There's dozens of things they could be doing, but they're not...
The only rational explanation is that they don't exist. It's pure fiction
(interspersed with the occasional lunatic, who'll always manage to kill somebody no matter what you do - people aren't ever going to stop gathering in outdoor locations).
If I was a boss at Al-Qaeda I'd be getting people to stuff things up their ass and sending them to airports all day long. The chaos that follows when sheeple figure out that the TSA cannot protect them would be priceless. Chaos would ensue, the economy would tank overnight. That's real terrorism, I'd sleep soundly afterwards knowing I was doing my job.
The fact that they aren't doing this is just more proof that there's no real organized terrorists out there, just occasional lunatics (Boston).
All the security, all the gropings and inconvenience is just theater for the masses.
(And a way for a few people to get richer - the head of the TSA owns shares in the company that make the scanners... surprise!)
It's pointless trying to get a gun on a plane. What would you do with it, exactly? Kill another passenger or a flight attendant? There's no escape route afterwards and a SWAT team will be waiting for you when you land. It seems much better to shoot the other person in the airport security queue then run away.
Maybe a plastic, single-shot gun is useful if you want to kill a particular person inside a secure building and don't mind getting arrested afterwards. That seems like an unlikely scenario to me. If I was that sort of assassin I'd to wait for the person to go outside the building then show up on a motorbike with some heavy artillery (purchased from Walmart).
All in all, plastic guns don't seem very useful. Can you suggest a realistic scenario where a plastic gun would be essential (or even make a job much easier)?
I coded the game myself (originally on Arduino believe it or not). I used the Space Invaders ROM disassembly as a base so the gameplay is 100% true to the original. You can play it if you've got a gameduino...
I don't ask my coworkers because I need a list of names, I ask them because I want their opinion.
Would you ask their "opinion" on which is best, Coke or Pepsi? McDonalds vs. Burger King? Ford v.s Chevy? At the end of the day all questions about which is "best" are equally useless.
I've never seen an "Ask Slashdot" which was a good, answerable question. There's always a ton of missing info.
For example:
His main calculator (which he "appreciates") is an HP uses RPN. Is RPN a requirement for the cheap one? We don't know, that makes this question impossible to answer. Any answer we may give is no more useful than Amazon reviews.
Will he ever use it for anything other than this exam? If not, it makes no difference whatsoever what he buys. Any cheap scientific calculator from a major manufacturer will have pretty much the same set of trig functions and $20 is cheap enough to give it to a charity shop afterwards.
Yeah, but he's used to RPN so he's pretty much stuck with HP models....although he doesn't say that. Which makes this "Ask Slashdot" as pointless as any other "Ask Slashdot".
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There's dozens of things they could be doing, but they're not...
The only rational explanation is that they don't exist. It's pure fiction
(interspersed with the occasional lunatic, who'll always manage to kill somebody no matter what you do - people aren't ever going to stop gathering in outdoor locations).
FTA: "You can only get so much in the body, and there is no shrapnel effect."
ie. They weren't trying very hard and forgot to add the ball bearings.
No need. C4 fits in rectums, along with detonators, etc.
Uhhhh, two things.
TMI.
And speak for yourself.
How exactly do you think people get drugs/cellphones/cellphone chargers/etc. into prisons?
It's also a common way of getting drugs through airports. Think about that next time you're sniffing cocaine or injecting heroin...
Yep. If you can get close enough to a person that a single-shot plastic gun is effective then a knife is probably more dangerous.
One low-velocity shot* vs. multiple stabs/throat slashes? I'd take my chances with the bullet.
* What's the muzzle velocity of those things anyway?
If I was a boss at Al-Qaeda I'd be getting people to stuff things up their ass and sending them to airports all day long. The chaos that follows when sheeple figure out that the TSA cannot protect them would be priceless. Chaos would ensue, the economy would tank overnight. That's real terrorism, I'd sleep soundly afterwards knowing I was doing my job.
The fact that they aren't doing this is just more proof that there's no real organized terrorists out there, just occasional lunatics (Boston).
All the security, all the gropings and inconvenience is just theater for the masses.
(And a way for a few people to get richer - the head of the TSA owns shares in the company that make the scanners ... surprise!)
It's pointless trying to get a gun on a plane. What would you do with it, exactly? Kill another passenger or a flight attendant? There's no escape route afterwards and a SWAT team will be waiting for you when you land. It seems much better to shoot the other person in the airport security queue then run away.
Maybe a plastic, single-shot gun is useful if you want to kill a particular person inside a secure building and don't mind getting arrested afterwards. That seems like an unlikely scenario to me. If I was that sort of assassin I'd to wait for the person to go outside the building then show up on a motorbike with some heavy artillery (purchased from Walmart).
All in all, plastic guns don't seem very useful. Can you suggest a realistic scenario where a plastic gun would be essential (or even make a job much easier)?
+1 - wtf is the point?
Anybody that really wants to can already manufacturer their own weapons in the airport: Terminal Cornucopia.
No need. C4 fits in rectums, along with detonators, etc.
Yeah?
Cue a while load of people who remembered they had a couple of bullets in the bottom of their kit bag after going though security...3...2...1...post!
we gave up on Java.
That's not news?
At least he died doing what he loved!
This news article says the "hard landing" was due to trying some acrobatics as he approached the landing zone.
http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/un-parachutiste-se-tue-dans-l-oise-ia0b0n236167
Besides that is a pretty epic way to die.
Not really.
This news article says he had a bad landing, not that his parachute failed. Seems like he was trying some acrobatics as he approached the ground.
http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/un-parachutiste-se-tue-dans-l-oise-ia0b0n236167
Unless you have a Verizon or Sprint Nexus...
If you have one of those, you've been ripped off. Nexus aren't tied to carriers.
The first one wasn't very good. It's in pieces at the moment because I'm rebuilding it inside one of these: https://www.google.es/search?q=invadercade&tbm=isch (I got one dirt cheap)
I also recently discovered this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/697708033/hdmipi-affordable-9-high-def-screen-for-the-raspbe so it might be on hold until February. That screen is just perfect for it :-(
I coded the game myself (originally on Arduino believe it or not). I used the Space Invaders ROM disassembly as a base so the gameplay is 100% true to the original. You can play it if you've got a gameduino...
I use Tiny85 (on a homebrew PCB) or eBay Arduino Pro Minis, depending on the job in hand.
OTOH some projects need a video output. AVR chips aren't very good at that.
I made a Mini Space Invaders machine with mine.
LED cubes!
If only there was a way to inform the phone companies when a number changes owner...
Maybe you could set up a service to help them know about it. It would be worth a fortune!
Sure, once it got going.
The idea behind this is to get there a bit earlier and stop it before it has a chance to get that big.
Or we can have pretty forests with firebreaks.
We actually have that capability in the 21st century. It's true.
The famous Swiss banking privacy isn't what it used to be.
The US Gov. (and others) has had teams of people working on special "Switzerland policies" for decades.
I don't ask my coworkers because I need a list of names, I ask them because I want their opinion.
Would you ask their "opinion" on which is best, Coke or Pepsi? McDonalds vs. Burger King? Ford v.s Chevy? At the end of the day all questions about which is "best" are equally useless.
I've never seen an "Ask Slashdot" which was a good, answerable question. There's always a ton of missing info.
For example:
His main calculator (which he "appreciates") is an HP uses RPN. Is RPN a requirement for the cheap one? We don't know, that makes this question impossible to answer. Any answer we may give is no more useful than Amazon reviews.
Will he ever use it for anything other than this exam? If not, it makes no difference whatsoever what he buys. Any cheap scientific calculator from a major manufacturer will have pretty much the same set of trig functions and $20 is cheap enough to give it to a charity shop afterwards.
I have a ti-36 solar...
Yeah, but he's used to RPN so he's pretty much stuck with HP models. ...although he doesn't say that. Which makes this "Ask Slashdot" as pointless as any other "Ask Slashdot".
Asking which is "best" is never a good question.
What slide rule would you recommend? Do you prefer Pickett or K&E?
I find Casios have more logical function layouts.
it might just of been the Maths dept.....
It obviously wasn't the English dept.