The sound wave one was misleading since it was aimed upwards, you have the force of gravity slowing down the projectile paint.

Well done though...

Getting shot by a taser is like being shot with a less than lethal projectile that also zaps your internal organs.

I was going to do a little hyperbole, but I can't.

Total lack of professionalism, the father is correct.

This is not Afghanistan. Your bullets, your responsibility. There is no safe direction to point a projectile weapon, except down range in training.

All of the officers in question should be fired and brought up on charges of child endagerment, and criminal negligence.

They knew there were innocents in that vehicle yet there were 42 projectiles fired.

Totally unacceptable.

You know that delightful red spray that shoots out of someones body when a projectile traveling at high speeds hits them? Or the wonderful mixture of shrapnel, shit, and intestines when someone blows up? What about the arterial splatter that is caused by severing the Carotid artery?

Well these guys don't get to witness that first hand, they see it through a CRT or LCD there's no direct threat to their lives; unlike an infantryman. Who's to say that the target is legit? The boss, well how about that Milgram_experiment? How do you know you made a righteous kill? Because someone told them so? I'm sure that will put a whole new spin on the Nuremberg Defense. The fact of the matter is this, it's fucking complicated. Made more complicated by the fact that they are pulling the trigger from the comfort of they're god damned arm chair.

It's a lot like lethal injection. Lethal injection makes it easier for a killer to kill. Make no mistake about it, if you take part in killing someone, even if it is lawful you are still a killer.

But, it is noted that even drone pilots get PTSD, and for good reason. They get to go home like nothing fucking happened. In my mind that makes it worse.

http://trueslant.com/jefftietz/2009/04/16/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-drone-pilot/
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/09/pilots-of-predator-drones-suffering-ptsd/

Footage of what a predator drone sees, caution I didn't watch it all but someone probably died. It's liveleak.com after all.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7bb_1210698031

Holy crap! That was a projectile aimed at her kids!

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Thinking of you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtOckG5tNhc&feature=related

>> ^A10anis:
I truly apologise to those who find this "sport" entertaining. I have tried - honest - but it seems to me that with a line to the target to follow, a target the size of a small car and some "helpers" with brushes to speed up/slow down the projectile, anybody, even drunk, could become proficient at it in about an hour. A similar game is played on cruise ships for the elderly to partake of "strain free exercise". Seriously, why is this an olympic event? We might aswell have dwarf throwing or spitting the furthest, or how fast can you go down an ice track, flat on your back, on a plank of wood - oops, sorry, think we have that one already.


Just a couple things. You don't know what you're talking about, and therefore you SHOULD have said such.

Curling is not shuffleboard. This statement alone proves your complete lack of understanding.

I bet, even sober, you would spend the first hour playing mostly flat on your ass. Even skating does not prepare you for what you need to do in curling.

Ever play pool? Imagine making a two bumper bank shot from 40ft away. (adjusted for size difference of cueball vs. rock)

The sweeps are there to stop the rock from curling until the shooter calls it. The sweeps are an extension of him/her. It is teamwork in it's purest form.

...and yes, you are insulting people who love the SPORT by belittling the skill of the players.



ps. about the luge comment "flat on your back, on wood, etc etc" I have never heard of a spitting contest where someone could be killed because of a split-second lapse in judgment.

I truly apologise to those who find this "sport" entertaining. I have tried - honest - but it seems to me that with a line to the target to follow, a target the size of a small car and some "helpers" with brushes to speed up/slow down the projectile, anybody, even drunk, could become proficient at it in about an hour. A similar game is played on cruise ships for the elderly to partake of "strain free exercise". Seriously, why is this an olympic event? We might aswell have dwarf throwing or spitting the furthest, or how fast can you go down an ice track, flat on your back, on a plank of wood - oops, sorry, think we have that one already.

On the bright side, if he were disarmed, he'd still be capable of firing projectiles...

Seems more a hassle than it's worth. I'm also surprised someone hasn't invented a reusable spigot for those things. I do seem to remember reading somewhere cardboard keeps the milk tasting better. Something about how light degrades some of the vitamins or something.

When I was in elementary school we had milk in bags for awhile, as part of the school lunch. They were small single serving bags and you punctured them with a straw. Of course when you're in 4th grade, and a boy, you quickly realize the projectile potential of such a combination of devices. We didn't have milk in plastic bags for very long...

>> ^moodonia:
It seems brutal and grotesque because it is brutal and grotesque and not remotely like what happens in a slaughterhouse.
None of the slaughterhouses I've been in kill animals by impaling them with a projectile that then explodes inside them, before using the wound created by the exploding projectile as a towing point from which the very heavy living animal is then dragged while it thrashes about in agony before suffering a slow death.
Whales are also far more intelligent than a cow or sheep, who in my experience get an instant kill in slaughterhouse conditions, as opposed to the Whales that get a savage lingering death that would have been outlawed long ago if it was occuring on land. Can you imagine elephants being routinely impaled by a spikey RPG then dragged around by it while still alive?
Comparing throwing stink bombs to terrorism is beyond nonsense.


Sorry, I should have been more specific. Slaughterhouses are very "humane" now, but they weren't always. I'm sure that if there's enough pressure for it, they'd develop a less violent way to kill the whales.

It seems brutal and grotesque because it is brutal and grotesque and not remotely like what happens in a slaughterhouse.

None of the slaughterhouses I've been in kill animals by impaling them with a projectile that then explodes inside them, before using the wound created by the exploding projectile as a towing point from which the very heavy living animal is then dragged while it thrashes about in agony before suffering a slow death.

Whales are also far more intelligent than a cow or sheep, who in my experience get an instant kill in slaughterhouse conditions, as opposed to the Whales that get a savage lingering death that would have been outlawed long ago if it was occuring on land. Can you imagine elephants being routinely impaled by a spikey RPG then dragged around by it while still alive?

Comparing throwing stink bombs to terrorism is beyond nonsense.

>> ^brycewi19:
Sorry to sound a bit of an idiot, but if (and only if) this expiriment were to be assumed in a vacuum, would it not be possible to fire a gun as the bullet would require oxygen for the gunpowder to ignite?
Just askin'.


Most modern "bullets" (cartridges to be precise, the bullet is just the projectile) have their oxidizer mixed in with the explosive. They can actually fire even underwater.

President 1.0: Can duck a shoe-sized projectile.
President 2.0: Responds in real time to the sound of a ringtone.
I wonder what President 3.0 will be able to do.

hah
i love it how he's surprised that the monitor died when he hit it with the keyboard...
i can SO relate to this though
i've broken dozens of keyboards and tech in nerd rage (btw, cats love loose keyboard button toys)
reason #1 why i will never buy wireless is cos if it's not tied down, it will become a projectile
i punched a trinitron crt once as hard as i could
probably got a hair fracture or something.. was damn painful for a month.. monitor just said "bong!" though and worked fine
managed so far not to get my shiny TFTs messed up though

My standard for sci-fi movies isn't that they make real-world sense. If I wanted that, I'd watch documentaries.

What I want, is for the movie to make sense with it's own set of rules, and when it breaks any real-world rules, it should at least explain why it works that way in it's own world...

For example, I have no problem with Superman flying around, being invulnerable and seeing through anything but lead. I do, however, have a problem with the assumption that a projectile moving fast enough around the planet will turn back time.

At least explain it... He just goes and does it like it's common sense...