They sell scrap metal pieces, 3D printers, and a small computer loaded with the files to make a gun. The guns won't have serial numbers because someone along the line left out that little piece of code to print the number on the barrel.
If you are making a gun for yourself, which is PERFECTLY legal....you do not have to put a serial number on it.
You cannot resell it legally, but if you make your own guns, there is no serial number involved.
There is a huge business selling 80% complete lowers. You buy the lower and the jig....use a bench drill or the like in the jig to finish out the lower and voila, you have a perfectly legal gun lower to build upon (the lower is the only thing the US recognizes officially as a gun), that has no serial number, no record of sale, etc.....
Just because the workarounds are transparent to you doesn't mean they aren't happening. Apple is not selling you a device for the purpose of you loading Linux on it. The fact that you can doesn't mean they made it easy for the open source community to reverse engineer and come up with work arounds to make it possible to install Linux.
I think there is a difference in terminology.
A "workaround" implies that a manufacturer has intently put up roadblocks to installing whatever OS you please.
But until now...hardware, is hardware is hardware.
There's no difference (till now with the Windows thing) in buying a computer from Dell, or Apple, or Asus...etc....and you putting whatever OS you want on it.
It is JUST hardware, set to run whatever code you wish on it....at least that has been the model till now.
Apple sells you the hardware, it happens to come with their OS pre-installed, but really, once you give them your $$, they don't give a fuck what you do with it....
Apple pretty much uses for the most part, off the shelf components to do their computers...there is no "making it easy".....that doesn't enter into the equation really.
Not saying it isn't possible. But those are devices that the OS maker did not intend to be able to run Linux or any other OS but their own. The fact that workarounds have been found is beside the point.
What workarounds are you talking about?
I'm not familiar with Pixel...but with an Apple, you just boot up from a USB with Ubuntu or whatever distro you want and it installs.
There are no lockdowns or pitfalls you have to work "around"...the Apple machines are not locked down in the fashion that this article about windows on the lenovo speaks to....
Or the drivers can do what the taxi industry did - self-organize.
No need to "organize"..this is s simple 1099 contractor set up, people have been doing this for a LOOOONG time.
You invoice your client and get paid based on the terms of the contract (Guessing standard is 30 days net?).
No need for a middle man....
I guess the problem highlighted here is, people want immediate gratification and are willing to pay a fee to get paid earlier.
But there is not a problem with the contractor set up.
I have done it for a living for years in IT and am VERY happy with it. I set my own hours, don't have to "earn" vacation time (I build that into my bill rate)....it is very freeing.
I guess with you put the "new" moniker of Gig Industry, it takes on a whole new life.....ugh.
Next thing you know, some fucking politician will try to regulate this...and ruin it for all of us that have done it quite happily for years.
t's interesting that you define the "good life" in terms of economic prosperity
Well...err.....how else would one define "Good Life??"
I mean, a good life is providing for yourself and family, including but not limited to: safe comfortable shelter, food, creature comforts of life and you don't do that without funds.
If she'd been smart she would have gotten a formal copy right on the video, AND...copyright/trademark on the phrase she used "You're Filming? Bravo".....and made a fortune off this attempt to get back at someone that backfired.
There's always a silver lining somewhere if you just will look for it, and not take yourself out of the gene pool prematurely.
So much that I have been considering stop using Final Cut Pro and finding an alternative that can run on Windows.
You might consider looking into Davinci Resolve. The NLE capabilities of that are really coming along!! That plus you also have the best color grading tool out there in the same package.
It is free..give it a try and see how you like it.
You do need a pretty "beefy" CPU/GPU combo to run it cleanly and real time, but it is a nice tool.
I can't imagine why anyone would WANT a shared car...??
I mean, don't most people leave stuff in their car they like to have with them on travels? Music? Radio tuned to certain stations, EQ settings? After market audio systems?
Registration and insurance papers, etc.?
I couldn't imagine having an auto I share with people not even in my family.
That's what I was wondering. To change how my icon looked in YouTube, I had to go into Google+ and edit it. So now, would those capabilities by in the new YouTube community? And would YouTube community automatically take out all Google+ members whose sole reason for getting in was via YouTube?
I've had my YouTube account pre-Google takeover.
They kept prodding me to change to a Google+ account but I've always refused to do that OR to link it to a google account.
I've not been able to comment on my stuff or other content for quite awhile.
I wish they'd free that part up, as that I really don't wanna associate another thing with a google account.
Where does the money come from if not the State? Even Jesus said, "give unto Caesar what is Caesar's"; he didn't say, "whoa, that's your money, not Caesar's".
While I get the spirit of what you're trying to point out here, it is a bad example.
Caesar was emperor of Rome and yes...pretty much EVERYTHING in Rome belonged to him, I think even the citizens.
That's not the case with our democratically elected republic form of govt.
No...in the US, the "state" does not own everything, it is not supposed to.
A person earns his money through private enterprise for the most part, with the somewhat exception being those that work for the "state" which derives its money to pay them via the citizens's taxes. But the money is the citizens when they earn it...they do not get it from the state as that is it is not for the state to give is.....not anymore than it is for the government to grant rights....men are BORN with those rights, the govt. does not give them. Same with money and assets.
Several states, including California, are close to adopting digital drivers licenses [cnet.com] and state ID cards.
I'd still not use it.
You hand an opened phone to a cop to show your drivers license...you've also just handed then your phone, fully opened and gave them authority to search as they please.
No thanks, I don't open my phone for cops, hell, if I get pulled over and they ask me out of the car, I get out with window rolled up and I lock the door behind me.
"No officer, I do not consent to searches"...that goes for my phone too.
But I have came across people who scold me for using my Phone to Pay, the call me things like a Hipster.
While I have no problem with others that want to pay with their phone, I personally have NO interest in doing it myself.
I don't want any more of my info on my phone than there already is, certainly not my methods and ability to pay.
I prefer to use good old CASH for most of my daily, meatspace transactions. I take out a few hundred each week, and I can easily see what I'm spending in hard currency, rather than lose track easily during the week/month with the abstraction that is credit..
To me, a CC is like a chip in a casino, and it doesn't associate as well with real money spent. I think it is even worse on a phone as that you don't even have go throught the muscle memory action of physically pulling out a card, using it and replacing it in the wallet.
While I have no problem with folks that do wanna use their phone to pay, I can fully understand the myriad of reason one would not like to.
If nothing else, what happens to ones ability to pay if your phone dies?
Welcome to the 21st century. The USA is one country now and not a cluster of confederate entities- and that is a good thing.
Actually, despite major overreaches buy the Feds into what should be states' rights....it is STILL not one consolidated power into your "one nation" state.
The states, thankfully DO hold onto a lot of power still, and thankfully we see states starting to fight back these days.
The great thing about most rights being to the states, is that this is such a diverse country in terms of the people, local customs, climate and terrain, that each state has different needs, and a one size fits all by an all powerful federal govt. does not work best.
I think it is a wonderful thing, that if you don't like the laws of you state or its taxation...you can move to a different state that aligns more along your philosophical bent allowing you more freedom to live your live they way you like it, amongst more like minded people to your own mindset.
Well at least your state will get the tax money. I find Amazon not that cheap any more. I rarely buy for the bargain. I buy for the selection. If I want a certain brand deodorant in a certain scent. Or my closest Asian market is a 90 mile round trip. Amazon is awesome.
I think my state gets plenty of my money already.
I find Amazon has better prices on most things "I" like to get...especially without tax. Again, I have to pay 9%-10% at least on brick and mortar purchase.
That really adds up when you buy a new OLED TV or something like the canon 5D4, or lenses, etc....
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If you are making a gun for yourself, which is PERFECTLY legal....you do not have to put a serial number on it.
You cannot resell it legally, but if you make your own guns, there is no serial number involved.
There is a huge business selling 80% complete lowers. You buy the lower and the jig....use a bench drill or the like in the jig to finish out the lower and voila, you have a perfectly legal gun lower to build upon (the lower is the only thing the US recognizes officially as a gun), that has no serial number, no record of sale, etc.....
Let's just hope Apple doesn't move McLaren manufacturing to China.......!!!
I think there is a difference in terminology.
A "workaround" implies that a manufacturer has intently put up roadblocks to installing whatever OS you please.
But until now...hardware, is hardware is hardware.
There's no difference (till now with the Windows thing) in buying a computer from Dell, or Apple, or Asus...etc....and you putting whatever OS you want on it.
It is JUST hardware, set to run whatever code you wish on it....at least that has been the model till now.
Apple sells you the hardware, it happens to come with their OS pre-installed, but really, once you give them your $$, they don't give a fuck what you do with it....
Apple pretty much uses for the most part, off the shelf components to do their computers...there is no "making it easy".....that doesn't enter into the equation really.
What workarounds are you talking about?
I'm not familiar with Pixel...but with an Apple, you just boot up from a USB with Ubuntu or whatever distro you want and it installs.
There are no lockdowns or pitfalls you have to work "around"...the Apple machines are not locked down in the fashion that this article about windows on the lenovo speaks to....
Sure they can, it is called other jobs.
All of the Uber drivers I've met so far, just do Uber as a side job for some extra money...it isn't their sole or primary source of income.
I mean, we see it all the time...tainted drywall, poison in dog food...etc.
Do those folks know how to even try to make a quality product that won't kill people somehow....?
No need to "organize"..this is s simple 1099 contractor set up, people have been doing this for a LOOOONG time.
You invoice your client and get paid based on the terms of the contract (Guessing standard is 30 days net?).
No need for a middle man....
I guess the problem highlighted here is, people want immediate gratification and are willing to pay a fee to get paid earlier.
But there is not a problem with the contractor set up.
I have done it for a living for years in IT and am VERY happy with it. I set my own hours, don't have to "earn" vacation time (I build that into my bill rate)....it is very freeing.
I guess with you put the "new" moniker of Gig Industry, it takes on a whole new life.....ugh.
Next thing you know, some fucking politician will try to regulate this...and ruin it for all of us that have done it quite happily for years.
So, what is the normal bill cycle....30 days?
If so....this seems to be a way for them to pay a fee and get the $$ faster?
Hmm....maybe its just me, but I don't like to "pay" for my own money. I mean, unless it is an emergency, I refuse to go to ATMs that charge a fee.....
I recently got one of the LG OLED 2016 TV's and man..that thing is spectacular!!
Well...err.....how else would one define "Good Life??"
I mean, a good life is providing for yourself and family, including but not limited to: safe comfortable shelter, food, creature comforts of life and you don't do that without funds.
How do you measure a 'good life'??
There's always a silver lining somewhere if you just will look for it, and not take yourself out of the gene pool prematurely.
WOW...when the fuck did they do that?!?!?
How the hell am I supposed to hook this computer to my WIRED home network??
You might consider looking into Davinci Resolve . The NLE capabilities of that are really coming along!! That plus you also have the best color grading tool out there in the same package.
It is free..give it a try and see how you like it.
You do need a pretty "beefy" CPU/GPU combo to run it cleanly and real time, but it is a nice tool.
I'm supposed to fscking do THAT wireless too now?!?!
WFT....?
I mean, don't most people leave stuff in their car they like to have with them on travels? Music? Radio tuned to certain stations, EQ settings? After market audio systems?
Registration and insurance papers, etc.?
I couldn't imagine having an auto I share with people not even in my family.
Seriously?
Conservative thoughts and being a white guy are now considered objectionable content?
Geez, I knew it was thought of as unfashionable at least in liberal circles, but "objectionable"...?
Wow, just.......wow.
I've had my YouTube account pre-Google takeover.
They kept prodding me to change to a Google+ account but I've always refused to do that OR to link it to a google account.
I've not been able to comment on my stuff or other content for quite awhile.
I wish they'd free that part up, as that I really don't wanna associate another thing with a google account.
Hell, I dunno even where in the game TO buy things...I never looked.
How is this in the best interest of the US to cede this control to someone else?
Our govt is supposed to try to make the BEST decisions for US, not the world...the USA.
Can someone explain to me, how ceding control of ICANN could possibly be in the best interest of America?
While I get the spirit of what you're trying to point out here, it is a bad example.
Caesar was emperor of Rome and yes...pretty much EVERYTHING in Rome belonged to him, I think even the citizens.
That's not the case with our democratically elected republic form of govt.
No...in the US, the "state" does not own everything, it is not supposed to.
A person earns his money through private enterprise for the most part, with the somewhat exception being those that work for the "state" which derives its money to pay them via the citizens's taxes. But the money is the citizens when they earn it...they do not get it from the state as that is it is not for the state to give is.....not anymore than it is for the government to grant rights....men are BORN with those rights, the govt. does not give them. Same with money and assets.
I'd still not use it.
You hand an opened phone to a cop to show your drivers license...you've also just handed then your phone, fully opened and gave them authority to search as they please.
No thanks, I don't open my phone for cops, hell, if I get pulled over and they ask me out of the car, I get out with window rolled up and I lock the door behind me.
"No officer, I do not consent to searches"...that goes for my phone too.
I'd dare say a phone theft is a MUCH more likely event than a wallet getting stolen....
While I have no problem with others that want to pay with their phone, I personally have NO interest in doing it myself.
I don't want any more of my info on my phone than there already is, certainly not my methods and ability to pay.
I prefer to use good old CASH for most of my daily, meatspace transactions. I take out a few hundred each week, and I can easily see what I'm spending in hard currency, rather than lose track easily during the week/month with the abstraction that is credit..
To me, a CC is like a chip in a casino, and it doesn't associate as well with real money spent. I think it is even worse on a phone as that you don't even have go throught the muscle memory action of physically pulling out a card, using it and replacing it in the wallet.
While I have no problem with folks that do wanna use their phone to pay, I can fully understand the myriad of reason one would not like to.
If nothing else, what happens to ones ability to pay if your phone dies?
Actually, despite major overreaches buy the Feds into what should be states' rights....it is STILL not one consolidated power into your "one nation" state.
The states, thankfully DO hold onto a lot of power still, and thankfully we see states starting to fight back these days.
The great thing about most rights being to the states, is that this is such a diverse country in terms of the people, local customs, climate and terrain, that each state has different needs, and a one size fits all by an all powerful federal govt. does not work best.
I think it is a wonderful thing, that if you don't like the laws of you state or its taxation...you can move to a different state that aligns more along your philosophical bent allowing you more freedom to live your live they way you like it, amongst more like minded people to your own mindset.
I think my state gets plenty of my money already.
I find Amazon has better prices on most things "I" like to get...especially without tax. Again, I have to pay 9%-10% at least on brick and mortar purchase.
That really adds up when you buy a new OLED TV or something like the canon 5D4, or lenses, etc....