Careful. The enemies of your enemies are not necessarily your friend. The radical left are just as dangerous as the radical right. Extremists of any stripe tend not to be wound too tightly, and should be regarded with suspicion.
Not sure about for the doctors, but most financial folks are already trying to figure out the costs. I admit, since I got out of regulations (I specialized in aerospace industry ITAR and EAR regs), I try to avoid the subject. I got the "expensive" message. Apparently, some of the laws are conflicting. Something about requiring collection of household income under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is apparently also illegal to ask employees under other laws.
Regulations are funny things. EAR, run by Commerce Department, is a "book" that weighs about 20 ish pounds. ITAR regs are about the size of a paperback book. EAR is simple, straightforward and pretty cheap to implement. ITAR on the other hand probably costs the US several billion in lost sales every year and billions more in compliance, while meeting few of its goals on restricting technology to foreign countries. A real world example was I could not allow Canadians to see, examine or install Canadian L-3 Wescam FLIR cameras, that we were selling to Canadian customers. We had a license from the USG to import the cameras for install, and to export to the end users in Canada, but it would take a 6+ month process to allow our Canadian employees here in the States to be exposed to those FLIR units.
One of the best ways we could probably help the US economy, and this very much involves healthcare in America, would be make regulations EASIER to actually understand and implement. But it's easier to sprout off "You're obviously a racist if you disagree with my political position." Reality tends to be a bit more nuanced. But if you want to become a rapid anti-government libertarian, simply move into Regulatory Compliance as a career option.
I would prefer to be shot at (or even shot, period) with a 9mm handgun or 9mm Uzi than a wood stocked "deer rifle". Statistically, you're very much significantly likely to survive a spray and pray from a 9mm submachinegun than a single rifle round.
Happy thoughts.
If your receiver is new and does not have a serial number, you make be violating federal law. A quick google search with the model or email the manufacturer would give you the information.
This only applies if your weapon is modular. If the rifle is essentially one piece and cannot be taken apart, then yep. This is common with bolt action rifles. The receiver is directly behind the barrel, where the bolt is housed. The stock is not the receiver and not usually stamped.
I walked onto my porch while a crackhead was trying to steal my car stereo from my car. Motion lights were on. They are handy for providing light when something is moving. No more, no less. Now, it WAS very handy to be able to clearly see the person so I could identify him in a police lineup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Well. OSX is 7.5% of the marketshare, apparently. Nothing to sneeze at, but yes, it's not exactly dominating. Virtually every business runs Windows for desktops. More than a few folks buy Windows machines at home, because that's what they are familiar with.
"Then netbooks started to become popular, and I was hearing people clamor that this was a perfect case for Linux on these low-powered devices, and once again it would rise the profile of Linux on user-facing systems. But initial netbooks were released with really shitty distros that were often half-broken and given first impressions matter, these distros did a really poor job of selling Linux. Microsoft was forced to extend XP though as Vista wouldn't work suitably on netbooks, but as far as users were concerned this was great news compared to regular preinstalled Linux distros, and now modern netbooks run Windows 7 just fine. So we failed again."
Pardon? I own a whole mess of Linux based netbooks and other mobile devices. Android. My company has 100+ Android phones and a mess of tablets. And the mobile device management is getting better on the latest ones.
There appear to be the starts of Android desktops, primarily mini-PCs with HDMI ports half-intended to be media boxes but fully functional as PCs. Heck, if Microsoft releases Office for Android, I could easily ditch about 20% of my Windows PCs for Android devices in a heartbeat. One department is already spending 90% of their time on tablets, because they use virtually only webapps.
My job consists of waking up too damn early, making sure my M16/ammo are clean, and throwing on the BDUs.
Every day I probably come into contact with depleted uranium, industrial chemicals, and the locals burn their trash. This includes plastics, tires, and other things that extremely unhealthy.
The water is poisonous, the air is filled with all kinds of chemcials, the ground has an incredible amount of heavy metals. The list of common diseases in the area takes up three pages.
The locals make a sport out of killing UN personnel and/or grenading UN vehicles/buildings. We're not allowed to interfer. Sometimes the locals shoot or grenade each other.
Often I have to travel a couple hours in a freezing Black Hawk to get to remote stations. These areas do have landmines, unexploded cluster bombs, and other nasties. You never lived until you were delivering 300 lbs of batteries to a remote station on top of a mountain, during which a snow storm hits. You try not to think of slamming into the mountain, the rotors icing up, or a million other things that can happen.
Oh yea, and we're not allowed beer.
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I knew Adrian a long long time ago. Back when he used the nick 'Magus'...
Long long ago, he was an egomanical Machievallian individual. His skill, I suppose, was with people. Very little programming knowledge, or technical for that matter. He loved attention though. He was a slightly more sophisticated script kiddie, I suppose. Liked playing his games.
I have not spoken to him in years. Nor do I care to. We parted under terms that were less than cordial. Sometimes, when my thoughts do drift to the past, I wonder if he did become the wonderful moral person that people claim he is today. When I knew him, he was starting a downward spiral of alienating people that were close to him and accusing everyone of betraying him. In retrospect, I would have classified it as borderline paranoid schizophrenia.
He was not a moral person then. He did some very immoral and very unethical things. How much does time change a person? I do not claim to know if he is a moral person now. I would not trust his word. I would not advise anyone asking my opinion to trust him. Still, I do wonder what kind of a person he has become.
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Apple will get curb stomped if an essentially anti-Apple mutual-defense patent pool is opened. Apple is a big company, but not THAT big.
Careful. The enemies of your enemies are not necessarily your friend. The radical left are just as dangerous as the radical right. Extremists of any stripe tend not to be wound too tightly, and should be regarded with suspicion.
Not sure about for the doctors, but most financial folks are already trying to figure out the costs. I admit, since I got out of regulations (I specialized in aerospace industry ITAR and EAR regs), I try to avoid the subject. I got the "expensive" message. Apparently, some of the laws are conflicting. Something about requiring collection of household income under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is apparently also illegal to ask employees under other laws. Regulations are funny things. EAR, run by Commerce Department, is a "book" that weighs about 20 ish pounds. ITAR regs are about the size of a paperback book. EAR is simple, straightforward and pretty cheap to implement. ITAR on the other hand probably costs the US several billion in lost sales every year and billions more in compliance, while meeting few of its goals on restricting technology to foreign countries. A real world example was I could not allow Canadians to see, examine or install Canadian L-3 Wescam FLIR cameras, that we were selling to Canadian customers. We had a license from the USG to import the cameras for install, and to export to the end users in Canada, but it would take a 6+ month process to allow our Canadian employees here in the States to be exposed to those FLIR units. One of the best ways we could probably help the US economy, and this very much involves healthcare in America, would be make regulations EASIER to actually understand and implement. But it's easier to sprout off "You're obviously a racist if you disagree with my political position." Reality tends to be a bit more nuanced. But if you want to become a rapid anti-government libertarian, simply move into Regulatory Compliance as a career option.
I would prefer to be shot at (or even shot, period) with a 9mm handgun or 9mm Uzi than a wood stocked "deer rifle". Statistically, you're very much significantly likely to survive a spray and pray from a 9mm submachinegun than a single rifle round. Happy thoughts.
If your receiver is new and does not have a serial number, you make be violating federal law. A quick google search with the model or email the manufacturer would give you the information. This only applies if your weapon is modular. If the rifle is essentially one piece and cannot be taken apart, then yep. This is common with bolt action rifles. The receiver is directly behind the barrel, where the bolt is housed. The stock is not the receiver and not usually stamped.
No, motion lights are not a great deterrent.
I walked onto my porch while a crackhead was trying to steal my car stereo from my car. Motion lights were on. They are handy for providing light when something is moving. No more, no less. Now, it WAS very handy to be able to clearly see the person so I could identify him in a police lineup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Well. OSX is 7.5% of the marketshare, apparently. Nothing to sneeze at, but yes, it's not exactly dominating. Virtually every business runs Windows for desktops. More than a few folks buy Windows machines at home, because that's what they are familiar with.
"Then netbooks started to become popular, and I was hearing people clamor that this was a perfect case for Linux on these low-powered devices, and once again it would rise the profile of Linux on user-facing systems. But initial netbooks were released with really shitty distros that were often half-broken and given first impressions matter, these distros did a really poor job of selling Linux. Microsoft was forced to extend XP though as Vista wouldn't work suitably on netbooks, but as far as users were concerned this was great news compared to regular preinstalled Linux distros, and now modern netbooks run Windows 7 just fine. So we failed again." Pardon? I own a whole mess of Linux based netbooks and other mobile devices. Android. My company has 100+ Android phones and a mess of tablets. And the mobile device management is getting better on the latest ones. There appear to be the starts of Android desktops, primarily mini-PCs with HDMI ports half-intended to be media boxes but fully functional as PCs. Heck, if Microsoft releases Office for Android, I could easily ditch about 20% of my Windows PCs for Android devices in a heartbeat. One department is already spending 90% of their time on tablets, because they use virtually only webapps.
My job consists of waking up too damn early, making sure my M16/ammo are clean, and throwing on the BDUs. Every day I probably come into contact with depleted uranium, industrial chemicals, and the locals burn their trash. This includes plastics, tires, and other things that extremely unhealthy. The water is poisonous, the air is filled with all kinds of chemcials, the ground has an incredible amount of heavy metals. The list of common diseases in the area takes up three pages. The locals make a sport out of killing UN personnel and/or grenading UN vehicles/buildings. We're not allowed to interfer. Sometimes the locals shoot or grenade each other. Often I have to travel a couple hours in a freezing Black Hawk to get to remote stations. These areas do have landmines, unexploded cluster bombs, and other nasties. You never lived until you were delivering 300 lbs of batteries to a remote station on top of a mountain, during which a snow storm hits. You try not to think of slamming into the mountain, the rotors icing up, or a million other things that can happen. Oh yea, and we're not allowed beer.
I knew Adrian a long long time ago. Back when he used the nick 'Magus'...
Long long ago, he was an egomanical Machievallian individual. His skill, I suppose, was with people. Very little programming knowledge, or technical for that matter. He loved attention though. He was a slightly more sophisticated script kiddie, I suppose. Liked playing his games.
I have not spoken to him in years. Nor do I care to. We parted under terms that were less than cordial. Sometimes, when my thoughts do drift to the past, I wonder if he did become the wonderful moral person that people claim he is today. When I knew him, he was starting a downward spiral of alienating people that were close to him and accusing everyone of betraying him. In retrospect, I would have classified it as borderline paranoid schizophrenia.
He was not a moral person then. He did some very immoral and very unethical things. How much does time change a person? I do not claim to know if he is a moral person now. I would not trust his word. I would not advise anyone asking my opinion to trust him. Still, I do wonder what kind of a person he has become.