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Acrofales
Spain18291 Posts
On January 07 2016 15:39 Thieving Magpie wrote: This is why we should go back to muskets. You'll always have bullets, just no gun powder. Gunpowder is easy. Break open some fireworks and you're set! | ||
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Simberto
Germany11839 Posts
(Do not try this at home. I am not responsible if it explodes in your face) | ||
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ThomasjServo
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45925 Posts
On January 07 2016 05:13 JimmiC wrote: Most people outside of the US don't wonder why people are paranoid about the gov taking away guns. They wonder why Americans love guns so much and have so many when it's clear from all the numbers that all it creates is more violence. Has there been a mass shooting stopped by some random dude with a gun?I hear people saying "If people had guns in france that shooting would happen." yet all these shootings in the states are eventually stopped by the police. Despite the hundreds of mass shootings that occur in the United States every year, almost none of them are stopped by a noble layman with a gun. Even when you look at pro-gun sites or pro-gun articles, the list of even a few mass shootings stopped by armed citizens often has to go back several years, if not decades, like this one: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/10-potential-mass-shootings-that-were-stopped-by-someone-wit#.mhX7b4ZKD "An investigation by Mother Jones concluded that no more than 1.6 percent of mass shootings were ended by armed civilians." ~ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/12/can_armed_citizens_stop_mass_shootings_examples_of_armed_interventions.html "In the wake of the massacres this year at a Colorado movie theater, a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, we set out to track mass shootings in the United States over the last 30 years. We identified and analyzed 62 of them, and one striking pattern in the data is this: In not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun. And in other recent (but less lethal) rampages in which armed civilians attempted to intervene, those civilians not only failed to stop the shooter but also were gravely wounded or killed. " ~ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/mass-shootings-investigation "Appeals to heroism on this subject abound. So does misleading information. Gun rights die-hards frequently credit the end of a rampage in 2002 at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia to armed "students" who intervened—while failing to disclose that those students were also current and former law enforcement officers, and that the killer, according to police investigators, was out of bullets by the time they got to him." ~ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/mass-shootings-investigation | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45925 Posts
On January 07 2016 03:02 Yoav wrote: And this, Europeans, is (at least part of) the answer next time your wondering why some people in the US are paranoid about the government taking away their guns. ??? Why? Cops not protecting you 100% of the time might be an argument for you to have your own weapon at home, but it's not an argument for why you think the government is coming to take away your guns. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On January 07 2016 22:45 Simberto wrote: Muskets are also easy. Just take a metal tube, weld one end shut and drill a small hole into the side next to the welded ended. Fill with a bit of gunpowder and a lead ball (Lead can easily be bought at a fishers shop). Put a fuse through the small hole (You should have enough fuses due to taking fireworks apart anyways). Light fuse, enjoy your musketing. (Do not try this at home. I am not responsible if it explodes in your face) ![[image loading]](http://pre00.deviantart.net/cd70/th/pre/i/2012/176/c/3/commission__dwarf_with_blunderbuss_by_prodigyduck-d54vhue.jpg) Lets do this! I have spare body parts to lose in the name of science! | ||
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Madars
Latvia166 Posts
If I have two Mysterious Challenger in starting hand and I replace them, can I get them again, before turn 1 top-deck? Does it matter if I have The Coin or not? | ||
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Oshuy
Netherlands529 Posts
On January 08 2016 01:25 Madars wrote: Question about Mulligan? If I have two Mysterious Challenger in starting hand and I replace them, can I get them again, before turn 1 top-deck? Does it matter if I have The Coin or not? No you cannot : new draw with the mulligan cards removed from deck, then they are added back. No patch notes, confirmation by lead designer that you cannot. (guess it's a reliable source) Coin does not matter. (sounds like a question for the Hearthstone section rather than the community one) | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On January 09 2016 00:37 Oshuy wrote: (sounds like a question for the Hearthstone section rather than the community one) Problem with this argument is that any question that should have gone somewhere else is stupid, which qualifies it for this thread. Which is why we will have to know the answer to any question in this thread. So thanks for covering the hearthstone category.  | ||
Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
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Rizare
Canada592 Posts
I stopped using a while back because it caused some problems that I can't remember. | ||
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Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
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Sent.
Poland9299 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On January 10 2016 00:36 Sent. wrote: I have a question about video surveillance. Everyone makes fun of CSI shows for doing their hilariously unrealistic photo enhancements but how does it work in real life? Whats the point of installing cameras everywhere if you can't see any details? You can see what the criminal is wearing but you can't see his face clearly so unless he's a moron it should be really hard to catch him afterwards. Math and hard work mostly. You know his height, location, possible direction he was going, what he was last seen wearing, body frame. Put that together with a sketch artist rendering from a witness testimony. Then footwork--you canvas the area asking everyone if they saw someone of his description and see which direction they went. You check all 1-30+ leads and suggestions of which direction he went and track him down. You will find multiple people who fit that description, and you bring them in for questioning. After talking to them you bring in a line up and have them looked at by the victim. If no victim, then you use other evidence such as DNA, etc... to show a body of work that shows that person to be the criminal. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On January 10 2016 03:55 Epishade wrote: What will happen to video evidence when a program such as Photoshop is released that would allow you to seamlessly alter videos as to be unable to discern real life from CGI content? Officially at least, I'd be willing to bet that there would be regulation to require a certain type of digital watermarking to be put into the video to ID that it had been through that software. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45925 Posts
On January 10 2016 03:55 Epishade wrote: What will happen to video evidence when a program such as Photoshop is released that would allow you to seamlessly alter videos as to be unable to discern real life from CGI content? You mean in a courtroom? That's a good question, although plenty of things used as case evidence are already bullshit, such as the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, the unreliability of lie detector tests, etc. I'm not sure if tampered video evidence will make a significant difference. | ||
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On January 10 2016 04:30 JimmiC wrote: When that happens I'm gonna make a ton of sex videos of me and celebrities. Somehow I doubt you're the only one with that idea, so you're going to need something to make you stand out from the crowd | ||
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KwarK
United States43989 Posts
On January 10 2016 04:46 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: You mean in a courtroom? That's a good question, although plenty of things used as case evidence are already bullshit, such as the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, the unreliability of lie detector tests, etc. I'm not sure if tampered video evidence will make a significant difference. Even fingerprints are basically interpreted by the technician based upon outside information you give him. The issues with evidence accepted by courts are somewhat horrifying. Once a narrative has been built the evidence is shaped by it. | ||
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