He'd probably still be alive if he hadn't been limited to bolt action rifles w/ limited magazine capacity, certainly the bad guy body count would've been higher.
Laws controlling firearms only apply to law-abiding citizens. If you don't believe that, look up the case law on the $200 transfer tax on short barreled rifles, fully-automatic weapons and destructive devices --- felons cannot be prosecuted for not paying it, since that would conflict w/ the right not to incriminate themselves.
About 2 decades ago, after having coped w/ CorelDRAW! for longer than I cared to, I started using Altsys Virtuoso --- it suited me perfectly, and I've depended on it for everything from font design to gallery catalogues to books to point-of-presence displays to billboards and to draw up plans for woodworking projects.
Almost 10 years to the day after the FTC told Adobe they had to wait 10 years before acquiring Freehand after their acquisition of Aldus, Adobe bought Macromedia and (ultimately) killed Freehand.
I've tried pretty much every drawing program which is available and they all fall short --- using Illustrator is infuriating, other programs fall short on features or interface --- where possible I've begun coding drawings up using Asymptote and am trying to learn Metafont/post.
I've provided feature feedback to opensource drawing programs, but they've got a long ways to go before they're comparable.
Lego is not however one of the very rich corporations --- wasn't that long ago that there was concern that they'd go bankrupt and out of business.
Most of the good quality stuff isn't made by fabulously wealthy people either. Bridge City Tools would be the poster child for this, w/ a blog post on it:
``There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.'' -- John Ruskin, English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900
and of course, there's never a need to divide things into thirds, or sixths or twelfths, right?
I use points and picas for page layout design --- makes 3-column layouts much easier --- it's always bizarre the fractional measurements I get from layouts from European colleagues who are working in metric.
I use inches in woodworking --- makes positioning the holes for half-a-dozen arrows in a bow and arrow case much easier trying to work out where the odd millimeter goes.
Traditional measurements all relate back to human experience and are far more workable for the work which I do.
Be sure to buy the printed books (if you pre-order you can pay extra and get hand drawn art). Victorian steampunk science fantasy suitable for teens and younger children.
- collaborative editing
- control over paragraph and character styles
- a straight-forward format for flowing text onto pages (XML would be fine)
- a way to signal to a server that the content has changed
Adobe Buzzword would've been perfect if it had only had paragraph and character styles (and they pulled support for it from InDesign a version or two back).
Every time I've tried to work w/ a Typo3 developer they've claimed that they can't format XML so as to efficiently pull it into InDesign (and one can never get the people doing the editing to tag things properly so long as they have an option for instead ``finger-painting'' the visual appearance using local formatting)
There're third-party plug-ins which let one use Google docs in InDesign, but that's a complication I'd liefer avoid.
Archery gear has a separate set of laws, and is not overseen by the BATF.
State and local laws, usually describing hunting, forbidding of having strung / uncased bows in vehicles (to prevent poaching) and some localities forbid shooting bows w/in their limits.
There is an excise tax on hunting weight bows though.
Some examples in fiction of weapons-user-identification systems:
- 1976 --- _Logan's Run_, William F Nolan, George Clayton Johnson
- 1983 --- _Single Combat_, Dean Ing
- 1990 --- Judge Dredd: The Megazine, Steve McManus
``c. Firearm. The term “firearm” means: (1) a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (2) a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (3) a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (5) any other weapon, as defined in 18 U.S.C. 5845 (e); (6) a machinegun; (7) a muffler or a silencer for any firearm whether or not such firearm is included within this definition; and (8) a destructive device.''
Please note that felons are exempt from paying this $200 ``tax'' --- it's imposed only on honest, law-abiding citizens.
"SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to create a colony on Mars consisting of a population of 80,000, ferried to the planet in a reusable rocket. For the initial trip, the rocket would contain fewer than 10 humans, and enough equipment to found a colony ready for the other 79,990."
The point is that Netflix's current system of content rotating in and out makes the user's perception of the value wildly changeable --- it wouldn't be so bad if they'd track things which you added to your streaming queue and when they drop off notify you the next time you log on to the web interface that you might want to get said shows on disk.
Slashdot Mirror
Don Alejo Garza Tamez:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/11/mexican-marines-reconstruct-death-of.html
He'd probably still be alive if he hadn't been limited to bolt action rifles w/ limited magazine capacity, certainly the bad guy body count would've been higher.
Laws controlling firearms only apply to law-abiding citizens. If you don't believe that, look up the case law on the $200 transfer tax on short barreled rifles, fully-automatic weapons and destructive devices --- felons cannot be prosecuted for not paying it, since that would conflict w/ the right not to incriminate themselves.
About 2 decades ago, after having coped w/ CorelDRAW! for longer than I cared to, I started using Altsys Virtuoso --- it suited me perfectly, and I've depended on it for everything from font design to gallery catalogues to books to point-of-presence displays to billboards and to draw up plans for woodworking projects.
Almost 10 years to the day after the FTC told Adobe they had to wait 10 years before acquiring Freehand after their acquisition of Aldus, Adobe bought Macromedia and (ultimately) killed Freehand.
I've tried pretty much every drawing program which is available and they all fall short --- using Illustrator is infuriating, other programs fall short on features or interface --- where possible I've begun coding drawings up using Asymptote and am trying to learn Metafont/post.
I've provided feature feedback to opensource drawing programs, but they've got a long ways to go before they're comparable.
Lego is not however one of the very rich corporations --- wasn't that long ago that there was concern that they'd go bankrupt and out of business.
Most of the good quality stuff isn't made by fabulously wealthy people either. Bridge City Tools would be the poster child for this, w/ a blog post on it:
https://www.bridgecitytools.com/blog/2012/02/21/we-are-what-we-celebrate/
retchdog wrote:
>the hospital at my college town, i noticed the vaulted ceilings and friezes put there to cater to the wealthier residents
Wrong. The ceilings and friezes are there to attract the hospital's true clients --- doctors.
``There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.''
-- John Ruskin, English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900
Two different tolerances:
- 0.002 millimeters for the molds and tooling
- 0.01 millimeters for the finished bricks
The variance on the product is always larger than that for the tooling, w/ each step of the process slightly magnifying any inaccuracy before it.
No, lumber is sold by the rough-cut size.
Then it's planed to finished dimensions and packaged up for sale in big box stores.
Go to a real lumber yard which still has rough cut lumber and will cut to size and you can save quite a bit (and have a much larger selection).
Buy rough cut lumber and it will be.
Real men don't worry about splinters and are able to plane and dimension lumber themselves.
and of course, there's never a need to divide things into thirds, or sixths or twelfths, right?
I use points and picas for page layout design --- makes 3-column layouts much easier --- it's always bizarre the fractional measurements I get from layouts from European colleagues who are working in metric.
I use inches in woodworking --- makes positioning the holes for half-a-dozen arrows in a bow and arrow case much easier trying to work out where the odd millimeter goes.
Traditional measurements all relate back to human experience and are far more workable for the work which I do.
Agree strongly.
Best of all, author tries hard to get the physics right.
funny science fiction which tries very hard to get the physics right:
http://freefall.purrsia.com/
Honorable mention to Girl Genius by Kaja and Phil Foglio
Begin here:
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104
Be sure to buy the printed books (if you pre-order you can pay extra and get hand drawn art). Victorian steampunk science fantasy suitable for teens and younger children.
William
All I need is:
- collaborative editing
- control over paragraph and character styles
- a straight-forward format for flowing text onto pages (XML would be fine)
- a way to signal to a server that the content has changed
Adobe Buzzword would've been perfect if it had only had paragraph and character styles (and they pulled support for it from InDesign a version or two back).
Every time I've tried to work w/ a Typo3 developer they've claimed that they can't format XML so as to efficiently pull it into InDesign (and one can never get the people doing the editing to tag things properly so long as they have an option for instead ``finger-painting'' the visual appearance using local formatting)
There're third-party plug-ins which let one use Google docs in InDesign, but that's a complication I'd liefer avoid.
Archery gear has a separate set of laws, and is not overseen by the BATF.
State and local laws, usually describing hunting, forbidding of having strung / uncased bows in vehicles (to prevent poaching) and some localities forbid shooting bows w/in their limits.
There is an excise tax on hunting weight bows though.
He can build it, then use it to build more things:
http://www.shapeoko.com/
The loudest sound in the world:
``Hearing `click', when you expected to hear `bang'.''
Some examples in fiction of weapons-user-identification systems:
- 1976 --- _Logan's Run_, William F Nolan, George Clayton Johnson
- 1983 --- _Single Combat_, Dean Ing
- 1990 --- Judge Dredd: The Megazine, Steve McManus
It'd be interesting to see a compleat list.
You would run into licensing issues associated w/ airguns of a certain power / muzzle velocity, depending on your locale.
Al Capone was jailed for income tax evasion, not for paying a tax which didn't exist when he was arrested.
The National Firearms Act (27 CFR, Part 479) is only about:
- fully automatic weapons
- short barreled rifes and shotguns
- silencers
- ``any other weapons'' / destructive devices
It does _not_ apply to typical pistols, rifles or shotguns.
http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-5320-1.pdf
``c. Firearm. The term “firearm” means: (1) a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (2) a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length; (3) a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length; (5) any other weapon, as defined in 18 U.S.C. 5845 (e); (6) a machinegun; (7) a muffler or a silencer for any firearm whether or not such firearm is included within this definition; and (8) a destructive device.''
Please note that felons are exempt from paying this $200 ``tax'' --- it's imposed only on honest, law-abiding citizens.
Story which examines this:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
William
posting to undo accidental ``Flamebait'' mod --- mea culpa
The only manufacturer who seems to take this seriously is Tom Tom:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html
"SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to create a colony on Mars consisting of a population of 80,000, ferried to the planet in a reusable rocket. For the initial trip, the rocket would contain fewer than 10 humans, and enough equipment to found a colony ready for the other 79,990."
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-11/what-do-we-know-about-elon-musks-plan-mars-colony
The point is that Netflix's current system of content rotating in and out makes the user's perception of the value wildly changeable --- it wouldn't be so bad if they'd track things which you added to your streaming queue and when they drop off notify you the next time you log on to the web interface that you might want to get said shows on disk.
should be assigned to care for people in iron lungs for whom the Polio vaccine was too late.