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I've got one on the bench from the 40's, like this.

Daily driver is late 70s fluke, though. This one is mostly for fun. Love the style and the gigantic blind-man scale.

It will be them that starts the war, but us that finds and burns every black leather couch out there....

Rule 34 is one step ahead of you, mate.

You get the "wow" for the thread. I'm guessing SAC?

Thanks. If you meant Strategic Air Command, no. I worked for an international commercial company that provides FBO/maintenance, repainting, and complete interior refurbishing/customization, and custom avionics suites and testing/recertification services for private & corporate aircraft, mostly small jets like Citations, Gulfstreams, Falcons, etc. I had the opportunity to get "stick time" on quite a wide variety of aircraft.

When that Tek 453A became too old to be able to be FAA-certified any longer, I snagged it on the way to the dumpster with full knowledge & approval/sign-off of management...they liked me because I made them tons of cash, made them look good, and made their jobs easier.

Glad to know there's some folks still wanting decent amps. Last place I knew, years back, was Marshall down in Lansing.

I don't sell through stores or even online. I build vacuum tube guitar amps by hand on an individual one-off basis for select local musicians and those in the pro music touring/recording biz long enough and seriously enough to have heard of me and know what I have to offer.

I don't advertise except by word of mouth. I have no need to. I already get more requests than I want to or could reasonably accept. I also play guitar professionally myself (over 40 years now) and do service/repair work for "backline" "house/club" amps at a number of venues from larger blues bars to theaters and larger venues.

Here are a couple examples, the "gold-dust twins", one dressed in retro American tweed and one in British-style garb. http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/stratman_el84/Testament%2030/P8310004_zps0edfabdc.jpg

Gut shot. http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/stratman_el84/Testament%2030/P6180004_zps6e904118.jpg

Both amps are circuit-wise the same amp. Cathode-biased KT66s (6L6s, EL34s, 6550s, etc will work as well) with a unique cathode circuit that makes it feel more like a higher-powered fixed-bias design, in push-pull AB1 with a "plexi"-ish phase inverter and a parallel-triode preamp. Approximately 30 watts.

Experienced guitarists love them because they sound like and have the "presence" and fat sound of a huge amp stack without the crushing volume levels and the back strain. I also build lower-powered versions using 6V6s for home/studio.

Strat

You get the "wow" for the thread. I'm guessing SAC?

Thanks. If you meant Strategic Air Command, no. I worked for an international commercial company that provides FBO/maintenance, repainting, and complete interior refurbishing/customization, and custom avionics suites and testing/recertification services for private & corporate aircraft, mostly small jets like Citations, Gulfstreams, Falcons, etc. I had the opportunity to get "stick time" on quite a wide variety of aircraft.

When that Tek 453A became too old to be able to be FAA-certified any longer, I snagged it on the way to the dumpster with full knowledge & approval/sign-off of management...they liked me because I made them tons of cash, made them look good, and made their jobs easier.

Glad to know there's some folks still wanting decent amps. Last place I knew, years back, was Marshall down in Lansing.

I don't sell through stores or even online. I build vacuum tube guitar amps by hand on an individual one-off basis for select local musicians and those in the pro music touring/recording biz long enough and seriously enough to have heard of me and know what I have to offer.

I don't advertise except by word of mouth. I have no need to. I already get more requests than I want to or could reasonably accept. I also play guitar professionally myself (over 40 years now) and do service/repair work for "backline" "house/club" amps at a number of venues from larger blues bars to theaters and larger venues.

Here are a couple examples, the "gold-dust twins", one dressed in retro American tweed and one in British-style garb. http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/stratman_el84/Testament%2030/P8310004_zps0edfabdc.jpg

Gut shot. http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/stratman_el84/Testament%2030/P6180004_zps6e904118.jpg

Both amps are circuit-wise the same amp. Cathode-biased KT66s (6L6s, EL34s, 6550s, etc will work as well) with a unique cathode circuit that makes it feel more like a higher-powered fixed-bias design, in push-pull AB1 with a "plexi"-ish phase inverter and a parallel-triode preamp. Approximately 30 watts.

Experienced guitarists love them because they sound like and have the "presence" and fat sound of a huge amp stack without the crushing volume levels and the back strain. I also build lower-powered versions using 6V6s for home/studio.

Strat

I can't think of a more ringing endorsement of what the CSU faculty are doing with this blog.

If Israel just wants land, they have a funny way of showing it.

Like they're going to do it all at once. Then the veil would finally be lifted, and not even Daddy Amurika could keep covering for Israel's ass at the U.N. That of course hasn't stopped prominent Israelis from openly talking about wanting to engage in ethnic cleansing and murder to achieve a truly jewish Israel. And while you guys like to complain about the Hamas charter, the Likud charter lays claim to all of the West Bank.

How about places in the West Bank sacred to Jews - Hebron, Nablus, Jericho?

That's what the slow grind of Apartheid is for. The Jewish-only roads, the separation barriers, the abuse of water rights. Tearing down Palestinian villages that have existed for hundreds of years because of 'building code violations' or to make room for 'public parks'. And last but not least, Settlers Gone Wild, who shoot Palestinian farmers in the head or divert sewage from their illegal settlements into Palestinian farms. They do it slowly enough and the United States will still automatically protect their ass with it's Security Council veto pen.

They do it too much and and the POTUS makes a big show of giving Bibi a talking to, at which point Israel announces they'll stop building settlements - for a month or two - and could we please please get back to talking about those Qassam rockets.

Me as a digital pirate - http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss59/neghvar/12938_1278603487446_1300795023_8062.jpg?t=1256949602

I have a TI-994A. Working. With an Extended Basic cartridge too!

As do I, but also with the Expansion Box, disk drive, memory expansion card, and RS-232 card.

However, in the words of Topper, from Dilbert, "That's nothing! I also have a lovely 48KB dual Disk drive TRS-80 Model III..."

Ain't she a beauty?

This is common in many locations. Public access, free copper.

http://i1146.photobucket.com/albums/o538/shrink14/null-1.jpg

I'm leaving Illinois - fuck that. I've seen too many horrendous insects on the internet today. Check out this Tarantula Hawk Wasp: http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i343/OldSchoolTHF/TarantulaHawk_zps57e48052.gif

Good god, man.

Ok; Take a 1/3 pie slice. Enlarge it by 50%. It is still a 1/3 pie slice, in value and visually.

Okay, I'll bite. Take that 1/3 pie slice and move it from the front of the pie to the back. Is it still a 1/3 pie slice visually?

Now draw two Tootsie Rolls, one twice as long as the other. Does that accurately represent the values of each roll, or is the longer one one big Twinkie?

Learning to use tools lie pie charts and bar graphs is just as important to students as reading their first copy of How to Lie With Statistics.

If you bothered to read the previously linked story it shows he was directly connected to multiple plots.

If you bothered to read the story it's nothing more than a series of accusations. If we did domestically what we did overseas, you would have nodded sagely at the drone strike that took out Richard Jewell, because accusations == proof.

Al-Awlaki was quite open in his declarations.

What a pernicious hack you are. You wouldn't hesitate to argue that Israel is justified in fighting the existential threat posed by qassam rocket yet Muslims are just supposed to roll over and take it when they are bombed from the air by CIA pilots on the other side of the planet.

Aside from that, there's the slight problem of Awlaki speech calling for resistance being a Constitutionally protected right.

Good code vs. Bad Code

This would be funnier if it weren't completely retarded. Let me draw you a map.

I've explained enough times to want to make this short, but most of the ground up here is some variant on permanently frozen. At some point, all of that is likely to melt, and subside. We Alaskans know a lot about what that looks like, because if you build in the wrong way in the wrong place, you'll be filling out your cross-stitch with "Home Sweet Bog". Houses built on permafrost are built on stilts.

Also, while the Arctic is warming at a significantly greater pace than the rest of the world (1.6 degrees C up from last century, compared with .8 degrees C globally), the winters are still going to be cold as fuck (<-40) for a long time to come.

Plus, there's <1% of the land up in Alaska that's actually owned privately. The rest is owned either by the Feds, the State, or the Natives.

This is really just the tip of the iceberg. Your suggestion, and its underlying premise, are so wrong-headed that it's turning my stomach. Perhaps you can go be a real estate agent in Shishmaref, or one of the other villages that we're having to relocate due to climate change. Hopefully at that point you might understand exactly what it is that is offensive about your comment.

as a nutmegger, let me be the first to say we apologize for that

I keep hearing this - was this the "talking point" posted on DU the day this story came out?

Because I looked it up at NOAA and this doesn't look nearly as 'scary'.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z36/hogan99/screenhunter_561-sep-14-06-01_zps52aaf3b0.jpg

'92, weren't they still RWD or something, back when Corollas were cool?

To be clear, my '99 is one of those annoying crapolabox ones that blocks up the roads everywhere you go..

Unless I'm driving it lol...
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g72/06gtpony/GTAMC%20Track%20Day%20-%20May%2015%202013/DSC_0726.jpg

Poor POS car :(

My Casio Pathfinder ( http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/gaijinnv/PAW2000_Zulu_16OCT09.jpg not my pic, but same watch/strap I use ) has basically infinite battery life since it is charged via solar. I live in northern Canada, and even in the middle of winter where the days are like 6 hours, and I'm in winter clothes, the batt indicator is never off full.

Of course, it also has altimiter, barometer, compass, thermometer, and syncs nighly with the atomic clock in colorado.

It would take something pretty hefty to knock this off my wrist.

Or better yet a blue tarp, multifunction at it's finest, fold your gear into it and it's a makeshift Yukon pack http://kayakdave.com/2012/09/13/how-to-build-a-yukon-portage-pack/ it also doubles as a makeshift tent at night or in rain.

Part of surviving something like that is too look like you have nothing. Someone with a ragged tarp looking backpack may be less of a target than someone toting a North Face backpack.

This guy http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz179/556mp/IMG_3213.jpg probably stands a better chance of not getting robbed as opposed to this guy http://attractions.uptake.com/blog/files/2009/06/camping-backpack.jpg who you can clearly see has a nice toasty warm sleeping bag and even a foam sleeping pad.

"I've just been spending time in the subway, riding in circles. Thinking in circles. There's no way out."

You place higher value on your /. account credentials than $insert_whatever_else_here? Speaking as someone who's on his third or fourth /. account (but the first one with my actual name), I must say ...

Priorities. That is all.

My cousin survived being swept overboard when the yacht he was on pitchpoled. He wasn't wearing a life jacket, which in his mind was lucky on that occasion. I *do* wear a life jacket when conditions require it, even though they can be cumbersome as odds are, it's better to have one.

He did however have the misfortune of visiting Bali one weekend in 2002, so I suppose one could use that statistical anomaly: you're safe from terrorists in Bali, unless you've pitchpoled a yacht.

I guess that's a reasonable analogy. It's like prohibition - there wasn't exactly a single driving force behind pushing it, it was an attitude that spread and several charismatic people picked up the torch and pushed the hell out of it until the democracied it down the throats of everyone on-board or not.

BTW - I love that Who's your boogieman?! question. I'm trying to turn it into a catch phrase on another network I'm on.

"I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"

The same thing they will do for customers who purchased a tablet right after the price drop

Yes.

http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss141/nataliya_carlson/The_Sarcasm_Misunderstanding_by_ThePlotThinnens_zpsa65f7933.jpg

Socialists wear organic copper threaded wool hats.

The copper hats come in his and hers.

The tin foil hat.

Must be the heat playing tricks on my brain. I thought the headline said Atlassian Cloud. And that was going to be the excuse to post about a backdoor discovered in a real cloud.

Enhanced satellite image with last known position of the Nina on June 4, 2013. (Arrow drawn to approximate position.)

They can multiply and divide as well as adding/subtracting. The above link shows the result of doing 355/113: 3.1415929 with a remainder of 23.

The top left is an accumulator, the top right is a counter, and the lower register is the number you want to add/subtract (entry register). So to do 355/113, the procedure is

1. Pull all three 3 metal tabs on the sides to clear all registers
2. Enter 355, press the rightmost red arrow button to shoot the entry register number all the way to the left
3. Crank forward once. You now have 3550000000000 in the accumulator and "1" in the counter's leftmost position.
4. Squeeze the two rightmost chrome handles together to clear both the counter and entry register back to 0
5. Enter 113, press the rightmost red arrow button to shoot the number all the way to the left. You're done entering numbers at this point.
6. Crank backwards to subtract from the accumulator until it is less than the entry register (takes three times). Don't worry if you overshoot; a bell will ring to indicate underflow and you just add it back. The counter now shows three in the leftmost position. The red dot indicates that it notes you started off subtracting, so it's counting backward cranks as +1 instead of -1.
7. Press the right arrow to shift the entry register one position to the right
8. Repeat the subtracting process, shifting right until you can't go any more right. You're done.

It sounds more complicated than it is, but really it's just long division. It takes about 20-30 seconds to do that division. That sucker works as well as the day it was built. I've looked inside; it's a mechanical marvel.

Oh yeah, those white slider tabs are for placing the decimal points where you want them

A good example is the ribbon interface in XBMC. Some other computer product had a "ribbon" of program icons, so having one made from words was thought to be a good idea. Icons are mostly small and square, while words are generally wide, so the result is that only one or two selections are visible at one time. Compare with Tivo's vertical list and you'll see a marked difference - using XBMC is like reading a newspaper through a straw.

Looking at both screenshots, the XBMC one looks much nicer.
One reason is simply that it's got a prettier design, but I think the bigger one is that it's less cluttered.

Perhaps the Tivo screen could be rearranged to give it more space and perhaps remove some of the less used options, but I don't find XBMC's implementation that bad since it deals with a relatively short menu (4-6 entries).

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn250/paawkx/cat_confus.jpg

This is one of the problems with Open Source in general: the engineers are expert in coding, and believe that this is all one needs for a great product.

There are acknowledged experts in usability and presentation (and documentation and testing and installation procedures and marketing) who have spent many years of study and have experience in these things. For some reason, few open source projects have subgroups of these types - the development is always code changes checked into a database.

A good example is the ribbon interface in XBMC. Some other computer product had a "ribbon" of program icons, so having one made from words was thought to be a good idea. Icons are mostly small and square, while words are generally wide, so the result is that only one or two selections are visible at one time. Compare with Tivo's vertical list and you'll see a marked difference - using XBMC is like reading a newspaper through a straw.

(Don't bother telling me how to skin XBMC or the obscure option in some hidden menu that makes the presentation sane. It would have been easier to just make a product that isn't frustrating or time-consuming to correct.)

There's an ocean of expertise in other areas that goes into making a good product. If any coders are bored and wanted to explore a new field of research, usability and presentation skills could be very useful.

((Apropos of nothing, there's room for innovation into different ways of presentation and control. I've seen a lot of good suggestions from fiction, such as the AirWolf cockpit altitude display, the gesture-based input from Earth: Final Conflict ship, the cell phones from Earth: Final Conflict, or the medical display in Star Trek: Into Darkness (at the very beginning, the sick girl).))

Daily stand ups are stupid.

Most people making things with software also expect the customer to know what they want. They dont. Get the requirements, get them again, get them a third time and even do a round of mockups and make sure the stuff you plan on building will meet or exceed all the requirements.

Richards Guide to Software Development

Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!

At least Buck Rogers in the second season had Hawk, and what was The Most Awesome Figtrer Ship Ever.

It would have been even better if they had not immediately killed off Koori.

And it would have been awesome incarnate if they had simply done the bloody obvious as the basis for the second seasons of both Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica.

Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!

At least Buck Rogers in the second season had Hawk, and what was The Most Awesome Figtrer Ship Ever.

It would have been even better if they had not immediately killed off Koori.

And it would have been awesome incarnate if they had simply done the bloody obvious as the basis for the second seasons of both Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica.

Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!

At least Buck Rogers in the second season had Hawk, and what was The Most Awesome Figtrer Ship Ever.

It would have been even better if they had not immediately killed off Koori.

And it would have been awesome incarnate if they had simply done the bloody obvious as the basis for the second seasons of both Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica.

Wait for the Into Darkness to turn up on TV or for a decent torrent.
It's a waste of time and money and a bad copy of The Wrath of Khan.
Spoilers from here on.

TWOK's Khan is the big bad from the moment you see him but he manages to come off as tragic by the end.
A man drowning in his own hate. Also, quoting Melville helps.

ID's Cumberbatch can't decide if he's Superman, a cunning villain, an ally, the big bad, a tragic hero of another story...
He's all over the place and each iteration just makes him come off weaker and unfocused.
Shinzon at least revealed to be crazy and kept on being crazy after that.
Cumberbatch is cunning, then stoic, then threatening, then tragic, then friendly, then evil, then angry, then practical, then calm under pressure (beating actually), and apparently... happy and peaceful by the end.

Also, the "big reveal" is UTTERLY MEANINGLESS. He goes "I... AM... KHAN..." DUN-DUN-DUN.
And everyone is like... Yeah? So?
It takes I think an hour or so for Quinto to call up Leonard Nimoy so he could tell him "Oh... That guy is REALLY BAD."
By then, they've sent him with Pine on a suicide mission. What could possibly go wrong?

TWOK has the whole theme of friendship and growing old and rebirth...
ID barely acknowledges friendship between Pine and Quinto.
Instead Pine fucks catgirls and has long talks with Bruce Greenwood - so there'd be something kinda like revenge as motivation for him to chase down Cumberbatch.
Except he's busy trying to shoot down Cumberbatch while Bruce Greenwood dies in Quinto's arms.
OK... let's say there's maybe guilt there. Guilt leads to anger, anger leads to...
So he tries to knock out Cumberbatch when they meet, fails miserably, keeps failing... making what is supposed to be a tragic moment of helplessness look funny.

Remember Joker taking over the control of the interrogation while Batman keeps pounding on him with his fists and achieving nothing?
You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.
They missed that by a mile.

When did they remember the whole "I have been, and always shall be, your friend."?
At the very end, when they need it to show how they are best buddies - only without the setup it falls flat.
To be honest, they kinda tried it with that "Yo Vulcan-man, you know why I saved your life?" but they literally RAN away from that scene.
Can't have anything slowing down the movie. It's action non-stop.

Same goes for Pine's "discovery of responsibility". Utter failure.
Spock in TWOK takes responsibility. He puts on a radiation suit and carefully and by the book repairs the reactor.
The dude is there to do the job no one else can do, and he is the one in command. The one responsible for the ship and its crew.

What does Pine do? He rushes in, no protective clothing (See... it's not about him saving the SHIP... It's about HIM saving the ship.) - and then he proceeds to JUMP THE WARP CORE INTO ALIGNMENT.
He's literally jumping on the core.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/urda002/jumpingOnTheCore_zps7756a36e.jpg

Again, drama turns into comedy.

Spock in TWOK is tearing your heart out, stumbling around blind from radiation, still trying to keep dignity he straightens up the uniform... the whole scene is heart-wrenching.
Pine in contrast is just... you know... dying.
So Pine tells Quinto he saved him cause they are... buddies, finishes Quinto and a single manly tear rolls down his cheek.
And then Pine is dead.

So Quinto could yell out "KHaaaan!"... into the air... And it feels lame.
He just does not seem angry enough, there or in the following scenes when he chases after Cumberbatch across San Francisco.
Which is a special brand of nonsense when they clearly have working transporters.
But the thing is... Chasing a meme (Khaaaan!

481 PPM. I've seen as low as around 364ppm, and I've seen claims of 1200-2000ppm around 1200AD; but I'm pretty sure 1000+ in modern age (i.e. not dinosaur age) is ludicrous.

> Sorry, not an infinite universe.

Wrong. there are orders of magnitude more galaxies than there are life forms on this world. We could give each person, each dog, each amoeba in the universe its own galaxy and still have enough galaxies left over for expansion for the next few billion years. Do the math yourself, we and our population on earth is microscopic compared to the universe:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d32/whyteeford/space.jpg

Of course, we might take some time to get there and we may need to do some terraforming, but if we keep navel-gazing until all our energy supplies die out and we've finished causing all higher food chain animals to die out because we ate all their insects and plankton, we will run out of energy and we'll run out of time and be stuck here to die.

The ability to create a plastic/resin based shell casing that can properly detonate and propel a shell as required isn't possible.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/slickr1/active2.jpg, Oh... ok.

No, that would be Hamas. Their charter calls for the destruction of Israel.

And the Likud charter lays claim to the occupied territories and denies any Palestinian state. Funny how the Zionist apologists never talk about that. Or the inconvenient fact that Hamas was created by Israel to undermine Fatah.

There seems to be some defect in your understanding of genocide as the number of Palestinian Arabs has long been increasing.

There seems to be some willful obtuseness in your comment, as you're swapping out the elimination of a country with the elimination of a people.

If you're outraged about the use of chemicals against "civilians," do you have any to spare?

Depends, do you have any sense of proportion? How about when it's Israel violating the cease fire and then killing hundreds of Palestinians a la Cast Lead? How about the fact that even the IDF admits that the rockets are a psychological and not a military threat? Or the fact that an Israeli is more likely to be killed in a car accident with a bus - not car accidents overall but car accidents with buses - than by a Palestinian?

It can't last forever since one of Hamas's basic goals is to destroy Israel.

And who created Hamas again? And the Likud Charter, again?

Who Are the Real Nazis?

By the racist Jonah Goldberg? More like Who Are the Real Shitbags.

Well done sir

Well done indeed

*wishes /. had inline images*

Well done sir

Well done indeed

*wishes /. had inline images*

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii246/sorinb_photo/montreal/Highway_401_18_lanes.jpg

FIRE!

Yowwza! A fire has broken out! If it continues to burn, it will spread through the company. Bulldoze the cubicles around the fire to stop it from spreading. Have you put in your 80 hours this week yet or do you have sufficient firing protection?

Next week at EA, the same green-haired guy appears, a little more pleasant:

Hello! I'm Dr. Wright. You must be the new H-1B worker! Let's practice our teambuilding techniques by building a Power Plant and then adding Residential, Commercial, and Industrial zones to your cubicle. Next, connect all the zones with CAT5 and then add power strips so you can work from any zone of your cubicle and get ahead in the race to not get downsized and deported!

sorry AC, you typed alot but you didn't engage in any discussion...you just spouted random contextualess counterpoints into the ether...you lose

start with this handy infographic: http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww312/fr0d0_bucket/disagreement-hierarchy.jpg

then, re-read my comments on this thread. if you still feel like any of your points are valid, start by using the 'blockquote' tag to quote my arguments you are refuting, then submit your counter-argument...

note: your text below does not count as a 'counter-argument'...

Actually, we could just pack up and leave. It would only take a few weeks. The President is in charge and can make that happen

you simple stated the opposite of my contention and then acted as if you had made a counter argument...i can write a program that argues as well as you...

Yes, these laws/bans would almost be amusing (in a surreal way) if they didn't carry the threat of 10 years in federal prison.

Here's an example. The ATF has decided that on the AR-15 platform the lower receiver is considered the registered firearm. It is this part (less the pistol grip).

That means that all other components of an AR-15 are freely available: you only have to get a background check to buy the lower receiver from the FFL dealer. When you buy it, the lower receiver is legally designated on the form with its type (regular rifle, short-barreled rifle, pistol, AOW, etc).

The upper receiver on AR-15's (the rest of the firearm, less the stock) simply plugs into the lower receiver and is held in place with push pins.

Let's say you legally own this regular rifle and also owned this pistol (both normal, non-NFA firearms). Furthermore, let's say you decided to clean them both at the same time, and when you were done you accidentally plugged the pistol upper into the rifle lower.

Congratulations, you've just committed felony construction of a short-barreled rifle.

I can understand the ban on machine guns

Since the NFA became law in 1934 there have been approximately two (2) homicides that have been committed using a legally-owned machine gun. One of those was a police officer murdering his informant. There's no reason for the current ban on new machine gun production for civilians.

Actually, I see myself a bit more like this. :^)

Or this: http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y307/sarmadys/daily_picdump_1186_640_78_zps518be7ba.jpg