I agree, I don’t kid around with safety. And if anyone else does, I will stop them or get hurt trying.
Besides the obvious argument of not hurting others, bows are in a weird legal limbo in a lot of places. If archers start behaving irresponsibly, then that limbo vanishes and bows will be regulated like firearms. I would really like that to not happen.
Ok, if you don’t miss, why don’t you go set up your range in a shopping mall?
Sorry, to be so pointed in my communication. If that picture is the result of an accident, then it is what it is, accidents happen and it’s just lucky that the fan stopped the arrow.
But if anyone intentionally aims at their neighbor’s property, at all, and on top of that at an angle that will send arrows upwards of 100m when they miss… Then that person should not be having a bow in the first place. Sorry to say, but while bows may be sporting equipment, they can still be dangerous, and doing that kinda stupidly dangerous shit is bad for the whole community.
What about Portugal?
That’s pretty good. What discipline are you shooting? I mean either way it’s good, but if you’re doing 9.1 avg on a 40cm face at 18m with a longbow then…
How the fuck is this a thing?
Money
How are they allowed to control how I use my data?
You gave them permission when you signed the deal. Pretty simple.
It’s pretty common to buy phones from electronics stores in Denmark, without a carrier attached. So locking down the phone isn’t as common here, but that doesn’t mean that ISPs aren’t still up to no good. I heard about one company that would look at the IP header and if your packets came with a TTL of 63 or less, then the ISP would know that you had a tethered connection and would count the traffic differently.
Wow, I suck at 18m.
Do you? I mean if you’re shooting compound, have shot a couple hundred arrows a week for a year, and this is a 120cm outdoor target for recurve, then maybe you should take a look at your technique.
Otherwise STFU and keep on shooting, the only thing that matters during training is improving, not some stupid number in the totals column. And improving is relative to the individual, not relative to the archer next to you, who’ve shot for twice as long and thrice as many arrows.
Jokes (and cheering up) aside, I have three questions:
Well, what do you expect when attaching a 500gram tip, and shoot it from a #70 bow (which I seriously doubt it is from the archer’s stance)
But I guess selecting the right arrow shaft will be as easy as “sort by spine, ascending” and picking the top one.
Left arm straight, shoulder in. Right hand is doing what out there? Anchor that. /s
Actually that’s pretty clever, does it shoot? And does it stay together when you do? What kinda weight are you drawing on coat hangers?
Nice! What shaft is that? I don’t recognize it.
Also, spine 400? How many pounds is she pulling?
Forgive me, I’m not well-versed in compound archery, but I do have an app to calculate arrows for recurve, which will also do compound arrows.
42# is that at peak?
With a peak of 42# and 31" draw, then you need an ATA speed rating of 358ft/s to use spine 340. I don’t know if that makes sense, as speed rating is something I haven’t heard of in recurve.
If you know the speed I’ll put it in and give you a spine. The app I’m using is called arrows and is made by Marcel van Apeldoorn.
20cm face? What kind of gear are you on? Or are you talking about a triple with the inner 5 rings from a 40cm fita face?
From what I can gather, the proposed battery will have a capacity of 8.5GWh with a nominal output of 85MW. But it can store 85MW (not MWh) for 100 hours? Either that article is written by someone who doesn’t really know what they’re relaying, or that’s some serious standby power dissipation.
Anybody here who passed high school physics and have some insights?
Listen to Baz Lurhman’s “everyone’s free to wear sunscreen”. And I mean listen to it. Every single line is true.
Sorry for letting you hang, I’ve been swamped.
I believe he was going to LATAM and he couldn’t continue while transiting through russia.
That’s what I recall, too. That he was going to Latin America from Hong Kong through Sheremetyevo. But then on the Wikipedia page it said that Russian authorities have claimed that Snowden applied for asylum before departing Hong Kong. But again, probably propaganda.
Why is his collaborating with the russians not a fair circumstance to take in account? If he is being forced to work with them, then shouldn’t we disregard what he says as being suspect? Aren’t there better spokespersons for the FOSS/digital privacy movement that can be promoted instead?
Disregarding any statements that originates within Russia’s sphere of influence should be default. But on account of what Snowden did more than 10 years ago, he’s still given a voice in tech media.
He is almost certainly trying to leverage his fame and influence to promote russian security services goals; i.e. try to sow discord in the US.
I agree that Snowden’s fame is being leveraged, but I don’t think that it’s necessarily done on Snowden’s initiative. As you said it yourself, Snowden is a tool in the Russian propaganda toolkit.
for example in europe they were involved with green organizations in order to counteract the possibility of a rise in shale gas production in Europe.
Yeah, a Russian woman, who had received 45k EUR from the SVR run Pravfond, was just arrested in Denmark. She had run a legal counseling service for Russians in Denmark and ran for municipal elections for the socialist communists. I wonder how many people Russia has planted to run these low intensity operations around the world.
I would even speculate that he has internalized a lot of their goals (he is a russian citizen after all).
He definitely could have internalized the Russian state’s goals. But I don’t think that him being a Russian citizen should be an indication. That’s probably more of a middle finger from Putin in the direction of the US. Sorta like “Congratulations, that application for citizenship you didn’t fill out, has been approved. Go say your lines little puppet”
In 2013 we all still believed that Putin wasn’t the madman that he has turned out to be. I remember thinking that our biggest threats were right wing terrorists, Iranian nukes, and maybe North Korea. Sure we had seen what happened to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008, but I don’t think anybody in the NATO countries saw that as the test it turned out to be. My point being that when Snowden flew to Russia in 2013, intent on seeking asylum, it may not have been his first choice, but it was as crazy an idea as it would be today…
With that said, I’d like to relate to some your post:
What I am saying is it is legitimate to criticize him and highlight his collaboration with the russians.
Sure, it’s legitimate to criticize anything. But without taking all the circumstances into account, the critique loses relevance. At least for me it does, and that’s what I’m arguing.
Well let me tell you as someone living in Ukraine (and was born in Donbas with my hometown being occupied in 2014 and relatives having to leave everything because of the russian occupation);
This is on a completely unrelated note. I’d like to apologize to you and every other Ukrainian, for the incompetence of my country’s politicians. We promised you +100 leopard 1 tanks, but due to the ineptitude of our politicians, their investments, and the resulting organization, we haven’t been able to deliver a single working tank. Whenever our politicians “donate” equipment it is blown out of proportions by our media. But when it comes to delivering useful kit, it fails over and over again. Rest assured that our present government is not going to be reelected. Their replacement will not be competent either though. Anyway, I wish we would do more than ship you our outdated equipment like it was some sort of humanitarian mission. It’s not a humanitarian mission, it’s fucking war and half assing war is stupid… Slava Ukraini! And death to Russian orks.
You full well know that there are real consequences from Snowden’s collaboration with the russians.
And we’re back in the discussion at hand :) the only consequences I can think of, that comes from Snowden collaboration is the propaganda tool he is now, and the intelligence he had to offer 11 years ago. Disregard him to mitigate the propaganda consequences.
I hope that whatever intel Snowden gave the Russians, it was limited. I think that a person with Snowden’s background would be able to encrypt the information he traveled with properly.
I’d like to know if I’ve missed something here. I really don’t mean to troll you. If you believe that I’m misinformed, please inform me.
Trying to survive is fair. But putting him on the pedestal and labelling him as “untouchable saviour who can do wrong” is not normal.
I don’t think that I’m putting Snowden on a pedestal. All I’m saying is that, like everyone else in Russia, who have a public profile, Snowden knows that he can either toe the party line, or plunge to his death from a basement window. What we really need to do, is to realize that anything coming from the mouths of anybody in Russia, is the result of a proverbial gun to their heads and should be treated thusly.
That’s with the mindset that I wouldn’t want to stay long at a job like that
Oh I concur, but elsewhere OP mentioned that the job pays a rather unskilled (OP mentioned having an A+) 20 year old 55k USD, and OP is getting certs as well. In that case I’d seriously be working on my STFU-skills, instead of meddling in something that my boss really wants me to stop meddling in. Maybe do a bit of CMA - but not to the extent of emailing my boss to get a paper trail.
When you’ve been in an organization for only three months, and it’s your first job in the industry, maybe just absorb what’s happening instead of trying to change stuff. Make up your own opinions, sure, but keep them to yourself. Maybe evaluate on how you perceived situations, and how they played out, and modify your views based on that.
He could have chosen to not collaborate with the russians
Yes, he could indeed. He could be the metaphorical guy with the bags standing in front of a line tanks. But why should he?
This might not a big deal for you, but on a purely theoretical level, you don’t see how this hypocrisy could be important for others?
If you insist on applying a purely theoretical analysis, on the actions of a very real person with very real concerns for his safety, then I think I’ve found the problem with this discussion. You can’t lift this problem to this level of abstract theoretical morality.
But to answer your question more clearly: no, I don’t see how this perceived hypocrisy could be important for others.
Do you sincerely believe, that Snowden should have stayed put and faced a firing squad for whistle blowing? Snowden is trying to survive, and if daddy Putin says “go on TV and say these lines”, then the sentence doesn’t have to end with “or else”. Snowden did what he had to do for his country, by telling the public about the surveillance, now he’s paying for it. Why should Snowden be fighting for the Russian people as well?
It’s your first IT job and you’ve been there for a few months? While your safety concerns definitely can be relevant my advice is this
You should
You could
According to https://www.infocusarchery.com/advice/a-completeish-guide-to-arrow-spine spine is the deflection in 1"/1000. As in spine 730 means the deflection is 0.73"