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x0 writes "Naval engineers at the State owned Navantia shipyards have apparently forgotten the buoyancy calculations required when designing a submersible:

Spanish engineers, who already spent some $680 million on designing the new generation S-80 class submarine, say it is a major “technical innovation.” There is just one problem the calculations show – if submerged into water, it may never come up again.

Apparently, 100 tons of excess mass do matter... if you want your submarine to have the ability to re-surface."
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Comment: Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? (Score 1) 625

by x0 (#43560475) Attached to: 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon
More bullshit:

The criminal does not want theirr kids. He wants money, gold, jewels or other valuables. And he wnats to be the heck out again before the police arrives. You lack to understand that the gun problem in the USA is just a story of self fullfilling provecies. If you had no gun, the burglar had none either. He is trying to protect himself from YOU. And simple burglars usually have no guns anyway. Having a gun gives you 5 years in jail, a burglar attempt 3 or 4. There is no point in having one (speaking about my country).

Are you sure he doesn't want the kids, or to rape the wife? To what degree of certainty? What if he isn't a simple burglar? If he's broken into my house, he has no play, no benefit of the doubt.

If he really wants to protect himself from me: Don't break into my house.

m

Comment: Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? (Score 1) 625

by x0 (#43557627) Attached to: 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon

Princeofcups

Threatening with a gun is a sure way to turn a tense situation into a deadly one, and in any fight, the odds are with the professional. So your relative probably scared a teenage burglar away, when a guard dog or a proper lock on the door would have done the same thing. Or even a yell of "hey you get out of here." Unless you are guarding the crown jewels, that gun is only one accident away from taking someone's life for no purpose.

Complete and utter bullshit. The criminal created the deadly situation when he chose to break into my house. The rest of your post is transference tripe - scared that someone 'might be an accident'. You want to be a victim? Fine, go cower someplace else. Don't for a second think I'll allow you to legislate me into being a victim.

And for some, the crown jewels are their kids.

m

Comment: Re:K-14 (Score 1) 112

by x0 (#43361251) Attached to: Digital Bolex Gives You a Classic Film Look in a Digital Package (Video)

im_thatoneguy

That would be true if bits had anything to do with dynamic range. I can make a 4 bit gif that has 100 stops of dynamic range or a 32 bit EXR that has 5 stops of dynamic range.

There are plenty of 8bit images online that have 13 stops of dynamic range.

You know that whooshing sound....?

Comment: Re:Now it all makes sense. (Score 1) 339

by x0 (#43104055) Attached to: Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York

OK, how about a computer controlled rifle?

Sure... just add:

  1. Millimeter wavelength radar
  2. Tracking control
  3. Target acquisition
  4. Proximity sensors/explosive tips on the projectiles
  5. Benchrest quality, custom ammunition
  6. NFA Tax stamps for each round @ $200/ea

AA rounds don't take out aircraft by hitting them normally. They usually get close and explode; The shrapnel damages the aircraft.

Sure, the above is probably something a moderately competent group of hackers could make, but it wouldn't be reasonably affordable or repeatable.

You're better off converting a model rocket to a home made Sparrow...

m

Comment: Re:Now it all makes sense. (Score 2) 339

by x0 (#43092523) Attached to: Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York

The government's crusade against Assault rifles is not to protect innocents, it's to protect Drones. Despite the rather small .22 caliber round, they're highly accurate and long range. You may not be able to kill a person with one from a mile away, but you sure as heck can shoot down a small sized drone with minimal chance of being caught...

I'm thinking you've never shot anything at a distance. Certainly never anything airborne at a distance. Chances of hitting a small, fast moving drone, with a handheld semi-auto rifle are, effectively, nil.

During WWII naval forces expended tens of thousands of rounds of AA shells for every full size aircraft engaged.

m

Comment: Re:Tax Gas (Score 1) 490

by x0 (#41449249) Attached to: Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout

by sjbe (173966) Alter Relationship on Mon 24 Sep 01:53PM (#41440851) I prefer the opposite. There is nothing wrong with EVs that gasoline at twice the price wouldn't fix. Tax gasoline up to $8.00 a gallon and you'll see some serious interest in electric vehicles even with present limitations.

This is both retarded and elitist. You see, your plan doesn't account for the hundreds of thousands of folks living on the margins. They have crappy cars, perhaps even ones that get poor fuel economy, but that is what they can afford; what they need to put food on the table.

So, your solution is to take even more from them so you can have your orgiastic electric car revolution... no doubt fueled by QE[4,N], and more 'stimulus' money.

Hope your grandkids don't mind paying off our debt.

m

Comment: Re:But ... (Score 1) 846

by x0 (#40782153) Attached to: The World's First 3D-Printed Gun

Re:But ... (Score:3) by flyingsquid (813711) Alter Relationship on Thu 26 Jul 01:09PM (#40780739) Think of it this way. We already have gun control; you can't buy a fully automatic assault rifle. What if there wasn't any restriction on what you could buy? If you could buy anything you wanted, you wouldn't conduct a massacre with a semiautomatic AR-15, you'd buy a fully automatic AK-47. For one thing, on automatic an AK can fire 600 rounds per minute. The other thing is that they're simple, rugged and reliable, designed for use by untrained peasants fighting in the hills. The AR-15/M-16 was notorious for being finicky and jamming at the wrong moment, particularly when the rifle was first fielded in Viet Nam. It's better these days, but the fact that the AR-15 used in the Colorado killing jammed is the only reason more people didn't die. The bottom line is here, gun control (as limited as it is) saved lives during this massacre, more gun control would save more lives.

Actually, you can buy fully automatic rifles and machines guns. They aren't illegal to transfer, but they do require a bit of legwork.

Basically, you have to pay a Class III FFL to transfer the gun to you, and you have to obtain a $200 'Tax Stamp' for that device.

The other restriction is that the weapon must have been manufactured prior to May 19, 1986 to be legally transferred to an individual.

All that being said, be prepared to bring a huge wad of cash. A transferable M-16 goes for $8000-$10,000, and I have seen M60s hit $100,000.

m

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