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"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" |
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02 Dec 2007 09:02:48 PM |
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New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670
Tasers: the next generation
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung - Staff Reporter
The Taser is going wireless.
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended
range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a
kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a
standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.
The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls
and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and
activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and,
unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP
lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without
risking injury to officers."
Taser International spokesperson Steve Tuttle says the XREP would be
perfect in a standoff. "Here's someone you just don't want to get
anywhere near," he says.
The XREP is one of two major new applications the Scottsdale, Ariz.,
company is preparing to field test, a prospect that makes Taser's critics
anxious. They say more study is needed of the old products, let alone the
new.
(snip)
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| User: "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
06 Dec 2007 01:35:34 PM |
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"Hell Stomper" <stardusthevn@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0de455ea-e555-4afc-b7c0-e8d98934c7b1@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 3, 2:56 am, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
<beta...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:25 am, beavis <smuttbut...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I say outlaw ALL tasers. There are too many pussies crying about it.
Let the cops pull their .45's and kill the scum. That will be less
***** clogging up the courts.
That's what i say. Hell - let's just kill everybody.
YEAH!!! HIT WITH STICK!!!
HIT WITH STICK!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
HIT WITH STICK!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Don't tase yourself, bro!
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| User: "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
06 Dec 2007 01:36:30 PM |
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"Kevin Cunningham" <smskjc@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:89436454-12dd-4b7a-812f-d6edd006608a@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 3, 2:25 am, beavis <smuttbut...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Dec 2, 10:02 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670
Tasers: the next generation
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung - Staff Reporter
The Taser is going wireless.
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts
attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense
muscle
contraction.
But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended
range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a
kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from
a
standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.
The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls
and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and
activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away,
and,
unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP
lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody
without
risking injury to officers."
Taser International spokesperson Steve Tuttle says the XREP would be
perfect in a standoff. "Here's someone you just don't want to get
anywhere near," he says.
The XREP is one of two major new applications the Scottsdale, Ariz.,
company is preparing to field test, a prospect that makes Taser's
critics
anxious. They say more study is needed of the old products, let alone
the
new.
(snip)
I say outlaw ALL tasers. There are too many pussies crying about it.
Let the cops pull their .45's and kill the scum. That will be less
***** clogging up the courts.
What I Got Out Of This Post, A Paper By Me
Police should kill every one they arrest. They are always right.
Except about my mommy and all her uncles.
So, how are your mom's uncles doing? You think they're gettin' any?
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| User: "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
06 Dec 2007 01:34:08 PM |
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"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote in
message news:Xns99FACBED0B7A5riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70...
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670
Tasers: the next generation
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung - Staff Reporter
The Taser is going wireless.
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended
range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a
kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a
standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.
The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls
and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and
activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and,
unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP
lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without
risking injury to officers."
Taser International spokesperson Steve Tuttle says the XREP would be
perfect in a standoff. "Here's someone you just don't want to get
anywhere near," he says.
The XREP is one of two major new applications the Scottsdale, Ariz.,
company is preparing to field test, a prospect that makes Taser's critics
anxious. They say more study is needed of the old products, let alone the
new.
(snip)
Cool. Wireless is always the way to go. It'd be great to own one of these.
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| User: "B1ackwater" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
06 Dec 2007 01:59:22 PM |
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:34:08 GMT, "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential
Candidate" <fakeranch@crawford.tex> wrote:
"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote in
message news:Xns99FACBED0B7A5riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70...
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670
Tasers: the next generation
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung - Staff Reporter
The Taser is going wireless.
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended
range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a
kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a
standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.
The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls
and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and
activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and,
unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP
lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without
risking injury to officers."
Taser International spokesperson Steve Tuttle says the XREP would be
perfect in a standoff. "Here's someone you just don't want to get
anywhere near," he says.
The XREP is one of two major new applications the Scottsdale, Ariz.,
company is preparing to field test, a prospect that makes Taser's critics
anxious. They say more study is needed of the old products, let alone the
new.
(snip)
Cool. Wireless is always the way to go. It'd be great to own one of these.
Careful ... if trends in police brutality continue you
may get to experience this new toy from the WRONG end :-)
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| User: "Jim Alder" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
03 Dec 2007 01:46:44 AM |
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"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:Xns99FACBED0B7A5riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70:
Gun nuts (antigunners, that is) have been crying for a nonlethal bullet
for years. Now they have one and they're still bitching? A shotgun shell-sized
projectile that knocks you down for 20 seconds would hardly have the juice to
kill anyone, I would guess, compared to the handheld unit with a much larger
battery. Plus you couldn't keep jolting the suspect like what was done lately
with some of these people.
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670
Tasers: the next generation
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung - Staff Reporter
The Taser is going wireless.
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended
range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a
kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a
standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.
The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls
and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and
activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and,
unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP
lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without
risking injury to officers."
Taser International spokesperson Steve Tuttle says the XREP would be
perfect in a standoff. "Here's someone you just don't want to get
anywhere near," he says.
The XREP is one of two major new applications the Scottsdale, Ariz.,
company is preparing to field test, a prospect that makes Taser's critics
anxious. They say more study is needed of the old products, let alone the
new.
(snip)
--
President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania
that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship,
provided they learn Spanish. - Ann Coulter
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| User: "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
06 Dec 2007 01:34:58 PM |
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"beavis" <smuttbutt34@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bd0c7cd1-2658-4563-9922-dd8ec6793336@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 2, 10:02 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/Technology/article/281670
Tasers: the next generation
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung - Staff Reporter
The Taser is going wireless.
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended
range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a
kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a
standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal already.
The first electrode hooks on to the target, the second electrode falls
and makes contact elsewhere on the body, completing the circuit and
activating the shock. It can blast someone as far as 30 metres away, and,
unlike the current stun guns, whose shock lasts five seconds, the XREP
lasts 20 seconds, enough time to "take the offender into custody without
risking injury to officers."
Taser International spokesperson Steve Tuttle says the XREP would be
perfect in a standoff. "Here's someone you just don't want to get
anywhere near," he says.
The XREP is one of two major new applications the Scottsdale, Ariz.,
company is preparing to field test, a prospect that makes Taser's critics
anxious. They say more study is needed of the old products, let alone the
new.
(snip)
I say outlaw ALL tasers. There are too many pussies crying about it.
Let the cops pull their .45's and kill the scum. That will be less
***** clogging up the courts.
Tasers are available to the public. For those too squeamish to consider
killing an assailant, they seem like the perfect weapon.
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| User: "Roedy Green" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
03 Dec 2007 02:06:50 AM |
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:02:48 -0000, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are
MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
When you want to subdue a lion, you don't shock it. That just makes it
angry. You tranquilise it. It seems to me we need a tranquilising
taser to deal with wild people.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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| User: "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
06 Dec 2007 01:37:43 PM |
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"Roedy Green" <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:97e7l3h0vvepkf0o768637e6pdf7l97tj6@4ax.com...
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:02:48 -0000, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are
MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
When you want to subdue a lion, you don't shock it. That just makes it
angry. You tranquilise it. It seems to me we need a tranquilising
taser to deal with wild people.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
If you were using the Taser for self defense, you could immobilize the
assailant long enough to get disarm him (or her), and perhaps get away.
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| User: "B1ackwater" |
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| Title: Re: New Taser - Wireless and Much Greater Range |
03 Dec 2007 07:10:13 AM |
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:06:50 GMT, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:02:48 -0000, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are
MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached
to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person
with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle
contraction.
When you want to subdue a lion, you don't shock it. That just makes it
angry. You tranquilise it. It seems to me we need a tranquilising
taser to deal with wild people.
Problem ... I'm unaware of ANY drugs that will reliably
tranquilize/subdue AND be safe and effective at a given
dose for the entire population under all conditions.
Remember the Russians attempt to tranquilize Chechen
terrorists who took over a theater ? Wound up killing
a quarter of the hostages. The fentanyl - a strong
synthetic opiate - they used didn't have enough of a
margin between the effective dose and a lethal dose.
In real life there are often "complications" too - some
of which have plagued users of standard Tasers. People
can have heart conditions or be on various meds that
can enhance the lethality of shocks or drug darts - or
render them totally ineffective.
OK ... there's ONE class of drugs that have a huge
margin between effective and lethal dose ... drugs
like LSD, DMT, mescaline ... psychedelics that operate
on the serotonin or dopamine circuits of the brain yet
have little impact on useful things like breathing
or heart-rate. 20-40 micrograms of LSD will make
someone pretty stoned, yet when the CIA was playing
around with the stuff they'd give foreign spies
doses in the half-GRAM range, once even a full gram,
without killing them.
So ... envision a dart carrying 500 micrograms of LSD
or an appropriate amount of some similar compound. With
injection the effect will be rapid and leave the target
totally spaced-out and talking to pixies. Once secured,
they can be taken to a hospital where appropriate
counteragents can be adminstered under controlled
conditions.
Of course there's a slight possibility their little brains
will *snap* from the big dose of psychedelics ... but so
long as the body is warm there's less of a PR problem than
corpse with taser wires hanging off of it.
Even thus, the "rapid" effect isn't "instant". If
dealing with someone likely to shoot or charge at
you with a deadly instrument you need IMMEDIATE
take-down. That means a gun or a taser.
We'll have to wait for someone to invent a proper
trekkie stun gun ... and it may be a long wait.
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