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-What real evidence did they have to think the laptop was a bomb?
-Why didn't they x-ray it?
-What's wrong with simply disassembling it with a robot or something? Less of a risk of "taking people's shit for no reason and shooting it."
-Has she filed an official complaint to the government? If I were here, I'd make a huge fucking deal of it.
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;)
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"Ya, that's a bomb... put a couple bullets in it, it'll be safe after that..."
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Brief explanation on disrupters from NOVA: "the slug of water which it projects bursts in all directions, and it tends to burst the bomb open from the inside. The idea, remember, is not to set the bomb off. It's to knock it apart, so you can gather up the components, but not to cause the bomb itself to explode. And out comes the pin."
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Not for killing people like video games have suggested.
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@BlackYoshi: It's also used for vehicle interdiction. In the case of long range ordnance disposal, they use an explosive round.
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Keep your stuff as close as possible.
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She was instructed to do so. Either one person told her to leave it there while she was being questioned, and someone else reported it as being suspicious, or they told her to leave it there specifically so they could collect and shoot her laptop.
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There has to be a part of the story she's keeping to her self, knowing the Israeli Government isn't going to explain it's side of the story to anyone, and if they do, it most likely won't make the news over here in the states.
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Didn't they do that to Bill as a prank in Newsradio?
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What actually causes the explosion when a bullet pierces a propane tank is not the heat of the bullet, but any sparks created by hitting the metal canister. It is well documented that gas cans have been shot leaving nothing more than two holes in the can itself.
If it had explosives in it, the bullets were very unlikely to set it off. Still, I don't see the reasoning behind shooting the thing either.
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Exactly. In fact, a full metal gas tank should be more likely to just leak after being shot, as liquid gasoline is not explosively flammable (it's the gasoline vapors that combust).
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Ah, yes. Well, there are actually differences in the way they'd behave. A gasoline tank won't blow up on its own. A propane or butane tank could, if the physical structure is breached in the right way, explode even if it doesn't combust. That explosion could cause bits of the tank to spark against each other, which would then lead to post-explosion combustion. This would never happen with a gasoline tank.
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I'd offer you the name of a country that noone really cares about, but I don't really care about them enough to know their names.
Ooh, ooh, wait! I know! Andora can be Linux. You know, that little three-city nation that sits on the border between Spain and France.
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I will not travel to Israel, because I would be too tempted to tell them that both they and everyone around them who has problems with them are all dumb, and someday after you're all dead, God is going to call you all into his office and ask why all his children, who are also brothers, can't get along, and nobody's going to have a good answer, and God will make everyone watch 10,000 years worth of video footage of kids with missing limbs or dead parents or just general shell shock.
And that is what I have to say about that.
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Interesting.@MiltoxBeyond: Yeh...that's true.
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EDIT: Everyone had that question.