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   Bored and with apparently nothing else to do, Sen. Charles Schumer focuses energy directly at frickin' laser pointers

06 Aug 2012 11:17 AM   |   1227 clicks   |   Big 1059
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ZAZ    [TotalFark]  
I always read that site logo as "BIE". But when I click it I don't get any.

06 Aug 2012 09:19 AM
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Recoil Therapy    [TotalFark]  
It will be a great day for personal liberty when Schumer finally goes away for good.

/I suppose I should be glad that for a change he's not trying to ban/restrict completely legal guns
//however it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that he's the one leading the charge to protect us from ourselves, jerk

06 Aug 2012 09:52 AM
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incendi    [TotalFark]  
Does the Food and Drug Administration actually have the power to mandate warning labels on things that are not even remotely foods or drugs?

Serious question, they may, it just seems a bit out of their jurisdiction.

06 Aug 2012 11:20 AM
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meat0918     
I already can't get the laser I want because of import restrictions. I want to see if I can use one on my weeds in the cracks and spaces in the concrete, rather than one of the flaming torch things.

06 Aug 2012 11:20 AM
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qorkfiend     
In all honesty, there's not much for a New York Senator who's not running for re-election to do in July of an election year. What's he gonna do, go stump for Claire McCaskill?

06 Aug 2012 11:26 AM
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Dwight_Yeast     
meat0918: I already can't get the laser I want because of import restrictions. I want to see if I can use one on my weeds in the cracks and spaces in the concrete, rather than one of the flaming torch things.

You could just use boiling water.

06 Aug 2012 11:29 AM
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physt     
Dwight_Yeast: meat0918: I already can't get the laser I want because of import restrictions. I want to see if I can use one on my weeds in the cracks and spaces in the concrete, rather than one of the flaming torch things.

You could just use boiling water.


How the fark am I supposed to get boiling water to stay on my shark's head?

06 Aug 2012 11:31 AM
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IrateShadow     
meat0918: I already can't get the laser I want because of import restrictions. I want to see if I can use one on my weeds in the cracks and spaces in the concrete, rather than one of the flaming torch things.

what laser is that? I want one that can burn things.

06 Aug 2012 11:32 AM
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brianbankerus    [TotalFark]  
physt: Dwight_Yeast: meat0918: I already can't get the laser I want because of import restrictions. I want to see if I can use one on my weeds in the cracks and spaces in the concrete, rather than one of the flaming torch things.

You could just use boiling water.

How the fark am I supposed to get boiling water to stay on my shark's head?


I think we're done here.

06 Aug 2012 11:33 AM
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MrLint     
Is he seriously saying that someone is shining a hand held laser at an airplane at a mile away.??

06 Aug 2012 11:33 AM
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Brandyelf     
I can see his point.

06 Aug 2012 11:35 AM
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GameSprocket     
I thought we were done with the laser-pointer thing. For a while there you couldn't go to any public event without some a-hole farking everything up with a laser-pointer. You wouldn't think that you could screw up a laser-Floyd show with another laser, but it happened.

06 Aug 2012 11:36 AM
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incendi    [TotalFark]  
MrLint: Is he seriously saying that someone is shining a hand held laser at an airplane at a mile away

Yep... a guy was arrested for it in Virginia last week, because he was pissed about jet noise.

06 Aug 2012 11:36 AM
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Citrate1007     
It's better than the tea bagger bible pounders who get bored and have been writing penis-goes-where legislation because the only way to preserve Freedom is through Big Government Fascism.

/why not just make it a serious crime to point them at airplanes instead of banning them?

06 Aug 2012 11:39 AM
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meat0918     
Dwight_Yeast: meat0918: I already can't get the laser I want because of import restrictions. I want to see if I can use one on my weeds in the cracks and spaces in the concrete, rather than one of the flaming torch things.

You could just use boiling water.


Weeding is already a pain. I want to have some fun. What fun is boiling water.

//Remember kids. Do not look at laser with remaining eye.

06 Aug 2012 11:39 AM
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Masso     
Uh, guys, are we not overreacting a bit here. What he proposed sound reasonable enough. Laser pointer good for office, not for...

MrLint: Is he seriously saying that someone is shining a hand held laser at an airplane at a mile away.??

Yes, it does happen, many times. People went to jail for it.

06 Aug 2012 11:40 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
Brandyelf: I can see his point.

Har har. I hate those things because they sell them to kids who think they're so cool. It's fine if they're using them to entertain cats, but I've seen them used to blind a goalie during a kids' hockey game, the whole pilot thing, etc. They get treated like toys but can really injure someone. Lawsuits all 'round, I say.

06 Aug 2012 11:41 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
meat0918: Weeding is already a pain. I want to have some fun. What fun is boiling water.

Use gasoline. Black powder. Magnesium!

06 Aug 2012 11:42 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
GameSprocket: I thought we were done with the laser-pointer thing. For a while there you couldn't go to any public event without some a-hole farking everything up with a laser-pointer. You wouldn't think that you could screw up a laser-Floyd show with another laser, but it happened.

New batch of kids coming through. Everything old is new again. Haven't you noticed the bell-bottoms and platform shoes?

06 Aug 2012 11:43 AM
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The_Sponge    [TotalFark]  
....and Schumer just lost the cat vote.

06 Aug 2012 11:45 AM
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Kevin72     
While I am completely against shining laser pointers at commercial and military aircraft, I think we should go all-out at laserpointing aircraft spraying chemtrails on us. Since the government insists they don't exist, no harm done shining it at a non-existent chemtrail sprayer.

06 Aug 2012 11:45 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
Kevin72: While I am completely against shining laser pointers at commercial and military aircraft, I think we should go all-out at laserpointing aircraft spraying chemtrails on us. Since the government insists they don't exist, no harm done shining it at a non-existent chemtrail sprayer.

I'm sorry, but (taking a chance that I'm feeding a troll) WTF are you talking about? Crop dusting?

06 Aug 2012 11:48 AM
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Kevin72     
The_Sponge: ....and Schumer just lost the cat vote.

I read that as Schröedinger losing the cat vote. By the way, has anyone seen Schröedinger's cat recently?

06 Aug 2012 11:49 AM
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TrollingForColumbine    [TotalFark]  
Galloping Galoshes: GameSprocket: I thought we were done with the laser-pointer thing. For a while there you couldn't go to any public event without some a-hole farking everything up with a laser-pointer. You wouldn't think that you could screw up a laser-Floyd show with another laser, but it happened.

New batch of kids coming through. Everything old is new again. Haven't you noticed the bell-bottoms and platform shoes?


belt onions

06 Aug 2012 11:55 AM
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sprawl15     
Kevin72: The_Sponge: ....and Schumer just lost the cat vote.

I read that as Schröedinger losing the cat vote. By the way, has anyone seen Schröedinger's cat recently?


...maaaaaaaybe.

06 Aug 2012 11:55 AM
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way south     
Lasers are both a part of science and modern military kit. They are useful tools and educational toys.
If he considers them to be destructive weapons then I believe they would fall under the 2nd amendment.
To which: Schumer can march his nanny state authoritarian arse back under whichever rock it crawled out from under.

/The people have a right to own technology.

06 Aug 2012 11:55 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
Kevin72: The_Sponge: ....and Schumer just lost the cat vote.

I read that as Schröedinger losing the cat vote. By the way, has anyone seen Schröedinger's cat recently?


Well, yes and no.

I never look at cats that are both dead and alive.

06 Aug 2012 11:55 AM
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LeatherPenguin     
Hey, it was a Sunday. Chuckie pulls this kind of specious crap every Sunday.

06 Aug 2012 11:57 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
way south: If he considers them to be destructive weapons then I believe they would fall under the 2nd amendment.

The 2nd amendment is not a blanket authorization for anyone to own anything. You can't do bombs, automatic weapons without the correct license, etc. Laser pointers in the hands of children are dangerous.

/gun owner and 2nd amendment defender.

06 Aug 2012 11:58 AM
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Kevin72     
Galloping Galoshes: Kevin72: While I am completely against shining laser pointers at commercial and military aircraft, I think we should go all-out at laserpointing aircraft spraying chemtrails on us. Since the government insists they don't exist, no harm done shining it at a non-existent chemtrail sprayer.

I'm sorry, but (taking a chance that I'm feeding a troll) WTF are you talking about? Crop dusting?


No, planes that are not leaving contrails that soon dissipate, but rather spray a white substance that expands from its trail and lingers for hours. Whatever government operation does this, it's like off and on. Sometimes they'll go apeshiat like the last time I was in Death Valley where it used to be always pure blue skies, sprayed some days til it was all white. But those aren't clouds, clouds move. The chemtrails just hang there.

06 Aug 2012 11:59 AM
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Galloping Galoshes     
Kevin72: The chemtrails just hang there.

So they have some wind-defying technology deployable in mist-size droplets?

06 Aug 2012 12:01 PM
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dittybopper    [TotalFark]  
Galloping Galoshes: way south: If he considers them to be destructive weapons then I believe they would fall under the 2nd amendment.

The 2nd amendment is not a blanket authorization for anyone to own anything. You can't do bombs, automatic weapons without the correct license, etc. Laser pointers in the hands of children are dangerous.

/gun owner and 2nd amendment defender.


It's interesting to see that Chuck Schumer is going after laser pointers, instead of guns. There was a time where he was Mr. Gun Control personified. I guess he doesn't want his party to lose the White House.

06 Aug 2012 12:02 PM
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Dimensio     
Recoil Therapy: /I suppose I should be glad that for a change he's not trying to ban/restrict completely legal guns this time

I have corrected your previous omission.

06 Aug 2012 12:06 PM
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Galloping Galoshes     
Somehow I think this will make him look petty and small. I don't see it helping.

06 Aug 2012 12:06 PM
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Philip Francis Queeg     
Kevin72: Galloping Galoshes: Kevin72: While I am completely against shining laser pointers at commercial and military aircraft, I think we should go all-out at laserpointing aircraft spraying chemtrails on us. Since the government insists they don't exist, no harm done shining it at a non-existent chemtrail sprayer.

I'm sorry, but (taking a chance that I'm feeding a troll) WTF are you talking about? Crop dusting?

No, planes that are not leaving contrails that soon dissipate, but rather spray a white substance that expands from its trail and lingers for hours. Whatever government operation does this, it's like off and on. Sometimes they'll go apeshiat like the last time I was in Death Valley where it used to be always pure blue skies, sprayed some days til it was all white. But those aren't clouds, clouds move. The chemtrails just hang there.


They do that so that you can't see the UFO mothership.

06 Aug 2012 12:06 PM
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Epoch_Zero    [TotalFark]  
Meanwhile, Republicans scramble to figure out this futuristic 'laser' technology, ask if it is anything like their newfangled phonographs.

06 Aug 2012 12:07 PM
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thurstonxhowell     
dittybopper: It's interesting to see that Chuck Schumer is going after laser pointers, instead of guns. There was a time where he was Mr. Gun Control personified. I guess he doesn't want his party to lose the White House.

I'm pretty sure he did other things occasionally even when he was advocating for more gun control. Do you also find it interesting when he's eating dinner and not advocating for gun control?

06 Aug 2012 12:09 PM
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imontheinternet    [TotalFark]  
juliekenner.com

Shumer should be careful. The laser industry isn't afraid to play hardball.

06 Aug 2012 12:10 PM
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Ayn Rand's Cervix     
Is it 1997?

06 Aug 2012 12:11 PM
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qorkfiend     
imontheinternet: [juliekenner.com image 355x397]

Shumer should be careful. The laser industry isn't afraid to play hardball.


i.imgur.com

What's the NRA doing to protect my right to own laser-wielding sharks? For "duck hunting", of course.

06 Aug 2012 12:12 PM
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Fart_Machine     
It's my Gawd-given right as a Murican to use high-intensity light devices to blind people and to say otherwise means you're a nanny state Commie-Nazi.

06 Aug 2012 12:14 PM
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bujin     
I think that planes are in less danger from laser pointers than school buses. Ive lost count od the number of kids I've suspended for shooting those things at the eyes of their drivers.

06 Aug 2012 12:15 PM
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Larva Lump     
Galloping Galoshes

Kevin72: The_Sponge: ....and Schumer just lost the cat vote.

I read that as Schröedinger losing the cat vote. By the way, has anyone seen Schröedinger's cat recently?


Well, yes and no.

I never look at cats that are both dead and alive.


Free cat. Dealer prep, title, and taxes extra.

06 Aug 2012 12:15 PM
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bigstoopidbruce     
Epoch_Zero: Meanwhile, Republicans scramble to figure out this futuristic 'laser' technology, ask if it is anything like their newfangled phonographs.

Yes, sure. And are Republicans the ones trying to destroy the nuclear industry, keep the little brown people in the 17th Century, and reduce most people in the US to a subsistence agricultural starvation diet?

"Progressives" are not for progress. They're cannibals, folks.

06 Aug 2012 12:16 PM
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Fart_Machine     
bigstoopidbruce: Epoch_Zero: Meanwhile, Republicans scramble to figure out this futuristic 'laser' technology, ask if it is anything like their newfangled phonographs.

Yes, sure. And are Republicans the ones trying to destroy the nuclear industry, keep the little brown people in the 17th Century, and reduce most people in the US to a subsistence agricultural starvation diet?

"Progressives" are not for progress. They're cannibals, folks.


What's it like posting from Bizarroworld?

06 Aug 2012 12:19 PM
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thurstonxhowell     
There really shouldn't be a way to get the high power ones without being slapped in the face with a hundred warnings about how ridiculously dangerous they are. I mean, you should be able to get them, but holy shiat are they dangerous.

If you've seen a green laser, you know how much more powerful they are then red. Now go google up some of the even higher power ones. They can pop balloons and light matches. You can rig them up to kill mosquitoes. Those things are not to be taken lightly.

06 Aug 2012 12:20 PM
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Moosecakes     
Recoil Therapy: It will be a great day for personal liberty when Schumer finally goes away for good.

/I suppose I should be glad that for a change he's not trying to ban/restrict completely legal guns
//however it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that he's the one leading the charge to protect us from ourselves, jerk


Wow this thread is full of idiots. Are you all really unaware that there are people who sit near airports and shine lasers at airplanes and helicopters? And that it is incredibly dangerous?

06 Aug 2012 12:21 PM
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Epoch_Zero    [TotalFark]  
bigstoopidbruce: Epoch_Zero: Meanwhile, Republicans scramble to figure out this futuristic 'laser' technology, ask if it is anything like their newfangled phonographs.

Yes, sure. And are Republicans the ones trying to destroy the nuclear industry, keep the little brown people in the 17th Century, and reduce most people in the US to a subsistence agricultural starvation diet?

"Progressives" are not for progress. They're cannibals, folks.


Um, .......what?

And may I add, huh?

06 Aug 2012 12:22 PM
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Bontesla     
dittybopper: Galloping Galoshes: way south: If he considers them to be destructive weapons then I believe they would fall under the 2nd amendment.

The 2nd amendment is not a blanket authorization for anyone to own anything. You can't do bombs, automatic weapons without the correct license, etc. Laser pointers in the hands of children are dangerous.

/gun owner and 2nd amendment defender.

It's interesting to see that Chuck Schumer is going after laser pointers, instead of guns. There was a time where he was Mr. Gun Control personified. I guess he doesn't want his party to lose the White House.


I don't think a gun control debate at the legislative level would translate to a Rmoney win. That's quite a leap.

Polling after polling show that certain common sense regulations are overwhelmingly supported by Americans. The issue isn't losing an election. The issue is the worst congress. Ever.

06 Aug 2012 12:26 PM
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thurstonxhowell     
Moosecakes: Recoil Therapy: It will be a great day for personal liberty when Schumer finally goes away for good.

/I suppose I should be glad that for a change he's not trying to ban/restrict completely legal guns
//however it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that he's the one leading the charge to protect us from ourselves, jerk

Wow this thread is full of idiots. Are you all really unaware that there are people who sit near airports and shine lasers at airplanes and helicopters? And that it is incredibly dangerous?


A quick search on "Chuck Schumer laser pointers" makes it clear that they are not alone. Apparently, there are a fair number of people morons who think he's just making it up.

06 Aug 2012 12:26 PM
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