At 12:01 AM 6/27/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >Interestingly, some [early] models had external antenna jacks built in to >them.
Again I am a few Moore's generations behind. (Does that make me a semi-Amish atheist? Or a reformed Luddite?) Where I vacation sometimes, I would need a metallized umbrella (or better) and tripod to find a cell basestation. And that rules out valleys leaving ridges, although a few hundred feet of RF cable isn't so expensive. I am aware of the need for non-fixed antennae for 802.11blah fun; I did not realize that modern cells don't have RF connectors. I have also heard of folks war-flying with a simple (tilted) dipole thus pointing part of the donut-shaped receptive region (orthogonal to the dipole) at the ground. >> Go for the head shot, they're wearing body armor > >If at close range, it is far easier to simply throw water at them prior to >firing. For one, the water acts as apowerful lubricant, effectively >removing the armor, huh? Wet kevlar is still strong, no? >and for two, it distracts the hell out of them ;-) The fundamental problem is the head is more agile than the C.G. However if you don't hit a seam, or aren't using something better than a handgun, only a rapid bit of ballistic neurosurgery will disable the target. Best to have enabled the claymores when your cameras notice a change. And as Mr. Burns says, to let the hounds loose. -------- A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. --George Washington
