McNally in Oxford, Mississippi, USA (Registered on Tue 2007/08/28 10:38)
College student and soldier
Horrible. The recoil from that weapon would knock her on her ass. And the barrel doesn't spin! You'd get a higher rate of fire from a conventional single-barreled machine gun than from that thing!
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Oh, right. It's probably SUPPOSED to be stupid. ( コメントを見る » )
It looks uncomfortable as all hell, and I've worn stuff like that.
Starting with the helmet, all that crap on it makes it look like it's heavier than it needs to be. And probably ill-balanced to boot. I don't know about you, but I don't need a monitor telling me if I've been hurt or not. Usually I can figure it out on my own. The chinstrap doesn't look particularly comfortable, either.
Knee and elbow pads are the bane of my existence.
The body armor looks kinda interesting, though. A combination vest/... ( コメントを見る » )
This is merely my own opinion and nothing more, but it's generally considered more okay to kill and eat cows over dolphins for the following reasons:
1) Cows are and have been raised just for that purpose. Dolphins not so much. And because cows are being raised for food, they're pretty plentiful; dolphins are a protected species in most places. Though I suppose one could make the "enslave the whales!" argument here (if we start raising an endangered animal for an exploitive purpose, we'll have a lot)
2) Dolph... ( コメントを見る » )
Ken:
Your point about needing trust to operate something that costs millions is true to a point. I've been in the Army for a year and a half, and yet my job in my unit is to drive an M3A2 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle. They cost about 3.2 million dollars each. And I've only been in the Army for a year and a half - I have friends assigned to Bradleys who have been in less time than I have.
An F-16 costs about $19 million each and the newest pilots have only been in the Air Force for maybe a year, year and a half.
Really,... ( コメントを見る » )
This must be what the waitresses in Fiddler's Green look like.
(note: According to tradition, fallen Cavalry troopers go to Fiddler's Green, which is "a good old-time canteen" located "halfway down the trail to hell in a shady meadow green." It's basically like Valhalla, except less fighting and more drinking.) ( コメントを見る » )
I started locking the door again after a guy in the apartment complex down the street was shot in the head on a Saturday morning two weeks ago.
Not that I have much faith in the lock. But if someone *really* wants to get in, they'd have to deal with a trained soldier who owns weapons. ( コメントを見る » )