Mod Parent Up! I was going to comment to this effect, but I see my work has been done for me!
Why would anyone ever spell out www.soandso.com when they can type soandso Ctrl+Enter? Or, if they aren't even in the Address bar, Alt+D, soandso, Ctrl+Enter?
Huh. I guess not everyone has had experiences as pleasant as those my friends have... I was under the impression that it works basically always for them... Were you using an older model or one of the mostly new ones? Also, are you honestly suggesting that you prefer Windows CE over PalmOS for handhelds? It can't be any easier to develope for...
You mean like in South Africa where there's cell phone service a lot of places and a bustling natural resources industry? Or Egypt, with Memphis and Cairo and a booming tourism trade? Or Morroco? Or Liberia?
Go to Africa before you start spewing crap. Africa isn't some giant hole of poor, unlike what Sally Struthers would have you believe.
Now, what I've never understood is, if *IAA can sue a guy who rips one of their CD/DVDs for breaking their encryption, why people can't sue the NSA over breaking their encryptions on their emails without permission?
The DMCA is an unenforcible, ridiculous law that serves no purpose other than to make most honest Americans into lawbreakers.
You're looking for a Palm Treo. The Developer Suite for it is totally free. It's got a no-nonsense phone, and can do basically anything you want it to. A couple of my more financially well-adjusted friends have them and absolutely adore them.
Ontopic, I think this sounds like a great idea, so long as adequate stressor testing is done and the structure is reinforced with steel and probably anchored with steel and concrete. Remember, while a lot of carbon fiber rods being used in construction nowadays have great tensile strength, they have poor compression strengths and terrible resistance to breakage along the lateral axis (*forgets the name of that type of force, just now... axial? transaxial?*). Polymers have a little less of this issue, but also have generally weaker than stuff like steel thanks to polymer chain alignment being only kinda good most of the time where as you can make some fabulous steel grain patterns. Luckily, advances in polymers lately (I use lately loosely here) have improved their strengths greatly.
Who says it needs to offer an improvement over traditional passport stealing? The thing is, the mere fact that there's yet another way to steal that information means that this "security improvement" has made that data less secure than it was before.
Oh, and there is an improvement, btw: that John Smith doesn't report his passport as stolen (because, as far as he knows, he has the only copy), so no one is even remotely on the lookout for this passport theif.
And random, unprovoked attacks are one of the many reasons concealed carry of a deadly weapon is a benefit to citizens. The kids "know nothing will happen to them" but they are no doubt aware that if they were using a traditionally "deadly weapon", something would most definitely happen to them (thus, the counter arguement to, "Well, then the kids would just use 'assault weapons' instead of eggs!"). Thus, when some punk kid throws an apple at you and hits you in the chest, you can turn to this group of hooligans who thinks you won't do anything because there're more of them, calmly draw your 1911 or GLOCK or Kel-Tec, point it at them and ask, "Who threw that?" You can bet your ass those kids are NOT going to be throwing random shit at strangers for a while. We call that "puttin' the fear of God in 'em" where I'm from (Kentucky).
Sorry if I come off sounding like a nutjob. I just believe that if these packs of roving idiots were made to realise that people can defend themselves (and if people would/were allowed to defend themselves, this being a story from the UK), then these packs of roving idiots would either "quit this shit" to quote a certain president or they'd start losing membership the violent way.
You do realize that you just proved my point, right?
*sighs@reactionary rhetoric-spew*
Also: Everyone knows/accepts that Fox News is THE source for right-leaning reporting. I'd make more of an arguement about you not properly applying critical thinking to the propaganda overflowing from both of the major political parties in the US, but I just know it would only lead to yet another flame.
Teflon-coated bullets are teflon coated to reduce barrel wear, not to provide any performance increase with respect to penetrative capabilities. Other lubricants are often used, but teflon works very well even with high velocity projectiles. Handloaders who shoot USPSA/IPSC handgun competitions often lube their bullets to decrease wear on their 1000USD high-polish barrels. "Cop-killer" is a sensationalist name first applied to Teflon-coated bullets and later to Jacketed Hollow Points when that term was all the rage in the liberal media. Remember, only YOU can prevent the spread of FUD!
"Armor Piercing" is really a misnomer in a lot of cases. Most of the time, what people (civilians) are referring to are what have in times past been called "cop-killer" bullets (a name that was applied also to Teflon-coated [lubed] bullets) by the sensationalist media and what are more officially known as jacketed hollow-point (JHP) ammunition [a quick note: this is the most common form of self-defense ammunition carried by civilians in the USA and is totally legal to purchase and own]. These are designed to penetrate body armor and clothing better than standard unjacketed hollow-point (HP) rounds while maintaining the hollow-point's rapid expansion characteristics. A standard fully metal jacketed (FMJ) round gets better (tissue) penetration than a JHP, especially if the bullet is of "spitzer" style (pointed) as opposed to wadcutter or semi-wadcutter (flat-tipped) style. Due to complex mechanisms of expansion and point-of-impact material deformation, a lot of the time a JHP in a pistol will get better penetration through armor than an FMJ, but that is a topic for another day.
In the military sense, an "armor-piercing" projectile is a steel-(or tungsten-, or depleted uranium-)cored, brass- or copper-jacketed projectile that, upon impact will strike like a normal bullet or whatever caliber and then allow the penetrator to slip free of the bullet body and, by virtue of a very small cross-sectional area, penetrate deeply into the armor of the target.
Other bullets which are sometimes called "armor piercing" are standard rifle rounds (FMJ, BT, BTHP, OTM) in small-diameter calibers that easily puncture through most modern body armors. These are calibers such as.223 Remington/5.56x45 NATO (the main cartridge of the M-16 and AK-101/108), 5.7x28mm (FN P90 round), 5.45x39 (AK-74), and 4.67HK (HK MP7). Additionally, some larger calibers simply have enough velocity and ballistic coefficient to pierce virtually all armor at very long ranges: 6.5mm Grendel (a few AR-15s),.30-06 (M1 Garand), and.50 BMG (M85 Barrett, M60) are a few such cartridges.
Oh, and the primary wounding mechanism for expanding rounds is not rapid energy dump but large wound channels provided by an expansion to up to twice the bullet's initial diameter. Shooting someone with an FMJ.45ACP round will result in a primary wound channel of.45". Shooting them with a JHP.45ACP will result in a wound channel (with a good bullet, like Speer Gold-Dot) of.7-.8". Bigger hole==bigger wound.
Unless you're carrying something with a small enough cross-section and a high enough ballistic coefficient to pop clear through the coating through penetrative force (See:.223 Rem/5.56x45 NATO or 5.7FN or 4.6HK).
Or something like 10mm Auto that will from pure energy transfer cause a three inch deep cavity to form in the tissue behind the vest and break pretty much every bone in that area.
Also, TFA only says that the armor will be better able to "[resist] punctures". So, yes, a reletively low-force (human-strength) stabbing attack with a non-optimal weapon (improvised: modified prison fork, broken piece of something) will not penetrate as far or do as much damage. A good knife or a highly penetrative round (rifles, some pistols/subguns) will still get through with only nominal resistance.
Youre absolutely right. My bad. All cops in big cities emulate gritty, Dirty Harry-style tv and movie cops. So, how about this one:
Disclaimer: Resist arrest only if you are white, in a smallish town in the middle south, have been a native of this town for some time, and your family is well-respected amongst the community.
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That sounds like Terr'ist talk to me, son. 'Round here, we don't take kindly to that sorta thang.
Shouldn't that me the washtenaw-repreSENT dept.?
Listen to more hip-hop!
Mod Parent Up! I was going to comment to this effect, but I see my work has been done for me!
Why would anyone ever spell out www.soandso.com when they can type soandso Ctrl+Enter? Or, if they aren't even in the Address bar, Alt+D, soandso, Ctrl+Enter?
Moraff's World still looks teh awesome. Go find a share/freeware version of that.
Actaully, here's the v7 shareware zip file. Have fun.
Heavy neutrinos, you say?
Neutrons?
Or did you mean that they would have the same low-interactivity of the smaller particle?
Huh. I guess not everyone has had experiences as pleasant as those my friends have... I was under the impression that it works basically always for them... Were you using an older model or one of the mostly new ones? Also, are you honestly suggesting that you prefer Windows CE over PalmOS for handhelds? It can't be any easier to develope for...
You mean like in South Africa where there's cell phone service a lot of places and a bustling natural resources industry? Or Egypt, with Memphis and Cairo and a booming tourism trade? Or Morroco? Or Liberia?
Go to Africa before you start spewing crap. Africa isn't some giant hole of poor, unlike what Sally Struthers would have you believe.
Now, what I've never understood is, if *IAA can sue a guy who rips one of their CD/DVDs for breaking their encryption, why people can't sue the NSA over breaking their encryptions on their emails without permission?
The DMCA is an unenforcible, ridiculous law that serves no purpose other than to make most honest Americans into lawbreakers.
You're looking for a Palm Treo. The Developer Suite for it is totally free. It's got a no-nonsense phone, and can do basically anything you want it to. A couple of my more financially well-adjusted friends have them and absolutely adore them.
Rotary phones are the coolest.
Oh, and you forgot, "*shakes fist* And get offa my lawn! Dirty hippies!!"
Beat me to it. Read Neal Stephenson's words on the Vickers in Cryptonomicon. It's absolutely hilarious.
AC is correct about the comma, but your English is still better than most English-speakers' English.
Mad language points for you.
Best dept. ever! *brandishes his G22*
Ontopic, I think this sounds like a great idea, so long as adequate stressor testing is done and the structure is reinforced with steel and probably anchored with steel and concrete. Remember, while a lot of carbon fiber rods being used in construction nowadays have great tensile strength, they have poor compression strengths and terrible resistance to breakage along the lateral axis (*forgets the name of that type of force, just now... axial? transaxial?*). Polymers have a little less of this issue, but also have generally weaker than stuff like steel thanks to polymer chain alignment being only kinda good most of the time where as you can make some fabulous steel grain patterns. Luckily, advances in polymers lately (I use lately loosely here) have improved their strengths greatly.
Who says it needs to offer an improvement over traditional passport stealing? The thing is, the mere fact that there's yet another way to steal that information means that this "security improvement" has made that data less secure than it was before.
Oh, and there is an improvement, btw: that John Smith doesn't report his passport as stolen (because, as far as he knows, he has the only copy), so no one is even remotely on the lookout for this passport theif.
And random, unprovoked attacks are one of the many reasons concealed carry of a deadly weapon is a benefit to citizens. The kids "know nothing will happen to them" but they are no doubt aware that if they were using a traditionally "deadly weapon", something would most definitely happen to them (thus, the counter arguement to, "Well, then the kids would just use 'assault weapons' instead of eggs!"). Thus, when some punk kid throws an apple at you and hits you in the chest, you can turn to this group of hooligans who thinks you won't do anything because there're more of them, calmly draw your 1911 or GLOCK or Kel-Tec, point it at them and ask, "Who threw that?" You can bet your ass those kids are NOT going to be throwing random shit at strangers for a while. We call that "puttin' the fear of God in 'em" where I'm from (Kentucky).
Sorry if I come off sounding like a nutjob. I just believe that if these packs of roving idiots were made to realise that people can defend themselves (and if people would/were allowed to defend themselves, this being a story from the UK), then these packs of roving idiots would either "quit this shit" to quote a certain president or they'd start losing membership the violent way.
Sounds like it was hella fun. Wish there was more of this sort of thing goin' on at Vanderbilt...
Yeah, the war I claim is. Hezbollah doesn't stand half a chance against Israel.
You do realize that you just proved my point, right?
*sighs@reactionary rhetoric-spew*
Also: Everyone knows/accepts that Fox News is THE source for right-leaning reporting.
I'd make more of an arguement about you not properly applying critical thinking to the propaganda overflowing from both of the major political parties in the US, but I just know it would only lead to yet another flame.
*blinks*
.50, but... Well, damn. I fucked that all up, didn't I?
.50 and did not fact-check myself.
I thought the M240 was the 7.62 MMG... I know the M2 was a
Also, I apologize; I was thinking of both the service M82A1 and the Barrett M95 bullpup configuration
*hangs head in gun-nut shame*
No, it's moo. It's like what a cow thinks. It's moo.
Teflon-coated bullets are teflon coated to reduce barrel wear, not to provide any performance increase with respect to penetrative capabilities. Other lubricants are often used, but teflon works very well even with high velocity projectiles. Handloaders who shoot USPSA/IPSC handgun competitions often lube their bullets to decrease wear on their 1000USD high-polish barrels. "Cop-killer" is a sensationalist name first applied to Teflon-coated bullets and later to Jacketed Hollow Points when that term was all the rage in the liberal media. Remember, only YOU can prevent the spread of FUD!
"Arg! My squeedleespooch!" -Zim, Invader Zim
"Armor Piercing" is really a misnomer in a lot of cases. Most of the time, what people (civilians) are referring to are what have in times past been called "cop-killer" bullets (a name that was applied also to Teflon-coated [lubed] bullets) by the sensationalist media and what are more officially known as jacketed hollow-point (JHP) ammunition [a quick note: this is the most common form of self-defense ammunition carried by civilians in the USA and is totally legal to purchase and own]. These are designed to penetrate body armor and clothing better than standard unjacketed hollow-point (HP) rounds while maintaining the hollow-point's rapid expansion characteristics. A standard fully metal jacketed (FMJ) round gets better (tissue) penetration than a JHP, especially if the bullet is of "spitzer" style (pointed) as opposed to wadcutter or semi-wadcutter (flat-tipped) style. Due to complex mechanisms of expansion and point-of-impact material deformation, a lot of the time a JHP in a pistol will get better penetration through armor than an FMJ, but that is a topic for another day.
.223 Remington/5.56x45 NATO (the main cartridge of the M-16 and AK-101/108), 5.7x28mm (FN P90 round), 5.45x39 (AK-74), and 4.67HK (HK MP7). Additionally, some larger calibers simply have enough velocity and ballistic coefficient to pierce virtually all armor at very long ranges: 6.5mm Grendel (a few AR-15s), .30-06 (M1 Garand), and .50 BMG (M85 Barrett, M60) are a few such cartridges.
.45ACP round will result in a primary wound channel of .45". Shooting them with a JHP .45ACP will result in a wound channel (with a good bullet, like Speer Gold-Dot) of .7-.8". Bigger hole==bigger wound.
In the military sense, an "armor-piercing" projectile is a steel-(or tungsten-, or depleted uranium-)cored, brass- or copper-jacketed projectile that, upon impact will strike like a normal bullet or whatever caliber and then allow the penetrator to slip free of the bullet body and, by virtue of a very small cross-sectional area, penetrate deeply into the armor of the target.
Other bullets which are sometimes called "armor piercing" are standard rifle rounds (FMJ, BT, BTHP, OTM) in small-diameter calibers that easily puncture through most modern body armors. These are calibers such as
Oh, and the primary wounding mechanism for expanding rounds is not rapid energy dump but large wound channels provided by an expansion to up to twice the bullet's initial diameter. Shooting someone with an FMJ
Unless you're carrying something with a small enough cross-section and a high enough ballistic coefficient to pop clear through the coating through penetrative force (See: .223 Rem/5.56x45 NATO or 5.7FN or 4.6HK).
Or something like 10mm Auto that will from pure energy transfer cause a three inch deep cavity to form in the tissue behind the vest and break pretty much every bone in that area.
Also, TFA only says that the armor will be better able to "[resist] punctures". So, yes, a reletively low-force (human-strength) stabbing attack with a non-optimal weapon (improvised: modified prison fork, broken piece of something) will not penetrate as far or do as much damage. A good knife or a highly penetrative round (rifles, some pistols/subguns) will still get through with only nominal resistance.
Youre absolutely right. My bad. All cops in big cities emulate gritty, Dirty Harry-style tv and movie cops. So, how about this one:
Disclaimer: Resist arrest only if you are white, in a smallish town in the middle south, have been a native of this town for some time, and your family is well-respected amongst the community.
Happy?