Close range for a helicopter means about the length of a football field (which, if you were flying low below radar, carrying out a ground attack, would be the kind of distance you might expect to be confronted by a tank), and armour piercing warheads are designed to direct the blast forwards to pentrate the armour, and minimise the back blast.
Considering a squishy little human being can usually survive a shrapnel hit to anywhere except a vital organ, an armoured war machine would usually be expected to do better.
I don't know about that but I do know the the Apache helicopter can't fire it's main hellfire anti tank missiles at close range because it risks blowing it's own rotors off from the shrapnel.
Buh? I think the gp was alluding to the fact that no one except a few uber geeks have bluray or hddvd burners on their computers, and thus no one but aforementioned uber geeks would be able to burn a bluray or hddvd, and thus would be royaly fucked.
In this case, Cletus would be the one guilty of theft as he has effectively stolen the property from its rightful owner and given it away to you. So as long as you think the property was rightfully Cletuses to give away, you have committed no crime, if you find out later that it wasn't Cletuses, you have to return it or you are then receiving stolen goods.
Something tells me that they didn't quite grasp the concepts at work in some of these films, like criticising the metropolis interface for making the 'user' work. The workers in metropolis weren't users, and they didn't interface with the machines, they were slaves to the machines and just carried out the machines instructions, they didn't have any input, they just performed physical labour acording to the machines instructions. The clock thing was like a relay, but with a person doing the physical labour. They seemed to miss the whole point of that scene.
I think the TNG computer was a sack of crap, you ask it where someone is and its says they aren't on board, if the computer knows where people are on he ship, why doesn't it tell you something usefull like, they went crazy and flew off in a shuttle or they mysteriously vanished from some coridor due to weird alien crap. And why didn't it tell someone when they went missing, rather than sit there like a fucktard for 5 hours untill someone notices they are gone before telling anyone they were mysteriously abducted by wierd energy monsters or whatever.
The interface was good, with the touch screens and the voice, but the AI of the thing was dumb as fuck.
a 70mph train is pretty pathetic, any train that can be matched by a car without even speeding is pretty pointless. You can go about 90mph on the motorway without any trouble, so a train ought to at least go faster than that.
Knowing where you are isn't hard, you always know exactly where you are, knowing where everything else is is the hard part. For some reason I think feeding the location of everything else in the world into your brain isn't going to happen via your tongue.
Also you could adapt the ability of it to detect suspicious packages that have been stationary for a long time to look out for any peers who may have died during session.
I think that Tom Baker once capped a cyberman, inside the TARDIS with his own gun, which shouldn't have been possible as the TARDIS is supposed to be in a state of harmony which means weapons cannot fire.
that's not just the British people, it's everyone. Take a look at every revolution that's ever been, it's only when the people have been pushed to breaking point that they dare to challenge the status quo. People are always afraid of change, because it might be change for the worse, and so only when they believe that things cannot get any worse will they commit to change.
Well considering the UK can't actually launch it's own nukes, I wouldn't worry about any judgement day style scenarios, and I think the government slashed the cybernetic killing machine budget to pay for the 2012 Olympics.
voice dailing on your phone works cos the voice tags are recording of your own voice. I doubt the car will make oyu record every single command it can do, also, if it did make you record all the commands, how would it deal with a different driver?
Yea, let's big up the US who were the ones who were the ones who funded the Nazis with their economic aid to Germany, and supplied them with weapons as well as being the biggest Nazi appeasers who were willing to surrender the whole of Europe to avoid fighting the fascist regime they built up because they were so afraid of communism. Even as Nazi bombs fell on London, US companies still sold arms and machine parts to Germany, and Ford motor company built tanks for Germany. The USA never even declared war on Germany, it was Germany that declared war on the US first.
The most pathetic thing is the USA has never learned from WW2, the Viet Cong, Saddam Hussain, Osama Bin Laden, Augusto Pinochet and many more, all one time allies and then enemies of the US, and there's twice as many tyrants that are still loyal to the US, all financially backed by the USA, trained and armed without thought to their politics, because they served to fight some real or imagined enemy when it was convenient to the US. The USA's short sighted enemy of my enemy is my friend foreign policy still causes war and suffering across the world, and still the USA stabs it's closest allies in the back in favour of whatever tin pot dictator it thinks will give it an advantage against whoever their boggy man of choice is or will help snatch some economic resource.
You physics are right, but your fighting technique is off here, if you punch with just the weight of your fist, this is what is called a sissy hit, it won't hurt anyone except another sissy, and it certainly won't cause you to send either a person or a punchbag flying. The reason being, your fist just doesn't have enough mass to carry a decent abount of kinetic energy. Only if you use your full body weight (and your leverage against the ground if stationary) will you deliver a real punch.
Now in the real fight, to deliver the fabled 'flying across the room' punch/kick, the attacker will have be moving towards the target at the time of the punch/kick either from lunging as they punch or doing a flying kick, and will impart their kinetic energy to the target. If the target is the same weight as the attacker this will lead the the target being propelled backwards at no greater than the speed of the attacker, and the attacker will will receive the same force back, thus stopping them dead (assuming minimal disipation of energy), so unless the attacker was flying across the room at high speed at the time of the attack the most that can be done is to knock the target over.
Also the reason the attacker stays upright while the target falls over during a kick/punch when both are stationary isn't due to friction, but balance. When you attack, you lean into the punch or kick in order impart your full weight and leverage against the ground, and so the backwards force on you serves to put you back to a vertical position, you are unbalanced and the force of impact rebalances you, whereas the target is in a vertical position, and the force puts them in a leaning back position, they start balanced and the force makes them unbalanced leading to them falling over. This is why you will stumble forward if you go to punch someone and miss.
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Ook? spanks its scrawny ass tho.
Considering a squishy little human being can usually survive a shrapnel hit to anywhere except a vital organ, an armoured war machine would usually be expected to do better.
I don't know about that but I do know the the Apache helicopter can't fire it's main hellfire anti tank missiles at close range because it risks blowing it's own rotors off from the shrapnel.
Buh? I think the gp was alluding to the fact that no one except a few uber geeks have bluray or hddvd burners on their computers, and thus no one but aforementioned uber geeks would be able to burn a bluray or hddvd, and thus would be royaly fucked.
and more importantly, where will the skip with these 200+ computers be for me to come and collect?
In this case, Cletus would be the one guilty of theft as he has effectively stolen the property from its rightful owner and given it away to you. So as long as you think the property was rightfully Cletuses to give away, you have committed no crime, if you find out later that it wasn't Cletuses, you have to return it or you are then receiving stolen goods.
Something tells me that they didn't quite grasp the concepts at work in some of these films, like criticising the metropolis interface for making the 'user' work. The workers in metropolis weren't users, and they didn't interface with the machines, they were slaves to the machines and just carried out the machines instructions, they didn't have any input, they just performed physical labour acording to the machines instructions. The clock thing was like a relay, but with a person doing the physical labour. They seemed to miss the whole point of that scene.
I think the TNG computer was a sack of crap, you ask it where someone is and its says they aren't on board, if the computer knows where people are on he ship, why doesn't it tell you something usefull like, they went crazy and flew off in a shuttle or they mysteriously vanished from some coridor due to weird alien crap. And why didn't it tell someone when they went missing, rather than sit there like a fucktard for 5 hours untill someone notices they are gone before telling anyone they were mysteriously abducted by wierd energy monsters or whatever. The interface was good, with the touch screens and the voice, but the AI of the thing was dumb as fuck.
no, thats only 75% - 80% of the HD music players, there are far more flash based MP3 players out there, of which apple has a much smaller share.
Your Colt .45 isn't going to do any good when your being crushed under the treads of a M1A2 Abrams.
a 70mph train is pretty pathetic, any train that can be matched by a car without even speeding is pretty pointless. You can go about 90mph on the motorway without any trouble, so a train ought to at least go faster than that.
Knowing where you are isn't hard, you always know exactly where you are, knowing where everything else is is the hard part. For some reason I think feeding the location of everything else in the world into your brain isn't going to happen via your tongue.
Red blood cells can't divide because they have no nuclei.
No, they're goatherds, shepherds herd sheep.
Also you could adapt the ability of it to detect suspicious packages that have been stationary for a long time to look out for any peers who may have died during session.
you should totally have wailed on your room mate for that.
I don't see how anyone could think the Republic of Ireland, was part of the United Kingdom.
Britain != United Kingdom
Britain is England, Scotland and Wales.
The UK (or United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland in full) is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
And it was created by the 1800 act of union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Union_1800
So that's 207 years and you're still getting it wrong
I think that Tom Baker once capped a cyberman, inside the TARDIS with his own gun, which shouldn't have been possible as the TARDIS is supposed to be in a state of harmony which means weapons cannot fire.
that's not just the British people, it's everyone. Take a look at every revolution that's ever been, it's only when the people have been pushed to breaking point that they dare to challenge the status quo. People are always afraid of change, because it might be change for the worse, and so only when they believe that things cannot get any worse will they commit to change.
Well considering the UK can't actually launch it's own nukes, I wouldn't worry about any judgement day style scenarios, and I think the government slashed the cybernetic killing machine budget to pay for the 2012 Olympics.
put a mini fridge next to ur sofa and you can get beer, vodka, dip for your nachos and anything else from your fridge with even less effort.
voice dailing on your phone works cos the voice tags are recording of your own voice. I doubt the car will make oyu record every single command it can do, also, if it did make you record all the commands, how would it deal with a different driver?
The most pathetic thing is the USA has never learned from WW2, the Viet Cong, Saddam Hussain, Osama Bin Laden, Augusto Pinochet and many more, all one time allies and then enemies of the US, and there's twice as many tyrants that are still loyal to the US, all financially backed by the USA, trained and armed without thought to their politics, because they served to fight some real or imagined enemy when it was convenient to the US. The USA's short sighted enemy of my enemy is my friend foreign policy still causes war and suffering across the world, and still the USA stabs it's closest allies in the back in favour of whatever tin pot dictator it thinks will give it an advantage against whoever their boggy man of choice is or will help snatch some economic resource.
Now in the real fight, to deliver the fabled 'flying across the room' punch/kick, the attacker will have be moving towards the target at the time of the punch/kick either from lunging as they punch or doing a flying kick, and will impart their kinetic energy to the target. If the target is the same weight as the attacker this will lead the the target being propelled backwards at no greater than the speed of the attacker, and the attacker will will receive the same force back, thus stopping them dead (assuming minimal disipation of energy), so unless the attacker was flying across the room at high speed at the time of the attack the most that can be done is to knock the target over.
Also the reason the attacker stays upright while the target falls over during a kick/punch when both are stationary isn't due to friction, but balance. When you attack, you lean into the punch or kick in order impart your full weight and leverage against the ground, and so the backwards force on you serves to put you back to a vertical position, you are unbalanced and the force of impact rebalances you, whereas the target is in a vertical position, and the force puts them in a leaning back position, they start balanced and the force makes them unbalanced leading to them falling over. This is why you will stumble forward if you go to punch someone and miss.