My eye! Sweet Jesus, Ouch!

[FireKnife]

Truly a first world problem that I have.

 

My MP5K in all it's 260fps glory loves 0.2s.

 

I don't like bothering with 0.2s.

 

People seem to notice them less and the tiniest mouse fart of wind and they go all over the place. Add in the people that can't be bothered to take their hits (always seems to be in the group I am firing at) and voila, they are not that useful.

 

Saying that my MP5K also seems to work better without the stock which is great (the accuracy isn't amazing anyway so removing the time to shoulder and the weight over the slight accuracy increase is fine).

 

Now I end up using it like an oversized pistol with a gearbox in it than the typical fashion I see many AEGs used in. This is all fine with me, except the stupid 0.2s

 

'FireKnife'

[Habakure]

Comedy non-hit takes, tend to be people, who could have a sledge hammer hit them in the head, and still not call out 'hit'.

 

Reading comments about a proposed house to be used for the street drinkers (homeless), so that they can get help and also monitored. Things is, people are saying they're not a nausence so why do they need to be monitored? If they're not a problem, why do they need a safe area to drink. There are already places that offer help to people who are substance dependant (addicts), and the addicts choose not to go there (for many varied reasons). Free choice and all that guff.

 

What I don't get is that the council don't own the property yet think they can just take it over (the nhs have a lease on the property that expires in 16 years).

 

I talked to an aid worker a few years ago regarding the drink/drug problems people have. And there are people that have been using help centres for years (food, shelter and also medication) and have no intention of stopping (due to the help they receive). It's a catch 22 situation (help is already available but not used by most, unless it offers free food/medication). The people who do get help, and turn things around, generally do it via means available to you and I (nhs).

 

Maybe someone on here has experience with helping the vulnerable (people susceptible to substance abuse) or have been in a similar situation. I don't think opening a free house is a message of incourgaement to help give up a habit. But that is just my view and what others have told me (long term users don't change, poor buggers).

[hitmanNo2]

Imo, psychological issues need to be resolved first before just letting them have at it in such a place.

[Habakure]

That's my view as well. But the people trying to pay this through said that it would help them while they're attending. Which seems a bit wishful thinking, but again, that's my view of how a vulnerable person would view the place.

[hitmanNo2]

It will do nothing more than enable them in a comfortable setting.

 

Something like to stay there you are required to commit to therapy sessions in some regulated structure.  If you cannot stick to that then you leave.  It will weed out the ones that genuinely want to turn their life around and the ones happy to dos about on a nice sofa.

[Mike_West]

What exactly are you trying to do? As an electronics student I can probably help....also in my limited use of the 555 the supply voltage doesn't affect the timing interval much. What do you mean the resistor will kill the power?

Well, here's the thing: I need to have a 1-4 Hz pulse generator, it can even go a little faster if needed. Pretty much your basic 555 in astable configuration, maybe connected to a 4017 counter for better effect like KITT's hood light. Now here's the thinger: I decided to have 5V as default voltage - my testbed is powered by an USB cable, and complete project will be powered by an 8.4V airsoft battery or a backup source in the form of eight D-cells. Now, if you take your typical formula for resistance in a circuit, namely R=U/I, yadda yadda, a 10kOhm resistor connected to a power supply that can go only to 500mA will stop 5V from flowing. Sure, it might work if your power supply puts out at least 9V, but 5V? Nuh-uh. So, the only solution that crossed my mind was to ramp up the numbers in that 555 timing formula using a *fruitcage*-off huge capacitor along with resistors that will allow the flow of electricity at a level that would trigger all the functions.

 

Also, I had all of three hours of sleep tonight, if that, the weather is awful and I had to bin one of my Hawaiian shirts because of two huge holes on the back.

[scorch]

This might seem obvious, but why not just run it off 9v or even 12v if you already have the numbers sorted for it?

[Gunmane]

Just once I would like a class that is focused on military/warfare to not be entirely based on papers.  I realize that might be asking much, but really, I've written enough papers in this subject to fill two laptops up.  It's not easy and is more like busy work that serves little purpose other than to see how a professor's personal traits show up in grading.

 

Would help if I could actually see the first lesson video, but apparently I need a username and password to watch, which has not been issued or clarified to me.

 

Must resist urge to run over golfers at work later.

[paranoiddroid]

Useless *fruitcage* doctors I gave them the *fruitcage* scrip request for end of this month before I went away.... dated with when I needed it for (around the 28th) so I get fobbed off and gormlessed at and then they didn't sort it.... so go to out of hours clinic on Sunday.

 

Because of the drug I needed they couldn't just fax it to the OPEN supermarket with a *fruitcage* off huge has every drug ever pharmacy I was stood in having asked the pharmacist what to do in this situation. no that is too easy so I have to trek to the out of hours clinic and be seen in person....

 

Trek there for my apt which is past the last bus home.... can't drive because of the meds so I knew it would be expensive.

 

I am seen by some doctor who isn't from the area has no understanding of my issue, not even scanned my very very detailed notes and speaks English with such a thick accent whilst mumbling I have to ask repeatedly what on earth she was saying. A doctor asking what's wrong with your leg why do you walk with a cane isn't comforting when they have your whole file availible, they didn't know my gps surgery was real until one of the paramedics walking past turned round and said 'oh yeah that's round the corner from my place' they then finally after failing at I.T sorted me a scrip.

 

 

They sent me to a pharmacy that had been shut 3 hours so I hobble back to the hospital and I'm told I will either have to travel about 10 miles to one town or 14 to annother city as there isn't any late night pharmacist open in the whole of the town I am in and the hospital pharmacy is shut on a Sunday. They then suggest try a &e but because the hospital pharmacy is closed, they are working out of an a&e cupboard. The sole competent member of staff I met across the whole day checked and nope because it's a slow release drug they don't use it. (They'd use morphine for that role which I can't take)

 

So cab to station train to town then cab to pharmacy. Cockbreath out of hours doctor wrote me a scrip for a brand name version of a generic that 8 or 9 companis make all under their own brand names. Unfortunately because the scrip ws written for one company's version the pharmacist couldn't give.me the 5 days emergency supply because they are not allowed to substitute even if it's the same drug.

 

Now normally a pharmacist can request a corrected scrip faxed from the prescribing doctor and issue what they have but because it's a restricted drug. Even with the original scrip in hand and the doctor being phoned to authorise the correction then faxing that over they cannot accept that and issue the drug they would need to see the scrip....

 

So after £20 and about 6 hours I go home which because of the buses stopping at 630 is annother £15 cab with no drugs. I am sick tired sweating and going into light withdrawal pains and nausea because I don't have the MR meds in my system and haven't for the last 40 hours. I go home feeling like *suitcase* and have annother nights sleep sweating and shivering like a trainspotting extra.

 

 

Head to the docs today drop in my emergency scrip them go and enquire what the *fruitcage* happened. They issue my scrip immediately and comp me 25 back which was better than I expected tbh. So I toddle off back to the pharmacy and they give me my new scrip not my emergency scrip (fine irritating as I want the 5 day supply for emergencies but fine) and inform me they have the 40mg in but not the 20 and will have to order it for tomorrow.

 

Aaaaargh $&*&$&($&***&$&*$&($&*&$*(**#!!!!

 

So tl/Dr ordered my scrip a month ago when I needed it I kept getting 'they take a few days to process it' when checking last week after getting back from my trip. And they coat me my health, stress, a retarded amount of time (8hrs) and money (40) fixing their *fruitcage* up and I now have to waste even more *fruitcage* time tomorrow.

 

In the rest of the civilised world a pharmacist. The trained drug expect is allowed to use his judgement to substitute but apparantly in this country because the GP's are so paranoid that if anyone else gets prescribing powers they become less special in the eyes of the many and because they have their claws on the money a jack of all trades gp has more power than the trained medication specialist.

 

*fruitcage* aaaargh.

[hitmanNo2]

I am looking forward to seeing you on the news when you quit Gunmane.

 

I can't help but feel there will be a lot of this ha ha.

 

[scorch]

I wanted to wire a customer's electric golf trolley to run backwards just to spite the *bramston pickle*.

[amateurstuntman]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaargh

 

 

Wow.

 

My best mate is a pharmacist and things are pretty frustrating from his side too.

 

I'd have been so angry in that situation that I'd have come over all "Aspergersy", been unable to sleep and developed a nasty case of durchfall.

 

You have my sympathies.

[Gunmane]

Frankly, I am surprised the local carts haven't blown up themselves, considering how shoddy they were made.  Not a week goes by where we don't either have a few out of commission or having their windshields fall off spectacularly.

 

Watching this first "lesson video" for this American Military History course and I am just going "I learned this 10 years ago..."

 

Paranoid, seen that *suitcase* happen far too often for my folks and my sister, even though our health systems are different.  I just hope that someday my sister will be able to help people as a doctor and not end up as part of the system that just causes such nightmares.

 

Mother believes she needs to go in and see if her kidneys have failed more.  Keep telling her to take mine, but she won't even permit testing to see if I am compatible. 

[Stuey]

Well, here's the thing: I need to have a 1-4 Hz pulse generator, it can even go a little faster if needed. Pretty much your basic 555 in astable configuration, maybe connected to a 4017 counter for better effect like KITT's hood light. Now here's the thinger: I decided to have 5V as default voltage - my testbed is powered by an USB cable, and complete project will be powered by an 8.4V airsoft battery or a backup source in the form of eight D-cells. Now, if you take your typical formula for resistance in a circuit, namely R=U/I, yadda yadda, a 10kOhm resistor connected to a power supply that can go only to 500mA will stop 5V from flowing. Sure, it might work if your power supply puts out at least 9V, but 5V? Nuh-uh. So, the only solution that crossed my mind was to ramp up the numbers in that 555 timing formula using a *fruitcage*-off huge capacitor along with resistors that will allow the flow of electricity at a level that would trigger all the functions.

 

Also, I had all of three hours of sleep tonight, if that, the weather is awful and I had to bin one of my Hawaiian shirts because of two huge holes on the back.

 

That all sounds very doable, but I think you've got your wires crossed (haha! See what I did there?) in a couple of places - tell you what, why don't you start an 'Electronics help/advice' type thread here in Off-Topic and we can take this over there (rather than clog up this thread), there's enough people on here attempting DIY electronics projects that I think a thread might be handy.

[Habakure]

How to keep your children in the land of nod.

 

No1: don't run around your house like an excited kid on Christmas Eve.

No2: don't slam doors or hammer nails into wall.

No3: try not to shout or make loud noises from your vocal cords.

No4: shouting at anyone, to try and get them back to sleep is a no-no. No-one has ever fallen asleep to the calming sounds of a loud voice being nasty and slightly hysterical.

 

If you follow these simple rules, you won't wake your children up and will save them from the obligatory "shut up, get back to bed".

[shmook]

How to keep your children in the land of nod.

No1: don't run around your house like an excited kid on Christmas Eve.

No2: don't slam doors or hammer nails into wall.

No3: try not to shout or make loud noises from your vocal cords.

No4: shouting at anyone, to try and get them back to sleep is a no-no. No-one has ever fallen asleep to the calming sounds of a loud voice being nasty and slightly hysterical.

If you follow these simple rules, you won't wake your children up and will save them from the obligatory "shut up, get back to bed".

Mines still young enough to sleep through anything. For example, I was using an angle grinder to chop up 2mm aluminium plate tonight. Outside his bedroom window.

 

Not a peep from him!

[Habakure]

Was that just as he went to bed of a good 15 minutes after? When my first born was 3 months old, she 'd be asleep in her push chair while I hoovered up. Wouldn't wake her up, even though she was in the same room (just moved the Hoover around the push chair).

 

Out the above is to do with a two year old and a four year old. At those ages, you can wake them up for tom foolery (loud noises).

[amateurstuntman]

When I was a kid it was "back in bed or you get a smack" followed by a slow count down from 10 and then a smack (If I wasn't in bed).

[scorch]

When I was a kid it was "back in bed or you get a smack" followed by a slow count down from 10 and then a smack (If I wasn't in bed).

 

Same.

 

It worked.

[Habakure]

Was that after your parent(s) had woke you up? That's what I'm talking about here, parents waking their children up then acting all surprised that their children are awake. You woke them up numb nuts.

 

Got to say, wouldn't hit my child for getting out of bed. That's over kill. Wouldn't hit them full stop, as it never worked on me. And yes my father was a big man and had hands like shovels. So it wasn't because he was a little weed that couldn't scare a fly.

[Mike_West]

That all sounds very doable, but I think you've got your wires crossed (haha! See what I did there?) in a couple of places - tell you what, why don't you start an 'Electronics help/advice' type thread here in Off-Topic and we can take this over there (rather than clog up this thread), there's enough people on here attempting DIY electronics projects that I think a thread might be handy.

No need for that, I got another batch of parts delivered and I tried again with those (among others, a 100uF capacitor). I tamed the *motherloveboner*, and now it works.

 

This might seem obvious, but why not just run it off 9v or even 12v if you already have the numbers sorted for it?

Why not? Well, first because the whole project relies on low voltage bolt-ons of all sorts, for example an UV light that runs on 3,7V, maybe a laser pointer that will require 3V and other doodads that do not require 9V, by and large. Second, the 8,4V airsoft battery was the original idea, but then I thought that it could use some backup if both of my batteries run out in the middle of the photoshoot - so I came up with that D-cell pack. Third, it makes the whole circuit easier to test - I just plug the breadboard into USB port on my computer and it runs. No muss, no fuss.

 

But on the other hand, I overslept again, there's a CF at work due to planning changes in the procedures, and I didn't even have time to make a decent breakfast.

[FireKnife]

When I was a kid it was "back in bed or you get a smack" followed by a slow count down from 10 and then a smack (If I wasn't in bed).

 

I just heard the sound of a shotgun being racked.

 

Might explain why I am the way I am...............

 

 

'FireKnife'

[amateurstuntman]

Was that after your parent(s) had woke you up? That's what I'm talking about here, parents waking their children up then acting all surprised that their children are awake. You woke them up numb nuts.

 

Got to say, wouldn't hit my child for getting out of bed. That's over kill. Wouldn't hit them full stop, as it never worked on me. And yes my father was a big man and had hands like shovels. So it wasn't because he was a little weed that couldn't scare a fly.

 

 

No my parents were pretty quiet.

 

I didn't get smacked for getting you of bed, I got smacked for not getting back in bed after being given clear, calm instructions to do so and a 10 count to start moving.

 

Set clear rules, set consistent consequences should you break those rules.

 

Consistency is the key, or at least it is with me but I am a bit autistic.

[Habakure]

See I got other punishments. Never got out of bed unless I needed the toilet (that's because I like being in bed). I'm pretty good with rules and having structure thanks stunt, just think you can have punishment in a different way. It worked with me, so there's a strong chance it will work with my children. So far I haven't needed to, as they are both very young (8 months and 3 months).

 

But if a child gets out of bed crying, I think it's okay for a quick hug and then back to bed. Not to shout at them for getting out of bed due to parents being absolute gobshites.

 

My punishment (when I was little) entailed my toys or privileges being taken away. Doesn't work for everyone though, as I was quite a mild manner child (my terrible school days ensured I was worn out when I got home and all I wanted to do was play with my toys or play out side).

[amateurstuntman]

I was a bloody horror.

 

I relished the consistency at home because the pusishments at boarding school were "cruel and unusual" as well as inconsistent in application and severity.

 

The thing is I know that physical punishment is frowned upon these days but I think that is mostly down to idiots losing their tempers and beating their kids.

If you use it as the nuclear deterrent then it is extremely effective.

 

I hardly ever got smacked but I know that if I was acting out then I didn't follow instructions that it was there, the threat of a smack was an effective behaviour modifier.

 

I suppose naughty spots and such will work as well and the restrictions of privileges system at my school would have been effective had it been applied consistently.

 

Because a kid should understand (like I did) that having an electric light in your bedroom is a privilege, having a book or being allowed some music, being allowed to own anything in fact.

If you were at the bottom rung of the privilege ladder at school you got no pocket money, no access to the library or the games or sports equipment, no posters on your walls and the lights were turned out in your room, which you were in at 2000hrs.

The problem was different staff and prefects would drop you different numbers of rungs for the same infraction or sometimes multiple people would punish you for the same thing.

 

Highly unjust.