I've been using Linux a long time (15 years) and as my only desktop for the past 10 years. While I like and prefer the Freedom part, I much more prefer the stability, the free part, the plethora of apps that actually behave and just do what they are supposed to do, etc. IOW, I'd probably be a Mac user if you take monetary cost out of the calculation.
Been done. DAG (German military ammo maker) made/makes plastic training rounds in 762x51 NATO (aka 308 Winchester), they can be lethal under 100 yards.
Or, go muzzle loader (not a gun per federal law then) and use a piezoelectric spark to ignite your powder, use a glass marble or other non-metallic item (ceramic?) as your bullet. Plenty effective at short ranges.
However, it is a car designed to allow a driver to use its "flaws" to wring the absolute maximum of performance out of it.
Needless to say, this requires a driver that learns how to drive, and not the driver's ed that most get in high school.
FWIW I learned to drive in a Porsche (356c coupe) and when Dad bought a "replacement" in '88 (a '84 Carrera 3.2 factory turbo look) he immediately took a driver's course at the Sebring race track. Even the 356 with its whopping 75 horsepower is a performance car, and the rear engine design will let it get away from you if you are careless and drive it like it is a Buick.
On the other hand, if you've ever worked with a Debian based system, mounting the fs on the sd card and editing..../etc/network/interfaces is really trivial.
I'd expect that anyone playing with one of these is slightly familiar with Linux. And I'd expect that anyone teaching students with one of these would either give a good introduction to Linux or give very detailed lab instructions on initial setup and configuration.
Before I even booted the image of Raspbian I mounted the file system, set the IP I wanted to use, etc. Still haven't plugged a keyboard or attached a HDMI cable to it, just sshing in and doing stuff. Not sure what I actually want to do iwth it... which is how I got it (someone I know had 2 and just didn't know what he wanted to do with them)
Maybe in some state or municipality, but you have to remember that pistols were not legally required to have one until 1934 and rifles and shotguns weren't required to have one until 1968.
Of course, if a firearm *had* one (military, manufacturer put one on anyway for warranty work, etc) then removing it is a Big No No.
Making a firearm under federal law, if you are a individual and do not have a FFL and SOT for manufacture (SOT - special occupation tax) then you do not have to pay the 11% excise tax (Pittmanâ"Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of '37) or apply a serial number, although the serial number is strongly recommended for identification purposes.
Like with anything BATFE related, there is no hard and fast rule.
No, you cannot make one for the express purpose of selling it (without appropriate licenses aquired and taxes paid, both for operation and for the actual firearm - see the Pittman-Robertson Act).
However, you can sell them at some point. How long later, how many, etc. is all up in the air and up to definition by the BATFE. And even if you get a decision letter from them, it may not apply to other people in similar situations.
Bandwidth isn't the killer, it's the latency. Ask the com root server who ibm.com is. Ask ibm.com who www.ibm.com is. Ask www.ibm.com for index.html. Find the css, ask ibm.com who css.ibm.com is. And so on, all at 1.5 seconds each. It's pretty frustrating sometimes. Some web sites are very unfriendly for slow latency connections.
which is why you run a caching only dns server on your local network right?
Of course, that may be the SciFi spurring inventors.
Kid reads a book about flying cars. Dreams of becoming an engineer, works hard through school, gets to MIT or Stanford or some other high end engineering college, happens to take private pilot license as a hobby, and eventually is able to design a working flying car.
What you can't do is say "only American companies can sell guns to Americans"
Well, actually, that has sorta happened. Not necissarily for "sporting" rifles and such, but for the Evil Black Rifles there are lists of parts and pieces that are imported that you can only have a certain number of. It has spawned quite a bit of cottage industry....
On the other hand, it is kinda fun to load up an old game and crank the settings all the way up, turn on all the eye candy, and still get hundreds of frames per second.
The bar meetings and such are very important parts of conferences or any gathering of folks who only know each other thru publishing, mailing lists, etc. or even various forums like slashdot and fark.
Aside from the obvious, it is great to put faces to names you only know from mailing lists, etc. as well as having real time discussions. The value of a meat space meet up is very high, and to have your employer cover part or all of the costs is even better.
Convienence store I worked at had a deal with Coke... the coke cooler section was more central, and the soda machine was Coke. Pepsi was off in the corner, beer in the opposite corner. For the prime shelving for the bottles/cans, Coke gave them the fountain machine, the syrup, and the cups.
They could even convince other businesses to form, buy or lease large swaths of land, and warehouse that inventory for them. Heck, these new business may even pay for the privilege But then... maybe someone really does want the feature set that the marketing folks thought 68% of the car buying public would want (or what the marketing folks wanted them to want....). Maybe these storage/delivery/prep businesses would be willing to try and convince someone to buy a particular car in storage, convince them that yes, this is the car for them! They don't want to go home and get on the internet and order one from that other car maker... we have the perfect car for you right here! Oh, and maybe, like just possibly, the person who wants to buy doesn't quite have enough ready cash.... why maybe, this storage place, the folks that work there happen to know of this local bank that will make a loan against the value of this here car....
I know, this sounds like crazy fantasy right? Well, believe it or not, it is true!
After all, the individual-based teaching is about how student A learns best, how student B learns best, and letting them learn Subject Y in whichever way they are better able to process it.
Moving cross country while you are in 4th grade and learning all the states and capitols? Have current school document how you are learning for next school.
"Yeah, Johnny? He does the route memorization moving thru the states in a grid like pattern, but his sister Jane does better trying to sing along with Wakko's 50 States and skips around the map a lot"
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I've been using Linux a long time (15 years) and as my only desktop for the past 10 years. While I like and prefer the Freedom part, I much more prefer the stability, the free part, the plethora of apps that actually behave and just do what they are supposed to do, etc. IOW, I'd probably be a Mac user if you take monetary cost out of the calculation.
Been done. DAG (German military ammo maker) made/makes plastic training rounds in 762x51 NATO (aka 308 Winchester), they can be lethal under 100 yards.
Or, go muzzle loader (not a gun per federal law then) and use a piezoelectric spark to ignite your powder, use a glass marble or other non-metallic item (ceramic?) as your bullet. Plenty effective at short ranges.
Well... on that note... Porsches did not have cup holders until late '03 or early '04. You are supposed to be *driving*, not sipping your Starbucks
However, it is a car designed to allow a driver to use its "flaws" to wring the absolute maximum of performance out of it.
Needless to say, this requires a driver that learns how to drive, and not the driver's ed that most get in high school.
FWIW I learned to drive in a Porsche (356c coupe) and when Dad bought a "replacement" in '88 (a '84 Carrera 3.2 factory turbo look) he immediately took a driver's course at the Sebring race track. Even the 356 with its whopping 75 horsepower is a performance car, and the rear engine design will let it get away from you if you are careless and drive it like it is a Buick.
Think it was more like a whelk's chance in a supernova...
On the other hand, if you've ever worked with a Debian based system, mounting the fs on the sd card and editing ..../etc/network/interfaces is really trivial.
I'd expect that anyone playing with one of these is slightly familiar with Linux. And I'd expect that anyone teaching students with one of these would either give a good introduction to Linux or give very detailed lab instructions on initial setup and configuration.
And hallucinogens.
Before I even booted the image of Raspbian I mounted the file system, set the IP I wanted to use, etc. Still haven't plugged a keyboard or attached a HDMI cable to it, just sshing in and doing stuff. Not sure what I actually want to do iwth it... which is how I got it (someone I know had 2 and just didn't know what he wanted to do with them)
Maybe in some state or municipality, but you have to remember that pistols were not legally required to have one until 1934 and rifles and shotguns weren't required to have one until 1968.
Of course, if a firearm *had* one (military, manufacturer put one on anyway for warranty work, etc) then removing it is a Big No No.
Making a firearm under federal law, if you are a individual and do not have a FFL and SOT for manufacture (SOT - special occupation tax) then you do not have to pay the 11% excise tax (Pittmanâ"Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of '37) or apply a serial number, although the serial number is strongly recommended for identification purposes.
Like with anything BATFE related, there is no hard and fast rule.
No, you cannot make one for the express purpose of selling it (without appropriate licenses aquired and taxes paid, both for operation and for the actual firearm - see the Pittman-Robertson Act).
However, you can sell them at some point. How long later, how many, etc. is all up in the air and up to definition by the BATFE. And even if you get a decision letter from them, it may not apply to other people in similar situations.
So... this becomes a Glock vs. 1911 debate
I appreciate both, both were tremendous changes in design and process for their times.
However, I sold my Glock and bought a 1911.
Bandwidth isn't the killer, it's the latency. Ask the com root server who ibm.com is. Ask ibm.com who www.ibm.com is. Ask www.ibm.com for index.html. Find the css, ask ibm.com who css.ibm.com is. And so on, all at 1.5 seconds each. It's pretty frustrating sometimes. Some web sites are very unfriendly for slow latency connections.
which is why you run a caching only dns server on your local network right?
Or maybe a large percentage aren't legally allowed to own a gun (convicted felons, foreign workers, domestic violence convictions, etc)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes.
Because we bought Nook Colors 2 years ago for under $200 and like having an OS on them that allows great functionality.
Heck, when I bought mine I bought it with the intention of running CM on it. Never even booted it with teh B&N firmware/rom/os image.
Except parts of the Autobahn that have no limit posted are getting rarer and rarer. Construction, urban encroachment, etc.
Of course, that may be the SciFi spurring inventors.
Kid reads a book about flying cars. Dreams of becoming an engineer, works hard through school, gets to MIT or Stanford or some other high end engineering college, happens to take private pilot license as a hobby, and eventually is able to design a working flying car.
What you can't do is say "only American companies can sell guns to Americans"
Well, actually, that has sorta happened. Not necissarily for "sporting" rifles and such, but for the Evil Black Rifles there are lists of parts and pieces that are imported that you can only have a certain number of. It has spawned quite a bit of cottage industry....
On the other hand, it is kinda fun to load up an old game and crank the settings all the way up, turn on all the eye candy, and still get hundreds of frames per second.
Of course, there are the simpler EULAs... like the GPLv2. Short, easy to read, not too much legalese, fairly easy to understand.
The bar meetings and such are very important parts of conferences or any gathering of folks who only know each other thru publishing, mailing lists, etc. or even various forums like slashdot and fark.
Aside from the obvious, it is great to put faces to names you only know from mailing lists, etc. as well as having real time discussions. The value of a meat space meet up is very high, and to have your employer cover part or all of the costs is even better.
Sometimes both are free :)
Convienence store I worked at had a deal with Coke... the coke cooler section was more central, and the soda machine was Coke. Pepsi was off in the corner, beer in the opposite corner. For the prime shelving for the bottles/cans, Coke gave them the fountain machine, the syrup, and the cups.
mac address randomizer :)
They could even convince other businesses to form, buy or lease large swaths of land, and warehouse that inventory for them. Heck, these new business may even pay for the privilege But then... maybe someone really does want the feature set that the marketing folks thought 68% of the car buying public would want (or what the marketing folks wanted them to want....). Maybe these storage/delivery/prep businesses would be willing to try and convince someone to buy a particular car in storage, convince them that yes, this is the car for them! They don't want to go home and get on the internet and order one from that other car maker... we have the perfect car for you right here! Oh, and maybe, like just possibly, the person who wants to buy doesn't quite have enough ready cash.... why maybe, this storage place, the folks that work there happen to know of this local bank that will make a loan against the value of this here car....
I know, this sounds like crazy fantasy right? Well, believe it or not, it is true!
I think the two can coexist.
After all, the individual-based teaching is about how student A learns best, how student B learns best, and letting them learn Subject Y in whichever way they are better able to process it.
Moving cross country while you are in 4th grade and learning all the states and capitols? Have current school document how you are learning for next school.
"Yeah, Johnny? He does the route memorization moving thru the states in a grid like pattern, but his sister Jane does better trying to sing along with Wakko's 50 States and skips around the map a lot"