Computer techie with incidental relationship to thermodynamics, much less materials science, sees what modern mechanical engineering could do and gets starbursts in their eyes
Yup. Most folks that don't spend time in the industrial arena don't really have a good handle on what is available. While that single-piece helmet is definitely nice, the fact is that this 5-axis machine is no big deal to anyone with even vaguely recent experience in the field. Hell, a lot of people that had never seen one would probably freak just watching a decent pick & place machine populating a circuit board. There's all kinds of wild and wonderful stuff in the automated manufacturing industry.
Now, something *really* cool is watching a Rexroth 2-axis gantry shearing off a laser galvo head (held on by four 1/2" steel bolts) like it was butter because a limit switch failed. Even more cool is explaining to your boss what happened, and that it's going to cost an additional four weeks to get a replacement head because they're backordered.:-).
When I was serving jury duty a couple of weeks ago, it didn't seem to bother the judge that her clerk was chewing gum throughout the proceedings, or stapling, or printing documents, or any number of other disruptive activities.
The situation with Comcast doesn't have anything to do with radio transmissions, which is what the previous two parent posts were dealing with. As regards Internet connectivity, the legislation is not in place for the FCC to have regulatory authority over "information services" to impose neutrality requirements. The FCC even admitted this, saying that neutrality was a matter of policy, not regulation. The court agreed, and so here we are.
TFA does introduce an interesting possibility, which is that the FCC will re-designate broadband Internet as a "telecommunications service". If that happens, then Comcast and every other ISP will be subject to much more regulation than they currently have, in particular the common carrier rules that POTS providers have to abide by.
I imagine the PR issue of endangering human lives by tampering with VoIP traffic is a black mark that even Comcast doesn't want to try to wave away
That may actually be an effective way to encourage public advocacy of net neutrality, at least in regards to the possibility of having 3rd-party VoIP traffic QoS'ed into uselessness. I don't use a lot of bandwidth overall, but I'd be plenty pissed to have to drop my cheap and full-featured Vitelity account for the crap the ISPs offer at three times the price.
When signals cross state lines, then the U.S. has jurisdiction. But since Comcast of Baltimore (for example) doesn't have any signals crossing state lines, it is not subject to the National government. The jurisdiction belongs to the Maryland government.
No, that's not the way it works. If you put up a low-power point-to-point radio link that uses licensed spectrum but doesn't cross state lines, and do it without going through the FCC coordination process to get it licensed, you *will* get hammered by the FCC for it if they find out, and there's not a court in the US that will argue with them. You'd probably be surprised to know that even the low-power transmitters used in US fast-food restaurants for their drive-through windows are required to be licensed, even though you'd be hard-pressed to receive those signals from a mile away. Cell towers are another example, and they and other low-power land-mobile operators comprise the *vast* majority of FCC licensees. There are some exceptions to licensing requirements (the 250 uV/m @ 3 meters allowed between 88 to 108 MHz allowed by Part 15 for stuff like iPod FM transmitters, for instance), but by and large, anything operating outside Part 15 rules that isn't licensed is going to result in problems.
Besides, as others have mentioned, every ISP can easily be shown to affect interstate commerce given that most people likely are visiting sites in other states most of the time. For instance, if you visit my ex's web site, she receives a fractional sum of money from the ads on her site, therefore your ISP is contributing to interstate commerce. It may not be right, but it's what the guys with the guns are enforcing.
Bill Nelson was already a member of Congress when he flew his one and only Shuttle mission, albeit not as a senator at the time. He's a lawyer and politician that happened to finagle his way into a flight, as opposed to a real astronaut like Glenn that actually came up through the ranks and earned it.
Maybe you should check *your* facts before criticizing others - the car she was driving was in fact a Porsche 911 Carrera. The Honda was the car she struck before crossing the median and colliding with the toll booth. You'd know that if you'd actually read anything about the accident instead of just assuming things from one photograph.
posting a/c because I'm so fucking sick of the so called libertarian flat earth society cranks and their fucking myopic greedy selfish fucking warped rationalize-anything my interests trump all else imposed view of the world which somehow exists to serve them at the expense of everything and everybody else.
Or maybe it's just because you're too intellectually dishonest to actually debate the inflammatory position you're taking, and are too much of a pussy to stand behind your words.
And it's a LOT more than a $95 fine, and will be even more when the reconciliation bill passes.
If you are wealthy (more than 5 million lifetime income), you will not be able to collect, because you've earned enough money during your lifetime to care for yourself.
I think you're going to need to be a little more fine-grained than that for a means test. One good car accident can put someone of that degree of wealth into the poorhouse.
To their credit, the Maryland State Police admitted some time ago that the fired-case requirement was silly, a waste of time and money, and should be abandoned.
They're available, but I don't really have a need for one, and my router tends to keep the same address for months on end anyway. I did say "address/address range" though, and as in my case, not every ISP has short lease times, and rebooting the modem accomplishes nothing if the DHCP server decides to reuse the IP it previously had cached for that MAC address.
The privacy concerns aren't so much about knowing where you live, but rather being able to correlate an IP address/address range with that street address.
And this is safer than carrying with one in the chamber?
No, of course not, and I wasn't arguing that it was - I said that I carry with a chambered round myself. I personally wouldn't want to have to spend the time racking the slide *at all* if I can avoid it. I agree that doing a one-handed rack shouldn't be a first course of action, but it definitely is possible and IMO still should be learned as part of a complete course of handgun training, for both strong and off hand.
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Harder metals aren't a problem, provided the correct tooling is used and the tool speed and feed rates are controlled appropriately.
Computer techie with incidental relationship to thermodynamics, much less materials science, sees what modern mechanical engineering could do and gets starbursts in their eyes
:-).
Yup. Most folks that don't spend time in the industrial arena don't really have a good handle on what is available. While that single-piece helmet is definitely nice, the fact is that this 5-axis machine is no big deal to anyone with even vaguely recent experience in the field. Hell, a lot of people that had never seen one would probably freak just watching a decent pick & place machine populating a circuit board. There's all kinds of wild and wonderful stuff in the automated manufacturing industry.
Now, something *really* cool is watching a Rexroth 2-axis gantry shearing off a laser galvo head (held on by four 1/2" steel bolts) like it was butter because a limit switch failed. Even more cool is explaining to your boss what happened, and that it's going to cost an additional four weeks to get a replacement head because they're backordered.
When I was serving jury duty a couple of weeks ago, it didn't seem to bother the judge that her clerk was chewing gum throughout the proceedings, or stapling, or printing documents, or any number of other disruptive activities.
The situation with Comcast doesn't have anything to do with radio transmissions, which is what the previous two parent posts were dealing with. As regards Internet connectivity, the legislation is not in place for the FCC to have regulatory authority over "information services" to impose neutrality requirements. The FCC even admitted this, saying that neutrality was a matter of policy, not regulation. The court agreed, and so here we are.
TFA does introduce an interesting possibility, which is that the FCC will re-designate broadband Internet as a "telecommunications service". If that happens, then Comcast and every other ISP will be subject to much more regulation than they currently have, in particular the common carrier rules that POTS providers have to abide by.
I imagine the PR issue of endangering human lives by tampering with VoIP traffic is a black mark that even Comcast doesn't want to try to wave away
That may actually be an effective way to encourage public advocacy of net neutrality, at least in regards to the possibility of having 3rd-party VoIP traffic QoS'ed into uselessness. I don't use a lot of bandwidth overall, but I'd be plenty pissed to have to drop my cheap and full-featured Vitelity account for the crap the ISPs offer at three times the price.
When signals cross state lines, then the U.S. has jurisdiction. But since Comcast of Baltimore (for example) doesn't have any signals crossing state lines, it is not subject to the National government. The jurisdiction belongs to the Maryland government.
No, that's not the way it works. If you put up a low-power point-to-point radio link that uses licensed spectrum but doesn't cross state lines, and do it without going through the FCC coordination process to get it licensed, you *will* get hammered by the FCC for it if they find out, and there's not a court in the US that will argue with them. You'd probably be surprised to know that even the low-power transmitters used in US fast-food restaurants for their drive-through windows are required to be licensed, even though you'd be hard-pressed to receive those signals from a mile away. Cell towers are another example, and they and other low-power land-mobile operators comprise the *vast* majority of FCC licensees. There are some exceptions to licensing requirements (the 250 uV/m @ 3 meters allowed between 88 to 108 MHz allowed by Part 15 for stuff like iPod FM transmitters, for instance), but by and large, anything operating outside Part 15 rules that isn't licensed is going to result in problems.
Besides, as others have mentioned, every ISP can easily be shown to affect interstate commerce given that most people likely are visiting sites in other states most of the time. For instance, if you visit my ex's web site, she receives a fractional sum of money from the ads on her site, therefore your ISP is contributing to interstate commerce. It may not be right, but it's what the guys with the guns are enforcing.
No, it's not. The vast majority of soldiers won't even stay in for 20 years. People do other things after leaving the military, you know.
Bill Nelson was already a member of Congress when he flew his one and only Shuttle mission, albeit not as a senator at the time. He's a lawyer and politician that happened to finagle his way into a flight, as opposed to a real astronaut like Glenn that actually came up through the ranks and earned it.
Maybe you should check *your* facts before criticizing others - the car she was driving was in fact a Porsche 911 Carrera. The Honda was the car she struck before crossing the median and colliding with the toll booth. You'd know that if you'd actually read anything about the accident instead of just assuming things from one photograph.
posting a/c because I'm so fucking sick of the so called libertarian flat earth society cranks and their fucking myopic greedy selfish fucking warped rationalize-anything my interests trump all else imposed view of the world which somehow exists to serve them at the expense of everything and everybody else.
Or maybe it's just because you're too intellectually dishonest to actually debate the inflammatory position you're taking, and are too much of a pussy to stand behind your words.
And it's a LOT more than a $95 fine, and will be even more when the reconciliation bill passes.
Not to mention it is unquestionably unconstitutional to require a US citizen to BUY something simply because they exist.
Yet we're forced to buy membership in the government's retirement plan.
FREEDOM AIN'T FREE!
Totally missing the point of the statement...
If you are wealthy (more than 5 million lifetime income), you will not be able to collect, because you've earned enough money during your lifetime to care for yourself.
I think you're going to need to be a little more fine-grained than that for a means test. One good car accident can put someone of that degree of wealth into the poorhouse.
Look at your tax rates and then reevaluate your concept of "free".
But only if you're not putting X on it.
It's a joke and a pain in the ass.
So is the $4.50 transaction fee my power company wants to charge me for an online credit/debit card transaction. A check costs me 44 cents to mail.
If I was carrying my compact concealed I might just wear it anyway - it's not a violation of state law
Interestingly, it would be in Texas if the business had a proper "30.06" sign. Here in Florida though, the "no firearms" signs carry no legal weight.
To their credit, the Maryland State Police admitted some time ago that the fired-case requirement was silly, a waste of time and money, and should be abandoned.
You aren't allowed to quarter soldiers in a private home but can you at least draw them ?
I don't have a holster big enough for them to fit in.
And if I were, the outcome would be different.
Sadly, that's probably not true - they need more than one clued-in judge in the 11th Circuit (my own, unfortunately) to fix this problem.
For life.
One question I do have, is what will the reaction of the open source community be in 70 years when the first copyrights of Linux become public domain?
If recent history is any indication, copyright terms will have been extended yet again by then, so it's probably not a realisitic scenario.
They're available, but I don't really have a need for one, and my router tends to keep the same address for months on end anyway. I did say "address/address range" though, and as in my case, not every ISP has short lease times, and rebooting the modem accomplishes nothing if the DHCP server decides to reuse the IP it previously had cached for that MAC address.
The privacy concerns aren't so much about knowing where you live, but rather being able to correlate an IP address/address range with that street address.
And this is safer than carrying with one in the chamber?
No, of course not, and I wasn't arguing that it was - I said that I carry with a chambered round myself. I personally wouldn't want to have to spend the time racking the slide *at all* if I can avoid it. I agree that doing a one-handed rack shouldn't be a first course of action, but it definitely is possible and IMO still should be learned as part of a complete course of handgun training, for both strong and off hand.