dual_sport_dork

dual_sport_dork , 4 hours ago

You should check out an original Famicom, then. Not only are the controller cables only about two feet long, but they're also permanently affixed to the console. Well, unless you're willing to dismantle it, anyway.

It seems Nintendo expected gamers to keep the console in front of them and connected to the TV via a cable running across the floor, rather than our now familiar methodology of keeping the console under or next to the TV and only bringing the controller(s) with you. The limited amount of space in Japanese households may have also had something to do with it.

Anyway, if you're a modern western gamer nowadays it's annoying as hell. Big N made the right choice when they brought the system to the US in not only making the controller cables significantly longer, but also unpluggable.

dual_sport_dork , 9 hours ago

This means that we may face a situation where hobbyists, small businesses, and aerial photographers who make a living with drones can suddenly no longer fly them, but cops will.

That was always the goal.

China (and probably Russia still) have satellites that can read the headlines on your newspaper from orbit. The notion that they'd need or use noisy, unreliable, and easily noticed commercial hobbyist drones for this purpose is laughably absurd. Even if they are planning on secretly snooping on the feeds of privately owned fliers, which is probably not actually feasible at scale anyway. How is the data supposed to be transmitted back to China? Magic? Through the cloud via the user's cell phone data, with no one noticing? Gigabytes and gigabytes of it per flight? I'm not buying it.

The real reason the US government is so scared of drones is because it will allow the citizenry (i.e., us) to document abuses and authoritarianism in a manner that's pretty tough to stop with the usual billy clubs/guns/tear gas/water cannons method. Think BLM, Occupy, future climate protests, and all of those sorts of things. Unchecked aerial photography and video that contradicts the Official Narrative from whatever today's incident happens to be making it out to the internet and going viral would be highly inconvenient, wouldn't it? Someone can be capturing video of the police shooting protestors or whatever and easily be half a mile away from where the drone itself is located.

It speaks volumes about the pathology and mindset of American legislators and law enforcement that they inherently see drones as a "spy" technology. That's because this is exactly what they plan to use them for, and are terrified that someone else might do the same thing to them.

Well, tough fucking titty.

dual_sport_dork , 1 day ago

It's obviously a turkey anyway.

dual_sport_dork , 1 day ago

And even the KJV edits did not manage to paper over the fact that there are in fact 18 if you count Sky Daddy's recitation/rant in Exodus after the whole golden calf incident.

dual_sport_dork , 4 days ago

Maybe in full HD we'll be able to determine definitively if anyone in Ivalice actually has a nose.

dual_sport_dork , 4 days ago

undermining regional carmakers

I think the word they're looking for is in fact "outcompeting."

Yutaro-Katori-with-butterfly-meme: Is this capitalism?

dual_sport_dork , 4 days ago

Ah, I see. So it's cool when we do it (fossil fuel and ag subsidies, the auto industry bailout in 2008, etc.) but not when they do it.

Got it.

dual_sport_dork , 5 days ago

You Won't Believe This Guy's Crazy Knife Collection!

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

So you pay for the processing with your own electricity

Yes, that is how I would much rather my computers work and, in fact, how they have historically done so.

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

It would be elementary to make bump stocks illegal, because bump stocks are not firearms. Making bump stocks illegal wouldn’t cross the Second Amendment.

Correct. The issue was that the ATF tried to do an end-run around the legal process. Somebody in there did not watch that Schoolhouse Rock song about how bills become law... All that has to happen (federally, anyway) is that Congress must pass a law prohibiting them and the president has to sign it. But that's not what happened. The ATF tried unilaterally to redefine an item that is not a firearm as a regulated firearm. What is and is not a firearm (and what is and is not a "machine gun" also) is already codified into law.

You can argue for or against unelected agencies having the ability to create new regulations with the force of law behind them without involving the usual system of checks-and-balances, but specifically in the case of the ATF they have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not able to use such a privilege in good faith. They would be (and are) exceedingly likely to use it as a cudgel to play these "legal yesterday, felony today" types of games with people so give themselves excuses to kick in doors and shoot people's dogs.

Various state laws already prohibit bump stocks. My state is one of them.

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

Are we going to tackle the dumbass pistol brace fiasco next?

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

mechanically activating a trigger rapidly with a motor activated with a single button press would be legal.

I believe it is. So are crank triggers, which clamp on to your trigger guard and click the trigger for you 2/3/4 times per revolution.

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

The problem now is that in the modern global age we have plenty of enemies who have massive standing armies. China and Russia leap to mind. That sort of thing may have worked when America was physically isolated from outside forces by a several months long boat ride. Not the case anymore.

Abolishing everybody's massive standing armies would be a pretty good idea, but I don't foresee that happening any time soon.

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

Yes. Already exists, too:

https://www.tacticalinc.com/catalog/product/id-1247

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

I ain't bringing logic into it, I'm just pointing out how the law has been interpreted.

Attaching things to guns that enable fully automatic fire as it is defined by the law, i.e. more than one shot per activation of the trigger, do count, though. This includes things such as full auto sear or those fucking "Glock switches" that are so popular these days.

With a crank trigger you have to keep cranking it to keep firing, like an old wild west Gatling gun. You can't just hold it down and the gun dumps the magazine on its own. A bump stock aids the user in rapidly pressing the trigger over and over again. You can bump fire a rifle even without a bump stock if you are sufficiently practiced or skilled.

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

Diaper Don, the "Take away their guns and worry about the due process later" guy? That Donald Trump, right?

dual_sport_dork , 6 days ago

The comment was in this context:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/

dual_sport_dork , 5 days ago

He probably could, but he can't buy a gun to put on it so what he's got is a funny shaped ineffective club.

dual_sport_dork , 7 days ago

I can't imagine.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

It's not the recycling icon. It is a "resin identifier code," and the symbol is meant to resemble the recycling icon in a deliberately deceptive manner while remaining technically different.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

The problem is tiny dick authoritarians with authority over tiny institutions who must nevertheless feel that they are in control of everything at all times.

FWIW, I got banned from my graduation retroactively by giving the principal a frog instead of a handshake. He deserved it.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

I know, right? More the fool me for not trying harder.

They tried to withhold my diploma in response but it turns out they did not actually have the legal authority to do so. That might be useful information if I ever intended to go through high school a second time... But, uh, I think I'd rather not.

dual_sport_dork , 7 days ago

An actual frog. Ribbit, ribbit. I kept it in my pocket until the fateful moment.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

When I was three, my mother said to me, "Eat up your greens, and say your grace,"

While on TV they put a dog in space

And left her there, you should have seen her face

via

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

traffic stop

Never break more than one law at a time...

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

The Ranger/B2000, S-10, and first Tacoma were really the sweet spot for compact pickup trucks but you won't get them back, because all of them got killed by CAFE.

dual_sport_dork OP , 11 days ago

Has anyone else found a use for their 3D printer that wasn't exactly listed on the label?

dual_sport_dork OP , 11 days ago

No. It's a Moto Z4, which is compatible with Motorola's "Mods" ecosystem which are a variety of accessories you can stick to the back. For data transfer they connect to those pads via pogo pins.

There are battery extender backs (which I have), a full-on gamepad case (which I also have) and also a 360 degree camera, a backplate that adds wireless charging, a mini projector, a beefed up speaker back, and an entire replacement Hasselblad camera you can stick on it as well. There was going to be a slide out physical keyboard module, too, which unfortunately turned out to be vaporware.

dual_sport_dork OP , 11 days ago

And, I don't own a hairdryer. (Or much in the way of hair, these days.) But I do own a 3D printer...

dual_sport_dork OP , 11 days ago

90 degrees was the spec for this job. 240 is way too high.

dual_sport_dork , 12 days ago

Socialism! REEEEEEE!!! Why do you hate America???

dual_sport_dork , 13 days ago

You need one of these:

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tork-grip.html

dual_sport_dork , 13 days ago

I'm pretty sure this map is already out of date... The shitbox bungalow across the street from me, which has been twice sold to property investors since the pandemic and currently appears to be a failed AirBNB, just got listed (again) for $475k. Around $100k more than that map shows. And about $175k more than what it sold for the first time.

Sure, averages are averages and one data point doesn't mean much. But I can't find much of anything in my state even listed at the average price indicated on that map, let alone aggregate enough properties to make the average actually reflect that number which would require a significant number of them to be listed below that figure. And they're not. The cheapest listing I can find in my county is $375k. There are a handful of run-down uninhabitable properties in the inner city showing for below $300k That's about it.

The good news I can see is, at least according to Zillow, these properties are now spending a significant amount of time on the market, i.e. nobody including corporate investors are actually willing to pay those prices for them anymore. That, or nobody wants a loan because interest rates are ridiculous.

dual_sport_dork , 14 days ago

Permit or not, he is still a Person Prohibited upon the instant of conviction. There is no delay or filing required. It is illegal for him to possess a firearm under both New York and federal law, presence of a soon-to-be-revoked New York carry permit or not.

dual_sport_dork , 14 days ago

USPS: Package out for delivery.

Also USPS: Informed Delivery^tm^ reports you have no mailpieces or packages scheduled for delivery today.

Also also USPS: For your convenience, your mail carrier will walk up to your door without your package, but will rather stick a "you weren't home" pink slip in your mailbox without bothering to knock, while you are making eye contact with them through the screen door.

dual_sport_dork , 15 days ago

INB4 someone mentions the bit from Rick and Morty.

dual_sport_dork , 14 days ago

...And hasn't been in any episodes prior. He's obviously the original prime parasite, right?

Right?

dual_sport_dork , 14 days ago

North Korea firing nukes at the US.

Fair, but also North Korea has demonstrated they can't even reliably hit Japan (or at least they couldn't at the time) so I don't think we had much to worry about.

dual_sport_dork , 14 days ago

Every one in a while they rattle their sabers and launch a missile at or over Japan. None of them have ever contained a nuke; they've just been rocket demonstrations. Most have landed in the Sea of Japan, between North Korea and Japan, either intentionally or unintentionally. A couple have landed within Japan's territorial waters. Several have landed short of their projected landing zone due to mechanical failure. None have had warheads, and none have actually made landfall in Japan which would be, as you have correctly observed, an immediate shitstorm for N. Korea.

As of 2019 they have the capability to build ballistic missiles with the theoretical range to hit the western US, however I am not enough of an expert to determine if their rickety shit-rockets would be reliable enough to actually survive the journey or land accurately. If they actually did put a nuke on one, it wouldn't really matter much.

In 2018 and before, however, it was unlikely they had the capability yet to actually hit us.

dual_sport_dork , 15 days ago

The cojones on this dude.

dual_sport_dork , 15 days ago

Was it actually him? I was under the impression that history did not relate what happened to him afterwards, nor who he was. That's not to say the CCP did not murder a couple of thousand people during the crackdown regardless, because they did, but I have never seen a verifiable claim that a picture of any particular corpse actually was the Tank Man. There are numerous theories I've seen floated over the years alleging what may have happened to him afterwards ranging from him being caught and imprisoned, executed, living anonymously in China, or fleeing to Taiwan. All of them are unverified and, of course, mutually exclusive.

The tank operators absolutely did attempt to (and succeeded at) avoid running him over. That much is plainly visible in the video. Whatever happened after the video ended is undocumented and pure conjecture. Plenty of well documented atrocities actually were committed that day, before and after that moment, so there's not much sense in inventing new ones and bickering over details we haven't actually got.

dual_sport_dork , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

No, it's just what the usage/power/maintenance is. It's not $1.99 times anything. $1.99 doesn't enter into it anywhere. $1.99 was made up out of the whole cloth.

dual_sport_dork , 16 days ago

Refrigerated water fountains have been existing in parks, schools, libraries, and public buildings for decades with no on-demand cost to their end users. Our tax dollars paid for them easily and the cost is obviously trivial compared to everything else your local or state government spends money on.

There is no valid justification for this. It's just greed.

dual_sport_dork , 18 days ago

Tʜɪs sᴏ-ᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ "Dᴇᴀᴛʜ" ɪs ᴄʟᴇᴀʀʟʏ ᴀɴ ɪᴍᴘᴏsᴛᴏʀ. Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴇs ɴᴏᴛ sᴘᴇᴀᴋ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴛʏᴘᴇғᴀᴄᴇ.