Tag: challenge

  • Workout Bro Gets Shot With Various Things For Views

    Holy these are all incredibly annoying.  First up, a potato cannon: All those shots look weak AF.  I’m one video in, and this guy’s voice is already hurting my brain like a rusty cheese grater. Airsoft gun: Meh. Probably quite painful, but doesn’t look that bad. This actually looks incredibly painful while it’s happening, and…

  • Smart Tech Reducing Gun Violence Through Innovation Challenge

    Making guns, not the criminals who use them the problem… then trying to solve it. Smart Tech for Firearms is the first in a four-challenge series designed to foster innovation to reduce gun violence. It is a request for proposals from innovators around the globe to submit an idea for technology that, when applied to…

  • NRA Challenges Handgun Ban For 18-20 Year Olds

    The suit asserts: “At eighteen years of age, law-abiding citizens in this country are considered adults for almost all purposes and certainly for the purposes of the exercise of fundamental constitutional rights. Full Story – HERE At least some states allow private transfer of a handgun, or giving a handgun as a gift to an…

  • Toy Soldier Hat Boy David Morales Awarded Medal

    Retired Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, the former head of the Rhode Island National Guard, gave 8-year-old David Morales a medal called a challenge coin during an appearance on WPRO-AM’s John DePetro show. Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers. “You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job,” he…

  • M.I.T. wins the DARPA Network Challenge

    On December 4th I blogged that DARPA was holding a competition (On Dec. 5th) where you could win $40000 in prize money. My Predictions: My guess is the correct answer is submitted in less than 30 minutes, on behalf of some sort of tightly knit organization.  It will be interesting to see how this plays…

  • DARPA competition – Win $40000 in prize money

    DARPA Network Challenge The competition kicks off Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, when DARPA ( Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ) will display 10 8-foot, red weather balloons at undisclosed, publicly accessible sites around the continental United States. The balloons will remain at their locations throughout the day, until sunset. The first…