone toot my horn.
Ninja isn't a Japanese word because there are no letters "n", "i", "j" or "a" in Japanese. Also, Japanese doesn't have plurals so there is no plural form of the original.
English, on the other hand, does. And when a word of foreign origins like "ninja" is used by an English speaker or writer it is an English word.
When an English word ends with a vowel, the plural is formed by adding the suffix -s. So the plural of ninja is ninjas.
Japanese society and culture is decidedly decadent and depraved, a result of oppressive American occupation policies.
Oh, please. I'm going to put aside how offended Tanaka-san on the street would be at the suggestion that his nation is decadent and depraved and suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is.
That oppressive American occupation was a direct consequence of Japan's inhuman wartime conduct.
But suppose, again for the sake of argument, that we occupied Japan for the hell of it. I want you to explain, in terms that someone who isn't a liberal intellectual can understand, why it is that the moment another culture interacts with America that it is so thoroughly despoiled and loses control of itself. I thought other people were pretty much like us and when bad things happened they would, individually and collectively, take control of their lives.
Why do you think this hasn't happened in Japan? How are they *so* pathetic, such an inferior culture, that they haven't gotten over an occupation that happened a generation ago?
You know what extra technology could be useful for? How about more logic in the games. We're still in the world of "you can't interact with this object" on systems with hundreds of megabits of ram, billions of instructions per second of power and the best we can do is Phong shaded 3 layered textured environments?
But but but... that's crazy talk! Our games have boobies and 'splosions and shiny things! What more could you want?
Cutting down the trees aready in place, tho, is defining insanity.
Trees for paper are farmed, so you're cutting down and replanting the same trees. If anything, increasing consumption of paper will cause manufacturers to plant *more* trees.
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That was accomplished by corrupting the U.S. government.
Waaah! They didn't do what I want! Big cheaters!
(Not an expert marksman by any means, but I can hit what I shoot at...)
seriously though, what do you think a guy like me would find so hard about pulling a handgun up, aiming down the sights,
You forgot to get a proper stance.
and squeezing without flinching (set your aim off)
You forgot breathing. (Not to mention loading the damned thing...)
- or holding a rifle square in your shoulder,
Err... did you zero that rifle? And, again, you need proper posture whether you're standing up, in the prone or sitting down.
aiming down the sights,
Cheek to stock weld? Sight picture?
holding his breath, and
Holding your breath is the opposite of what you want to do. You breath normally and after a few breaths you pause to acquire your sight picture and fire.
squeezing again without flinching?
Of course, since you were breathing *after* you aimed your sight picture has moved around. And you have to "follow through" as golfers say when you squeeze the trigger so that it's fully depressed.
now shooting with a person in front of the barrel and living with it - thats a different story - you could go to a shooting range all the time, be an olympic class marksman, and it'd still drive you to a mental ward...
As I understand, combat vets will develop PTSD after extended combat, and very few PTSD sufferers are institutionalized.
So I'm pretty sure shooting one person isn't going to put you in the loony bin. Grief stricken, maybe, but if someone was trying to kill me I think I could handle it.
If we're talking political abuse-of-science, can I link to this essay by Michael Crichton about "environmentalism as religion" just to remind everyone that things like this cut both ways?
Nope. Note in the rules:
The subject of the cartoons must relate to political interference in science in the federal government.
In other words, the subject of the cartoons must be the Bush administration.
I'm not happy with everything the current administration does, but comparing Bush to Stalin is outrageous and deeply insulting to the victims of Stalinism.
It's also lame. I've seen propositions for a Bush corollary to Godwin's law. (Though there should have been one for Clinton too.)
The problem we have on PCs is that the OS lets anything execute and then we run AV software that tries to stop a list of things running. What we need to do is have the OS whitelist good software, not blacklist all the bad.
Mobile phone OS designers have made the exact same mistake and in an environment that is far more conducive to viruses.
I find it ironic that you used an M-16 as an example of 'reliable'. In the Vietnam War/Confict/Police Action, the M-16 had a terrible reputation for reliablity.
Hi folks, just wanted to point out some off-topic kharma whoring from someone who probably never fired an M-16. (Yup, I'm active duty Army, and, no, I'm not debating this. Just flagging someone who's a hypocrite, a poseur and a kharma whore.)
Especially if the murder suspect is innocent.
And remember, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
Everyone is legally innocent until proven legally guilty. It's only harm if the murder suspect was factually innocent.
Attention citizens of the united states: Reform your legal system so that judges can award costs.
Comments from the 51st State are, of course, always welcome.
A camera that could Auto-focus without any moving, mechanical parts
I'm not sure if that would work.
From TFA:
The only snag with the new device is its long focusing time of about three minutes. This is because the lens is relatively large (9 mm), which means that molecular diffusion across it is slow. However, this should not be problem in micro-sized lenses in which the estimated response time is around 1 second at room temperature.
I assume they're talking about lens diameter. It might work for smaller cellphone type cameras, though.
It takes us farther away from what I'd like to see in a car, namely a self-steering one. I'd prefer one that detects an oncoming truck as oncoming and tries to get out of the way.
Not at all. I can think of a few people I'd buy one for.
while some people really are complete assholes, I'd bet a significant fraction of the posts here would NEVER be said in a face-to-face conversation.
I disagree. I know a number of guys who are 10 years younger than me. They tell me I should kick some ass when someone is disrespectful, to stand up for myself. (Apparently they've never seen "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong.")
Being a few years wiser, I couldn't help but notice that the people who talk the most about kicking ass almost never do it themselves when they are in such situations. I've even been threatened myself several times and nothing came of it. I've threatened others, nothing.
People certainly do fight, no doubt about it, but only if one side has a definite advantage or someone is drunk/stupid. From my experience, the claim that certain insults just wouldn't get said in a face to face conversation is simply wrong.
No, their only recourse is to ask people to leave. The cops cannot simply remove someone since they lack the power to do this (no crime was committed, etc.).
If you refuse to leave when asked, you're trespassing. You don't have to wait until a crime is committed to ask the police to help with a disruptive situation.
Preferably something at least as blatant as CBS's Killian Documents from the Rathergate episode of 60 minutes. Or the exploding GM gas tank from NBC's Dateline.
You forgot CNN's Tailwind coverage. I think the reason people like Fox News is that while it's hokey, it's just hokey and they don't put up a ridiculous pretense of objectivity like NPR.
You just blamed a news outlet for starting a war, causing a trade deficit, budgetary and foreign relations problems and mistakes... at the behest of corporations?
When the person's ideology only allows a limited set of responses to any crisis, they simply blame everything on something that they're ideologically allowed to respond to. Since puppet shows and protests only work against politicians and corporations here in the US, everything has to be Bush's fault or Fox News.
It's rather like the guy searching for his keys under the lightpole. In this case you have to ignore 95% of TV media, all of print and the entire Internet to single out Fox News. It's astounding.
Statutory minimum annual leave plus public holidays
That info is useless. What's the average time off for a worker in the US vs. one in the UK?
Really, I think papers on how to pick up girls are would be greatly appreciated by the greater /. community.
/. questions that gets answered with a Google search.
That's one of those Ask
Bah! PC means Printed Circuit. Always did, always will.
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Well, there may be plenty of buglers but they aren't enlisting. It's a good gig: you get E-6 almost right away.
It's a real problem for the modern Army. We're moving away from the Cold War structure of having a different MOS for every imaginable job to moving many jobs over to the civilian side of things. Example: when I was in advanced individual training, a guy in my platoon was reclassing from Stinger operator. His one and only job was to hump a Stinger around with him. In his new line of work (and mine, of course) he drives Bradleys, HMMWVs, does forward recon, calls in fire, and is qualified in the Javelin and at least half a dozen other weapon systems.
Since it's a military funeral, you can't have a civilian do it. Since old veterans die all the time it's a full time job. It seems to me that it's an unavoidable consequence of a necessary change.
And as much as I respect the tradition, if it were my funeral, I'd really rather not gouge the taxpayers to have someone toot my horn.
The plural for Ninja is Ninja.
Ninja isn't a Japanese word because there are no letters "n", "i", "j" or "a" in Japanese. Also, Japanese doesn't have plurals so there is no plural form of the original.
English, on the other hand, does. And when a word of foreign origins like "ninja" is used by an English speaker or writer it is an English word.
When an English word ends with a vowel, the plural is formed by adding the suffix -s. So the plural of ninja is ninjas.
Japanese society and culture is decidedly decadent and depraved, a result of oppressive American occupation policies.
Oh, please. I'm going to put aside how offended Tanaka-san on the street would be at the suggestion that his nation is decadent and depraved and suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is.
That oppressive American occupation was a direct consequence of Japan's inhuman wartime conduct.
But suppose, again for the sake of argument, that we occupied Japan for the hell of it. I want you to explain, in terms that someone who isn't a liberal intellectual can understand, why it is that the moment another culture interacts with America that it is so thoroughly despoiled and loses control of itself. I thought other people were pretty much like us and when bad things happened they would, individually and collectively, take control of their lives.
Why do you think this hasn't happened in Japan? How are they *so* pathetic, such an inferior culture, that they haven't gotten over an occupation that happened a generation ago?
Downloading binary files from arbitrary sources is inherently unsafe. Build from source, or do without whatever it is.
So you'd have to do without your build environment...
You know what extra technology could be useful for? How about more logic in the games. We're still in the world of "you can't interact with this object" on systems with hundreds of megabits of ram, billions of instructions per second of power and the best we can do is Phong shaded 3 layered textured environments?
But but but... that's crazy talk! Our games have boobies and 'splosions and shiny things! What more could you want?
Why even bother running it through OCR?
PDF lets you display the raster data with the text hidden behind it. This allows full text search to work on scanned documents.
Cutting down the trees aready in place, tho, is defining insanity.
Trees for paper are farmed, so you're cutting down and replanting the same trees. If anything, increasing consumption of paper will cause manufacturers to plant *more* trees.
Who on earth came up with the idea of basing onscreen units on an unmeasureable quantity?
A committee. Probably the same one that decided that pi should equal 3.