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Also that he was able to kill so many from so far away. Did he have a 240 or something? From the videos it sounds like something bigger than 5.56.
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Hexyflexy posted:That's a hell of a lot of rounds to let loose in one go, I believe I counted > 40 if my hearing isn't totally broken. That's what threw me off. Do they make drum magazines for AKs? Seemed like more than a standard 30 round mag. e: Vegas has like 8 shooting ranges outfitted with fully automatic weapons per square foot, so he probably just stole one.
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Oct 2, 2017 13:33
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Slightly related are nat guard armoury's actually filled with weapons like the Sierra Army Depot or is that more a myth? I just remember people stealing tanks from them a few times in the 1990s. Units have individual arms rooms that are alarmed and locked. Larger installations do have vehicles and weapons in storage at equipment concentration sites. These are usually still on a unit's property book, but are maintained by the installation.
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Oct 2, 2017 14:13
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Proud Christian Mom posted:unironically this is a point people on my facebook are trying to make. like yeah im sure pistols would have worked well against a target atleast 300 vertical feet and who knows how far horizontally away 400 yards.
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Oct 2, 2017 15:02
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:hope you all sent your thoughts and prayers The only thing better than thoughts and prayers is not getting shot.
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Oct 2, 2017 20:23
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Do they also hand out free tracer rounds and a spotter so you can walk in your rounds at a target engaging you from a quarter mile away?
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Oct 2, 2017 21:40
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Proud Christian Mom posted:lol how much velocity would 9mm have left at that range and height If my recent failed attempt to kill someone with a VSS at 1km in PUBG is any indication, not enough to keep them from headshotting you with an M24.
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Oct 2, 2017 21:48
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I wouldn't trust anything past that distance other than maybe .308/.30-06/7.62 or .50 BMG. Not even the redneck special, 5.56.
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Oct 2, 2017 21:55
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hobbesmaster posted:Because at that distance it's the sonic boom from the bullet you're hearing This requires some clarification: you hear the snap of the bullet passing by or impacting around you before you hear the gunshot at that distance. If you watch the video, this is evident. Objectively, suppressed shots are much quieter than unsuppressed shots.
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Oct 2, 2017 23:07
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She isn't running again. She's flat out said so numerous times.
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Oct 3, 2017 00:00
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Professor Bling posted:More like "neo-con and neo-lib policies have been destroying the working class, but especially the rural working class, for decades; voting hasn't helped them no matter who they've chosen so reintroducing rural America to its rich socialist history is a good thing that needs doing, as well as getting out to keep people from joining up with white supremacist orgs." Aren't you one of those people who freaks out every time someone brings up skills training as a way to help those people.
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Professor Bling posted:Words I grew up in a very rural area, too. The edges of the county formed the tax base in the form of commuters to the city, but large numbers of my highschool classmates ended up working in agriculture. As you mention, no amount of tax breaks is going to lure businesses to a rural area with an uneducated and unskilled workforce. Ironically, the white working class population in those areas has deluded itself into the same kind of self-pity and subsistence on welfare that they accuse urban minority populations of engaging in (projection is an interesting thing), while somehow thinking they're entitled to good jobs that require nothing more than a highschool degree. The bottom line is that nobody wants unskilled labor anymore. Right wing politicians can keep making empty promises about how lowering the corporate and top tier tax rates will result in more "good jobs" (it won't), and left wing bernouts can keep calling initiatives to retrain the population elitest. I have yet to see either side (left or right) offer anything helpful other than their usual nonsense. psydude fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 13:24
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redneck nazgul posted:Job retraining doesn't fix the problem either. I agree with this, yes.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Job retraining would've been good 20 years ago to prevent today, and likely will be helpful to try and moderate whatever shitstorm lies just over the horizon. Automation is the only reason American manufacturing is still competitive. If you try to implement a bunch of regulations to stop it, you'll just end up driving companies to offshore it.
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Hexyflexy posted:We had this exact problem in the UK before you did in the US, when our mining and heavy industry shut down from about 1970 -> 1980 (roughly). Any of our governments could have pushed some money to those communities for retraining, or better to get some tax breaks in (or whatever is similar) to get some new industry going. We didn't. We still aren't. Those places are still totally hosed up and on life support. The US is the second biggest exporter of manufactured goods in the world. The manufacturing industry isn't dead here, they just replaced people with machines. For example, I just got done working at a mine that was almost completely autonomous. They had a few operators and maintenance personnel on each shift to oversee everything and that was it.
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Crazycryodude posted:You're completely correct. The jobs are gone and never coming back, and in a few decades human workers are gonna be obsolete. Stopping automation is dumb and bad, but letting the 1% get all the benefits while the useless proles starve is also dumb and bad. Every real world example failed miserably or resulted in effectively the same thing as capitalism. Come back with some fresh ideas.
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Oct 4, 2017 00:47
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bird food bathtub posted:I'm all for pimp slapping originalist poo poo head judges like the two bit hookers of monied interests they are but at the end of the day that seat was thoroughly and completely stolen. WTF are you talking about? The whole reason we're in this mess in the first place is because the Dems went nuclear and confirmed a bunch of circuit and district courts with a simple majority. Now Republicans are doing the same poo poo. Maybe, just maybe, the judiciary shouldn't be partisan?
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bird food bathtub posted:Sure, it shouldn't be partisan. This isn't a "both sides are equally bad" argument. Dems made a short-sighted structural change to the rules that allowed them to score points and ultimately set them up for failure with Gorsuch. Either way, your whole "should have a spine" statement that you repeat 50 times daily in here is completely wrong in this case, because it's exactly what they did.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:the last few pages of ar-15 youtubes leads me to think its the raspberry pi of guns It's the Honda Civic of guns. Cheap, customizable, and idolized by insufferable fanboys.
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Oct 4, 2017 03:35
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Hexyflexy posted:I think you misused the word attempted there. I'm putting my bets on the Catalans. They're the bit of Spain that basically build's and designs, well everything, pissing them off was a terminal error on the part of the government. It'll probably end with a similar agreement to what the Spanish government gave to the Basques. Member nations of the EU would bar Catalunya from joining, which would turbo gently caress them without financial assistance from Madrid.
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I've embraced it as a part of our Ascension to the Singularity. Let the warm glow of the Echo's bezel light take you.
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Oct 4, 2017 13:58
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Largest mass shooting at maximum effective range.
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KildarX posted:Has there been a case where a shooter was stopped after opening fire by civilians? You'd assume there'd be one right? The only times I can remember "good guy with a gun" "working" is when a dude tries to rob a minimart or something with a gun and the owner or some by stander caps them. Texas A&M shooter. Also, someone in Tennessee maybe? IDK, I'm in Tennessee this week and everyone is talking about how much safer they feel down here because everyone is packing heat and how it stopped some shooter in Tennessee once. Because obviously nobody at a country music concert was packing heat.
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Oh yeah someone recently stopped someone from shooting up the rest of a church after they'd already shot a bunch of people in that same church by shooting them. Mission accomplished.
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So it's literally just a manual transmission that uses a computer to shift? That's neat.
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:apparently i should have studied manly poo poo and not nerd poo poo because this was how i assumed automatics worked Quite the opposite. That's why they're so expensive to repair.
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Well it'll certainly give Tillerson an easy out.
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Well we found out why the government suddenly and quickly banned Kaspersky. Apparently it was used to steal files that NSA contractor had loaded onto his personal computer. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-10-05/russian-hackers-get-us-cyber-defense-details-from-nsa-wsj
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Mr. Mambold posted:Do you really believe Kaspersky is compromised and a Kremlin tool? I mean, it's easy enough to connect the dots historically. But then you've got a contractor who was going out of bounds here, right? I can't elaborate on it, but yes, I do believe it was possible based on what I've seen. More generally, the director of TAO himself admitted during an interview that they've used Steam and other AAA games to deliver malware to targets. It's not hard to imagine this being done somewhere else.
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Hexyflexy posted:I've got a large number of friends that work in computer security (more the reverse engineering side than the network side). Nobody is even slightly surprised, though I've not seen any hard evidence yet. I wouldn't blame the contractor, it was dumb to put stuff on an unsecured system, but really the NSA working practises shouldn't have let him be able to do that in the first place. It looks like this is the same contractor that was arrested for the shadow brokers tools. So he's already going to burn.
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Mr. Mambold posted:U.S. contractors are notoriously not paranoid enough, I could tell you a Boeing horror story I witnessed it's like a national complacency. Every cabinet department was grading D or F annually for cyber hardening- this was 10 years ago when I was studying that stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's still that lax. A lot of the federal contracting workforce, especially in the IC, is hired exclusively for their clearance first and their skills second. As a result, the quality of the average contractor is low. Combined with a bleeding of talent on the fed side due to the inability to pay as well as the private sector, a lot of the federal government has had a brain drain when it comes to IT and infosec.
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CommieGIR posted:It wasn't just that, his Chief of Staff was basically taking him to court for documented hostile workplace issues. His staff had like a 100% turnover rate due to abuse. I just got done a two day workshop with two regional power companies about developing better security for their distribution stations and I left convinced that we are utterly hosed if the Russians or North Koreans wanted to turn off the power to half the country. Like it's one thing to read about it in articles, but it's another thing to have the heads of security of two large power companies admit how massive the gaps are in their coverage. At one point, one of the OT guys asserted that even though the relays are connected via a fiber ring, and that network terminates on the same RTUs that also connect back to the enterprise network, that it was perfectly safe and didn't need to be monitored because none of the traffic was routed between the two networks. The pen-testing team next to me collectively let out an incredulous laugh.
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Laranzu posted:Really just put that qualifier in there because in no other circumstance have they ever said anything even mildly in favor of additional restrictions on any firearm. Not true. They were very much against open carry once the Black Panthers started doing it.
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DoktorLoken posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3SVErXz6dY The bill that's been introduced bans them outright.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:How does AOL even make money? Do people still have it in their monthly credit card bills? They own a poo poo ton of news websites. At this point they're really more of a holding company for media. But they also still offer their email and dialup service. My girlfriend's mom still has an AOL email account that she uses.
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Capn Beeb posted:Northam is another rear end in a top hat that thinks Virginia is only Richmond and maybe NoVA depending if the mood strikes him. Wouldn't surprise me to see him lose and then act bewildered as to how ignoring the rest of the state was a bad idea. Together with the Norfolk area they make up the bulk of the state's population and economic engine, so I mean.
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/916750042014404608 A winner take all game of basketball?
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mlmp08 posted:Extremely no. Yeah the UAE is one of the more progressive countries in the ME. Drinking outside and dressing too casually are still frowned on, but they don't have religious police that will beat you and arrest you for that stuff. There's still issues with slave labor, though, IIRC.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:lotta people subscribe for GoT, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will watch/enjoy jon oliver. at least hes better than the terrible political lineup comedy central has now The main segments of the show are released for free on YouTube each week.
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bird food bathtub posted:Eeeeeeh..... Fox News itself is incredibly logical from a business point of view. They spout out dumb talking points that get conservatives fired up and then collect billions in advertising revenue, laughing all the way to the bank. It's similar to the firearms industry using Obama's election to bring in billions from paranoid gun nuts. Is it immoral? Yeah, but it's certainly logical.
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