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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Jim is ALIVE!!!

I like how we have to start a new thread to discuss his thread because it's closed, heh heh. So, what does this mean!? Justification for the name?
 
Ryan Sauve said:
I like how we have to start a new thread to discuss his thread because it's closed, heh heh. So, what does this mean!?
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I couldn't help myself when I saw the post. LOL But there is something comforting about the "Big Daddy" of RED popping up out of the blue.
 
It means Weapon is the name chosen and the form factor chosen is a weapon in the war against conventional thinking.

My interpretation... Let the name stand.
 
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Crazy times here on REDUser... and it will only get crazier as we count down to NAB!
 
Sorry, Jim. I love you but I'd still vote against the name. :bored:
 
Hehehe. The man spoke.

His voice was like thunder and the earth started to tremble. There's still rumbling in the distance after the dust settled.
 
It is good to get insight into the thought process behind the naming.
 
I miss the times when the mad man was around. All these beautiful late night reduser sessions with the mighty J duo
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I think before everyone gets too hasty with dispatching the "Weapon" name, perhaps we should see what it is that we're naming.... Just sayin' I'm betting "Weapon" is very fitting.
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Jeff has a very valid point, and Jim answered it for me :)
 
Almost 2 years ago, he posted "I have said before... I'm tired. I really am." Perhaps he's awoken from hibernation and he's ready to go all Zeus on this mother.
 
"We are at war with conventional thinking."
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http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?128488-Weapon

It is true there is a larger less obvious interpretation...as there are weapons that reveal truth...the pen and the camera.

Pens is mightier than the sword.......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword#cite_note-13

Islamic prophet Muhammad is quoted as saying "The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr".

William Shakespeare in 1600, in his play Hamlet Act 2, scene II, wrote: "... many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills."

French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)...also left this oft-quoted remark: “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” He also said: « There are only two powers in the world, saber and mind; at the end, saber is always defeated by mind.

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Whatever connotation one might place on the name Weapon, we live in a time when travelers and their belongings are scrutinized in search of terrorists. Names like Weapon and Bomb on black metal devices seems to just be asking for hassles.

Cheers - #19
 
Blair S. Paulsen said:
Whatever connotation one might place on the name Weapon, we live in a time when travelers and their belongings are scrutinized in search of terrorists. Names like Weapon and Bomb on black metal devices seems to just be asking for hassles.

Cheers - #19
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I think they screen all black metal things regardless of the name, but I'm not really against changing the name. Would a weapon by any other name still shoot images as sweet?
 
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