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In the opening episode of this season's "Breaking Bad," the cops raided the headquarters of the bad guy. The cops confiscated a laptop computer and checked it into the police property room. Obviously, when the cops got around to looking through the computer's files, Walt and his buddy would be screwed. Oh, what to do?

The got an OLD delivery truck with an aluminum shell. In this truck, they mounted the business end of a magnetic junk crane, you know the type, about five feet in diameter and capable of picking up trashed automobiles. Also in the van they mounted 42 heavy-duty batteries.

During the night, they drove the truck up against the back wall of the police property room and threw the switch.

It was a hoot to see all the shelving and metal property leave its location and hug the wall!

The cops were, um, call it confused to see everything in the property room in disarray. Then they found the truck, tipped over against the back wall.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

A Veteran I know was found dead in her rented home recently. She had been trying to get disbility. She served at the wrong time to get non service connected, and SS screwed her around so long that it killed her. :(

Hall effect sensors near the mag switch would be real fun to defeat.

It takes an alternating magnetic field to demagnatise a disk and the permananat magnets inside the drive have a higher density that that would have provided. Of course, you can't expect a script writer to know that. Like an episode of McGyver years ago: He was inside a nuclear reactor and the control for the 'alarm system' was built on Radio Shack perf board.

I've been thinking of getting a firearm again but the only problem for me is my arthritic hands. I can't even shake hand with folks at times because of it and I cant imagine the pain the recoil of any type gun would cause me much less being able to hold on to the darn thing. The last pistol I owned was a 9mm Browning Hi-Power which really didn't have that much kick with standard ball or semi-wadcutter ammo but I had it loaded with military surplus sub machine gun ammo and the darn thing kicked like a mule and sounded like a howitzer going off. I'll have to get a sissy gun I suppose but those can be deadly too. ^_^

TDD

What would that be? Semi .22 rimfire, maybe? Small round, and slide action to help absorb the recoil?

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I've been thinking of getting a firearm again but the only problem for me is my arthritic hands. I can't even shake hand with folks at times because of it and I cant imagine the pain the recoil of any type gun would cause me much less being able to hold on to the darn thing. The last pistol I owned was a 9mm Browning Hi-Power which really didn't have that much kick with standard ball or semi-wadcutter ammo but I had it loaded with military surplus sub machine gun ammo and the darn thing kicked like a mule and sounded like a howitzer going off. I'll have to get a sissy gun I suppose but those can be deadly too. ^_^

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Elephant guns are for shooting elephants, so Sissy guns are for shooting liberal sissies? ;-)

If mineral oil comes from minerals. Where does baby oil come from?

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Elephant guns are for shooting elephants, so Sissy guns are for shooting liberal sissies? ;-)

The drug store. If you can pry it out of the hands of some whining, crybaby liberal.

A 40 grain LRN is a whole lot better than nothing or missing with a 9mm.

I had a narrow range thermal intermittent failure of the Hall effect sensor in the distributor of my old van some years ago. I coined the term "The Goldilocks Effect". The temperature has to be just right for a semiconductor to work. I've come across this on a number of occasions over four decades in all sorts of solid state equipment that used discrete semiconductors. I even had a transistor act like an inductor in the IF stage of a two way radio at room temperature one time and chilling it down caused it to behave. If those immortality pill I bought off The Interweb work, I guess I'll live long enough to see everything. The pills are supposed to give my a giant schlong too, it claimed to do so in the Email. ^_^

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I don't know. The Mossad seems to shoot damn near anyone they want to with .22's. A suppressed 10/22 is great for crowd control. Quietly kneecap them from 100 yards and all any of Abdul's friends know is that he stumbled and is having trouble getting up. It looks a lot better on the 6 o'clock news than tear gas, water cannons, or non-lethal projectiles.

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Take a look at the walther 22 semi pistol

I had a Delco '60s car radio that I put five temperature sensitive transistors in. I used it to see if newly hired techs knew what they were doing. Some worked hot, other worked cold, and all five had theirown temperature range. I had one hotshot spend half a day on it before he quit and walked out of the shop. It was funny watching them with a can of freeze mist in one hand, and a heat lamp in the other as they tried to decide which part was bad. A VTVM to measure the collect voltages would have shown them the faults in under a minute.

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 28 Jul 2012

Hey, that sounds like a Good Idea.

But I'm afraid if I walk into the local gun store and ask for a "Sissy Gun" I will be laughed at. And that could be bad for my self-esteemed. (Or, like Agorn*, I could chose to be amused.)

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"Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 28 Jul 2012

Aren't the electromagnets on those booms A/C powered?

OTOH, in "Cryptonepricon" (Or however it is spelled - Neil Stephenson's book) the "good guys" built large magnetic coils into the door and window frames of the server room. Any computer drive taken out of the server room without first killing the main power - got wiped. When they said they offered secure data storage, they meant it.

Good thing, I've talked with many friends over the years about how They got Missile (etc) Security all wrong - and the consensus was usually "Do you really want them to get it right?"

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I was thinking about getting SWMBO a Walther PPK/S but couldn't decide on .32 or .380.

Wounding a druggie will only be pissed off. A sane mugger will retreat upon sight of the weapon and not stop to look at the bore. The slasher the other day was subdued by his eyeballs after seeing the weapon.

Perhaps, but "42 heavy duty batteries" aren't. ;-)

I doubt they could get the magnetic flux density necessary to write a modern disk drive.

Right. No need to know. It just ruins the story line. ;-)

OTOH, I understand that Tom Clancy has been interviewed a couple of times because of some of the details in his submarine scenes.

Except in theaters that ban firearms. Just don't go and tell them why.