[ExI] Russians bots at work again?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Technically, in the law, you can be assaulted just by being looked at,
though probably that hasn't been in the courts for many years.  Battery is
when you get hit.

*assault - defined* as intentionally putting another person in reasonable
apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. Physical injury
is not required.  bill w

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 12:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Russians bots at work again?
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> >…Or it's a rifle that fires rubber bullets that puts people's eyes out.
> bill w
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> Red Rider BB guns do that, since BBs have eye-seeking technology but
> rubber bullets seldom have such technology.
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> Perhaps it is a rifle which can be swung like a baseball bat, to swat some
> reprehensible villain or victim, which would meet my understanding of the
> term “assault” but not a fixed-emplacement anti-aircraft weapon such as an
> M-60 or a T-44, which are too big and bulky to be used in that bizarre
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> When you hear the answer to this, a lotta stuff will start to make sense.
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