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  1. 10 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Nope. The AR has a gas block on top of the barrel that vents some of the combustion through a little tube back to the bolt to cycle the action, while most of the gas expansion continues propelling the bullet out of the muzzle.

    OK, I don't think I actually said anything that contradicted that, but I was specifically referring to large shoulder mount weapons that are essentially an open-ended tube.

  2. 2 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Yeah they have changed that much and if you don't see to you're blind and ignorant of the reality around you.  

     

     

    Right.  I've raised 4 kids (current ages 26 down to 14) and I'm blind and ignorant of the reality around me.  I'm now raising a 4 YO grandson.  So far everything is going great with all 5 kids, not perfect, but all excel in their own ways, yet some spineless message board crank who can't ever get out of his own way is going to deem me incapable of assessing the youth of today and how they interact with their peers, their teachers, and other adults.

    You're so predictable.

  3. I have personally seen 2 kids fight at my son's middle school and neither was expelled, nor even suspended.

    So, no.  It's definitely not a universal problem.  But you be you.

  4. Adults have been saying the same thing for as long as there have been adults.  It's overstated.

    I distinctly remember all kinds of helicopter parents in my Little League games ~ 1973.  It got so bad the coach had to threaten them with refusing to take the field and forfeit games if they didn't cool it.  For fuck's sake, how long do you think the "I used to have to walk 5 miles to school and back, in the snow, uphill BOTH ways" idiom has been around?  It ain't new.

    My parents used to bitch about every kid getting a ribbon.  My Mom had to deal with parental freakouts that she was teaching fucking Chaucer to 8th graders.  8th graders!  Oh the horror.

    No, things haven't changed that much.

  5. 4 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

     Please stop saying stupid ass shit everybody remembers what it's like to be a kid 

    No, you actually don't.  You're following the time-honored "well, back in MY day we . . .  blah blah blah".  It's bullshit.  Things haven't changed nearly as much as grumpy fucks like you want to believe they have.  Full stop.

  6. 6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Well that's good for you but it's a contributing  factor.  Kids aren't allowed to settle their own issues and that's an issue

    LOL sez you and every other adult who is incapable of remembering what it was actually like when they were a kid.

  7. 11 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    A big part of what's changed is kids aren't allowed to settle theIr own issues, and sometimes that requires a bit of physical contact.  Mothers helicopter their kids to death, everyone gets a trophy.  We've created a culture of emotionally weak kids who can't deal with adversity because it's dealt with for them.  

    I don't believe that for a minute.  It's an overblown line of thought that isn't actually true in the real world.

  8. Well, that's not surprising.  Last week UF was #1 and Stanford was #3.  UF went 0-3 against Mississippi State (following a loss to UGA) while Stanford went 4-0 against BYU & Wazoo (following a win over Oregon State).  Neither school budged in the rankings.

  9. . . . and to continue my uninteresting commentary on that Clapton/Mayer video, I think the reason Clapton smiles on the 2nd solo is because Mayer breaks out of typical blues-rock wank and gets a whole lot closer to one of Clapton's favorite modern guitarist (Doyle Bramhall Jr.).  Was Doyle on that stage?

  10. 28 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    A 180lb man flying backwards at 6.6m/sec has orders of magnitude more energy than a 55gr bullet flying forward the same speed. 

    I didn't say that.  I said (according to the table quoted prior) that the 0.556 bullet with a muzzle energy of ~ 1.8 kJ would equal the same kinetic energy of a 180 lb man moving 6.6 m/sec.

    The two velocities are drastically different, because the masses are drastically different.

    I was responding to the implication that the bullet and the shooter both gain the same kinetic energy.

  11. Most parents will tell you by observation that nature beats nurture.  Kids just seem to be who they are.  Most parenting efforts are targeted at keeping kids between the ditches.

    That said, I find it terribly distressing to think that truly evil people were that way at birth.  I can't really buy that.  I see evidence that the abused become abusers and it tells me that nurture DOES matter, and in extreme forms (either abuse or perhaps even neglect) that bad shit will happen.  But mostly I think depressed loner kids are likely wired that way.  I don't know that we "produce" them.  I'm pretty sure we don't do enough to include them, though.

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  12. I'm no fan of the ideas of arming teachers and locking down schools, but if we're truly going to insist that all ideas are on the table . . . then all ideas have to be on the table.  I can't in good conscience rant about restricting magazine capacity, tightening private gun sale regulations, etc. without allowing for other potential solutions.

    In the end I think the optimum solution will probably be a combination of small, incremental effects on multiple fronts.

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  13. 8 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    The fact that basic physics says that the same amount of energy must be transferred back into the shooter 

    Well, no.  You're kind of hinting at conservation of energy but that doesn't mean that the kinetic energy transferred to the bullet must also be transferred to the shooter.  If it were, then a 180 lb man would fly backward at 6.6 m/sec after firing an AR-15.

    The energy in the bullet all came from the energy of combustion.

    There is an action-reaction force balance at play, but you have to account for the dynamic recoil mechanisms to determine force transmitted to the shooter.

  14. 4 minutes ago, krutov said:

    and there are you confidently drawing a totally unsupportable inference.  i'm going to miss that about you.

    As we are going to miss your apparently over-inflated sense of self.

  15. 3 minutes ago, krutov said:

    i realize you feel left out, but you're just not at his level.  hugo is a leader and a doer who has transformed this place.  you're just another interwebs forum troll.  a foot solider in the race to the bottom.

    you gotta see it from my perspective.  you guys are a petri dish labelled "above average college educated white male americans discussing politics".  hugo is some kind of fungal spore that has contaminated my favourite plate and now all the specimens i used to enjoy observing are spinning around frantically bumping into each other and i can't make any useful observations.

    Alrighty then.  Your own post contradicts itself, but thanks for the compliments.

  16. 35 minutes ago, krutov said:

    it's funny, i have no interest in football at all.  i started reading shaggy years ago because of the intelligence of posters here.   then i started browsing the cloak room and at first it was the same.  it was great to see a reasoned debate and understand how americans of both sides think.  for a while i was coming by all the time.

    then you came along.  now i come to this place hardly at all.  it's a mediocre echo chamber of hysterical trolling idiots led by you, the pied piper of paranoid delusional partisan hackery.  i keep coming back hoping the sane people have returned, but nope.   just you and sugar and dave dennison and a bunch of guys like brisket who have shit themselves with your assistance and now help you spread feces on the wall.

    which is to say you are the most aggie thing about surly horns.  and you've dragged everyone down with you.

    LOL.  HUGO was the one who rendered the Cloak Room unreadable for you?

    OK, Rush.

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