I dream of the day people stop watching/purchasing TV and movies and actually do something with their time, I wish everyone would cease to buy or watch anything for a month, a media black out on purchasing and leaving your TV off.
These people only have power if you continue to play their game.
Have a BBQ instead, invite all your neighbors, because it seems like no one knows their neighbors any more.
At one time I was naive enough to think that the Internet could be the thing that would allow people to do this sort of thing, to come together in force, make change, and in some cases it has (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects) instead it seems to fall to the lowest common denominator, mobs of people dancing morphed into mobs of people robbing and vandalizing, where once it took time to become jaded and disgusted with humanity, now with the Internet (Youtube anyone? Holla!!!) it takes mere minutes.
At my age there is a certain amount of "set in my ways" thinking that leads to discomfort when too much change occurs, in addition the GUI's are new, not as polished as they could be, and check me on this, they feel "dumbed down" or some how less useful for intensive projects like video editing, music making, writing or anything else that made large use of a mouse and keyboard. I just don't feel as productive on them. The options and level of accurate control seem diminished, but again that may be me being less the willing to adapt more than a failure of the GUI.
I love PC gaming can't stand consoles, I tired making some music on an iPad frankly it sucks, though in some aspects it makes an interesting controller, without even trying Windows 8 I'm sure that will suck, because it's a "skips a generation" thing IMO, WIn8 is the new Vista and I am happy with Win7 and won't change for another 10 years like I did with XP. Don't get me started on the dumbing down of Apple products...
Israel wouldn't be the one fighting Iran if they did, it would be the US, and that's the problem, with the US as a shield/big brother Israel can act as it pleases, if our support stopped...
"Lee Rasmussen set a new.50 BMG Single Target World Record at the FCSA 2009 World Championships held at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, NM 4th of July 2009 by shooting a 1.955" 5-shot group in the Heavy Gun Class 1000yd record competition and by doing so breaks the late Skip Talbot’s 2.600" long standing single-group record set in 1999 by over 1/2". Lee’s group works out to.1868 MOA." http://www.fcsa.org/wwwroot/index.php
2 inch grouping at 1000 yards, a plane moving towards you at take off is as good as a stationary object, you get more than one try it is a semi auto. But lets say you aren't that good a shot, well then put it thru one of the engines, that target is 3 meters wide.
All of the above showing you are wrong, your "science" is made up crap with special circumstances, no one is buying your BS and once again, if you're under 30 then almost your entire generation is muddled morons that watch to much TV, in fact 2 people here felt "mythbusters" is some how the final answer for these sort of things, just go to the range and look at something in real life rather than your LCD.
A lot of sites are doing this (LAtimes is Facebook only) the reason is to track dissent and document every comment made by people then associate it with the actual person, so "how to make thermite" question you asked out of curiosity becomes your downfall at a later date, made illegal and prosecuted retroactively or just used to smear you if you get involved in politics in any way or even just a little bit too "outspoken". This is another step in the ongoing move to a controlled Internet.
If you have a Facebook account, first I have to say you're a tool, second do you know everyone of your "friends" IRL well enough to go to trial for them? If not, close your account now.
O my... it pierces and explodes I wonder what that would do to a commercial airline with "aluminum skin".
Here let me paste it for you kiddo, since you are struggling to find it on your own. "The.50 Caliber round can accurately engage enemy targets at a distance of over 2000 meters which is over a mile away ! In fact a professional sniper can hit a 5 inch diameter target at a distance of 1½ miles and recorded shots have been reported from US snipers killing enemy soldiers from a range of 2,500 meters or just under 1.8 miles.
The angle that the gun is held, plus the amount of wind blowing, the general weather conditions and stillness of the target are all calculated to make this kind of skilful shot.
The.50 caliber bullet fired form a Barrett M83A1 or M-107 can easily penetrate 1½inches of solid steel armor plate, which is the normal amount of "protection" offered by most of the worlds Armored Personnel Carriers (APC's), Armored cars, trucks and other "light" vehicles. Generally speaking, as long as its not a main battle tank, the.50 caliber round fired from the Barrett at moderate ranges will penetrate it.
A brick or a concrete wall that is about 1 or even 2 foot thick also offer no protection and can be shot clean through. Mobile or static radio trucks, parked up airplanes engines, buildings, fuel depots, rail tank cars, machine gun 'pill-boxes', bullet proof limo's, trucks, body armor clad enemy soldiers are all easy prey to the Barrett.50"
That is considered the "second most powerful rifle" and it can easily take out a jet screaming down a runway, 747, 787, and anything under that, I mean how many jets have 2 inch of steel armor? I am pretty sure that wouldn't fly, but then...I didn't bother Googling that since I have seen the power of these rifle first hand at a target range with non armor piercing, non explosive ammunition.
Scary stuff
Maybe you should get off your ass and go down to a 1000 meter range for a look see, (rent it and shoot it) it will change your life son, that is if you don't live in a state where they have managed to take your gun rights from you.
I am amazed at the ignorance of the post to my comment, you people are sitting on the worlds largest database (The Internet) and you still pontificate without any idea of what you speak.
Again under 30 and part of that waste of space generation, seriously one person commented that "myth buster" told him it wasn't so, your generation and the media...*sigh* do you ever think for yourself?
Again I don't fly ever, but not because of the.50, I don't fly anymore because fascism in America is alive and thriving in the air travel industry, plus repairs in El Salvador, constant cost cutting, 8 hours or more locked in a plane on a runway with no rights what so ever, (this just happened locked in a powerless plane with no toilets...where's your rights there?) you are not any safer from "alleged terrorist" on a plane today any more than you were 10 years ago, if you think you are, you don't understand the n
Well rather than commenting to me you should do the research, the fact is military around the World use the.50 for exactly that, and why does it have to explodes all at once? If a plane is lifting off it's going to fast to stop, if its wing fuel tank is shot with an incendiary round it is now a flaming plane taking off...what are you going to do at that point? Turn around?
Seriously folks how hard would it be to get SAM's in the country when cartels brings tons of coke and dope over the border? How hard would it be to sit at the end of a runway and use a.50 incendiary round through the fuel tank of a plane about to lift off?
Hard shot? These anti-material rifles can shoot humans from 1.5 miles away.
Why hasn't it happened then? Because there is no terrorist threat.
Clearly we wasted our tax money on these incompetents, unless you like getting molested at the TSA check point (coming to a mall near you soon).
It's not like the media has been spewing terrorist FUD for the last 10 years, or whittling down peoples psychological stability with "end of the world" financial FUD, or... well you get my point.
I've watched the decline of this country for several decades, in no small part to "child psychologist", television and a broken education system and nanny government, you will never understand what I am talking about because you haven't seen it first hand, you have to rely on other peoples opinions to form yours, I rely on experience, one benefit of age.
Let me put it to you in a way you can understand LIGAF, FOAD, DIAF, almost your entire generation is a self indulgent waste of space.
If you give me a web site that I can go to, browse through movies and TV shows to find what I want without ads and I will give you $0.25 for TV, and $1.00 for movies to download, otherwise fuck straight off.
I can remember a time when the television personality would apologize for the "word from our sponsor" then quickly get back to the show, now each show is 1/3 ads (and often the show is an ad) and they scream at you, literally scream at you.
Since you didn't post anything about her "disabilities" and the first 2 articles I find do not mention it, the answer is yes, beat her again. It appears to some he went overboard but consider that she had no problems stealing, lying and then blackmailing her parents who thought enough of her to provide her with a nice car and financial support, she is the perfect example of what's wrong with this country.
What people like you don't seem to understand is the behavior I see today, compared to what was expected from people 40 years ago, if you are under 30 you wouldn't know this and you are most likely a self serving narcissist with little empathy for others and a gross exaggeration of your own abilities. Which I think you have shown quite well with your absurd post.
And much to my dismay so many other things I foresaw and told to my family has come true as well, I was really hoping I was wrong. Thank you for the observations on India.
It's already going on, smart criminals don't use their own cells or frankly even carry them, but you're right it will go to what you said eventually, and so will the Internet, you won't be able to access the Internet with out a certain chip or ID and the telecoms will be required to implement and enforce it. It will be sold to us as a security feature.
The reason for this is people go to forums and cry about it, and not a one of them does anything "IRL" about it, we are all mice.
Why does anyone involved in anything illegal use a cellphone that's attached to their name? Go to Walmart buy a prepaid phone, buy a dozen, have someone else buy them, use your head.
Part of it for me (if not all of it) is that my usage habits are set, I don't really like the newer mouse gestures, it's like learning all over again though I am sure newbies like these things I prefer the "old" way of doing things.
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I dream of the day people stop watching/purchasing TV and movies and actually do something with their time, I wish everyone would cease to buy or watch anything for a month, a media black out on purchasing and leaving your TV off.
These people only have power if you continue to play their game.
Have a BBQ instead, invite all your neighbors, because it seems like no one knows their neighbors any more.
At one time I was naive enough to think that the Internet could be the thing that would allow people to do this sort of thing, to come together in force, make change, and in some cases it has (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects) instead it seems to fall to the lowest common denominator, mobs of people dancing morphed into mobs of people robbing and vandalizing, where once it took time to become jaded and disgusted with humanity, now with the Internet (Youtube anyone? Holla!!!) it takes mere minutes.
At my age there is a certain amount of "set in my ways" thinking that leads to discomfort when too much change occurs, in addition the GUI's are new, not as polished as they could be, and check me on this, they feel "dumbed down" or some how less useful for intensive projects like video editing, music making, writing or anything else that made large use of a mouse and keyboard.
I just don't feel as productive on them.
The options and level of accurate control seem diminished, but again that may be me being less the willing to adapt more than a failure of the GUI.
I love PC gaming can't stand consoles, I tired making some music on an iPad frankly it sucks, though in some aspects it makes an interesting controller, without even trying Windows 8 I'm sure that will suck, because it's a "skips a generation" thing IMO, WIn8 is the new Vista and I am happy with Win7 and won't change for another 10 years like I did with XP.
Don't get me started on the dumbing down of Apple products...
We let the enemy manufacture our military parts?
And for thoughts on the entire thing my sig says it all.
Israel wouldn't be the one fighting Iran if they did, it would be the US, and that's the problem, with the US as a shield/big brother Israel can act as it pleases, if our support stopped...
This is why AIPAC is the most powerful lobby.
You're wrong.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/26/nyc-anti-terror-capabilities-include-ability-to-bring-down-aircraft/
"Lee Rasmussen set a new .50 BMG Single Target World Record at the FCSA 2009 World Championships held at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, NM 4th of July 2009 by shooting a 1.955" 5-shot group in the Heavy Gun Class 1000yd record competition and by doing so breaks the late Skip Talbot’s 2.600" long standing single-group record set in 1999 by over 1/2". Lee’s group works out to .1868 MOA."
http://www.fcsa.org/wwwroot/index.php
2 inch grouping at 1000 yards, a plane moving towards you at take off is as good as a stationary object, you get more than one try it is a semi auto.
But lets say you aren't that good a shot, well then put it thru one of the engines, that target is 3 meters wide.
All of the above showing you are wrong, your "science" is made up crap with special circumstances, no one is buying your BS and once again, if you're under 30 then almost your entire generation is muddled morons that watch to much TV, in fact 2 people here felt "mythbusters" is some how the final answer for these sort of things, just go to the range and look at something in real life rather than your LCD.
Oh... get rid of your TV as well.
Why?
Oh this reason...
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
A lot of sites are doing this (LAtimes is Facebook only) the reason is to track dissent and document every comment made by people then associate it with the actual person, so "how to make thermite" question you asked out of curiosity becomes your downfall at a later date, made illegal and prosecuted retroactively or just used to smear you if you get involved in politics in any way or even just a little bit too "outspoken".
This is another step in the ongoing move to a controlled Internet.
If you have a Facebook account, first I have to say you're a tool, second do you know everyone of your "friends" IRL well enough to go to trial for them?
If not, close your account now.
Stop putting critical systems online.
You wrote all that and didn't Google it first?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/top-50-caliber-sniper-rifle-manufacturer-barrett-firearms-boasts-that-50-caliber-sniper-rifles-are-capable-of-destroying-multi-million-dollar-aircraft-with-a-single-hit-54206857.html
That's sitting on a runway, you could shoot the engine at take off as well, that should be "catastrophic"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Explosive_Incendiary/Armor_Piercing_Ammunition
O my... it pierces and explodes I wonder what that would do to a commercial airline with "aluminum skin".
Here let me paste it for you kiddo, since you are struggling to find it on your own. .50 Caliber round can accurately engage enemy targets at a distance of over 2000 meters which is over a mile away ! In fact a professional sniper can hit a 5 inch diameter target at a distance of 1½ miles and recorded shots have been reported from US snipers killing enemy soldiers from a range of 2,500 meters or just under 1.8 miles.
"The
The angle that the gun is held, plus the amount of wind blowing, the general weather conditions and stillness of the target are all calculated to make this kind of skilful shot.
The .50 caliber bullet fired form a Barrett M83A1 or M-107 can easily penetrate 1½inches of solid steel armor plate, which is the normal amount of "protection" offered by most of the worlds Armored Personnel Carriers (APC's), Armored cars, trucks and other "light" vehicles. Generally speaking, as long as its not a main battle tank, the .50 caliber round fired from the Barrett at moderate ranges will penetrate it.
A brick or a concrete wall that is about 1 or even 2 foot thick also offer no protection and can be shot clean through. Mobile or static radio trucks, parked up airplanes engines, buildings, fuel depots, rail tank cars, machine gun 'pill-boxes', bullet proof limo's, trucks, body armor clad enemy soldiers are all easy prey to the Barrett .50"
http://www.vincelewis.net/rifle.html
That is considered the "second most powerful rifle" and it can easily take out a jet screaming down a runway, 747, 787, and anything under that, I mean how many jets have 2 inch of steel armor? I am pretty sure that wouldn't fly, but then...I didn't bother Googling that since I have seen the power of these rifle first hand at a target range with non armor piercing, non explosive ammunition.
Scary stuff
Maybe you should get off your ass and go down to a 1000 meter range for a look see, (rent it and shoot it) it will change your life son, that is if you don't live in a state where they have managed to take your gun rights from you.
I am amazed at the ignorance of the post to my comment, you people are sitting on the worlds largest database (The Internet) and you still pontificate without any idea of what you speak.
Again under 30 and part of that waste of space generation, seriously one person commented that "myth buster" told him it wasn't so, your generation and the media...*sigh* do you ever think for yourself?
Again I don't fly ever, but not because of the .50, I don't fly anymore because fascism in America is alive and thriving in the air travel industry, plus repairs in El Salvador, constant cost cutting, 8 hours or more locked in a plane on a runway with no rights what so ever, (this just happened locked in a powerless plane with no toilets...where's your rights there?) you are not any safer from "alleged terrorist" on a plane today any more than you were 10 years ago, if you think you are, you don't understand the n
Yes and our primary concern in this day and age is being political correct.
Well rather than commenting to me you should do the research, the fact is military around the World use the .50 for exactly that, and why does it have to explodes all at once?
If a plane is lifting off it's going to fast to stop, if its wing fuel tank is shot with an incendiary round it is now a flaming plane taking off...what are you going to do at that point? Turn around?
How about "Dept of 500 Billion Dollars Wasted"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/09/september-11-homeland-security-spending_n_953288.html
Seriously folks how hard would it be to get SAM's in the country when cartels brings tons of coke and dope over the border? How hard would it be to sit at the end of a runway and use a .50 incendiary round through the fuel tank of a plane about to lift off?
Hard shot? These anti-material rifles can shoot humans from 1.5 miles away.
Why hasn't it happened then? Because there is no terrorist threat.
Clearly we wasted our tax money on these incompetents, unless you like getting molested at the TSA check point (coming to a mall near you soon).
It's not like the media has been spewing terrorist FUD for the last 10 years, or whittling down peoples psychological stability with "end of the world" financial FUD, or... well you get my point.
This is a nation prepped for panic.
I've watched the decline of this country for several decades, in no small part to "child psychologist", television and a broken education system and nanny government, you will never understand what I am talking about because you haven't seen it first hand, you have to rely on other peoples opinions to form yours, I rely on experience, one benefit of age.
Let me put it to you in a way you can understand LIGAF, FOAD, DIAF, almost your entire generation is a self indulgent waste of space.
Get it yet?
If you give me a web site that I can go to, browse through movies and TV shows to find what I want without ads and I will give you $0.25 for TV, and $1.00 for movies to download, otherwise fuck straight off.
I can remember a time when the television personality would apologize for the "word from our sponsor" then quickly get back to the show, now each show is 1/3 ads (and often the show is an ad) and they scream at you, literally scream at you.
I don't see any information about being "disabled" she is clearly a functional (physically) human with a nice Mercedes to drive, you know... prior to it being taken away.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Police-Fed-prosecutor-looking-into-Texas-beating-2249787.php
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2011/11/02/police-investigate-judge-over-disturbing-online-video/?tsp=1
Since you didn't post anything about her "disabilities" and the first 2 articles I find do not mention it, the answer is yes, beat her again.
It appears to some he went overboard but consider that she had no problems stealing, lying and then blackmailing her parents who thought enough of her to provide her with a nice car and financial support, she is the perfect example of what's wrong with this country.
What people like you don't seem to understand is the behavior I see today, compared to what was expected from people 40 years ago, if you are under 30 you wouldn't know this and you are most likely a self serving narcissist with little empathy for others and a gross exaggeration of your own abilities.
Which I think you have shown quite well with your absurd post.
F'ing computers indeed.
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED246534&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED246534
http://www.cpj.org/reports/2011/05/the-10-tools-of-online-oppressors.php
If what the Judge said is true that she is retaliating for a loss of financial support she sounds like a spoiled tool.
Blackmail your own family? Whip her again.
And much to my dismay so many other things I foresaw and told to my family has come true as well, I was really hoping I was wrong.
Thank you for the observations on India.
So you're agreeing with me then?
Good thing they are cheap, and realistically, how much phone conversation do you need? It implies you don't plan well.
It's already going on, smart criminals don't use their own cells or frankly even carry them, but you're right it will go to what you said eventually, and so will the Internet, you won't be able to access the Internet with out a certain chip or ID and the telecoms will be required to implement and enforce it.
It will be sold to us as a security feature.
The reason for this is people go to forums and cry about it, and not a one of them does anything "IRL" about it, we are all mice.
Why does anyone involved in anything illegal use a cellphone that's attached to their name? Go to Walmart buy a prepaid phone, buy a dozen, have someone else buy them, use your head.
Hey I could keep this up but there's some kids on my lawn....
Thanks.
Part of it for me (if not all of it) is that my usage habits are set, I don't really like the newer mouse gestures, it's like learning all over again though I am sure newbies like these things I prefer the "old" way of doing things.