It doesn’t seem to be functional, but it does seem to have a web host. Baby steps, I suppose. What with Russia trying to stamp out its citizens use of SpaceX’s “Starlink” internet service – thus indicating a fear of not being able to control the internet behing a national firewall – I wonder if something like Starlink might be used by a nearly wholly independent form of the internet that is unthreatened by Big Tech. Of course, that would rely on *SpaceX* not becoming just as bad. Shrug.
This may be an unfortunate time for new firearms developments. Or, who knows, maybe the market will explode and if the new administration overreaches the whole regime of gun control might blow up in their faces and Americans – or whatever the citizenry are called after the dust settles onto a reshaped political landscape – will have their rights recognized. In any event, this device seems to me to be just the sort of thing that the ATF would be all over with *current* regulations; it also seems like the sort of thing that a lot of people would fall all over themselves to get. It’s coolness factor is undeniable; it’s practicality is perhaps questionable.
An eBay seller in Britain is selling, one by one, a series of diagrams of WWII-era aircraft. They all seem to have been produced by the same draftsman, or at least the same publisher, to a common standard. So… who published these? The seller’s prices aren’t too shabby, but he’s sold out of a fair number of them and the cross-Atlantic shipping fee is ridiculously high. Anyone familiar with them? Were they published in a magazine, a book, separately?
An exploded view of the Marquardt ramjet engine that powered the Lockheed D-21B. The engine was derived from the ramjet that powered the Bomarc missile; interestingly, it went from a SAM engine that ran for at most fifteen minutes to a continent-crossing drone engine that ran for an hour and a half. The D-21 program was riddled with failures, but the engine was not a real source of trouble. What did become a minor source of trouble: after the seventeen surviving D-21s were mothballed, the nosecones of the engines had to be specially removed: being made of a thorium alloy, they were slightly radioactive.
There were some nuts at the incident at the Capitol, make no mistake. Anyone who thought it was a good idea to smash windows and doors, for instance. And then there was Buffalo Guy. He’s a Q Anon conspiracy loon. Sadly he’s also a pretty well documented Trump supporter. But his whackadoodlery is *straight* out of the far left; the same people who screech and shriek about “Christians taking over the government” will bend over backwards – and then forwards – to *not* laugh when they hear this sort of nonsense out of a “Person of color.” The same people who thought that Nathan Phillips was a respectable “elder” for banging on his drum and chanting gibberish directly into the ear of a child will mock this guy for having beliefs that are fundamentally no better or worse. Me… I can point and laugh at both. Spout nonsense, get laughed at.
Buffalo Guy from the Capitol riots is exactly 427% crazier than we thoughthttps://t.co/d6pCH5IwxV pic.twitter.com/G2yzqczG5o
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) January 14, 2021
Here’s the thing, though. Buffalo Guy is one Jake Angeli, who has put himself out there as an actor. Is this all an act? Honestly seems more likely than he believes the line of BS he’s running here. But then… people really do believe that sort of thing. His Wikipedia page makes for entertaining and “losing faith in the rationality of mankind” reading.
Ayup. This, right here.
Imagine if Hollywood would make movies where the bad guys didn’t skate on the good guys being idiots.
Starts at about 2:06:58.
This would have been a *fantastic* test… in about 1984. Splice it into “Wonder Woman 1984,” and it would have fit right in. But nearly 40 years later, it just looks like an antique. It’s like firing up an F-104 Starfighter: impressive in its way, but no longer top of the line.
Well, this is a little odd…
It looks cumbersome (especially fast reloading), probably heavy and definitely nose-heavy… but it also looks entertaining. Fifty rounds of meaningfulness on tap is not to be sneezed at; but if the standard magazine that fits this thing – the same 50-round magazine that fits the P-90 – gets banned for being “high capacity,” then the value of this gun will be strictly limited. MSRP of $995, said to start shipping in March.
I look forward to the concealed carry holster for this.
Seems we’re running headlong into the Crazy Years. What with the very worst people in the last hundred years of US history getting ready to take over the Senate and White House, after having already taken over the House, Media and universities, we’re likely due for some extreme unpleasantness. The incoming administration is promising to turn seventy million or more Americans into overnight felons and the Big Tech companies going overtime into making sure that the conversation is distinctly one-sided, it’s understandable that a lot of people have a lot of things to say. Some of it rather uncomplimentary about those on the totalitarian side of the aisle… and sometimes what people say slips over into expression of threats of violence.
We may have ourselves an honest to Odin civil war on our hands before long. Up until recently I’ve thought that such a thing was the stuff of fever dreams… but here we are. And while a civil war might be inevitable, it would be *bad.* I know there are some deluded fools actually salivating over the prospect, but the only people who would benefit from another American civil war are our enemies. No good will come of it.
So: I invite everyone to refer back to the old blog post “How To Get Banned,” from waaaay back in 2010. The very first way of getting banned? Issuing threats of violence in the comments. Threatening people does no good; all it will do is get the authorities to notice you, and I’m sorry, any government types who are drooling over the opportunity to kick in a million doors and arrest and imprison more people that the Soviet gulag system ever dreamed of will *not* be intimidated by an angry comment. What will happen, though, is that such comments will be used to claim “terms of service” violations for my little website.
Yes, Twitter and Facebook and the like do not seem to give a damn if leftwing extremists, jihadis, ChiComs and other people who wish America ill use their platforms for threats of violence. But Big Tech *does* go after those of us in the counter culture. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but the fact is that for the moment rational people have to realize that we’re living in a system with different rules for different people.
So… dream up all the fantasies and strategems you like. Plan. Stock up. Prepare. Just… don’t post incitements to violence or criminality here. I will delete those when I see ’em, and start banning those who repeatedly violate. As far as I know, such posts could well be false flags intended to harm the blog and my business. Paranoid? Sure. But these are the times in which we live.
And I am about on my last nerve with the trolls. Feel free to disagree, debate, argue. But those who act the jackass, whose arguments start with insults? Feh.