* Posts by MichaelZWilliamson

12 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Nov 2009

AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m

MichaelZWilliamson

Re: school tax cuts

It's very much a CA thing. They demand the government contractually provide certain services, but refuse to authorize the taxes to pay for it, and complain when the government fails to be God.

MichaelZWilliamson

Re: If it steers boots on the ground to double check

And then the budget kept expanding, but the available funding did not, and CA turned into a third world toilet.

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

MichaelZWilliamson

"ditched when it saw the passports would be useful for slowing the spread of harmful COVID-19 variants."

Please provide any peer-reviewed evidence that vaccine passports have slowed the spread.

Oh, there isn't any? Yes, we knew that.

Q: How many guns to arm nine coachloads of terrorists?

MichaelZWilliamson

I don't have the machine guns, but I do have more than the rest of his "cache." Only here, it's called an "Historical collection."

Greenpeace rejoices after getting huge renewable powerplant cancelled

MichaelZWilliamson

Re: Don't worry, it will be alright in the end

You should accelerate the process and just kill yourself now, to reduce your carbon footprint to zero.

MichaelZWilliamson

Greenpeace are racists who want third world people to die.

Violence is the only logical answer. Exterminating Greenpeace would reduce CO2 emissions, reduce excess population, improve the genetics of the species and streamline development and productivity.

US nuclear aircraft carrier George Bush crippled by toilet outages

MichaelZWilliamson

Carrier design is a mature technology, so I strongly doubt some "no bid contract" deliberately made this mistake. The Nimitiz Class (including the Bush, named after the senior Bush, a carrier aviator in WWII) are built by Northrop Grumman, a regular contractor for multiple ships, and one of the few capable of building something of this magnitude.

Since the design is of a proven historical status, I concur with a prior poster that the Damage Control Officer is likely not managing his department and taskings properly.

Before ranting about a subject, a few minutes of google would at least give you a starting point to not being foolish.

Death row inmate claims allergy to lethal injection

MichaelZWilliamson

Some of them enjoy that

How else to explain repeat offenders?

MichaelZWilliamson

Absolutely.

My only objection to the death penalty is the risk of an innocent person being convicted, which happened ridiculously often in Illinois, but then, what does one expect of a state with four former governors in jail and a fifth one heading that way?

But nope, no problem at all pulling the lever on filth like this. I'll drown him in the toilet if you prefer.

MichaelZWilliamson

Revenge?

Not at all. We shoot rabid dogs, not out of revenge, but to stop them from injuring further. This is simply a case of taking out the trash.

If they're really worried about the pain, I'm sure there's a police officer with a gun nearby. A .40 between the eyes is about as instantaneous as it gets.

British troops to get new all-terrain camouflage kit

MichaelZWilliamson

Camouflage disrupts perspective

The military problems with a camo uniform are that it needs to be standardized to avoid having to issue a dozen kits, and it needs to be cheap to produce. One of the arguments against Multicam is that it takes 7 colors to print. However, the US Army UCP and the USAF ABU patterns are utter crap, and INCREASE visibility, though the ABU is fairly decent if you're actually ON the flightline. It's no good for engineer, security or other support troops, though.

The argument that Multicam was used recreationally before military adoption is, ironically, the argument of an armchair commando who isn't aware that trials and adoption take time, and that getting the product out on display helps marketing and development.

As a 24 year veteran (US Army, USAF), consultant, product tester, and writer, I consider Multicam one of the best patterns available in the context of a standard issue, mass-produced military pattern. ASAT is another excellent one.

The cotton vs poly blend problem is based on the nancies in HQ who want the troops to not have wrinkles or creases, vs warriors who want a uniform that doesn't melt.

US data firm blows s**t out of server

MichaelZWilliamson

It's a commercial

Suppressors ("Silencers") can be bought easily in Finland and the UK, are readily available in the US but require a $200 transfer tax to BATFE. Full auto are available, but the cheapest start at $3500, and the .50 M2HB shown is about $35,000 (Plus the $200 transfer fee, plus ammo at $3.50 per round X 550 rounds per minute).

Seeing as there were professional cameras around, and it's at a well-known range, I assume they did, in fact check the backstop (It looks like a range I use up here in Indiana, that has a 1 mile clear zone...which I need with the .50).

It's a commercial. It's designed to draw attention, not be an accurate scenario.

And the only people who try to compare firearms to willies are those with small willies who are jealous.