From what I was reading elsewhere (mostly ATF stuff), they can be sold.
Firearms without serial numbers can be passed through a FFL dealer. There are antique firearms and custom firearms which simply don't have a serial number.
If so desired, a gunsmith (I believe with a FFL) can give a weapon a serial number, and file a form with the ATF.
I haven't looked into it any farther than reading. I have no legitimate purpose to ask, as I don't happen to have one, nor do I see it happening any time soon.
Also, in my state, there is no requirement of any paperwork when privately selling to another individual. I've bought a few weapons that way. I hand them cash, they had me the weapon, and we're done. I usually deal with FFL dealers though, just because they have stores I can shop in.
There are always a lot more variables than "untrained guys with guns vs the military". Especially where the ex-military population in the US is *huge*.
A guy with just enough chemistry knowledge can make an IED, and doesn't even have to be there for it to work.
A single sniper can hold down a squad of well armed and trained soldiers. He can be a half mile or more away to do it, and only needs to fire off a shot if they move.
Gaining access to non-civilian gear is inevitable if the war runs long enough. That can be gear captured in the field, overrun bases, or even supply drops from other nations friendly to the cause.
If several thousand armed civilians showed up in Washington DC, air strikes are out of the picture. Heavy armor is questionable at best. Even heavy weapons fire isn't a good thing. "1,000 terrorists dead, 10,000 unarmed civilians killed" is never going to go over well.
That's not to say it would work. If someone did start a civil war with good cause, but poor planning, they may as well consider themselves dead before it starts. But enough people with light weapons (pistols, AR-15, hunting rifles) and an awesome plan can (possibly) go a long way.
A million angry people carrying torches and pitchforks could take over DC if they wanted. There wouldn't be a million surviving attackers though.
The Branch Davidians were a special bunch. Nothing about what they did really made sense. Fortifying yourself in a building with no escape route is suicide. They had no real motive or plan. Or if they had a plan it was a horrible one.
There's no good reason we can't set up a Mars colony. Ideas on how to do it have been floated since the late 1940s. Feasible plans have been around since the 1960s. The only thing holding us back is the fact that governments prefer to fund killing people more efficiently, than to extend the reach of the human race.
The way we're going, the human race will die with this planet. We're trying hard to make sure that happens.
There's nothing misleading in what I wrote. He asked about those, so I answered those.
On the submarine reactors, I would have preferred to only give the weight on the reactor portion, but I couldn't find any numbers. It's almost like the DoD doesn't want you to know.:) I have seen pictures of decommissioned submarine reactor compartments. They just slice out the whole compartment and bury it.
I'm sure they could make something a bit more portable, but chasing down test or theoretical reactors that would be sized appropriately to send to Mars, that would give an unspecified power output, is silly.
I've gotten pretty confused by this thread already. If I understand it to this point, they want the nuclear reactor to provide heat, to make dry ice sublimate, to spin turbines, to make power. I intentionally ignored the obvious problem.
For the dry ice in general, we've detected it's present. We don't know how much there is though. Even if we know that there's 100,000 acres covered dry ice in the target zone, that doesn't say if it's a fraction of an inch thick, or a mile thick.
Nuclear satellites and probes use tiny reactors only capable of watts of output. Voyager 1's has 3 MHW-RTG weighing 37.7 kg, and making 147w each.
The S5G reactor compartment weighed 650 tons. The S9G reactor compartment weighed 1,400 tons and measures 31 ft in diameter, 37 feet deep.
We (anyone on Earth) don't have anything that will lift a submarine reactor to LEO. To the best of my knowledge, nothing like that has even been designed.
For comparison, the ISS is about 460 tons, and it wasn't delivered in one shot. I believe most of what's there was delivered in 31 flights.
Also, nuclear reactors don't last forever. From what I could find, the S9G is designed to be refueled at about 30 years.
I've only been to a few places up there, but the places I noticed everything was accessible. It wouldn't involve acrobatics, it would just take someone walking quietly in the tree line, and then to the house.
I guess where ever AK Marc is, the are amazingly secure, with fences and cameras everywhere. That sounds more like a federal prison or doomsday cult commune than a residential or farm area. Maybe he's just thinking of the hardest way possible to approach, rather than "walk down street, walk up driveway, [pop] [snip], walk inside"
Most homes, it's just a matter of walking up to the side of the house. That's usually the ugly side where the utilities all come in. I've never cut power outside, but pulling the meter usually does it.
I have worked with the phone and cable service frequently, since that point is where your house wiring meets the provider. It can be snipped outside of the box, or if they're nice they'll just open it and unplug it. Generally, people don't notice. I've gone to help friends out, and been completely ignored by neighbors, even if my friend isn't home at the time.
Heh, their "comfort zone" is funny. They clearly haven't seen what summer weather is like in the southern US. I guess iStuff users are suppose to turn off their devices to go outside.
But the Rolex won't be obsolete in a year.:) And you are pretty much guaranteed that the Rolex will still be working 24 hours later. The Apple Watch has an estimated 18 hour life.
I don't know about the Apple fanclub, but I've had plenty of days where I didn't get home for 24 hours. Needing to feed my phone twice a day seems just about as needy as a tamagotchi.
The last time I saw anything like it, a friend got one for free, and was going to convert it into a portable PC. I don't think he ever did anything with it though. That's probably for the best.
If it makes you feel better, I vaguely remember working with MFM drives. It's been long enough ago where I don't remember anything about how they work.:)
The most ancient laptop I ever touched was a Compaq 386/16 with a 20MB 3.5" 1/2 height IDE drive. It sounds pretty much like the same, or probably the piece of crap I had was a predecessor. I do remember it was clearly a 20MB drive though. I swapped it for a regular desktop 40MB IDE that we had in the shop.
Everything I found about that series says it's IDE. I couldn't find anything specifically saying the physical size, but I suspect it was a 3.5" drive. I seriously doubt it was RLL, MFM, ESDI, or anything more exotic. So he's wasting everyone's time asking rather than just opening it up and seeing "ooh, a IDE drive." Even if it was, he could go find some combination of adapters to use it. Anyone who's worked with stuff long has a box full of adapters and cards for exactly this. Well, I did ditch all my ancient cards on eBay a few years ago.
I'd be surprised if the drive even spins though. Most of the time when I go to try ancient hardware, the drives don't spin, or spin enough, even though the owner remembers that it was working when they shut it off.
I've heard of similar things. For example, this guy sending air, water, and sugar.
As long as you have the right safety labels, there shouldn't be a problem. The guy in the above link screwed up with the "Rocket Fuel" label.
If they were sending a mill, why did they say "It's a machine for making guns"? IT could have been labeled as coming from "GG Machine Works", and if they needed a declaration of contents it's just "a CNC machine."
I can't even think of the countless things I've shipped. Usually I'm only asked on International shipments for the customs declaration. If I explain what's in them, it's too complicated, so they just put "computer parts" or "tools".
I've received some things that surprised people, like ammunition (legally marked and shipped as such, handled by UPS), a truck front axle, and all kinds of weird smaller things.
Well, it could be. That's not necessarily a good idea.
I did work under someone once who thought the future of web hosting would be to store all data in compressed blobs in databases. He had read somewhere that databases were faster than filesystems, and some other nonsense that made it sound like a good idea. Luckily, he never tried to implement it.
I wouldn't read too much into the eel's behavior. There are too many variables that we can't confirm. They could have faced towards you out of coincidence; movement near you; your movement; changes in the sign; etc, etc, etc...
I think it's interesting that your flash set off the sensor. If you don't mind me asking, where is the aquarium?
I've noticed other odd things in the right conditions. Like there is a state park near here that has an underwater viewing area. My prescription sunglasses are polarized, so when I've gone into the tank, I could see distortions in some of the windows. Without the polarization, you can't see it.
I've only worn them in there because it's bright just outside. I wore them into the darker area because I need glasses to see, and it was still bright enough to not be stumbling around in the dark. Most people take off their sunglasses in there.
I never really thought about them being any different. I always thought of them as being the same.
It looks like Suzuki and Honda have both ATVs and UTVs. I found on another site the major difference is the seating arrangement (side-by-side for UTV). The UTV can have seatbelts, and have motorcycle type controls rather than golfcart/car type controls.
I've always thought about it by engine and general style. Well, I learned something today.:)
What I said before about seeing them still applies. When I lived in a rural area, I saw people riding ATVs on the road, but they would also get pulled over if a cop saw them. I got pulled over a few times riding a street/trail bike, even though it had all the required equipment, license plate, and I had (and have) a motorcycle endorsement. Because of the gearing, it had lots of torque, but maxed out at 60mph.
It looks like they plan to do the cooler thing, the printed body on a performance rolling chassis. It'll probably be looking at them again in a few years.
The problem is, it looks like they're trying to sell it as a car, when it's really just another glorified golfcarts.
It's funny that you mentioned Florida, since that's where I am at the moment. I'm only quoting parts of the laws, so this doesn't become a huge message. You can follow the links to read the rest of the statute and other relevant statutes if you want.
Golf carts can only drive on roads in certain communities and only in certain circumstances. See Florida Statute 316.212
316.212 Operation of golf carts on certain roadways.â"The operation of a golf cart upon the public roads or streets of this state is prohibited except as provided herein:
The "Local Motors" vehicles would appear to be classified in Florida as LSV (Low Speed Vehicles). They're covered by Florida Statute 316.2122
316.2122 Operation of a low-speed vehicle or mini truck on certain roadways.â"The operation of a low-speed vehicle as defined in s. 320.01 or a mini truck as defined in s. 320.01 on any road is authorized with the following restrictions: (1)âfA low-speed vehicle or mini truck may be operated only on streets where the posted speed limit is 35 miles per hour or less. This does not prohibit a low-speed vehicle or mini truck from crossing a road or street at an intersection where the road or street has a posted speed limit of more than 35 miles per hour. [snip]
The UTV is classified here as an ATV (All Terrain Vehicle), and covered by Florida Statute 316.2074.
316.2074(5) Except as provided in this section, an all-terrain vehicle may not be operated upon the public roads, streets, or highways of this state, except as otherwise permitted by the managing state or federal agency.
That's not to say people don't drive them on the road. I've seen them do it. They're breaking the law, and if the police are so inclined, they will be more than happy to give you a stack of tickets.
I've seen both golfcarts and various designs of ATVs used in a lot of places. A agree, they are popular for both industry and off-road applications. But with them implying it's a car it's a problem.
Honestly, it wouldn't be safe to drive any real distance in most metro areas in Florida, if it is accepted for road use as a LSV.
For example, I can't think of any routes that you could safely use to get from downtown Tampa to downtown St. Petersburg. You can't cross any of the bridges in that car, because they don't go fast enough. It would be virtually impossible to even find a route where you wouldn't be under the speed limit and significantly under the average speed.
Even downtown St. Petersburg to downtown Clearwater would be risky at best.
Ya, but golf carts aren't so hot driving across town. I'd think it would be a rather limited market that would want to pay over $8,000 for a golf cart that you can't carry golf clubs in. Generally, I'd assume Slashdot readers don't fall into that niche. $8K on a gaming machine, maybe. $8K to leave your house? No way.:)
From their site, they intend to make all the essential parts for crash safety out of printed plastic.
Everything on the car that could be integrated into a single material piece has been printed. This includes the chassis/frame, exterior body, and some interior features. The mechanical components of the vehicle, like battery, motors, wiring, and suspension, are sourced from Renaultâ(TM)s Twizy, an electric powered city car.
Also on their site has the specs.
Motor - 5 bhp or 17 bhp, 42 lb-ft torque*
Top Speed - approx. 50mph*
The "*" indicating there should be a footnote explaining it, is missing.
Actually, their donor car (Renault Twizy) isn't even classified as a car. It's a quadcycle, and is not currently legal for road operation in the United States. From what I found elsewhere, Renault isn't even planning to make it available in the US, since it doesn't meet the road requirements here.
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Places I've been in the US, there was no requirement that my weapons had to be at my residence. Not unless you have NFA restricted weapons.
From what I was reading elsewhere (mostly ATF stuff), they can be sold.
Firearms without serial numbers can be passed through a FFL dealer. There are antique firearms and custom firearms which simply don't have a serial number.
If so desired, a gunsmith (I believe with a FFL) can give a weapon a serial number, and file a form with the ATF.
I haven't looked into it any farther than reading. I have no legitimate purpose to ask, as I don't happen to have one, nor do I see it happening any time soon.
Also, in my state, there is no requirement of any paperwork when privately selling to another individual. I've bought a few weapons that way. I hand them cash, they had me the weapon, and we're done. I usually deal with FFL dealers though, just because they have stores I can shop in.
There are always a lot more variables than "untrained guys with guns vs the military". Especially where the ex-military population in the US is *huge*.
A guy with just enough chemistry knowledge can make an IED, and doesn't even have to be there for it to work.
A single sniper can hold down a squad of well armed and trained soldiers. He can be a half mile or more away to do it, and only needs to fire off a shot if they move.
Gaining access to non-civilian gear is inevitable if the war runs long enough. That can be gear captured in the field, overrun bases, or even supply drops from other nations friendly to the cause.
ISIS/ISIL have been using a lot of captured equipment.
If several thousand armed civilians showed up in Washington DC, air strikes are out of the picture. Heavy armor is questionable at best. Even heavy weapons fire isn't a good thing. "1,000 terrorists dead, 10,000 unarmed civilians killed" is never going to go over well.
That's not to say it would work. If someone did start a civil war with good cause, but poor planning, they may as well consider themselves dead before it starts. But enough people with light weapons (pistols, AR-15, hunting rifles) and an awesome plan can (possibly) go a long way.
A million angry people carrying torches and pitchforks could take over DC if they wanted. There wouldn't be a million surviving attackers though.
The Branch Davidians were a special bunch. Nothing about what they did really made sense. Fortifying yourself in a building with no escape route is suicide. They had no real motive or plan. Or if they had a plan it was a horrible one.
There's no good reason we can't set up a Mars colony. Ideas on how to do it have been floated since the late 1940s. Feasible plans have been around since the 1960s. The only thing holding us back is the fact that governments prefer to fund killing people more efficiently, than to extend the reach of the human race.
The way we're going, the human race will die with this planet. We're trying hard to make sure that happens.
There's nothing misleading in what I wrote. He asked about those, so I answered those.
On the submarine reactors, I would have preferred to only give the weight on the reactor portion, but I couldn't find any numbers. It's almost like the DoD doesn't want you to know. :) I have seen pictures of decommissioned submarine reactor compartments. They just slice out the whole compartment and bury it.
I'm sure they could make something a bit more portable, but chasing down test or theoretical reactors that would be sized appropriately to send to Mars, that would give an unspecified power output, is silly.
I've gotten pretty confused by this thread already. If I understand it to this point, they want the nuclear reactor to provide heat, to make dry ice sublimate, to spin turbines, to make power. I intentionally ignored the obvious problem.
For the dry ice in general, we've detected it's present. We don't know how much there is though. Even if we know that there's 100,000 acres covered dry ice in the target zone, that doesn't say if it's a fraction of an inch thick, or a mile thick.
Nuclear satellites and probes use tiny reactors only capable of watts of output. Voyager 1's has 3 MHW-RTG weighing 37.7 kg, and making 147w each.
The S5G reactor compartment weighed 650 tons.
The S9G reactor compartment weighed 1,400 tons and measures 31 ft in diameter, 37 feet deep.
We (anyone on Earth) don't have anything that will lift a submarine reactor to LEO. To the best of my knowledge, nothing like that has even been designed.
For comparison, the ISS is about 460 tons, and it wasn't delivered in one shot. I believe most of what's there was delivered in 31 flights.
Also, nuclear reactors don't last forever. From what I could find, the S9G is designed to be refueled at about 30 years.
I've only been to a few places up there, but the places I noticed everything was accessible. It wouldn't involve acrobatics, it would just take someone walking quietly in the tree line, and then to the house.
I guess where ever AK Marc is, the are amazingly secure, with fences and cameras everywhere. That sounds more like a federal prison or doomsday cult commune than a residential or farm area. Maybe he's just thinking of the hardest way possible to approach, rather than "walk down street, walk up driveway, [pop] [snip], walk inside"
Most homes, it's just a matter of walking up to the side of the house. That's usually the ugly side where the utilities all come in. I've never cut power outside, but pulling the meter usually does it.
I have worked with the phone and cable service frequently, since that point is where your house wiring meets the provider. It can be snipped outside of the box, or if they're nice they'll just open it and unplug it. Generally, people don't notice. I've gone to help friends out, and been completely ignored by neighbors, even if my friend isn't home at the time.
Heh, their "comfort zone" is funny. They clearly haven't seen what summer weather is like in the southern US. I guess iStuff users are suppose to turn off their devices to go outside.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Hey, I was very happy with my Rollex. Made in China, and sold in Mexico for $20. That thing lasted me months. :)
But the Rolex won't be obsolete in a year. :) And you are pretty much guaranteed that the Rolex will still be working 24 hours later. The Apple Watch has an estimated 18 hour life.
I don't know about the Apple fanclub, but I've had plenty of days where I didn't get home for 24 hours. Needing to feed my phone twice a day seems just about as needy as a tamagotchi.
The Kaypro 10 was a portable, not a laptop. :)
The last time I saw anything like it, a friend got one for free, and was going to convert it into a portable PC. I don't think he ever did anything with it though. That's probably for the best.
If it makes you feel better, I vaguely remember working with MFM drives. It's been long enough ago where I don't remember anything about how they work. :)
I think I used this one. Looks like just about the same thing. It's probably identical inside.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/app...
The most ancient laptop I ever touched was a Compaq 386/16 with a 20MB 3.5" 1/2 height IDE drive. It sounds pretty much like the same, or probably the piece of crap I had was a predecessor. I do remember it was clearly a 20MB drive though. I swapped it for a regular desktop 40MB IDE that we had in the shop.
Everything I found about that series says it's IDE. I couldn't find anything specifically saying the physical size, but I suspect it was a 3.5" drive. I seriously doubt it was RLL, MFM, ESDI, or anything more exotic. So he's wasting everyone's time asking rather than just opening it up and seeing "ooh, a IDE drive." Even if it was, he could go find some combination of adapters to use it. Anyone who's worked with stuff long has a box full of adapters and cards for exactly this. Well, I did ditch all my ancient cards on eBay a few years ago.
I'd be surprised if the drive even spins though. Most of the time when I go to try ancient hardware, the drives don't spin, or spin enough, even though the owner remembers that it was working when they shut it off.
Lets see... What would they say? This is the one-sided conversation, since it doesn't matter what you say anyways.
"Ok, we can accept that estimate."
"Ya, ya, ya, whatever."
"We'll have that information to you by the start of the project."
"The information isn't ready yet, we'll have that by the time you need it."
"I thought we had that to you already. We'll have to check with the information source."
"The PMs have some changes."
"Here's the information, but there are some small changes."
"No, those are small changes, they won't impact the timeline."
"No, you can't have more time, we already made commitments."
"The PMs have some changes."
"What do you mean you won't have it in on schedule? You agreed with the initial estimate."
"You're going to stay here until it's done, I don't care how long it takes."
"I don't care that you've been in the office 30 hours straight, this is your fault."
"We're hiring an off-shore company to help you with the project. Get them up to speed."
"The PMs have some changes."
"Since we have the off-shore team, we need to cut your department back."
"I read an article saying Java is the future. Redo it in Java."
"What do you mean we're waiting on the off-shore company?"
"We fired the off-shore company. You're good, you can get it done in time."
"Ok, hire more people into your department, but we're only offering half the salary, and no more bodies."
"Why is this project so far behind? Don't you know what you're doing?"
"The PMs have these changes."
"Why aren't you done? We're weeks from the deadline!"
"You didn't meet the deadline. Don't you know deadlines are firm. We have commitments."
"I don't want excuses, I want results."
"You and your idiot team are fired. Get out of my building."
[2 months later]
"We need you to come back and finish the project. We need it by next Monday, that should be plenty of time."
"Here's all the new specs. They should be easy to do."
"What do you mean total rewrite, it's only a few chances. You are an idiot. Get out."
[1 month later]
"We need you to come back and finish the project. We need it by" {click}
"We need you to come back and finish the project. We need it by" {click}
"We need you to come back and finish the project. We need it by" {click}
"Why do you keep hanging up on me?" {click}
He was a wise man...
I've heard of similar things. For example, this guy sending air, water, and sugar.
As long as you have the right safety labels, there shouldn't be a problem. The guy in the above link screwed up with the "Rocket Fuel" label.
If they were sending a mill, why did they say "It's a machine for making guns"? IT could have been labeled as coming from "GG Machine Works", and if they needed a declaration of contents it's just "a CNC machine."
I can't even think of the countless things I've shipped. Usually I'm only asked on International shipments for the customs declaration. If I explain what's in them, it's too complicated, so they just put "computer parts" or "tools".
I've received some things that surprised people, like ammunition (legally marked and shipped as such, handled by UPS), a truck front axle, and all kinds of weird smaller things.
Well, it could be. That's not necessarily a good idea.
I did work under someone once who thought the future of web hosting would be to store all data in compressed blobs in databases. He had read somewhere that databases were faster than filesystems, and some other nonsense that made it sound like a good idea. Luckily, he never tried to implement it.
I wouldn't read too much into the eel's behavior. There are too many variables that we can't confirm. They could have faced towards you out of coincidence; movement near you; your movement; changes in the sign; etc, etc, etc...
I think it's interesting that your flash set off the sensor. If you don't mind me asking, where is the aquarium?
I've noticed other odd things in the right conditions. Like there is a state park near here that has an underwater viewing area. My prescription sunglasses are polarized, so when I've gone into the tank, I could see distortions in some of the windows. Without the polarization, you can't see it.
I've only worn them in there because it's bright just outside. I wore them into the darker area because I need glasses to see, and it was still bright enough to not be stumbling around in the dark. Most people take off their sunglasses in there.
I never really thought about them being any different. I always thought of them as being the same.
It looks like Suzuki and Honda have both ATVs and UTVs. I found on another site the major difference is the seating arrangement (side-by-side for UTV). The UTV can have seatbelts, and have motorcycle type controls rather than golfcart/car type controls.
I've always thought about it by engine and general style. Well, I learned something today. :)
What I said before about seeing them still applies. When I lived in a rural area, I saw people riding ATVs on the road, but they would also get pulled over if a cop saw them. I got pulled over a few times riding a street/trail bike, even though it had all the required equipment, license plate, and I had (and have) a motorcycle endorsement. Because of the gearing, it had lots of torque, but maxed out at 60mph.
It looks like they plan to do the cooler thing, the printed body on a performance rolling chassis. It'll probably be looking at them again in a few years.
The problem is, it looks like they're trying to sell it as a car, when it's really just another glorified golfcarts.
It's funny that you mentioned Florida, since that's where I am at the moment. I'm only quoting parts of the laws, so this doesn't become a huge message. You can follow the links to read the rest of the statute and other relevant statutes if you want.
Golf carts can only drive on roads in certain communities and only in certain circumstances.
See Florida Statute 316.212
The "Local Motors" vehicles would appear to be classified in Florida as LSV (Low Speed Vehicles). They're covered by Florida Statute 316.2122
The UTV is classified here as an ATV (All Terrain Vehicle), and covered by Florida Statute 316.2074.
That's not to say people don't drive them on the road. I've seen them do it. They're breaking the law, and if the police are so inclined, they will be more than happy to give you a stack of tickets.
I've seen both golfcarts and various designs of ATVs used in a lot of places. A agree, they are popular for both industry and off-road applications. But with them implying it's a car it's a problem.
Honestly, it wouldn't be safe to drive any real distance in most metro areas in Florida, if it is accepted for road use as a LSV.
For example, I can't think of any routes that you could safely use to get from downtown Tampa to downtown St. Petersburg. You can't cross any of the bridges in that car, because they don't go fast enough. It would be virtually impossible to even find a route where you wouldn't be under the speed limit and significantly under the average speed.
Even downtown St. Petersburg to downtown Clearwater would be risky at best.
Ya, but golf carts aren't so hot driving across town. I'd think it would be a rather limited market that would want to pay over $8,000 for a golf cart that you can't carry golf clubs in. Generally, I'd assume Slashdot readers don't fall into that niche. $8K on a gaming machine, maybe. $8K to leave your house? No way. :)
Does cherry picking old war stories usually work out well for you?
From their site, they intend to make all the essential parts for crash safety out of printed plastic.
Also on their site has the specs.
The "*" indicating there should be a footnote explaining it, is missing.
Actually, their donor car (Renault Twizy) isn't even classified as a car. It's a quadcycle, and is not currently legal for road operation in the United States. From what I found elsewhere, Renault isn't even planning to make it available in the US, since it doesn't meet the road requirements here.