This is why I use Android anyways. Google can control the apps on their store and I don't care. What I care about is that if I don't want to use them as a source I can just go get the same apps from another place and install them on my device.
When done outdoors (ie, not in an enclosed space) at normal melting temperatures the risk is negligible. I've been casting for years and as part of my regular physicals have my lead levels tested and have never been outside of the norm.
Powder is fairly easy to make. Charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter mixed and ground in the proper ratios. Granted that's traditional black powder not the smokeless powder we mostly use today, but it still goes bang just fine.
As an ignition source ("caps") there are several options. Homemaking a berdan primer would be possible as the anvil is in the case (which can be reused - most people don't reload berdan primed cases as they're a hassle but in this scenario they'd be easier). All you'd need is something to punch the cups out (a regular pin punch of the right diameter would likely suffice, and they make specific tools for punching percussion caps out of aluminum cans). After that you just need a priming compound. With the aforementioned tool the idea is to use paper caps from a child's paper cap gun as they go bang and produce sufficient spark, though I'm sure there are other chemicals that would suffice.
That's kinda beside the point though in that there's a LOT of primers out there already. They're a consumable, but most reloaders buy them in bulk to save money. I typically buy them 15 to 20 thousand at a time when I restock (but then again I shoot between 5k and 10k rounds per year on the range).
Anyways, making a gun at home isn't illegal. All that matters is that one part that is necessary for the operation of the gun be serialized as the receiver so that the whole thing can't be sold/mailed. How hard the part is to reproduce isn't an issue. As a matter of fact you can legally buy partially done receivers where all the work is already done except for a few holes drilled in it or a rail cut and that's fine because until those last couple operations are done its not a functional part (a lot of times you'll see those listed as "80% receivers").
Bullets are INCREDIBLY easy to make at home. As a matter of fact due to the recent ammo shortages I've been casting my own from scrap lead.
A GOOD reloading setup that will make ammo as good or better than factory ammo will cost you less than $300. Lee Precision actually makes loading kits that will do nearly as good a job (though with a lot more effort and frustration) for around $25.
By law the lower for an AR IS the gun. Except for the serialed received every other component of a gun is considered parts.. Its the only part that requires a background check, and under most pending legislation will be the only actual part banned from sale to civilians (largely the same for magazines).
Copyrighted designs aren't really much of a thing in the gun industry. As a matter of fact tons of clones and copies are made of various designs.
The Mauser bolt action is cloned by countless companies. The AR15 design is cloned by at least a few dozen different companies. The Colt 1911 design is cloned by Kimber, Rock Island, STI, SVI, Ruger, Remington, S&W, Springfield, Taurus, and about a bazillion more. The Beretta 92 design is cloned by both Taurus and Turkey The Walther P99 is cloned by Canik. The CZ-75 design is cloned by Tanfoglio and Canik. The Glock is cloned by Timberwolf The Ruger 10/22 is cloned by Volquartsen
And so forth for many, many models. Gun technology in use today has been nearly perfected for close to 100 years. It truly is more about just making a quality product than the "IP" so many other industries worry about.
Actually the Honeybee is a slipjoint with a non-locking blade. The blade is also exactly 0.5" wide at its largest point. Admittedly though, the handle does have finger grooves which might end up disallowing it under the molded grip condition.
I would find something to carry though. A Case Toothpick would work fine - its a traditional (non-molded body) slipjoint folder with a blade length of right at 2.25" (the entire knife is 3" when closed).
Up to 2.36 inches is ok. Thats not really THAT small of a knife. My keychain knife's blade is only 1.65" (Spyderco Honeybee) and I still find plenty of uses for it. My everyday carry knife that I carry is 2.75" (that's not because of a law or regulation - that's just a good practical length for daily chores). Honestly 2.36" is still enough for a workable and useful knife.
Not that I think they need to be banned from carry on a flight though. You could probably do as much damage with a fork. Being able to carry it on just means I have a knife when I need it (which is pretty often - I end up using mine at most meals).
Any system can be hacked. Having humans directly in the loop is the basic Wargames lesson.... And that is exactly what these drones should NEVER be allowed to do. And that's the basic Terminator lesson.
Because our military should really be basing decisions on fictional movies.
Are you crazy? The software gets better on a system over time, but if a new system can't beat the previous generation of existing systems its going to have some serious issues. Eg, Dreamcast may have been the first and slowest of the 4th gen systems but it sure kicked the crap out of PS1, Saturn, and N64 - even on launch day.
The problem here is that geeks are the primary audience for ANY Linux distribution - even Ubuntu. The minority users for Linux are the non-geeks.
They can't approach PR stuff from the same angle as Microsoft or Apple. If they piss of the geeks they have pissed off the majority of their userbase. Personally, I'm done with Ubuntu, the same way I'm done with Gnome. Luckily there are still distros (Mint) and desktop environments (XFCE) that still "get it" and listen to the users.
I have to agree. For the most part I've always liked Ubuntu, but even after moving to Xubuntu after the Unity nonsense I still didn't like the direction they were/are going in. Moved to Linux Mint XFCE and haven't looked back.
And honestly, I don't even mind that Gnome and Unity have been the abysmal disasters that they are either. XFCE works great for the most part. I do run mutter instead of xfwm because it has a better compositor, but thats pretty seamless and works great.
Much like the $100 audio cables, even as a person who really likes honey, i can't tell the difference. I certainly can tell between "honey flavored syrup" sold in the grocery store and actual honey, but for real honey it all tastes about the same to me. Same with syrup. I like to spring for actual maple syrup but beyond it just being real maple syrup the various brands don't taste any different.
Dunno. Maybe my pallet just isn't refined. I can't tell the difference between an "organic" vegetable and the regular ones from the grocery store either.
You'd still need to prove which was guilty of conspiracy and which is guilty of assault.
Plus, if both are saying "I didn't do it, he did." then one of them is telling you the truth and is innocent, however you wouldn't know which one is telling the truth if they're both holding to that story.
There is a valid argument for banning paid pornography because of the difficulty in ensuring that performers are not coerced into the profession
What a load of bullcrap. The only thing "coercing" me to going to my regular run of the mill job is my paycheck. It doesn't mean that I'm there unwillingly or that I'm being taken advantage of. It just means that my employer has stuff that needs to be done and I'm more than willing to do it for that check. That's the way employment works.
Porn is much the same way. No, most of them don't necessarily just love to do gangbangs or multiple strangers all the time anymore than I want to write another damned SQL query. Saying that they're not allowed to do it for pay though is insulting, restrictive, and more importantly jeopardizes their ability to provide for one's self.
I'm sure most of them certainly would allocate more money to NASA. Ask them though if they're support a tax increase in order to bolster NASA's budget. Almost all would drop their support in a heartbeat.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-tax and I PERSONALLY would have no issue with paying a little more if I knew it'd go to NASA. I'm just saying that most people probably wouldn't. Most operate under the impression that the government just has all this free money to send where it wants with no clue that those resources and funds have to actually come from somewhere.
I think you answered your own dilemma there; at my university most of the CS professors equate programming with writing out algorithms on paper.
To some degree they're right. Computer Science isn't Software Engineering, just as Physics isn't the same as Mechanical Engineering. Its really about data structures and algorithms more than it is about software. You must learn programming languages but mostly as a vehicle to demonstrate concepts.
I think some of the confusion would be lessened if they called it Computational Science rather than "Computer" Science.
That said, in the modern world. I would expect some level of online precense from everything. I think a lot of the "collaborative learning environment" stuff like online discussion forums is a bit of a waste (people will just use existing communications technologies if they want to collaborate), but at a minimum putting a syllabus online isn't much work. Being able to check your grades isn't a bad idea either.
Microsoft did all that too, they released the dev tools well in advance, they're free, and they've run lots of contests and whatnot to try and get people to develop for it, doesn't seem to be working.
Didn't read the last part of the post did you? As I said, just about any new platform can and probably WILL fail. That's the whole point. If the developers had had to invest tons of money into those Microsoft development tools they'd have been even less successful at attracting them.
The developers of big apps that invest a lot of time are going to be out of a lot of staff hours either way, but for the small apps in these ecosystems, you want to make sure that if the platform fails (as it probably will), the developers are out of as little as possible. Paid development tools don't facilitate that goal.
Will something come along that challenges Google and Apple eventually? Absolutely. But before that one comes along we'll probably have a couple dozen failed attempts.
Do you realize how many of those "slack jawed rednecks" are current or former military?
Quit watching so much Swamp People and Duck Dynasty. Just like Jersey Shore isn't exactly "reality", nor are most of the "redneck" shows an accurate representation of actual "rednecks" either.
Many, many people in Kansas City, which sits on the border of Kansas and Missouri, buy their gasoline in Missouri and the busiest stations are the ones just on the Missouri side of State Line Road, because the difference in gasoline taxes amounts to about seven cents per gallon.
A whole 7 cents per gallon? So, on a fill-up of a 12-gallon tank you're going to save 84 cents. If you figure $3.00 per gallon, a decent 30 mpg vehicle, and a two way trip, you're basically costing yourself money if you have to drive more than an extra 4.2 miles to to the "cheaper" gas.
Given that in most places, cash is faster than credit, I'd go with "negative" in this comparison. Oh yeah, they actually get paid when the transaction occurs, as opposed to getting paid a few days later.
If you think cash is faster than a card, then my guess is you're over 50. I see a lot of older folks fumble around with the machine, but for people who still have most of their faculties and grew up around even a modest amount of technology, the card reader takes 6 or 7 seconds to use. There's no change to count out (which is a practice done usually by both the customer and the cashier), nor bills to get back into your wallet. Just swipe and be on your way.
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This is why I use Android anyways. Google can control the apps on their store and I don't care. What I care about is that if I don't want to use them as a source I can just go get the same apps from another place and install them on my device.
When done outdoors (ie, not in an enclosed space) at normal melting temperatures the risk is negligible. I've been casting for years and as part of my regular physicals have my lead levels tested and have never been outside of the norm.
Powder is fairly easy to make. Charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter mixed and ground in the proper ratios. Granted that's traditional black powder not the smokeless powder we mostly use today, but it still goes bang just fine.
As an ignition source ("caps") there are several options. Homemaking a berdan primer would be possible as the anvil is in the case (which can be reused - most people don't reload berdan primed cases as they're a hassle but in this scenario they'd be easier). All you'd need is something to punch the cups out (a regular pin punch of the right diameter would likely suffice, and they make specific tools for punching percussion caps out of aluminum cans). After that you just need a priming compound. With the aforementioned tool the idea is to use paper caps from a child's paper cap gun as they go bang and produce sufficient spark, though I'm sure there are other chemicals that would suffice.
That's kinda beside the point though in that there's a LOT of primers out there already. They're a consumable, but most reloaders buy them in bulk to save money. I typically buy them 15 to 20 thousand at a time when I restock (but then again I shoot between 5k and 10k rounds per year on the range).
Colt should never have been allowed to serialize the lower. You can make a lower out of sheet metal by hand.
You can make SOME lower receivers out of sheet metal by hand, but not an AR15 lower. The AK-47 is far easier to duplicate in that regard. Here's a guy that made one out of a shovel . . . http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2012/12/06/diy-shovel-to-ak-47-50-photos/
Anyways, making a gun at home isn't illegal. All that matters is that one part that is necessary for the operation of the gun be serialized as the receiver so that the whole thing can't be sold/mailed. How hard the part is to reproduce isn't an issue. As a matter of fact you can legally buy partially done receivers where all the work is already done except for a few holes drilled in it or a rail cut and that's fine because until those last couple operations are done its not a functional part (a lot of times you'll see those listed as "80% receivers").
Except right now they cannot even print a full lower receiver. All they can print is the lower receiver frame.
Correct, and as I said, that part is legally the gun. Every other part including those that go into the lower receiver is unregulated.
Bullets are INCREDIBLY easy to make at home. As a matter of fact due to the recent ammo shortages I've been casting my own from scrap lead.
A GOOD reloading setup that will make ammo as good or better than factory ammo will cost you less than $300. Lee Precision actually makes loading kits that will do nearly as good a job (though with a lot more effort and frustration) for around $25.
By law the lower for an AR IS the gun. Except for the serialed received every other component of a gun is considered parts.. Its the only part that requires a background check, and under most pending legislation will be the only actual part banned from sale to civilians (largely the same for magazines).
Copyrighted designs aren't really much of a thing in the gun industry. As a matter of fact tons of clones and copies are made of various designs.
The Mauser bolt action is cloned by countless companies.
The AR15 design is cloned by at least a few dozen different companies.
The Colt 1911 design is cloned by Kimber, Rock Island, STI, SVI, Ruger, Remington, S&W, Springfield, Taurus, and about a bazillion more.
The Beretta 92 design is cloned by both Taurus and Turkey
The Walther P99 is cloned by Canik.
The CZ-75 design is cloned by Tanfoglio and Canik.
The Glock is cloned by Timberwolf
The Ruger 10/22 is cloned by Volquartsen
And so forth for many, many models. Gun technology in use today has been nearly perfected for close to 100 years. It truly is more about just making a quality product than the "IP" so many other industries worry about.
Actually the Honeybee is a slipjoint with a non-locking blade. The blade is also exactly 0.5" wide at its largest point. Admittedly though, the handle does have finger grooves which might end up disallowing it under the molded grip condition.
I would find something to carry though. A Case Toothpick would work fine - its a traditional (non-molded body) slipjoint folder with a blade length of right at 2.25" (the entire knife is 3" when closed).
http://www.casexx.com/DisplayDetailPage.asp?ProductCode=792
Up to 2.36 inches is ok. Thats not really THAT small of a knife. My keychain knife's blade is only 1.65" (Spyderco Honeybee) and I still find plenty of uses for it. My everyday carry knife that I carry is 2.75" (that's not because of a law or regulation - that's just a good practical length for daily chores). Honestly 2.36" is still enough for a workable and useful knife.
Not that I think they need to be banned from carry on a flight though. You could probably do as much damage with a fork. Being able to carry it on just means I have a knife when I need it (which is pretty often - I end up using mine at most meals).
Any system can be hacked. Having humans directly in the loop is the basic Wargames lesson. ...
And that is exactly what these drones should NEVER be allowed to do. And that's the basic Terminator lesson.
Because our military should really be basing decisions on fictional movies.
Are you crazy? The software gets better on a system over time, but if a new system can't beat the previous generation of existing systems its going to have some serious issues. Eg, Dreamcast may have been the first and slowest of the 4th gen systems but it sure kicked the crap out of PS1, Saturn, and N64 - even on launch day.
The problem here is that geeks are the primary audience for ANY Linux distribution - even Ubuntu. The minority users for Linux are the non-geeks.
They can't approach PR stuff from the same angle as Microsoft or Apple. If they piss of the geeks they have pissed off the majority of their userbase. Personally, I'm done with Ubuntu, the same way I'm done with Gnome. Luckily there are still distros (Mint) and desktop environments (XFCE) that still "get it" and listen to the users.
I have to agree. For the most part I've always liked Ubuntu, but even after moving to Xubuntu after the Unity nonsense I still didn't like the direction they were/are going in. Moved to Linux Mint XFCE and haven't looked back.
And honestly, I don't even mind that Gnome and Unity have been the abysmal disasters that they are either. XFCE works great for the most part. I do run mutter instead of xfwm because it has a better compositor, but thats pretty seamless and works great.
Much like the $100 audio cables, even as a person who really likes honey, i can't tell the difference. I certainly can tell between "honey flavored syrup" sold in the grocery store and actual honey, but for real honey it all tastes about the same to me. Same with syrup. I like to spring for actual maple syrup but beyond it just being real maple syrup the various brands don't taste any different.
Dunno. Maybe my pallet just isn't refined. I can't tell the difference between an "organic" vegetable and the regular ones from the grocery store either.
You'd still need to prove which was guilty of conspiracy and which is guilty of assault.
Plus, if both are saying "I didn't do it, he did." then one of them is telling you the truth and is innocent, however you wouldn't know which one is telling the truth if they're both holding to that story.
There is a valid argument for banning paid pornography because of the difficulty in ensuring that performers are not coerced into the profession
What a load of bullcrap. The only thing "coercing" me to going to my regular run of the mill job is my paycheck. It doesn't mean that I'm there unwillingly or that I'm being taken advantage of. It just means that my employer has stuff that needs to be done and I'm more than willing to do it for that check. That's the way employment works.
Porn is much the same way. No, most of them don't necessarily just love to do gangbangs or multiple strangers all the time anymore than I want to write another damned SQL query. Saying that they're not allowed to do it for pay though is insulting, restrictive, and more importantly jeopardizes their ability to provide for one's self.
I'm sure most of them certainly would allocate more money to NASA. Ask them though if they're support a tax increase in order to bolster NASA's budget. Almost all would drop their support in a heartbeat.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-tax and I PERSONALLY would have no issue with paying a little more if I knew it'd go to NASA. I'm just saying that most people probably wouldn't. Most operate under the impression that the government just has all this free money to send where it wants with no clue that those resources and funds have to actually come from somewhere.
I think you answered your own dilemma there; at my university most of the CS professors equate programming with writing out algorithms on paper.
To some degree they're right. Computer Science isn't Software Engineering, just as Physics isn't the same as Mechanical Engineering. Its really about data structures and algorithms more than it is about software. You must learn programming languages but mostly as a vehicle to demonstrate concepts.
I think some of the confusion would be lessened if they called it Computational Science rather than "Computer" Science.
That said, in the modern world. I would expect some level of online precense from everything. I think a lot of the "collaborative learning environment" stuff like online discussion forums is a bit of a waste (people will just use existing communications technologies if they want to collaborate), but at a minimum putting a syllabus online isn't much work. Being able to check your grades isn't a bad idea either.
Microsoft did all that too, they released the dev tools well in advance, they're free, and they've run lots of contests and whatnot to try and get people to develop for it, doesn't seem to be working.
Didn't read the last part of the post did you? As I said, just about any new platform can and probably WILL fail. That's the whole point. If the developers had had to invest tons of money into those Microsoft development tools they'd have been even less successful at attracting them.
The developers of big apps that invest a lot of time are going to be out of a lot of staff hours either way, but for the small apps in these ecosystems, you want to make sure that if the platform fails (as it probably will), the developers are out of as little as possible. Paid development tools don't facilitate that goal.
Will something come along that challenges Google and Apple eventually? Absolutely. But before that one comes along we'll probably have a couple dozen failed attempts.
The fact that Google can do that means that anyone who wants to seriously take a slice of that pie better darned do so too.
Nobody is going for fork over serious sums of cash for development tools for a platform that may well (and likely will) be a flop.
That's like going to the pen on child pornography charges and claiming that photography isn't a sex crime.
His computer crimes were sexual in nature. Besides - Bubba and Leroy aren't exactly gonna care about the semantics anyways.
Do you realize how many of those "slack jawed rednecks" are current or former military?
Quit watching so much Swamp People and Duck Dynasty. Just like Jersey Shore isn't exactly "reality", nor are most of the "redneck" shows an accurate representation of actual "rednecks" either.
Many, many people in Kansas City, which sits on the border of Kansas and Missouri, buy their gasoline in Missouri and the busiest stations are the ones just on the Missouri side of State Line Road, because the difference in gasoline taxes amounts to about seven cents per gallon.
A whole 7 cents per gallon? So, on a fill-up of a 12-gallon tank you're going to save 84 cents. If you figure $3.00 per gallon, a decent 30 mpg vehicle, and a two way trip, you're basically costing yourself money if you have to drive more than an extra 4.2 miles to to the "cheaper" gas.
Given that in most places, cash is faster than credit, I'd go with "negative" in this comparison. Oh yeah, they actually get paid when the transaction occurs, as opposed to getting paid a few days later.
If you think cash is faster than a card, then my guess is you're over 50. I see a lot of older folks fumble around with the machine, but for people who still have most of their faculties and grew up around even a modest amount of technology, the card reader takes 6 or 7 seconds to use. There's no change to count out (which is a practice done usually by both the customer and the cashier), nor bills to get back into your wallet. Just swipe and be on your way.