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Comment Good job this guys an asshole (Score 1) 543

It's lucky in one sense that this guy was just an immature asshole. He's obviously pretty good at manipulating people over the phone. He could probably have got away with some more high impact crimes. Luckily now he's just going to go to jail for some relatively minor stuff.

Comment Re:Down to 95% of the world's arsenals! (Score 1) 413

Your damage estimates are flat out wrong. 200-300 meters of infrastructure destruction for a 10 megaton nuke? Are you on crack?

Watch some of the nuclear weapons documentaries - like 'Trinity and Beyond'. Look at the aftermath at ground zero after some of the blasts. Bikini atoll after Castle Bravo is a good one.

Comment Re:The arena ceiling!? (Score 2, Insightful) 58

It was boring because, like the UK Robot Wars, they made the program entirely wrong. Nobody cares about the teams back story. The commentators knew nothing about it and added nothing. In a half hour program there was about 5 minutes of actual robots fighting.

There was potential there. Some battles were entertaining. It's also not true to say that there was ever any massive destruction (in the UK one at least). The 'spinners' with 30kg+ flywheels occasionally totally annihilated an opponent. 'Razer' in the UK also finished of a number of opponents with a hydraulically powered crushing weapon in a fairly permanent way.

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