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…and the ankle one."
My favorite scene in Criminal Minds is when one of the heroes notices that a person fits the profile for the episode’s kidnapping villain.
That’s it, guy fits the profile. No screams from inside the house. No suspicious behavior. The justification for exigent circumstances is essentially “it appeared to me in a dream.”
The hero picks up a potted plant to smash his way into the house and somebody else says “We have to wait for a warrant!” to which he replies “THERE’S NO TIME!” and jumps through the glass window into the house.
Insanity.
Backface soft armor also catches spall, which can be very dangerous itself. Even ceramic plates can have a danger of ceramic shards. I believe modern ESAPIs, XSAPIs, and such modern plates are designed stand alone, but original SAPIs carried a warning that their rating was only in conjunction with soft armor.
One time I got an “in between” job at a local business. The first day I showed up and the place made me sign a 17 page front and back NDA.
I’ve signed actual, legitimate NDAs. They are like 3 pages, max. Some people are just preposterous.
I have observed that “very clever” people on the internet have a tendency to disregard solutions that are only partial, even if there is little to no downside to them.
I’d think so too, but Columbine shooting was 1999. Movies still used it unironically for another few years. In media I think it mostly went away because it got parodied to death.
This movie is exactly of its era. Blasting 80s nostalgia that’s been filtered through a neon color grade with a snappy pace is exactly something that would come out in 2016.
There was also that short sliver of the late 90s through early 2000s where the slick black trenchcoat and sunglasses look was considered unironically cool.
The Matrix, Blade, Underworld, and Equilibrium all being in this era. Any movie where characters dress like this to be cool and it isn’t treated with at least a wink to the audience probably either came from this time or is a sequel to something from this time.
John Wayne’s ‘The Green Berets’ is an oddity. While it’s not out of its time, since the 1960s was packed with war movies, the fact that it’s a Vietnam movie rather than a WW2 movie gives it a surreal quality. It is filmed with the same tone, style, and music as something like ‘The Longest Day’ but it’s about Vietnam making it a million miles away from the style of most Vietnam movies.
Standout scenes include a green beret ranting at a strawman reporter, and the scene where John Wayne smashes an obviously toy rifle to pieces.
I’m currently the “subject matter expert” on a nightmare project by having been exposed to it the most without going mad.
Uh, whenever you notice something like that- a wizard did it.
why aren’t we able to just make it more to our liking?
You are, but you have to figure out how to get it all to work together yourself. That means physically, electrically, and in software. All the things you listed are problems that need to be overcome. If you have the ability, you can do this, but you yourself have to do it or find someone who specializes in such particular work. Most people have neither the skills, time, or patience to do this.
And here comes the NSFW demon fan art!
Keep in mind Freelancer was released after Microsoft acquired Roberts’ company, kicked him out of a leadership role, and drastically slashed the scope.
Star Citizen is what happens when there is nobody above Roberts to say no, and now after years plenty of people under him with an interest in keeping the development churning.
People are buying the dream. There is personal investment now- this isn’t a game, this is their game. Supporters tend to talk like this is a community project, not a transaction between a customer and a studio.
Whenever the studio finally folds, I guarantee there will be whales lamenting that if they’d only spent a little more they’d have kept the game afloat.
The “lawyer dog” case did not hinge on that.
The suspect,Warren Demesme, did not unequivocally demand a lawyer. He said: “If y’all, this is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it so why don’t you just give me a lawyer dog cause this is not whats up.”
The finding was that he asked a question rather than making a statement. The “dog” was completely irrelevant in the decision, but you know Internet pop news sites are going to be Internet pop news sites.
You can still think the outcome was expecting too much precision by a suspect and disagree with it, but let’s at least be accurate in criticism/discussion instead of perpetuating meme tier inaccuracy.
The knowledge of the location of the paper is a content of the mind. The defendant does not have to answer any question.
A person is free to not answer any question. They can sit there completely silent.
You can dial manually as long as you bring your own power source.