Wasn't the intention of getting that spectrum which was used for analog TV to use it for such things? If it isn't suitable for such, why the change? If the new digital TV spectrum was suited for this, why was it sold?
- turn cases on a lathe (a variable-speed woodworking lathe will do --- brass is soft)
- bullets are easily cast (you can use a hot plate as a heat source)
- gunpowder is simple kitchen chemistry (I used to make black powder when I was a kid)
- primers can be made from strike-anywhere matches (granted, these are not quite as easy to come by these days, but they haven't been outlawed yet, and when they do, there're other alternatives)
People who think gun control can be made to work don't understand guns.
Ages ago, I remember reading in Readers Digest a story about a gentleman and his wife who adopted one of the Thalidomide babies and created a more manageable motorized device for the young man to control so as to have some mobility --- I've always wondered if any of those mechanisms were used in later devices.
There are now devices for CNC milling dental crowns while one waits in a dentist's office:
One advantage of object-oriented programming on computer systems is that the components are _not_ fixed in terms of how the user perceives them --- behaviours and appearance can easily be modified (see ``pose as'' in Objective-C), keeping the development advantages and maintainability and robustness of discrete components, but allowing customization to a level not possible in the physical world.
NeXTstep was built out of a combination of a number of software components, and if any operating system deserves the appellation ``beautiful'', it would.
For physical components, I can see your point, but I still believe that w/ reasonable engineering controls and better management, and earlier testing the Dreamliner integration could've been more successful and less expensive.
Exactly what I was coming here to wonder --- I installed Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on a 4GB SSD drive a while back, and low drive space warnings triggered by Windows updates are a continual hassle.
That's the current plan --- you have thermite charges to destroy equipment (and sledgehammers to break down and consolidate equipment into suitably small piles), and ``document disintegration barrels'' for all the paperwork --- the problems are:
- takes time
- requires warehousing special-purpose munitions which have to be rotated (a water-damaged DDR-55 will _not_ completely burn and when one attempts to destroy it by setting off a thermite charge on top of it will then spew bits of burning thermite in all directions DAMHIKT)
- requires special training for personnel
- is not something one wants to be doing on an aircraft or in some other enclosed space
I'm dreading my current Mac being replaced w/ one which won't be able to run Mac OS X 10.6, so that I'll have to give up Rosetta and Macromedia FreeHand MX --- rather than running Windows in Parallels and FreeHand MX in that, I've been contemplating back-saving all my files to FreeHand v4, then installing NeXTstep (or OPENSTEP) into VirtualBox and Altsys Virtuoso 2 into that.
I remember back in the '70s there was some discussion about investing on the behalf of citizens by governments to ensure basic levels of support --- see Hal Clements' mention of ``draft dodgers'' in his short story ``The Mechanic''.
Bit late for that now --- perhaps a tax on CPU processing power?
William (who made a crossbow using a truck leaf spring when he was a teen-ager and used his father's ratchet lever hoist to cock it --- was fortunate to be to on the opposite side of the tree when the stock split and things went flying)
1. The volunteers don't read _everything_ --- there's an employee at the publisher who's tasked w/ that initial culling down to what's worth bothering the volunteers w/
2. I must be imagining the 4 hours I spent the other evening editing a math paper for a non-profit on my current pro bono task
3. Authors as a rule, don't understand pre-press concepts like line weight, or spot colours --- they're also so wrapped up in their subject matter that they're pretty much incapable of seeing the need to normalize graphics w/ consistent label sizes, &c.
4. I must have missed the tree on CTAN where there's a template for every publication in the world --- let me know where it is, would you? The current pro bono project includes my delivering a LaTeX document class which will format books to the non-profit's style and there are a couple of things I haven't implemented yet (measuring the title and author information and left column footnotes on the first page so that I know how tall the text columns should be on the first page, not suppressing the state name in the bibliography, &c.)
Things which typical on-line systems don't do which publishers do:
- quality selection / control on articles (some do better on this than others)
- editors (for some reason, people take the content of text more seriously when it's to be printed)
- graphic artists to re-draw illustrations, colour correct and fix graphics (sure, you can just slap a.png on-line, but it's wasteful if instead it could be a nice re-drawn or re-created graph or chart done as a vector graphic)
- designers to create pleasing layouts for a publication so that not everything written has a boring sameness and so that the layout is adapted to make for more efficient reading of a text.
I look at raw author manuscripts pretty much all day, and believe me, the vast majority of them are _not_ something one would choose to read in their original, un-edited source form.
Typography is the craft (or art) of setting type so as to honour the content.
The thing is, a felon is looking at jail time for any sort of firearm --- so they might as well saw off the shotgun if they can't source a pistol --- so the laws don't change what's available to criminals, but do preclude honest people from having things like the Marble Game Getter in a manageable barrel length:
Agree training would be good and subsidizing it / making it free a great step. Shooting is the only academic sport which has _never_ had an injury in the U.S., so might as well put it in all the schools.
If police would rigorously enforce the existing laws against discharging firearms things would be a lot safer / better.
Yes, but there's a greater acreage of lawn grass in the U.S. than any other single crop --- so if we can use grass clippings, that's a few more percent.
The bottom line is there can't be a single solution to this --- it has to be a mix of solutions _and_ conservation and a change in lifestyles.
Anti-gun people are trying to pick the low-hanging, easy fruit on their slippery slope to out-lawing all firearms.
You advocated that inexpensive models of pistols should be banned, noting that the poor could purchase rifles, which are not suited to concealed carry.
Got a Sony PRS-505 through work back when they first came out, but couldn't bring myself to purchase any books for it (and given how the copy of _Space Cadet_ which I got w/ a gift certificate was _rife_ w/ errors to the point of being unreadable and resulting in my spending the weekend proofreading the book, no big loss), and instead have been reading through public domain and (legitimately) freely available books as listed at the Online Books Page:
I just wish there were better sorting options available --- in particular, I'd like to be able to filter out just biographies, then order them chronologically by date (of the lifetime of the subject).
and the Supreme Court has refused to rule on ownership of specific weapon types, hence the use of taxes to attempt to control transfers and manufacture of such.
Outlawing inexpensive firearms discriminates against the poor being able to own firearms --- what we really need is to win Johnson's war on poverty.
which by your own admission, would not be cease to exist, but would instead become knife or blunt object or other forms of attacks.
All gun control laws do is remove choices from law-abiding citizens. They do not magically disarm criminals.
Estimates of defensive uses of firearms in the U.S. are estimated at 1 to 2 million instances annually. If you want gun control, move somewhere it's already in place.
Any attempt to outlaw guns w/o amending the Constitution is illegal. No law can be made which would outlaw those firearms which are already in existence (... shall pass no ex post facto laws.). That's why gun control advocates are always trying things in small steps, trying to take things away piecemeal.
But how many more knife and blunt instrument attacks?
How many more instances of honest people being confronted by thugs and backing down?
Estimates of civilian usage of firearms for self-defense in the U.S. range between 1 and 2 _million_ times per year.
A belief in gun control is the belief that a woman beaten, raped and strangled in an alley is somehow morally superior to the woman who has to explain to the police how her attacker got that fatal hole in his anatomy.
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Wasn't the intention of getting that spectrum which was used for analog TV to use it for such things? If it isn't suitable for such, why the change? If the new digital TV spectrum was suited for this, why was it sold?
Ammunition is simple:
- turn cases on a lathe (a variable-speed woodworking lathe will do --- brass is soft)
- bullets are easily cast (you can use a hot plate as a heat source)
- gunpowder is simple kitchen chemistry (I used to make black powder when I was a kid)
- primers can be made from strike-anywhere matches (granted, these are not quite as easy to come by these days, but they haven't been outlawed yet, and when they do, there're other alternatives)
People who think gun control can be made to work don't understand guns.
Two sides to this:
Ages ago, I remember reading in Readers Digest a story about a gentleman and his wife who adopted one of the Thalidomide babies and created a more manageable motorized device for the young man to control so as to have some mobility --- I've always wondered if any of those mechanisms were used in later devices.
There are now devices for CNC milling dental crowns while one waits in a dentist's office:
http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1196&p=9543&hilit=dentist#p9543
One advantage of object-oriented programming on computer systems is that the components are _not_ fixed in terms of how the user perceives them --- behaviours and appearance can easily be modified (see ``pose as'' in Objective-C), keeping the development advantages and maintainability and robustness of discrete components, but allowing customization to a level not possible in the physical world.
NeXTstep was built out of a combination of a number of software components, and if any operating system deserves the appellation ``beautiful'', it would.
For physical components, I can see your point, but I still believe that w/ reasonable engineering controls and better management, and earlier testing the Dreamliner integration could've been more successful and less expensive.
William
Exactly what I was coming here to wonder --- I installed Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on a 4GB SSD drive a while back, and low drive space warnings triggered by Windows updates are a continual hassle.
That's the current plan --- you have thermite charges to destroy equipment (and sledgehammers to break down and consolidate equipment into suitably small piles), and ``document disintegration barrels'' for all the paperwork --- the problems are:
- takes time
- requires warehousing special-purpose munitions which have to be rotated (a water-damaged DDR-55 will _not_ completely burn and when one attempts to destroy it by setting off a thermite charge on top of it will then spew bits of burning thermite in all directions DAMHIKT)
- requires special training for personnel
- is not something one wants to be doing on an aircraft or in some other enclosed space
William
I'm dreading my current Mac being replaced w/ one which won't be able to run Mac OS X 10.6, so that I'll have to give up Rosetta and Macromedia FreeHand MX --- rather than running Windows in Parallels and FreeHand MX in that, I've been contemplating back-saving all my files to FreeHand v4, then installing NeXTstep (or OPENSTEP) into VirtualBox and Altsys Virtuoso 2 into that.
William
don't forget aliens and zombies and drug dealers and cartels and mafia and yakuza and of course, corrupt government / intelligence agency insiders....
This is a Lego Haggia Sophia:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=67199
Only on certain types of mail:
http://pe.usps.com/text/qsg300/Q602.htm
(those qualifying for reduced rates for being non-profit, &c.)
If one pays full postage, no return address is necessary.
Yep, pretty much the post I was going to write.
I remember back in the '70s there was some discussion about investing on the behalf of citizens by governments to ensure basic levels of support --- see Hal Clements' mention of ``draft dodgers'' in his short story ``The Mechanic''.
Bit late for that now --- perhaps a tax on CPU processing power?
suitable for 3D printing or milling?
If you've already done this, where are they?
William
(who made a crossbow using a truck leaf spring when he was a teen-ager and used his father's ratchet lever hoist to cock it --- was fortunate to be to on the opposite side of the tree when the stock split and things went flying)
The odd thing is, before the West was radically religious, it was the Muslim world which was tolerant and open --- it'd be nice to have that back.
1. The volunteers don't read _everything_ --- there's an employee at the publisher who's tasked w/ that initial culling down to what's worth bothering the volunteers w/
2. I must be imagining the 4 hours I spent the other evening editing a math paper for a non-profit on my current pro bono task
3. Authors as a rule, don't understand pre-press concepts like line weight, or spot colours --- they're also so wrapped up in their subject matter that they're pretty much incapable of seeing the need to normalize graphics w/ consistent label sizes, &c.
4. I must have missed the tree on CTAN where there's a template for every publication in the world --- let me know where it is, would you? The current pro bono project includes my delivering a LaTeX document class which will format books to the non-profit's style and there are a couple of things I haven't implemented yet (measuring the title and author information and left column footnotes on the first page so that I know how tall the text columns should be on the first page, not suppressing the state name in the bibliography, &c.)
Things which typical on-line systems don't do which publishers do:
- quality selection / control on articles (some do better on this than others) .png on-line, but it's wasteful if instead it could be a nice re-drawn or re-created graph or chart done as a vector graphic)
- editors (for some reason, people take the content of text more seriously when it's to be printed)
- graphic artists to re-draw illustrations, colour correct and fix graphics (sure, you can just slap a
- designers to create pleasing layouts for a publication so that not everything written has a boring sameness and so that the layout is adapted to make for more efficient reading of a text.
I look at raw author manuscripts pretty much all day, and believe me, the vast majority of them are _not_ something one would choose to read in their original, un-edited source form.
Typography is the craft (or art) of setting type so as to honour the content.
William
The thing is, a felon is looking at jail time for any sort of firearm --- so they might as well saw off the shotgun if they can't source a pistol --- so the laws don't change what's available to criminals, but do preclude honest people from having things like the Marble Game Getter in a manageable barrel length:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Game_Getter
Agree training would be good and subsidizing it / making it free a great step. Shooting is the only academic sport which has _never_ had an injury in the U.S., so might as well put it in all the schools.
If police would rigorously enforce the existing laws against discharging firearms things would be a lot safer / better.
Yes, but there's a greater acreage of lawn grass in the U.S. than any other single crop --- so if we can use grass clippings, that's a few more percent.
The bottom line is there can't be a single solution to this --- it has to be a mix of solutions _and_ conservation and a change in lifestyles.
Quick search had a couple of hits on sawed off shotguns:
http://bethel.kval.com/content/police-bicyclist-pulls-sawed-shotgun-officers
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20130102/NJNEWS/301020055/Police-Blotter-Criminal-mischief-Madison-sawed-off-shotgun-Long-Valley
Anti-gun people are trying to pick the low-hanging, easy fruit on their slippery slope to out-lawing all firearms.
You advocated that inexpensive models of pistols should be banned, noting that the poor could purchase rifles, which are not suited to concealed carry.
Got a Sony PRS-505 through work back when they first came out, but couldn't bring myself to purchase any books for it (and given how the copy of _Space Cadet_ which I got w/ a gift certificate was _rife_ w/ errors to the point of being unreadable and resulting in my spending the weekend proofreading the book, no big loss), and instead have been reading through public domain and (legitimately) freely available books as listed at the Online Books Page:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/new.html
I just wish there were better sorting options available --- in particular, I'd like to be able to filter out just biographies, then order them chronologically by date (of the lifetime of the subject).
Sawed off shotguns get used quite often --- the difference is a felon isn't required to fill out the paperwork..
The poor should not be allowed to concealed carry? Discrimination.
I'd rather have the option to inflict a gunshot wound on an assailant, and to be armed when confronting a criminal than unarmed.
Sawed off shotguns and fully automatic weapons are available for a $200 tax payment --- see:
http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-5320-1.pdf
and the Supreme Court has refused to rule on ownership of specific weapon types, hence the use of taxes to attempt to control transfers and manufacture of such.
Outlawing inexpensive firearms discriminates against the poor being able to own firearms --- what we really need is to win Johnson's war on poverty.
which by your own admission, would not be cease to exist, but would instead become knife or blunt object or other forms of attacks.
All gun control laws do is remove choices from law-abiding citizens. They do not magically disarm criminals.
Estimates of defensive uses of firearms in the U.S. are estimated at 1 to 2 million instances annually. If you want gun control, move somewhere it's already in place.
One is significant to me:
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/tulsa-woman-shoots-two-would-be-rapists-in-their-heads/
and it's a two-fer.
Certainly this woman's testimony should carry some weight:
http://www.nevadanewsbureau.com/2011/03/17/rape-victim-to-testify-on-campus-carry-law/
That's why the oath of enlistment is to, ``...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...''.
That's why Texas Republican Steve Stockman is in the right w/ his promise:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/01/15/rep-steve-stockman-threatens-to-impeach-obama-over-guns/
Any attempt to outlaw guns w/o amending the Constitution is illegal. No law can be made which would outlaw those firearms which are already in existence (... shall pass no ex post facto laws.). That's why gun control advocates are always trying things in small steps, trying to take things away piecemeal.
But how many more knife and blunt instrument attacks?
How many more instances of honest people being confronted by thugs and backing down?
Estimates of civilian usage of firearms for self-defense in the U.S. range between 1 and 2 _million_ times per year.
A belief in gun control is the belief that a woman beaten, raped and strangled in an alley is somehow morally superior to the woman who has to explain to the police how her attacker got that fatal hole in his anatomy.