🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Two words: pay him.
I do.
he gets the bank account and credit lines of whomever is getting fitted for the shoes.
he also gets 2% of my overall take for any operation that doesn't require concrete shoes.
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#Spaniards face sanctions if found to be drunk in charge of a pair of legs
##Pedestrians to be breathalysed, and even be subject to speed limits, in proposed effort to make pavements safer
[...] Pedestrians could be required to take on-the-spot alcohol and drug tests if implicated in a traffic accident or traffic offence.
The proposal also sets out a speed limit for pavements, limiting the pace to “not surpassing that of a normal stride”.
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Did I fall asleep and wake up on April 1st again?!
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hmm.... i wonder if my PLEX has that movie on it yet.....
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If they don't, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files both have Groundhog Day episodes. I'm sure there are other shows as well.
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hmm... don't remeber the TNG episode.... i'll have to look it up.
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oh.
plot of groundhog day not the day itself.
right.
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Many reasons why this person failed. CCW permit holders should know better.
Just to point out the obvious, a Glock only has a trigger safety.
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Just to point out the obvious, a Glock only has a trigger safety.
@boomzilla's point, I think, is that a CCW permit holder should know to always keep the trigger covered when the firearm is not in use. most holsters have a trigger guard to prevent accidental discharges, whether the safety is engaged or not.
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Sure, but there probably aren't many purse holsters, so you have to carry differently.
Maybe they do makes purse holsters, I don't know. Doesn't seem like an awesome idea to me.
I don't disagree about keeping the gun safe, but "teach junior not to poke around in Mommy's purse" probably should have been the starting point.
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http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Cause_and_Effect_(episode)
X Files: http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Monday
Stargate: http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/406.shtml (Window of Opportunity)
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Sure, but there probably aren't many purse holsters, so you have to carry differently.
Yeah, carry differently. Carry different gun. Lots of options there. Purse + young child seems like something that shouldn't be combined no matter what make of gun we're talking about.
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"Don't have one in the pipe" would be good advice too, if you expect the kid to put his paws in the purse. You lose the time and/or element of surprise if you have to rack it, but a 3yo probably won't have the grip strength to chamber that first round.
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Indeed.
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Sure, but there probably aren't many purse holsters, so you have to carry differently.
Maybe they do makes purse holsters, I don't know. Doesn't seem like an awesome idea to me.
I don't disagree about keeping the gun safe, but "teach junior not to poke around in Mommy's purse" probably should have been the starting point.
Rule #1 of concealed carry: make sure that, no matter what, there cannot be an accidental discharge. This means a trigger guard. In a purse this is still important because there are other items in the purse that could get tangled in firearm and accidentally press against the trigger. A safe holster is a must, no matter what.
"Don't have one in the pipe" would be good advice too, if you expect the kid to put his paws in the purse. You lose the time and/or element of surprise if you have to rack it, but a 3yo probably won't have the grip strength to chamber that first round.
Regardless of whether a round is chambered, always treat a firearm as if a round is chambered.
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Regardless of whether a round is chambered, always treat a firearm as if a round is chambered.
And if you don't you should lose said firearm. Really all stories like this come down to people not showing the proper respect for a weapon, but we get them because we assume people will do so rather than forcing them to prove they will ahead of time.
EDIT: thanks to @antiquarian for pointing out a typo
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Quite a few don't have safeties actually. Glock's notorious for it, and you can really get Glock fans wound up by claiming they don't have safeties. They'll start ranting about how "It has several safeties, just doesn't have an external manual safety." It's hilarious. Kind of like telling an Apple fan that their new iMac with an integrated GPU does not have the best graphics, in fact it's rather mediocre.
That is not really an accurate simile. </I think it is a simile? I always hated English class.>Glocks are extremely safe weapons, due to those internal safeties that you dismiss.
Yes, I like Glocks. Not for target shooting though, those internal safeties also make for a rubbish trigger...
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I don't own one and have only shot one a few times so I don't really know. I just know Glock fans, to me, seem to fall into the same kind of cult status as Apple fans and Harley-Davidson fans.
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And if you don't you should loose said firearm.
I'm surprised no one has objected yet.
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I just know Glock fans, to me, seem to fall into the same kind of cult status as Apple fans and Harley-Davidson fans.
I am not that bad. I can admire them for the technology, and I have owned one since I was ~14. But, if I had to throw my hat in the ring of "best pistol ever", it would probably be the 1911.
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Doh, thanks for the catch.
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No matter how the law is worded, people in California kept suing businesses.
I'm starting to think that "people in California" are the Bad Idea...
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I'm starting to think that "people in California" are the Bad Idea...
Getting rid of themis the only way to keep things from causing cancer there.
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You can't appreciate how big an airplane is until you see it from your windshield.
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Holy crap, I thought that was a 'shopped picture, but it looks like it isn't.
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Yeah. Amazing.
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I can't read most of the text on those videos. Are either of them published by Ho Li Fuk?
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When the news article said it clipped a bridge, I kind of assumed they meant a HIGH bridge. Jesus.
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The pilot deserves some serious kudos for getting a plane which was airborne for about 3 minutes into the river in the first place. That could've been a much worse accident than it actually was...
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Bad idea: flunking a live Vmca demo.
The pilot deserves some serious kudos for getting a plane which was airborne for about 3 minutes into the river in the first place. That could've been a much worse accident than it actually was...
Not really -- he's a bonehead for either:
- Letting his airspeed slip below Vmca -- this is something that I'd expect an ATPL to avoid!
- Not putting any rudder in after an engine failure -- or worse yet, the wrong rudder input. This smells of a serious deficiency in that airline's training program -- airline pilots practice V1 cuts all the time in the sim.
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BTW it says something culturally that those guys just fucking drive past the bits of airplane on the bridge and only the cab driver (or whatever that yellow van is-- looks like a taxi to me) actually stops. WTF guys. Especially the guy in the box truck who barely even slowed down.
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Oh the cab driver was actually injured. That's probably the only reason he even stopped.
EDIT: that said, their search-and-rescue teams seemed to be pretty damned on-the-ball, so kudos on that.
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Holy crap, I thought that was a 'shopped picture, but it looks like it isn't.
If that were real I would've expected to see an explosion/fireball right after it crossed the highway.
ETA: Not saying that it isn't, especially since there's now news reports, but it looked weird not to see such a thing.
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Explosions and fireballs are a Hollywood creation. They don't happen nearly as often in real life.
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Explosions and fireballs are a Hollywood creation. They don't happen nearly as often in real life.
Fire happens often enough with plane crashes, but this one crashed into a river, not a runway or something.
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Fire happens often enough with plane crashes
Yup. It tends to rip open fuel tanks and create a fine vapor. I know research has been done on trying to stop that but it's not as if I keep up on that.
this one crashed into a river
Yeah, I saw that on the USA Today link. That wasn't obvious from the video links upthread.
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That could've been a much worse accident than it actually was...
I don't think we have enough evidence yet to rule pilot error in or out. Still standing by the above though.
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I don't think we have enough evidence yet to rule pilot error in or out. Still standing by the above though.
An engine quitting on takeoff is something every airline pilot in the planet is trained to handle, and practices in the sim on a regular basis. Getting from "oh, we lost an engine" to "we're at 90deg bank and about to smack into the water" is a gross failure of that training; the only thing that'd exonerate them here is a gross failure of primary flying controls, which we haven't seen evidence of yet.
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That trainwreck on the east coast had plenty of fire. They say the first passenger car's interior was basically all melted to the floor.
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the only thing that'd exonerate them here is a gross failure of primary flying controls, which we haven't seen evidence of yet.
We also haven't seen evidence AGAINST.
You're being a jerk. Wait until we have the knowledge, then make the judgement.
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I know non computer geeks probably feel the same about me, but nothing makes me feel more normal than seeing aeroplane geeks arguing
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We also haven't seen any evidence against Obama planting Martians aboard the aircraft to bring it down and kill the friend of a friend of a former roommate of the nephew of a brother of the third cousin twice removed of George Bush.
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I'm not even trying to qualify for "airplane geek". My basic point is "thank fuck the plane went in the river and didn't, you know, gouge a fiery whole through two or three blocks of densely populated downtown Taipei, because then the death toll would've been a good couple orders of magnitude higher..."
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Was trying to find an image to illustrate that, but that's not important right now. Holy hell, Google Image Search, one of these things does not belong...
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An engine quitting on takeoff is something every airline pilot in the planet is trained to handle, and practices in the sim on a regular basis. Getting from "oh, we lost an engine" to "we're at 90deg bank and about to smack into the water" is a gross failure of that training; the only thing that'd exonerate them here is a gross failure of primary flying controls, which we haven't seen evidence of yet.
A colleague read that apparently they needed to bank that hard to make a tight turn, in order to make the river at all.