Posts by Triggerfish

Re: Are you saying

Well him or Torquetto Jubbli.

mind the oranges Marlon

http://mind-the-oranges-marlon.blogspot.co.uk/

Re: Love and Hate

Well we have things like Manchester village area, pretty sure you wouldn't find that in Russia, and plenty of us straight people used to go clubbing round there when I was a student.

There were still the odd homophobe I remember at uni, for some reason they were often worried that they would be jumped upon and raped by the gays, but generally speaking as a country we are moving forward and see those people as a bit silly, and likewise making sure our laws are more equal. Russia seems to be working backwards.

Re: Cheap dig

Meh I also have worn the pyjamas and done the hand wavy stuff, I thought they were funny.

Anyway there's plenty of sites who will have a proper discussion about homophobia, sometimes though you just have to take the piss out of these ludicrous attitudes about "sexual perversion" the photos worked perfectly well.

Re: Many good points - however

I so agree with the Canon S compacts they are lovely I hope they are making them as tough as they used to my old one took hell of a beating, although tempted by the Sony more recently....

Re: Function, Form, Design

Yes this is what I am thinking some of these thigs that are copied seem to be a case of ergonomics and function dictating there appearance. It seems to me its a bit like Mercedes sueing Ford because they have used round wheels as well.

Re: "mainly used against women"

How about people act a bit decent and if you do have a nuddy of an ex, don't be a twat with it.

Re: Apple, there's really no need for you to get all bent out of shape over this.

Dunno about applause but mebbe a b-dum tish. :)

Re: If you can't say anything nice

True, although I remember when buying a PSU a while back for a pc, after checking the reviews for my hard earned spends there was a review in custom PC of a seasonic PSU that they had sent for preview and the reviews didn't give it great ratings (not bad but there were flaws, they did tough tests), seasonic actually listened to the review (I think they actually contacted the mag as well) and came back with a redesign.

I have to say that was a big influence on who I spent my money with.

Re: Arnaut the Clueless Why

@Matt

That kick was going to the side of someone going down it looks to me, and even if not the bloke was going down, he did not not have to be forced at that point, so it becomes unreasonable force.

Pt2

In the video I don't see any. In things like the Ferguson riots, yes there was plenty.

(the photo btw was on many news sites, I just took the first link from a quick google search), would love to see the uncropped actually as I know a photo can be made to look one way or another.

I was responding to a post that has since been removed about the police know receiving ex military equipment such as APCs.

The point I was trying to make was that there could be a problem in putting an incorrect mindset in police officers, who are going into stressful situations.

Also staged or not that's still a lot of police wandering round with a few pepper ball guns and a lot m16 (possibly assault rifles) there were also many shots from the riots of police carrying them during the riots and getting a bit pointy with them on people who weren't rioting (I am quite willing to accept there was a lot of things going down in that situation which made it tough for the police and sometimes they are in a no win situation, but there were definitely imo issues with how the police handled it as well), my point is that's a lot of firepower, and a lot of things can go wrong. What happens if you take a shot at someone in a crowd with a round like that?

My point was combining with that and maybe getting distracted from the real discussion, was also a response to a post that said stressed officers may be acting aggressively out of going into situations where the first thing they are expecting is a shooting incident, and it still stands as well that you may be instilling an incorrect mindset by sending a bunch of guys into a high stress situation and possibly not giving them adequate training to know how they may react in those situations.

Re: Why @ma1010

You're points are true, I doubt the average concealed carry owner would be a law breaker as well for the reasons you state.

I would be interested on your take on the video.

I'd also say I don't think all of the police are out of control, in fact I think what we often get is a skewed perception of the police, knowing some police officers over here in the UK, and paramedics as well there is some really crazy people out there, its not an easy job and generally the average copper is being a copper because they are doing useful things, the typical law abiding citizens doesn't get to meet these police often because well why should they? They aren't doing any wrong and so they aren't bothered by those cops. Perception gets skewed because more often its the smaller dickhead element of the police pushing there power around that makes more news and causes people to have unpleasant unjustifiable encounters.

Re: Why

Talking about the kit they are now receiving (a lot apparently ex mil kit the DOD is giving away free (about 5 billion dollars worth apparently) I have to wonder if the militarisation of the cops is not helping things actually. There was a interesting shot from the Ferguson riots taken at daytime which showed a bunch of cops looking more like a bunch of soldiers on a patrol in downtown Basra.

http://america.aljazeera.com/content/dam/ajam/images/articles_2014/08/ferguson.jpg

I wonder if this may sometimes be instilling an incorrect mindset/ set of perceptions in the police, i.e if you are dressing for a war-zone then going into a high stress situation might you not start seeing it as a war zone?

Likewise some county's seem to be a little SWAT happy for various things (like arresting Tibetan monks for being illegal immigrants)

It might be that with the increase of potential danger they should be looking at training their officers to know themselves more and understanding how they react to situations where adrenalin is high (because when it is, then part of you is back at paleolithic human level).

It also might be that they need to cool down on making there officers acting in such a military style matter for things that don't require such a full on approach, and instill a little bit of common sense and calmness into the mix from the top down.

Re: Why (Because you are Arnaut the ignorant)

Actually there was comments in the news about Michael Brown throwing gangs signs and such, in fact there was a discussion about it on this very site.

Oh and please were having quite a reasonable discussion here, lets turn the volume down eh?

Re: Why

Police + adrenalin + fear = bad combination, True. There's also the fact you may use aggression to invoke fight or flight responses, being very aggressive can kick in the flight reaction in an opponent to give you control over them.

However the thing is there should also be control, its like the difference between being in a fight and stopping when the other person is down, or carrying on kicking them in. If they can't exercise that restraint when the threat stops then they may not be suitable to be police officers.

Re: Why

Not sure if any of that justifies the kick given to someone getting down on the ground though.

Agreed this is what I was thinking and animal adapted to the water has plenty of advantage if its in its element. I am thinking as well creatures like fish, have a greater percentage of muscle mass compared with us land animals probably since they don't have to support themselves so much against gravity, admittedly a crocodilian uses the land but modern salties are about 50% muscle mass. so size may not be everything.*

*insert suitable joke here.

Re: Will the preaching hate law ...

Effect politicians? Nah no other law seems to.

Re: Dogging with a GoPro

You know that title could really come across as something else.

Re: I wish they gave an option for other lenses.

That's exactly what I am thinking off, its small enough I could pack it in a rucksack where space might be premium for a long holiday of a few months, its small enough to tuck in a BCD pocket as well.

Plus as expenditure goes, proper nice dive kit is expensive as hell the costs of a housing for a good video camera or DSLR is really pricey sometimes more than the camera, its not the sort of stuff the average person buys to try out and find out if they like uw photography/ videography, but having used some poor quality kit before that could put you off as well as its a bit discouraging to have nothing but bad shots. This comes at fair point for quality v price v ease of use.

Re: I'm a total video noob

I don't know how you'd hide the purchase from the missus.

But once you have bought it you can use it for a video log of her growing shoe collection and such in the wardrobe for ammo when she finds out.

Then you can recoup some cost of your gopro with you've been framed or similar because you know how that sort of escalation is going to turn out.

Re: I wish they gave an option for other lenses.

I have to say seeing some go pro diving films, including ones I have been on the dives so have some idea of the conditions they were filming in, they seem alright.

For me this is for the enthusiast and someone who wants that camera for holiday dives and travelling around as a cheap option, (Compared with a proper set up for underwater video with a good vid camera plus housing plus lights minus a fair bit of bank balance), I'd be happy to take one on diving trips and its dinky enough you can carry it at all times for dive trips.

Would be interesting to see how it compares to something like a nice compact like a RX100 in a dive housing for filming though.

Re: The problem with academics...

I've lived in some low populated areas, islands etc were petty crime such as theft etc were pretty low. Sort of places where you don't worry to much when you forget to lock your door, or don't have to be super aware about muggings etc.

I have also lived in some pretty rough areas and as such I can see the point of locking your door, and having police officers on the street and being a lot more self aware when walking about.

At no point though would I condone having the police let themselves into mine or other peoples homes and having a riffle without the need for a warrant on the basis of just in case.

Re: It is not my own government I am most worried about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8sxngSWaU

Re: @FormerKowloonTonger Lest We Forget.

1. Actually not all Muslims believe in the Burkha, you are generalising massively.

2. Likewise for pedophilia.

3. As someone pointed out the Nazis was war and we spied on the enemy, we didn't treat our own citizens as the enemy.

4. I have no problems with targeted checking, but I do have problems with our civil liberties being eroded and laws being put in place to do that. Our civil liberties which you are so worried about these Muslims taking, well our governments doing that instead. Our country has been pretty strongly founded on things like our inherent rights for a long time now we shouldn't just give them up for fear the chances of you being killed in a terrorist attack in the UK, is probably lower than you being killed by a cow or a dog.