Anti-Material Rifle : a very large cartridge at the very limit of human ability to control, fired from a weapon that weighs more than twenty (and sometimes forty) pounds, capable of shooting armor-piercing and incendiary (and other) rounds, and reliable out to a mile in the hands of a trained individual.
Hunting Rifle: full size cartridges, long range, precise, with very high power, firing from a bolt. (Sniper rifles are hunting rifles with very precise tolerances, and high quality optics).
Battle Rifle: Full size cartridge, long distance, one round per trigger pull – necessary since the recoil is too large otherwise.
Assault Rifle: Intermediate Cartridge, medium distance, full auto. (Technically ‘select fire’.) Possible since by reducing the scale (force) of the cartridge the gun was controllable at full auto.
Semi Automatic Rifle: Intermediate cartridge. Firing a single round per trigger pull. It has turned out that full auto is useless other than for suppressing fire during movement. A skilled individual can fire american weapons (which have springs that dampen inertia) at pistol (fast) speeds without losing sight picture.
Sub machine gun: a pistol cartridge, and a high rate of fire, made possible by the use of a magazine, and requiring two hands. (600-800 rounds per minute, usually in short busts)
Modern 9mm semi-auto pistols with 15+ rounds have taken the market because they can be emptied (fired) quickly, effectively providing a low rate of fire submachine gun (180 rounds per minute) in a small package, while maintaining sight picture.
Modern 45 semi-auto pistols hold a smaller number of rounds and require a stronger individual to fire quickly, but are usually preferred by military special forces personnel.
Modern 10mm semi-auto pistols are hard to control for inexperienced smaller or weaker shooters, but can, if used properly stop a bear in the wild.
Modern large caliber revolvers can be used for hunting medium and large sized game. There are modern hunting pistols at the limit of human ability to control.
And we complete the loop and return to the hunting rifle.
Americans chose to make an ultra-light, full auto, sniper rifle with smaller cartridges so that they could carry more rounds (the M16/M4). Russians chose to make a full auto battle rifle regardless of weight (The AK). The Russian choice was superior in battlefield conditions.
It appears that the German technology (as usual) has found the optimum which is a heavier bullet but improving upon the black gun (ultra light weight) american weapon design. And this is the current direction of military weapons development.
It appears that the polymer pistol with octagonal barrel and fully replaceable trigger group has taken over the military handgun market.
Use the tool you can most comfortably master.
Form: Mini Essay
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Anti-Material Rifle : a very large cartridge at the very limit of human ability
Anti-Material Rifle : a very large cartridge at the very limit of human ability to control, fired from a weapon that weighs more than twenty (and sometimes forty) pounds, capable of shooting armor-piercing and incendiary (and other) rounds, and reliable out to a mile in the hands of a trained individual. Hunting Rifle: full size cartridges, long range, precise, with very high power, firing from a bolt. (Sniper rifles are hunting rifles with very precise tolerances, and high quality optics). Battle Rifle: Full size cartridge, long distance, one round per trigger pull – necessary since the recoil is too large otherwise. Assault Rifle: Intermediate Cartridge, medium distance, full auto. (Technically ‘select fire’.) Possible since by reducing the scale (force) of the cartridge the gun was controllable at full auto. Semi Automatic Rifle: Intermediate cartridge. Firing a single round per trigger pull. It has turned out that full auto is useless other than for suppressing fire during movement. A skilled individual can fire american weapons (which have springs that dampen inertia) at pistol (fast) speeds without losing sight picture. Sub machine gun: a pistol cartridge, and a high rate of fire, made possible by the use of a magazine, and requiring two hands. (600-800 rounds per minute, usually in short busts) Modern 9mm semi-auto pistols with 15+ rounds have taken the market because they can be emptied (fired) quickly, effectively providing a low rate of fire submachine gun (180 rounds per minute) in a small package, while maintaining sight picture. Modern 45 semi-auto pistols hold a smaller number of rounds and require a stronger individual to fire quickly, but are usually preferred by military special forces personnel. Modern 10mm semi-auto pistols are hard to control for inexperienced smaller or weaker shooters, but can, if used properly stop a bear in the wild. Modern large caliber revolvers can be used for hunting medium and large sized game. There are modern hunting pistols at the limit of human ability to control. And we complete the loop and return to the hunting rifle. Americans chose to make an ultra-light, full auto, sniper rifle with smaller cartridges so that they could carry more rounds (the M16/M4). Russians chose to make a full auto battle rifle regardless of weight (The AK). The Russian choice was superior in battlefield conditions. It appears that the German technology (as usual) has found the optimum which is a heavier bullet but improving upon the black gun (ultra light weight) american weapon design. And this is the current direction of military weapons development. It appears that the polymer pistol with octagonal barrel and fully replaceable trigger group has taken over the military handgun market. Use the tool you can most comfortably master. -
IF VIA POSITIVA WORKED, WE WOULD HAVE WON ALREADY We teach many counter-intuitiv
IF VIA POSITIVA WORKED, WE WOULD HAVE WON ALREADY
We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons.
We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories.
Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement.
If via positiva worked, then we would have won already.
Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win.
Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it.
Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir.
There are many churches.
There is one science.
And that science is possible because of one law:
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 17:50:00 UTC
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If Via Positiva Worked, We Would Have Won Already
We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons. We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories. Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement. If via positiva worked, then we would have won already. Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win. Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it. Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir. There are many churches. There is one science. And that science is possible because of one law: -
If Via Positiva Worked, We Would Have Won Already
We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons. We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories. Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement. If via positiva worked, then we would have won already. Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win. Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it. Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir. There are many churches. There is one science. And that science is possible because of one law: -
The purvey of the court in the production of its procedures is necessary for the
The purvey of the court in the production of its procedures is necessary for the simple reason that courts function via-negativa: as findings of fact in the resolution of disputes, by the single test of reciprocity. The production of commons, by council, thang, senate, or house in the production of its procedures is necessary for the simple reason that the commons is produced via-positiva: as agreements on the seizure of potential opportunities given limited resources to invest. As far as I know the criteria of decidability remains the same no matter the scale and organization of the means of arriving at a decision. We adjudicate certain measures in one court, or a series of courts, depending upon the scale of its affect. We contract for certain commons in one Thang, or many Thangs, depending upon the scale of its affect. Among the classes (martial/masculine, commercial (neutral) and familial(priestly/female), we must often vary the means of decidability in order to preserve reciprocity. In all cases we create procedures to preserve reciprocity while producing the returns of aggressive via negativa, and opportunistic via-positiva. So the constitution (the milita’s self insurance) provides the principle organizing method. ALl else is via negativa and via positiva procedure so that the reciprocity necessary for sovereignty under a universal militia insuring one another’s sovereignty, is preserved through the institutions that allow that militia to scale and thereby create the returns on their singe most important investment: reciprocity of sovereignty. (Note that I never fall into pragmatism throughout…..) -
The purvey of the court in the production of its procedures is necessary for the
The purvey of the court in the production of its procedures is necessary for the simple reason that courts function via-negativa: as findings of fact in the resolution of disputes, by the single test of reciprocity. The production of commons, by council, thang, senate, or house in the production of its procedures is necessary for the simple reason that the commons is produced via-positiva: as agreements on the seizure of potential opportunities given limited resources to invest. As far as I know the criteria of decidability remains the same no matter the scale and organization of the means of arriving at a decision. We adjudicate certain measures in one court, or a series of courts, depending upon the scale of its affect. We contract for certain commons in one Thang, or many Thangs, depending upon the scale of its affect. Among the classes (martial/masculine, commercial (neutral) and familial(priestly/female), we must often vary the means of decidability in order to preserve reciprocity. In all cases we create procedures to preserve reciprocity while producing the returns of aggressive via negativa, and opportunistic via-positiva. So the constitution (the milita’s self insurance) provides the principle organizing method. ALl else is via negativa and via positiva procedure so that the reciprocity necessary for sovereignty under a universal militia insuring one another’s sovereignty, is preserved through the institutions that allow that militia to scale and thereby create the returns on their singe most important investment: reciprocity of sovereignty. (Note that I never fall into pragmatism throughout…..) -
The purvey of the court in the production of its procedures is necessary for the
The purvey of the court in the production of its procedures is necessary for the simple reason that courts function via-negativa: as findings of fact in the resolution of disputes, by the single test of reciprocity.
The production of commons, by council, thang, senate, or house in the production of its procedures is necessary for the simple reason that the commons is produced via-positiva: as agreements on the seizure of potential opportunities given limited resources to invest.
As far as I know the criteria of decidability remains the same no matter the scale and organization of the means of arriving at a decision.
We adjudicate certain measures in one court, or a series of courts, depending upon the scale of its affect.
We contract for certain commons in one Thang, or many Thangs, depending upon the scale of its affect.
Among the classes (martial/masculine, commercial (neutral) and familial(priestly/female), we must often vary the means of decidability in order to preserve reciprocity.
In all cases we create procedures to preserve reciprocity while producing the returns of aggressive via negativa, and opportunistic via-positiva.
So the constitution (the milita’s self insurance) provides the principle organizing method. ALl else is via negativa and via positiva procedure so that the reciprocity necessary for sovereignty under a universal militia insuring one another’s sovereignty, is preserved through the institutions that allow that militia to scale and thereby create the returns on their singe most important investment: reciprocity of sovereignty.
(Note that I never fall into pragmatism throughout…..)
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 12:34:00 UTC
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Why I Am A Christian
It is pretty hard to be better than a good christian for the simple reason that the path to goodness – now from catholics as well as protestants – is ‘personal (direct) works of charity’ toward those in your proximity. (and I argue that all else is just virtue signaling – a kind of fraud and the opposite of the christian mandate). The principle virtue of such a mandate is that it’s entirely empirical. It’s deeds(actions) not beliefs(self congratulations) or rituals (self insulations). There is no better theology than action in the service of others. If you can do so my charity (caretaking). If you can do so by production (trade) If you can do so by war (violence) Germanicized Christianity (as of vatican II, we are all protestants now) creates the civil society. Everything else is just virtue signaling so someone else does the work, pays the costs, or takes the risk, and you can feel good about escaping from it. -
Why I Am A Christian
It is pretty hard to be better than a good christian for the simple reason that the path to goodness – now from catholics as well as protestants – is ‘personal (direct) works of charity’ toward those in your proximity. (and I argue that all else is just virtue signaling – a kind of fraud and the opposite of the christian mandate). The principle virtue of such a mandate is that it’s entirely empirical. It’s deeds(actions) not beliefs(self congratulations) or rituals (self insulations). There is no better theology than action in the service of others. If you can do so my charity (caretaking). If you can do so by production (trade) If you can do so by war (violence) Germanicized Christianity (as of vatican II, we are all protestants now) creates the civil society. Everything else is just virtue signaling so someone else does the work, pays the costs, or takes the risk, and you can feel good about escaping from it.