While that'd be nice, I doubt it. The high stress parts aren't going to be made from ABS plastic. Any plastic that can be used in a normal 3D printer cannot take the heat of sustained firing. A single shot, maybe.
Could be. But honestly, it's moreso a learning experience.
And I could understand why you think I was whining now that I reread what I wrote. Moreso, "You'd think you'd want to make this easy". I've dealt with government regs that'd make most folks' brains eat their way out. ITAR, international commerce, military ROEs, etc. ITAR was the worst Cold War fossil you could imagine. I still stand by the opinion while laws should focus on achieving whatever they want done, a very strong secondary concern should be "how easy is it to follow these rules?"
I'm starting one up now. My state government has 3 different departments to contact to start a business. A large number of the online resources link to 404 pages. IRS is surprisingly more competent, but only hand out EINs during business days but with slightly extended hours. Thankfully, I am not having any employees. All of the "employees" are co-owners of the LLC. We're doing web design stuff, and maybe selling some products we make. It won't make us a ton of money, but it's something. I want to own my business and be my own boss full time. Until that happens, I do regular 8-5 W2 work to pay the bills.
Problem is, being your own boss and/or running your own business is getting worse and worse of a deal. Little speed bumps here and there add up. If you count paying both sides of social security, the effective tax rate where I live is 44.37% for everything over $35k. We should be making life easier for folks to start businesses from scratch. Not tossing on more Byzantine laws that are trivial to megacorps but crushing to one or two person outfits.
The other thing is, sales taxes are supposed to cover local expenses. If I don't live in Tumblewood, WY, why should I pay it's local sales tax? I'm not using the roads or any other infrastructure. The seller is. And likely they're paying taxes already.
Serbia/Kosovo has calmed quite a bit. I spent well over a year there. I did love my time in the Balkans, especially Bulgaria. Single, it'd be epic. Married? It would be interesting. As for education, it's also not that bad. Especially if you supplement your kids' education with homeschool material. Tutors can be economically viable. I hired an assistant history professor to be a guide when I was in Sofia. I liked history, the rates were decent, and I got a hell of a good traveling lecture on local history.
I lived within half a mile of the worst civil nuclear disaster in America, Three Mile Island. No one died, cancer rates are normal, etc. I agree with the Anon Coward.
I watched the long video. The press photographers were carrying equipment around folks with RPGs and AK-47s. They weren't wearing identification that they were media. Despite the title, it's not murder. It's mistaken identification. That is what happens in a war zone. If you hang around with combatants, on either side, do not notify both sides of your location and credentials... What the bloody heck do they think would happen?
The best interview I saw on the whole episode was on the Colbert report. Where Colbert pointed out the obvious. Even calling it "Collateral Murder" is stepping out of the bounds of journalism and into editorial. It's fine to have an opinion. But selective editing and inaccurate wording meant to push an agenda that is not completely factual... That's propaganda, and just as bad as some/much of the whitewashing done by the DoD. Difference is, the DoD doesn't intend to be anything other than what it is.
Ideally, you want to move the whole object out of the way intact. Blowing it up may have unintended consequences that can be nearly as bad as a cohesive unit hitting the planet. Assuming you had enough mass at a high enough speed, you could cook the planet (as in, sterilization level).
I'm not sure why you were mod'd +5 Insightful. At the time, long range helicopter operations essentially did not exist. Because of the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, significantly more attention was paid to Special Operations aviation. 160th SOAR is one example.
The military dropped the ball, not Carter. I read several books on the incident, for obvious reasons. Failures can often teach more than success, if one pays attention and learns from mistakes. Of the 8 aircraft, 2 returned due to navigation issues. One's hydraulics failed. So, the military aborted, which Carter approved. Then a helicopter ran into a C-130. These were RH-53s, flown by U.S. Marines off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. It was the Marines that essentially killed the mission. Not really their fault, no one had done that sort of thing before and it allowed the US Army to develop its own special forces aviation.
And essentially, that's what Carter's failure did. USSOCOM now consists of squids, jarheads, grunts, and zoomies. And they do quite well these days. Read Eric L. Haney's "Inside Delta Force" book sometime. His portrayal of Desert One is what caused me to do my own research. And led me to understand the military failed President Carter, not the other way around.
Unless they have an insanely awesome security team and very rigorous employee screening, this will not end well.
The smarter way to handle it would be to replace personal information with UIDs. School districts alone can map UIDs to actual students. It'd be relatively trivial to implement, on either side. Sure, if someone crouched the numbers hard enough, they might be able to use analysis to collate the data to individuals. But that'd be enough to keep random stalkers, pedos, abusive parent with a restraining order against them, etc at bay.
If I was the non-profit running the DB, I'd be strongly pushing for something like that to absolve me of the liability and risk. Less persistent threats if the data is only useful to the student, school and statistics folks. The data, especially anonymized, would be VERY useful for curriculum research and development.
Not really. A decent machinist could make a AR15 receiver in a day, if he had the appropriate schematics. Out of steel, aluminum, titanium, just about any metal. And it'd last for thousands of rounds, and years of abuse. Heat treating and surface coating is important for durability, but nearly any metal would do quite well. I'm surprised no one has tried brass or bronze casting. *I* wouldn't want to own or use one, but it work.
One thing I'm always surprised about is how surprised folks on Slashdot are about this whole gun thing in America. We have them, and they're not going away. Hundreds of millions of firearms are in private hands. They're not going away. Banning one or several types would have no noticeable impact. Short of choking off new manufacture of arms or ammo in order to kill the culture, which would still take decades to accomplish anything, I don't get it.
Cars, pools and bathtubs kill a lot more folks. Medical mistakes kill an order of magnitude more. If you wanted to save lives, draconian laws applied to them would accomplish more. I suspect it's just a political, or human thing. Due to media and the internet, the unlikely seems common and the common is ignored in the vast ocean of more interesting. Folks accept common but highly lethal situations, but do not accept uncommon but emotional situations.
You're being rude to a person for just making a passing remark. There was nothing wrong with his comment. And while anecdotal information is not data, it can be interesting or amusing. His comment is also worthwhile of pointing out the insurance is a lotto. You may "win big" (get a lot more out than you put in), or you may "lose" (get a lot less out than you put in). This is every form of insurance. And they are carefully formulated that the insurance company MUST win in the long haul or they won't stay in business. The smarter insurance companies carefully maintain 5-10% profit margin. Some of them have been around for centuries. It's a steady, if boring, industry.
Both NEJM and JAMA have less hardcore medicine in them now, and a LOT more fluff. More politics than even a decade ago. To overstate the matter in a humorous way, I suspect NEJM will be the Cosmo of medical journals within another X years.
You really want to avoid any pieces going even near orbit. We have a mess of expensive stuff up there.
Honestly, nudging it off course with some ion drives or any source of contained thrust is a good idea. Nuking it is only better than an extinction level event. Such as last minute, too large, etc. Where humanity will still probably be largely hosed, but not completely. Even if you converted a large mass asteroid to sand, it'd still do not-great things.
Buddy of mine with a bunch of engineering degrees showed me some interesting calculations on autoclaving a planet with a couple tons of sand, at a significant fraction of C, through atmospheric friction. Make a great weapon, actually. It'd be very very hard to stop. Or terraforming option. No chance of catching diseases from a sterilized planet. Accelerating ten tons of sand to a significant fraction of C would be interesting, obviously.
That's pretty rare. And my state went to great lengths to cover all of those, with a help center for those fringe cases. And if they didn't use the help center, they could cast a provisional ballet.
You make a lot of assumptions. That only Republicans want to limit voter fraud, that folks on the lower socioeconomic scale are too stupid and/or helpless to get ID if they want it, that lower socioeconomic scale folks are guaranteed Democrat votes, etc.
Disclaimer: My political party registration is none of your business. But what you likely assume it to be? Yea, not them.
I would concur with this. Mostly. You can lose your eligibility to vote by being convicted of a felony. So, there should be some check when the poll rolls are generated.
You can hash as many variables as you want. Social security number, date/time, machine ID, election salt, local salt, etc.
The receipt you keep isn't important, per se. Assuming it prints an anonymous hash that the election people can use to verify scores, is. And the best way to make it "honest" would be after-the-fact random audits plus regular audits of areas with a history of election fraud. Chicago comes to mind. Said audits would ideally find out how folks cheat in elections, that information could be published, and used to harden future systems and elections.
Except no politician would ever want that. Both parties cheat.
I come from a long line of accountants. My mom has been a tax accountant longer than I've been alive. My best friend is an economist. Both concur with geoskd. There is no "trust fund", only IOUs. It's an accounting trick, from what they explained. The surplus is rolled into general revenue, and spent.
Krugman is correct that "Big cuts in Social Security should not be on the table." Because it's not. Old folks are the most cohesive voting block in American demographics. Touch it and die, politically. Krugman did not touch the points geoskd brought up, and others have brought up for many years. The surplus is spent, and replaced with special non-transferable bonds. Which must be repaid from general revenue whenever the surplus becomes a deficit.
Krugman is popular because he's telling folks what they want to hear. I don't mind Keynesian economics. I prefer Hayek, but whatever. Thing is, Keynesian economics advocates government intervention during recessions. The flip side is that in government intervention during recessions, during non-recession periods, it acts financially sanely. Which is not the case with the US. IF the US was properly following Keynesian economics, they'd be financially prudent during the "good times" (ie pay off debt and get their house in order) and spend money like drunken sailors only during "bad times". Instead, they spend money like drunken sailors in good and bad times.
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While that'd be nice, I doubt it. The high stress parts aren't going to be made from ABS plastic. Any plastic that can be used in a normal 3D printer cannot take the heat of sustained firing. A single shot, maybe.
Could be. But honestly, it's moreso a learning experience.
And I could understand why you think I was whining now that I reread what I wrote. Moreso, "You'd think you'd want to make this easy". I've dealt with government regs that'd make most folks' brains eat their way out. ITAR, international commerce, military ROEs, etc. ITAR was the worst Cold War fossil you could imagine. I still stand by the opinion while laws should focus on achieving whatever they want done, a very strong secondary concern should be "how easy is it to follow these rules?"
But I'm also aware without government subsidies, it's not economically viable. On the large scale.
That said, I love having a solar panel on my pack when I'm out hiking. It is a nice option when you're somewhere without access to the grid.
My first after school job was doing 1040 prep work for a local accounting company.
100,000 IRS employees being laid off would be a nice start. Please tell me the next step involves Pay Per View and rabid animals.
Have you tried running a business?
I'm starting one up now. My state government has 3 different departments to contact to start a business. A large number of the online resources link to 404 pages. IRS is surprisingly more competent, but only hand out EINs during business days but with slightly extended hours. Thankfully, I am not having any employees. All of the "employees" are co-owners of the LLC. We're doing web design stuff, and maybe selling some products we make. It won't make us a ton of money, but it's something. I want to own my business and be my own boss full time. Until that happens, I do regular 8-5 W2 work to pay the bills.
Problem is, being your own boss and/or running your own business is getting worse and worse of a deal. Little speed bumps here and there add up. If you count paying both sides of social security, the effective tax rate where I live is 44.37% for everything over $35k. We should be making life easier for folks to start businesses from scratch. Not tossing on more Byzantine laws that are trivial to megacorps but crushing to one or two person outfits.
The other thing is, sales taxes are supposed to cover local expenses. If I don't live in Tumblewood, WY, why should I pay it's local sales tax? I'm not using the roads or any other infrastructure. The seller is. And likely they're paying taxes already.
I do love Vermont and New Hampshire. But yea, jobs can be interesting to find...
Serbia/Kosovo has calmed quite a bit. I spent well over a year there. I did love my time in the Balkans, especially Bulgaria. Single, it'd be epic. Married? It would be interesting. As for education, it's also not that bad. Especially if you supplement your kids' education with homeschool material. Tutors can be economically viable. I hired an assistant history professor to be a guide when I was in Sofia. I liked history, the rates were decent, and I got a hell of a good traveling lecture on local history.
Not really. His sales office still has to pay taxes. If he's not a US citizen, he personally doesn't have to pay US taxes.
I lived within half a mile of the worst civil nuclear disaster in America, Three Mile Island. No one died, cancer rates are normal, etc. I agree with the Anon Coward.
I watched the long video. The press photographers were carrying equipment around folks with RPGs and AK-47s. They weren't wearing identification that they were media. Despite the title, it's not murder. It's mistaken identification. That is what happens in a war zone. If you hang around with combatants, on either side, do not notify both sides of your location and credentials... What the bloody heck do they think would happen?
The best interview I saw on the whole episode was on the Colbert report. Where Colbert pointed out the obvious. Even calling it "Collateral Murder" is stepping out of the bounds of journalism and into editorial. It's fine to have an opinion. But selective editing and inaccurate wording meant to push an agenda that is not completely factual... That's propaganda, and just as bad as some/much of the whitewashing done by the DoD. Difference is, the DoD doesn't intend to be anything other than what it is.
Ideally, you want to move the whole object out of the way intact. Blowing it up may have unintended consequences that can be nearly as bad as a cohesive unit hitting the planet. Assuming you had enough mass at a high enough speed, you could cook the planet (as in, sterilization level).
I thought an H-1B had to be sponsored?
I'm not sure why you were mod'd +5 Insightful. At the time, long range helicopter operations essentially did not exist. Because of the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, significantly more attention was paid to Special Operations aviation. 160th SOAR is one example.
The military dropped the ball, not Carter. I read several books on the incident, for obvious reasons. Failures can often teach more than success, if one pays attention and learns from mistakes. Of the 8 aircraft, 2 returned due to navigation issues. One's hydraulics failed. So, the military aborted, which Carter approved. Then a helicopter ran into a C-130. These were RH-53s, flown by U.S. Marines off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. It was the Marines that essentially killed the mission. Not really their fault, no one had done that sort of thing before and it allowed the US Army to develop its own special forces aviation.
And essentially, that's what Carter's failure did. USSOCOM now consists of squids, jarheads, grunts, and zoomies. And they do quite well these days. Read Eric L. Haney's "Inside Delta Force" book sometime. His portrayal of Desert One is what caused me to do my own research. And led me to understand the military failed President Carter, not the other way around.
Facebook is optional. This would not be.
Unless they have an insanely awesome security team and very rigorous employee screening, this will not end well.
The smarter way to handle it would be to replace personal information with UIDs. School districts alone can map UIDs to actual students. It'd be relatively trivial to implement, on either side. Sure, if someone crouched the numbers hard enough, they might be able to use analysis to collate the data to individuals. But that'd be enough to keep random stalkers, pedos, abusive parent with a restraining order against them, etc at bay.
If I was the non-profit running the DB, I'd be strongly pushing for something like that to absolve me of the liability and risk. Less persistent threats if the data is only useful to the student, school and statistics folks. The data, especially anonymized, would be VERY useful for curriculum research and development.
Not really. A decent machinist could make a AR15 receiver in a day, if he had the appropriate schematics. Out of steel, aluminum, titanium, just about any metal. And it'd last for thousands of rounds, and years of abuse. Heat treating and surface coating is important for durability, but nearly any metal would do quite well. I'm surprised no one has tried brass or bronze casting. *I* wouldn't want to own or use one, but it work.
One thing I'm always surprised about is how surprised folks on Slashdot are about this whole gun thing in America. We have them, and they're not going away. Hundreds of millions of firearms are in private hands. They're not going away. Banning one or several types would have no noticeable impact. Short of choking off new manufacture of arms or ammo in order to kill the culture, which would still take decades to accomplish anything, I don't get it.
Cars, pools and bathtubs kill a lot more folks. Medical mistakes kill an order of magnitude more. If you wanted to save lives, draconian laws applied to them would accomplish more. I suspect it's just a political, or human thing. Due to media and the internet, the unlikely seems common and the common is ignored in the vast ocean of more interesting. Folks accept common but highly lethal situations, but do not accept uncommon but emotional situations.
You're being rude to a person for just making a passing remark. There was nothing wrong with his comment. And while anecdotal information is not data, it can be interesting or amusing. His comment is also worthwhile of pointing out the insurance is a lotto. You may "win big" (get a lot more out than you put in), or you may "lose" (get a lot less out than you put in). This is every form of insurance. And they are carefully formulated that the insurance company MUST win in the long haul or they won't stay in business. The smarter insurance companies carefully maintain 5-10% profit margin. Some of them have been around for centuries. It's a steady, if boring, industry.
Both NEJM and JAMA have less hardcore medicine in them now, and a LOT more fluff. More politics than even a decade ago. To overstate the matter in a humorous way, I suspect NEJM will be the Cosmo of medical journals within another X years.
You really want to avoid any pieces going even near orbit. We have a mess of expensive stuff up there.
Honestly, nudging it off course with some ion drives or any source of contained thrust is a good idea. Nuking it is only better than an extinction level event. Such as last minute, too large, etc. Where humanity will still probably be largely hosed, but not completely. Even if you converted a large mass asteroid to sand, it'd still do not-great things.
Buddy of mine with a bunch of engineering degrees showed me some interesting calculations on autoclaving a planet with a couple tons of sand, at a significant fraction of C, through atmospheric friction. Make a great weapon, actually. It'd be very very hard to stop. Or terraforming option. No chance of catching diseases from a sterilized planet. Accelerating ten tons of sand to a significant fraction of C would be interesting, obviously.
Kinda inviting to a AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile. Jamming is pretty trivial to trace.
That's pretty rare. And my state went to great lengths to cover all of those, with a help center for those fringe cases. And if they didn't use the help center, they could cast a provisional ballet.
You make a lot of assumptions. That only Republicans want to limit voter fraud, that folks on the lower socioeconomic scale are too stupid and/or helpless to get ID if they want it, that lower socioeconomic scale folks are guaranteed Democrat votes, etc.
Disclaimer: My political party registration is none of your business. But what you likely assume it to be? Yea, not them.
I would concur with this. Mostly. You can lose your eligibility to vote by being convicted of a felony. So, there should be some check when the poll rolls are generated.
Correct. Because politicians write the rules and don't like competition.
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You can hash as many variables as you want. Social security number, date/time, machine ID, election salt, local salt, etc.
The receipt you keep isn't important, per se. Assuming it prints an anonymous hash that the election people can use to verify scores, is. And the best way to make it "honest" would be after-the-fact random audits plus regular audits of areas with a history of election fraud. Chicago comes to mind. Said audits would ideally find out how folks cheat in elections, that information could be published, and used to harden future systems and elections.
Except no politician would ever want that. Both parties cheat.
I come from a long line of accountants. My mom has been a tax accountant longer than I've been alive. My best friend is an economist. Both concur with geoskd. There is no "trust fund", only IOUs. It's an accounting trick, from what they explained. The surplus is rolled into general revenue, and spent.
Krugman is correct that "Big cuts in Social Security should not be on the table." Because it's not. Old folks are the most cohesive voting block in American demographics. Touch it and die, politically. Krugman did not touch the points geoskd brought up, and others have brought up for many years. The surplus is spent, and replaced with special non-transferable bonds. Which must be repaid from general revenue whenever the surplus becomes a deficit.
Krugman is popular because he's telling folks what they want to hear. I don't mind Keynesian economics. I prefer Hayek, but whatever. Thing is, Keynesian economics advocates government intervention during recessions. The flip side is that in government intervention during recessions, during non-recession periods, it acts financially sanely. Which is not the case with the US. IF the US was properly following Keynesian economics, they'd be financially prudent during the "good times" (ie pay off debt and get their house in order) and spend money like drunken sailors only during "bad times". Instead, they spend money like drunken sailors in good and bad times.
When it comes to mosquitos, yea, pretty much.