The US law says that whatever someone brings from space back into US territory is their private property. They are reinforcing the already-ratified Outer Space Treaty in that they (the government) have no claim to it.
Yeah, but it's all well and good until we start moving the extraterrestrial life forms into reservations on the crappiest asteroids and moons so that we can take the resources underneath their sacred burial grounds...
As I understand it, there are two legal routes to obtaining a weapon restricted under the NFA:
1. Fill out an ATF form and pay the tax (as you said) as well as obtain the signature of a local law enforcement officer of record (sheriff, chief of police, district attorney, judge) 2. Establish a legal trust, assign yourself as a trustee, transfer funds to that trust, and then go through the legal loop of having the trust be the legal purchaser of the item and filing with the ATF for the tax.
Method 1 requires having an LEO that will actually put their signature to paper for you. Method 2 requires money, and exists so that legal entities such as private security business can still get their hands on these things.
The law is total horseshit, and takes an hour of a lawyer's time to get around.
Oh man, I guess I'm too poor and / or stupid to leave my country over the completely irrational fear that I'm going to be shot by a gun.
Isn't it funny that even with the problems the US has, one of the biggest debates in the US is about immigration reform, because so many people are still trying to come here?
Feel free to stay wherever the hell you are. And anyone willing to uproot themselves and their family over a statistically irrelevant fear, feel free to be gone. I'm just fine here, where I'm far more worried about the idiot driving their car and texting than I am about ever coming in contact with someone possessing a gun and intent to do me harm.
It's not so much about people freaking out, it's about them being banned by the National Firearms Act of 1934 - the same legislation that bans full-auto / burst fire machineguns, grenades, bombs, missiles, poison gas.
In October, 2015 Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon introduced the Hearing Protection Act to remove suppressors from the NFA. So at least one Congress critter agrees with you. I'm not really sure where a sound suppressor fits in with machine guns and grenades, but apparently Congress thought so 80 years ago when they were still reeling from the crime associated with prohibition...
That's really not that shocking. Most people don't "upgrade" for the sake of upgrading. Usually, at least in Windows land, an OS upgrade is tied to a hardware upgrade, and nobody is upgrading their hardware because a Core2 Duo is still working just fine as the family PC.
Only enthusiasts, gamers, and businesses are buying new PCs. Everyone else's tech spend is going to phones / tablets / etc.
It's also fine if the July build will actually install on your motherboard without having to hack a bugged microcode update out of it. Which I cannot. Oh well, guess I can put off putting all those black hole routes in place for a while longer.
The US land-based nuclear deterrent force is made up of the Minuteman-III, which is a solid-fuel based booster. No Russian parts to be seen there.
And there's also the sea-based Trident SLBM, which is arguably the bigger deterrent. Everyone knows where the Minuteman-III missiles are. Only people aboard the submarines, and the upper brass in the Navy know where the Ohio-class SSBNs are.
The Russians were ahead right until the Gemini program - Ed White's spacewalk may have been second, but it was almost twice as long, and due to far better pressure suits and maneuvering equipment, he was able to actually do something besides float there. Also, he didn't have to depressurize his suit just to get back through the hatch like Leonev did because his suit didn't balloon on him in the vacuum of space.
After that moment, NASA pulled ahead in rendezvous, docking, and of course actually sending people to the moon, landing on it, bringing them back, etc.
Russia's boosters have always been first rate, and that's what gave them the early lead. NASA recognized that if they got into a lifting capacity contest, they were going to lose for another decade. Kennedy moved the goalposts with a public declaration to land on the moon, and made other technologies more important.
I'm absolutely SHOCKED that EA would deliver a game that is marketed towards a fan base that will purchase absolutely anything with the franchise logo on it, and then skimp on content so that they can then double / triple / quadruple dip into that fan's wallet behind the disgusting practice of paid-for-DLC.
Won't even take a look at this thing with EA's logo on it. I'll continue playing games from publishers that don't have a Bill Cosby-esque relationship with their customers.
A dumb cop that discovers a black market operation's stash house kicks in the door, makes a few arrests, and gets some B-roll on the news with drugs and guns on a table.
A smart cop that discovers a black market operation's stash house will sit on the location watching who and what goes where, and build cases on all of it and take the whole operation and it's suppliers at the same time.
So, literally in one sentence you say to just tell Congress to do something and expect it shall come to pass, and then in the next sentence you say how that doesn't ever happen.
Yeah, Nvidia can compete toe-to-toe with their next-gen product, until a branch comes along. Branching on GPU compute is ridiculously expensive. This is not so with Xeon Phi.
The good news is that a Xeon Phi isn't ever going to be installed anywhere but a data center, so you don't have to worry about it. It will churn through data sets by running an application specifically written for it.
This isn't a high-volume product for Intel - they probably have a couple hundred customers that use these things. But when they do use them, they use a LOT of them because they are building supercomputers that have thousands of cores.
I would imagine that the built-in video is actually wanted in the Xeon line, so you don't have to waste motherboard real estate adding a crappy video chip to the bill of materials.
Many, if not practically every, server uses on-board video. Unless they run completely headless.
The complexity of the instruction set matters very little when you can just cache the decoded instructions in the processor. Intel solved that with Pentium Pro in 1995. By using ever-decreasing fabrication processes, they have die space to heap tons of cache in there - I think the current Xeons are somewhere around 2MB/core of cache...
It may matter a lot, but it's not the most important metric.
If you're building a supercomputer, you're building it to calculate shit, and to calculate it as accurately as possible, as fast as possible. You design the computer first, and then the facility to house it after the design is done.
Someone dropping tens of millions on a super computer isn't going to say "well, we already have this room here that can handle X watts of heat, so design your computer to simulate global weather patterns / thermonuclear detonations / astrophysics for that thermal capacity. After all, we absolutely cannot retrofit the room to add more cooling capacity."
A $200k HVAC upgrade is nothing compared to the $millions of equipment going into the room.
It does execute x86. However, I'm pretty sure that the VM hypervisor would need to be tailored to use these, and your memory bandwidth is severely reduced because it sits on a PCI-e link.
These things are made for the same workloads that people use CUDA and OpenCL for. Seriously parallel processing with small-ish data sets.
Please tell me how NASA is going to use the $3B that is allotted for SLS by Congress (e.g. it's a federal law, and diverting that money to other purposes would be an actual CRIME) for anything else? Do you think that Congress wouldn't find out? Do you think that when they found out they would just say "aww shucks, well I guess my lobbyists get to go tell their clients that they don't get their pork after all, because NASA decided to break federal law / be in contempt of Congress and we're not going to do anything about it."
What kind of precedent would that set, by the way?
If you're not happy with the direction NASA is going, tell your elected Congressional representative. And do it in writing, because emails are very easy to ignore.
In theory, you could use something like Intel VT-d to grant exclusive access to that PCI-to-ISA bridge to that VM. It might take a bit of work, but that's the kind of thing that VT-d is for.
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They wouldn't have to claim that it's a US territory - that's what maritime law is for, which extends to space.
Yes, that means that we could see actual space pirates in our lifetime.
Nope.
The US law says that whatever someone brings from space back into US territory is their private property. They are reinforcing the already-ratified Outer Space Treaty in that they (the government) have no claim to it.
Yeah, except that economic growth is fueled by gains in efficiency.
Are you saying that our technological level is at it's peak, and we'll never see any more gains in efficiency? If you are, then you're an idiot.
Yeah, but it's all well and good until we start moving the extraterrestrial life forms into reservations on the crappiest asteroids and moons so that we can take the resources underneath their sacred burial grounds...
I prefer U+1F595
As I understand it, there are two legal routes to obtaining a weapon restricted under the NFA:
1. Fill out an ATF form and pay the tax (as you said) as well as obtain the signature of a local law enforcement officer of record (sheriff, chief of police, district attorney, judge)
2. Establish a legal trust, assign yourself as a trustee, transfer funds to that trust, and then go through the legal loop of having the trust be the legal purchaser of the item and filing with the ATF for the tax.
Method 1 requires having an LEO that will actually put their signature to paper for you. Method 2 requires money, and exists so that legal entities such as private security business can still get their hands on these things.
The law is total horseshit, and takes an hour of a lawyer's time to get around.
Oh man, I guess I'm too poor and / or stupid to leave my country over the completely irrational fear that I'm going to be shot by a gun.
Isn't it funny that even with the problems the US has, one of the biggest debates in the US is about immigration reform, because so many people are still trying to come here?
Feel free to stay wherever the hell you are. And anyone willing to uproot themselves and their family over a statistically irrelevant fear, feel free to be gone. I'm just fine here, where I'm far more worried about the idiot driving their car and texting than I am about ever coming in contact with someone possessing a gun and intent to do me harm.
It's not so much about people freaking out, it's about them being banned by the National Firearms Act of 1934 - the same legislation that bans full-auto / burst fire machineguns, grenades, bombs, missiles, poison gas.
In October, 2015 Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon introduced the Hearing Protection Act to remove suppressors from the NFA. So at least one Congress critter agrees with you. I'm not really sure where a sound suppressor fits in with machine guns and grenades, but apparently Congress thought so 80 years ago when they were still reeling from the crime associated with prohibition...
That's really not that shocking. Most people don't "upgrade" for the sake of upgrading. Usually, at least in Windows land, an OS upgrade is tied to a hardware upgrade, and nobody is upgrading their hardware because a Core2 Duo is still working just fine as the family PC.
Only enthusiasts, gamers, and businesses are buying new PCs. Everyone else's tech spend is going to phones / tablets / etc.
It's also fine if the July build will actually install on your motherboard without having to hack a bugged microcode update out of it. Which I cannot. Oh well, guess I can put off putting all those black hole routes in place for a while longer.
Not just Fallout games - basically any game with Bethesda's logo on it.
The US land-based nuclear deterrent force is made up of the Minuteman-III, which is a solid-fuel based booster. No Russian parts to be seen there.
And there's also the sea-based Trident SLBM, which is arguably the bigger deterrent. Everyone knows where the Minuteman-III missiles are. Only people aboard the submarines, and the upper brass in the Navy know where the Ohio-class SSBNs are.
The Russians were ahead right until the Gemini program - Ed White's spacewalk may have been second, but it was almost twice as long, and due to far better pressure suits and maneuvering equipment, he was able to actually do something besides float there. Also, he didn't have to depressurize his suit just to get back through the hatch like Leonev did because his suit didn't balloon on him in the vacuum of space.
After that moment, NASA pulled ahead in rendezvous, docking, and of course actually sending people to the moon, landing on it, bringing them back, etc.
Russia's boosters have always been first rate, and that's what gave them the early lead. NASA recognized that if they got into a lifting capacity contest, they were going to lose for another decade. Kennedy moved the goalposts with a public declaration to land on the moon, and made other technologies more important.
I'm absolutely SHOCKED that EA would deliver a game that is marketed towards a fan base that will purchase absolutely anything with the franchise logo on it, and then skimp on content so that they can then double / triple / quadruple dip into that fan's wallet behind the disgusting practice of paid-for-DLC.
Won't even take a look at this thing with EA's logo on it. I'll continue playing games from publishers that don't have a Bill Cosby-esque relationship with their customers.
Exactly. Think of it this way:
A dumb cop that discovers a black market operation's stash house kicks in the door, makes a few arrests, and gets some B-roll on the news with drugs and guns on a table.
A smart cop that discovers a black market operation's stash house will sit on the location watching who and what goes where, and build cases on all of it and take the whole operation and it's suppliers at the same time.
So, literally in one sentence you say to just tell Congress to do something and expect it shall come to pass, and then in the next sentence you say how that doesn't ever happen.
Good luck with that.
Yeah, Nvidia can compete toe-to-toe with their next-gen product, until a branch comes along. Branching on GPU compute is ridiculously expensive. This is not so with Xeon Phi.
That's where this product makes sense.
The good news is that a Xeon Phi isn't ever going to be installed anywhere but a data center, so you don't have to worry about it. It will churn through data sets by running an application specifically written for it.
This isn't a high-volume product for Intel - they probably have a couple hundred customers that use these things. But when they do use them, they use a LOT of them because they are building supercomputers that have thousands of cores.
I would imagine that the built-in video is actually wanted in the Xeon line, so you don't have to waste motherboard real estate adding a crappy video chip to the bill of materials.
Many, if not practically every, server uses on-board video. Unless they run completely headless.
The complexity of the instruction set matters very little when you can just cache the decoded instructions in the processor. Intel solved that with Pentium Pro in 1995. By using ever-decreasing fabrication processes, they have die space to heap tons of cache in there - I think the current Xeons are somewhere around 2MB/core of cache...
So your 20 year nap is just about right.
It may matter a lot, but it's not the most important metric.
If you're building a supercomputer, you're building it to calculate shit, and to calculate it as accurately as possible, as fast as possible. You design the computer first, and then the facility to house it after the design is done.
Someone dropping tens of millions on a super computer isn't going to say "well, we already have this room here that can handle X watts of heat, so design your computer to simulate global weather patterns / thermonuclear detonations / astrophysics for that thermal capacity. After all, we absolutely cannot retrofit the room to add more cooling capacity."
A $200k HVAC upgrade is nothing compared to the $millions of equipment going into the room.
It does execute x86. However, I'm pretty sure that the VM hypervisor would need to be tailored to use these, and your memory bandwidth is severely reduced because it sits on a PCI-e link.
These things are made for the same workloads that people use CUDA and OpenCL for. Seriously parallel processing with small-ish data sets.
Please tell me how NASA is going to use the $3B that is allotted for SLS by Congress (e.g. it's a federal law, and diverting that money to other purposes would be an actual CRIME) for anything else? Do you think that Congress wouldn't find out? Do you think that when they found out they would just say "aww shucks, well I guess my lobbyists get to go tell their clients that they don't get their pork after all, because NASA decided to break federal law / be in contempt of Congress and we're not going to do anything about it."
What kind of precedent would that set, by the way?
If you're not happy with the direction NASA is going, tell your elected Congressional representative. And do it in writing, because emails are very easy to ignore.
It's bridged. Intel's chipsets haven't directly had an ISA bus in years - Things like ISA, PS/2 ports, etc. hang off of the PCI bus on bridge chips.
In theory, you could use something like Intel VT-d to grant exclusive access to that PCI-to-ISA bridge to that VM. It might take a bit of work, but that's the kind of thing that VT-d is for.