orpiment said:
The intention of the builders ( = the intended targets). And to point out that not everyone has a government on their side, or access to basic laser safety catalogues. This looks like a terror weapon to me; most effective against the poor, and intended to keep them that way.
Yeah, this is a much more terrifying weapon than a fucking gun.
SnakePlissken said:
That's neat-o and all, but easily defeated with a pair of 532nm blocking glasses.
If you can afford them, and if they aren't licensed.
They're around a little over three hundred dollars, well within most governmental budgets, and widely available in most basic laser safety catalogs. I use a pair everyday at work.
Remind me again, how many people live on less than a dollar a day? To the nearest billion would be okay.
And what does the fact that poor people exist in the world have to do with this at all? It does nothing to dimiss the fact that this novelty technology is easily defeated by very low-tech means. You're arguing just to argue.
The intention of the builders ( = the intended targets). And to point out that not everyone has a government on their side, or access to basic laser safety catalogues. This looks like a terror weapon to me; most effective against the poor, and intended to keep them that way.
I just reread those articles a few more times and how you came upon this conclusion is near unfathomable. Terror weapon? Seriously? A big spikey mace or a head on a spear, now that's a terror weapon, not this glorified laser pointer. At best it could effectively distract a multitude of kittens.
And any civilian with half a brain could also easily defeat this system with the cheapest pair of mirrored gas station sunglasses. They're next to the Doobie Brothers cassettes in the first aisle.
orpiment said:
The intention of the builders ( = the intended targets). And to point out that not everyone has a government on their side, or access to basic laser safety catalogues. This looks like a terror weapon to me; most effective against the poor, and intended to keep them that way.
Yeah, this is a much more terrifying weapon than a fucking gun.
It's entirely consistent with the reduction from 7.62 to 5.56mm: a dead man's just dead, but a wounded man takes two of his buddies out of the front line with him.
A blind person is an economic burden for life.
SnakePlissken said:
I just reread those articles a few more times and how you came upon this conclusion is near unfathomable. Terror weapon? Seriously? A big spikey mace or a head on a spear, now that's a terror weapon, not this glorified laser pointer. At best it could effectively distract a multitude of kittens.
And any civilian with half a brain could also easily defeat this system with the cheapest pair of mirrored gas station sunglasses. They're next to the Doobie Brothers cassettes in the first aisle.
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Ah. Now that makes sense.
Well, we'll see. I guess you will just have to be satisfied with your government spending huge amounts of money on a system that can't work.
And for terror, see my response to StarBelliedBoy.
Ah. Now that makes sense.
Well, we'll see. I guess you will just have to be satisfied with your government spending huge amounts of money on a system that can't work.
And for terror, see my response to StarBelliedBoy.
Huh? You seem to imply that somehow I advocate this technology, it's usage, and the economic waste it embodies. That couldn't be further from the truth. I thought I made that myself rather clear on that issue.
And do you seriously think that if they were actually to use this weapon in combat it would have the results you imply? There would be no blind people, no casualties falling by the wayside clutching their scorthed retinas or being carried out on gurneys as they would with a reduced round. The two are simply incomparable. It's a simple non-lethal system on par with pepper spray at best.
It incorporates a scanning galvo-head within its' optics system that diffuses the systems power by keeping the beams' interaction location moving. For such a low power unit to be damaging it would have to be focused spot-on for a prolonged period of time. You give it more credit than it deserves.
StarBelliedBoy
Philadelphia, PA
December 2003
OCT 11, 2006 03:07 PM