Test one and put it on Youtube. Kinda doubt the high explosive equivalent yield, especially as sealing the "cork" would be problematic.
If you have an MRE heat pack you could dump it into the bottle, add water, cork/shake/throw (quickly, from cover!) and note the results.
When I was deployed to KSA (before the Khobar Towers bombing) we'd do that with plastic soda or water bottles. Great for startling sleeping airmen! After the truck bombing such pranks understandably disappeared.
"it's because you can't top the manned activities (all from only two man-weeks on the Moon!) with a few robots"
Citation needed. Also, this argues for improving robots, which will be absolutely required for the conquest of space. That environment will be forever hostile to unprotected humans.
Why not spend a thousand years perfecting the machines we must have? We can send fleet after fleet of them to do our will, and they can be expendable. Humans are burdensome to support at our primitive level of technology. Let the whole of Terran tech catch up for a few centuries. The universe will still be there.
A patch ain't shit if a mechanic can't turn out the work, and good mechanics also have more off-the-books work than they can handle.
There also are many career options, salvage being one of the most profitable. Many mechanics start their own businesses, build used cars from those they buy at auction, accumulate enough to part out and scrap, and move on to whatever degree of salvage suits them.
Most consumers do not care what's under the hood, will never install Linux OR Windows, and it makes no sense to thrust the details in front of them
REALLY want LOTD or LOE (Linux On Everything)? Support doing it, not confusing Joe Sixpack.
Also, support running Windows apps on Linux. The only reason to buy Windows is the app ecosystem. Users give no fucks so long as their apps run as desired.
This is normal Nork business and has been going on in various forms for longer than most Slashdotters have been alive.
Google "Blue House raid" for when they really wanted to stir shit.
The old way of keeping our gook (from han guk, in case anyone is curious) buddies in their box was USAF fighters sitting Zulu Alert with live nukes. Now we don't need nukes on the peninsula to use them.
If the North attacks using nukes or chems then it is fair and reasonable to wipe out its military, completely, using nuclear weapons.
Atmospheric testing conclusively proved limited nuclear wars are practical, and trained and protected troops can move and fight through areas which have been nuked if necessary. The modern armored personnel carrier and NBC protective systems are examples of tech made in response to the threat of tactical nuclear war.
The problem was never access to weapons, it has always been evil people.
Target the criminals and destroy them or lock them up for life. I promise I won't miss them.
We need a permanent Gulag where violent offenders go and don't come back to defile my street. Work them so it makes a profit for the taxpayer, but a large country such as the US with its many defective subcultures needs an iron fist to deter and prevent crime. Lock them up and throw away the key,
If one wants an "untraceable" gun simply stealing one then TIG welding over the serial numbers will obliterate them beyond recovery. Alternately, one can choose not to give a fuck about the gun if there is enough separation between theft and crime. Another option is to melt the weapon into spatter with a torch after use. Get the barrel, breech and bolt face first.
"Oh, shit, oh dear, printed guns will unleash the Apocalypse!"
Bullshit. A cheap ChiCom milling machine will make lower receivers all day, especially if you don't care how the surface finish looks.
All the classic firearms PREDATE CNC, let alone rapid prototyping. You can make perfectly good Sten guns with a very basic metal lathe and they are full-auto.
The poor won't riot in the US if the US uses sugar beets. There will still be ample food.
We aren't even to the "victory garden" and "small truck farm" stage because food is so inexpensive here. Go elsewhere in the world and you'll see many productive small holdings. Vast amounts of arable land lie fallow throughout the US. Gardening is practical (and was once the norm) even in suburban areas. Those long, deep backyards found in many older Northern communities once held gardens.
Fowl are another convenient option.I keep backyard chickens and for the price of a bag of scratch every couple of months (they are semi-free range) I have more eggs than I can eat and a bug-free yard. Their eggs are delicious and quite unlike the flavorless shit you buy in stores. No drugs or antibiotics in 'em either.
It bears relentless reminding that the people in countries which _fail_ to produce sufficient food are suffering the _consequences_ of the _choices_ the adults who run those countries make.
It isolates the threat, denying opportunity for toxic interaction.
I've used that myself. For example, in the Air Force the environment is very sensitive to allegations of fraternization. That can be a career-breaker. I simply didn't socialise with women while on duty, and never with women from my unit on or off duty. I was polite, but all conversation was business and couched in such a way that it didn't encourage anything but business.
That doesn't get in the way of off-duty social fun. I dated then married a female NCO from another unit.
My solution in the Air Force with co-workers who were buds was to keep work at work (unless there was no one else around) and switch to PC-mode when potential threats appeared.
It's quite practical to confine yourself purely to business when dealing with problematic people. "Loose lips sink ships" so exclude them from any communication which isn't necessary.
Do it right and you can be completely professional. The threat may wonder why no one speaks to them very much, but they can't do shit about that.
An inexpensive used vertical milling machine and a lathe can be used to make firearms without much hassle.
Most classic firearms predate CNC machining, ARs and Kalashnikovs included. (Much of the curvature on an AR lower could be dispensed with in a pinch. It was convenient to make it so ergonomic because the lowers are made from aluminum forgings anyway. When they are machined from billet it requires 3D CAD and CAM software and a CNC machining center or CNC milling machine to cut those curves economically. (You could do it using radius cutters and a rotary table if you are patient.)
Small workshops turn out firearms around the world and have been doing that since the days of the matchlock.
cncguns.com has both CAD files and blueprints for download if you are curious to compare them, and there are many firearms machining videos on Youtube.
The WUXGA screens on my T61s are great for prolonged reading. The construction is impressive (explored when building two of them out of four donor machines). The keyboards are outstanding. With 8GB RAM (ignore the 4GB listed limit) and SSD OS drives they are fine for anything I'll need them for.
Lenovo refuses to offer non-shit displays as options across the line of what is supposedly premium product, hence the fondness for older 'Pads which sometimes had them available.
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No, the appropriate response is not bother with a walled garden YOU DO NOT OWN unless it PAYS to do so.
If another business doesn't want your product it need not carry it.
I this saw long ago on a Windows 3.1 networking site:
"Freedom of choice means you have some work to do."
Fascinating idea.
Is this some fork of Ubuntu?
(runs)
"wouldn't you love you have a whole house UPS powered by free energy from the sun?"
I could have that now, and save thousands by fabbing some of it and installing all of it myself.
It's not cost-effective for what I want, which is to be able to run my heat pump, appiances, power tools, welders and air compressors.
If you want one and your needs are less, there are plenty of resources online. Have at it.
Test one and put it on Youtube. Kinda doubt the high explosive equivalent yield, especially as sealing the "cork" would be problematic.
If you have an MRE heat pack you could dump it into the bottle, add water, cork/shake/throw (quickly, from cover!) and note the results.
When I was deployed to KSA (before the Khobar Towers bombing) we'd do that with plastic soda or water bottles. Great for startling sleeping airmen! After the truck bombing such pranks understandably disappeared.
"it's because you can't top the manned activities (all from only two man-weeks on the Moon!) with a few robots"
Citation needed. Also, this argues for improving robots, which will be absolutely required for the conquest of space. That environment will be forever hostile to unprotected humans.
Why not spend a thousand years perfecting the machines we must have? We can send fleet after fleet of them to do our will, and they can be expendable. Humans are burdensome to support at our primitive level of technology. Let the whole of Terran tech catch up for a few centuries. The universe will still be there.
Depends on the shop and location and specialty.
A patch ain't shit if a mechanic can't turn out the work, and good mechanics also have more off-the-books work than they can handle.
There also are many career options, salvage being one of the most profitable. Many mechanics start their own businesses, build used cars from those they buy at auction, accumulate enough to part out and scrap, and move on to whatever degree of salvage suits them.
Google has it right.
Most consumers do not care what's under the hood, will never install Linux OR Windows, and it makes no sense to thrust the details in front of them
REALLY want LOTD or LOE (Linux On Everything)? Support doing it, not confusing Joe Sixpack.
Also, support running Windows apps on Linux. The only reason to buy Windows is the app ecosystem. Users give no fucks so long as their apps run as desired.
Microsoft offers what it thinks you should have.
Apple offers what attracts people.
Netbooks still have a large core audience, check the prices on Ebay.
They were killed off because they ate market share from more profitable systems.
"Google will drop support for Chromebooks when the next shiny thing comes along and people figure out this is a modern day Wyse terminal."
GOOD. More cheap Linux machines for me.
Oh, and "modern day IOpener" would be a better analogy.
Of course enterprising folk put Linux on used thin clients too, Wyse included:
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/index.shtml
This is normal Nork business and has been going on in various forms for longer than most Slashdotters have been alive.
Google "Blue House raid" for when they really wanted to stir shit.
The old way of keeping our gook (from han guk, in case anyone is curious) buddies in their box was USAF fighters sitting Zulu Alert with live nukes. Now we don't need nukes on the peninsula to use them.
If the North attacks using nukes or chems then it is fair and reasonable to wipe out its military, completely, using nuclear weapons.
Atmospheric testing conclusively proved limited nuclear wars are practical, and trained and protected troops can move and fight through areas which have been nuked if necessary. The modern armored personnel carrier and NBC protective systems are examples of tech made in response to the threat of tactical nuclear war.
A standard manual mill will do, and can be retrofitted with CNC controls quite easily.
It ain't fucking rocket surgery.
cncguns.com
The problem was never access to weapons, it has always been evil people.
Target the criminals and destroy them or lock them up for life. I promise I won't miss them.
We need a permanent Gulag where violent offenders go and don't come back to defile my street. Work them so it makes a profit for the taxpayer, but a large country such as the US with its many defective subcultures needs an iron fist to deter and prevent crime. Lock them up and throw away the key,
They aren't missing any mark.
If one wants an "untraceable" gun simply stealing one then TIG welding over the serial numbers will obliterate them beyond recovery. Alternately, one can choose not to give a fuck about the gun if there is enough separation between theft and crime. Another option is to melt the weapon into spatter with a torch after use. Get the barrel, breech and bolt face first.
"Oh, shit, oh dear, printed guns will unleash the Apocalypse!"
Bullshit. A cheap ChiCom milling machine will make lower receivers all day, especially if you don't care how the surface finish looks.
All the classic firearms PREDATE CNC, let alone rapid prototyping. You can make perfectly good Sten guns with a very basic metal lathe and they are full-auto.
Dual-booting is a hangover from the bad old days of tiny, expensive hard disks and underpowered PCs.
Newbies WILL break stuff and WILL churn through a few distros, so the best way to go is for them to install Virtualbox and test in VMs.
This allows surfing for answers to any questions they may have even if their Linux install fucks up.
As competence grows, they can shift to running Windows in a VM on a Linux host if they like.
The poor won't riot in the US if the US uses sugar beets. There will still be ample food.
We aren't even to the "victory garden" and "small truck farm" stage because food is so inexpensive here. Go elsewhere in the world and you'll see many productive small holdings. Vast amounts of arable land lie fallow throughout the US. Gardening is practical (and was once the norm) even in suburban areas. Those long, deep backyards found in many older Northern communities once held gardens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
Fowl are another convenient option.I keep backyard chickens and for the price of a bag of scratch every couple of months (they are semi-free range) I have more eggs than I can eat and a bug-free yard.
Their eggs are delicious and quite unlike the flavorless shit you buy in stores. No drugs or antibiotics in 'em either.
It bears relentless reminding that the people in countries which _fail_ to produce sufficient food are suffering the _consequences_ of the _choices_ the adults who run those countries make.
That approach works perfectly.
It isolates the threat, denying opportunity for toxic interaction.
I've used that myself. For example, in the Air Force the environment is very sensitive to allegations of fraternization. That can be a career-breaker. I simply didn't socialise with women while on duty, and never with women from my unit on or off duty. I was polite, but all conversation was business and couched in such a way that it didn't encourage anything but business.
That doesn't get in the way of off-duty social fun. I dated then married a female NCO from another unit.
Since morals are subjective there was never a moral advantage.
For example, in the Cold War the opposing sides simply chose different moral sets and got on with business.
Of course drone pilots are valid targets, just as EVERY FIGHTER on either side is a valid target.
The way one deters targeting one prefers not to suffer is to punish it sufficient that the enemy doesn't poke the bear.
My solution in the Air Force with co-workers who were buds was to keep work at work (unless there was no one else around) and switch to PC-mode when potential threats appeared.
It's quite practical to confine yourself purely to business when dealing with problematic people. "Loose lips sink ships" so exclude them from any communication which isn't necessary.
Do it right and you can be completely professional. The threat may wonder why no one speaks to them very much, but they can't do shit about that.
You are clearly not a mechanic and have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
I defy you to come up with a practical way to make a heavy wheeled armored vehicle solar-powered.
A failed AR lower won't "blow up" because the reaction is contained by the BOLT which engages the BARREL.
It might stop operating properly if it cracks and spits out the buffer tube, but that's not an explosive failure.
An inexpensive used vertical milling machine and a lathe can be used to make firearms without much hassle.
Most classic firearms predate CNC machining, ARs and Kalashnikovs included. (Much of the curvature on an AR lower could be dispensed with in a pinch. It was convenient to make it so ergonomic because the lowers are made from aluminum forgings anyway. When they are machined from billet it requires 3D CAD and CAM software and a CNC machining center or CNC milling machine to cut those curves economically. (You could do it using radius cutters and a rotary table if you are patient.)
Small workshops turn out firearms around the world and have been doing that since the days of the matchlock.
cncguns.com has both CAD files and blueprints for download if you are curious to compare them, and there are many firearms machining videos on Youtube.
They are regulated AFTER installation because they have multiple uses pre-installation.
Example:
A "pistol" length barrel on a legal AR-clone pistol if installed on a legal AR-clone "rifle" brings it under the NFA minimum.
The WUXGA screens on my T61s are great for prolonged reading. The construction is impressive (explored when building two of them out of four donor machines). The keyboards are outstanding. With 8GB RAM (ignore the 4GB listed limit) and SSD OS drives they are fine for anything I'll need them for.
Lenovo refuses to offer non-shit displays as options across the line of what is supposedly premium product, hence the fondness for older 'Pads which sometimes had them available.