Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

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Oh Long Johnson said:
Occam's Razor tells me she likely had her phone stolen, along with all the passwords stored on it, requiring her to change passwords on all her accounts.
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She just replaced a broken iphone. I find it plausible it was sold for parts by a scrub at the genius bar or else wu begged them for the old one and she sold it on ebay herself.
The "attack" could have even just been someone powering it up at the refurb out of the US to test the wifi and then suddenly all her accounts were like "I notice you never leave the country we need you to verify your account"
 
Quasar said:
The AR-15 is the designation given to the civilian version of the M-16.

One of the defining factors of an assault weapon is the capacity for automatic fire (this means when you hold the trigger down, the weapon will continue to fire until it is out of ammunition or you release the trigger). As sold, the AR-15 is only capable of semi-automatic fire (this means the trigger must be pressed and released for each round fired), while the M-16 is capable of full automatic (and burst fire in later models, which fires 3 rounds for each trigger pull).

Thus, by definition the AR-15 is NOT an assault weapon, while the military version of the same weapon (the M-16) is an assault weapon.

This is an argument that does nothing but serve to derail the actual point. Anti-gun advocates like to use the term "assault weapon" because it sounds scary. Pro-gun advocates like to focus on their incorrect use of the term to argue against rather than the actual issue. It's an appeal to emotion vs an appeal to the dictionary, and accomplishes about as much as the athiest vs christian debates that are all over youtube.

Part of the problem here is that people are focusing on whether the rifle was an assault weapon or not, and it frankly doesn't matter. What matters is that this man was a crazy person who decided to do damage, and how many times he had to pull the trigger on whatever weapon he chose to use to do so is frankly academic. It would have been just as tragic if he had used pistols, and someone familiar with them could have done just as much harm just as quickly in a place like that.

Edit... Way more information than you requested, sorry for the screed.
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You've got the essence of the issue mostly right, but there's a couple errors I'd like to address if you'll allow me to sperg on the topic for a sec:

The term you are looking for to describe the M16 is "assault rifle". Assault rifle is the term generally used to define rifles that are capable of full auto or burst fire (not in a legal sense however).

"Assault weapon" is an actual term, but it is a rhetorical, and later legal, construction, used to describe some semi-automatic firearms. Not all semi-automatic firearms, just some of them.

Looking over wikipedia, the "history" section for the assault weapon article is fairly accurate so if you want to look into the origin of the term, that's not a bad place to start. Short story: the term was either created as slang by gun importers and enthusiasts to describe the influx of military style semi-auto weapons (mostly rifles) that started appearing all over in the 80s and later appropriated by gun control groups because it's a great term if you don't like those kinds of guns, or it was originally created by gun control groups (because they don't like those types of guns). I remember reading about the history in more depth years ago that lead me to subscribe to the former theory, but I can't find the posts that dealt with that subject at the moment to provide more detail so I will leave it at that.

Anyway

For all practical rhetorical extents and purposes "assault weapon" is a term used to describe "semi-automatic rifles that look scary/"military style"". It's a brilliant term because you can get away with calling a gun that isn't an "assault rifle" (semi-auto rifles are not super regulated in the USA) something that sounds a lot like "assault rifle" (assault rifles being highly regulated around here, but legal to own with significant paperwork and money), and thus leave people with the impression that legally owned assault rifles are on every street corner (they aren't) without technically being factually incorrect because "assault weapon" doesn't mean "assault rifle".


For legal purposes the term "assault weapon" varies in definition from state to state (in the USA). Some states do not have assault weapon laws. Others do. In the case of Orlando, the weapon used in the shooting is not legally an "assault weapon" in Florida (iirc, FL doesn't have an assault weapon ban), whereas in NY State or California, it probably is (as both those states have assault weapon bans). As a broad generalization, the definition of assault weapon will typically fall into two categories:

One category is make/model prohibitions, usually meaning there's a list, and if the gun's name is on that list, you can't have it. Lists such as these usually become outdated as manufacturers change names and models to get around this. For example, the AR-15 is banned in California. But that's just the Armalite model, so you can walk into pretty much any gun store in CA and buy something that looks like, and functions like, and is dimensionally identical to an AR-15, but isn't, because Armalite doesn't make it.

The other category is "evil feature" prohibitions. These are laws that define what "features" semi-automatic cannot have, and these features are nearly always cosmetic. Frequent offenders on the list of "features" are pistol grips, "flash hiders", folding or collapsing stocks, and vertical forward grips. It's no coincidence that these cosmetic features also make weapons that possess them look more like military arms, and in most cases the semi-automatic versions of military rifles are just manufactured with those features to begin with. Typically the way people get around these prohibitions is removing the "evil features" out of state, making the gun legal for sale and ownership in state.

Sometimes the "evil feature" definition also includes differences in the location of mechanical features. For example, in California one of the features semi-auto pistols cannot have without being classified as an assault weapon is being fed from a detachable magazine outside the pistol grip, note that pistols fed from a magazine within the pistol grip are acceptable (it's still semi-auto, and it's still fed from a mag).

Also in some cases assault weapon definitions include prohibitions against specific mechanical features, for example, again in California, any shotgun (not just semi-automatic) that is fed from a "revolving cylinder" is an assault weapon, but this is not super common (note, very few shotguns are fed from a revolving cylinder, look up the striker/protecta to read about the fun mechanical issues that oddity had).

If you want to see what some laws look like state to state, wikipedia is actually a fairly good place to start.
 
DragoonSierra said:
What is it then?


Is there any way to track characters in FF14?




Dont Unreal Engine games data usually lie in a folder called "CookedPC?" Maybe this is what she is referring to? Does Unreal community use this lingo?
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If you know their name and server you can track them on SE's lodestone website.
 
ActualKiwi said:
The Feminist War Cult FC (Free Company aka Guild):
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/freecompany/9234771773411606380/
The only white mage in the FC:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/10856043/
Looks about the right level? Face doesn't match though. Different race than the one in her Twitter pic too.
Only 4 members, that made me laugh
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Actually, that COULD be her. She's only a couple levels higher than in the screenshot posted to twitter AND she could have easily bought a Fantasia ($10 a pop) to change her race (the character on the lodestone is now a Miqo'te (catgirl), whereas on twitter she was an Au Ra).
 
You people give her way too much credit.

We all know she likes to ham up her "harassment" for her twitter audience. Like when I got her graduation records and that became "someone impersonating me to get my transcripts." If there's anything behind this alleged attack at all, I'm guessing it's that she was included in the recent dump of twitter account information and twitter forced her to change her password.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Oh look, the same exact picture she always uses. Shocker.

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WHY WOULD YOU BRING ATTENTION TO THIS?!
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John will likely use this to either
A) Excuse him whenever he says something even more stupid than his usual Twitter spewings
B) Delay Rev60 more due to a staged false flag troll attack and ring in some more patreon bux.
Peace and Harmony said:
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI
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Wait... mostly men, about 2 or 3 women, and no people with dark skin!
Maybe John should file a complaint/twitter hashtag war to get Relay.FM to hire more diverse people!

Peace and Harmony said:
Bob 4chan strikes again!

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CHOICE B WAS CORRECT! [See first response]

John, you're not a game developer. You merely scammed kickstarter backers out of $12,000 and burned $400,000 of your husband's money on a failed IOS game. Nor are you a woman.
 
Von Clausewitz said:
Out of curiosity: How easy is it to replace the trigger mechanism (?) to allow the AR-15 full automatic fire?
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For drop in kits designed specifically for AR-15s, not much more difficult than installing a trigger normally is, assuming someone didn't seriously screw up the inner dimensions of the lower receiver resulting in the bits not fitting.

If you have the proper full auto or burst fire trigger parts designed for registered full-auto receivers, you would need to do some non-trivial work on the lower receiver to accommodate the extra bits (full auto on the right, standard semi-auto on the left). That work and the resulting lower receiver would be very illegal unless you have the proper manufacturing permits and file the appropriate paperwork.
 
DragoonSierra said:
What is it then?
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The AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle.

Assault rifles, by definition, can fire in automatic mode. That is, they will fire continuously, like a machine gun, as long as the trigger is held down.

To reporters and the gun-control crowd, an "assault weapon" is any gun that "looks scary," which is most of them. Like Wu, they are also fond of calling any kind of pistol a Glock. I believe the following chart was created by The Associated Press.

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EDTI: Ninja'd by @Quasar and @The Nameless One and possibly others.
 
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I used one of my burner accounts to tweet a polite question to Johnny about Rev 60 and release.

I was perfectly polite; just asked "do we have a release date for Revolution 60 yet?" The account is perfectly normal, 3 years old, couple hundred followers and not on any block bit list.

The result?

Insta Blocked.

Makes me wonder how Johnny will be able to endure the real scrunity when if he ever releases Rev 60 to the wild. I think all the criticism might break his brain...
 
Oh she's jumped coasts, that makes a lot of sense actually probably used her debit card and the company shut it down until they could verify-- suddenly that became HACKEZORED!
 
FatNero said:
Oh she's jumped coasts, that makes a lot of sense actually probably used her debit card and the company shut it down until they could verify-- suddenly that became HACKEZORED!
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That's likely what happened. If the account was targeted maliciously or potentially affected by a security breach, the bank likely would've phoned immediately after the card was used, asked if the usage was legitimate, and then disabled the card and mailed out a new one. Unless Brianna's been tweeting about how horrible it is that she has to wait for new cards to arrive through snailmail (I'm trying to not look at her twitter account to preserve brain cells), it's much ado about nothing.
 
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