No, they don't care. It's extra work for them to care, and it's ILLEGAL for them to care. Maybe they'll raise an eyebrow, but they really don't care.
The ATF does not keep records of firearms. I may own any-goddamned-thing. Maybe you do. The ATF doesn't have records of that. For certain things, there IS a paper trail -- handguns, that is. And of course the pedigrees of receivers for automatic firearms are well-maintained.. but long guns?
I can go buy a rifle or shotgun today from another private citizen, cash, or sell same to same. There's no record that the transaction ever took place. Outside the background check, buying that rifle or shotgun from the store is little different than buying a TV (the store keeps paperwork on file, but that paperwork is never aggregated into a centralized database for gov't perusal -- and that's by law).
Consider it akin to open-carry laws. It's entirely legal to openly carry a firearm in my state, without a permit. That doesn't mean you won't raise eyebrows, but it does mean that those raised-eyebrows can't do a damn thing but put their foot in their own mouth.
No, actually, they don't give a shit. I could make myself a firearm, RIGHT NOW, and they're OK with that (so long as it doesn't infringe on certain things, like bore diameter, barrel length if it's a shotgun or pistol.. stuff you can own, but need some licenses (tax stamps) from the ATF to own).
For the price of a single 3D printer you could slam out dozens of zip guns. Don't even need any serious machining tools for that.
The whole 3D printed gun scare is just that. A scare. It's headlines. That is all.
The former being delivered by approximately a dozen well-dressed office dwellers before they depart to their catered meal for the rest of the day, the latter being said by one dude who waves everyone off back to work before even turns to leave.
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Exactly how it is at every company everywhere.
Sometimes I cringe at all the waste. Not the time, because the people who develop that shit, their time is worthless to begin with -- the actual physical waste, all the shit they produce to make themselves feel good but is only ever sneered at by employees that actually do work for their paycheck.
Constant improvement is secret code for constantly creating more complicated procedures under the guise of 'streamlining' a procedure.
Hope he's good to work for, too. Usually the higher the position the less inclined they are to deign the actual working floor with their presence, which just means they have absolutely no fucking clue what's going on in their company beyond the boundaries of their office and water cooler.
actually old people and texting I think is a different beast. that, i think, is down to them simply not understanding the benefits of the technology.
all the old people i've heard poo-poo texting really have the same argument. they don't want to be bothered with a thousand text messages, what's wrong with just calling?
Yeah, but not ALL old people think like that. Some of them realized that, hey, if PersonFriend wants to get a hold of them, they can CALL, or TEXT. Either way is going to be a 'bother', but it's not a bother if you want to talk to them! With a text message the advantage is that they can send it off, and you can read and respond at *YOUR* leisure. Not theirs.
All the old people I've heard complain about texting use the same argument, and it's exactly the opposite of reality. They like talking to people, not reading and writing.
Me, you, most of us? Grew up with that shit. We know the value, we know sometimes a text is appropriate and sometimes we gotta call.
265FT? that's not even one single football yard. you grab any random person off the street and I can have them shooting a.22LR at 100yd, dropping no more than 2" groups, within the day.
You're expecting too much. I've yet to find a business anywhere that didn't send out personal communications with poor spelling and grammar and punctuation, and I've yet to find out that hasn't posted signage on their premises somewhere that is void of typos.
If I see one more " thank's! " in my life.. it won't matter, because one is already too many. how do you even fucking make a mistake like that good fucking.....
Being fair though, while the line was a bit over the top starring sylvester stallone, it was pretty valid to make.
Moxie refused for a set of reasons, the agent pointed out that by refusing for those reasons, that though the work could possibly be used to violate principals Moxie does not wish violated -- that by refusing the work, Moxie would be allowing a greater form of evil to continue for fear of creating a smaller form of evil.
I mean, I'm not saying I AGREE with anyone here, but I believe that's what the agent believes. And I can totally sympathize, with ALL parties involved, because if fighting the evil of mankind was simple and easy everyone would be doing it
Dunno, seems to me that the world's democracies have outlasted any Islamic nation's form of government, and are still doing pretty well -- and better and better relative to those Islamic nations over the course of time.
From what I understand, if something is even tangentially related to astronomy, and it's possible to bring him in.. people will want to do that, because he's a likeable guy, he's smart and blunt but not demeaning or haughty, he's passionate but relatable, and he's smart AND cool.
Honestly I'd much rather hear his opinion on non-science matters rather than celebrity opinions on anything that isn't acting or singing or sex tapes or whatever else got them famous.
Introducing deep fried american foods to europeans is fun too. Reaction is usually a statement of them now understanding why there's a weight problem in our country -- not derisively, either. Just straight up, "I'd eat this until I was fat as hell, too".
it's not just "IF you live in the United States" -- our food isn't more bug-laden than anyone else's food, and likely less so than some.
Thing is, if you don't know about it who cares. I only care if I know about it.. so I just have some foods that I only eat while I'm drinking, because beer is amazing like that and if I'm going to do something gross while drunk I'd rather it be eat sardines or bugs (crawfish are bugs!) or something squicky like that.
Maybe the UN should advocate beer consumption along with bug ingestion. Maybe instead of advocating it they should just make it a holiday. Start throwing parties. Bring beer, and, slightly later, the bugs.
The improvements in solar efficiency and price have come not through production but through research. Production doesn't drive innovation in new directions, production refines existing innovations. Solar 20 years ago didn't need refinement, it needed innovation -- you could argue it still does, but at least now it's becoming competitively priced compared to existing sources of energy.
That is dumb and makes no sense. If the cops could pull the shit you say they would, they WOULD BE pulling the shit you say they would, right now -- and the situation we'd be in now would be no different than the one you're hypothesizing about. That things don't work that way now would indicate that the cops aren't capable of that level of bullshittery.
This "as soon as possible" thing has been going on now for.. well, god, I can remember "yay solar!" back in school, 20 years ago. Damn I'm gettin old:(
Anywho, back then the same argument was made -- "not now! wait a bit!"
Can you imagine if we had actually large-scale invested in solar 20 years ago? Those panels would've cost an arm and a leg, for marginal output, and would need replacing right about.. nowish.
The funniest April Fool's joke ever created, courtesy of.. MY FATHER.
Be 13. Find female accomplice. Have her call your house (this was a day in age where landlines ruled and only Zack Morris had a cell phone).
"I thought you should know, your son and I... I.. I'm late."
Yes, stress, which is relieved when the cause is revealed to be a joke. Part of the joke, obviously, is its absurdity -- I was by no means sexually active at that age.
I wouldn't send the 2g text if my folks suspected I smoked pot, but out of the blue? Yeah, people generally would laugh if they overreacted to what, in retrospect, they should have realized wasn't true.
Criminal.. who the fuck cares? We are ALL criminals, most of us simply are never caught (or aware) of the crimes we commit. Our current President smoked pot and did blow. Our last president never said a word -- but realistically, we all know he did blow, and almost assuredly smoked pot, too (and I actually can respect him for never answering that question). The President before that smoked pot, said he didn't inhale (which I can't really respect -- if you don't want to tell the truth, you CAN simply not answer the question, Bill...).
That's TWENTY YEARS OF OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF having smoked pot.
Titanium is hardly dense. It doesn't make a good projectile. Poor terminal performance. It isn't used, and that's for a reason. Steel, copper, lead, small bits of tin or zinc, if you wanna get fancy there's bismuth and tungsten, and heck, uranium.. and that's about it.
Making a caseless propellant is a great deal more complicated than just dumping powder into a case. There have, actually, been a few forays into the consumer market for caseless propellants. They haven't done tremendously well. Not bad, but needlessly complicated.
And yeah, the REALLY big guns on ships actually don't use cases at all. Just a big ol' projectile and a few bags of boomboom. There's a difference of scale, and that difference actually does mean one thing can be better in one instance and the other in another.
So, yeah, you can go ahead with all that mess.. I'm not saying it can't be a fun hobby. But.. usefulness? Completely nonexistent.
These things are the wall-hanger fantasy swords of the gun world. Kinda neat, but utterly useless and outclassed by scrap you can just pull out of your basement, right now.
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No, they don't care. It's extra work for them to care, and it's ILLEGAL for them to care. Maybe they'll raise an eyebrow, but they really don't care.
The ATF does not keep records of firearms. I may own any-goddamned-thing. Maybe you do. The ATF doesn't have records of that. For certain things, there IS a paper trail -- handguns, that is. And of course the pedigrees of receivers for automatic firearms are well-maintained.. but long guns?
I can go buy a rifle or shotgun today from another private citizen, cash, or sell same to same. There's no record that the transaction ever took place. Outside the background check, buying that rifle or shotgun from the store is little different than buying a TV (the store keeps paperwork on file, but that paperwork is never aggregated into a centralized database for gov't perusal -- and that's by law).
Consider it akin to open-carry laws. It's entirely legal to openly carry a firearm in my state, without a permit. That doesn't mean you won't raise eyebrows, but it does mean that those raised-eyebrows can't do a damn thing but put their foot in their own mouth.
No, actually, they don't give a shit. I could make myself a firearm, RIGHT NOW, and they're OK with that (so long as it doesn't infringe on certain things, like bore diameter, barrel length if it's a shotgun or pistol.. stuff you can own, but need some licenses (tax stamps) from the ATF to own).
For the price of a single 3D printer you could slam out dozens of zip guns. Don't even need any serious machining tools for that.
The whole 3D printed gun scare is just that. A scare. It's headlines. That is all.
The former being delivered by approximately a dozen well-dressed office dwellers before they depart to their catered meal for the rest of the day,
the latter being said by one dude who waves everyone off back to work before even turns to leave.
Exactly how it is at every company everywhere.
Sometimes I cringe at all the waste. Not the time, because the people who develop that shit, their time is worthless to begin with -- the actual physical waste, all the shit they produce to make themselves feel good but is only ever sneered at by employees that actually do work for their paycheck.
Constant improvement is secret code for constantly creating more complicated procedures under the guise of 'streamlining' a procedure.
Hope he's good to work for, too. Usually the higher the position the less inclined they are to deign the actual working floor with their presence, which just means they have absolutely no fucking clue what's going on in their company beyond the boundaries of their office and water cooler.
And sometimes, your audience should buck the fuck up and learn a little about the things they're trying to talk about.
Those are the people who extract the most wealth from companies. Their contribution? The same fucking insight you could glean by asking a 6 year old.
More expensive, and with a proprietary plug.... good luck with that.
actually old people and texting I think is a different beast. that, i think, is down to them simply not understanding the benefits of the technology.
all the old people i've heard poo-poo texting really have the same argument. they don't want to be bothered with a thousand text messages, what's wrong with just calling?
Yeah, but not ALL old people think like that. Some of them realized that, hey, if PersonFriend wants to get a hold of them, they can CALL, or TEXT. Either way is going to be a 'bother', but it's not a bother if you want to talk to them! With a text message the advantage is that they can send it off, and you can read and respond at *YOUR* leisure. Not theirs.
All the old people I've heard complain about texting use the same argument, and it's exactly the opposite of reality. They like talking to people, not reading and writing.
Me, you, most of us? Grew up with that shit. We know the value, we know sometimes a text is appropriate and sometimes we gotta call.
265FT? that's not even one single football yard. you grab any random person off the street and I can have them shooting a .22LR at 100yd, dropping no more than 2" groups, within the day.
100 yards is nothing.
You're expecting too much. I've yet to find a business anywhere that didn't send out personal communications with poor spelling and grammar and punctuation, and I've yet to find out that hasn't posted signage on their premises somewhere that is void of typos.
If I see one more " thank's! " in my life.. it won't matter, because one is already too many. how do you even fucking make a mistake like that good fucking.....
Being fair though, while the line was a bit over the top starring sylvester stallone, it was pretty valid to make.
Moxie refused for a set of reasons, the agent pointed out that by refusing for those reasons, that though the work could possibly be used to violate principals Moxie does not wish violated -- that by refusing the work, Moxie would be allowing a greater form of evil to continue for fear of creating a smaller form of evil.
I mean, I'm not saying I AGREE with anyone here, but I believe that's what the agent believes. And I can totally sympathize, with ALL parties involved, because if fighting the evil of mankind was simple and easy everyone would be doing it
Dunno, seems to me that the world's democracies have outlasted any Islamic nation's form of government, and are still doing pretty well -- and better and better relative to those Islamic nations over the course of time.
*democratize that oil
From what I understand, if something is even tangentially related to astronomy, and it's possible to bring him in.. people will want to do that, because he's a likeable guy, he's smart and blunt but not demeaning or haughty, he's passionate but relatable, and he's smart AND cool.
Honestly I'd much rather hear his opinion on non-science matters rather than celebrity opinions on anything that isn't acting or singing or sex tapes or whatever else got them famous.
That is brilliant.
Introducing deep fried american foods to europeans is fun too. Reaction is usually a statement of them now understanding why there's a weight problem in our country -- not derisively, either. Just straight up, "I'd eat this until I was fat as hell, too".
Tongue is straight-up delicious.
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it's not just "IF you live in the United States" -- our food isn't more bug-laden than anyone else's food, and likely less so than some.
Thing is, if you don't know about it who cares. I only care if I know about it.. so I just have some foods that I only eat while I'm drinking, because beer is amazing like that and if I'm going to do something gross while drunk I'd rather it be eat sardines or bugs (crawfish are bugs!) or something squicky like that.
Maybe the UN should advocate beer consumption along with bug ingestion. Maybe instead of advocating it they should just make it a holiday. Start throwing parties. Bring beer, and, slightly later, the bugs.
The improvements in solar efficiency and price have come not through production but through research. Production doesn't drive innovation in new directions, production refines existing innovations. Solar 20 years ago didn't need refinement, it needed innovation -- you could argue it still does, but at least now it's becoming competitively priced compared to existing sources of energy.
No, just down the mouths of liberal arts *majors*.
There is a difference, you know.
That is dumb and makes no sense. If the cops could pull the shit you say they would, they WOULD BE pulling the shit you say they would, right now -- and the situation we'd be in now would be no different than the one you're hypothesizing about. That things don't work that way now would indicate that the cops aren't capable of that level of bullshittery.
This "as soon as possible" thing has been going on now for.. well, god, I can remember "yay solar!" back in school, 20 years ago. Damn I'm gettin old :(
Anywho, back then the same argument was made -- "not now! wait a bit!"
Can you imagine if we had actually large-scale invested in solar 20 years ago? Those panels would've cost an arm and a leg, for marginal output, and would need replacing right about.. nowish.
Sometimes waiting a bit works out best.
The funniest April Fool's joke ever created, courtesy of.. MY FATHER.
Be 13. Find female accomplice. Have her call your house (this was a day in age where landlines ruled and only Zack Morris had a cell phone).
"I thought you should know, your son and I... I.. I'm late."
Yes, stress, which is relieved when the cause is revealed to be a joke. Part of the joke, obviously, is its absurdity -- I was by no means sexually active at that age.
I wouldn't send the 2g text if my folks suspected I smoked pot, but out of the blue? Yeah, people generally would laugh if they overreacted to what, in retrospect, they should have realized wasn't true.
Drug user does not equal drug addict.
Criminal.. who the fuck cares? We are ALL criminals, most of us simply are never caught (or aware) of the crimes we commit. Our current President smoked pot and did blow. Our last president never said a word -- but realistically, we all know he did blow, and almost assuredly smoked pot, too (and I actually can respect him for never answering that question). The President before that smoked pot, said he didn't inhale (which I can't really respect -- if you don't want to tell the truth, you CAN simply not answer the question, Bill...).
That's TWENTY YEARS OF OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF having smoked pot.
Problem?
Titanium is hardly dense. It doesn't make a good projectile. Poor terminal performance. It isn't used, and that's for a reason. Steel, copper, lead, small bits of tin or zinc, if you wanna get fancy there's bismuth and tungsten, and heck, uranium.. and that's about it.
Making a caseless propellant is a great deal more complicated than just dumping powder into a case. There have, actually, been a few forays into the consumer market for caseless propellants. They haven't done tremendously well. Not bad, but needlessly complicated.
And yeah, the REALLY big guns on ships actually don't use cases at all. Just a big ol' projectile and a few bags of boomboom. There's a difference of scale, and that difference actually does mean one thing can be better in one instance and the other in another.
So, yeah, you can go ahead with all that mess.. I'm not saying it can't be a fun hobby. But.. usefulness? Completely nonexistent.
These things are the wall-hanger fantasy swords of the gun world. Kinda neat, but utterly useless and outclassed by scrap you can just pull out of your basement, right now.