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Blistex posted:The fact that a company in Canada is allowed to use equipment from a company that is essentially an arm of the CCP which is also currently engaging in genocide, so they can save a few bucks is a loving travesty. Well, I just switched from telus to Shaw last week, and telus has been hounding me for an explanation/to wrap things up, and I have the phone right here next to me ready to call them. Guess that's the explanation I'll give them, rather than 'my service sucked poo poo for almost three years and I got sick of putting up with it while it was also being overpriced simultaneously'. Might as well do some good with this garbage.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:that's fascinating. in vietnam they got places where u can blow up a cow with an RPG  
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EimiYoshikawa posted:Well, I just switched from telus to Shaw last week, and telus has been hounding me for an explanation/to wrap things up, and I have the phone right here next to me ready to call them. My brother switched his home internet from Telus to Shaw two years ago as well and the service guy was saying that a good 1/3 of their business (in Calgary) was people getting fed up with exactly what you said.
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Feb 18, 2020 02:49
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What is this intended to shoot down? A Sopwith Camel?
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Cow Bazooka is definitely Cambodia, and you will not be able to hit a barn with the quality of the weapons they have. There's the awesome myth of meeting the American guy who threw the pin on the grenade and blew his leg off as well you will always meet someone who actually met him
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Feb 18, 2020 03:50
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That happened often enough in the past that most militaries that even bother with grenade training work throwing one into muscle memory with simulation grenades (hollowed out, replaceable fuse primer for reuse) well before you get anywhere near any live ones. Militaries worth a poo poo, I mean, not dog and pony show machines.
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Feb 18, 2020 04:07
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Hey I'm just scrolling past these posts but you're all bitches if you don't own your hardware. I bought OnePlus for the specific reason that I can do what I want with it. Even xiaomi got lovely with that.
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Feb 18, 2020 05:17
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BrainDance posted:Hey I'm just scrolling past these posts but you're all bitches if you don't own your hardware. How dare you.....
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Feb 18, 2020 06:09
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This doesn't even look real at all; looks like an RPG-7 type grenade they threw on to a mockup tube.
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Feb 18, 2020 06:46
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RPG tubes are basically just, well, tubes. If you fit all the necessary parts (firing mechanism, sights, grip) to any similarly sized pipe, it will fire the rocket. My M72 LAW tube is mostly just fiberglass. What metal it does have is used for the slide extension, front sight frame and trigger assembly. Got it when someone in my unit decided it was time to clean out the training room storage and told me to throw it away. Pffft. Like that was going to happen.   So I turned it into a bong.
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Feb 18, 2020 07:13
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:RPG tubes are basically just, well, tubes. If you fit all the necessary parts (firing mechanism, sights, grip) to any similarly sized pipe, it will fire the rocket. Well done! That is one of the coolest bongs I've ever seen.
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Feb 18, 2020 08:21
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I've been typical pothead lazy and haven't fixed the actual downstem for the bowl. I busted a glass one off inside and put her on the shelf. The bowl goes where the front sight pops out. I need to get off my rear end and fix it but meh.
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Feb 18, 2020 08:37
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Given the trends mobile computing is having on Chinese literacy, what would it take to develop something like Hangul but for Chinese? How closely integrated into Chinese language and thought is their alphabet? CIGNX posted:Well, isn't that what pinyin already is? Or even bopomofo. This + nationalism/history. After the revolution, the Communists actually mulled over abolishing characters in order to make literacy more accessible, but in the end decided against it for the above reason, as well as its place in history and cultural significance. (MacArthur was talked out of nuking kanji in postwar Japan for similar reasons.) Simplification was the sort of compromise solution that the CCP went with - there was actually a second "wave" of simplification from the initial set some years later that the government tried to push, but it didn't really take and they rolled it back to Simplified Chinese 1.0 in fairly short order.
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Nucken Futz posted:FTFY gently caress off xenophobe I’m reminded of UC Berkeley saying something about racism being a normal fearful reaction Small Gay Planet fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Feb 18, 2020 12:38
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:That happened often enough in the past that most militaries that even bother with grenade training work throwing one into muscle memory with simulation grenades (hollowed out, replaceable fuse primer for reuse) well before you get anywhere near any live ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8QYoD0n2s There was a study done in WW2 about optimal grenade throwing. It boiled down to trying to teach a specific throw was a waste of time. Just throw it how you normally in whatever sport you played.
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Feb 18, 2020 17:38
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That may be the case but even the US still trains people to kick an arm up 45° in the direction the grenade is supposed to go.
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Feb 18, 2020 19:35
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What if you don't play sports?
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Feb 18, 2020 19:36
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You probably have weak babby arms and should shoot the grenade launchers instead.
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Feb 18, 2020 19:42
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oohhboy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8QYoD0n2s Problem with Chinese recruits is that most of them have never thrown a ball other than a basketball. . . which doesn't translate well into grenade throwing.  During spring festival out in the countryside one year, my wife's uncle bought 5 of these bags and threw them on top of a literal pile of assorted fireworks that the younger kids (and less mature adults) could play with. One of those balls was the size of a toonie, and jam-packed with explosives. If you took a 5 gallon pail and put it upside down over top, it would get launched 6 feet in the air. Anyway, it was a few days of kids and uncles nearly losing their eyesight because nobody could throw these things more than 10 feet, or without hitting something close and it bouncing back at everyone.
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Feb 18, 2020 19:52
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TheBuilder posted:What is this intended to shoot down? A Sopwith Camel? It looks like a 61K, which is a 37mm Soviet anti-aircraft cannon. So things like Stukas, primarily. In the modern day, it’d be used on helicopters/observation planes/maybe low flying CAS planes/lightly armored ground vehicles.
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oohhboy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8QYoD0n2s Being the instructor must be funny. You KNOW that this will happen eventually. Every dude that goes up there to throw might blow your balls off
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Feb 18, 2020 21:21
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It looks like there’s a sleeve on the grenade that isn’t being held right or just a poor design. I don’t know why you would design a grenade with a feature like that. PLA logic.
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Feb 19, 2020 01:42
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I'm amazed any of these guys were allowed a grenade until they had done the "Private! throw this bucket of grenade size rocks over that wall one at a time, now go pick up the rocks!" drill 20 times while a drill instructor screamed at them.
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Shaocaholica posted:It looks like there’s a sleeve on the grenade that isn’t being held right or just a poor design. I don’t know why you would design a grenade with a feature like that. PLA logic. It looks like they still use stick grenades, old school poo poo like the WW2 german stick grenades. They're meant to be thrown like you would throw a knife, end over end, so throwing it like you're on the third grade softball team isn't going to produce good results. They have their uses but take practice to throw, like knives.
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They don't look like stick nades. I think they are Russian F1 like grenades. A sleeve would be a very bad idea as you wouldn't know when it would release. Nobody uses stick nades anymore as they are bulky enough you could carry a second nade or a third with WW2 German sticks. Nade launchers are superior in every way to any advantage the stick has over a normal nade.
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Light googling turns up this mess: http://www.bestchinanews.com/Military/5073.html So according to this, they still use stick, or this person claims they did as recently as when the article was posted 4 years ago. This is not an easy topic to dig into. Also googling "Chinese stick grenades" turns up a picture of what looks like a miniature bowling pin called an M77-1 "offensive grenade" but who the gently caress knows. I'd assume they're still burning through whatever stockpile they have, regardless of the variety. Why make more new ones when there's a mountain of perfectly good unused ones? Also why not give them to trainees, since they're probably never going to encounter a grenade again? Gotta get some novelty use out of them eventually. It does have me curious about their variety of munitions, I'll say that much. That's a rabbit hole for another day. Oh, and then there's this: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24544/hand-grenade-crack-nuts/ quote:A villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade to crack walnuts for a quarter century, only realizing his potentially fatal mistake when he spotted the grenade on a government flyer. Picture of grenade in link. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Is that a big sack of honest to god blow your hand off cherry bombs? Are they just openly for sale in shops and stuff in China? I remember there were certain places you could get them around Chinatown NYC in the 80's (sold individually, behind the counter), but they seemed to disappear after that and now even stuff that looks powerful is like the strength of a single firecracker.
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d0s posted:Is that a big sack of honest to god blow your hand off cherry bombs? Are they just openly for sale in shops and stuff in China? I remember there were certain places you could get them around Chinatown NYC in the 80's (sold individually, behind the counter), but they seemed to disappear after that and now even stuff that looks powerful is like the strength of a single firecracker. The last time I saw them was around 2009. Also yes, they're fingat-removing cherry bombs.
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d0s posted:Is that a big sack of honest to god blow your hand off cherry bombs? Are they just openly for sale in shops and stuff in China? I remember there were certain places you could get them around Chinatown NYC in the 80's (sold individually, behind the counter), but they seemed to disappear after that and now even stuff that looks powerful is like the strength of a single firecracker. The farmer version of this is going to the co-op in the 90s and buying a couple of sticks worth of dynamite to "remove stumps from the fenceline" when most of the time a quarter or half stick would do the job and still have a bit left over to blow up old tractor tires. Ahhh, the 90s. The real last great decade.
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oohhboy posted:They don't look like stick nades. I think they are Russian F1 like grenades. A sleeve would be a very bad idea as you wouldn't know when it would release. Probably old stock knockoffs of RDG-33
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From their twitter feeds seems at least one of the 3 is currently in Wuhan, so getting and expelling them from the country is going to be pretty lol. Free pass out of lockdown I guess
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Light googling turns up this mess: "Offensive grenade" in this context refers to a grenade that produces as few fragments as possible, relying instead on blast and noise to distract, suppress, or dislodge an enemy. Basically, a grenade you can throw and then immediately rush towards wherever you've thrown it. In contrast, a "defensive grenade" relies on producing as many dangerous fragments as possible to destroy an enemy. These types of grenades are designed to be thrown from behind cover as the fragments can travel farther than a human can throw. It's very much a WWII-era way of thinking about thrown explosives. Even before WWII grenades were developed for dual-use, an "offensive grenade" with a removable fragmentation sleeve of formed metal or full of ball bearings.
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I mean that makes sense to me. Offensive grenade: thrown immediately prior to advancing on the target(s). Defensive grenade: thrown while taking covering from enemy fire.
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Technical analysis of the deaths data from China shows it's bunk. https://www.barrons.com/articles/chinas-economic-data-have-always-raised-questions-its-coronavirus-numbers-do-too-51581622840 quote:A statistical analysis of China’s coronavirus casualty data shows a near-perfect prediction model that data analysts say isn’t likely to naturally occur, casting doubt over the reliability of the numbers being reported to the World Health Organization.
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TheBuilder posted:What is this intended to shoot down? A Sopwith Camel? That looks like a derivative of the soviet ZPU 14.5mm AA gun. It's pretty unlikely to shoot anything down tbh but it'll prevent things like attack helicopters and low and slow ground attack planes from operating with complete impunity. A 14.5mm gun will absolutely gently caress a plane up if it gets a few hits in, though.
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Throwing some garbage out a minute ago and a Telus tech was servicing a ground-level switch. It was a real rat's nest and I chatted with him for a few minutes. He said that Telus is losing customers at a significant rate to Rogers and Shaw, but nobody is giving "Huawei" as the reason, just complaining about the lovely service. He said that the biggest problem he sees with Telus using Huawei tech is that people who are opting to use other providers like Bell or Rogers, etc. are still going to be using the Huawei provided infrastructure because the big three (Bell, Rogers, Telus) have an agreement where their users use each others towers (and hence the infrastructure), and even if you make a point of using a provider who stays clear of them, you're likely at some point to be routing your data through Huawei equipment.
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Sten Freak posted:Technical analysis of the deaths data from China shows it's bunk. No surprise here. Every time I post their "Official" numbers I always  .Whatever the real numbers are based on other reporting it doesn't seem Raccoon City bad. You could make a game of WHO praise X country only for it to blow up in their face. Oh no!, how could we not have foreseen this! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51542241 quote:A former passenger on the cruise ship MS Westerdam who tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Malaysia having left the vessel has led to fears that other passengers who have also moved on might have been exposed to the virus.
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Fojar38 posted:Even in that hypothetical scenario it's still not fine because any direct business with China is a moral failure. why just china? there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, period. if we want to gently caress up china's economy, let's abolish capitalism.
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Sten Freak posted:Technical analysis of the deaths data from China shows it's bunk. So are we already dead?
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