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Comment Re:The countermeasures will be far more interestin (Score 1) 126

Why the GP feels we need these to hunt down some guy with a can of spray paint, I couldn't tell you. Wait until your entire neighborhood get covered in gangsta-like tagging, and then you will understand the reason for this.

So it's better to have high velocity radioactive waste flying around and fragmenting all over the place? These types of rounds are meant for use on a battlefield against tanks and armored targets where collateral damage is no little to no concern. Not in urban areas with civilians for a backstop. A stray DU round could easily go through your house, continue on through your neighbors house, through their neighbors house and come to rest half way through the engine block of their neighbors car. And that's if all of the houses are brick

A drone that would need this type of shell to bring it down would probably be too heavy to get off the ground. And it's sure as hell not going to be what someone who wants to put their tag on a bridge is going to use. A shotgun type shell with plastic pellets would probably be much more sensible.

Or do you think they need this type of round to target the person controlling the drone? Are they living in a armor and reinforced concrete underground bomb shelter? If not, then this is pretty damn stupid. But just to be sure, I volunteer your neighborhood for testing. Perhaps they can see how a MOAB fairs. You know, just to be sure.

Comment Re:Why water? (Score 1) 65

Yeah that's why they use it in so many asthma inhalers and electronic cigarette fluids and lots of other things intended to be ingested.

So that implies that those are non-toxic? Ethyl alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, cough syrup, and countless others are meant to be ingested too - But that doesn't imply zero toxicity. Drink a couple of fifths of vodka with a bottle of percoset and tell me in the morning whether those ingestables had any toxicity.

Don't be stupid. Too much of anything can kill you. Skip the vodka and Percocet and just drink a couple of fifths of water in a short period of time. Let me know how well that works out for you. Hyponatremia can be caused by drinking too much water.

Comment Re:Well, thats a bummer. (Score 1) 126

This takes all the fun out of graffiti. There always has been some kind of mark of artists pride to have people look at a tag and say "How the bugger did they get up there?"

Now it will just be "Oh, high-tech vandals." The magic is gone

The "magic" has been gone from graffiti since the early 80's. In the US at least. I rarely see anything other than tags these days, and not many of those are all that impressive any longer. I've seen some pretty nice graffiti in Europe though. Germany in particular.

Comment Re:The countermeasures will be far more interestin (Score 1) 126

ultimately strafing the vandals who sent them with gatling guns full of spent U238 bullets, cleaning up both our streets and the gene pool.

Brutally murdering people for graffiti aside, why would a gun be full of spent rounds?

The GP is talking about depleted uranium rounds They are used mainly for armor piercing because the rounds are very dense and can be made thinner than a lead round of the same density to decrease drag. Why the GP feels we need these to hunt down some guy with a can of spray paint, I couldn't tell you.

Comment Re:i pledge to you... (Score 1) 723

When government saves a life, Jesus punches a dolphin in the gills.

So does he ask his father to put the gills on the dolphin first, or how does that work?

They're proverbial gills you insensitive clod! It's like poetry man, artistic license and whatnot...

No. You have it all wrong. It's how sharks are created. Kinda like when the televangelists hit people in the head and tell them they're "heal-DA" As punishment for the gov't saving a life, one cute flippy dolphin gets turned into a "shark-A". This will ruin everyone's beach vacations. When there's enough, the end of days will come in the form of the Sharknado, and clean the earth of the heathen government.

Comment Re:What about construction? (Score 1) 673

However what you seem to be saying is that women are a better fit for indoor jobs at a keyboard than all the males here that just happen to be doing such a sissy job instead of cutting down trees :)

Actually I was saying that men are better suited for singular focus jobs. It's just that in modern times those tend to be more inside than they used to be. It's funny that until the last 20-30 years, typing was considered a women's job. When I was in high school, girls were required to take typing. It was optional for boys.

Comment What about construction? (Score 1) 673

There simply are not enough women in the construction field either. Why aren't we looking to have parity in auto mechanics and plumbers too? I'm all for equal rights, but not to the point of putting on blinders.

I'm sure I'll be modded a troll for this. But men and women are different in general. Obviously there are exceptions. But women tend to be more empathetic than men.That's one reason they excel in nursing and teaching. They are also better multi-taskers. Again, there are of course exceptions. But this is why I think we are starting to see more women in CEO and management roles.

Part of it probably has to do with evolution. Traditional roles for men have been more single task focused. Successful men were good at hunting, building, etc. So those traits got passed down to their progeny. Successful mothers took care of damn near everything else. I have nothing but the utmost respect for "stay at home moms". Children are demanding as hell. They need damn near constant attention as they randomly do crazy shit, or need cleaned, fed, held, etc. When my wife is ill and I have to take care of things, I find it can get extremely stressful. I like to get a task done and move on to the next. But that's not how things work with kids. Successful mothers were able to do multiple things and drop what they are doing at a moments notice to take care of kids, or what ever else needed to be done. This too was passed down to their descendants.

But now after a couple million years of this paradigm how practical is it to think human nature can change in a couple of generations? It feels like political correctness to the point of insanity. But I'm very likely wrong and a couple of $100 gift cards will undo millions of years of evolution.

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