I love this idea. I'm no friend of the "feminist" movement, but comic book cheesecake (frankly most fantasy cheesecake) is obnoxious, and seemingly omnipresent.
This blog leans left (though not obnoxiously so). In the red-team vs blue team weltanshauung, there's no time for introspection when you're busy picking through your opponent's trash for scraps of scandal and flaw.
Anyhow it's always instructive to take a trip to the memory bank and remember how vitriolic and childish democracy makes a society; a century ago and today.
I was prompted by this to learn more about harvestmen, and per Wikipedia they don't have venom glands, so I can stop telling my friends that they are the most poisonous spider. I love you, interwebz.
The inventor seems to have utterly missed the purpose of a bullet.
For target shooting applications, the behavior of the projectile after it strikes the paper (steel plate, soda can, etc) is utterly irrelevant; it simply needs to reach the target in a precisely repeatable trajectory.
For martial applications, tumbling is a good thing, because rounds that tumble once they reach the target cause more tissue damage. This is absolutely central to the design of small bore high velocity rounds like the 5.56mm. 5.45mm and 5.7mm and .17hmr. They cannot cause sufficient wounds to stop a target without coming in very fast and tumbling. Look up the terminal ballistics of a 5.56mm round; the wound channel looks like the Challenger explosion.
So while he may be right about reducing yawing, that's not actually something to crow about.
We did this kind of thing with dry ice bombs all the time as kids (got arrested and driven home to my parents for it once), but it would be a federal case now. We never thought to do it in a trashcan with ping pong balls; that's clever and somehow makes it seem more science than hooliganism.
What a shame. That the Yakuza are helping is noble; that commenters use this as another chance to drag out and kick the US is ignoble.
The fact is that humans tend to help each other in times of great upheaval and uncertainty. This is not a Japan thing; this is a human thing. We are hard wired as social creatures, and this is most evident when life turned upside down.
A few Malthusians may point out Katrina, but I would counter that those people had been preconditioned by years of dependency on the state; distorted away from natural behavior by dependency, and the propaganda of entitlement.
People are inherently this good. Were it not so, we would not be where we are.
It's so true. I bought my last music CD in 1999, the year that Napster came out. I think it cost $18.00 and I remember thinking to myself at the time that the technology was so common that prices should have dropped to no more than $8 for a CD.
Anyhow it's always instructive to take a trip to the memory bank and remember how vitriolic and childish democracy makes a society; a century ago and today.
For target shooting applications, the behavior of the projectile after it strikes the paper (steel plate, soda can, etc) is utterly irrelevant; it simply needs to reach the target in a precisely repeatable trajectory.
For martial applications, tumbling is a good thing, because rounds that tumble once they reach the target cause more tissue damage. This is absolutely central to the design of small bore high velocity rounds like the 5.56mm. 5.45mm and 5.7mm and .17hmr. They cannot cause sufficient wounds to stop a target without coming in very fast and tumbling. Look up the terminal ballistics of a 5.56mm round; the wound channel looks like the Challenger explosion.
So while he may be right about reducing yawing, that's not actually something to crow about.
A. Johnny has five apples, Jenny has three apples, Jody has one apple. At any time any of them may earn more apples, or consume apples.
B. Johnny has one apple, Jenny has one apple, Jody has one apple. This is rigidly enforced, and there is no hope for more apples.
Economic mobility > economic equality, but the cult of equality (read: closet Marxists) dares not mention economic mobility.
The fact is that humans tend to help each other in times of great upheaval and uncertainty. This is not a Japan thing; this is a human thing. We are hard wired as social creatures, and this is most evident when life turned upside down.
A few Malthusians may point out Katrina, but I would counter that those people had been preconditioned by years of dependency on the state; distorted away from natural behavior by dependency, and the propaganda of entitlement.
People are inherently this good. Were it not so, we would not be where we are.