Tons of people still don't believe we are all being spied on. No matter how much proof you give them, they still sit back and go "lol conspiracy theorist".
Cool project, and it doesn't appear to be illegal (Yet). The definition of a machine gun by the ATF is a gun that fires multiple rounds per trigger pull. There are several companies that manufacture guns with electronic triggers.
Depending on how it is set up, they could nail him for "constructive possession". But assuming this is just a servo and the gun has not been modified, it appears to meet their rules. Then again, the way the ATF is known for having vague definitions and making examples out of people. There was a short period of time where they considered a shoelace to be a machine gun.
Exactly why I don't see why people seem to care so much about them. If you don't like it, you just have to remind yourself these people are voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool.
"Amazon's hired so many white males that King County is now the whitest in the nation and hate crimes against gays have shot up in a formerly LGBTQ neighborhood. Politicians can't agree on reforming impact fees and taxes to address these issues."
Irreverent garbage completely unrelated to the article. Could we get something without painfully obvious bias?
"Oh no, too many white guys! Better fix that!"
But I thought race was a social construct? Or has that narrative changed?
Haha, I always wanted to try making some but the sensitivity is just insane. That and it seems the older you get, the more serious you take the consequences, be it bodily harm or legal.
I used to use them all the time. They have (Well, had) many applications other than a bomb. I've probably got half a dozen in the form of floating lights for fishing nets. They were also frequently used in vending machines/pinball tables (Tilt alarm), cars for trunk/hatch lights, hazardous locations (Interrupting the circuit would not emit a spark).
I hate how chemistry is now an "off-limits" hobby. It's like trying to look up anything involving electrical schematics with a computer in a public place, such as a library. I frequently have people I have never met or seen before sneak up behind me and exclaim loudly "IS THAT A BOMB?". No, dipshit. Not everything home made with wires and capacitors is a bomb.
"He let police search the house to examine all his materials and chemicals, where they found some things they told him could be used to create explosives."
Almost anything can be used to create explosives. Got acetone? How about some hydrogen peroxide in your bathroom cupboard?
Even the citric acid in orange tang can be used as a catalyst. I guarantee every person reading this has some chemicals in their house that could be used to create explosives.
I love how they say that Mercury switches can detonate explosives, as if any other switch can't.
This is exactly the reason I got out of the hobby, too many hobbyists getting raided (Especially after 9/11). And if they do decide they want to go after you, you're screwed. Magnetic stirrers, pyrex glasses, even coffee pots can be considered "bomb making equipment" in their eyes.
I misspoke, I was intending to compare total income loss (Time spend in prison vs the fine). The time spent in prison is definitely incomparable except in extreme cases.
The RIAA/MPAA usually attempts to get more money than the average person makes in several decades.
The average income in the United States in 2011 was $27,500. A year in prison could be considered a $27,000 fine.
Let's compare this to some fines for piracy.
Joel Tenenbaum, who was fined $675,000, which would be equal in income loss to 24.5 years in prison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment_v._Tenenbaum)
There's also Thomas-Rasset , who was originally fined 1.5 million dollars (54.5 years) but was reduced to $222,000 (8 years) after an appeal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._Thomas-Rasset)
Outrageous fines like this are not unusual, but a number of people have (After several appeals) managed to get them reduced to something more reasonable
I'm really hoping this goes somewhere good, it would be an interesting match and the potential birth of a new sport.
The American bot seems more durable from the thickness of steel used (Might be because you can't get a terribly good look at the cross section of the Japanese one) but the Japanese bot seems to have more advanced controls (Looks to be more of an armslave setup).
I'd love to ask the American team why they chose such a small output gasoline engine over a diesel.
I'm just curious how they would fight exactly. And since the Japanese team wants melee, what that would entail. As cool as a giant induction blade or plasma cutter would be I don't either one has an adequate power supply. That just leaves hydraulic jaws or pneumatic/combustion rams, but I can't see any of this being used due to the danger to the pilot.
That sounds nice, like your justice system actually works. If something like this were introduced into U.S. law, shit would be hitting the fan about now.
I was actually put into a "special" class for exactly what you are describing. I was a boy, I drew guns and played video games. Our school counselor found this unacceptable and literally told my parents that she was afraid I would "Be the next columbine kid".
I was put into this "special" class without knowledge or consent from my parents, I asked them about this a few weeks ago and they had no idea what I was talking about. The other children in there with me ranged from slightly slow in the head to full on mentally deficient.
Each day we were brought in to an extremely colorful room with rainbows and shit everywhere and were given a plush cube with different colors and expressions on the cube, we had to pick out the expression that best fit our mood and tell everyone why we were feeling that way. We were not allowed to say our feeling, we had to say the color that appeared on the cube.
The counselor was constantly taking notes about everything we said or did. She was a kind of creepy, extreme political left type. Constantly told my parents that I needed to be put on meds because of the evil guns that I drew, often saying that she was afraid I would shoot up the school or make a bomb or some such nonsense. My parents actually showed me letters they saved from her, it's quite insulting to read now that I'm old enough to understand them.
Thankfully my parents were smarter than this and more or less told her to piss off. (Apparently my dad asked her if she would rather I draw tits and ass).
I am 22 now, this was happening from first grade up to about 4th grade, so you do the math here.
Really makes me wonder how often this happens and how many kids have been needlessly put on these drugs being peddled by the schools.
Long story short, reddit has been going down the same path as Dig 2.0 for awhile now. This is only accelerating its death, and all I can do is cheer.
From banning people simply for different political opinions, to the method it uses to ban (Shadowbanning has to be the most passive aggressive thing I have ever seen), if you go there for anything politically related it's become a hugbox/echochamber.
There are a number of inaccuracies here, especially that bit about charcoal.
I dearly miss the days of celebrating the 4th in my own way, with my own chemistry. But now that I'm older, I don't want to be mistaken for a terrorist so I usually stick to consumer fireworks.
Oh, and flamethrowers. Those are legal is almost every U.S. state and are a great way to light up fire pits.
If you've got some time to waste it's pretty funny. TL;DR is:
1. dude lives in complex with HOA 2. after a couple years of living there HOA decides to contract parking enforcement 3. company contracted are parking nazis and boot car 4. dude dolleys car with boot into garage, calls cops 5. company dumbfounded, calls state troopers, troopers side with car owner 6. hilarity of magnanimous proportions ensues...
I use mine for all sorts of things. Missing battery covers, custom enclosures (Working on making a custom instrument panel for my project car powered by some 328p's), missing knobs and dials.
I regularly make things for my dad's bosses (Yacht charter company. Lost knob or plastic doohicky and want to buy a replacement? Fuck you, give us $300 because BOATS!). Lots of lost/broken/etc. plastic bits that cost lots of money to replace, I make the parts they want for 25 to 50 percent of the cost to replace them with OEM parts.
Right now I'm printing out a display model of a mechanical torson limited slip differential. Why? Because LSDs are pretty neat.
I'm using a makerfarm I3v 8" model. Comes in a kit, frame is made of laser cut wood. Best customer support I've ever experienced, no problems with the printer that have not been user error. I just got auto bed leveling set up and it's extremely reliable.
"Do people also take care to wear ponytails and/or ties when near rotating equipment? And dangle loose clothing over any exposed gears and belts they find? Or do we have people who've never met a machine more dangerous than an iPad or a minivan and just don't think?"
There's a "hall of fame" of sorts at my old highschool of kids not paying attention to exactly this. One was nearly scalped by a drill press due to his ponytail, my second day in that class some kid reached into the lathe and it sucked him in by his long baggy sleeve. Thankfully they keep the belts loose so that no arms can be ripped off, he was still pretty banged up though.
Everyones first reaction is always to blame the school or the class teacher. I can easily tell you every accident could have easily been avoided if my classmates payed attention to the first three weeks of class detailing safety, including pictures of previous students.
"David Cope, the composer and professor at UC Santa Cruz, who cured his artist’s block by writing a computer program to do the dirtywork for him. His program, named EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), deconstructs the works of great composers, finding patterns within the voice leading of their compositions, and then creates brand new compositions based on the patterns she finds."
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Tons of people still don't believe we are all being spied on. No matter how much proof you give them, they still sit back and go "lol conspiracy theorist".
Nobody seems to care.
I knew there was a reason I kept that PIII toaster in the closet!
Cool project, and it doesn't appear to be illegal (Yet). The definition of a machine gun by the ATF is a gun that fires multiple rounds per trigger pull. There are several companies that manufacture guns with electronic triggers.
Depending on how it is set up, they could nail him for "constructive possession". But assuming this is just a servo and the gun has not been modified, it appears to meet their rules. Then again, the way the ATF is known for having vague definitions and making examples out of people. There was a short period of time where they considered a shoelace to be a machine gun.
http://www.everydaynodaysoff.c...
If they want, they can call constructive possession on just about anyone. Not the people you want to piss off.
People still think that was real? It was a promotional video for CoD.
Yeah, there was no way I couldn't save this post for all of eternity.
http://imgur.com/MC7wU7q
Exactly why I don't see why people seem to care so much about them. If you don't like it, you just have to remind yourself these people are voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool.
"Amazon's hired so many white males that King County is now the whitest in the nation and hate crimes against gays have shot up in a formerly LGBTQ neighborhood. Politicians can't agree on reforming impact fees and taxes to address these issues."
Irreverent garbage completely unrelated to the article. Could we get something without painfully obvious bias?
"Oh no, too many white guys! Better fix that!"
But I thought race was a social construct? Or has that narrative changed?
You have made a drunk man laugh until his sides hurt. I hope you are happy.
Haha, I always wanted to try making some but the sensitivity is just insane. That and it seems the older you get, the more serious you take the consequences, be it bodily harm or legal.
I used to use them all the time. They have (Well, had) many applications other than a bomb. I've probably got half a dozen in the form of floating lights for fishing nets. They were also frequently used in vending machines/pinball tables (Tilt alarm), cars for trunk/hatch lights, hazardous locations (Interrupting the circuit would not emit a spark).
I hate how chemistry is now an "off-limits" hobby. It's like trying to look up anything involving electrical schematics with a computer in a public place, such as a library. I frequently have people I have never met or seen before sneak up behind me and exclaim loudly "IS THAT A BOMB?". No, dipshit. Not everything home made with wires and capacitors is a bomb.
I just read the article a bit more.
"He let police search the house to examine all his materials and chemicals, where they found some things they told him could be used to create explosives."
Almost anything can be used to create explosives. Got acetone? How about some hydrogen peroxide in your bathroom cupboard?
Even the citric acid in orange tang can be used as a catalyst. I guarantee every person reading this has some chemicals in their house that could be used to create explosives.
I love how they say that Mercury switches can detonate explosives, as if any other switch can't.
This is exactly the reason I got out of the hobby, too many hobbyists getting raided (Especially after 9/11). And if they do decide they want to go after you, you're screwed. Magnetic stirrers, pyrex glasses, even coffee pots can be considered "bomb making equipment" in their eyes.
Oh hell yes. There's another movie in the works BTW, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt36...
I misspoke, I was intending to compare total income loss (Time spend in prison vs the fine). The time spent in prison is definitely incomparable except in extreme cases.
The RIAA/MPAA usually attempts to get more money than the average person makes in several decades.
The average income in the United States in 2011 was $27,500. A year in prison could be considered a $27,000 fine.
Let's compare this to some fines for piracy.
Joel Tenenbaum, who was fined $675,000, which would be equal in income loss to 24.5 years in prison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment_v._Tenenbaum)
There's also Thomas-Rasset , who was originally fined 1.5 million dollars (54.5 years) but was reduced to $222,000 (8 years) after an appeal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._Thomas-Rasset)
Outrageous fines like this are not unusual, but a number of people have (After several appeals) managed to get them reduced to something more reasonable
Lets compare this to murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Second degree murder ranges from 5 years to life, depending on the state (Keep in mind a "life" sentence can mean as little as 15 years).
Here's an extreme example:
http://www.kansascity.com/news...
4 years, two months for shooting, torturing and beheading a man.
I'm really hoping this goes somewhere good, it would be an interesting match and the potential birth of a new sport.
The American bot seems more durable from the thickness of steel used (Might be because you can't get a terribly good look at the cross section of the Japanese one) but the Japanese bot seems to have more advanced controls (Looks to be more of an armslave setup).
I'd love to ask the American team why they chose such a small output gasoline engine over a diesel.
I'm just curious how they would fight exactly. And since the Japanese team wants melee, what that would entail. As cool as a giant induction blade or plasma cutter would be I don't either one has an adequate power supply. That just leaves hydraulic jaws or pneumatic/combustion rams, but I can't see any of this being used due to the danger to the pilot.
I'd love to see more technical specifications.
Compare prison sentences between the two and you'll see that software piracy is frequently taken more seriously than rape and murder.
That sounds nice, like your justice system actually works. If something like this were introduced into U.S. law, shit would be hitting the fan about now.
I was actually put into a "special" class for exactly what you are describing. I was a boy, I drew guns and played video games. Our school counselor found this unacceptable and literally told my parents that she was afraid I would "Be the next columbine kid".
I was put into this "special" class without knowledge or consent from my parents, I asked them about this a few weeks ago and they had no idea what I was talking about. The other children in there with me ranged from slightly slow in the head to full on mentally deficient.
Each day we were brought in to an extremely colorful room with rainbows and shit everywhere and were given a plush cube with different colors and expressions on the cube, we had to pick out the expression that best fit our mood and tell everyone why we were feeling that way. We were not allowed to say our feeling, we had to say the color that appeared on the cube.
The counselor was constantly taking notes about everything we said or did. She was a kind of creepy, extreme political left type. Constantly told my parents that I needed to be put on meds because of the evil guns that I drew, often saying that she was afraid I would shoot up the school or make a bomb or some such nonsense. My parents actually showed me letters they saved from her, it's quite insulting to read now that I'm old enough to understand them.
Thankfully my parents were smarter than this and more or less told her to piss off. (Apparently my dad asked her if she would rather I draw tits and ass).
I am 22 now, this was happening from first grade up to about 4th grade, so you do the math here.
Really makes me wonder how often this happens and how many kids have been needlessly put on these drugs being peddled by the schools.
Long story short, reddit has been going down the same path as Dig 2.0 for awhile now. This is only accelerating its death, and all I can do is cheer.
From banning people simply for different political opinions, to the method it uses to ban (Shadowbanning has to be the most passive aggressive thing I have ever seen), if you go there for anything politically related it's become a hugbox/echochamber.
It's time for something new to take its place.
There are a number of inaccuracies here, especially that bit about charcoal.
I dearly miss the days of celebrating the 4th in my own way, with my own chemistry. But now that I'm older, I don't want to be mistaken for a terrorist so I usually stick to consumer fireworks.
Oh, and flamethrowers. Those are legal is almost every U.S. state and are a great way to light up fire pits.
Agreed, HOAs are shit.
If you're bored, there's a pretty entertaining story about an HOA who decided to put parking boots on cars that didn't display a rear-view mirror tag.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/sho...
If you've got some time to waste it's pretty funny. TL;DR is:
1. dude lives in complex with HOA
2. after a couple years of living there HOA decides to contract parking enforcement
3. company contracted are parking nazis and boot car
4. dude dolleys car with boot into garage, calls cops
5. company dumbfounded, calls state troopers, troopers side with car owner
6. hilarity of magnanimous proportions ensues...
I use mine for all sorts of things. Missing battery covers, custom enclosures (Working on making a custom instrument panel for my project car powered by some 328p's), missing knobs and dials.
I regularly make things for my dad's bosses (Yacht charter company. Lost knob or plastic doohicky and want to buy a replacement? Fuck you, give us $300 because BOATS!). Lots of lost/broken/etc. plastic bits that cost lots of money to replace, I make the parts they want for 25 to 50 percent of the cost to replace them with OEM parts.
Right now I'm printing out a display model of a mechanical torson limited slip differential. Why? Because LSDs are pretty neat.
I'm using a makerfarm I3v 8" model. Comes in a kit, frame is made of laser cut wood. Best customer support I've ever experienced, no problems with the printer that have not been user error. I just got auto bed leveling set up and it's extremely reliable.
"Do people also take care to wear ponytails and/or ties when near rotating equipment? And dangle loose clothing over any exposed gears and belts they find? Or do we have people who've never met a machine more dangerous than an iPad or a minivan and just don't think?"
There's a "hall of fame" of sorts at my old highschool of kids not paying attention to exactly this. One was nearly scalped by a drill press due to his ponytail, my second day in that class some kid reached into the lathe and it sucked him in by his long baggy sleeve. Thankfully they keep the belts loose so that no arms can be ripped off, he was still pretty banged up though.
Everyones first reaction is always to blame the school or the class teacher. I can easily tell you every accident could have easily been avoided if my classmates payed attention to the first three weeks of class detailing safety, including pictures of previous students.
Most U.S. car manufacturers have gotten help from the state, I don't see how this is much different.
Reminds me of David Cope and EMI
http://www.radiolab.org/story/...
"David Cope, the composer and professor at UC Santa Cruz, who cured his artist’s block by writing a computer program to do the dirtywork for him. His program, named EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), deconstructs the works of great composers, finding patterns within the voice leading of their compositions, and then creates brand new compositions based on the patterns she finds."