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At the scene of a crime-in-progress, I'd treat a barking dog like a guy brandishing a knife.  If he's behind a fence, you can deal with him at leisure, ask him to stand down, take the time to pull out your pepper spray, whatever.  If he's running at you, you stop him.  Also, you can legshot a person...good luck with a dog.  Also, dogs run faster than people.  You can't maneuver to put space between you and a dog.

No cop will EVER legshot a person.  If you're at the point that you're shooting at someone, you aren't shooting to wound.  You're doing it because it's a choice between your life (or another person's life) and their life.  Leg shots aren't even non-lethal.  If your femoral artery gets hit, you can bleed out pretty quickly.  There isn't "non-lethal" place to shoot someone.

A dog may be faster than a person, but you'd be shocked how quickly a person can move.  IIRC, the range that a person with a knife can cover before an officer can draw his sidearm is 21 feet.  A lot of this stuff isn't as clear cut as you seem to think it is.

Can't wait for tomorrow, I'm going to an Arkona and Turisas concert.  Should be awesome.

My Chinese SKS has caused me nothing but problems, which is strange because I basically got it right out of the crate.  My friend has a few ideas on what may be wrong with it.  At least the bayonet works.

Reading that, it seems unicode has non-printable characters for choosing between variants (e.g. chinese vs japanese style) of the same glyph: U+E0000 - U+E007F
EDIT: Actually U+FE00 - U+FE0F and U+E0100 - U+E01EF are the variation selectors for a single character, U+E0000 - U+E007F are language selectors for everything following.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language_dependent_characters
At least in chrome on Windows 7, each of those columns is visually different despite containing the same unicode characters as a result of the han unification. Therefore it would seem not to be the problem you make it out to be.

There's the problem: they all are all identical to me.
:edit: By the way, it isn't as if the characters are so different that you can't still read them, it just bothers me when things like that aren't correct.  The op probably doesn't have to worry about it that much.

Seconding the Mosin suggestion.  The ammo is dirt cheap too.  It's pretty much the most fun you can have for $200 (the rifle and a tin of ammo).  I have a 91/59, which is a carbine version.  It makes an absurd boom, massive pressure wave, and 4 foot fireball when I shoot it.  I actually shot it in a milsurp competition our range has and the people next to me told me they had to wait for me to fire before taking their shots because of the noise.

My favorite rifle at the moment is my #4 Lee Enfield.  It's a US Property marked Savage.  It's a joy to shoot, but the ammo is a dollar a shot.  As far as bolt action rifles go, the Enfield is my favorite, with the Swiss K31 a close second.

Quote from: Sir Finkus on April 11, 2012, 04:59:13 pm

The whole "Japan is weird" thing is selection bias at its finest.  The western world only ever hears about the weird shit.

Quick, someone get a person from Japan to tell us how America is weird!

I've seen quite a few variety shows that take footage from shows like Cops for exactly this purpose. 

Which is why you can buy the Japanese version of Windows if you want to run it in Japanese. You only need the Japanese language pack if you want to be able to switch the one install of Windows between English and Japanese interface. I repeat what I said earlier: You don't need the language pack to be able to see or type Japanese text.

This is no different to Windows XP, btw.

Well, slightly different. You have to tick a box during the installation to install East Asian fonts in XP.

But yeah, Japanese support in general is pretty shitty.  Too many competing character encoding standards.  It seems every time I open a text file it's a game of "guess the encoding" to get rid of the 文字化け.  Don't get me started on the Han Unification...