That's... that's assuming there's actually something there for them to break through. That's assuming there's something at the border they can't cross.
That's not how things are, you can move anything you want from Mexico to America or the other way around. Hell, heard the shit going on in Arizona? Bunch of border patrol agents down there throwing around claims that they were instructed to just wave flashlights at border-crossers. Just try and scare them away. That's all, no more, wave a light at them and consider them "turned back" and never record the incident.
China's also woefully primitive industrially. It's not just resources they lack, it's knowledge.
I can't speak for every industry over there, but I've met and trained some industry workers here in the states that were going to be working in a brand new plants, and their methods were easily 20 years past their prime -- and this was with the full backing of a US multinational building the plant. Inefficient, poor quality, terribly limited in the types of things they could make.
Basically, the crappy 50s-era plant I was in? We output as much as their brand new plant could in a day in 6 hours. And the quality was better than they would be able to do. And we had a wider range of sorts of things we could make.
But hey, I guess it's amazing what works out to make more money when they made in a day less than I did in an hour, and when they had pretty much zero environmental and safety regulations to follow.
Basically China can't really do much of anything without help from foreigners, but don't say it too loudly or they'll try and kill you.
That's kinda more accurate than what really happened actually. Paul Revere warned almost no Americans. Dude got picked up by the Brits almost before he left.
But many years later, his name fit well into a song, and so everyone now knows about his midnight ride.
Yeah. Palin was more right than wrong, but everyone thinks she's wrong -- and the reason for that is *people have been dumb for centuries*.
If they were really concerned about security, the outer-most door wouldn't be the one with the lock -- it would simply lead to a lobby or vestibule, a non-secure but indoor and dry area, visible to security, through which employees would pass in a more orderly fashion to a secure door leading into the building proper.
People rush through because they don't want to form up in a line outside. Once they're inside, it's not so big of an issue to stand around a bit longer. They're out of the weather, away from the traffic. But security theater is so much more entertaining..
Somehow, something has happened and shattered the light bulb as it is screwed into the socket. You have no bulb to grasp on to, AND ALSO you're not sure if there's still a current being supplied to the socket. Remove and replace.
Everyone's gotta do that at least once in their life, and you'll be glad for clear on/off switches at that point. That, and potatoes.
This really should come as no surprise to anyone at all.
This is Apple. This is what they do. This has been their form of business for, what, 30 years? If you are not Apple, do not trust Apple, do not rely on Apple, Apple is only, ONLY, interested in Apple, and has never hesitated to lock down their platform and squeeze dry anyone not Apple trying to do business on their platform.
I mean for the love of god Apple driving out non-Apple products from their platform was one of The Big Reasons why Apple nearly closed it doors, why it fell apart in the 80s/90s. It was the open platform of the IBM-compatible PC (lol, anachronistic terms!) where anyone could write and sell their own program that allowed it to flourish, when doing the same on the Apple platform would.. wait for it.. drumroll please.... reduce profits to absolutely nothing due to Apple's onerous licensing fees!
I mean really people, I feel bad for any company failing that is just trying to make an honest living, but there is such a thing as a deserved death. It's not like Apple has ever, ever, EVER turned a new leaf. This has been how Apple operates for DECADES. You've gotta be a special kind of idiot to put your faith and livelihood in a company that has, time and time again, bitten the hand of anyone not Apple trying to make money on an Apple product. THAT IS APPLE!
The characters in SG:U were the most unlike real people of any of the SG series, at least for my notion of "real people". They simply acted like catty 13 year old girls. That's not real people. BSG, Caprica, same issue. Any personal disagreements or conflicts were drawn out to the most ridiculous degree, and never handled directly or in a mature, adult fashion. Personal drama doesn't mean going around bitching to everybody about the minor sleight someone has dealt you and plotting a petty revenge and allowing it to interfere with your work. Nobody I care to associate with does that juvenile crap. Work exists on professional relationships, which is apart from your personal feelings for your coworkers, and allowing the latter to interfere with the former is grounds for termination; further, disliking a person simply means you avoid them, or ignore the sleight, or confront them directly and maturely over the matter.
And I find it very, very questionable that everybody on the damned ship would keep a diary on those damn Kinos. Messages for posterity? Sure. Petty bickering the like you'd find in the confession booths of a reality show? Give me a fucking break.
Terrible writing, horribly derivative and exploitative.
It's not just their emotional dramas, it's their completely unrealistic emotional dramas. Everyone on that show acts like a goddamned 13 year old girl -- if they don't like someone, they are completely unable to set aside their personal dislike and perform their job despite it, and instead go around whining and crying to EVERYBODY about "oh gosh, Tim cut in line in front of me yesterday, I soooooo hate him!!", and scheme petty revenge.. rather than simply say "HEY TIM! Don't cut in line in front of me, ok?". Or, hell, rather than ignore it and move on because you've got a fucking job to do and personal conflicts cannot interfere with your performance of work, because, like all real adults, doing shit like that gets you fired. Doing shit like that makes people avoid you. Nobody likes the petty, catty bitch (gender neutral bitch) at work, yet somehow in shows like SG:U and BSG, THAT'S HOW EVERYBODY ACTS. Also: LOST.
Now now -- SG:1 and SGA were decent shows. It's SGU that deserves its fate. Show was garbage and I gave up before the first season was over. Just a derivative piece of overblown melodrama trying to cash in on BSG, which itself was more ridiculous and unrealistic than any daytime soap.
I still clearly remember watching that skit, it's still my favorite skit, and I still, on occasion, reference it inappropriately. I don't know that anyone's ever understood it, but the possibility that there's scores of people in this world who think I'm some sort of sexual deviant who goes for red noses and brown noises, well.. that, too, makes me laugh.
Ahh those anachronistic SEALs.. still in love with their M14s and 1911s.
Can't say I disagree with them, the 5.56 and 9mm were both adopted in part because their low recoil was easier for weak, small-statured people to accommodate. And easier on those with little marksmanship training. The sort of things that some people would look at and scoff, and make a derogatory comment about the wussification of the military.
There's nothing the.223 and 9mm can do that the.308 and.45 can't do better.
Well that's just it, really. A mechanical patent on a.. let's say a crane. That patent is on *that crane*, of *that design*. It does not apply to all devices by which loads may be lifted, it only applies to those that use the particular sort of device described by the patent.
In other words, patenting the use of pulleys and such to create a mechanical advantage for lifting heavy crap? Not gonna fly. Patenting a particular design of pulleys? That's cool, but someone else can make a crane of their own design, based upon the same basic principals, and so long as they didn't steal or copy your design? They have a unique device.
At least, that's how things should work in a sane world. YMMV.
What this looks like is more akin to patenting the use of gravity to carry an object downward. You.. you can't fucking do that. That's absurd.
Well, that's also because at the time, scopes weren't really that great.
Especially in Finland, which I have never been to but I imagine as a very cold, very damp country. WWII-era scopes would be prone to fogging in those conditions, and hell, most of them were low-power optics anyway, with not-very-large objective lenses.
That means light gathering was less than ideal, parallax was not all that great, magnification was minimal, and it would've been likely that after being covered with snow the scope would be fogged and unusable anyway. I don't blame him for not using a scope!
Our enemies are not very skillful marksmen. A gun's only as accurate as the man shooting it. The sorts of people who are able to make shots count over long distances tend not to be the sorts of people who fall in with terrorism. They actually tend to be rather strange people compared to 'normal'; it takes a very steady hand, and a very calm mind, and a very *fast* mind.
I can't speak for sniping specifically, but I assume that shot it similar to the string of shots a competitive marksman takes -- which if you hook up an EEG, yeah, they're actually meditating more or less. So a sniper? Supreme minor muscular awareness and control, instinctualization of calculations regarding wind deflection (it's a lot more complicated than simply left/right, and by far the hardest part is simply judging the wind's direction at distances between you and your target), and, oh, yeah, when you're shooting a mile or more you start needing to account for Coriolis effects due to the Earth's spin, so you need to know the direction of your shot with regards to the Earth's axis of rotation and your latitude, and then there's changes in point of impact due to inflection or deflection of your shot.
It's a lot more difficult than "put target in crosshair, pull trigger". Even at ranges where it IS that simple, it's harder to actually get that target steady in the crosshair long enough, and to pull the trigger steady enough, to hit things.
The assassination of important figures from great distance.. that is, honestly, historically, almost an entirely uniquely american thing.
Atrocities and genocide can be committed just as well with tools as guns. Just look at the machete.
Go check out all the shit that's happening in Africa and tell me if you honestly think any, ANY of that, would be solved by people not having weapons -- or if it seems more likely that the same damn shit would be happening if all they had access to were sticks stones and bits of bones. What part of Africa you say? Take your pick. Pointing randomly at Africa, you have a better chance of choosing a place that's burning than a place that's remotely safe.
Nope! Actually the spin is necessary to stabilize it; without the spin, you need fins or wings to prevent tumbling. With the spin and with the mid-shank joint, all it means is that things get complicated.. if you want the bullet to deflect downward, you bend the nose downward -- but "downward" is spinning at a pretty high rate of speed, so the thing's gotta keep track of which direction is up and down and basically rotate at an equal rate in the opposite direction to keep the nose deflection in a uniform direction.
It's pretty crazy stuff. The processors keeping things working have to be very very tiny, and run on very little power, and also hardy enough to survive being shot from a gun (0 to ~1000m/s in.. very little time or distance. Big big forces!)
These resources are not being used to track down the abusers. If everyone convicted of possessing child pornography themselves involved in abusing children, I could see getting behind such a massive expenditure of resources to stop them -- but that's not the case. Most of these people caught are simply looking at images of things other people have done. Some of these images were self-produced by foolish children themselves -- teenage girls with webcams, I'm talking to YOU.
I don't particularly want to debate that last point, because it's just a fucking landmind of opinion and non-fact, but do you think it would be a stretch to even say a quarter of "child porn" being passed around the internet is self-produced by teens through no outside coercion? Does the FBI really need to be expending ANY resources to track down people who see that video of that girl who set up her webcam and got naked and oh, shit, she's 16? That seems awful wasteful to me. I can empathize with the girl if it's a major embarrassment, but she'll get over it, and what's more she should have known better to begin with.
Personally, I would much, much rather they stop wasting resources on busting anyone for simply possessing child pornography, and instead focus their efforts only on finding those who are actually ABUSING children. That shit's not cool, and that shit needs ended, but all this tracking down of child porn.. I don't think very much of it at all actually gets to anyone who abuses children.
Of course, due to the extremely polarizing nature of the issue, any argument save "EVERYTHING AT ANY EXPENSE!" invites comments that you must be a sympathizer at best and insinuations that you simply want to get away with your sick crimes more easily.. nevermind that it IS an expenditure of time and money, and there IS a tradeoff to be made. In my mind the gains from arresting scores of people who have, intentionally or inadvertently, downloaded naked pictures of underage individuals, is less than the gains that could be made by reallocating those resources to more effectively tracking down those who are actually doing abuse to children.
I'm sure there are plenty of other products that lose weight due to dehydration and bits of it just turning into dust... but can you think of any that are sold for 10-20 bucks a gram? prices like that.. that's the realm of precious metals.
then again, i have no idea what the prices at those stores are like. that's just general street price for the stuff.
Oh lighten up. That is most likely the only time in your life you will ever hear anyone ever utter that phrase. Smite you with my holy conveyance? Come on. I can't think of anyone outside me and the Pope that would have grounds to say that, and I don't think the Pope is the sort of guy that would. Enjoy my inanity, I thought it was fairly clear that by that point I was saying ridiculous things to be ridiculous and entertaining.
That is awesome, I didn't know that. All is now right with the world -- I can stop being peturbed with a physicist, and merely add to being peturbed with editors. Nothing against editors, it's simply their job to be aggravating.
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That's... that's assuming there's actually something there for them to break through. That's assuming there's something at the border they can't cross.
That's not how things are, you can move anything you want from Mexico to America or the other way around. Hell, heard the shit going on in Arizona? Bunch of border patrol agents down there throwing around claims that they were instructed to just wave flashlights at border-crossers. Just try and scare them away. That's all, no more, wave a light at them and consider them "turned back" and never record the incident.
China's also woefully primitive industrially. It's not just resources they lack, it's knowledge.
I can't speak for every industry over there, but I've met and trained some industry workers here in the states that were going to be working in a brand new plants, and their methods were easily 20 years past their prime -- and this was with the full backing of a US multinational building the plant. Inefficient, poor quality, terribly limited in the types of things they could make.
Basically, the crappy 50s-era plant I was in? We output as much as their brand new plant could in a day in 6 hours. And the quality was better than they would be able to do. And we had a wider range of sorts of things we could make.
But hey, I guess it's amazing what works out to make more money when they made in a day less than I did in an hour, and when they had pretty much zero environmental and safety regulations to follow.
Basically China can't really do much of anything without help from foreigners, but don't say it too loudly or they'll try and kill you.
That's kinda more accurate than what really happened actually. Paul Revere warned almost no Americans. Dude got picked up by the Brits almost before he left.
But many years later, his name fit well into a song, and so everyone now knows about his midnight ride.
Yeah. Palin was more right than wrong, but everyone thinks she's wrong -- and the reason for that is *people have been dumb for centuries*.
Real estate.
If they were really concerned about security, the outer-most door wouldn't be the one with the lock -- it would simply lead to a lobby or vestibule, a non-secure but indoor and dry area, visible to security, through which employees would pass in a more orderly fashion to a secure door leading into the building proper.
People rush through because they don't want to form up in a line outside. Once they're inside, it's not so big of an issue to stand around a bit longer. They're out of the weather, away from the traffic. But security theater is so much more entertaining..
Good for you.
Now for a scenario out of left field.
Somehow, something has happened and shattered the light bulb as it is screwed into the socket. You have no bulb to grasp on to, AND ALSO you're not sure if there's still a current being supplied to the socket. Remove and replace.
Everyone's gotta do that at least once in their life, and you'll be glad for clear on/off switches at that point. That, and potatoes.
What a droll and uninteresting life.
And I can assure you that under trademark, under Disney, Mikey Moose == Mickey Mouse
copyrighting something that already exists as an entity wholly separate and apart from the holder of the copyright.
Neat.
So I suppose someone could file a copyright on "FBI"? Or "POTUS"? And that would fly?
Nothing broken here, nope, nothing at all.
This really should come as no surprise to anyone at all.
This is Apple. This is what they do. This has been their form of business for, what, 30 years? If you are not Apple, do not trust Apple, do not rely on Apple, Apple is only, ONLY, interested in Apple, and has never hesitated to lock down their platform and squeeze dry anyone not Apple trying to do business on their platform.
I mean for the love of god Apple driving out non-Apple products from their platform was one of The Big Reasons why Apple nearly closed it doors, why it fell apart in the 80s/90s. It was the open platform of the IBM-compatible PC (lol, anachronistic terms!) where anyone could write and sell their own program that allowed it to flourish, when doing the same on the Apple platform would.. wait for it.. drumroll please.... reduce profits to absolutely nothing due to Apple's onerous licensing fees!
I mean really people, I feel bad for any company failing that is just trying to make an honest living, but there is such a thing as a deserved death. It's not like Apple has ever, ever, EVER turned a new leaf. This has been how Apple operates for DECADES. You've gotta be a special kind of idiot to put your faith and livelihood in a company that has, time and time again, bitten the hand of anyone not Apple trying to make money on an Apple product. THAT IS APPLE!
The characters in SG:U were the most unlike real people of any of the SG series, at least for my notion of "real people". They simply acted like catty 13 year old girls. That's not real people. BSG, Caprica, same issue. Any personal disagreements or conflicts were drawn out to the most ridiculous degree, and never handled directly or in a mature, adult fashion. Personal drama doesn't mean going around bitching to everybody about the minor sleight someone has dealt you and plotting a petty revenge and allowing it to interfere with your work. Nobody I care to associate with does that juvenile crap. Work exists on professional relationships, which is apart from your personal feelings for your coworkers, and allowing the latter to interfere with the former is grounds for termination; further, disliking a person simply means you avoid them, or ignore the sleight, or confront them directly and maturely over the matter.
And I find it very, very questionable that everybody on the damned ship would keep a diary on those damn Kinos. Messages for posterity? Sure. Petty bickering the like you'd find in the confession booths of a reality show? Give me a fucking break.
Terrible writing, horribly derivative and exploitative.
It's not just their emotional dramas, it's their completely unrealistic emotional dramas. Everyone on that show acts like a goddamned 13 year old girl -- if they don't like someone, they are completely unable to set aside their personal dislike and perform their job despite it, and instead go around whining and crying to EVERYBODY about "oh gosh, Tim cut in line in front of me yesterday, I soooooo hate him!!", and scheme petty revenge.. rather than simply say "HEY TIM! Don't cut in line in front of me, ok?". Or, hell, rather than ignore it and move on because you've got a fucking job to do and personal conflicts cannot interfere with your performance of work, because, like all real adults, doing shit like that gets you fired. Doing shit like that makes people avoid you. Nobody likes the petty, catty bitch (gender neutral bitch) at work, yet somehow in shows like SG:U and BSG, THAT'S HOW EVERYBODY ACTS. Also: LOST.
Now now -- SG:1 and SGA were decent shows. It's SGU that deserves its fate. Show was garbage and I gave up before the first season was over. Just a derivative piece of overblown melodrama trying to cash in on BSG, which itself was more ridiculous and unrealistic than any daytime soap.
I still clearly remember watching that skit, it's still my favorite skit, and I still, on occasion, reference it inappropriately. I don't know that anyone's ever understood it, but the possibility that there's scores of people in this world who think I'm some sort of sexual deviant who goes for red noses and brown noises, well.. that, too, makes me laugh.
Ahh those anachronistic SEALs.. still in love with their M14s and 1911s.
Can't say I disagree with them, the 5.56 and 9mm were both adopted in part because their low recoil was easier for weak, small-statured people to accommodate. And easier on those with little marksmanship training. The sort of things that some people would look at and scoff, and make a derogatory comment about the wussification of the military.
There's nothing the .223 and 9mm can do that the .308 and .45 can't do better.
Rubber bullets do not work how you seem to think they work.
Well that's just it, really. A mechanical patent on a.. let's say a crane. That patent is on *that crane*, of *that design*. It does not apply to all devices by which loads may be lifted, it only applies to those that use the particular sort of device described by the patent.
In other words, patenting the use of pulleys and such to create a mechanical advantage for lifting heavy crap? Not gonna fly. Patenting a particular design of pulleys? That's cool, but someone else can make a crane of their own design, based upon the same basic principals, and so long as they didn't steal or copy your design? They have a unique device.
At least, that's how things should work in a sane world. YMMV.
What this looks like is more akin to patenting the use of gravity to carry an object downward. You.. you can't fucking do that. That's absurd.
Well, that's also because at the time, scopes weren't really that great.
Especially in Finland, which I have never been to but I imagine as a very cold, very damp country. WWII-era scopes would be prone to fogging in those conditions, and hell, most of them were low-power optics anyway, with not-very-large objective lenses.
That means light gathering was less than ideal, parallax was not all that great, magnification was minimal, and it would've been likely that after being covered with snow the scope would be fogged and unusable anyway. I don't blame him for not using a scope!
Our enemies are not very skillful marksmen. A gun's only as accurate as the man shooting it. The sorts of people who are able to make shots count over long distances tend not to be the sorts of people who fall in with terrorism. They actually tend to be rather strange people compared to 'normal'; it takes a very steady hand, and a very calm mind, and a very *fast* mind.
I can't speak for sniping specifically, but I assume that shot it similar to the string of shots a competitive marksman takes -- which if you hook up an EEG, yeah, they're actually meditating more or less. So a sniper? Supreme minor muscular awareness and control, instinctualization of calculations regarding wind deflection (it's a lot more complicated than simply left/right, and by far the hardest part is simply judging the wind's direction at distances between you and your target), and, oh, yeah, when you're shooting a mile or more you start needing to account for Coriolis effects due to the Earth's spin, so you need to know the direction of your shot with regards to the Earth's axis of rotation and your latitude, and then there's changes in point of impact due to inflection or deflection of your shot.
It's a lot more difficult than "put target in crosshair, pull trigger". Even at ranges where it IS that simple, it's harder to actually get that target steady in the crosshair long enough, and to pull the trigger steady enough, to hit things.
The assassination of important figures from great distance.. that is, honestly, historically, almost an entirely uniquely american thing.
Atrocities and genocide can be committed just as well with tools as guns. Just look at the machete.
Go check out all the shit that's happening in Africa and tell me if you honestly think any, ANY of that, would be solved by people not having weapons -- or if it seems more likely that the same damn shit would be happening if all they had access to were sticks stones and bits of bones.
What part of Africa you say? Take your pick. Pointing randomly at Africa, you have a better chance of choosing a place that's burning than a place that's remotely safe.
Nope! Actually the spin is necessary to stabilize it; without the spin, you need fins or wings to prevent tumbling. With the spin and with the mid-shank joint, all it means is that things get complicated.. if you want the bullet to deflect downward, you bend the nose downward -- but "downward" is spinning at a pretty high rate of speed, so the thing's gotta keep track of which direction is up and down and basically rotate at an equal rate in the opposite direction to keep the nose deflection in a uniform direction.
It's pretty crazy stuff. The processors keeping things working have to be very very tiny, and run on very little power, and also hardy enough to survive being shot from a gun (0 to ~1000m/s in.. very little time or distance. Big big forces!)
These resources are not being used to track down the abusers. If everyone convicted of possessing child pornography themselves involved in abusing children, I could see getting behind such a massive expenditure of resources to stop them -- but that's not the case. Most of these people caught are simply looking at images of things other people have done. Some of these images were self-produced by foolish children themselves -- teenage girls with webcams, I'm talking to YOU.
I don't particularly want to debate that last point, because it's just a fucking landmind of opinion and non-fact, but do you think it would be a stretch to even say a quarter of "child porn" being passed around the internet is self-produced by teens through no outside coercion? Does the FBI really need to be expending ANY resources to track down people who see that video of that girl who set up her webcam and got naked and oh, shit, she's 16? That seems awful wasteful to me. I can empathize with the girl if it's a major embarrassment, but she'll get over it, and what's more she should have known better to begin with.
Personally, I would much, much rather they stop wasting resources on busting anyone for simply possessing child pornography, and instead focus their efforts only on finding those who are actually ABUSING children. That shit's not cool, and that shit needs ended, but all this tracking down of child porn.. I don't think very much of it at all actually gets to anyone who abuses children.
Of course, due to the extremely polarizing nature of the issue, any argument save "EVERYTHING AT ANY EXPENSE!" invites comments that you must be a sympathizer at best and insinuations that you simply want to get away with your sick crimes more easily.. nevermind that it IS an expenditure of time and money, and there IS a tradeoff to be made. In my mind the gains from arresting scores of people who have, intentionally or inadvertently, downloaded naked pictures of underage individuals, is less than the gains that could be made by reallocating those resources to more effectively tracking down those who are actually doing abuse to children.
I'm sure there are plenty of other products that lose weight due to dehydration and bits of it just turning into dust... but can you think of any that are sold for 10-20 bucks a gram? prices like that.. that's the realm of precious metals.
then again, i have no idea what the prices at those stores are like. that's just general street price for the stuff.
Oh lighten up. That is most likely the only time in your life you will ever hear anyone ever utter that phrase. Smite you with my holy conveyance? Come on. I can't think of anyone outside me and the Pope that would have grounds to say that, and I don't think the Pope is the sort of guy that would. Enjoy my inanity, I thought it was fairly clear that by that point I was saying ridiculous things to be ridiculous and entertaining.
That is awesome, I didn't know that. All is now right with the world -- I can stop being peturbed with a physicist, and merely add to being peturbed with editors. Nothing against editors, it's simply their job to be aggravating.