When are we going to see the revision of parody fighting? It is stupid to fight RC planes with super expensive rockets. There should be distributed assets of interceptor drones of an equivalent class to fight fire with fire instead of throwing gold bricks at pigeons

executing anyone smart enough to question or dissent since 1948

I think China is pushing them both, in private, and Iran, probably Türkiye to take action in Cypress too.

The only reason to pour so much money into semiconductors in the USA is because Taiwan and South Korea are in major trouble soon. Take Taiwan and South Korea, that’s most of the semiconductor industry and the entire cutting edge. Intel is falling apart as is and Boeing is absolute garbage as well. Those two are a large chunk of real US tech edge and they can’t even keep the doors on, make a two way trip to space, launch a competitive rocket, make generational improvement increments, stand behind years worth of defective products, or factual marketing and specifications. Take Samsung and TSMC and the USA is in the stone ages of 20 year old silicon tech.

Oh, yeah. That is why I said limit. Even GitHub has ridiculous tracker junk now. I have most of that blocked. It really sucks that people are so complacent to the onset of feudalism. Chalk it up to ignorance of history. Giving up citizenship in a democracy always has terrible consequences throughout history. People now seem to act like it is crazy to point this out, but are blind about the big picture consequences. Things may seem bad now, but this path will make them massively worse.

A white list fire wall is the only way to limit them.

Not that anyone cares, but I used to work painting cars for a used car lot next to this actual place north of Atlanta Georgia. I can’t believe I found the sign in an image search.

Only men in nicer luxury cars showed up at this place, mostly older Asian men. I never saw anyone leaving carrying anything. Not items in hand, or a bag of any kind. It became something of a joke between myself and a few other people. I can’t confirm nor deny this is the last visage of truth in advertising in America.

Immeasurable dong bot

Who wants to bet that a Boeing negotiator will get sent to handle the issue.

Impressively intelligent image choice and subject angle for the present psychological tug

There appears to be some confusion. Even an entire army got it wrong and went the wrong direction. Z team is supposed to kill P. team.

My feet, yours, or potato-supreme court king feet?

I never said it was sapphire, just that the owner was told it was somehow related and an unknown proprietary military material. I have no idea what it was, only the empirical properties and what happened with it. Disputing the empirical is insane. Speculating about what it could have been is the only space to talk about.

The job and requirements were specified in advance. Whomever setup that job presumably did the engineering to know what could be done. It took a bunch of inserts to machine it. It was entertaining to watch. But I was just operating a manual Bridgeport mill and helping when asked.

There are a range of different classes of protection. The kind you’ll find most often (often enough to show up at random used car lots), is still relatively light in the grand scheme of things.

The type of round and power of the load/caliber is probably more important here. I bet whatever was fired was from a rifle and was a jacketed piercing round by the looks of the clean holes.

One if the many places I’ve worked for a short time was a CNC an manual machining shop. The owner often bid on little military contract jobs. There was this one I remember that involved milling a small kidney bean shaped pocket out of what looked like 30mm thick bluish green glass. Only, it machined more like a metal. We had no idea what the material was made our of except that it was somehow related to sapphire. It ate up ever kind of cutter in the shop. Every steel, cobalt, carbide, or insert we through at the stuff would fail before finishing the first pocket. The owner’s best guess was that the panel was a small window from an attack helicopter. Judging by the way that junk laughed off milling cutters, I don’t think lead had a chance in hell of making a dent or crack in the thing, no matter the velocity from a gun.

There are massive levels of protection possible, but you won’t find them in a typically shaped pedestrian vehicle. You start seeing higher levels of exterior anomalies in the few instances where protection is more serious. Something like a presidential motorcade usually has a limousine that looks more blocky on the outside like there is a bulge around the upper and windows area.

The doors and glass of most modern cars have a lot more curve to them than is apparent at first. You are sitting inside this curve more than you likely realize. Higher armor glass is very thick and comes in flat sheet form. If that flat glass is paired with the curve of a typical pedestrian car door, it will contact the shoulder of the occupant. More heavily protected limousines have an offset that allows that thick sheet glass the required room needed to preserve interior space.

In the typical lightly armored cars, the door glass is a little thicker than a typical windshield. I honestly wouldn’t expect it to stop much more than a .22 if it was fired directly. However, remembering from mythbusters a long time ago, the angle of windshields and their lamination is good for stopping a lot of bullets from penetrating. This is the primary protection situation. That window is not intended to take direct fire, but is intended to deflect stuff while the vehicle speeds away.

Side glass is not laminated. Only bullet proof and windshields are laminated glass like this. When I painted cars for used car lots, I worked on several armored cars like this. They are only rated for small handgun rounds on the windows. It’s one reason you do not see military vehicles with similar large windows. Still, driving one of these feels like driving a tank. The doors feel like a small vault door in weight. You can tell that your driving a much heavier vehicle than it appears. The way the windshield is shaped a little odd is a small indicator that it is much thicker. The chrome trim insert around the window helps minimize the look of the thicker glass and gives away that the windows likely can not be rolled down.

Any typical automotive side window will shatter into pieces when broken.

When bullet proof glass was not enough. That was no handgun round.

I have profound and unwavering respect for the patriots that miss, hit an ear, and make their mark. Treasonous subhuman fuck of a shit stain. His supporters all belong behind bars or worse.