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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #300 on: October 12, 2005, 11:16:56 PM »
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I've often worried about being broken into.


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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #301 on: October 13, 2005, 12:40:57 AM »
Thanks JK. It's funny, because just earlier today I was thinking, "I need to take a self-defense class." Maybe I can get what I need from this and save the money.  :)
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #302 on: October 13, 2005, 02:30:59 AM »
Just stop cosplaying and you'll be much safer.

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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #303 on: October 13, 2005, 12:18:42 PM »
MIT students make working archimedes death ray!!!

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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #304 on: October 13, 2005, 12:28:09 PM »
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Thanks JK. It's funny, because just earlier today I was thinking, "I need to take a self-defense class." Maybe I can get what I need from this and save the money.  :)


Not likely.  It's just a long sales pitch designed to look like an instructional page just long enough to get you to send a check to the author of the seminar/books/videos.

Some of the things they say in the sales pitch are downright silly.

For example: "Properly applied, you will never have to use physical force to protect yourself because you will never find yourself in a situation where violence is likely."

This ignores the fact that most violent crime is committed by predators who are actively looking for people who aren't expecting to be violently attacked.  Like people walking from the mall to their car.  What techniques will teach you how to avoid walking from the mall to your car?

This guy makes some good points, like the idea that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, implying that you don't go into dangerous situations.  And that learning to be alert to your surroundings is more important than being a kungfu master, but on the whole he's just another blowhard trying to sell you his video.

He makes the same claims to "street experience" the people he so vociferously villifies do.
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #305 on: October 13, 2005, 01:22:15 PM »
While I don't appreciate the fact that he makes a living giving seminars, the information on the site, à mon avis, is quite useful.  A great many tips on increasing home security, avoiding behaviors likely to get one in trouble, etc.

Yes, there are even behaviors you can engage in/avoid while walking to your car that will help.
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #306 on: October 13, 2005, 01:25:20 PM »
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 What techniques will teach you how to avoid walking from the mall to your car?


Combat roles and back flips.  Seriously would you attack someone who's moving around like a ninja on caffeine?
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #307 on: October 13, 2005, 02:43:26 PM »
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While I don't appreciate the fact that he makes a living giving seminars, the information on the site, à mon avis, is quite useful.  A great many tips on increasing home security, avoiding behaviors likely to get one in trouble, etc.

Yes, there are even behaviors you can engage in/avoid while walking to your car that will help.


I admit I read a couple of pages, and perused more and skimmed even more on that site, but I didn't find any concrete facts/techniques on the site itself, just philosohical musings.  If you found some actual concrete things, where were they?  I'm curious to see what they are.
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #308 on: October 13, 2005, 03:39:51 PM »
It is a combination of "concrete" tips and philosophical musings.  The site could use with a better layout.

Here's one page on tips to avoid robbery:
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/robbery_avoidance.html
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #309 on: October 13, 2005, 11:16:58 PM »
Have another fun-filled web-game:

http://www2.b3ta.com/clickthecolour/
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #310 on: October 16, 2005, 03:18:29 AM »
http://www.zod2008.com/

After the 2008 election the demand for "S"s that you can use as weapons skyrockets.
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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #311 on: October 16, 2005, 01:18:27 PM »
In this RPG, the PCs are bouncing lawyers on a forbidden planet who, with hunting knives, fight a mad scientist for the Stanley Cup. They will fail.

http://slithytoves.sytes.net/~dave/rpggen/rpggen.php

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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #312 on: October 17, 2005, 09:18:10 AM »
heh, that's making me giggle

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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #313 on: October 19, 2005, 01:32:28 PM »
Worst job ever.

Warning, there's lots of bad language at the end. However, once the clock shows later than noon (well before the cussing starts), you can turn off the sound and pretty much understand everything that's going on.

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Re: Cool Stuff found on the Internet V
« Reply #314 on: October 19, 2005, 05:03:19 PM »
I haven't seen this brought up yet.  Orson Scott Card has started an online SF&F fiction mag with reviews and columns and everything.

I think they've hit on the best model yet.  I paid for the first issue just to support the idea but the couple of stories I've read so far have been well worth it already.  I'll be buying the next.

They pay 6 cents a word up to $500, which is not a cap on story length just a cap on the payment.  Not bad.  I think I'll be submitting a thing or two I have lying around.  Anyway, it's here: http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com
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