The govt. has no knowledge of my arsenal...guns bought privately from private citizens with cash, ammo bought with cash. No registration....no paper trail.
Yes, please keep believing that, citizen.
Be seeing you!
A Public Service message from your friends at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
It's a lathe. You don't need a particularly fancy one if you're just going to make a.22 short barreled gun.
For a 30-06 target rifle, yeah, they get expensive.
I have no idea why you would want to print out a plastic jig to make a barrel. You can get hobby lathes that will do the trick (again for a small, low pressure gun) for a couple of hundred dollars. Then you could even use metal!
Not everything needs an evolutionary advantage to exist. Music may have co evolved with the structures required for language (for example). As long as it's not deleterious, it would not be selected out.
And once humans decided they 'liked' music, you can argue for an evolutionary advantage to the talent. (Ogg can sing, Ogg stay alive. Bonch grunt and fart, Bonch gets bonked with club....)
Either Slashdot gets an edit function (come on, it can't be that hard) or I quit posting until my blood caffeine levels are up in the therapeutic range. grrr.
Here's the problem. You're likely correct - at least to some point. However, if you are at all interested in the 'fate of mankind' i.e., everybody else, then you notice that humans a perched on a fairly narrow ledge in terms of the survivability of large swatches of population. If you preturb the climate, especially if the changes are relatively rapid, a lot of people are going to a) starve b) displaced c) not be particularly happy about a and b and try to get a resources of those who aren't so drastically affected.
That leads to conflict, upheaval, war and pestilence - fairly typical (but generally frowned upon) human behaviors.
Note that climate pressures on human settlements are often the driver for abandonment / downfalls of civilizations (the Diamond and Tainter arguments) - it's just with 7 billion (or whatever) of us on the planet we're capable of making some really big messes at present.
Then there are the persons of the tree hugging persuasion who feel that it's morally indefensible to take the entire planet down so we can have iPods and Big Macs. Your personal moral codes may vary.
Look how well automation is working for the airlines. The safety record in recent years is unprecedented just by keeping the pilot away from the controls.
No, pilots still fly the planes. Most takeoffs and landings are done by real, live, meatspace pilots. Autopilots are used mid flight and have been for, oh, the last 40 years or so.
Ok, now exactly how do you create a useful set of rules for your scenario? Basically, you can't. So you create rules that can be adjudicated in the real world and err on the side of safety.
It's not crazy. It's the real world. Sucks to have to live in it but such is life.
And how, pray tell, would you like the software to know what you want to do with your windows? How is it supposed to know if you want a window in the top left of your screen while another window is minimized?
Hi! I'm Clippy! It looks like you could use some help organizing your desktop!
Nah. It would be like the old 'Mission Impossible' episodes (the TV ones) when Barney would come through in his step van and overalls and act like he belongs there. Who the hell would know? The maids - they don't care as long as he's not making a mess. The junior night clerk? He's still sitting at the front desk sexting his GF (or BF or furry friend or whatever).
The surveillance cams would record you but anyone with ten dollars of theatrical makeup (just like in Mission Impossible) could defeat that.
Really, all anyone needs to do is look at a bunch of old Mission Impossible episodes and read this guy's hack and you're golden.
And how often does your application software vendor supply bug and security fixes? I have to pay HUGE amounts to such software companies as Oracle and still end up with buggy, insecure from day zero software.
If you're complaining about paying too much for Oracle stuff, you'll get no sympathy from any of us. It's not like we didn't warn you.
To me torx says: "we have automated screwing process, and it works better with torx, as intented"
Exactly. Torx screws were designed for automated assembly. It allows for wider tolerances between the screw and the driver and allows for more consistent torque settings. (Get it? Torx....) The fact that it's turned out to be the 'new standard' screw is largely due to the fact that it's on hell of a lot better solution for than the old Phillip's head and modern manufacturing methods make them trivial to produce.
On the one hand, you could find tons of people who would have no problem looking at "objectionable content." On the other hand, probably very few of them would find the content objectionable in the first place.
So, you monitor anything that's saved to the screener's personal hard drive. Those are likely objectionable and you boot them off the system.
You're really weak and/or sheltered if you can't handle seeing stuff like that. I could easily do a job like that because nothing really shocks me any more and yet I am still able to sift out what the philistines like you might find objectionable.
Basically grow up, harden up and stop being a pussy.
I just love brave AC's that can't comprehend the concept of irony.
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Are you guys crazy?
Do you realize how much bridges cost?
The govt. has no knowledge of my arsenal...guns bought privately from private citizens with cash, ammo bought with cash. No registration....no paper trail.
Yes, please keep believing that, citizen.
Be seeing you!
A Public Service message from your friends at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
It's a lathe. You don't need a particularly fancy one if you're just going to make a .22 short barreled gun.
For a 30-06 target rifle, yeah, they get expensive.
I have no idea why you would want to print out a plastic jig to make a barrel. You can get hobby lathes that will do the trick (again for a small, low pressure gun) for a couple of hundred dollars. Then you could even use metal!
Might as well just throw the bullet at the target at that point....
Yell BANG!
I've seen this logo everywhere
(Browsing with Noscript gives a nice white, blank box).
relax, "Nazli Esfahani" sounds Persian...not european/christian
Or "Nazgul" Esfahani - one of the fabled IBM legal team.
Not everything needs an evolutionary advantage to exist. Music may have co evolved with the structures required for language (for example). As long as it's not deleterious, it would not be selected out.
And once humans decided they 'liked' music, you can argue for an evolutionary advantage to the talent. (Ogg can sing, Ogg stay alive. Bonch grunt and fart, Bonch gets bonked with club....)
Unless you're advocating labotomising a load of people with the hopes of raising the statistical significance...
Lawyers and Politicians! We've got lots of extras.
We'll even ship them to you.
Oops. Your hat is taped on a bit too tight.
Somebody help this fellow out, will you?
Either Slashdot gets an edit function (come on, it can't be that hard) or I quit posting until my blood caffeine levels are up in the therapeutic range. grrr.
Here's the problem. You're likely correct - at least to some point. However, if you are at all interested in the 'fate of mankind' i.e., everybody else, then you notice that humans a perched on a fairly narrow ledge in terms of the survivability of large swatches of population. If you preturb the climate, especially if the changes are relatively rapid, a lot of people are going to a) starve b) displaced c) not be particularly happy about a and b and try to get a resources of those who aren't so drastically affected.
That leads to conflict, upheaval, war and pestilence - fairly typical (but generally frowned upon) human behaviors.
Note that climate pressures on human settlements are often the driver for abandonment / downfalls of civilizations (the Diamond and Tainter arguments) - it's just with 7 billion (or whatever) of us on the planet we're capable of making some really big messes at present.
Then there are the persons of the tree hugging persuasion who feel that it's morally indefensible to take the entire planet down so we can have iPods and Big Macs. Your personal moral codes may vary.
Giant bugs?
Look how well automation is working for the airlines. The safety record in recent years is unprecedented just by keeping the pilot away from the controls.
No, pilots still fly the planes. Most takeoffs and landings are done by real, live, meatspace pilots. Autopilots are used mid flight and have been for, oh, the last 40 years or so.
Ok, now exactly how do you create a useful set of rules for your scenario? Basically, you can't. So you create rules that can be adjudicated in the real world and err on the side of safety.
It's not crazy. It's the real world. Sucks to have to live in it but such is life.
Original sin and all that....
And how, pray tell, would you like the software to know what you want to do with your windows? How is it supposed to know if you want a window in the top left of your screen while another window is minimized?
Hi! I'm Clippy! It looks like you could use some help organizing your desktop!
How do you steer?
Never, ever, name any software "Rugged".
You're just asking for it.
Looks at pile of shrimp.
Gets Geiger Counter.
Really, who knew these little things were so dangerous?
Just walk down the hall with nothing but a towel ..
Please don't say stuff like that around here. Somebody is likely to listen to you.
We don't want that. Really, we don't.
Think of the children!
Nah. It would be like the old 'Mission Impossible' episodes (the TV ones) when Barney would come through in his step van and overalls and act like he belongs there. Who the hell would know? The maids - they don't care as long as he's not making a mess. The junior night clerk? He's still sitting at the front desk sexting his GF (or BF or furry friend or whatever).
The surveillance cams would record you but anyone with ten dollars of theatrical makeup (just like in Mission Impossible) could defeat that.
Really, all anyone needs to do is look at a bunch of old Mission Impossible episodes and read this guy's hack and you're golden.
Well, insofar, it's not one that I have in my toolbox
That's not even wrong....
And how often does your application software vendor supply bug and security fixes? I have to pay HUGE amounts to such software companies as Oracle and still end up with buggy, insecure from day zero software.
If you're complaining about paying too much for Oracle stuff, you'll get no sympathy from any of us. It's not like we didn't warn you.
To me torx says: "we have automated screwing process, and it works better with torx, as intented"
Exactly. Torx screws were designed for automated assembly. It allows for wider tolerances between the screw and the driver and allows for more consistent torque settings. (Get it? Torx ....) The fact that it's turned out to be the 'new standard' screw is largely due to the fact that it's on hell of a lot better solution for than the old Phillip's head and modern manufacturing methods make them trivial to produce.
On the one hand, you could find tons of people who would have no problem looking at "objectionable content." On the other hand, probably very few of them would find the content objectionable in the first place.
So, you monitor anything that's saved to the screener's personal hard drive. Those are likely objectionable and you boot them off the system.
You're really weak and/or sheltered if you can't handle seeing stuff like that. I could easily do a job like that because nothing really shocks me any more and yet I am still able to sift out what the philistines like you might find objectionable.
Basically grow up, harden up and stop being a pussy.
I just love brave AC's that can't comprehend the concept of irony.