Friday, January 18, 2008

Sorry I havent been on^^"
Sorry all, I know I haevn't been on for a while, my compy has been majorly freaking out, so I haven't been allowed on. And by mine, I mean mom and dads, lol, I like the theory in a book I just read. A race called Verbeegs doesent believe in personal possession, they think everything is everyones, unfortunately, mum and dad don't like my theory and have told me so with many odd and exotic words and languages, lol.

So, anyhow, sorry if this post is a little bit odd, my mind is feeling a little off, so bear with me^^

So, about my forging now, I found out my first class is on the 26th, and that I also get to have breakfast with my teachers, and lunch as well^^ Yes, I am also old enough to go, as long as dad goes with me, so they will allow me to work with forges and power hammers, and all sorts of wonderous things, so I'm left thinking, obviously these people don't know me, or they wouldn't let me within a mile of this stuff, cause they won't get me to leave, lol.

I am also actively engaged in preparing to hall arse and get a move on my schoolwork, so I can catch up and not end up living in a box somewere, lol, so yes, I hate math, and am as of yet trying to convince myself that I'm great at math, which I am really not.....Anyone sense a problem yet?

So, odd story time, lol. When I was walking down to the library a few days ago for otaku club, I started walking in sunshine, and then noticed it getting steadily colder. Well, being stubborn, I decided it wasn't important, and kept going, lol, so, I'm finally not thinking straight, I'm so cold, and notice a dumptruck on the walkway, and am thinking, "Oh great, they blocked the walkway with another truck, twits." So, I just wait for traffic to lull, and dash around it, and for my trouble, almost get creamed by a brick, lol, so I continue walking, and walk past a helpful little sign saying, "Danger, work zone, do not enter" And I wondered what they were talking about. Well, I got to the library alive, and when my brain thawed I realized I had just walked through a construction site, and had also almost been knocked unconsious, lol, and my reaction to all this was, "Well, that was fun^^"

Sorry, just had to tell that story, lol, now I'll answer questions:

1.Hiko: Surprisingly, if you mean the machine gun, yes I do. so this is for you: The inventor of the Thompson submachine gun was Kentucky-born Army officer John Taliafeffo Thompson. He was born into a military family, and spent his youth on military bases across the United States. He graduated from the military academy West Point in 1882 and then entered the army. By 1890 Thompson was working in the Ordnance Department, where he remained for the rest of his career. Thompson became a specialist in small arms, and by 1903 he was working on modernizing many of the Army's weapons designs. He developed a new model rifle based on the German Mauser in 1903, and in 1907 he was put in charge of small arms design, development, and production in the Ordnance Department in Washington. Thompson's dream was to convince the United States Army to adopt or develop an automatic rifle, but his ideas were considered radical. The machine gun's several inventors had all gone to Europe to market their weapons, and the U.S. Army remained uninterested. Thompson eventually retired from the army in 1914, and went to work for the Remington Arms Corporation, one of the leading American weapons manufacturers. At Remington he pursued plans to design his own automatic rifle. Through personal contacts, Thompson met business magnate Thomas Fortune Ryan, and the financier agreed to provide the inventor with capital. In 1916, Thompson launched a new company, the Auto-Ordnance Corporation, to develop, manufacture, and market a new automatic rifle. This firm, based in New York, contracted with a Cleveland machine-tool firm, Warner & Swasey, to build and test its prototypes. Auto-Ordnance's first attempts at an automatic rifle failed. In 1917, with the European countries engaged in trench warfare in World War I, John Thompson decided to opt for a new design entirely. This was to be a small, hand-held machine gun. The Maxims and other machine guns in use in World War I were large, relatively immobile weapons that were used primarily defensively. Thompson envisioned a gun of similar swift firepower, that soldiers could run with, and so use in offensive assaults.

Auto-Ordnance began working feverishly on this "miniature" machine gun. The first workable designs were done in 1918, and the company made several prototypes and got them ready to ship to American troops overseas. The prototypes reached the dock in New York the day the Armistice was signed, and Auto-Ordnance thus lost out on its intended market. The company went back to work, trying to modify the gun for use other than in trench warfare. In 1919 the company unveiled its Thompson submachine gun, the "sub" indicating that it was much smaller than the massive machine guns used in Europe. The premier United States gunmaker Colt agreed to manufacture the Thompson, and the first guns were ready in March, 1921. Though Auto-Ordnance hoped to get a large order from the U.S. Army, it instead found eager takers in countries like Honduras and Panama, where the guns were used to solve labor disputes. Within months of the gun's introduction, the Thompson found its way to underground fighters of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Auto-Ordnance marketed the gun heavily to police departments, touting the "pocket machine gun" as a great way to stop bank robbers and other motorized bandits. Unfortunately, it was these criminals who seized on the merits of the Tommy gun. In 1925 gangsters in Chicago used Thompsons in vendettas, finding them ideal for quick killing from a safe distance. The submachine guns were apparently easily and legally available at sporting goods stores. Notorious gangster Al Capone supposedly stopped at a Chicago sporting goods store to get a gun, and Capone's first known Tommy-gun killing followed on April 27, 1926. The guns spread through the underworld, first in other parts of the Midwest, and then to New York. They were used in Chicago's notorious St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 and carried by renegade killers Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930s.

During the 1930s, the Tommy gun continued to be identified with desperados, gangsters, and bank robbers. In 1932, Auto-Ordnance at last convinced the United States Army to buy its guns, but the Army bought only small quantities. However, on the eve of World War II, the company suddenly received an order from France for 3,000 Tommy guns. The French order was soon followed by a British one, and the U.S. Army too ordered over 20,000 Thompsons in 1940. Colt refused to manufacture more of the submachine guns because of the bad press the weapon had received, and the Thompson was redesigned and somewhat simplified to fill the World War II orders. The Thompsons of the 1940s were manufactured by a company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where they were the only light machine guns being mass-produced by any of the Allied countries. But even the new, improved design was soon obsolete. By the end of the war, the Thompson had been surpassed by the cheaper, lighter British STEN gun and its United States counterpart, the M3. The M3 was known as the "grease gun," an inelegant thing that was made of stamped metal, welded together. Ugly as it was, it could be mass-produced for a fraction of the cost of the Thompson.

Lol, I know thats a bit much, but I'm tired, and didn't want to screw up my info, lol so anyhow, here are your questions:

1. How are you all doing?

2. Anyone like reading?

3. If so, what do you enjoy reading most? *Fantasy is my thing, lol.*

4. How amny of you have gone to anime cons? *Not I*

5.Questions for me or Hinata?

Bye for now all, may the trees shade you on your journey,
=Kure
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