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Queen Combat posted:His moneyshot line is loving awesome: please don't defame ocelot by comparing him to anyone in contemporary politics., plzkthx.
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Jalopnik keeps posting poo poo on Facebook about the new "mid-engined Corvette". I keep commenting that it's going to be a Cadillac. Apparently some people don't like that very much. I love aggravating Corvette guys.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Jalopnik keeps posting poo poo on Facebook about the new "mid-engined Corvette". I keep commenting that it's going to be a Cadillac. Apparently some people don't like that very much. I love aggravating Corvette guys. They hate anything that isn't the normal formula, but gently caress if Caddy is making a better car.
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Rhyno posted:I can't wait to see who he's replaced by. Probably someone with zero actual military experience. One of the guys who didn't want to be chief of staff.
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Carl Sagan passed away 22 years ago today. One of those people that I heard of at the time, but for me it took me a few more years after his death to really appreciate him.
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slidebite posted:Carl Sagan passed away 22 years ago today. One of those people that I heard of at the time, but for me it took me a few more years after his death to really appreciate him. "We live in an in-between universe, where things change, all right. But according to patterns, rules. Or, as we call them, laws of nature."
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Well it's a drat good thing the paint on this car is already trashed (no paint at all in several places, just exposed plastic). Tried to hang a shop light in the garage. Lost the original chains and S hooks when I moved, got replacements. A hook didn't like the angle (used the garage door opener framing, and used a cheater to plug it into the switched ceiling light socket). LF A pillar is now missing some paint, and the windshield has a nice deep scratch all the way across (diagonally).  Pretty shocked that T8 tubes survived that drop though.Ideally I'd have removed the car from the garage, but I'd have to park half a block away if I did that at this hour. Welp.. 
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Queen Combat posted:"We live in an in-between universe, where things change, all right. But according to patterns, rules. Or, as we call them, laws of nature." One of the first chapters of Billions and Billions about the chessboard and grains of rice blew my child mind about scales of things.
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So apparently a couple of idiots effectively shut down the London airport by flying drones around, stranding shitloads of people trying to travel for the holidays. Saw this coming a mile away, and now the copy cats will be doing the same poo poo over here probably lol.
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It was Gatwick, specifically, London has multiple airports. I'm expecting the result of this to be additional regulation that makes things harder and generally buggers things up for everyone, while failing to actually prevent anything similar happening again.
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It's already happening here.
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STR posted:Tried to hang a shop light in the garage. Lost the original chains and S hooks when I moved, got replacements. A hook didn't like the angle (used the garage door opener framing, and used a cheater to plug it into the switched ceiling light socket). This is clearly a Sign about your current situation and probably a metaphor, too. Applebees Appetizer posted:So apparently a couple of idiots effectively shut down the London airport by flying drones around, stranding shitloads of people trying to travel for the holidays. Saw this coming a mile away, and now the copy cats will be doing the same poo poo over here probably lol. Yeah, but there you'd probably light the entire sky up with the .50 machine guns that were gifted to Barney Fife.
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spog posted:
That's why the london police couldn't stop it there. They couldn't throw their batons high enough to hit the drones.
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^^^ Lolspog posted:Yeah, but there you'd probably light the entire sky up with the .50 machine guns that were gifted to Barney Fife. Not really, and for the same reason London didn't shoot them down either. All those bullets gotta come down somewhere, and in a highly populated city they're gonna come down on people's heads. They need to just use one of those net guns out of a helicopter or something.
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They need their own drones to fight them battlebots style. Adiabatic posted:Sending an email with this 18 times constitutes playing. Why are you so bad? 
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Gingerbread House Music posted:That's why the london police couldn't stop it there. They couldn't throw their batons high enough to hit the drones. 
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Don't be silly, they don't give them knives either.
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InitialDave posted:I'm expecting the result of this to be additional regulation that makes things harder and generally buggers things up for everyone, while failing to actually prevent anything similar happening again.
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Iunno... the ones guarding Windsor must have been imported from the US. They had MP5s and a facial expression that said "Just give me a reason."
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ilkhan posted:Something something guns. QuarkMartial posted:Iunno... the ones guarding Windsor must have been imported from the US. They had MP5s and a facial expression that said "Just give me a reason."
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QuarkMartial posted:Iunno... the ones guarding Windsor must have been imported from the US. They had MP5s and a facial expression that said "Just give me a reason." Sadly, they've had to take this role seriously for quite a few years. InitialDave posted:We make them watch Hot Fuzz and Dredd at the start of every shift to get them in the right frame of mind. I bet sharing the patch with a bunch of armed war veterans probably keeps them focussed.
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ilkhan posted:Something something guns. Police magdumping at a flying drone in a densely populated area - what could possibly go wrong?!?
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Geoj posted:Police magdumping at a flying drone in a densely populated area - what could possibly go wrong?!?
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Suburban Dad posted:They need their own drones to fight them battlebots style. I want that to happen. Or maybe focused EMP projectors or something. InitialDave posted:We make them watch Hot Fuzz and Dredd at the start of every shift to get them in the right frame of mind. Sounds good to me. Just don't mess up and use the Stallone Judge Dredd.
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ilkhan posted:Not at all what I meant. That reply was about burdensome but ineffective laws. Something something gun laws Australia Something Something USA more gun deaths than any other western country by any measure Gun laws are very effective actually.
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Darchangel posted:Sounds good to me. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Gun laws are very effective actually.
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ilkhan posted:Not at all what I meant. That reply was about burdensome but ineffective laws. Yeah, all those mass shootings that don't happen in the UK are sure burdensome to their kids who aren't being murdered I bet. One of the more amusing parts of gun fetish culture and the unfounded fear that everyone needs to be running around like it's the final circle of PUBG at all times is that cops in the UK, unlike their US counterparts, have actually come into contact with terrorism at some point in their careers. Ever hear of the IRA?
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Ether Frenzy posted:Yeah, all those mass shootings that don't happen in the UK are sure burdensome to their kids who aren't being murdered I bet. The vast majority of "gun deaths" in the US are suicides. And iirc suicide isn't significantly rarer in the US, just suicide by gun. You fix that by decreasing the desire to commit suicide. Not by taking away one of the many means if doing it. If you want better data (because I'm not the one to listen to on this) read this. http://monsterhunternation.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/
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spog posted:Yeah, but there you'd probably light the entire sky up with the .50 machine guns that were gifted to Barney Fife. Don't be absurd a 50 cal is completely unreasonable for handling a drone. They would probably use something like this at little regional airport and these at a larger international airport.
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Galler posted:Don't be absurd a 50 cal is completely unreasonable for handling a drone. They would probably use something like this at little regional airport and these at a larger international airport. Seem ideal: quote:Drone exercise accidents
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The Phalanx is nice, but I think twin 50mm anti-aircraft cannons would be the way to go. Wait - is it possible to turret mount a GAU-8 Avenger?
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ilkhan posted:If you want better data (because I'm not the one to listen to on this) read this. http://monsterhunternation.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/ Ah yes, when I want better data, I look for peer-reviewed academic sources such as Monster Hunter Nation dot com. (that in which cites wordpress and guncite.com  )
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Things that go pew pew are fun and I go pew pew with them even with the laws. I can even own them if I want to. They otherwise need to be heavily regulated.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Things that go pew pew are fun and I go pew pew with them even with the laws. I can even own them if I want to.
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meatpimp posted:Ah yes, when I want better data, I look for peer-reviewed academic sources such as Monster Hunter Nation dot com. (that in which cites wordpress and guncite.com
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shut the gently caress up. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I'm curious: if there is a us govt shutdown today, are any of you guys directly affected?
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spog posted:I'm curious: if there is a us govt shutdown today, are any of you guys directly affected? I have a friend that's a scientist for the government. She's a couple days into a 2-week vacation, because she has ~100 hours of time that she has to use by January 6 or she'll lose it. If they shut down, she just loses it. She's uber pissed. ilkhan posted:Congrats on your reading comprehension. Care to explain that? You were not being sarcastic in your post, and you gave the monster hunter site as a place for "data." The only thing I can't comprehend is your world view.
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Hang on, if they're shut down, what's she meant to do other than be on holiday? And how does that even work anyway, losing time that's booked already?
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