1984Echoes

The Tigers moved up in this years draft. Not the Wings or Pistons but...

Totally ****ed by the lottery. I F'ing HATE lotteries. Just in case I haven't mentioned that before...

Keith has added 120 points to his OPS tonight, so far... From .791 to .912

How about a medical study University of Utah: https://webpath.med.utah.edu/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINJ.html#:~:text=Wounding is an extremely complex,even under controlled test conditions. The higher the velocity of the bullet, the more kinetic energy, and the greater the temporary cavity size, which may be more than 10 times the caliber of the bullet... Rifle bullets generally have a high velocity >2000 feet per second (fps), or >609.6 meters per second (mps), while bullets fired from handguns more typically have lower velocity. Bullets that traverse tissue without deformation or tumbling impart less kinetic energy and are more likely to exit the body. Or do you want a US Governmental study on the "Physics and Biophysics of Wound Ballistics" repeating everything I just said above? https://medcoeckapwstorprd01.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/pfw-images/borden/conventional-warfare/Chap4Pages1-12.pdf I'm not certain what NRA PROPAGANDA Archie is going to cite to try and refute this... nor do I care. Just know that I KNOW that how, when and with WHAT, an attempt is made to refute these studies that they are propaganda BS, pure and simple.

Fragmentation is also a component of wound damage.. but is highly dependent on muzzle velocity. Too low a velocity drops the effectiveness of fragmentation wounding to almost nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56×45mm_NATO Fragmentation, if and when it occurs, imparts much greater damage to human tissue than bullet dimensions and velocities would suggest. This fragmentation effect is highly dependent on velocity, and therefore barrel length: short-barreled carbines generate less muzzle velocity and therefore lose wounding effectiveness at much shorter ranges than longer-barreled rifles. Here is the actual formula for kinetic energy (as you can see, Velocity is SQUARED... the higher the velocity, SQUARED, the MUCH HIGHER impact on kinetic energy than weight or anything else). Also, this is a forensics study that SPECIFICALLY talks about sonic damage ("shock wave") causing a larger stress cavity a point that I SPECIFICALLY made previously and Archie SPECIFICALLY refuted: https://www.whitemountainforensic.com/wound-ballistics-motion-effects-projectiles-human-body/ K.E. = W*V2/2g, where W = weight of the projectile V = velocity of the projectile g = gravitational acceleration What happens when a projectile impacts a human body? As the bullet enters the body it crushes and shreds tissue in its path – this creates a permanent cavity – the “bullet hole”. In addition, the energy of the impact is dissipated in a shock wave that radially flings surrounding tissue away from the path of the projectile, creating a cavity larger than the diameter of the bullet, this is the temporary stress cavity. The temporary stress cavity exists for around 5 to 10 milliseconds with a series of gradually smaller pulsations & contractions before the formation of a permanent wound track. The ultimate extent of the wound is determined by the kinetic energy on impact, extent of the temporary cavity and the amount of bullet fragmentation. Do you prefer a report on high velocity wound ballistics by the Police instead (this report attributes damage more to yaw than velocity, but yaw does not occur without the velocity, similar to fragmentation)? https://www.police1.com/police-products/firearms/articles/wound-ballistics-of-high-velocity-cartridges-3X2LZRf2FslJbLsF/ Wound ballistics of high-velocity cartridges The 5.56 x 45 mm cartridge fired from the M-16 rifle series (including the AR-15) is a 55 (or 62) grain bullet roughly three times the speed of modern handgun rounds. Dr. Vincent DiMaio, a renowned expert in wound ballistics, says ... that when a full metal jacketed 5.56/.223 round contacts human tissue it will travel along a circular path while beginning to yaw or turn sideways. This turning effect will become significant at 12 cm (approximately 4.7 inches). At the point of maximum yaw, the bullet will be turned at a 90-degree angle as it moves forward in the body. If the bullet remains intact, it will yaw to 180 degrees and continue to travel base first until it comes to rest. Handgun rounds do not yaw while traveling through human tissue. This turning or yaw effect releases tremendous kinetic energy into the tissue surrounding the permanent cavity created by direct bullet contact with human tissue. Not only is the permanent cavity larger due to the sideways path of the bullet, thereby destroying more tissue through direct bullet contact, but the surrounding tissue, i.e., tissue not directly touched by the bullet, is severely impacted as well. This surrounding tissue is called the temporary wound cavity. DiMaio reports that this temporary cavity will have a diameter from 11 to 12.5 times the diameter of the bullet itself. Damage to the tissue in the temporary cavity will include “severe…compression, stretching, and shearing of the displaced tissue. Injuries to blood vessels, nerves, or organs not struck by the bullet, and at a distance from the [bullet] path can occur.”

I have one additional point to clean up: A while ago, Archie and I got into an argument over muzzle velocity causing battlefield, or sonic, damage. I stated that high velocity weapons were developed to inflict greater wound damage, Archie called that bogus. I was in the Army. I don't know if Archie ever was in the military. I specifically worked with the M-16 rifle, designed SPECIFICALLY to be a lighter, lower caliber, higher velocity weapon than the M-4. I don't know where Archie is getting his answers on this... but I am guessing he is only reading NRA propaganda, and has absolutely no clue what he's actually talking about. Weapons designers SPECIFICALLY found out that lower caliber-higher velocity bullets caused more wound damage than higher caliber-lower velocity bullets: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/ Nearly a century before American troops were ordered into Vietnam, weapons designers had made a discovery in the science of “wound ballistics.” The discovery was that a small, fast-traveling bullet often did a great deal more damage than a larger round when fired into human or (for the experiments) animal flesh.

I'd look at the first few teams drafting immediately after us... within the top 4 I think. If we could get another asset (a young player), plus drop from #2 to 3 or 4, and still get a player Weaver wants... to me that's 1st choice. Now, granted, I have no clue how NBA draft trades work, especially within the top 6 picks or so... so I might be totally talking out my, umm, yeah. Maybe those trades are non-existent. But I'd be looking for some young 3&D guy to add to a top 4 draftee... if that's workable/ viable/ realistic. First choice IMO. I think that works within the top 4 or maybe even 5 (I don't know where the drop offs are this year)... but at 6 (trading up to 2) I'm asking for next year's 1st as well. Maybe that's too much... but I'm asking... I believe quality trumps quantity in the NBA by a monstrous margin and that's what NBA GM's both believe and operate on... that belief. So I'm asking outside of (I think) the top 4 for an overwhelming package. Also, on that basis... what package could we be offered for the #1 pick (if we are so fortunate) that is a trade "offer that just cannot be refused." ditto.

I can add one more: The 2017 Las Vegas Mass MURDER was done with bump stocks. 60 dead, 413 wounded. By ONE MAN. Without the bump stocks, casualties would have been drastically lower. A ban on bump stocks was put in place directly as a result of their use in the 2017 Las Vegas Mass MURDER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

Interesting concept. Although I don't think distance or location saves anyone from Putin's radioactive retribution if he so chooses it...

A bump stock causes the trigger (red) to be actuated when the receiver moves forward, being reset each round by receiver recoil. This allows semi-automatic firearms to somewhat mimic fully automatic weapons.

What does bump stocks mean? Bump stocks or bump fire stocks are gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing. Bump firing is the act of using the recoil of a semi-automatic firearm to fire ammunition cartridges in rapid succession. In effect, changing the actions of a semi-automatic into automatic firing actions.

Prigozhin is walking a fine line between self-aggrandizement and treason. A razor's edge... and I think he's on the verge of getting permanently sliced.

What he didn't tell anyone is that semi-automatics can be turned into an automatic with a bump stock and bump stocks sold like hotcakes when Trump was in power.

Conspiracy Theory: Putin poisoned Lukashenko with a radiation pill so when he dies he can move in and take over the country for an easy annexation: https://www.yahoo.com/news/rivals-putin-no-1-ally-180546290.html So who can move in faster once Lukashenko is dead? Democratic Byelorussian and Western forces, or Russian? My money is on the Russians, they're prepared for this, the west is not. Sorry Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

Durham = Fake News. Mueller = 6 (guilty convictions) Durham = 0 6-0, Mueller wins.

Violent American MAGA Fascists can Go **** Themselves.

Somewhere in here I went wild with a .500 prediction for the season. But I also said I was going to stick with that come rain or shine and, at 18-21 so far, I'm very comfortable with that. So... we'll see... But I'm in a good spot.

It will if he gets promoted in September. (I believe that is still a league rule...)

Elon Musk. Promoter of Fascism.

Panthers win = we pick at #17 instead of at #18 with the Islanders pick...

Sure... But it was over 8.1% once-upon-a-time. And there are still multiple headwinds against inflation continuing to bring it down. Not as quickly as we would like... but the direction is absolutely in the right... direction.

SOFT... LANDING... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-inflation-just-hit-lowest-231501354.html

Who is Don Banjojo?

I proposed a year ago adding Ukraine immediately to NATO under one of 3 methods: 1) Admit Ukraine into NATO as soon as they are under control of all lands west of the Dnieper River - they've done this... but under normal requirements of controlling all lands within a countrie's borders this is not a viable option per NATO specs... However, my contention right from the beginning was that Ukraine is an EU-leaning, and ferocious anti-Russian country, starting in 2014. I know they have issues still trying to clean up all the old Soviet or Russian influenced (read: Russian owned businesses within Ukrainian borders...at least prior to Feb-2022...) corruption; but they are pointed only in one direction: West. The normal NATO process (ratification by all members, control of borders, military and economic and anti-corruption standards up to EU specs...), all but holds this as only a distant possibility. But I have more immediate objectives and sentiments. 2) Join a Confederation with Poland and Lithuania. This was an old Empire in the 16-18th centuries (called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth if memory serves) which also included Byelorussia. Krakow-Warsaw-Kiev-Minsk-Vilnius. Give up sovereignty temporarily of Ukraine and conjoin with Poland immediately. This is a bit out of the box. But it automatically adds all Ukrainian territory (still west of the Dnieper) into NATO. Now NATO troops can swarm into "Poland" ("state" of Ukraine) immediately and establish a no-fly zone. Ukraine is "automatically" in NATO. All lands East of the Dnieper River, including Crimea, can be recognized as "disputed" lands. However, that means NATO and Russia are now immediately at war. Problematic for a lot of people. Not me, but... the "State of Ukraine" and the Nation of Poland directly in conflict with Russia over Crimea and all other occupied lands would cause severe heartache for those worried about Russia escalating into nuclear war. Me...? Call their bluff and confront them face-to-face. Add 50-100K NATO troops into western Ukraine ("State" west of the Dnieper) and let the Polish and Ukrainians decide what their intentions are with regaining all Ukrainian territories East of the Dnieper up to Russian borders (but not beyond) and including Crimea. 3) Establish a NATO no fly zone west of the Dnieper. Not with Ukraine as a part of NATO, but as a humanitarian necessity. Frees up Ukrainian troops, stops Russia from bombing Kiev and other western Ukrainian cities, and gives NATO an excuse to shoot down Russian jets and missiles and drones, as needed, in order to protect Ukrainian cities and citizens from Russian terrorism. But that's just me.

The United Kingdom: Ukraine should be in NATO. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-european-power-nato-cannot-070000405.html