𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢 @ zakobjoa @lemmy.world

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All my locks are actuated by round keys of about 9mm diameter.

Is key launcher code for a gun?

simBAD indeed.

Because of everything Amazon does and is I've completely stopped using Amazon a few years back and it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

Most small businesses have an online store and a very convenient ordering process. Hell, most even ship the next day. I go out of my way to try and find smaller businesses (who often have to charge for shipping) to order from, but if you just want to avoid Amazon, you can find larger outlets that don't have shipping costs either.

If you need some weird stuff that you can't seem to find anywhere but Amazon, try eBay.

And you won't miss next day delivery very long, I can promise you that. You'll even get to know a completely new joy: "Oh shit, I totally forgot I had ordered that!"

Wtf, that's so irresponsible.

You don't.

But changing it probably involves a lot of dropping heavy, sharpened pieces of metal on a certain class of people.

Nothing in international law says you're not allowed to shoot at something you can't see. Almost all radar based air defense missile systems can not see their targets.

There's multiple ways of identifying targets without looking at them. Radar cross sections are not all the same, you don't just get a target size back. Modern radar systems can make pretty accurate assessments of what they're looking at - down to different models of planes. Take into account altitude and speed of your contact and you can be very sure what's out there.

It's also highly unlikely that an F35 would try to identify a target on its own. They're heavily networked with ground based radars, other airplanes and there's almost always going to be an AWACS looking much further and with a more powerful radar. Modern BVR weapon systems also have a two-way data link, so you could abort an attack right down to the very last second.

But, most importantly, civilian airliners have transponders that broadcast an identifying signal. Even a shitty little Cessna has one.

As for the gun: it's there because people can't let go of them. Same reason why most air superiority fighters have them. As a last ditch weapon. We have zero confirmation of an air-to-air gun kill from Ukraine, a modern conflict between near peers (and most of those planes are old, compared to the F35). If the F35 is used the way it's meant to be used it will not be in visual range of any of its targets.

As for the F4 Phantom – AA missiles just weren't ready yet.

Where in the Geneva convention is stealth and beyond visual range (which I think you mean) illegal?

Dogfights are over and they're not coming back.

But you have those £300 million per week for the NHS now.

Almost all some of the Romans' defeats come down to extremely inept commanders, for instance Crassus.

I'm sorry Iran has a couple of extremely advanced (for the 80s) F-14 air superiority fighters, one or two might even be able to taxi.

So watch it, Pakistan!

I didn't know there was a difference, I've been using them synonymously.

With the proposed changes traffic would have to wait constantly to let the other side pass. You would not only limit speed, but als throughput. If you just go slower because of speed cameras, the amount of traffic can stay the same.

There's a lot of cars and lorries going through here. Sometimes a road/street that has a lot of traffic just goes through a fairly residential area and we kind of have to live with the fact.

And if you think that's bad city planning call the eighteen hundreds and complain to these people.

While the system you describe does exist a lot in Europe the single cameras are much lower tech. They don't have to read the license plate (twice!) correctly – they just take a picture. And while the mobile ones (non-descript grey van with blacked out rear windows parked at the side of the road) do use LIDAR, the static ones use just induction coils that are put into the road surface about 2m apart, rivht where the camera is looking. In Germany they'll often put these coils in both directions of the road and just randomly turn the camera around, though newer ones just work in both directions all the time.

Hey, I live on a road like that. It's not even bricks, but good ol' cobblestone. The cars also share it with a tram.

There's a lot of pedestrians crossing. It's a residential area with shops in the ground floor of all the buildings.

There's multiple schools and kindergartens around, so they set the speed limit to 30km/h. Does that matter? No. People go 50-60 during the day and 70-80 at night. The only times that doesn't happen is when the cops set up a mobile speed camera.

The road is fairly straight, I'll give you that, but I guess they can't just demolish a few kilometres of 100yrs old houses to make to road a bit winding.

Far right playbook page four.

Gotta enforce speed limits.

And these things don't shoot you if you look at them wrong – or are black.

Edit: "No, you can't just stick a camera worth a couple of thousand [local currency] next to the road, that takes photographic evidence of infractions. You gotta rip out the entire surface, redesign the sides and introduce a few sharp curves by demolishing a few blocks of buildings here and there. In the mean time speed is only enforced by violent cops who feel like you were speeding.

It's the only logical way."

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