I should point out the yellow cast comes from the wrong white balance on a digital camera, or a poor choice in film type if not. The dual shadows stem from both the proximity of the model to the background and the point-source lighting.
This is a study on rats, using what (according to the accompanying commentary; IANAF) is a fairly obscure pesticide used in vineyards, and performed at doses far above EPA limits.
Even so, I'm filing a suit today. I'm gonna be wealthy! Yee haw!
Well, this detail probably isn't even in error. I've yet to recieve an engine (think V-8, automotive) that didn't come in a WOODEN enclosure that looked an awful lot like a crate. Sure, thigs like brake pads, calipers, and other smaller and lighter items come in cardboard boxes, but for the BIG HEAVY stuff, crates still rule the shipping world.
Yeah, he's got an ego. Rumor has it his wife laughed a little too loudly when Willie S got up into his Kirk outfit. Supposedly she took quick swim in the pool and Will made sure the he would get the last laugh.
You must be thinking of YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE. The NCC1701-C shows up through the tme rift. Because it wasn't getting blown up defending a Klingon instilation the Federation and Klingons end up at war in the altered present. Tasha Yar never died in this timeline, so she's still security officer, and Worf never joined starfleet. Guinan being the odd creature she is can feel things are screwy, and prompts Piccard to get things back to where they belong.
Long story short, Yar realizes she's not meant to live, jumps onto the ENT-C, and fights on the doomed ship to try and saved a doomed Klingon outpost.
The ENT-C is destroyed, of course, Tasha is taken as a POW. She gives birth to a half-human half-romulan, and gives the ENT-D crew one hell of a suprize when her daughter shows up commanding a Romulan fleet that's trying to start a Klingon civil war. Guinan again feels something fishy, and tells Picard about it. The episode ends with Data violating a direct order and saving the day.
Like you said, the NCC-1701C could make for a good movie or two.
Oh..Kirk and the Borg? I know how we can give Kirk some BORG experience.
The movie will open on Veridian III, where a world has been saved, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D lies in ruins, and one of the galaxy's greatest heroes rests beneath a simple cairn of rocks on a lonely hillside. But as a legendary Vulcan ambassador comes at last to the grave of his best and dearest friend, the adventure is only beginning.
The Borg and the Romulan Empire have joined forces against the Federation, and their ultimate weapon is none other than James T. Kirk, resurrected by alien science to destroy the Borg's most formidable enemy: Jean-Luc Picard.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek where Picards ship gets caught in a time rift, and they see an older version of their own ship. Tasha goes off to fight and die with that crew.
That'd be YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE. The NCC1701-C shows up through the tme rift. Because it wasn't getting blown up defending a Klingon instilation the Federation and Klingons end up at war in the altered present. Tasha Yar never died in this timeline, so she's still security officer, and Worf never joined starfleet. Guinan being the odd creature she is can feel things are screwy, and prompts Piccard to get things back to where they belong.
Long story short, Yar realizes she's not meant to live, jumps onto the ENT-C, and fights on the doomed ship to try and saved a doomed Klingon outpost.
The ENT-C is destroyed, of course, Tasha is taken as a POW. She gives birth to a half-human half-romulan, and gives the ENT-D crew one hell of a suprize when her daughter shows up commanding a Romulan fleet that's trying to start a Klingon civil war. Guinan again feels something fishy, and tells Picard about it. The episode ends with Data violating a direct order and saving the day.
You know...the NCC-1701C could make for a good movie or two.
Of Troi hating Worf... I don't know, I think you stuck with the wrong memories:) remember instead how they became married in the episode where Worf returns from a bathlet contest and some time discontinuities cause him to bounce among many realities of Enterprise, and in one of them they are married. That was rocking:)
This is the episode where, at the end, Worf asks Troi out for dinner (or did he mention the fact that an Alter-Worf was married to an Alter-Troi, and Troi asked him why that would be such a surprise?)
In the final episode ALL GOOD THINGS, there's friction w/ Worf and Riker over Troi. Apparently at Trois funeral a few words were supposed to be said by the person closest to the deceased. I can't recall if it was Worf of Riker who got to speak up, but the one who didn't speak up ended up harboring a festering resentment for the other.
I think it was Riker who spoke, and Worf was the one w/ the gripe over it.
Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. A Sith, A Sith, ooooooooooh, a Sith.
Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi.
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No never had my dog ran over by an overly proud christian but I got to see one INTENTIONALY put two childrens life at risk, commit a few other crimes, and get arrested.
I didn't see any turns signals flashing (I'm not saying the driver didn't signal, but I sure as hell didn't see it) before a vehicle pulled infront of me, over a double-yellow line, from the HOV (carpool) lane to my left leaving very little sapce between that van/suv (if you must ask the Mercedes Minivan that's marketed as an SUV) and my car (was driving the "solo car"[as opposed to the minivan for whoever is driving with our daughter], a Honda Civic 2 door.) Well, I honked. The driver slammed on their brakes while showing the world the middle finger.
The civic sheds speed faster than her huge "worldly treasure that will be beset upon by rust, worms, and thieves." Frustrated (assumption) by the fact she didn't kill me with her rear bumper the first time, she repeated this break-slam process until we were both below 10 MPH on a 4 lane highway with a posted 65MPH speed limit. At this time I got a great look at her Harvest Crusade stickers (for the last 2 years,) a silverized plastic fish, and a "in case of rapture" sticker.
Needless to say I dialed 911 and got off the freeway to get away from the psycho woman (didn't know it was a woman at the time.) She exited behind me. I pulled into a well lit gas station and asked the gentleman at the counter to dial 911 (yes, I was also on my cell phone at the same time but could not tell the CHP dispatcher my current location as I had no clue beyond the name of the exit I had just taken.) The woman durring this time had pulled up next to my car (and this is when I first was able to ID her as a woman) and began to beat on the hood of my car with an umbrella (not, it wasn't raining.) She put in a few small dents, scatched the hell out of my hood, and destroyed her umbrella.
A CHP officer pulled into the parking lot when she was entering the gas-station store with the handle of her umbrella (and the sharp bit of metal still sticking out of it.)
After she was in handcuffs in the back seat of the CHP car three city police officers arived. The woman was promptly forgiven by her savior, but she was arrested on charges of vandalism, reckless endangerment, brandishing a weapon, making terrorist threats (no, she wasn't a terrorist, but that's what the officers called it) and child endangerment. While I was stuck spending my evening giving statements, her husband (asumption on my part) came and took home two children she had in the van/suv with her.
I wasn't asked to testify at any trial. I assume she had made some sort of plea, she was defenitely on tape working my car over and then coming into the store threatening to "shove this thing up your[my] stupid Arab ass." (I'm not even Arab, I'm of Hispanic descent, for what that's worth.) I don't know if the cameras in that store also recorded audio, but the man at the store also heard her well enough to tell the police on the phone that she was "going to try and kill" me.
I really hope for those childrens' sake that she has had some professional help. As a parent what she did with those kids in the car has a much greater impact on me than what she did to me.
Putting those two kids at risk with her driving, her attempts to cause an accident, and exposing them to the stress of seeing police who have their guns drawn point them at their mommy then put her in handcuffs... I can't even make sentences now, I still get worked up over the terrible things she did to those children that night.
I'm not the GP in this thread, but let's start with the least hyporitcal thing going on with that psycho woman.
No, I won't... I'm going to click submit and look at my sleeping baby and be thankful that my daughter will NEVER have to experience a mother like that woman.
You know, I wonder WHY does one NEED a flying webserver that's small? If you've got to dish out websites from something that flies why not park a high-altitude blimp up at, oh..say, 50,000 feet and beam down the internet from there? Or... why not park a box full of anetna, electronics, bateries, and solar cells into orbit and do the same from there?
If you need a cluster of machines to work in paralell for greater number-crunching power, why not by a big server rack and throw in a bunch of 1U sized machines?
I mean, it's cool for the "wow, check this out" factor....but...real life aplications? Massively Paralell UAVs of DOOM?
Teaser: The advice given at the bottom of this comment should be read followed by anyone who has a FIREARM, a CAR, A COMPUTER, A CREDIT LINE/CARD, or a CHILD.
And as you point out, it only takes about a week of training for a thickheaded soldier to use a crossbow. To use a firearm at close range only requires watching TV - people successfully kill all the time with only that much training.
Okay, so having watched on TV a firearm being used, I can SAFELY defend my home and cause no risk to myself, my family, or my neighbors.
BULLSHIT.
You never see the people on TV learn how to even load the bloody firearm (yes, people do have to learn this, magazines don't come from the factory fully loaded, and many folks don't understand why you have to pull the slide back, nor where to find the button to press that lets the slide fall closed again... see my response to the next quote.)
You never see people on TV conern themselves with the corect selection of amunition. They never pick a bird-shot round when using a shotgun to defend themselves in a high-density urban setting (think apartments) you never see them choose frangible bullets to prevent over-penetration of any missed-rounds. Rounds that would othsewise transit through MANY walls before coming to rest. You never see them worry about the kids room being down the same hall that they're now using as a shooting gallery. Of course that'd make for damned boring TV.
PS: 12 Gua Remington Pump with 8 round magazine, first 3 shots are #8 bird shot, next 5 rounds are #4 shot. If three painful blasts of birdshot dosen't thwart someones intentions to do my family harm the #4 shot will most defenitely cause fatal harm to them (assuming the #8 wasn't fired at extremely close range.) My husband uses a Colt M1911 clone with "glass bullets" that will not penetrate more than 2 layers of sheetrock, but will carry a good deal of energy into a person who intends to do him or his family harm.
So you have to cock a semiautomatic or automatic weapon. Once. And you'd do this well before you entered combat, if you knew it was coming. If you cock your weapon after that, you're ejecting a good round from the chamber - wasting ammunition and making a fool of yourself. If a character walks up to another character and cocks his gun, either the director or the character is a fool.
You sir hve been watching ALOT of TV for your Firearms operation lessons.
COCKING a weapon means bringing the hammer (or hammer replacement) into position to strike the fireing pin (as opposed to being in a "rest" or "lowered" position.)
Weapons with external hamers often have this done automaticly when a round is chambered via the operation of a slide or lever.
Weapons with internal hammers are cocked ONLY by the cycling of the fireing action (cycle the bolt, slide, break-open the action, raise the falling block, etc.)
For example, you can not just "cock" a Glock sidearm. They have internal hammers that are set into the fireing position by retracting the slide fully reward and allowing the slide to fall into the battery position.
I've yet to see a movie where someone with an self-loading weapon (covers automatics and semi-automatics) cock a hammer. Often you see REVOLVERS getting cocked. Sometimes a slide is pulled back and is allowed to fall into battery (one assumes the weapon was carried with a full magazine but no round in the chamber.) But, I've yet to see someone cock a Glock on tv (by far the most popular gun on the TV shows I've watched.) Why don't people use old M1911s on TV? You CAN cock those, they have an external hammer.
But, point being, COCKING a firearm does NOT eject a good round for the chamber. Cycling the action may well do so, but setting an external hammer into a firing position will NOT do so.
I truely hope you do not have a firearm in your home as you appear to be lacking in some basic knowlege of firearms operation. If you own a firearm please seek some profesional instruction on the safe use of them. If you don't have one then don't get one till you get some saftey instruction.
PS: I think this advise just given should be followed by EVERYONE with a FIREARM, a CAR, a COMPUTER, a CREDIT CARD, or a CHILD.
Power for PS(Power Steering) is provited by the rotation of the engine components. The power is moved to the PS pump via a belt (usualy, some are electric these days.) When you kill the ignition but the car is still in gear, the engine will still be rotating, as it wull still be conected to the drive train. Thus, PS will not fail until the speed of engine rotation is greatly diminished.
Power for PB(Power Brakes)is USUALY provited by vacum assist. This is created by the "sucking" power of an engine as it pulls air in the intake and pushes it out the exhaust. The engine is an air pump. As long as the engine turns you will get some vac. The effectiveness of PB will dimish at a migh faster rate than PB. BUT, there will be more than enough power in the PB system even after the engine stops rotating to fully depress the brakes to the floor. Basicly, as long as you don't need to come to a full and complete stop more than once after you shut off the engine the PB system will work just fien for you after the ignition switch is set to the OFF position.
Therefore, the best way to stop a vehicle with a run-away throttle is to 1) Kill the throttle, 2) Apply brakes 3) Shift transmission into lowest available gear(to use the fiction of the internal engine components to maximum effect in the effort to bring your vehicle to a stop.) 4) find something to "rub" your car against to use in an effort to bleed off knetic energy (your fenders are now your brake pads.)
Under most circumstances you will never need to use more than steps 1 and 2. In a downhill situation where gravity is adding knetic energy to your vehicle and simply stoping your car RIGHT NOW won't do (fast lane of a multi-lane highway) then you can use step 3 to conserve power in your PB system for when you are going to bring the vehicle to a complete stop. Step 4 is for when your brakes fail (and this get interesting*)
*interesting is defined by having thoughts along the lines of "Oh my God, we're all gonna die!"
All of the breach loaders use brass catridges that enclose the gunpower and firmly affix a primer and bullet in place as well. The range from a few single shots (bolt action, break open, and falling block[my favorite]) to "ugly" military look-alike weapons that appear to be fully automatic (the apearance of full auto goes away when you notice no burst fire setting on the saftey.)
And, to help you along, I think you're thinking of a muzzle loader where powder and shot are loaded into the weapon from the muzzle (this side towards enemy) end of the weapon.
Well, that might not be true. Travel at close to C, and look in the direction you came from. No blue shift. Big time RED shift. It's all a matter of perspective.
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I should point out the yellow cast comes from the wrong white balance on a digital camera, or a poor choice in film type if not. The dual shadows stem from both the proximity of the model to the background and the point-source lighting.
Of course, I have to do the photography for her creations.
Dude, get your models away from the backgrounds and use broad (large) lights instead of those small lights you use now.
Also, if you're shooting digital, you need to check your whitebalance.
To see how bad this is, check this link
pusher robots eh? Say, does your house have stairs?
Stairs? No problem!LEVITATE! EXTERMINATE
This is a study on rats, using what (according to the accompanying commentary; IANAF) is a fairly obscure pesticide used in vineyards, and performed at doses far above EPA limits.
Even so, I'm filing a suit today. I'm gonna be wealthy! Yee haw!
Well, this detail probably isn't even in error. I've yet to recieve an engine (think V-8, automotive) that didn't come in a WOODEN enclosure that looked an awful lot like a crate. Sure, thigs like brake pads, calipers, and other smaller and lighter items come in cardboard boxes, but for the BIG HEAVY stuff, crates still rule the shipping world.
Yeah, he's got an ego. Rumor has it his wife laughed a little too loudly when Willie S got up into his Kirk outfit. Supposedly she took quick swim in the pool and Will made sure the he would get the last laugh.
You must be thinking of YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE. The NCC1701-C shows up through the tme rift. Because it wasn't getting blown up defending a Klingon instilation the Federation and Klingons end up at war in the altered present. Tasha Yar never died in this timeline, so she's still security officer, and Worf never joined starfleet. Guinan being the odd creature she is can feel things are screwy, and prompts Piccard to get things back to where they belong.
Long story short, Yar realizes she's not meant to live, jumps onto the ENT-C, and fights on the doomed ship to try and saved a doomed Klingon outpost.
The ENT-C is destroyed, of course, Tasha is taken as a POW. She gives birth to a half-human half-romulan, and gives the ENT-D crew one hell of a suprize when her daughter shows up commanding a Romulan fleet that's trying to start a Klingon civil war. Guinan again feels something fishy, and tells Picard about it. The episode ends with Data violating a direct order and saving the day.
Like you said, the NCC-1701C could make for a good movie or two.
Oh..Kirk and the Borg? I know how we can give Kirk some BORG experience.
The movie will open on Veridian III, where a world has been saved, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D lies in ruins, and one of the galaxy's greatest heroes rests beneath a simple cairn of rocks on a lonely hillside. But as a legendary Vulcan ambassador comes at last to the grave of his best and dearest friend, the adventure is only beginning.
The Borg and the Romulan Empire have joined forces against the Federation, and their ultimate weapon is none other than James T. Kirk, resurrected by alien science to destroy the Borg's most formidable enemy: Jean-Luc Picard.
Yeah, we can call it "Star Trek: The Return"
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek where Picards ship gets caught in a time rift, and they see an older version of their own ship. Tasha goes off to fight and die with that crew.
That'd be YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE. The NCC1701-C shows up through the tme rift. Because it wasn't getting blown up defending a Klingon instilation the Federation and Klingons end up at war in the altered present. Tasha Yar never died in this timeline, so she's still security officer, and Worf never joined starfleet. Guinan being the odd creature she is can feel things are screwy, and prompts Piccard to get things back to where they belong.
Long story short, Yar realizes she's not meant to live, jumps onto the ENT-C, and fights on the doomed ship to try and saved a doomed Klingon outpost.
The ENT-C is destroyed, of course, Tasha is taken as a POW. She gives birth to a half-human half-romulan, and gives the ENT-D crew one hell of a suprize when her daughter shows up commanding a Romulan fleet that's trying to start a Klingon civil war. Guinan again feels something fishy, and tells Picard about it. The episode ends with Data violating a direct order and saving the day.
You know...the NCC-1701C could make for a good movie or two.
Of Troi hating Worf... I don't know, I think you stuck with the wrong memories :) remember instead how they became married in the episode where Worf returns from a bathlet contest and some time discontinuities cause him to bounce among many realities of Enterprise, and in one of them they are married. That was rocking :)
This is the episode where, at the end, Worf asks Troi out for dinner (or did he mention the fact that an Alter-Worf was married to an Alter-Troi, and Troi asked him why that would be such a surprise?)
In the final episode ALL GOOD THINGS, there's friction w/ Worf and Riker over Troi. Apparently at Trois funeral a few words were supposed to be said by the person closest to the deceased. I can't recall if it was Worf of Riker who got to speak up, but the one who didn't speak up ended up harboring a festering resentment for the other.
I think it was Riker who spoke, and Worf was the one w/ the gripe over it.
My true geek is showing, don't tell my husband.
Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi.
A Sith, A Sith, ooooooooooh, a Sith.
Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. Jedi.
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to sell a SCOOBA on a stick you have to make a SCOOBA to place on the end of the previously mentioned stick. Can you say DUH?
Cheeeeeeeeeese
Now you need lots of high bandwidth servers instead of high throughput cd duplicators.
Or a medium bandwith server and a bittorent tracker.
I know this is offtopic but,
No never had my dog ran over by an overly proud christian but I got to see one INTENTIONALY put two childrens life at risk, commit a few other crimes, and get arrested.
I didn't see any turns signals flashing (I'm not saying the driver didn't signal, but I sure as hell didn't see it) before a vehicle pulled infront of me, over a double-yellow line, from the HOV (carpool) lane to my left leaving very little sapce between that van/suv (if you must ask the Mercedes Minivan that's marketed as an SUV) and my car (was driving the "solo car"[as opposed to the minivan for whoever is driving with our daughter], a Honda Civic 2 door.) Well, I honked. The driver slammed on their brakes while showing the world the middle finger.
The civic sheds speed faster than her huge "worldly treasure that will be beset upon by rust, worms, and thieves." Frustrated (assumption) by the fact she didn't kill me with her rear bumper the first time, she repeated this break-slam process until we were both below 10 MPH on a 4 lane highway with a posted 65MPH speed limit. At this time I got a great look at her Harvest Crusade stickers (for the last 2 years,) a silverized plastic fish, and a "in case of rapture" sticker.
Needless to say I dialed 911 and got off the freeway to get away from the psycho woman (didn't know it was a woman at the time.) She exited behind me. I pulled into a well lit gas station and asked the gentleman at the counter to dial 911 (yes, I was also on my cell phone at the same time but could not tell the CHP dispatcher my current location as I had no clue beyond the name of the exit I had just taken.) The woman durring this time had pulled up next to my car (and this is when I first was able to ID her as a woman) and began to beat on the hood of my car with an umbrella (not, it wasn't raining.) She put in a few small dents, scatched the hell out of my hood, and destroyed her umbrella.
A CHP officer pulled into the parking lot when she was entering the gas-station store with the handle of her umbrella (and the sharp bit of metal still sticking out of it.)
After she was in handcuffs in the back seat of the CHP car three city police officers arived. The woman was promptly forgiven by her savior, but she was arrested on charges of vandalism, reckless endangerment, brandishing a weapon, making terrorist threats (no, she wasn't a terrorist, but that's what the officers called it) and child endangerment. While I was stuck spending my evening giving statements, her husband (asumption on my part) came and took home two children she had in the van/suv with her.
I wasn't asked to testify at any trial. I assume she had made some sort of plea, she was defenitely on tape working my car over and then coming into the store threatening to "shove this thing up your[my] stupid Arab ass." (I'm not even Arab, I'm of Hispanic descent, for what that's worth.) I don't know if the cameras in that store also recorded audio, but the man at the store also heard her well enough to tell the police on the phone that she was "going to try and kill" me.
I really hope for those childrens' sake that she has had some professional help. As a parent what she did with those kids in the car has a much greater impact on me than what she did to me.
Putting those two kids at risk with her driving, her attempts to cause an accident, and exposing them to the stress of seeing police who have their guns drawn point them at their mommy then put her in handcuffs... I can't even make sentences now, I still get worked up over the terrible things she did to those children that night.
I'm not the GP in this thread, but let's start with the least hyporitcal thing going on with that psycho woman.
No, I won't... I'm going to click submit and look at my sleeping baby and be thankful that my daughter will NEVER have to experience a mother like that woman.
Ah, yes. But this allows you to interact with chickens while watching cyber girls on your computer.
You meant
Ah, yes. But this allows you to interact with cocks while watching cyber girls on your computer.
You know, I wonder WHY does one NEED a flying webserver that's small? If you've got to dish out websites from something that flies why not park a high-altitude blimp up at, oh..say, 50,000 feet and beam down the internet from there? Or... why not park a box full of anetna, electronics, bateries, and solar cells into orbit and do the same from there?
If you need a cluster of machines to work in paralell for greater number-crunching power, why not by a big server rack and throw in a bunch of 1U sized machines?
I mean, it's cool for the "wow, check this out" factor....but...real life aplications? Massively Paralell UAVs of DOOM?
Yes indeed, imagine if a software glitch cause your vehicle to crash. In the case of aircraft this could be a "Very Bad Thing" (tm).
Sorry for NOT using the preview button to catch my typos.
Also Item 1 in my car-stoping system should be KILL THE IGNITION not KILL THE THROTTLE.
Sorry for any confusion that this may have caused.
Teaser: The advice given at the bottom of this comment should be read followed by anyone who has a FIREARM, a CAR, A COMPUTER, A CREDIT LINE/CARD, or a CHILD.
And as you point out, it only takes about a week of training for a thickheaded soldier to use a crossbow. To use a firearm at close range only requires watching TV - people successfully kill all the time with only that much training.
Okay, so having watched on TV a firearm being used, I can SAFELY defend my home and cause no risk to myself, my family, or my neighbors.
BULLSHIT.
You never see the people on TV learn how to even load the bloody firearm (yes, people do have to learn this, magazines don't come from the factory fully loaded, and many folks don't understand why you have to pull the slide back, nor where to find the button to press that lets the slide fall closed again... see my response to the next quote.)
You never see people on TV conern themselves with the corect selection of amunition. They never pick a bird-shot round when using a shotgun to defend themselves in a high-density urban setting (think apartments) you never see them choose frangible bullets to prevent over-penetration of any missed-rounds. Rounds that would othsewise transit through MANY walls before coming to rest. You never see them worry about the kids room being down the same hall that they're now using as a shooting gallery. Of course that'd make for damned boring TV.
PS: 12 Gua Remington Pump with 8 round magazine, first 3 shots are #8 bird shot, next 5 rounds are #4 shot. If three painful blasts of birdshot dosen't thwart someones intentions to do my family harm the #4 shot will most defenitely cause fatal harm to them (assuming the #8 wasn't fired at extremely close range.) My husband uses a Colt M1911 clone with "glass bullets" that will not penetrate more than 2 layers of sheetrock, but will carry a good deal of energy into a person who intends to do him or his family harm.
So you have to cock a semiautomatic or automatic weapon. Once. And you'd do this well before you entered combat, if you knew it was coming. If you cock your weapon after that, you're ejecting a good round from the chamber - wasting ammunition and making a fool of yourself. If a character walks up to another character and cocks his gun, either the director or the character is a fool.
You sir hve been watching ALOT of TV for your Firearms operation lessons.
COCKING a weapon means bringing the hammer (or hammer replacement) into position to strike the fireing pin (as opposed to being in a "rest" or "lowered" position.)
Weapons with external hamers often have this done automaticly when a round is chambered via the operation of a slide or lever.
Weapons with internal hammers are cocked ONLY by the cycling of the fireing action (cycle the bolt, slide, break-open the action, raise the falling block, etc.)
For example, you can not just "cock" a Glock sidearm. They have internal hammers that are set into the fireing position by retracting the slide fully reward and allowing the slide to fall into the battery position.
I've yet to see a movie where someone with an self-loading weapon (covers automatics and semi-automatics) cock a hammer. Often you see REVOLVERS getting cocked. Sometimes a slide is pulled back and is allowed to fall into battery (one assumes the weapon was carried with a full magazine but no round in the chamber.) But, I've yet to see someone cock a Glock on tv (by far the most popular gun on the TV shows I've watched.) Why don't people use old M1911s on TV? You CAN cock those, they have an external hammer.
But, point being, COCKING a firearm does NOT eject a good round for the chamber. Cycling the action may well do so, but setting an external hammer into a firing position will NOT do so.
I truely hope you do not have a firearm in your home as you appear to be lacking in some basic knowlege of firearms operation. If you own a firearm please seek some profesional instruction on the safe use of them. If you don't have one then don't get one till you get some saftey instruction.
PS: I think this advise just given should be followed by EVERYONE with a FIREARM, a CAR, a COMPUTER, a CREDIT CARD, or a CHILD.
Power for PS(Power Steering) is provited by the rotation of the engine components. The power is moved to the PS pump via a belt (usualy, some are electric these days.) When you kill the ignition but the car is still in gear, the engine will still be rotating, as it wull still be conected to the drive train. Thus, PS will not fail until the speed of engine rotation is greatly diminished.
Power for PB(Power Brakes)is USUALY provited by vacum assist. This is created by the "sucking" power of an engine as it pulls air in the intake and pushes it out the exhaust. The engine is an air pump. As long as the engine turns you will get some vac. The effectiveness of PB will dimish at a migh faster rate than PB. BUT, there will be more than enough power in the PB system even after the engine stops rotating to fully depress the brakes to the floor. Basicly, as long as you don't need to come to a full and complete stop more than once after you shut off the engine the PB system will work just fien for you after the ignition switch is set to the OFF position.
Therefore, the best way to stop a vehicle with a run-away throttle is to 1) Kill the throttle, 2) Apply brakes 3) Shift transmission into lowest available gear(to use the fiction of the internal engine components to maximum effect in the effort to bring your vehicle to a stop.) 4) find something to "rub" your car against to use in an effort to bleed off knetic energy (your fenders are now your brake pads.)
Under most circumstances you will never need to use more than steps 1 and 2. In a downhill situation where gravity is adding knetic energy to your vehicle and simply stoping your car RIGHT NOW won't do (fast lane of a multi-lane highway) then you can use step 3 to conserve power in your PB system for when you are going to bring the vehicle to a complete stop. Step 4 is for when your brakes fail (and this get interesting*)
*interesting is defined by having thoughts along the lines of "Oh my God, we're all gonna die!"
All but one of my firearms are breech loading.
All of the breach loaders use brass catridges that enclose the gunpower and firmly affix a primer and bullet in place as well. The range from a few single shots (bolt action, break open, and falling block[my favorite]) to "ugly" military look-alike weapons that appear to be fully automatic (the apearance of full auto goes away when you notice no burst fire setting on the saftey.)
And, to help you along, I think you're thinking of a muzzle loader where powder and shot are loaded into the weapon from the muzzle (this side towards enemy) end of the weapon.
Well, that might not be true. Travel at close to C, and look in the direction you came from. No blue shift. Big time RED shift. It's all a matter of perspective.
Especially since my Mac mini is in manufacturing now
Funny, my Toyota Prius is in the exact same place. I didn't realize the Mac was on backorder too.