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[iceball3]

The irony being that if I did, he'd get a public defender....

Next week on True Truean, a court clerk's error causes Truean to be appointed to defend the man who assaulted her in the lobby.

That's just... gold... but terrible if it happened, be careful truean. D:

[Lagslayer]

So they're developing a new less-invasive treatment for pectus excavatum using implanted magnets.

That part doesn't make me sad. The fact that I'm too old for it does. One, because I would like to have mine fixed. And two...well, just look at it! Who wouldn't want to be Tony Stark?!? 

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An interesting solution, if incredibly slow.

We can all agree Tony Stark is awesome, but I don't really like the idea of having implants, myself.

[miauw62]

It would be pretty awesome to have an energy source inside yourself.
Then you'd just pull a cable out of your ear and plug it into the laptop to charge it.

[LordSlowpoke]

I just found out that Stockton, a city in California, went bankrupt. Turned into a shitstorm. I don't even know why I'm bothered by it, seeing it's an ocean and then a whole continent away, but to see them fucked over by banks so hard...

Edit: Alright, according to this source it's not the banks by themselves but poor management - suppose I should link you up in case you're interested.

[Lagslayer]

Don't give the machines any ideas! The Matrix is a bad thing!

[RedKing]

It would be pretty awesome to have an energy source inside yourself.
Then you'd just pull a cable out of your ear and plug it into the laptop to charge it.

Well, we already talked about MIT's glucose fuel cell that generates power out of your spinal fluid.

I just thought of another cool use for a chest-mounted supermagnet: Get some magnetized ferrous slugs, orient them so their polarity is repulsive from the magnet, and then tighten them down in some kind of remotely-triggerable tubes on the chest.

Voila! Chest-mounted railgun!  Short range, no doubt, but it'd be interesting to see what kind of initial velocity you could get. Could be the ultimate in concealed anti-mugging defenses.

[Heron TSG]

For anyone who misses the PM, the D&D thread in the FG&RP section is now operational.

[da_nang]

It would be pretty awesome to have an energy source inside yourself.
Then you'd just pull a cable out of your ear and plug it into the laptop to charge it.

Well, we already talked about MIT's glucose fuel cell that generates power out of your spinal fluid.

I just thought of another cool use for a chest-mounted supermagnet: Get some magnetized ferrous slugs, orient them so their polarity is repulsive from the magnet, and then tighten them down in some kind of remotely-triggerable tubes on the chest.

Voila! Chest-mounted railgun!  Short range, no doubt, but it'd be interesting to see what kind of initial velocity you could get. Could be the ultimate in concealed anti-mugging defenses.

You do realize that a railgun uses superconductors to create an extremely high current (in the MA-range, IIRC) very rapidly that induces a superstrong magnetic field between two rails (usually long ones, too)? You then have a ballistic object mounted on a conducting "cradle" placed on the rails, closing the circuit (and thus inducing the magnetic field in question). With current moving through the cradle, the cradle is affected by a magnetic force giving it an acceleration. Due to the high current, this acceleration is very large, enough to accelerate the projectile up to several km/s. (The magnetic field is reduced rapidly over time due to self-induction and Lenz's law as well as dissipation of the electric current output from the capacitors, assuming the rails haven't melted and broken the circuit.) Oh , and it looks like this:

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And you want to mount them on people's chests? I approve.

[Hanslanda]

It would be pretty awesome to have an energy source inside yourself.
Then you'd just pull a cable out of your ear and plug it into the laptop to charge it.

Well, we already talked about MIT's glucose fuel cell that generates power out of your spinal fluid.

I just thought of another cool use for a chest-mounted supermagnet: Get some magnetized ferrous slugs, orient them so their polarity is repulsive from the magnet, and then tighten them down in some kind of remotely-triggerable tubes on the chest.

Voila! Chest-mounted railgun!  Short range, no doubt, but it'd be interesting to see what kind of initial velocity you could get. Could be the ultimate in concealed anti-mugging defenses.

You do realize that a railgun uses superconductors to create an extremely high current (in the MA-range, IIRC) very rapidly that induces a superstrong magnetic field between two rails (usually long ones, too)? You then have a ballistic object mounted on a conducting "cradle" placed on the rails, closing the circuit (and thus inducing the magnetic field in question). With current moving through the cradle, the cradle is affected by a magnetic force giving it an acceleration. Due to the high current, this acceleration is very large, enough to accelerate the projectile up to several km/s. (The magnetic field is reduced rapidly over time due to self-induction and Lenz's law as well as dissipation of the electric current output from the capacitors, assuming the rails haven't melted and broken the circuit.) Oh , and it looks like this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And you want to mount them on people's chests? I approve.

...
I want that inside me.

[miauw62]

Make it booze-powered.
Drink a couple bottles of vodka, ravage town.

[Nega]

I was recently told that my grandfather died just yesterday. 

[Heron TSG]

Dude, read the thread again, you'll be pleasantly un-sad. (Unless you are sad about being incredibly wrong, but it would be balanced out by the fact that you can have higher stats.)

[Lord Inquisitor]

Things that made you sad today thread.

1 camera is knicked by brother, I NEED Camera!
2 UPS starts smoking, its 3yrs old and like the pc on the dot it drops dead. conspirisy I tell you
3 needed camera to log my ripping and soldering of Said UPS

UPS is back to gether but have not tried it, in case it goes on fire. Why do UPS's come with c14(kettle) ports now? I Need BS1363 (UK square 3 Pin)sockets damm you!

[alway]

So they're developing a new less-invasive treatment for pectus excavatum using implanted magnets.

That part doesn't make me sad. The fact that I'm too old for it does. One, because I would like to have mine fixed. And two...well, just look at it! Who wouldn't want to be Tony Stark?!? 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Are you kidding? That would be terrible! You couldn't get within 10 feet of a computer w/o screwing things up. D:

[Aqizzar]

Welp, my best friend is dying.  That is to say, my computer.  A couple weeks ago, Firefox started acting up, randomly crashing when Flash stuff was called up, and giving me an "error when closing" message when turned off that never seemed to effect anything.

A couple days ago, it started getting really bad.  Yesterday it took half an hour to boot up and randomly froze and hung ever couple minutes.  I couldn't do much to back up files, because moving files was itself an action that didn't work too well.

When I restarted it, thinking having Steam and Firefox and whatnot running was part of the problem, it wouldn't get past Windows boot up.  If I hard shut-down during startup, it'll go to a safemode-ish Startup Repair, but claims it didn't find any problems and still failed to start again.  Now I get a BIOS message about a drive failing, the Statup Repair can go for an hour without finishing, and starting up normally just gets to the Windows splash page and stays there.  I think.  I have it running at home right now, so when I get back I'll see if eight hours was enough time to boot to login.

I have a feeling it was hit by static or a power surge, which means even if I fix it, this could happen again.  And I haven't backed up any files since I got this computer.  I'm really really hoping that the harddrive itself isn't fried, but if it is, I just might have to die with it.  I'm going to try to plug it into my old desktop today (which itself was on its last legs when I replaced it) and try for a miracle so I can back up mah junk.

Then I can get to work fixing it.  Damn.