I only meant that the required modifications didn't by themselves mean it was not simunition. I didn't mean to imply you were wrong, it does mean you couldn't just accidentally grab the wrong clip with real bullets, you would have to disassemble/reassemble the gun. Sorry I wasn't clear.

Hmmm...I can barely hear it on that video, but good find none the less. Could be it. I sure wish the video was better. Scary about the warnings, especially since they shot her crotch. Every 40mm I've heard, both in documentaries and movies, sounded like a loud potato gun.

Smarter Every Day - POTATO GUN vs. WATERMELON in SLOW MOTION has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals.

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I never thought I would suggest wearing a helmet for a potato gun, but now I see I was wrong.

@PalmliX

What I was arguing is that I believe I'm safer in a system where no civilians are allowed to carry guns

I generally agree, hence my statement above about rights and safety being opposite ends of the spectrum. It's just that I'd rather have rights than safety.

I find it kind of sad that you think the US 'beats' Canada on some rights

We have a right to arms. Canada does also but it's infeasible to actually practice it, according to you. So yeah, we have that right and you don't.

Sorry I think I'll give up that particular right in exchange for...

I won't give up my rights in exchange for anything. That's insane.

Look, I know we've got a violence problem here, but it's not because we have guns. Vermont, for example, allows people to carry, open or concealed, without need for a permit (according to opencarry.org) and yet in 2009 they had zero murders via firearm and are 4th in the lowest firearm assault rate at 10.2 per 100,000 (from http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state).

DC on the other hand, which is (in)famous for it's highly restrictive gun regulations, has the highest rate of firearm murders (18.84 per 100,000) and the 3rd highest rate of firearm assaults (121.4 per 100,000).

Since I just saw this article this morning, I'll throw it in there too: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-naw-norway-gun-policy-20110724,0,7974761.story

Basically it's pointing out that while Norway has a high rate of gun ownership by European standards, they've also got one of the lowest rates of violence in Europe.

My position is not that we'd be safer if everyone had guns. My position is that the availability of guns is not the problem; something else is (or a combination of things); and so there's no reason to support curtailing gun rights.

I will also say again that I am not a gun nut. I do not own a gun. I do not wish to own a gun. The only guns I've ever fired were water guns, cap guns, BB guns and potato guns. I support certain levels of regulation and I absolutely support taking an individual's gun rights away if they've abused them. I just don't think we ought to have our collective gun rights taken away in the name of safety. More importantly, I really don't think we ought to give up our rights in the name of safety.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^PalmliX:
Like someone said earlier, this isn't the wild west, have some common sense and at the very least it should be concealed with the proper permits.

So you'd feel safer if you didn't know the guy was carrying a weapon?
Guns make me a bit uneasy. My father, uncles, and grandfather hunted, but none of them has ever been part of what I would call "the gun culture", so I've never had much exposure to guns. The most dangerous weapon I've ever fired was a potato gun.
So yeah, I'd rather know that someone is carrying one in public than the alternative.


Well technically I would feel safer because I wouldn't know they were carrying it. So I'd have no immediately obvious reason to fear them. Does that make it better? I suppose it depends on a lot of things.

In Canada there are permits to carry a weapon but it's basically to impossible to obtain one. Essentially the only time a civilian is allowed to OPENLY carry (never concealed) a weapon is in extreme wilderness areas where their life could be threatened by not having one.

So basically that leaves us with a situation where the only people who are allowed to carry guns in Canada are police officers. Personally I appreciate this approach more then the American one because if I saw a civilian carrying a gun I would immediately know it was illegal and would be able to defend myself properly.

>> ^PalmliX:

Like someone said earlier, this isn't the wild west, have some common sense and at the very least it should be concealed with the proper permits.


So you'd feel safer if you didn't know the guy was carrying a weapon?

Guns make me a bit uneasy. My father, uncles, and grandfather hunted, but none of them has ever been part of what I would call "the gun culture", so I've never had much exposure to guns. The most dangerous weapon I've ever fired was a potato gun.

So yeah, I'd rather know that someone is carrying one in public than the alternative.

I was also disappointed by the lack of paintballs actually rupturing against human targets, but upvote for the cool idea, slow-mo capture of the spread and ruptures against walls etc., and potato gun air-guitar ending...

I have a giant dartboard which I spin and fire potatoes at with my potato gun. Then I drink a fifth of Jim Bean, and go to Beggar's Canyon.

YT:
These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. If you're interested in the technical details, read on!

Equipment used:

- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor - 24" Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
- 15Mbps Internet connection.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps


"Why does allrecipes.com in the potato gun sequence appear at once, and not the text first and images second? And why does it appear to render from bottom of the screen to the top?"

Chrome sends the rendered page to the video card buffer all at once, which is why allrecipes.com appears at once, and not with the text first and images second. Chrome actually paints the page from top to bottom, but to eliminate a shadow from the driver board, we had to flip the monitor upside down and set the system preferences in Windows to rotate everything 180 degrees, resulting in the page appearing to render from bottom to top.

"Why does the top one third of the page appear first on the weather.com page load?"

Sometimes only half the buffer gets filled before the video card sends its buffer over to the LCD panel. This is because Chrome on Windows uses GDI to draw, which does not do v-sync.

"The screen wipes are so smooth - how was that achieved?"

The screen wipes up in a gradated wipe because LCD pixels take around 10ms to flip and gradually change color.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
Detonation of a dirty bomb worries me slightly less than wide-spread potato gun attacks.
A dirty bomb is a theoretical weapon and one that poses no threat because it's completely implausible to make one.


The 'dirty bomb' 'nuke in a suit-case' is a myth. One that is forwarded as plausable by the people you see in this very video. Propaganda my friend. Just like the 'Iran will have nukes within a year'. Fox News has been reporting that for about 6 years now. Iran isn't even to the point where they can produce nuclear energy.. and making a nuke is something else entirely.

Detonation of a dirty bomb worries me slightly less than wide-spread potato gun attacks.

A dirty bomb is a theoretical weapon and one that poses no threat because it's completely implausible to make one.

>> ^ant:
Not sure why embedding code is being rejected. http://www.fandome.com/video/111470/Potato-Gun-Baseball/


Fixed from http://www.videosift.com/talk/Fandome-embedding-video-problem ...

Not sure why embedding code is being rejected. http://www.fandome.com/video/111470/Potato-Gun-Baseball/

Woot for Newton

Boo for having to plow my way through three levels of Calculus.

Honestly Newtonian Physics was the best course ever. When I transferred schools I took it again for the fun of it, my old high school teacher used to take us out to the football field bleachers and drop stuff off of it to calculate gravity and drag. He also had a potato gun that allowed us to use PSI to calculate distance and velocity of some fun "projectiles"

I want a tshirt with s(f)=.5at^2+vt+s(0)