Awesome Stuff: Rubber Band Guns
from the weapons-of-minor-destruction dept
For the first awesome stuff post of the new year, we decided to go with something fun: rubber band guns. Not sure exactly why, but it just feels appropriate.- First up we've go the Palladium Gun, a rubber band gun kit that lets you create a basic rubber band gun that can hold 10 rubber bands.
- Of course, one reason why the Palladium might not be getting that much attention is... because of the Rubber Band Machine Gun with unique Fast Charger -- or the RBMG, for short. Rubber band machine guns are not a particularly new concept. And, in fact, there was another one on Kickstarter just a few months ago. But the RBMG seems to have gone bigger and better than many of the previous designs -- and costing less than many comparable rubber band machine guns. The damn thing can shoot 672 rubber bands in a single go -- releasing all of them in about a minute. Oh, and the other useful bit is the "fast charger" device that he's offering with it, because without it, I imagine that spending the time to load up 672 rubber bands might not be that much fun.
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Possession of a rubber band gun should be good for at least 20 years in a place where the sun don't shine.
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That's a bit of a red flag. There have been a rash of kickstarter "projects" that are really reselling existing imported items.
Given the construction, laser cut plywood and hardware store nylon fasteners, this probably is a legitimate kickstarter.
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Hindu Invasion
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And this is why the h1-b program exists.
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I know where I work there has been a worker shortage for a few years, as the vast majority of US applicants aren't anywhere near qualified to do the work. If it weren't for the h1-b program, we'd be absolutely screwed.
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Kickstart this
Any non-douche who invents a decent rubber band gun would put the design on the internet so anyone can 3D print their own.
I'm starting to hate the very idea of kickstarter. If your idea is worthwhile, you shouldn't need charity. It's why God invented the selling of shares of stock. I hate the beggy nature of kickstarter, where you're supposed to give someone money on the promise, no takes-backsies, that you might someday produce the product and that if you give extra money, you're going to get moral starbursts from the twenty-something who's paypal account it is.
Just look at the damage that kickstarter has done to the gaming world. Nobody can finish a game any more and a ton of really crappy games with wonderful trailers have flooded the market. Every game that looks decent is coming out in the fourth quarter of "next year" and now established companies, who goddamnit should be able to raise the capital are starting to hold out their cups, too. And not one game of the first order has been produced out of kickstarter origins.
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Re: Kickstart this
A thousand time this.
I disagree with part of your reasoning about Kickstarter, though. Kickstarter is, conceptually, no different than selling shares (they're both equally beggy). The advantage to it is that it levels the playing field -- incorporating and selling shares is not a trivial or cheap thing to do, so that approach is unavailable to a lot of people who have great business ideas. Kickstarter gives them a way forward.
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It's NOT "the Ukraine"!!!!
It's like referring to the US as "England's colonies."
Please - use the right name - don't insult Ukraine, even unintentionally.
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On another news...
"TEEN TERRORISTS ARRESTED WITH MASS MURDER RUBBERBAND GUNS WHILE SHOOTING EACH OTHER IN THEIR YARDS"
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