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Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
What if I built a gun that fired other, smaller guns out? Now the smaller guns didn't fire any bullets but being smacked by a HiPoint going 1000FPS is going to be pretty bad.

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hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

Probably an AOW, you're going to jail!

Zopotantor
Feb 24, 2013

...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

Coxswain Balls posted:

You can't post that without linking their user manual.

http://www.thetacsac.com/userguide

You can't post that without linking to this.

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

Volcott posted:

It's because of the potential for manhitting. Just wear earpro like a normal person.

I guess there is a "potential", in the same way there's a potential of being killed by a meteorite. But, like machineguns, it's never really been an issue unless you're living in a hollywood action movie.

Earpro is also a poo poo solution compared to earpro + suppressor. Which is why they're considered a safety mechanism in many super gun-unfriendly places.

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

hailthefish posted:

Probably an AOW, you're going to jail!

Well, Destructive Device, but yes. Unless you use black powder or something.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






I like how you can use car oil filters as suppressors, and you can get adapters for it which legally speaking are the suppressors even though it's just a nut with two sizes of threads and has no suppression capability in and of itself

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Warbadger posted:

I guess there is a "potential", in the same way there's a potential of being killed by a meteorite. But, like machineguns, it's never really been an issue unless you're living in a hollywood action movie.

Earpro is also a poo poo solution compared to earpro + suppressor. Which is why they're considered a safety mechanism in many super gun-unfriendly places.

Earpro is fine forever.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


JB50 posted:

That beretta looks like it would hurt your hand to shoot with all them skulls and stuff on it.

Yeah, but look how cool it is and how cool people will think you are for having it

Turtlicious
Sep 17, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Yawgmoth posted:

Why is it cargo when it's in a ship and a shipment when it's in a car?

The words have origins in different languages, so that English has applied meanings to them which don't necessarily correlate with their memes. "Cargo" derives from a Spanish word meaning "load" which was derived from the Latin "carrus" a wheeled vehicle, which survives in English as "cart." "Shipment" derives from the Old English word "scip" pronounced the same as modern "ship" and having cognate forms in other Germanic languages. The historical usage of "shipment" was to indicate the totality of cargo being transported at one time, whether on multiple wagons or multiple ships.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



spankmeister posted:

I like how you can use car oil filters as suppressors, and you can get adapters for it which legally speaking are the suppressors even though it's just a nut with two sizes of threads and has no suppression capability in and of itself

The adapters are for cleaning your gun and are in no way for attaching a filter to shoot out of it which would be highly illegal to do.

Wink wink nudge nudge etc

trapped mouse
May 25, 2008

by Azathoth

Turtlicious posted:

The words have origins in different languages, so that English has applied meanings to them which don't necessarily correlate with their memes. "Cargo" derives from a Spanish word meaning "load" which was derived from the Latin "carrus" a wheeled vehicle, which survives in English as "cart." "Shipment" derives from the Old English word "scip" pronounced the same as modern "ship" and having cognate forms in other Germanic languages. The historical usage of "shipment" was to indicate the totality of cargo being transported at one time, whether on multiple wagons or multiple ships.

ur stupid. asl?

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

spankmeister posted:

I like how you can use car oil filters as suppressors, and you can get adapters for it which legally speaking are the suppressors even though it's just a nut with two sizes of threads and has no suppression capability in and of itself

Despite every car parts shop and internet hardware store being, essentially, a 100% unregulated one-stop-suppressor-shop we are still somehow not seeing ninja assassin suppressor crime.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Warbadger posted:

Despite every car parts shop and internet hardware store being, essentially, a 100% unregulated one-stop-suppressor-shop we are still somehow not seeing ninja assassin suppressor crime.

People are lazy. Sell it at Wal-Mart and the chance of ninja assassin suppressor crime goes up.

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Three-Phase posted:

What if I built a gun that fired other, smaller guns out? Now the smaller guns didn't fire any bullets but being smacked by a HiPoint going 1000FPS is going to be pretty bad.

What if I built a gun that fired dogs that when they bark they shoot bees out of their mouths?

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




xtal posted:

What if I built a gun that fired dogs that when they bark they shoot bees out of their mouths?

Perhaps it could also replace a doorbell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxE5p2Skah0

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

xtal posted:

What if I built a gun that fired dogs that when they bark they shoot bees out of their mouths?

Just don't try to use a silencer on the bees. Silent bees are dum.

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

I'm real late for this, but as I drive past the building every day to and from work I wanted to give an unsolicited follow up. They patched the pickup truck sized cinderblock wall and resumed business. For some reason, this was the final straw as the company took the opportunity to rebrand to miles scientific (name of the owner). A disappointing turn of events as seeing the analtech sign on the way home from work always made me chuckle after a bad day. Interestingly, this small building is "the only U.S.-based manufacturer of glass plates and other accessories used in thin-layer chromatography, or TLC".

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

Deteriorata posted:

Just don't try to use a silencer on the bees. Silent bees are dum.

Silent but deadly.

JB50
Feb 13, 2008

Built my own silencer, ATF approved:



While searching for that image I found these:



PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

What exactly were your search terms?

JB50
Feb 13, 2008

PittTheElder posted:

What exactly were your search terms?

insane hearing protection

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


Three-Phase posted:

I wonder if the fire and police will say "screw it, this is putting us in too much danger" and there won't be a "next time".

It'll happen again. All the firemen out there are burners (as are the medical and safety staff, only the police aren't). Safety crew and many other volunteers even put in a lot of effort the day after this happened to add an extra physical perimeter around the temple (the other big thing that burns at Burning Man) so it could be burned that night.

While there's no fence or anything around the man while it burns, there are layers of security. Mostly just the masses of tens of thousands of people in a large circle around it are a good barrier. The the front end of the circle there are rangers, who are the hippie quasi-security force out there, though they mostly serve just to mark the edge of the perimeter. Inside that are the "sand men", rangers who are tasked with catching and tackling anyone who tries to run into the fire. There are runners every year, and they've always gotten stopped. This year was just bad luck. There may be some kind of fence that goes up next year, but I kinda doubt it because it could impede the fire crews (guys in the actual fire suits) getting where they need to go.

People die every year at Burning Man. Hell, the back of the ticket says you "voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death" by attending. Most of the time when people die it's falling off tall structures or combination overdosing/dehydration/heat exhaustion. There have even been a few skydiving accidents. There was one really unfortunate suicide (person hung themselves from a large dome structure and the camp that set up the structure discovered them the next day) about 12-13 years ago. This is just the first time it's happened in a way that made the news.

Ponderous Saxon
Jan 5, 2010
Fallen Rib
Got to be honest, getting tasked with tackling burners intent on self-immolation sounds as fun as gently caress.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Next up on my favourite new channel 'Grover builds a house offgrid':



Even the preview is bad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW61BNAXPU

quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest

Humphreys posted:

Next up on my favourite new channel 'Grover builds a house offgrid':



Even the preview is bad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW61BNAXPU

i went to the channel and the autoplay video for it opens with a raw milk smoothie lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6fezk6ea4

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Humphreys posted:

Next up on my favourite new channel 'Grover builds a house offgrid':



Even the preview is bad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW61BNAXPU

Oh man I got to get pictures of an acquaintances quest to live in a shipping container on his fine desert acreage. There's been plenty of "oh it'll be fine"s when anyone points out red flags.

Background: he bought like 20acres of desert to call his own except zoning/utility laws forbid structures greater than like a storage shed without proper utilities like gas, electric, water, and sewage at the owner's expense. So he decided to plop a shipping container there and turn it into a house.

Favorite story so far: he ordered the box for delivery this spring. The delivery truck literally got stuck in the mud for like a week.

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Ponderous Saxon posted:

Got to be honest, getting tasked with tackling burners intent on self-immolation sounds as fun as gently caress.

I'd do this in exchange for a ticket and a suitably ridiculous top hat.

monolithburger
Sep 7, 2011

Humphreys posted:

Next up on my favourite new channel 'Grover builds a house offgrid':



Even the preview is bad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW61BNAXPU

I couldn't stop picturing a perfect storm of braid & hat string caught in saw/cord of still running saw wrapped around leg/plummeting off wall in a screaming heap for that whole video.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Three-Phase posted:

What if I built a gun that fired other, smaller guns out? Now the smaller guns didn't fire any bullets but being smacked by a HiPoint going 1000FPS is going to be pretty bad.

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


Mustached Demon posted:

Oh man I got to get pictures of an acquaintances quest to live in a shipping container on his fine desert acreage. There's been plenty of "oh it'll be fine"s when anyone points out red flags.

Background: he bought like 20acres of desert to call his own except zoning/utility laws forbid structures greater than like a storage shed without proper utilities like gas, electric, water, and sewage at the owner's expense. So he decided to plop a shipping container there and turn it into a house.

Favorite story so far: he ordered the box for delivery this spring. The delivery truck literally got stuck in the mud for like a week.

A metal box sitting in the middle of the desert sounds like the makings of a very large oven.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Warbadger posted:

Despite every car parts shop and internet hardware store being, essentially, a 100% unregulated one-stop-suppressor-shop we are still somehow not seeing ninja assassin suppressor crime.

Well we wouldn't now would we?

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost

"They told you not to bring a knife to a gun fight.

They were wrong."

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
One of those climate controlled shipping containers with toilets like in popular video game Watch_Dogs(tm) might be cool to spend a weekend in, but at the end of the day it's just a very small, somewhat ugly apartment.

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

LanceHunter posted:

A metal box sitting in the middle of the desert sounds like the makings of a very large oven.
it'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiine

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Yawgmoth posted:

it'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiine

Can we, like, put a tarp over it or something?

Or bury it.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

I'll see if I can get more details of groverbox to share.

Like I want to know particular details like shitter and weatherization.

It's PNW desert and not south west hell pit so winters come and go along with the dry, hot summers.

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

Warbadger posted:

Despite every car parts shop and internet hardware store being, essentially, a 100% unregulated one-stop-suppressor-shop we are still somehow not seeing ninja assassin suppressor crime.

i suppose the people smart enough to build their own suppressors and use them in crimes are the kinds of people that also get away with their crimes.

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
At OSHA under President Obama, details of workplace fatalities that included names, employers and circumstances were regularly posted on the agency’s website, as noted this week by the Wall Street Journal. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce complained to the agency that such reporting was a paperwork burden that unfairly required businesses to divulge confidential information that could aid competitors and embarrass them before the deaths had been investigated.

So OSHA, now headed on an acting basis by Capitol Hill veteran staffer Loren Sweatt, who is deputy assistant Labor secretary, re-worked the OSHA presentation to provide less detail and less frequent releases. An OSHA spokeswoman told the Journal the new approach that omits the names of deceased workers protects the privacy of surviving family members.

http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/09/trump-deregulation-expands-workplace-fatalities-gender-pay/140709/?oref=govexec_today_nl

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

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Auspex
Dec 21, 2005
Many Bothans died to bring us this information
https://www.facebook.com/MeanwhileInBritain/videos/210612552788142/

sneak preview:



a bunch of people in the background calling him an idiot

also the comments are p amusing: "if you have never done this before...... it's called working ... (the old fashioned way )!!!!!!"

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