. . . and selling their perfectly-good, last-year's new-hotness phone for a small percentage of their purchase price.
. ..and people like me buy them, and have a solid, reliable, stable phone without paying the premium price for the extra 12 square millimeters of display space.
Heck, my family of 4 has 4 perfectly good Galaxy S3's, in good protective cases and with add-on Gorilla Glass protectors. . . for half of the retail price of a Galaxy S6. . .
Incorrect. There is no stamping required.You buy the "flat", which often is pre-drilled and has some embossing, fold it around a form (typically on a hydraulic press) , and weld and rivet to create an AK lower. It's actually a little more complicated than that, but that's gunsmithing details, like pressing the barrel into the trunnion, riveting appropriately, and drilling the gas hole in the barrel. . .
As for the AK Shovel build, the guy just flattened a shovel, cut and drilled, then folded and welded.
Now, for your question as to why it's the LOWER that needs to be registered, that's a US-centric quirk of the BATF. And changing the ballistic fingerprint of a barrel is not difficult, either. . . (yes, I **AM** a gun geek. . . )
. . . we're all forgetting what is perhaps the most powerful force there is:
Stupidity.
Hell, look at our candidates this year: a Habitual Liar in a bad Pantsuit, a Shaved Chimpanzee with a bad wig, and, of course, the Magic Johnson. If they aren't proof of the power and pervasiveness of stupidity, then what is ??
. . . perhaps if you have the correct POV. Anyone on the Right, however, seems to be subject to arbitrary and capricious censorship on the Twitter platform, without explanation or even appeal.
Add to that, the recently created Trust and Advisory Board which all comes from the same end of the political spectrum. Apparently, Twitter is all about Free Speech. . . only some Speech is More Free than others. . .
. . . or they'll steg it inside a picture, and post the picture to social media. Or they'll use a word code with a one-time pad. Or any of a number of other techniques.
I've heard stories of alleged terrorists communicating within a MMORPG, or via a private TeamSpeak or Ventrilo server.
There are multiple ways to hide information. There's no way to stop them all, and no way to stop ANY if free speech is the law of the land.
Because it makes things taste better, and is harmless in the vast majority of people ? And chances are, it's not the cocoa per se, but the theobromine in the cocoa. . .
There was a time when IBM was unconquerable. General Motors and General Electric as well. Facebook will eventually decline. It's certainly not expanding market share anymore. . .
I rather suspect it's already had its' "Elvis Year", and the decline has already begun. Between the "we know better" on content, the blatant political bias, and now the ad-block bypass attempt. . ..
I'd bet good money that someone at Amazon is ALREADY meeting with them.
And will still save them money, even with migration costs. Of course, the already-abused IT staff will get downsized, and the C-level who signs off on it will get a fat bonus. . .
In the late 1980s, we heard rumors that we could read newspapers from ORBIT. Assuming that the FBI and similar could not identify and track specific individuals from 20,000-40,000 feet, assuming clear skies, is utter denial in 2016. . . .
and just like that the Olympics became invisible to two whole generations because a third older generation want to maintain control of distribution.
I would say, not so much invisible, but irrelevant and unimportant. Given the plethora of stories of the truly epic level of fail of the Rio Olympics, it's probably best not to watch.
Unless, suddenly, we get something like super-virulent flesh-eating bacteria start stripping athletes to the bone mid-event. That might get a few minutes of attention. . . as it's about the ONLY utter failure we haven't seen so far. .
Set up a moonbase, use solar power to crack oxygen out of the regolith, and mine the ice in the polar craters. Now you have fuel AND metals. Use that to build a real, permanent orbital infrastructure.
Eventually, capture a small asteroid, mine enough of it out for installing life support, quarters, etc, and put it into a Mars Cycler orbit. Send it unmanned for a few cycles ( or mine/build several, and launch on trajectory every few months) to build up some infrastructure, or even just supplies in Mars Orbit. Maybe even put it on Phobos or Deimos.
Then, once you have habitat and supplies there (and perhaps a lander and ascent vehicle or three...), THEN send a manned mission.
Slow and steady will get you there AND back home. . .
Pretty much ALL politicians leak classified like a sieve. I suspect that the daily briefs are sufficiently sanitized that the important data, i.e. "means and methods" are sufficiently obscured to the point that the intelligence sources, if not the information, is protected. However, that doesn't always seem to be the case.
Example of this would be the 1998-era reports that the US was listening in on Osama bin Laden's sat phone. Soon after it leaked, bin Laden reportedly ceased using it, destroying the source, if not the means of collecting the data. ( Ops note: even the report of the leak is under dispute, depending on your source. . ..)
But I also suspect that a Candidate briefing is likely only at the "Secret" level. Honestly, it's too much of a risk to brief the really sensitive stuff, aka "SCI", until they've at least been elected. . .
No need. We have a Little Ice Age in progress, based on the sunspot numbers for the past few years. Depending how long it lasts, the Mohave may stop being a desert, or at least less arid. . .
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FRAGILE thousand-dollar accessories. So they become disposable, whether you want to, or not.
But a rugged, shock-and-shatterproof phone would run counter to the tendency for ever-thinner, ever-lighter phones.
. . . and selling their perfectly-good, last-year's new-hotness phone for a small percentage of their purchase price.
. . .and people like me buy them, and have a solid, reliable, stable phone without paying the premium price for the extra 12 square millimeters of display space.
Heck, my family of 4 has 4 perfectly good Galaxy S3's, in good protective cases and with add-on Gorilla Glass protectors. . . for half of the retail price of a Galaxy S6. . .
Incorrect. There is no stamping required.You buy the "flat", which often is pre-drilled and has some embossing, fold it around a form (typically on a hydraulic press) , and weld and rivet to create an AK lower. It's actually a little more complicated than that, but that's gunsmithing details, like pressing the barrel into the trunnion, riveting appropriately, and drilling the gas hole in the barrel. . .
As for the AK Shovel build, the guy just flattened a shovel, cut and drilled, then folded and welded.
Now, for your question as to why it's the LOWER that needs to be registered, that's a US-centric quirk of the BATF. And changing the ballistic fingerprint of a barrel is not difficult, either. . . (yes, I **AM** a gun geek. . . )
. . . we're all forgetting what is perhaps the most powerful force there is:
Stupidity.
Hell, look at our candidates this year: a Habitual Liar in a bad Pantsuit, a Shaved Chimpanzee with a bad wig, and, of course, the Magic Johnson. If they aren't proof of the power and pervasiveness of stupidity, then what is ??
. . . perhaps if you have the correct POV. Anyone on the Right, however, seems to be subject to arbitrary and capricious censorship on the Twitter platform, without explanation or even appeal.
And it happens to targets large and small: the obvious large example is Milo Yiannopolous, but also lesser lights like SF author Brian Niemayer.
Add to that, the recently created Trust and Advisory Board which all comes from the same end of the political spectrum. Apparently, Twitter is all about Free Speech. . . only some Speech is More Free than others. . .
Easy. Comcast. Cox is only AMATEUR evil compared to Comcast. .
Home-made guns almost never happen? Like the 10% of captured guns in Australia ??
And if you're talking improvised firearms, it's even easier. Hell, there are videos on YouTube showing you how. . .
. . . or they'll steg it inside a picture, and post the picture to social media. Or they'll use a word code with a one-time pad. Or any of a number of other techniques.
I've heard stories of alleged terrorists communicating within a MMORPG, or via a private TeamSpeak or Ventrilo server.
There are multiple ways to hide information. There's no way to stop them all, and no way to stop ANY if free speech is the law of the land.
Because it makes things taste better, and is harmless in the vast majority of people ? And chances are, it's not the cocoa per se, but the theobromine in the cocoa. . .
There was a time when IBM was unconquerable. General Motors and General Electric as well. Facebook will eventually decline. It's certainly not expanding market share anymore. . .
Facebook is rapidly becoming the MySpace of 2016.
I rather suspect it's already had its' "Elvis Year", and the decline has already begun. Between the "we know better" on content, the blatant political bias, and now the ad-block bypass attempt. . . .
I'd bet good money that someone at Amazon is ALREADY meeting with them.
And will still save them money, even with migration costs. Of course, the already-abused IT staff will get downsized, and the C-level who signs off on it will get a fat bonus. . .
In the late 1980s, we heard rumors that we could read newspapers from ORBIT. Assuming that the FBI and similar could not identify and track specific individuals from 20,000-40,000 feet, assuming clear skies, is utter denial in 2016. . . .
Drawing and quartering sounds about right. . .
and just like that the Olympics became invisible to two whole generations because a third older generation want to maintain control of distribution.
I would say, not so much invisible, but irrelevant and unimportant. Given the plethora of stories of the truly epic level of fail of the Rio Olympics, it's probably best not to watch.
Unless, suddenly, we get something like super-virulent flesh-eating bacteria start stripping athletes to the bone mid-event. That might get a few minutes of attention. . . as it's about the ONLY utter failure we haven't seen so far. .
Question is . . . .what's in YOUR wallet ?? (grin)
I disagree. Perhaps you've heard of tbe TSA. . .
. . . told people not to list their religion as "Jedi"
Oz, you KNOW what you must do: make the Census FEEL the Power of the Force. Or at least that of the Farce. . . .
Set up a moonbase, use solar power to crack oxygen out of the regolith, and mine the ice in the polar craters. Now you have fuel AND metals. Use that to build a real, permanent orbital infrastructure.
Eventually, capture a small asteroid, mine enough of it out for installing life support, quarters, etc, and put it into a Mars Cycler orbit. Send it unmanned for a few cycles ( or mine/build several, and launch on trajectory every few months) to build up some infrastructure, or even just supplies in Mars Orbit. Maybe even put it on Phobos or Deimos.
Then, once you have habitat and supplies there (and perhaps a lander and ascent vehicle or three...), THEN send a manned mission.
Slow and steady will get you there AND back home. . .
But no Hot Grits Appy Apps ??? (grin)
Pretty much ALL politicians leak classified like a sieve. I suspect that the daily briefs are sufficiently sanitized that the important data, i.e. "means and methods" are sufficiently obscured to the point that the intelligence sources, if not the information, is protected. However, that doesn't always seem to be the case.
Example of this would be the 1998-era reports that the US was listening in on Osama bin Laden's sat phone. Soon after it leaked, bin Laden reportedly ceased using it, destroying the source, if not the means of collecting the data. ( Ops note: even the report of the leak is under dispute, depending on your source. . . .)
But I also suspect that a Candidate briefing is likely only at the "Secret" level. Honestly, it's too much of a risk to brief the really sensitive stuff, aka "SCI", until they've at least been elected. . .
As opposed to the DNC Sequel in Novermber, "The Voting Dead" ??? (evil grin)
No need. We have a Little Ice Age in progress, based on the sunspot numbers for the past few years. Depending how long it lasts, the Mohave may stop being a desert, or at least less arid. . .
Well OF COURSE Lil' Kim is on Slashdot. Like his father before him, he so ronery. . . . ;)
. . .or, the most common source of breaches of them all: either an insider or a social engineering effort. Or at least as part of the effort. . .