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BingoBoingo: For a while many of
the fine mail order retailers of 'Murica actually marketed many of
these museum weapons in
their pages. Most have moved on from
that
though.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: "deactivated"
typically means barrel filled with lead and various parts molested
to place it substantially far from being a weapon capable of operation. Reactivating mean replacing parts.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:12:25; mircea_popescu: anyway, my idea was originalyl
that it's a collaborative
tool par excellence. girls better support each other's back, lest
they fall in.
BingoBoingo: At least it is one less ammends
to make when step 9 comes around
BingoBoingo: The one who came with various promises of
toil so can eat while hodl
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not Robert V,
The ragnar dude
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:26:38; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu may have his reasons for being so friendly and welcoming but bearing a deep suspicion of new faces in #b-a has saved me untold heartbreak (and no doubt riches, if i were
to listen
to robert viragh's ilk)
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 17:52:11; mircea_popescu: re BingoBoingo 's
https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/comments/808993/4006420 << check out
the ugly head of puritanism rearing its head yet again. "if i don't enjoy anything in
the world i will surely be spared doom!!1". nothing's quite as resilient as idiocy.
mats: and
traditionally folks are
taught
that suppressive fire is for
the SAW gunner
mats: and some high speed units
that have MOUT missions will
teach burst in cqb
mats: most people i've run into have been
trained
to exclusively use semi auto
punkman: what's with
the pharma spam in
that article
mats: the round itself is pretty light and you can control
the grouping with practice
ben_vulpes: hey
totally valid business strategy under gosplan--get yer shit mandated for use
mats: what a massive waste of money for a) retrofit b) encouraging people
to rambo
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 14:31:04; mircea_popescu: well yes. 39 is
the old ak/sks russian
thing. nato has a bigger one.
ben_vulpes: in any event i'm long out of
that line of work, and for good reason.
ben_vulpes: shinohai: i'd rather lose a blade
than a finger.
mats: i learned
today
that
the 82nd recently retrofitted
their M4s
to full auto
☟︎ shinohai: I
think I saw
this. Said guard does destroy
the blade in
the process.
punkman: but can you really
trust a carpenter with all 10 fingers?
ben_vulpes: and
the plastic guard is a joke, comes off at
the first opportunity.
ben_vulpes: punkman:
they're fighting him because he kicked
their ass on
the licensing front
☟︎ punkman: blade". PTI says "its member companies have received no reports of injuries on [the 750,000]
table saws with
the new guard design.""
punkman: "The PTI objects
to
the licensing necessary due
to
the "more
than 50 patents" related
to SawStop's braking system; such costs "would destroy
the market for
the cheapest, most popular saws, adding $100 or more
to
the price of consumer models
that
typically sell for less
than $200." In response,
their members developed "new plastic guards
to shield
table saw users from
the dangers of a spinning
punkman: activated, saw blade and cartridge must be replaced; and significantly more expensive, ranging from a minimum of 25 percent and ranging upwards depending on saw
type"
punkman: "In April 2008
they
told Congress
that SawStop's braking system is: dangerous because it requires
the user
to come in contact with
the blade before activating; unproven, particularly in
terms of durability; prone
to false
trips caused by commonly available wet and green wood; potentially vulnerable
to latent damage
that cannot be inspected and may cause a hazard; costly
to
the user because once
punkman: "SawStop has provoked opposition from
the Power
Tool Institute (PTI), which represents Black & Decker, Hilti, Hitachi Koki, Makita, Metabo, Bosch,
Techtronic Industries and WMH
Tool Group."
ben_vulpes: mostly because
the shaper is a 5hp
terror of cutter-face
that'll make you
think seven
times before even beginning
to cut, whereas your friend's
table saw doesn't have
the sawstop
that your *other* idiot friend bought.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:06:52;
thestringpuller: "When you handle
the master carpenter's
tools, chances are
that you'll cut your hand."
ben_vulpes: on
the flip side i do *not* store raw digital photos.
ben_vulpes: yes, i store
the negatives, wtf with
this printed photo nonsense.
ben_vulpes: would pull down
the negative books from
that era but
they're in
the family fire-proof safe
ben_vulpes: handy categorizer-of-photos-by-exif is probably
the best justification for my continued use of it
ben_vulpes: iphoto i'm sure will eventually fall
to quest of removing
toilets from places
they should not be
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 19:47:00; ben_vulpes:
that starts up, shits 40gb of files
to disk immediately while importing
the classic 'iphoto' library, and has now been spinning on
the import for 2 straight days now.
ben_vulpes: huh shoulda fixed
the date on
that wotpost while i was at it
ben_vulpes: that starts up, shits 40gb of files
to disk immediately while importing
the classic 'iphoto' library, and has now been spinning on
the import for 2 straight days now.
☟︎☟︎ thestringpuller: Eventually
there'll be enough good porn links in
the logs
to have a !bait command
thestringpuller: aha. I really should just learn
to _actually_ cook. But I don't even know what foods I like.
thestringpuller: She doesn't cook as well as my buddy who went
to culinary school.
mircea_popescu: i suppose ~half
the marriages in
the world
today happen about like
that.
thestringpuller: I should learn
to cook. But I'm an extremely fickle eater.
thestringpuller: For me I just have my own menu and
tell chef "fix X here is money
to go buy groceries. Don't get
the cheap stuff."
mircea_popescu: "you wanna cook for me, pick ingredients from over here" is
the main driver, i expect.
mircea_popescu: i imagine a larger driver is
that a) "restaurants" saw
the "opportunity"
to
turn into caterers and "prepare" pre-prepared meals and b) nobody
trusts
their fucking acquisition process.
thestringpuller: That's why in house chef's have become more popular
than eating out.
ben_vulpes: "no, honey, we're not going out. you cook better, plate better, and do it all in
the nude. i am not paying for designer lights,
too much salt, and shitty hipster wait staff drinking habits. plus you'll want
to
tip 20% for completely miserable service and i just got my shoes off."
thestringpuller: In US
tho,
they spit in your food when you insult
them with low
tips.
thestringpuller: waiters are generally shitty at
their job
too, cause "I'll be an actress one day!"
mircea_popescu: run a fucking business rather
than a morroccan
tourist
trap and have some fucking self respect.
mircea_popescu: spare me, i don't believe in hiring your shitty workers on my dime. i'll
take a slavegirl with, and she can wait on me. your inept "staff" can go hang, how abvout
that ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you sound like
that d00d in pulp fiction who doesn't believe in
tipping.
mircea_popescu: and meanwhile, when i visited
the us people generally
tipped 10% and derps were derping about how it's really not enough and should be more like 15%. incidentally looked on reddit
the other day, "Everyone agrees" it should be over 20%.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: is crack still going on in DC? or do
the white people still live on
the otherside of
the ptomic
mircea_popescu: so you
took out a year and six weeks, once. rounding error.
ben_vulpes: my parents bought
their current residence in...94? for 230k, are now batting away offers for 900+. i relent on
the rounding error.
ben_vulpes: i'm not
trying
to argue against
the property bezzle!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you have any idea what housing cost in
the 80s ?
ben_vulpes: pretty routine
to see 20% property value declines
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