Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect

Which side, exactly? Which part of history are we comparing?

Matt Easton outdoes himself in this video, I think:
 

Boy does this sentence rub me the wrong way in a historiographical sense.

Booooooorrrriiiiing.

I've known great cops. 
 
I've seen shit cops. 
 
Cops are people.  People given power.  That can do different things to different people.  
 
Then mix in life-threatening situations.  Some cops just want to make it home unscathed. 
 
Some cops are shit. 
 
Some cops are great. 
 
We see plenty of the shit ones thanks to this new wondrous age of instant information.  And those stories get more readers/viewers/ad money than feel good stories of cops. 
 
I don't trust cops, but I don't hate them. They are employed by our tax dollars, and should be held accountable as employees of the state. But I do understand the stresses, and I'll never hold judgement until I've seen both sides of the story. 

That's some Ayn Rand fap material, that is.

I have already written four shitty fantasy novels. They are so bad, sturgis-man refuses to read them.
But I suspect that he secretly can't read...

Oh hell yes.
 
I support mandatory body cams for cops 3000%.
 
Protects the cops, protects the people.  Any missing footage during a shift = automatic suspension until the cause is found. If it could be done technologically, I'd say it automatically flags footage or broadcasts to the station when a weapon is drawn.
 
Edit:  47% drop in use of force and 41% drop in complaints in San Diego.  31% drop in use of pepper spray.
 
http://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2015/03/26/body-cameras-shown-to-limit-use-of-force-by-san-diego-police/

I have already written four shitty fantasy novels. They are so bad, sturgis-man refuses to read them.
But I suspect that he secretly can't read...

I read this entire post, and the experimentalist in me feels victimized. 
 
Since you're in thermo (join the club), you should also know that carnot cycles for anything only give a dimensionless efficiency value designating the maximum energy transfer rates, ignoring all other variables, at a set temperature (or pressure if you get wonky). 
 
So, yes, a heavier bullet would, on paper, be more efficient with combustion. 
 
But that efficiency gain is peanuts when compared with what crimping does to a cartridge. The difference in projectile mass on a small arms scale is negligible thermodynamically given your scenario. 
 
Now, if you're putting together a potato cannon, we can get together and talk numbers. That's a much more interesting process, in terms of PdV etc etc. Plus it's something anyone can do!
 
I'm currently (in my off time that's not spent sending dirty pictures to Sturgeon) looking at building a PVC pipe gauss cannon. 

I read this entire post, and the experimentalist in me feels victimized. 
 
Since you're in thermo (join the club), you should also know that carnot cycles for anything only give a dimensionless efficiency value designating the maximum energy transfer rates, ignoring all other variables, at a set temperature (or pressure if you get wonky). 
 
So, yes, a heavier bullet would, on paper, be more efficient with combustion. 
 
But that efficiency gain is peanuts when compared with what crimping does to a cartridge. The difference in projectile mass on a small arms scale is negligible thermodynamically given your scenario. 
 
Now, if you're putting together a potato cannon, we can get together and talk numbers. That's a much more interesting process, in terms of PdV etc etc. Plus it's something anyone can do!
 
I'm currently (in my off time that's not spent sending dirty pictures to Sturgeon) looking at building a PVC pipe gauss cannon.