Technically, conspiracy for depredation of rights under the color of law is punishable by death. It is legally constructed as domestic treason against the social compact, rather than wartime treason against the body republic.
This shit would stop quick if some of these bastards faced the firing squad on national prime-time television.
...when pressure-bearing components are made from thermoplastics, which has never been argued to be a well-suited use. When parts are printed from metal alloys... the game changes.
And for what it's worth, there is a Canadian inventor (who is remaining anonymous) who has successfully printed and fired a single-shot rifle.
3D printing is destroying the separation between idea or data, and fabrication, and it's doing it on an affordable, individual level. Gun control from a regulatory and political standpoint has always depended on tight control over firearm's entry points to commerce (manufacturers and importers), and compliance by intimidation of everyone else. If everybody can be a manufacturer, and it doesn't require machinist skills to make something of workable quality, centralized control is impossible.
Watch - the response is going to be to try and make possessing 3D data or plans a criminal offense. Thought crime.
A few more decades like this, and you won't be able to tell this nation ever had flesh-and-blood inhabitants just from looking at our statutes and caselaw!
I'd actually pay good money for the left hand-half of this so I could use it like a thumbstick and have variable movement direction / speed input instead of just four discrete keys like the usual WASD config.
Being able to sneak slowly in juuuust the right direction in Deus Ex or Splinter Cell, or steer more naturally in World of Tanks would be great. I'm sick of only having the choice of four directions, and either not moving or going full speed.
You'd also get the ability to do away with dedicated walk and sprint buttons, all you'd maybe need is crouch or use the other touch pad to control height of stance.
The BSA is the official boy's youth program for the Mormon church (as selected by the Mormons, not the BSA). Salt Lake City has a disproportionate and unhealthy influence on BSA national policy as a result.
Basically, when the Boy Scouts were on the verge of disappearing into history a few decades back, the Mormons stepped in and said "we'll give you a big shot in the arm but we get the reins". And the BSA said "sure, anything, where do I sign? Right here under where it says 'consent for transference of soul?'"
Firearms manufacturers have the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The NRA is obviously going to stand in the way of something that makes it extremely difficult or impossible for common citizens to legally acquire firearms and ammunition.
Well, considering the ATF - in its infinite malice - has banned solid copper and brass hunting projectiles as "armor piercing" even though they work EXTREMELY well as hunting bullets, that leaves us with nothing but options that are less effective and vastly less humane.
The attack on lead ammo is about gun control, not lead abatement. Period. Which is why the EPA's jurisdiction was explicitly drawn up short of regulating ammunition.
Mother Nature doesn't do much manufacturing of metals of any kind, much less ferrous alloys.
She only works with ceramics in a few limited ways.
Those giant, hot, smog-belching factories were built specifically because we can't build starships out of wood and stone, or semiconductors out of sandstone and clay. Show somebody how to plant, fertilize, water, and grow a SSTO launch vehicle or a billion-plus transistor CPU, we'll be all over that. Until then, we'll do it with steel and silicone, and those materials have to come from somewhere, and that somewhere isn't a garden.
Then you need to stand up and be heard that you will not accept your government tightening its grip and abrogating your freedoms in a misguided attempt to stop a very vague threat that simply can't be legislated or regulated away.
It scales fine. Two airports? Two scanning stations. There is no scaling issue.
Explain to me how, precisely, you propose to expand the threat scope from Israel's to the United States', implement it at every controlled airport in the US, screen and train enough agents to support it at all those locations, admin it nationwide, and mollify the huge identity politics movement in the US that will scream RACISM at the very notion of *not* consciously ignoring every single quantifiable attribute of the individuals you are evaluating as threats.
An Israeli style system will NEVER be implemented in the US because it runs totally contrary to the politically-correct postmodernist identity politics narrative that drives our current political monologue (no, not dialogue).
Suggesting it will be met with screeches of "RACISM!", the person suggesting it will forever be chased and shamed from the limelight, and we will continue staffing our airport security with fat, sticky-fingered illiterate highschool dropouts that barely speak understandable english and use their union to protect their do-nothing jobs while extorting more and more taxpayer money from the very people subjected to them.
The FAA has a deep and seething contempt towards former military aircraft in private hands... above and beyond their general malicious contempt of aircraft in general in private hands.
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Because I'm neither surprised that almost everybody has a bundled copy of Ricochet, nor that basically nobody plays it.
Hell, nobody played it when WON was still online, and that was over a decade ago.
"Give them a rock and they'll invent the war cry before lunch."
Maug RULE.
...based on the description, I also really enjoyed this game the last time I played it when it was called "Deadlock".
Technically, conspiracy for depredation of rights under the color of law is punishable by death. It is legally constructed as domestic treason against the social compact, rather than wartime treason against the body republic.
This shit would stop quick if some of these bastards faced the firing squad on national prime-time television.
...when pressure-bearing components are made from thermoplastics, which has never been argued to be a well-suited use. When parts are printed from metal alloys... the game changes.
And for what it's worth, there is a Canadian inventor (who is remaining anonymous) who has successfully printed and fired a single-shot rifle.
3D printing is destroying the separation between idea or data, and fabrication, and it's doing it on an affordable, individual level. Gun control from a regulatory and political standpoint has always depended on tight control over firearm's entry points to commerce (manufacturers and importers), and compliance by intimidation of everyone else. If everybody can be a manufacturer, and it doesn't require machinist skills to make something of workable quality, centralized control is impossible.
Watch - the response is going to be to try and make possessing 3D data or plans a criminal offense. Thought crime.
A few more decades like this, and you won't be able to tell this nation ever had flesh-and-blood inhabitants just from looking at our statutes and caselaw!
I'm assuming they had this thing called a "battery". Most computers with built in speakers AND microphones are laptops of some kind.
...it'd also be stupid simple to detect. All you need is a sound meter.
Or, a dog.
I'm okay with getting rid of The Scarlett Letter.
I'd actually pay good money for the left hand-half of this so I could use it like a thumbstick and have variable movement direction / speed input instead of just four discrete keys like the usual WASD config.
Being able to sneak slowly in juuuust the right direction in Deus Ex or Splinter Cell, or steer more naturally in World of Tanks would be great. I'm sick of only having the choice of four directions, and either not moving or going full speed.
You'd also get the ability to do away with dedicated walk and sprint buttons, all you'd maybe need is crouch or use the other touch pad to control height of stance.
...was I spent the next few hours playing and replaying Papers Please.
The BSA is the official boy's youth program for the Mormon church (as selected by the Mormons, not the BSA). Salt Lake City has a disproportionate and unhealthy influence on BSA national policy as a result.
Basically, when the Boy Scouts were on the verge of disappearing into history a few decades back, the Mormons stepped in and said "we'll give you a big shot in the arm but we get the reins". And the BSA said "sure, anything, where do I sign? Right here under where it says 'consent for transference of soul?'"
Is to be as cute and memorable as possible to increase your own chances of continued existence.
(Sometimes referred to as the "WALL*E Rule")
What, they'll build Australia 2: Outback Harder?
These are the kinds of warnings WE used to give about RUSSIAN satellite nations.
This is all turning into a bad dream...
...bring on the Kaiju, ultimate dutch rudder, we need a young priest and an old priest... ...did I miss any obvious ones?
The NRA is a gun OWNERS advocacy group.
Firearms manufacturers have the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The NRA is obviously going to stand in the way of something that makes it extremely difficult or impossible for common citizens to legally acquire firearms and ammunition.
Well, considering the ATF - in its infinite malice - has banned solid copper and brass hunting projectiles as "armor piercing" even though they work EXTREMELY well as hunting bullets, that leaves us with nothing but options that are less effective and vastly less humane.
The attack on lead ammo is about gun control, not lead abatement. Period. Which is why the EPA's jurisdiction was explicitly drawn up short of regulating ammunition.
...aren't so amazing when you look at the track record of Russian manufacturing.
Mother Nature doesn't do much manufacturing of metals of any kind, much less ferrous alloys.
She only works with ceramics in a few limited ways.
Those giant, hot, smog-belching factories were built specifically because we can't build starships out of wood and stone, or semiconductors out of sandstone and clay. Show somebody how to plant, fertilize, water, and grow a SSTO launch vehicle or a billion-plus transistor CPU, we'll be all over that. Until then, we'll do it with steel and silicone, and those materials have to come from somewhere, and that somewhere isn't a garden.
Then you need to stand up and be heard that you will not accept your government tightening its grip and abrogating your freedoms in a misguided attempt to stop a very vague threat that simply can't be legislated or regulated away.
It scales fine. Two airports? Two scanning stations. There is no scaling issue.
Explain to me how, precisely, you propose to expand the threat scope from Israel's to the United States', implement it at every controlled airport in the US, screen and train enough agents to support it at all those locations, admin it nationwide, and mollify the huge identity politics movement in the US that will scream RACISM at the very notion of *not* consciously ignoring every single quantifiable attribute of the individuals you are evaluating as threats.
An Israeli style system will NEVER be implemented in the US because it runs totally contrary to the politically-correct postmodernist identity politics narrative that drives our current political monologue (no, not dialogue).
Suggesting it will be met with screeches of "RACISM!", the person suggesting it will forever be chased and shamed from the limelight, and we will continue staffing our airport security with fat, sticky-fingered illiterate highschool dropouts that barely speak understandable english and use their union to protect their do-nothing jobs while extorting more and more taxpayer money from the very people subjected to them.
They probably won't.
The FAA has a deep and seething contempt towards former military aircraft in private hands... above and beyond their general malicious contempt of aircraft in general in private hands.
The ATF said "no" on those for semi-auto firearms (aka, most) because they are child's play to turn into automatic weapons.
So yes, we could have them, but the government has made it impossible.