For centuries people have had seriously inconsistent black powder. Having all of your bullets fire properly is a 20th century invention. Like I said, the tools are there, but manufacturers have machines that do it more precisely than a human is capable of and don't make mistakes (usually).
For powder, this mostly just means some bullets will be hot or smoky or heavy with residue and you'll have to clean your barrels more often.
The basic chemistry isn't terribly hard, but producing a consistent product is going to be tricky for a guy in his basement. Theoretically nothing is impossible for a really determined guy in his basement, but in practice if the bar is set high enough you can effectively eliminate the behavior from all but the most extreme people. Ultra-extreme people already get increased scrutiny from law enforcement, so the scope of abuse is at least somewhat containable.
Drug cartels today could manufacture their own guns, yet they don't. Or at least not in mass quantities, given how many guns they purchase from the US through various means (including in some cases directly from the US government).
Not true. Gun regulation is a statistical win. You can't keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill or criminal 100% of the time, but if you work hard at it you can reduce gun deaths by a non-negligable amount per year. Look at European countries. They still have a lot of WWII surplus floating around plus plenty of guns in the hands of really hardened criminals, but thanks to strict regulation they have relatively few gun homicides compared to the US and school shootings are extremely rare compared to the regular occurrence they have become in the US.
I think the barrel and chamber aren't tracked because they are wear items that might be replaced on a gun. The receiver is like the frame on the car. You could build one a lot easier than you could build your own engine from scratch, but it's also the part that you're least likely to replace on the vehicle.
If this takes off (which I kind of doubt outside of the fringe), you could expect the government to start regulating replacement chambers and barrels as well. I would expect it to have the opposite effect that Cody Wilson is intending.
However, this just delays the inevitable. As home manufacturing improves over time, it will eventually be cheap and easy to make your own gun at home, at which point the Genie is out of the bottle. About the only thing left would be strict regulation of primers and maybe gunpowder itself.
The only good part about this is that it is theoretically reversible, although politically that's probably not going to happen because there are a lot of people who depend on the diverted water.
Most people don't get pulled over for doing the speed limit though, even if it is slower than the flow of traffic and causing a dangerous situation. Technically it's not against the law.
A Mars colony would have to be mostly underground. Keeping pressure domes sealed for decades or centuries on end would be a constant struggle and you would have problems with the occasional meteorite and cosmic rays. It would be a hard life for the people there, and I would expect a lot of psychological problems in the long term. Worse, for this colony to work as Musk envisioned, it needs to have a copy of Earth's entire industrial base on there. It has to be able to build a space ship and return colonists to Earth after the planet cools (in 50k years) from the cataclysmic meteor strike that wiped out all life on the planet.
Seems like it might be simpler to capture an asteroid and mine that instead. Neither problem is really feasible in our current political and technological climate, but in 50 years who knows? The one thing we won't be able to change short of maybe Space Elevators panning out or the discovery of Antigravity is the high cost of lifting mass out of Earth's gravity.
I wonder if this varies by state? Do you have cops in the deep south pulling over Prius drivers because they're probably granola eating hippies instead of good old boys?
And 30 years? AIs that can think through solutions and look for problems like that are very hard to make, especially in the general case. A lot of AI these days is still little more than massaged Google searches.
Hypercard is owned by a third party now, and they do offer phone targets for the stacks.
It's kind of a shame. Hypercard was incredibly close to being a modern web browser before web browsers were invented. All it needed was a way to remotely load pages from a stack over your Appletalk network. Javascript might never have been born since HyperTalk would already be doing the job. People would eventually have to address the grave security concerns, but in the early 90s nobody gave a crap about security on home networks. Of course being a Mac only product would also put a serious crimp in widespread adoption (especially since this is the era where Jobs is at Pixar and NeXT so Apple is floundering badly).
The dream of some fancy tool that builds a complex app for you (since you're an "ideas person", not a programmer) is always going to be a fantasy. The more work a tool does for you, the more specialized it has to be because there is only so much complexity a person can put into a project per hour they work on it. Either you supply that complexity, or the tool builder does, and there's an upper limit to how complex a tool can be before learning it harder than just learning a programming language and solving the problem yourself.
Someone has to do the work, and if you have grand visions the work will be hard.
Not until after the WoW audience shrinks significantly. They've lost a few million players in the last couple of years, but still have more active players than any other MMO by a good margin.
SC2 was basically made to give competitive Starcraft players something to spend their money on. It worked really hard not to rock the boat with that crowd, but if you're not part of that crowd then all it offers is some well crafted single player missions for you to play through and then put away. You don't really have a hope of competing online against guys who have been playing since 1998.
I love that story because it compared a shot of the Mall after the Inauguration to a shot of the Mall after the Tea Party protest, even though the Tea Party protest wasn't at the Mall. So it's true the Mall was very clean after the Tea Party protest. The entire story is as true as it is disingenuous.
Maybe your flash or memory is failing? My 4s has had no issue with crashes or slowness with iOS 8. Maybe if you did a full device reset and then reinstalled your apps and resynched your content?
I'm a little surprised someone hasn't come out with a machine that does both. You extrude the parts with a regular disposition machine, then it goes back over the model with fine tools to do cleanup and fine detail work. Probably a little too complicated for the industry currently, but it's something I could definitely see in a premium product at some point.
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For centuries people have had seriously inconsistent black powder. Having all of your bullets fire properly is a 20th century invention. Like I said, the tools are there, but manufacturers have machines that do it more precisely than a human is capable of and don't make mistakes (usually).
For powder, this mostly just means some bullets will be hot or smoky or heavy with residue and you'll have to clean your barrels more often.
The basic chemistry isn't terribly hard, but producing a consistent product is going to be tricky for a guy in his basement. Theoretically nothing is impossible for a really determined guy in his basement, but in practice if the bar is set high enough you can effectively eliminate the behavior from all but the most extreme people. Ultra-extreme people already get increased scrutiny from law enforcement, so the scope of abuse is at least somewhat containable.
Drug cartels today could manufacture their own guns, yet they don't. Or at least not in mass quantities, given how many guns they purchase from the US through various means (including in some cases directly from the US government).
Gun deaths in Australia dropped sharply after the ban was enacted. Here's a Washington Post article about the effect as well. Your figures about the UK are also wrong, but that is more understandable because they changed the way they counted gun crime which made it look like it increased after the ban was enacted--including nonfatal accidents into the records that were previously not recorded.
It would be interesting if the whole thing is a big sting operation. Anybody who places an order for one gets a FBI file.
Not true. Gun regulation is a statistical win. You can't keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill or criminal 100% of the time, but if you work hard at it you can reduce gun deaths by a non-negligable amount per year. Look at European countries. They still have a lot of WWII surplus floating around plus plenty of guns in the hands of really hardened criminals, but thanks to strict regulation they have relatively few gun homicides compared to the US and school shootings are extremely rare compared to the regular occurrence they have become in the US.
I think the barrel and chamber aren't tracked because they are wear items that might be replaced on a gun. The receiver is like the frame on the car. You could build one a lot easier than you could build your own engine from scratch, but it's also the part that you're least likely to replace on the vehicle.
If this takes off (which I kind of doubt outside of the fringe), you could expect the government to start regulating replacement chambers and barrels as well. I would expect it to have the opposite effect that Cody Wilson is intending.
However, this just delays the inevitable. As home manufacturing improves over time, it will eventually be cheap and easy to make your own gun at home, at which point the Genie is out of the bottle. About the only thing left would be strict regulation of primers and maybe gunpowder itself.
The only good part about this is that it is theoretically reversible, although politically that's probably not going to happen because there are a lot of people who depend on the diverted water.
Most people don't get pulled over for doing the speed limit though, even if it is slower than the flow of traffic and causing a dangerous situation. Technically it's not against the law.
A Mars colony would have to be mostly underground. Keeping pressure domes sealed for decades or centuries on end would be a constant struggle and you would have problems with the occasional meteorite and cosmic rays. It would be a hard life for the people there, and I would expect a lot of psychological problems in the long term. Worse, for this colony to work as Musk envisioned, it needs to have a copy of Earth's entire industrial base on there. It has to be able to build a space ship and return colonists to Earth after the planet cools (in 50k years) from the cataclysmic meteor strike that wiped out all life on the planet.
Seems like it might be simpler to capture an asteroid and mine that instead. Neither problem is really feasible in our current political and technological climate, but in 50 years who knows? The one thing we won't be able to change short of maybe Space Elevators panning out or the discovery of Antigravity is the high cost of lifting mass out of Earth's gravity.
I wonder if this varies by state? Do you have cops in the deep south pulling over Prius drivers because they're probably granola eating hippies instead of good old boys?
People who prefer inexpensive but fast vehicles get a lot of tickets. I have no idea what kind of demographic this might be (young males).
Mercury Topaz sounds like Florida: The Car.
And 30 years? AIs that can think through solutions and look for problems like that are very hard to make, especially in the general case. A lot of AI these days is still little more than massaged Google searches.
Hypercard is owned by a third party now, and they do offer phone targets for the stacks.
It's kind of a shame. Hypercard was incredibly close to being a modern web browser before web browsers were invented. All it needed was a way to remotely load pages from a stack over your Appletalk network. Javascript might never have been born since HyperTalk would already be doing the job. People would eventually have to address the grave security concerns, but in the early 90s nobody gave a crap about security on home networks. Of course being a Mac only product would also put a serious crimp in widespread adoption (especially since this is the era where Jobs is at Pixar and NeXT so Apple is floundering badly).
The dream of some fancy tool that builds a complex app for you (since you're an "ideas person", not a programmer) is always going to be a fantasy. The more work a tool does for you, the more specialized it has to be because there is only so much complexity a person can put into a project per hour they work on it. Either you supply that complexity, or the tool builder does, and there's an upper limit to how complex a tool can be before learning it harder than just learning a programming language and solving the problem yourself.
Someone has to do the work, and if you have grand visions the work will be hard.
It's Cygwin, so Bash will be out of date regardless.
I would expect that most busybox version of Bash would be safe, because they're so broken anyway that even the exploits don't work.
I don't know of any rice beers, only rice wine. I'm sure someone is about to come out of the woodwork and correct me however.
Not until after the WoW audience shrinks significantly. They've lost a few million players in the last couple of years, but still have more active players than any other MMO by a good margin.
SC2 was basically made to give competitive Starcraft players something to spend their money on. It worked really hard not to rock the boat with that crowd, but if you're not part of that crowd then all it offers is some well crafted single player missions for you to play through and then put away. You don't really have a hope of competing online against guys who have been playing since 1998.
I love that story because it compared a shot of the Mall after the Inauguration to a shot of the Mall after the Tea Party protest, even though the Tea Party protest wasn't at the Mall. So it's true the Mall was very clean after the Tea Party protest. The entire story is as true as it is disingenuous.
Someone found litter in NYC. Stop the presses. The whole environmental movement is a scam!
Maybe your flash or memory is failing? My 4s has had no issue with crashes or slowness with iOS 8. Maybe if you did a full device reset and then reinstalled your apps and resynched your content?
I'm a little surprised someone hasn't come out with a machine that does both. You extrude the parts with a regular disposition machine, then it goes back over the model with fine tools to do cleanup and fine detail work. Probably a little too complicated for the industry currently, but it's something I could definitely see in a premium product at some point.