3.5 lbs? Get another 30 times as much and you'll be close to a critical mass (bare sphere, 85% enriched). 3.5 lbs isn't that dangerous or, by itself, all that interesting from a nuclear weapons proliferation standpoint.
Fission occurred, but it needed to be pumped by an external neutron source and a runaway chain reaction was pretty much impossible. We're only talking about a ~6 cm sphere of it.
Maybe so, but so does/did every country in history with the wherewithal to do so from Rome to Parthia to China to Japan to the United Kingdom to France to Russia to Sweden to... I don't think there's any country in history which wouldn't. It sucks, but it's a catch-22 situation.
Other issues with trying to use the Federal background check to count firearms:
3) It's not just done on new sales, it's done for all sales from a gun shop, be the firearm new or used. 4) At least one state runs the Federal background check on all holders of its concealed carry permit monthly. This adds about 2.6 million checks per year above firearms sales alone.
Who's "Mau"? Are you talking about the Mau-Mau Rebellion in Kenya? Not sure what China has to do with that, though, or why they'd be mentioned in connection with Hitler and Stalin.
But there's money to be made in subletting a flat during an event like the Olympics. I lived in Lake Placid for the 1980 games and my father's department head at the college rented his house for $30k for the two weeks.
"Meanwhile critics complain that the project is a peculiarly British example of how not to get big infrastructure schemes off the ground, because almost 30 years will have elapsed from its political conception in 1989 to its current projected completion date of 2018."
How long has NYC been working on the 2nd Avenue line? 75 years? IIRC, they had a bond issue in the early '50s and finally started tunneling in the early '70s, but funding fell through. They started up again recently and currently plan for an opening late this decade for the first segment, 63rd St to 96th St. No word on when the other phases will be funded, extending the line from Hanover Sq. to 125th St., roughly 9 miles total.
so it becomes a competitive question here - why aren't GPS devices better designed?
Because they were engineered with the constraints of their band in mind. If the rules of the band are such that you don't need to worry about a powerful signal on an adjacent frequency, designing a filter to deal with such an adjacent signal is unnecessary expense.
The court order addressed this. It's not being a witness to provide access to something under subpoena/search warrant, so no 5th Amendment concern there. It would be a 5th Amendment violation if the prosecution uses the possession of the key/password as evidence to tie the defendant to the contents, but that's prohibited by the court order ordering this woman to reveal the password.
After all, they're undercutting pay-to-view outlets like HBO, Cinemax, etc.
This seems to me the real analogy. The traditional broadcast networks get their revenue from advertising, like Google, and their product available to the end-user free-of-charge. HBO gets its revenue from the end-user directly.
I don't think anyone would make the argument CBS is unfairly subsidizing their product and I don't think Google is either even if the temporary market condition is such that Google is most popular.
More to the point: the Second Amendment was designed to prevent disarming of the citizenry by the government, not a private entity. This generally applies to the protections of the First and Second amendments. I have the right to prohibit the bearing of arms on my property or to kick you out if you say something I disagree with.
Microsoft bans pictures of firearms? That isn't the government.
More or less what I was pointing out: EVs aren't an emissions solution by themselves.
However, you should note that it would help moving away from coal for power plants even without moving to electric vehicles.
Also, for at least the near future, parts of the Midwest don't have many options for non-fossil fuel power plants other than nuclear. Solar and wind are pretty marginal around here, at least for the present.
I was comparing to hybrids, not single mode ICE vehicles. In the Midwest, an EV has higher emissions than a hybrid. And, in some regions, even traditional gasoline cars may produce less greenhouse gasses than an EV. For example, this article suggest my Ford Focus, in which I've averaged about 33.5 MPG over its life thus far, would have lower emissions than a Nissan Leaf in Minnesota.
No. Just continued coal mining in Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, etc. A EV in this part of the country has higher CO2 emissions than a non-plug-in hybrid. Until we really change electricity generation in the US, EVs in the US are generally just shifting emissions around.
Very interesting, since part of the analysis suggest the only firearms protected by the 2nd Amendment are those suitable for military use. This would suggest, for example, full-auto M16s, FN MAG machine guns, etc. would be protected but target rifles might not be.
Any conclusions in it also need to be taken with a big grain of salt since Miller died before it reached the Supreme Court and his counsel presented no arguments. It's basically a default judgement.
I left out some details in what I wrote because I quoted the USC below which lays out the detail.
As far as federal licensing goes, either you are a 01 FFL (normal FFL dealer), 02 FFL (pawn shop FFL), or 03 FFL (Curio & Relic, aka "crusty and rusty"). There are limitations on what each one can do, for example the 03 FFL (C&R) isn't for doing business but rather for a personal collection (and what is considered collectible is regulated). The stuff you hear about regarding NFA stuff (suppressors, short barrel rifles, full auto) isn't properly called Class 3 - there is just a SOT (special occupation tax) on a regular 01 FFL. And again, several levels of that - dealer, manufacturer/repair, importer, destructive devices, etc.
Wonder what part of "shall not be infringed" this all falls under...
Getting a little tangential here, but...
There's more types of FFL than that: Type 1: Dealer Type 2: Pawn Shop Type 3: Collector of Curios and Relics Type 6: Manufacturer of ammunition other than armor-piercing Type 7: Manufacturer of non-National Firearms Act firearms and ammunition other than armor-piercing Type 8: Importer of non-NFA firearms and ammunition Type 9: Dealer in non-NFA firearms and NFA destructive devices Type 10: Manufacturer of non-National Firearms Act firearms, NFA destructive devices, and ammunition other than armor-piercing Type 11: Importer of non-National Firearms Act firearms, NFA destructive devices, and ammunition
There are three classes of SOT for FFLs: Class 1: Importer of NFA firearms. Requires a Type 8 or 11 FFL $1000/year ($500/year for small importers) Class 2: Manufacturer of NFA firearms. Requires a Type 7 or 10 FFL $1000/year ($500/year for small manufacturers) Class 3: Dealer of NFA firearms. Requires a Type 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 FFL. $500/year.
Generally speaking, NFA firearms are: * Fully automatic firearms (any not registered with the ATF prior to 1986 is not eligible for non-government/dealer ownership). * Rifles under 26" (66.04 cm) overall length or with a barrel under 16" (40.64 cm) long * Shotguns under 26" (66.04 cm) overall length or with a barrel under 18" (45.72 cm) long * Non-sporting firearms with a bore over 0.50" (12.7mm)/explosives (grenades would all into this category) * Sound suppressors/silencers * A somewhat nebulous category - Any Other Weapon
Any NFA firearms not imported prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act are not generally legal for citizens (there are a couple of very small loopholes here). Any NFA firearm requires a $200 tax to be paid to transfer to a person or non-SOT or for a non-SOT to make EXCEPT an Any Other Weapon only has a $5 tax to transfer (still $200 to make).
The only guns (common English) that aren't legally guns in the US are: * antiques from 1898 and prior or some replicas thereof * muzzle loaders designed for black power and cannot use fixed ammunition
"Firearm" is defined in 18 USC 921(a)(3): The term “firearm” means (A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon; (C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or (D) any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.
"Antique firearm" is defined in 18 USC 921(a)(16): The term “antique firearm” means— (A) any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured in or before 1898; or (B) any replica of any firearm described in subparagraph (A) if such replica— (i) is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition, or (ii) uses rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United States and which is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade; or (C) any muzzle loading rifle, muzzle loading shotgun, or muzzle loading pistol, which is designed to use black powder, or a black powder substitute, and which cannot use fixed ammunition. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “antique firearm” shall not include any weapon which incorporates a firearm frame or receiver, any firearm which is converted into a muzzle loading weapon, or any muzzle loading weapon which can be readily converted to fire fixed ammunition by replacing the barrel, bolt, breechblock, or any combination thereof.
So, yes, smoothbore firearms are legally firearms.
Not exactly. The Soviet Union classified them as aviation cruiser for treaty reasons (Montreux Convention, 1936: aircraft carriers aren't allowed through the Dardanelles). At about 65,000 tons full load, it's larger than the French de Gaulle and roughly equivalent the the Royal Navy's planned carriers.
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The media today isn't the press of 1890s. They're not there to report the truth, they're simply trying to make a buck like the rest of us.
Spanish-American war, anyone? "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war," and all that? Yeah, journalism in the 1890s was ALL about "truth".
Except for it to be an illegal tax it must be a tax in the first place.
3.5 lbs? Get another 30 times as much and you'll be close to a critical mass (bare sphere, 85% enriched). 3.5 lbs isn't that dangerous or, by itself, all that interesting from a nuclear weapons proliferation standpoint.
Fission occurred, but it needed to be pumped by an external neutron source and a runaway chain reaction was pretty much impossible. We're only talking about a ~6 cm sphere of it.
Maybe so, but so does/did every country in history with the wherewithal to do so from Rome to Parthia to China to Japan to the United Kingdom to France to Russia to Sweden to... I don't think there's any country in history which wouldn't. It sucks, but it's a catch-22 situation.
Other issues with trying to use the Federal background check to count firearms:
3) It's not just done on new sales, it's done for all sales from a gun shop, be the firearm new or used.
4) At least one state runs the Federal background check on all holders of its concealed carry permit monthly. This adds about 2.6 million checks per year above firearms sales alone.
Microsoft's already there. It's known as Ford's MyTouch and Sync.
Who's "Mau"? Are you talking about the Mau-Mau Rebellion in Kenya? Not sure what China has to do with that, though, or why they'd be mentioned in connection with Hitler and Stalin.
But there's money to be made in subletting a flat during an event like the Olympics. I lived in Lake Placid for the 1980 games and my father's department head at the college rented his house for $30k for the two weeks.
What part of NYC? A lot of difference between the Village, the Upper East and West Sides, Washington Heights, different parts of Brooklyn, etc.
Attacking the UK government over the internet is a sure way to get them to give up on internet surveillance.
"Meanwhile critics complain that the project is a peculiarly British example of how not to get big infrastructure schemes off the ground, because almost 30 years will have elapsed from its political conception in 1989 to its current projected completion date of 2018."
How long has NYC been working on the 2nd Avenue line? 75 years? IIRC, they had a bond issue in the early '50s and finally started tunneling in the early '70s, but funding fell through. They started up again recently and currently plan for an opening late this decade for the first segment, 63rd St to 96th St. No word on when the other phases will be funded, extending the line from Hanover Sq. to 125th St., roughly 9 miles total.
If you look at http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ there's a photo of the back. It's just called, "iPad".
so it becomes a competitive question here - why aren't GPS devices better designed?
Because they were engineered with the constraints of their band in mind. If the rules of the band are such that you don't need to worry about a powerful signal on an adjacent frequency, designing a filter to deal with such an adjacent signal is unnecessary expense.
The court order addressed this. It's not being a witness to provide access to something under subpoena/search warrant, so no 5th Amendment concern there. It would be a 5th Amendment violation if the prosecution uses the possession of the key/password as evidence to tie the defendant to the contents, but that's prohibited by the court order ordering this woman to reveal the password.
After all, they're undercutting pay-to-view outlets like HBO, Cinemax, etc.
This seems to me the real analogy. The traditional broadcast networks get their revenue from advertising, like Google, and their product available to the end-user free-of-charge. HBO gets its revenue from the end-user directly.
I don't think anyone would make the argument CBS is unfairly subsidizing their product and I don't think Google is either even if the temporary market condition is such that Google is most popular.
I mean, creating the works is one thing, but reading them...
And a transmission.
More to the point: the Second Amendment was designed to prevent disarming of the citizenry by the government, not a private entity. This generally applies to the protections of the First and Second amendments. I have the right to prohibit the bearing of arms on my property or to kick you out if you say something I disagree with.
Microsoft bans pictures of firearms? That isn't the government.
More or less what I was pointing out: EVs aren't an emissions solution by themselves.
However, you should note that it would help moving away from coal for power plants even without moving to electric vehicles.
Also, for at least the near future, parts of the Midwest don't have many options for non-fossil fuel power plants other than nuclear. Solar and wind are pretty marginal around here, at least for the present.
I was comparing to hybrids, not single mode ICE vehicles. In the Midwest, an EV has higher emissions than a hybrid. And, in some regions, even traditional gasoline cars may produce less greenhouse gasses than an EV. For example, this article suggest my Ford Focus, in which I've averaged about 33.5 MPG over its life thus far, would have lower emissions than a Nissan Leaf in Minnesota.
http://blogs.mnhs.org/node/97
No. Just continued coal mining in Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, etc. A EV in this part of the country has higher CO2 emissions than a non-plug-in hybrid. Until we really change electricity generation in the US, EVs in the US are generally just shifting emissions around.
Very interesting, since part of the analysis suggest the only firearms protected by the 2nd Amendment are those suitable for military use. This would suggest, for example, full-auto M16s, FN MAG machine guns, etc. would be protected but target rifles might not be.
Any conclusions in it also need to be taken with a big grain of salt since Miller died before it reached the Supreme Court and his counsel presented no arguments. It's basically a default judgement.
I left out some details in what I wrote because I quoted the USC below which lays out the detail.
As far as federal licensing goes, either you are a 01 FFL (normal FFL dealer), 02 FFL (pawn shop FFL), or 03 FFL (Curio & Relic, aka "crusty and rusty"). There are limitations on what each one can do, for example the 03 FFL (C&R) isn't for doing business but rather for a personal collection (and what is considered collectible is regulated). The stuff you hear about regarding NFA stuff (suppressors, short barrel rifles, full auto) isn't properly called Class 3 - there is just a SOT (special occupation tax) on a regular 01 FFL. And again, several levels of that - dealer, manufacturer/repair, importer, destructive devices, etc.
Wonder what part of "shall not be infringed" this all falls under...
Getting a little tangential here, but...
There's more types of FFL than that:
Type 1: Dealer
Type 2: Pawn Shop
Type 3: Collector of Curios and Relics
Type 6: Manufacturer of ammunition other than armor-piercing
Type 7: Manufacturer of non-National Firearms Act firearms and ammunition other than armor-piercing
Type 8: Importer of non-NFA firearms and ammunition
Type 9: Dealer in non-NFA firearms and NFA destructive devices
Type 10: Manufacturer of non-National Firearms Act firearms, NFA destructive devices, and ammunition other than armor-piercing
Type 11: Importer of non-National Firearms Act firearms, NFA destructive devices, and ammunition
There are three classes of SOT for FFLs:
Class 1: Importer of NFA firearms. Requires a Type 8 or 11 FFL $1000/year ($500/year for small importers)
Class 2: Manufacturer of NFA firearms. Requires a Type 7 or 10 FFL $1000/year ($500/year for small manufacturers)
Class 3: Dealer of NFA firearms. Requires a Type 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 FFL. $500/year.
Generally speaking, NFA firearms are:
* Fully automatic firearms (any not registered with the ATF prior to 1986 is not eligible for non-government/dealer ownership).
* Rifles under 26" (66.04 cm) overall length or with a barrel under 16" (40.64 cm) long
* Shotguns under 26" (66.04 cm) overall length or with a barrel under 18" (45.72 cm) long
* Non-sporting firearms with a bore over 0.50" (12.7mm)/explosives (grenades would all into this category)
* Sound suppressors/silencers
* A somewhat nebulous category - Any Other Weapon
Any NFA firearms not imported prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act are not generally legal for citizens (there are a couple of very small loopholes here). Any NFA firearm requires a $200 tax to be paid to transfer to a person or non-SOT or for a non-SOT to make EXCEPT an Any Other Weapon only has a $5 tax to transfer (still $200 to make).
So shotguns aren't guns? BS.
The only guns (common English) that aren't legally guns in the US are:
* antiques from 1898 and prior or some replicas thereof
* muzzle loaders designed for black power and cannot use fixed ammunition
"Firearm" is defined in 18 USC 921(a)(3):
The term “firearm” means
(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive;
(B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon;
(C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or
(D) any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.
"Antique firearm" is defined in 18 USC 921(a)(16):
The term “antique firearm” means—
(A) any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured in or before 1898; or
(B) any replica of any firearm described in subparagraph (A) if such replica—
(i) is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition, or
(ii) uses rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United States and which is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade; or
(C) any muzzle loading rifle, muzzle loading shotgun, or muzzle loading pistol, which is designed to use black powder, or a black powder substitute, and which cannot use fixed ammunition. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “antique firearm” shall not include any weapon which incorporates a firearm frame or receiver, any firearm which is converted into a muzzle loading weapon, or any muzzle loading weapon which can be readily converted to fire fixed ammunition by replacing the barrel, bolt, breechblock, or any combination thereof.
So, yes, smoothbore firearms are legally firearms.
Not exactly. The Soviet Union classified them as aviation cruiser for treaty reasons (Montreux Convention, 1936: aircraft carriers aren't allowed through the Dardanelles). At about 65,000 tons full load, it's larger than the French de Gaulle and roughly equivalent the the Royal Navy's planned carriers.