Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

[adr]

so I worte some code so I can do custom stuff with the keys of a second keyboard without interfereing with the main keyboard

and now that it works I have forgotten why I thought this would be so cool in the first place

[Darksi4190]

So i'm considering going up to a local range and renting an AR-15 to shoot next week. I've been up to the range with my friends four or five times before, but i've never done it by myself without any supervision. To those who shoot and who have taken noobs up with them to shoot, would that be a bad idea at this point?

[Gands]

Watching the 1980 Miracle on Ice.

It's pretty boss thus far. I can see why people like this sport.

[Aaron]

So i'm considering going up to a local range and renting an AR-15 to shoot next week. I've been up to the range with my friends four or five times before, but i've never done it by myself without any supervision. To those who shoot and who have taken noobs up with them to shoot, would that be a bad idea at this point?

Is there an RSO? Or is the range unsupervised?

But remember the four laws, you'll be fine.

[The Spartan]

1) The gun is always loaded. (Which is to say you treat it as such even when you know it isn't.)
2) Never point the gun in an unsafe direction.
3) Always be sure of your target and what's behind it.
4) Don't put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to fire. (See 2 and 3 above).

[Darksi4190]

Is there an RSO? Or is the range unsupervised?

There are people supervising the range I guess, but my friends have told me that they aren't actually certified and haven't gone through any sort of training process to be range officers. They're basically there to kick you out once the time you've paid for runs out.

[Big Orangutan]

While I partially agree with sentiments that Spacebattles.com in some ways seems more of genuine problem than the now irrelevant Stardestroyer.Net (which has long ago become rudderless and vanished up its own backside), Spacebattles.com is overall quite a tame and upbeat place in comparison to another comparatively "soft-touch" forum I frequent, House Price Crash Forum (which had attracted some paranoid, miserable British Neo-Fascists, gibbering tinfoil hat conspirators, and dogmatic Randroids).

[Oxymoron]

Just finished watching "Saving Private Ryan".

The film is really good, no negative comment on that side but...

... like the characters in the movie I have a hard time believing high command would send a team to save one guy, even in those circumstances.

I mean, okay, it's just, what, 8-10 guys ? Overall not much in the grand scheme of thing. But... It still nags me that even if the mission was successful and they managed to save Ryan... the PR would be ambivalent at best.

I dunno. Great movie, and the motivation of the head of staff is believable, but... Oh well, I guess when you send millions to their death you want to clean your consciousness.

[Oxymoron]

lol

I have seen the future. And it is watching me watching the TV.

[Darksi4190]

Hoo boy. This is going to be one of those "Lose a little faith in humanity" days isn't it?

[Flagg]

Hoo boy. This is going to be one of those "Lose a little faith in humanity" days isn't it?

We need some zyklon b and a meat locker.

[Dooey Jo]

lol

I have seen the future. And it is watching me watching the TV.

applying skinner box type rewards to watching ads is genius

evil, soul-crushing genius


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[adr]

Just finished watching "Saving Private Ryan".

I kinda thought that was based on a true story, but apparently not

however I do believe it is based on a real US policy

[Darksi4190]

I can believe that. Hell, haven't there been occasions in which the U.S. military was sent in to recover bodies of fallen soldiers despite risk to living ones?

[Flagg]

Just finished watching "Saving Private Ryan".

I kinda thought that was based on a true story, but apparently not

however I do believe it is based on a real US policy

It's loosely based on a story of five brothers who served on the same navy ship and were all killed when it sank. I don't know if its a real policy tho.

[Darksi4190]

In unrelated news, the douchebag owner of the Mc'Donalds I work at has thus far refused to turn the AC on or allow fans in the grill area, despite it getting extremely hot because of the heat bleeding off of the grills. We're basically boiling in our own sweat on the hotter days, and i'm headed in for an eight-hour shift right now.


Joy.

[Oxymoron]

Well, see the positive aspect :

At least you'll be able to work on your tan even while staying indoor.

[Darksi4190]

No tan, but I think I am loosing weight.

[Oxymoron]

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[Oxymoron]

No tan, but I think I am loosing weight.

See ? You won't even have to go to the sauna !

And you complain about "no work benefit". Tsk...

[RogueIce]

Just finished watching "Saving Private Ryan".

I kinda thought that was based on a true story, but apparently not

however I do believe it is based on a real US policy

It's loosely based on a story of five brothers who served on the same navy ship and were all killed when it sank. I don't know if its a real policy tho.

I think the policy is more along the lines that they won't let them all serve in the same unit, so as to avoid exactly that happening again.

They probably would have a policy of sending them home if siblings are killed, likely as emergency leave (dunno if they'd get a discharge), although in the modern era it's highly unlikely they'd need to send out a squad to pick them up and bring them back. But it was WWII so things were a lot different back then. Especially if you jumped with an Airborne unit.

[The Spartan]

Well, see the positive aspect :

At least you'll be able to work on your tan even while staying indoor.

No one's making him work there. If he doesn't like it he should quit and find a new job and stop whining.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!

[Oxymoron]

On a completely different topic, nothing-better-to-do-with-my-time style...

In French, the word "personne"[FR] can, depending on the context, be understood either as "person / people"[EN] or "noone"[EN].

The distinction between both states ("someone" and "noone") will depend on the structure of the sentence in which "personne"[FR] is used, mostly the use of a negation :

"Ce sont des personnes"[FR] => "They are persons/people"[EN]
"Ce n'est personne"[FR] => "It is noone"[EN]

I just thought interesting to note that from the structure of the French language, it was a trivial matter to go from being "someone" to "noone" from the simple flip of a metaphorical switch, here a negation.

[Infinity Biscuit]

Would the second one be more literally translated "It's not someone"? I mean that sentence doesn't work well in English so I can see why it translates into "no one" there

[Oxymoron]

As a literal translation, yes. But as you said it's kind of an awkward translation.

In French, if I said "Tu n'est personne"[FR], the translation would be most accurate as "You are [no one]"[EN], with the idea that, how to put it... the person's existence is not worth acknowledging ?