I love that he pocketed a ball on that shot. I always feel bad when someone escapes from something like that and still ends up sitting down while leaving a shot for the opponent.

i find it amusing in an ironically,twisted way that the very same people who will shout about "freedoms" and "liberty" are the very same people who will tacitly accept an ever-increasing authoritarian police force.

i mean,what could possibly be an end result of the continuous pleas "just sit down,and do what you are told and nothing bad will happen".
sit down.
shut up.
obey..and for god's sakes do not provoke anything resembling authority because then you get what you deserve.

does that sound like anything resembling "freedom"?
or liberty?
sounds like fear to me.

"Surprise, pussy!"

Those all look like the same product. What is it?

Seems a lot of cats really like going into the sink. I'm lucky my cat is a bit vertically retarded. He seems never to realize how high he can jump and only spreads his filthy sticky white furs all over the goddamned dining table so they can fly up all into your food and fucking face when you sit down with a plate... but he almost never goes onto the counter.

If it was laying there and you quickly grabbed and used it straight away to get a few shots off in the heat of the moment most people would probably be cool with it, but it'd be very situational (and you really need to be at least acquainted with the person and what kind of attitude they'd have).

It very rare that it'd come up anyway though as once they are dead, they are generally going to be walking off to the re spawn and will want their gun back to do so (and most likely still have it in sling/holster/hand).

Main exception is when something like medic rules are in play and people have to sit down and wait to be revived. If you can camp a downed enemy & ask nicely you might well get away with it. But it'd be very poor etiquette not to at least ask them. Most these guns are £2-300+ (some pushing 1k) and quite precious to people so you wouldn't appreciate some randomer you know nothing about grabbing it and going rambo.

At a small close knit site it does happen, less so at a bigger less personal one. I'd be a bit fucked off if someone I didn't know grabbed one of mine and started using it, but depends on the situation and their attitude to it.

As for a battery, only if they expressly offered, very unlikely unless you know them and they are carrying a spare compattible with yours. Realistically you just treat it as a catastrophic weapon jam and get on with it. (there will be spare batts back at base). A lot of people are using Gas powered rifles now also which adds to the logistical problems with that.

But as you saw, at that range his pistol did a perfectly serviceable job anyway! (I often switch to pistol in buildings anyway, much more weildy)

He even sits down like a boss!

That was a rhetoric question.

Your brain literally refused to see that..

The grass is ON FIRE on the other side of the fence, Lantern.

And you just to looove to telling the internet, videosift in particular, about how you can totally help put out that fire..

..with MORE FIRE!

So, no..

By no means do I EVER think you'd sit down with a person of color - not even your son-in-law - and sincerely discuss the repugnant shit you say here.

You're too much of a coward - like most bigots - to analyze your worldview and adjust it appropriately.

Just like all conservative-minded folks. You're scared.

You just want everything to be exactly like Happy Days, again.
You just want Baseball, Apple Pie, & the 'Murican Dream to live again!

Silly nostalgic old dog, you.

I can almost sympathize. /s

Why would I want to sit down with someone who takes every opportunity to call me a racist, or shitty, etc?

Perhaps if you could work on the charm part of your personality...?

Do I call you names?

All I want for you is for you to make the best of your circumstances, but you only seem to want to look at your circumstances, make everyone tell you how sad your life is, that you have no hope etc.

You seem quite content in your life, so perhaps that is your atunement.
When you are ready to move on, you will put all of this behind you, including me, and you'll make something of your life. (I only assume you've done nothing with your life because you never say anything about it other than 'woe is me', white people are racist etc)

At least you have internet! You could google 'famous black people' or something like that, and see how they became successful.

That's not a viable as a practical solution.

Consider option 1: The officer backs away. He keeps walking backward and the suspect keeps advancing. He'll just keep walking backward until he's hit by a car or he trips over something or the suspect lunges at him. (Maybe he should have just turned around and run away! .) Or maybe as he backs away the suspect jumps into his police cruiser and drives away.

Option 2: The officer jumps into his car to hide from the suspect. Officers are trained to confront and stop a potential threat, not hide from it. (That's what they're there for, so the rest of us can run and hide.) It's just not realistic that in any situation an officer could sit down in his car and lock the door and hope the suspect will become manageable after that or calm down and start following commands.

If the guy walks back to his car, the cop would jump out and yell at him to stop again, then if he came back the cop would jump back in the car to hide again. It's not something they train for to put themselves into a position where the outcome is totally unpredictable.

Oh christ... do I really have to explain this?

@shinyblurry said "...that means it was intelligently designed."

I was specifically refuting that argument.

"intelligent design" means that something was designed on purpose by a designer, i.e. I want a plane, so I sit down and design the aerodynamics, propulsion, control surfaces, etc so that at the end, I have a means to fly from A to B. If the plane doesn't fly, as a designer, I need to work on it until it does.

A genetic algorithm is not "intelligently designed". The system itself creates the end product, often with no fixed goal or purpose. The designer does not have an input.

So, it's entirely possible that the universe is a computer simulation where a fixed set of constraints were set up at compile time and then left to run.

No specific end goal or purpose, merely to see emergent behaviours, which actually gels pretty well with what we know about the formation of the universe and life.

If you'd like to learn more, I recommend reading Artifical Life by Steven Levy as a good primer on the subject.

On the other hand, if you just want to make snide remarks, I suggest you stick to a topic you actually have a fucking clue about.

SIT DOWN! You're in the way of the Gun Show!

This is what I imagine the future of transport will be like - I get in my electric vehicle in the morning, and sit down as it takes off toward the destination I want to go. I spend the ride checking email, listening to music, or just relaxing, as the correct route is dynamically updated to avoid construction, traffic jams, etc. At the end of the journey that's cost me very little, gotten me safely to my destination, and had minimal environmental impact, my vehicle moves on to pick up other passengers BECAUSE IT'S A GODDAMN BUS AND BUSES HAVE ALWAYS WORKED LIKE THIS.

Upvote the vintage *time-shifting footage, delivered by a swell 7-stone-odd *gal. Side note: fan service @ 1.43. Vintage blushing (in black and white) ensues as all nearby gentlemen are obliged to sit down and cross their legs.

Proving atheists believe in nothing, therefore they will believe anything. How does one atheist convince another atheist of their believe system? Wouldn't that take a lot of faith? And if it's science, wouldn't that take faith in science, which has proven to be incomplete since day one?

But i'll sit down, since the atheists are talking. Popcorn, please.