🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Your troll-fu is weak.
Bah, one of the ST TAS episodes (@blakeyrat, have you gotten to BEM yet? I wonder if that's only in the novelization; I've never seen the episode) has a character explaining justice to someone, and he says it's vengeance.
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Pedantry denied. Those are not AR-15s The M16 and the AR-15 are two different weapons. If you're trying to imply that I claimed that all military weapons are full-auto: I did no such thing.
So the military buys the civil(/I presume police) AR-15 in addition to the M16? Interesting...
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So the military buys the civil(/I presume police) AR-15 in addition to the M16? Interesting...
Yahoo Answers says no. You can take that FWIW.
But I think what @abarker meant is the military buys two[1] M16 variants, one with full auto, the other without.
[1] or more, etc.
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Anyone who says "I hate this planet" in a non-joking manner is cordially invited to step right off.
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You don't really need the link, but I saw an article about politics in Louisiana, and it mentioned the idea of Mary Landrieu running either as governor next year, or for the other Senate seat in 2016--that is, not the seat she just lost last week.
I'm sure Republican partisans would salivate at that idea.
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But I think what @abarker meant is the military buys two[1] M16 variants, one with full auto, the other without.
[1] or more, etc.
Thanks for the defense, but I temporarily lapsed into ignorance (now corrected). I had been unaware that the M16 was the military designation. However, as you pointed out, the military buys multiple models. At least one of those models is full-auto capable. As a result, @tarunik's attempt to invalidate my point through pedantry is no good.
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Bad day for politics:
http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/nypd-shreds-de-blasio-after-cops-are-assaulted-by-peaceful-protester/
"Mayor de Blasio has again spit in the face of city cops — using the word “allegedly’’ to describe the vicious mob attack on two NYPD lieutenants, outraged police reps said Sunday.
Bending over backward to praise the city’s anti-cop protesters for their “peaceful’’ behavior — even as some chanted on Saturday night, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” — the mayor said the attack was “an incident . . . in which a small group of protesters allegedly assaulted some members of the NYPD.”"
At this point, a return to the David Dinkins days is the best-case scenario. I'd like to personally laugh in the face of every single person who voted for this clown. If you live in New York City or have to go there in your car, make sure you replace your radio with the kind that slides out of the dash.
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But I think what @abarker meant is the military buys two[1] M16 variants, one with full auto, the other without.
[1] or more, etc.
They indeed do AFAIK -- the safe-semi-burst vs. safe-semi-auto vs even safe-semi-burst-auto is more complex than I thought! (There are quite a few subvariants for each M16 variant, and it appears that all variants from the A2 onward can be made in either burst or auto versions, same with the M4 carbines.)
Another note is that civil (sport) AR-15s do not even have a burst mode, btw: that's a military-only feature, just like full-auto is restricted.
So -- some military M-16s are fully-auto, others have the three-round-burst mode, and yet others have both modes on their fire selector! Moral of the story: take a look at that fire selector before you point downrange and pull the trigger, lest you wind up with unexpected results!
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Moral of the story: take a look at that fire selector before you point downrange and pull the trigger, lest you wind up with unexpected results!
If if you're not in the military and that happens, put the thing down and walk away smartly.
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Civilians can own fully automatic weapons too, there is just a ton of extra paperwork and background checks. In addition corporations can own them too, so it may be easier to set one up with only a few people owning shares rather than getting the licenses for each shareholder. Don't know all the details, but the first was how my neighbor growing up had his weapons and the other setup was how others did it.
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Sure. I was thinking of the idea of a malfunction causing full auto (or even slam-firing/bump-firing.) BATFE takes a dim view of that, and you don't want to be around when the people about whom a judge once said "we would defer to the expertise of the ATF if they had demonstrated any" show up.
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Sure. I was thinking of the idea of a malfunction causing full auto (or even slam-firing/bump-firing.) BATFE takes a dim view of that, and you don't want to be around when the people about whom a judge once said "we would defer to the expertise of the ATF if they had demonstrated any" show up.
I was referring to whether said M16 in question was burst, auto, or both -- finding out it's burst the hard way can be a rather nasty disappointment, and finding out its auto when you thought it was burst can throw off your ammo numbers..."why is my clip drained before I thought it should be?"
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Anyone who says "I hate this planet" in a non-joking manner is cordially invited to step right off.
I hate this planet because it is the only known planet to have had nazis on it.
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I hear there've never been--fiction stories notwithstanding--any Nazis found on Mars.
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I hear there've never been--fiction stories notwithstanding--any Nazis found on Mars.
Of course not - Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.
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What about the bacteria that arrived on those robots?
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Those sent in the last couple of decades were sterilised but I don't know about the earlier probes. Mars is a pretty harsh environment, they might all be dead by now.
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Mary Landrieu running either as governor next year, or for the other Senate seat in 2016
I read quotes from her recently basically laughing about the idea of seeking elective office in the future. Not that it's any more authoritative than random pundit navel gazing.
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You disagree that these things are in the eye of the beholder?
I think if you asked a diverse audience, you'd get more agreement about what vengeance is than justice.
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burst mode
AIUI, burst mode is considered a type of full-auto under federal law. Since you get multiple rounds for a single trigger pull, a civilian has to jump through all sorts of hoops to own such a weapon.
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Since you get multiple rounds for a single trigger pull, a civilian has to jump through all sorts of hoops to own such a weapon.
More or less anything other than "one trigger pull, one bullet" is. That's why every once in a while someone's sear wears just enough to slam-fire. You gotta be real careful then, because the ATF will consider that an illegal conversion. Presumably if you contact them before they contact you, you can keep from going to jail.
These are the morons that were exposed as having an incompetently run sting operation in Minnesota, and then in several other states, because they rented a store from a guy, trashed it, refused to pay their rent or damages, and then when he had a lawyer contact them, they threatened him with harassment of a government official or something.
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These are the morons that were exposed as having an incompetently run sting operation in Minnesota, and then in several other states, because they rented a store from a guy, trashed it, refused to pay their rent or damages, and then when he had a lawyer contact them, they threatened him with harassment of a government official or something.
Prologue:
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Hipsters opening a "cafe" in London selling just cereal at £2.50 to £3.20 a bowl in one of London's poorest areas.
Then getting upset when the news challenge you opening it where you did.
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Hipsters opening a "cafe" in London selling just cereal at £2.50 to £3.20 a bowl in one of London's poorest areas.
It sounds like a loser idea. But...
Then getting upset when the news challenge you opening it where you did.
I don't understand why the news people would care. I would definitely be pissed off if a "news" service started bad mouthing my business.
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"Tower Hamlets" is the best contradiction in terms I've seen in ages.
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But think of the children!
[Although, would you want your children to be around a place that openly advocates murder?](#!)
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Not taking work decals off of your truck before selling it.
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Requiring websites to pay money to news websites they link to.
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https://i.imgur.com/Ur01KKJ.jpg
Filed under: http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Humor/Docs/ShootYourselfInTheFoot.html
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Nice anonymization there. I'm sure Kody Williams appreciated that.
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The current Spanish government is just trying really hard to screw as many things as they can before they're kicked out in the next elections.
And next elections we're electing a far-left party. I don't know if they'll fix the economy or fuck it up some more, but at least they won't make it illegal to record police aggressions.
Nice anonymization there. I'm sure Kody Williams appreciated that.
Heh, I didn't see that. Like most things I post here, I took it directly from Reddit, so it's not my doing.
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Looks like someone's prepared for writing C++ there!
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And next elections we're electing a far-left party. I don't know if they'll fix the economy or fuck it up some more
If you're going to be electing a far left party, then "fuck it up" is the way to bet.
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If you're going to be electing a far left party, then "fuck it up" is the way to bet.
When the alternatives have demonstrated their immense ability and capacity that way already, it's hard to say that that's a wrong approach. The banksters won't like it, but who really loves them?
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What little I know of Spanish politics, yeah, it seems like all the parties are useless at best. I was just speaking in general terms.
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...but at least they won't make it illegal to record police aggressions.
We'll see. Pre-election principled stands are the first things to be memory holed post-election.
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http://cdn2.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2014/12/article-2283676-183D028D000005DC-163_634x436.jpg
Scantily-clad girls heading off on a night out in NewcastleAs I wiggled into my tights in preparation for an end-of-term night out, I was faced with the perennial clubbing question: should I take a coat?
Logic, and my mum, would say the answer was obvious. My outfit was hardly cosy, and a tipsy walk home at 2am in December is an adventure best braved from within my wardrobe’s most wind-proof, water-proof and fur-lined offering.
But the question wasn’t just one of insulation – I had a financial decision to make. The cloakrooms at most Oxford clubs cost between one and two pounds: what did I want more, healthy circulation or a Jägerbomb?
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We're talking a near perfect storm of bad ideas there.
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Scantily-clad girls heading off on a night out in Newcastle
Clearly not taken this year. Too much snow and clothes visible... (we've not had snow yet this winter.)
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Clearly not taken this year. Too much snow and clothes visible...
Looks like summer in Newcastle....
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You can get the idea just from the URL.
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Afraid of guns? Steal your mom's, bring it to school, give it to the teacher. There's all kinds of felonies being committed there, and if you're unlucky, someone may think you're going to shoot up the school, which might get you put in jail or killed!
Plus, if you live in a jurisdiction where your mom wasn't legally allowed to have the gun, you may go home that day and find out she's not there any more, because she was hauled off to jail.
the video's got 100+ likes and nearly 20K dislikes.
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Apart from it being butt-ugly (hardly the first
cdrcar to be like that), what's the Bad Idea expressed in that picture? It's been a long day; it's not immediately obvious to me…