Who decided that Klingons should be Black people, huh?
Your charges of racism have no validity. The Klingons were played by white actors during the original series. They switched to mostly black players for the later series, but the Klingons were good guys (for the most part) by then.
You don't see ANY kind of racist shit like that in Star Wars.
Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks. Mesa your humble servant.
If you asked any reasonable people who have actually looked at physics, or just observed thr world around them, Star Trek SUCKS compared to Star Wars.
Spare me. Neither one is realistic. That's why it's called Science Fiction.
Yes, you pays your money and you takes your chances. That still doesn't mean that unnecessary deaths wouldn't come with some career consequences for those that were responsible. Hell, Kirk and Picard's various failures to defend their commands aren't even defensible in the Star Trek universe. Ensign Ro was supposedly locked up in the stockade because her actions on an away team resulted in eight deaths. How many deaths did Kirk's failure in ST2 cause?
Starfleet's Earth looked rather boring. Small wonder that so many people looked to get out into space to escape.
Which DS9 were you watching? Garak never became "unambiguously good". In the very last episode of the series he gunned down an unarmed man (Weyoun) simply because that man made a flippant comment about Garak's home world. In an earlier episode he murdered a Romulan Senator in an effort to bring them into the war.
Neither of those are actions consistent with someone who is "unambiguously good". Garak was Chaotic Good, not Lawful Good....
Alright then, how would you have written The Search, Part II? Part I ends with the crew being captured. Keep in mind that the confines of television will not allow you to the write the most realistic ending (most of the characters are killed, the few survivors are Dominion prisoners for the rest of their lives, Starfleet never hears from them again) possible.
I'm not a big fan of "It was all a dream" as a plot device either but I don't think that was the plot device in this particular episode. The Dominion used its POWs to collect intelligence. They went about it in a rather roundabout way but it was consistent with their actions in previous and subsequent episodes. Remember they spent years (decades according to the backstory) gathering intelligence on the Federation and it's neighbors before they decided to do anything about them.
Glock doesn't care about how easy it is to hit the slide release because they feel that there is no reason to need to manually operate it under most instances. The only reason I can think of to manually manipulate a slide lock is when you need to lock the action open prior to setting a gun down on a table at the range.
The trigger is not a "similarly fine motor skill". You can operate the trigger without having to change the grip on the gun. Many people can not reach the slide lock on the typical handgun without changing their grip on it. Fine manipulation of the trigger does not come into play for self-defense with a handgun at typical ranges. Hell, most people interviewed after a self-defense shooting don't even recall seeing the sights, much less gently squeezing the trigger as a hunter or target shooter would do.
You keep doing it your way if you want. I'll keep doing it the way that I was trained. Pulling the slide back is a natural motion that's also used to clear malfunctions. It's much easier than trying to manipulate a small slide lock, particularly on those gun designs where the manual operation of that lock is not considered essential.
All we need is an energy source. And that is the problem with hydrogen.
What's wrong with nuclear as an energy source? Nuclear could completely replace fixed sources of energy production that currently rely on carbon fuels. Hydrogen could be used for mobile applications where a nuclear reactor is not needed or feasible.
There's a perfectly green energy economy that would work with existing technology. All it needs are trillions of dollars of start-up capital and the willingness on the part of the country to rip up the existing fossil fuel infrastructure.
But there are tons of nebulae* out there featuring H2 as is. It's as renewable as the Sun is, anyways, we just haven't figured out how yet.
Do you really think a civilization that had the ability to travel light-years to reach a nebula would really have a need to harvest hydrogen to burn up in wasteful chemical reactions?
I suppose we could harvest hydrogen from our own solar system one day but even at that, what's the point?
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It has nothing to do with the military background or lack thereof. That kind of incompetence would get you canned in the private sector just as quickly. In Kirk's case he ignored regulations even when those regulations were quoted to him by a subordinate. Such a mistake that resulted in the loss of life and property would you canned from most civilian agencies, never mind the military.
Competition shooting != self defense shooting. If you are under attack you will experience the flight or fight response. Part of that response includes the degradation of your fine motor skills. Those skills are required to manipulate small controls like the slide lock. They are not required to grab onto the slide and bring it back enough to release the slide lock. You can also do this without having to change your grip on the gun.
Ever handle a Glock? Their slide lock is difficult to operate by hand under the best circumstances. Trying to do it while fighting for your life is going to be that much harder. Glock's own literature recommends the slide-pull method of releasing the lock. It's really the best method of bringing a semi-auto back into action after a reload. If you doubt this, take some force-on-force classes sometime and try it both ways. After your way gets you "killed" a few times you'll see that I'm right.
What was wrong with that premise? As I recall, it was a Dominion set-up to obtain intelligence information on the Federation. That seems entirely consistent with their actions in other episodes.
DS9 deserves a lot of criticism (Captain Sisko personally commanding 600+ ships in the battle that was to determine the fate of the Federation....) but I don't think that particular episode was that bad.
On the other hand, if you look at the way the Millennium Falcon moves, especially the way it goes into hyperdrive, it is WAY more realistic.
You lost me when you used FTL drive as an example of something that's "more" realistic.....
The whole idea in Star Wars of a struggle between good and evil is far more realistic
Except it's not a struggle between good and evil. It's a struggle between two sets of elitists that basically espouse the same philosophy. You think the Jedi represent good? Yoda was perfectly content to allow Anakin's Mother to die and even encouraged the boy to let it happen. Windu tried to appoint himself Judge, Jury and Executioner. Qui-Gon wasn't permitted by the Jedi code to rescue two people from slavery and broke the rules in saving one of them.
in later ST, especially TNG, Particle A and Particle B became the stories within themselves.
DS9 didn't do hardly any "particle of the week" stories. TNG had it's share, but there was usually a compelling story behind TNG's plot devices. TNG and DS9 generally used technobabble as a means to an end. It wasn't until Voyager that the particle of the week became the whole storyline.
I'd criticize Star Trek for it's character flaws before I'd criticize it for technobabble. How many times did Worf miss attackers that were boarding the Enterprise? Exactly how do you become the Chief of Security for the flagship of the Federation if you can't hit a man sized target from 20 feet away with a small arm? How many times did Riker get the Enterprise whipped in battle? How did Kirk not get drummed out of Starfleet after being caught by Khan with his shields down? How many of his crew paid the ultimate price for that command failure? What would happen to a US Military Officer who made a similar mistake?
Who told you that? A hard drive is nothing more than two thin pieces of sheet metal and some glass or aluminum platters. The.45 will go through it without any problems and the.45 isn't even a particularly good round for penetrating cover (it's a low velocity subsonic round).......
That's not exactly what I meant. I meant what is it called when, upon firing the last round in the magazine, the slide stays back, allowing you to load another magazine, and then hitting a button to release the slide forward, chambering another round?
It's called a slide lock. When the last round is fired the slide comes back as it normally does but catches on a lock that is usually engaged by contact with the follower in the now empty magazine.
You can hit the "button" to release the slide lock as you describe but that's actually not the best way to do it. A better way to bring a pistol back into action after a reload is to pull back on the slide. This requires less fine motor skills than manipulating a small slide lock and also allows you to get the gun back on target faster.
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Who decided that Klingons should be Black people, huh?
Your charges of racism have no validity. The Klingons were played by white actors during the original series. They switched to mostly black players for the later series, but the Klingons were good guys (for the most part) by then.
You don't see ANY kind of racist shit like that in Star Wars.
Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks. Mesa your humble servant.
If you asked any reasonable people who have actually looked at physics, or just observed thr world around them, Star Trek SUCKS compared to Star Wars.
Spare me. Neither one is realistic. That's why it's called Science Fiction.
I was talking the dark side versus the light side. A Jedi could choose either, but clearly one is good (dark) and the other one is good.
No, it's only that clear if you are a Jedi or a Sith.
Yes, you pays your money and you takes your chances. That still doesn't mean that unnecessary deaths wouldn't come with some career consequences for those that were responsible. Hell, Kirk and Picard's various failures to defend their commands aren't even defensible in the Star Trek universe. Ensign Ro was supposedly locked up in the stockade because her actions on an away team resulted in eight deaths. How many deaths did Kirk's failure in ST2 cause?
Starfleet's Earth looked rather boring. Small wonder that so many people looked to get out into space to escape.
Which DS9 were you watching? Garak never became "unambiguously good". In the very last episode of the series he gunned down an unarmed man (Weyoun) simply because that man made a flippant comment about Garak's home world. In an earlier episode he murdered a Romulan Senator in an effort to bring them into the war.
Neither of those are actions consistent with someone who is "unambiguously good". Garak was Chaotic Good, not Lawful Good....
Alright then, how would you have written The Search, Part II? Part I ends with the crew being captured. Keep in mind that the confines of television will not allow you to the write the most realistic ending (most of the characters are killed, the few survivors are Dominion prisoners for the rest of their lives, Starfleet never hears from them again) possible.
I'm not a big fan of "It was all a dream" as a plot device either but I don't think that was the plot device in this particular episode. The Dominion used its POWs to collect intelligence. They went about it in a rather roundabout way but it was consistent with their actions in previous and subsequent episodes. Remember they spent years (decades according to the backstory) gathering intelligence on the Federation and it's neighbors before they decided to do anything about them.
Glock doesn't care about how easy it is to hit the slide release because they feel that there is no reason to need to manually operate it under most instances. The only reason I can think of to manually manipulate a slide lock is when you need to lock the action open prior to setting a gun down on a table at the range.
The trigger is not a "similarly fine motor skill". You can operate the trigger without having to change the grip on the gun. Many people can not reach the slide lock on the typical handgun without changing their grip on it. Fine manipulation of the trigger does not come into play for self-defense with a handgun at typical ranges. Hell, most people interviewed after a self-defense shooting don't even recall seeing the sights, much less gently squeezing the trigger as a hunter or target shooter would do.
You keep doing it your way if you want. I'll keep doing it the way that I was trained. Pulling the slide back is a natural motion that's also used to clear malfunctions. It's much easier than trying to manipulate a small slide lock, particularly on those gun designs where the manual operation of that lock is not considered essential.
The ST universe is supposed to be way more "touchy-feely"
Which would suggest that there would be an aversion to unnecessary deaths like those caused by Kirk's foolish decision not to defend his command......
All we need is an energy source. And that is the problem with hydrogen.
What's wrong with nuclear as an energy source? Nuclear could completely replace fixed sources of energy production that currently rely on carbon fuels. Hydrogen could be used for mobile applications where a nuclear reactor is not needed or feasible.
There's a perfectly green energy economy that would work with existing technology. All it needs are trillions of dollars of start-up capital and the willingness on the part of the country to rip up the existing fossil fuel infrastructure.
But there are tons of nebulae* out there featuring H2 as is. It's as renewable as the Sun is, anyways, we just haven't figured out how yet.
Do you really think a civilization that had the ability to travel light-years to reach a nebula would really have a need to harvest hydrogen to burn up in wasteful chemical reactions?
I suppose we could harvest hydrogen from our own solar system one day but even at that, what's the point?
Let me help them with that:
CNN: Look at this fancy floating pie chart that looks like something out of Star Wars! We are sleek and modern! You want to watch us! Oh, and there was an explosion today in Rochester....
MSNBC: Hydrogen fueling facility explodes. Tune in tonight for Countdown as Keith Olbermann explains why this is really George W. Bush's fault.
Fox: Hydrogen fueling facility explodes. Are the socialist policies of Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi to blame?
Local news: Hydrogen fueling facility explodes on [street]. No word yet on damage or casualties. In other news, please tune in to the end of our broadcast to find out how [common household product] could be KILLING YOUR FAMILY.
Slashdot today: Fire and explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport
Slashdot one week from now: Fire and explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport
Slashdot one month from now: Fire and explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport
It has nothing to do with the military background or lack thereof. That kind of incompetence would get you canned in the private sector just as quickly. In Kirk's case he ignored regulations even when those regulations were quoted to him by a subordinate. Such a mistake that resulted in the loss of life and property would you canned from most civilian agencies, never mind the military.
Competition shooting != self defense shooting. If you are under attack you will experience the flight or fight response. Part of that response includes the degradation of your fine motor skills. Those skills are required to manipulate small controls like the slide lock. They are not required to grab onto the slide and bring it back enough to release the slide lock. You can also do this without having to change your grip on the gun.
Ever handle a Glock? Their slide lock is difficult to operate by hand under the best circumstances. Trying to do it while fighting for your life is going to be that much harder. Glock's own literature recommends the slide-pull method of releasing the lock. It's really the best method of bringing a semi-auto back into action after a reload. If you doubt this, take some force-on-force classes sometime and try it both ways. After your way gets you "killed" a few times you'll see that I'm right.
What was wrong with that premise? As I recall, it was a Dominion set-up to obtain intelligence information on the Federation. That seems entirely consistent with their actions in other episodes.
DS9 deserves a lot of criticism (Captain Sisko personally commanding 600+ ships in the battle that was to determine the fate of the Federation....) but I don't think that particular episode was that bad.
On the other hand, if you look at the way the Millennium Falcon moves, especially the way it goes into hyperdrive, it is WAY more realistic.
You lost me when you used FTL drive as an example of something that's "more" realistic.....
The whole idea in Star Wars of a struggle between good and evil is far more realistic
Except it's not a struggle between good and evil. It's a struggle between two sets of elitists that basically espouse the same philosophy. You think the Jedi represent good? Yoda was perfectly content to allow Anakin's Mother to die and even encouraged the boy to let it happen. Windu tried to appoint himself Judge, Jury and Executioner. Qui-Gon wasn't permitted by the Jedi code to rescue two people from slavery and broke the rules in saving one of them.
in later ST, especially TNG, Particle A and Particle B became the stories within themselves.
DS9 didn't do hardly any "particle of the week" stories. TNG had it's share, but there was usually a compelling story behind TNG's plot devices. TNG and DS9 generally used technobabble as a means to an end. It wasn't until Voyager that the particle of the week became the whole storyline.
I'd criticize Star Trek for it's character flaws before I'd criticize it for technobabble. How many times did Worf miss attackers that were boarding the Enterprise? Exactly how do you become the Chief of Security for the flagship of the Federation if you can't hit a man sized target from 20 feet away with a small arm? How many times did Riker get the Enterprise whipped in battle? How did Kirk not get drummed out of Starfleet after being caught by Khan with his shields down? How many of his crew paid the ultimate price for that command failure? What would happen to a US Military Officer who made a similar mistake?
Which would win in a fight, the Millennium Falcon or the Enterprise?
Whoever the writers wanted to win?
Yeah, like me, I don't react too well to bullets.
+1 for the Red October quote :)
WTF ??? the right to carry concealed weapons ???
So I guess you've never been to the Czech Republic then?
The forefathers didn't have access to semi-automatic handguns which could fit in their pockets.
They didn't have the internet either but somehow I doubt an argument that claimed the 1st amendment doesn't apply to Daily Kos would hold any water.
A .45 round won't go through a single hard drive.
Who told you that? A hard drive is nothing more than two thin pieces of sheet metal and some glass or aluminum platters. The .45 will go through it without any problems and the .45 isn't even a particularly good round for penetrating cover (it's a low velocity subsonic round).......
That's not exactly what I meant. I meant what is it called when, upon firing the last round in the magazine, the slide stays back, allowing you to load another magazine, and then hitting a button to release the slide forward, chambering another round?
It's called a slide lock. When the last round is fired the slide comes back as it normally does but catches on a lock that is usually engaged by contact with the follower in the now empty magazine.
You can hit the "button" to release the slide lock as you describe but that's actually not the best way to do it. A better way to bring a pistol back into action after a reload is to pull back on the slide. This requires less fine motor skills than manipulating a small slide lock and also allows you to get the gun back on target faster.
She is clearly just pigging out after I pass out.
Or there are more calories in semen than previously thought?
And I thought licensing was just for second ammendment rights...
Only if you are unlucky enough to live in the Northeast or California.
which is why the snake oil business doesn't exist anymore.
No, it's just called something else....
Speech isn't free or without consequences, but we still don't allow the Government to regulate it.