[OSM-newbies] Machineguns on OSM?

[Bill Ricker]

>> What is the meaning of that woman / kid  holding a machinegun under
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/ --> "News blog"? Or did I missed the
>> punchline?

> It appears to be a problem with the domain/server configuration
> redirecting to that server's landing page..

AskLater.com and opengeodata.org are both SteveC's domains, so it may
be as simple as the vhost stanza hasn't been put back in his httpd
conf.
[On linux, the Dig and Whois commands will provide this info.]


[OT] FWIW, that's a small caliber assault rifle, not a machine gun per se.
     I am guessing an AR15/AR18/M16 5.56mm variant of some sort. (I
don't recognize the front grip, but the sight looks '16ish?) From this
view, it's hard to tell if it has military full automatic and burst
modes or is a semi-auto hunting model. But with that monster silencer
mounted, the mode selector would be set to single-shot anyway,
silencer needs to recover between shots. The silencer combined with
the forced perspective and the short lady model holding it make it
appear larger than life, a great photo.
   'Machine Gun' should properly only be applied to medium (.30 or
9mm) or larger caliber weapon (.50 or 12.5mm) with substantial feed
and cooling systems capable of sustained defensive fire. A
medium-caliber self-contained offensive weapon is styled a
submachinegun or SMG, or Squad Automatic Weapon in modern jargon; even
smaller with full auto is a Machine Pistol, 'automatic' pistols are
actually non-revolver semi-automatic, and thus aren't automatic
weapons, contrary to what you may hear on the evening news.
    Only Rambo fictionally hip-fires a full MG without an ammo
assistant (which in real life would result in a quick jam), even Gen
Jack D Ripper in Strangelove rests his MG on his desk and asks
Mandrake to feed his ammo belt.

-- 
Bill
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