...As for "would require weapons to include at least one metal component", that's already existing federal law...
And as a matter of fact, the instructions for the Liberator state that:
This is the first DD Liberator release, tested functional on 5/3/2013 and again on 5/5/2013.
How to legally assemble the DD Liberator: -Print (ONLY) the frame sideways (the shortest dimension is the Z axis). USC18 922(p)(2)(A) states*: "For the purposes of this subsection (The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988) - the term 'firearm' does not include the frame or receiver of any such weapon;" Thus, you can legally print ONLY the frame entirely in plastic, even without 3.7 ounces of steel.
-Once the frame is finished, epoxy a 1.19x1.19x0.99" block of steel in the 1.2x1.2x1.0" hole in front of the trigger guard. Add the bottom cover over the metal if you don't want it to show.
-Once the epoxy has tried, the steel is no longer removable, and is an integral part of the frame. Now your gun has ~6 ounces of steel and is thus considered a 'detectable' firearm. So now you can print all the other parts...
No. This is wrong. The attribute that kills monorail is that the rails go where the designers wanted people to go, rather than were people actually want to go.
Exactly.
I go to Las Vegas on business on a semi regular basis. It's a one hour flight for me and generally I can get done what I need to do in a day, and it's generally connected to a trade show in one of the hotels currently served by the Monorail.
ANY sort of taxi/rideshare in Vegas is a crapshoot (ha!). The taxi companies all "change shifts" at the time people are generally leaving the LVCC or hotels, so there's a huge line to get a lift to the airport. If the Monorail actually RAN to the airport it would be packed, but I'm sure the taxi & limo companies will block that - and they both own and lease enough politicians in town to make sure that never happens.
As a pilot myself, after first looking at the Figure 1 I was alarmed at the thought of the pilot sitting in the center of a large combustion gas turbine. I was relieved to see that the designers put some protective buffers filled with fuel between the pilot and the inner annulus of the compressor. What could possibly go wrong?
It's not really even a ripping station. It's a system for watching your DVDs and BDs in a really convenient manner.
Disclaimer: I work in the industry that Kaleidescape sells to, I work with a couple of people that used to work there, and I know Michael Malcom. And we've got one of their systems set up in our offices.
Your analysis is correct in that the system copies DVDs, BDs and CDs to a hard disk array that, in our case, is in a rack in the equipment room (it's got fans that are loud along with with the spinning drives) and plays them via a player with an HDMI output in a different part of the building. The units are connected via the same Ethernet network used for data. If you know the background, you know that the founders of the company approached the DVD CCA and did, indeed, get a license. The DVD CCA changed their mind about the license later. They are the ass clowns, in case there was any doubt.
It's not just the playback that's useful, the system allows you to set favorite scenes and jump right to them. We need to demonstrate various audio and video capabilities of the equipment we manufacture. Being able to jump from movie to movie, scene to scene with a push of a button - or to write a simple script to run a full demonstration - without having to wait for each disk to spin up, display the FBI warning, etc. is the reason we have the unit.
We've also bought every single title that's on it. When you are playing a scene from a movie to the people who were involved in making it, it would be really embarrassing to explain that you ripped it from a rental. Not that people that pay the amount that one of these systems cost are the kind of people who flinch at paying for a movie anyway.
Do you want to know who owns systems like this? There's one big group I know of - next time you see a movie, watch the names in big type in the credits. When their home systems stop working, I hope they direct their ire at the DVD CCA, because those are the folks that broke their toys.
My inlaws. They have cable internet but will NOT get rid of AOL. Any time I'm over doing "family tech support" I just use FF, which causes great amounts of agitation over the fears that I might have "done something" to the AOL setup. Oh, how I wish.
Had to send an email from their place to myslf via AOL because I didn't have my laptop with me. Good Lord, that interface sucks.
I just got back from CES last night, and this happened to a vendor I had an appointment with.
We were on the 30th floor of the Venetian. The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association, the entity that puts on CES) arranges to take complete floors for things that make noise - they had the 29th, the 30th and the 32nd along with parts of the 34th and 35th and probably others. We make noise, we're selling high end home/corporate theater sound systems and the demos exceed 100 dB at certain points, so combined with the traffic there's no way any regular guest would be happy there. Each room gets a sign to tell other attendees who is there, the doors are generally left wide open and music (and bodies) permeate the hallways all day.
As a point of reference the room cost, paid to the CEA directly, is about $20K for about a week (including setup before the show and teardown afterward), and there are lots of other costs as well. The cost is a serious barrier to entry for smaller firms.
On Friday we were visited by a vendor offering a product that we use and need. I wanted to learn more, and they told me they were just upstairs on the 31st floor, gave me a card with their suite number, and we arranged to get together Saturday morning after a meeting I already had scheduled. I sent them a text message Saturday morning and didn't hear back until their salesman was back in our suite with an explanation.
It turns out that they had managed to book a room on that floor just above other CES exhibitors, had 16 cases of equipment brought up by the hotel staff, and had been bringing people in since the show opened. As they were in the hotel along with the other exhibitors I thought nothing of it and assumed they were just another exhibitor - but it turns our they had not gone through the CEA. Hotel security - and the local Sheriff according to them - took their stuff and them from the room & put them on the curb at 10:00 PM Friday night.
Now in this case they did confess to me that they pulled out the agreement that they signed when they checked in, and that agreement said they would not be making loud noises or conducting business - and they felt that since their products are still in the development stage they didn't count. They were told they had been discovered because they were doing music demonstrations in the room during show hours and people could hear it through the (closed) doors. Since they were not on a floor the CEA had taken 100% of for sound demos it was disturbing other guests and that's how they were discovered.
They ended up in another hotel, where I met them Sunday. I'll be curious to see if they were offered the chance to pay $10K to stay, which is about what a room the size of the one they had would have cost if they booked it properly although they would not have been in the program or on the signs.
This one really steamed my clams. And it is still available on certain models, so it was clearly an intentional downgrade for certain users. I used that feature all the time.
Connecting two wireless networks may be 'cool,' but how many offices maintain two separate wireless networks?
1) I don't think that was the purpose, but
2) We do - one for employee use and one for vendors/customers/other visitors. The one for visitors is just for internet access so they can check email, etc. and they get the WEP key from the receptionist (who also does their tech support, and is pretty good at it). I've set the DHCP lease period so that I can look at the leases in the morining & see who tried to leach from the parking lot the previous night.
As someone in the sound reproduction industry I can say that you're pretty much right. The spec for the siren you cite is 138 dB at 100 feet. Conventional speakers are measured at 1 meter with 1 watt of input and are in the 90 range, generally. The sound pressure level of that siren at 1 meter would be 172 dB (#include various_reasonable_assumptions.h)
For reference, 120 dB is the threshold of physical pain and equivalent to standing next to the engine of a jet transport at takeoff thrust. Beyond that organ damage begins.
Currently you do have to pay tax - it's called "Use Tax" instead of "Sales Tax". As a CA citizen you are obligated to go down to the office of the State Board of Equalization, fill out a form & give them a check.
Nobody does, of course. Businesses in CA get audited on a fairly regular basis (this I know from personal experience) and the auditors look for purchases from known out of state vendors. If you have paid, say, Quill for office supplies they will make you pay tax & penalties if you have not paid the "Use Tax" when you were supposed to.
States like CA have been looking to have out of state vendors report sales into CA. CA would prefer to force the sellers to pay the tax - there's fewer of them - but cannot because a company with no operations in CA is not covered by CA laws.
I'd rather have a problem with the IRS than any California tax authority - you can reason with the IRS. CA wants to tax anything they can, and other high-tax states do too, hence this coalition.
Maybe not for IP - I don't know. Real estate, for instance, _is_ a package of rights - that is the definition of ownership. But, the point is moot. If you accept Yahoo's agreement you make a contract and you give them those rights (something of value) in exchange for a web presence (something of value). It's a lousy deal if you value your creations, but certainly not a violation of public policy.
How else does one define ownership other than the right to use as one pleases? After transferring your property to Yahoo via acceptance of this agreement and posting what right do you have that they do not? If they can (regardless of if they probably will and/or do) copy your site verbatim and repost everything under a different url, and you can't do anything about it, can you still say they don't own it?
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...As for "would require weapons to include at least one metal component", that's already existing federal law...
And as a matter of fact, the instructions for the Liberator state that:
This is the first DD Liberator release, tested functional on 5/3/2013 and again on 5/5/2013.
How to legally assemble the DD Liberator:
-Print (ONLY) the frame sideways (the shortest dimension is the Z axis). USC18 922(p)(2)(A) states*: "For the purposes of this subsection (The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988) - the term 'firearm' does not include the frame or receiver of any such weapon;"
Thus, you can legally print ONLY the frame entirely in plastic, even without 3.7 ounces of steel.
-Once the frame is finished, epoxy a 1.19x1.19x0.99" block of steel in the 1.2x1.2x1.0" hole in front of the trigger guard. Add the bottom cover over the metal if you don't want it to show.
-Once the epoxy has tried, the steel is no longer removable, and is an integral part of the frame. Now your gun has ~6 ounces of steel and is thus considered a 'detectable' firearm. So now you can print all the other parts...
Not the sharpest move, I'd say. Considering what they were scheduling.
No. This is wrong. The attribute that kills monorail is that the rails go where the designers wanted people to go, rather than were people actually want to go.
Exactly.
I go to Las Vegas on business on a semi regular basis. It's a one hour flight for me and generally I can get done what I need to do in a day, and it's generally connected to a trade show in one of the hotels currently served by the Monorail.
ANY sort of taxi/rideshare in Vegas is a crapshoot (ha!). The taxi companies all "change shifts" at the time people are generally leaving the LVCC or hotels, so there's a huge line to get a lift to the airport. If the Monorail actually RAN to the airport it would be packed, but I'm sure the taxi & limo companies will block that - and they both own and lease enough politicians in town to make sure that never happens.
As a pilot myself, after first looking at the Figure 1 I was alarmed at the thought of the pilot sitting in the center of a large combustion gas turbine. I was relieved to see that the designers put some protective buffers filled with fuel between the pilot and the inner annulus of the compressor. What could possibly go wrong?
It's not really even a ripping station. It's a system for watching your DVDs and BDs in a really convenient manner.
Disclaimer: I work in the industry that Kaleidescape sells to, I work with a couple of people that used to work there, and I know Michael Malcom. And we've got one of their systems set up in our offices.
Your analysis is correct in that the system copies DVDs, BDs and CDs to a hard disk array that, in our case, is in a rack in the equipment room (it's got fans that are loud along with with the spinning drives) and plays them via a player with an HDMI output in a different part of the building. The units are connected via the same Ethernet network used for data. If you know the background, you know that the founders of the company approached the DVD CCA and did, indeed, get a license. The DVD CCA changed their mind about the license later. They are the ass clowns, in case there was any doubt.
It's not just the playback that's useful, the system allows you to set favorite scenes and jump right to them. We need to demonstrate various audio and video capabilities of the equipment we manufacture. Being able to jump from movie to movie, scene to scene with a push of a button - or to write a simple script to run a full demonstration - without having to wait for each disk to spin up, display the FBI warning, etc. is the reason we have the unit.
We've also bought every single title that's on it. When you are playing a scene from a movie to the people who were involved in making it, it would be really embarrassing to explain that you ripped it from a rental. Not that people that pay the amount that one of these systems cost are the kind of people who flinch at paying for a movie anyway.
Do you want to know who owns systems like this? There's one big group I know of - next time you see a movie, watch the names in big type in the credits. When their home systems stop working, I hope they direct their ire at the DVD CCA, because those are the folks that broke their toys.
My inlaws. They have cable internet but will NOT get rid of AOL. Any time I'm over doing "family tech support" I just use FF, which causes great amounts of agitation over the fears that I might have "done something" to the AOL setup. Oh, how I wish.
Had to send an email from their place to myslf via AOL because I didn't have my laptop with me. Good Lord, that interface sucks.
I just got back from CES last night, and this happened to a vendor I had an appointment with.
We were on the 30th floor of the Venetian. The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association, the entity that puts on CES) arranges to take complete floors for things that make noise - they had the 29th, the 30th and the 32nd along with parts of the 34th and 35th and probably others. We make noise, we're selling high end home/corporate theater sound systems and the demos exceed 100 dB at certain points, so combined with the traffic there's no way any regular guest would be happy there. Each room gets a sign to tell other attendees who is there, the doors are generally left wide open and music (and bodies) permeate the hallways all day.
As a point of reference the room cost, paid to the CEA directly, is about $20K for about a week (including setup before the show and teardown afterward), and there are lots of other costs as well. The cost is a serious barrier to entry for smaller firms.
On Friday we were visited by a vendor offering a product that we use and need. I wanted to learn more, and they told me they were just upstairs on the 31st floor, gave me a card with their suite number, and we arranged to get together Saturday morning after a meeting I already had scheduled. I sent them a text message Saturday morning and didn't hear back until their salesman was back in our suite with an explanation.
It turns out that they had managed to book a room on that floor just above other CES exhibitors, had 16 cases of equipment brought up by the hotel staff, and had been bringing people in since the show opened. As they were in the hotel along with the other exhibitors I thought nothing of it and assumed they were just another exhibitor - but it turns our they had not gone through the CEA. Hotel security - and the local Sheriff according to them - took their stuff and them from the room & put them on the curb at 10:00 PM Friday night.
Now in this case they did confess to me that they pulled out the agreement that they signed when they checked in, and that agreement said they would not be making loud noises or conducting business - and they felt that since their products are still in the development stage they didn't count. They were told they had been discovered because they were doing music demonstrations in the room during show hours and people could hear it through the (closed) doors. Since they were not on a floor the CEA had taken 100% of for sound demos it was disturbing other guests and that's how they were discovered.
They ended up in another hotel, where I met them Sunday. I'll be curious to see if they were offered the chance to pay $10K to stay, which is about what a room the size of the one they had would have cost if they booked it properly although they would not have been in the program or on the signs.
This one really steamed my clams. And it is still available on certain models, so it was clearly an intentional downgrade for certain users. I used that feature all the time.
all they claim it to be is a higher efficiency electric motor. No self contained power source
From TFA: "over unity". They claim perpetual motion. That'd be a "no", there.
1) I don't think that was the purpose, but
2) We do - one for employee use and one for vendors/customers/other visitors. The one for visitors is just for internet access so they can check email, etc. and they get the WEP key from the receptionist (who also does their tech support, and is pretty good at it). I've set the DHCP lease period so that I can look at the leases in the morining & see who tried to leach from the parking lot the previous night.
I tried to convert my Beenz to Flooz, hoping to get Booze, but all I got was Fleez.
I'm actually old enough to get that reference. Yikes.
This is good advice! They did a major rollout in my neighborhood on Christmas day, in fact. What dedication.
If so, why would they bid this?
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=1284
As someone in the sound reproduction industry I can say that you're pretty much right. The spec for the siren you cite is 138 dB at 100 feet. Conventional speakers are measured at 1 meter with 1 watt of input and are in the 90 range, generally. The sound pressure level of that siren at 1 meter would be 172 dB (#include various_reasonable_assumptions.h)
For reference, 120 dB is the threshold of physical pain and equivalent to standing next to the engine of a jet transport at takeoff thrust. Beyond that organ damage begins.
What a load of crap.
Can be found here:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/loche/rogue/
Currently you do have to pay tax - it's called "Use Tax" instead of "Sales Tax". As a CA citizen you are obligated to go down to the office of the State Board of Equalization, fill out a form & give them a check.
Nobody does, of course. Businesses in CA get audited on a fairly regular basis (this I know from personal experience) and the auditors look for purchases from known out of state vendors. If you have paid, say, Quill for office supplies they will make you pay tax & penalties if you have not paid the "Use Tax" when you were supposed to.
States like CA have been looking to have out of state vendors report sales into CA. CA would prefer to force the sellers to pay the tax - there's fewer of them - but cannot because a company with no operations in CA is not covered by CA laws.
I'd rather have a problem with the IRS than any California tax authority - you can reason with the IRS. CA wants to tax anything they can, and other high-tax states do too, hence this coalition.
Write your own from scratch, then, and do whatever you want with it.
Here's a good description of the effect:
http://dept.physic s.upenn.edu/~www/balloon/cerenkov_radiation.html
Maybe not for IP - I don't know. Real estate, for instance, _is_ a package of rights - that is the definition of ownership. But, the point is moot. If you accept Yahoo's agreement you make a contract and you give them those rights (something of value) in exchange for a web presence (something of value). It's a lousy deal if you value your creations, but certainly not a violation of public policy.
How else does one define ownership other than the right to use as one pleases? After transferring your property to Yahoo via acceptance of this agreement and posting what right do you have that they do not? If they can (regardless of if they probably will and/or do) copy your site verbatim and repost everything under a different url, and you can't do anything about it, can you still say they don't own it?