This would require you to register as a manufacturer and/or dealer, obtain licensing, and serialize the weapon(s), and the background check for the recipient, as the manufacturer got that check during the licensing process. Not to make them, but to sell or transfer them later.
The law essentially considers any change in ownership or possession a transfer. A transfer for value or compensation is a sale. A transfer for no value or compensation is a gift, but still a transfer.
There is some question about how the law permits you to make your own firearm, but whether it permits you to even let a friend fire it at the range. Even one shot. Even to hold it.
Before 'making' your own gun was relatively possible for an average guy with a power drill and some money, this was not a big deal. Now, however, the brisk business in partial AR-15 lowers is starting to be a thing, and the attention is as unwelcome as the popularity. If I brought an unregistered AR-15, based on a partial and self-machined lower, to the range, I would actually check in advance. I would not let them handle it for inspection, and they would not ask, knowing the legal risk, but they say 'no', citing safety, despite the reality that I could come in with a purchase polymer lower with a few thousand rounds fired with it, worn and dangerous, but having a name on it somehow solving that problem...
Hey, I have access to good machine tools, but I would ask permission to use them for machining a partial as a courtesy. The last time I brought it up, the primary objections were answered by 'you have Raspberry Pi workshops but necer ask what they are going to distribute with their tiny little web servers, right?'
AR-15 lowers are not a trivial piece of metal. There are stress points and tolerances, and even polymer lowers are considered suspect by many.
Again, when it becomes possible, and possible for PLU, the powers that be will consider how to make it illegal. If the illegal use of the thing is justification for banning it, we can do away with personal email servers, actual knives, and cars. Oooh, greening!
There are few plans circulating for '3D-printed AR-15' weapons. There are none to be trusted. Now, if this was actually a partial lower based weapon, that's not '3D-printed'. That's machining, no matter the techniques. And those also need not be registered, unless a short barrel or other modifications make it necessary under law. Even in Texas.
This would be a useful story line to begin work on banning 3d-printing guns, and that's a great debate. Essentially, another example of how something that was permitted becomes possible, and thus becomes unacceptable - banned. Like access to public court records, as a weird but adequate example.
Since he was killed at the scene by police we won't be getting a trial.
Despite the overwhelming physical evidence, ranging from police reports of his presence, possession at the time of his death of the weapon used in the assault, and eyewitness testimony. the statements of the authorities, in this case, should be accepted as true and valid.
This of course is contrary to the inclinations of most of the popular media, who prefer to make such definitive statements of guilt only about those they do not support, and to excuse or deny those they do. It's not merely my assessment, it demonstrable in fact .
And so the popular media becomes less popular, and truth, challenged and suppressed by them, still comes through.
While my Nextcloud on Raspi is working, I want more. And it isn;t going to come from Windows unless someone (?) hacks up Windows Server to run the ARM kernel, and even then it's not at all attractive.
I'm more likely to figure out which of the competitive ARM boards is a good deal if I want more performance.
I know well the story of our Navy, the Marines, and the history and traditions embodied in the Marine Corps Hymn.
But how that relates to the assertion that "regardless of color or ethnicity, not a single one of us is without an ancestor who was a slave." escapes me.
Now, if you're wondering how it was that our nation, the United States of America, found itself battling Muslim pirates so early in our history, consider that this was a response to the restraint of trade imposed by the Barbary Pirates on so many nations, the inability of so many of those other nations to take the measures necessary to respond and re-establish free passage on the seas, and our need to trade cotton, slave-harvested, with Europe.
Sound familiar? It ought to.
At that time Europe was still battling the results of Muslim invasions, and feared antagonizing the Empire, which could not be good for them. Europe was also mired in their incessant internecine squabbles, especially at the time Western Europe, with colonization fever at the highest pitch. The French Revolution would not help this region. American influence was welcomed, tacitly, as we took the initiative, secured by our ocean border, and assumed our ongoing role as the world's policemen of (mostly) last resort. To this day our Navy has, as its primary mission, defense of the free flow of goods over the seas, for all nations. And we still find opposition to that free passage, don't we? Not just the Somali pirates, either...
The Ottoman Empire, while by some measures decrepit in the end, wasn't disbanded that long ago, My mother would have been born before that. World War Two finally finished it off, and set off an era of Middle East unrest, with the entirely predictable consequences. The end of the 'Cold War' permitted Eastern European conflicts to reoccur, similarly predictable. And in all this, the militant Muslims are still looking to expand their control and dominance, not just in the Middle East, but to Europe and beyond. Not much has changed since the Crusades, it seems.
And Europe finds itself in the midst of another invasion. So also are we now facing an invasion. And a revolution-in-the-making. A revolution coming, and one inspired by the same philosophies and intentions as so many in this era. We have choices to make, and soon.
But the assertion, again, that "regardless of color or ethnicity, not a single one of us is without an ancestor who was a slave." is nearly specious. You have to go back, in my family tree, to the beginnings of Albion, and possibly before. What difference, at this point, does it make?
Knowing that my ancestors were Irish, British, and Danish, I've got to go a ways back to find slaves in my family tree.
My father's side was purely Irish, come to America after the Revolution, but before the Irish were tolerated without a racism normally reserved for others. They escaped indentured servitude by living at the edge of civilization, coming a bit south much later. My mother's side was as British as could be, having first settled in the Colonies before they were called Colonies, and all the intervening marriages were among other settler families, which presents other more interesting questions. None had slaves. One of my uncles moved to Washington, D.C., and adopted the racism prevalent then, and you might well describe his attitudes and business as soft slavery, but he himself? Never a slave.
I'm still unable to shake the possibility that my family tree includes some Native American blood, though it is not recorded anywhere.
If, however, you go back far enough, the claim that "not a single one of us is without an ancestor who was a slave" may be true. Back far enough, and you can make all kinds of irrelevant claims.
Actually I had three clients I did off-site tape rotations for, for about 6 years. One made regular random requests for tapes to do a directory test on. The other was a bank, they did a full scan and compare. My own, the company tapes, since I was the sysadmin, I did compares quarterly. DAT and higher capacity tapes were in use, LTO and such. Never had to restore my own, don't know if the bank did, but the other client was fastidious.
I was much lazier with my own server backups, having just software tapes updated rarely, and data less often, they were DNS, email, and web. When we were pwned by the creeps in Atlanta we rebuilt from scratch, with a boot diskette, wgets, compiling the kernel, this you could still do in the late 90s. Today it would be very different.
And over 14 years with the company I got very lazy, testing randomly, then delegating to the #3 & 4 techs. Our clients not so much. Then though our bank client didn't have us doing any fiduciary stuff we had to participate in DR (now BCP) drills, semi annually, and that was annoying and tedious. And instructive.
The rest of my clients we maybe verified tapes 30 days after they came on board, never again unless they asked. We would log stats and replace tapes for wear, manufacturer specs. Never had a client left without data, but no, 90% of my work I did not do regular verification. The backup software was flaky enough to force us to fix and test when it went bad.
I don't really back up my mail. I copy one mailbox to two others via IMAP and POP3. Another mailbox I copy via IMAP. And then I also have a copy in my beloved (/s) Microsoft Mail. It's not really a backup, I think, just copies. And I have a glorious spam library dating back to the 90s in some of it, just too lazy to clean it up.
If you remember spam from the 90s, you know why some of it I've had to delete.
It *is* a PITA to put a tape in your bag, open up the fireproof safe at home, throw it in, get the *correct* one out, put it in your bag, and remember the next day to put that where it needs to be. And repeat./s
I did that for years. And I slept a little better.
I have the opposite problem - my work tools have been migrated from IE dependencies and to Chrome. And now, recently, Edge is being refused as misidentified as Chrome (this one app can't tell that a non-IE browser isn't Chrome...).
Now I have this obstacle.I prefer to do personal browsing, as permitted by corporate policy,in Chrome, signed on to my Google account and all. This presents huge problems, with mixed credentials and all sorts of settings.
Not sure how to handle this, since I'm being forced to Chrome, Edge/Chromium isn't real quite yet, and Firefox is without portfolio in our corporate space. I'm not looking for a Windows 10 version of Safari, thanks for the thoughts.
Is it 'better the con you see than the one you don't' time?
Or did you like it when that all was happening virtually unopposed? Me, I like it when the philosophy I reject is being rejected and overthrown. Those that support that philosophy, though, even resort to direct violence in response. War? Molon Labe.
As in, form and function maximized, does it all, reliably, at reasonable or at least lower cost. Somewhat repairable, still performs adequately, yes, it is. If my AD didn't absolutely demand a better camera and more screen, this would be it.
Yes, the SE is a damned good bargain, if only because Apple broke the $1000 cherry and misjudged the market so slightly that it only damaged perception.
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"deciding to sell later is legal. "
This would require you to register as a manufacturer and/or dealer, obtain licensing, and serialize the weapon(s), and the background check for the recipient, as the manufacturer got that check during the licensing process. Not to make them, but to sell or transfer them later.
The law essentially considers any change in ownership or possession a transfer. A transfer for value or compensation is a sale. A transfer for no value or compensation is a gift, but still a transfer.
The law distinguishes between 'make' and 'manufacture'.
Individuals that 'make' firearms need not register them, but any transfer, even as a gift, is a sale, and that requires registration.
Manufacturing is, by legal definition in this instance, with intent to sell and/or transfer, and so requires registration.
There is some question about how the law permits you to make your own firearm, but whether it permits you to even let a friend fire it at the range. Even one shot. Even to hold it.
Before 'making' your own gun was relatively possible for an average guy with a power drill and some money, this was not a big deal. Now, however, the brisk business in partial AR-15 lowers is starting to be a thing, and the attention is as unwelcome as the popularity. If I brought an unregistered AR-15, based on a partial and self-machined lower, to the range, I would actually check in advance. I would not let them handle it for inspection, and they would not ask, knowing the legal risk, but they say 'no', citing safety, despite the reality that I could come in with a purchase polymer lower with a few thousand rounds fired with it, worn and dangerous, but having a name on it somehow solving that problem...
Hey, I have access to good machine tools, but I would ask permission to use them for machining a partial as a courtesy. The last time I brought it up, the primary objections were answered by 'you have Raspberry Pi workshops but necer ask what they are going to distribute with their tiny little web servers, right?'
AR-15 lowers are not a trivial piece of metal. There are stress points and tolerances, and even polymer lowers are considered suspect by many.
Again, when it becomes possible, and possible for PLU, the powers that be will consider how to make it illegal. If the illegal use of the thing is justification for banning it, we can do away with personal email servers, actual knives, and cars. Oooh, greening!
...with the truth floating on top...
Unless you, the alleged journalist, intend to declare the subject guilty, and then you accuse and label at will.
We'll see.
There are few plans circulating for '3D-printed AR-15' weapons. There are none to be trusted. Now, if this was actually a partial lower based weapon, that's not '3D-printed'. That's machining, no matter the techniques. And those also need not be registered, unless a short barrel or other modifications make it necessary under law. Even in Texas.
This would be a useful story line to begin work on banning 3d-printing guns, and that's a great debate. Essentially, another example of how something that was permitted becomes possible, and thus becomes unacceptable - banned. Like access to public court records, as a weird but adequate example.
Since he was killed at the scene by police we won't be getting a trial.
Despite the overwhelming physical evidence, ranging from police reports of his presence, possession at the time of his death of the weapon used in the assault, and eyewitness testimony. the statements of the authorities, in this case, should be accepted as true and valid.
This of course is contrary to the inclinations of most of the popular media, who prefer to make such definitive statements of guilt only about those they do not support, and to excuse or deny those they do. It's not merely my assessment, it demonstrable in fact .
And so the popular media becomes less popular, and truth, challenged and suppressed by them, still comes through.
While my Nextcloud on Raspi is working, I want more. And it isn;t going to come from Windows unless someone (?) hacks up Windows Server to run the ARM kernel, and even then it's not at all attractive.
I'm more likely to figure out which of the competitive ARM boards is a good deal if I want more performance.
Sure you would. And all those sweeet peripherals. Like the browser. And the VMs...
I know well the story of our Navy, the Marines, and the history and traditions embodied in the Marine Corps Hymn.
But how that relates to the assertion that "regardless of color or ethnicity, not a single one of us is without an ancestor who was a slave." escapes me.
Now, if you're wondering how it was that our nation, the United States of America, found itself battling Muslim pirates so early in our history, consider that this was a response to the restraint of trade imposed by the Barbary Pirates on so many nations, the inability of so many of those other nations to take the measures necessary to respond and re-establish free passage on the seas, and our need to trade cotton, slave-harvested, with Europe.
Sound familiar? It ought to.
At that time Europe was still battling the results of Muslim invasions, and feared antagonizing the Empire, which could not be good for them. Europe was also mired in their incessant internecine squabbles, especially at the time Western Europe, with colonization fever at the highest pitch. The French Revolution would not help this region. American influence was welcomed, tacitly, as we took the initiative, secured by our ocean border, and assumed our ongoing role as the world's policemen of (mostly) last resort. To this day our Navy has, as its primary mission, defense of the free flow of goods over the seas, for all nations. And we still find opposition to that free passage, don't we? Not just the Somali pirates, either...
The Ottoman Empire, while by some measures decrepit in the end, wasn't disbanded that long ago, My mother would have been born before that. World War Two finally finished it off, and set off an era of Middle East unrest, with the entirely predictable consequences. The end of the 'Cold War' permitted Eastern European conflicts to reoccur, similarly predictable. And in all this, the militant Muslims are still looking to expand their control and dominance, not just in the Middle East, but to Europe and beyond. Not much has changed since the Crusades, it seems.
And Europe finds itself in the midst of another invasion. So also are we now facing an invasion. And a revolution-in-the-making. A revolution coming, and one inspired by the same philosophies and intentions as so many in this era. We have choices to make, and soon.
But the assertion, again, that "regardless of color or ethnicity, not a single one of us is without an ancestor who was a slave." is nearly specious. You have to go back, in my family tree, to the beginnings of Albion, and possibly before. What difference, at this point, does it make?
Knowing that my ancestors were Irish, British, and Danish, I've got to go a ways back to find slaves in my family tree.
My father's side was purely Irish, come to America after the Revolution, but before the Irish were tolerated without a racism normally reserved for others. They escaped indentured servitude by living at the edge of civilization, coming a bit south much later. My mother's side was as British as could be, having first settled in the Colonies before they were called Colonies, and all the intervening marriages were among other settler families, which presents other more interesting questions. None had slaves. One of my uncles moved to Washington, D.C., and adopted the racism prevalent then, and you might well describe his attitudes and business as soft slavery, but he himself? Never a slave.
I'm still unable to shake the possibility that my family tree includes some Native American blood, though it is not recorded anywhere.
If, however, you go back far enough, the claim that "not a single one of us is without an ancestor who was a slave" may be true. Back far enough, and you can make all kinds of irrelevant claims.
Actually I had three clients I did off-site tape rotations for, for about 6 years. One made regular random requests for tapes to do a directory test on. The other was a bank, they did a full scan and compare. My own, the company tapes, since I was the sysadmin, I did compares quarterly. DAT and higher capacity tapes were in use, LTO and such. Never had to restore my own, don't know if the bank did, but the other client was fastidious.
I was much lazier with my own server backups, having just software tapes updated rarely, and data less often, they were DNS, email, and web. When we were pwned by the creeps in Atlanta we rebuilt from scratch, with a boot diskette, wgets, compiling the kernel, this you could still do in the late 90s. Today it would be very different.
And over 14 years with the company I got very lazy, testing randomly, then delegating to the #3 & 4 techs. Our clients not so much. Then though our bank client didn't have us doing any fiduciary stuff we had to participate in DR (now BCP) drills, semi annually, and that was annoying and tedious. And instructive.
The rest of my clients we maybe verified tapes 30 days after they came on board, never again unless they asked. We would log stats and replace tapes for wear, manufacturer specs. Never had a client left without data, but no, 90% of my work I did not do regular verification. The backup software was flaky enough to force us to fix and test when it went bad.
That's the grunt work you farm out to the intern.
You DO have interns, right?
If you've compromised the server, you're well on your way to all the connections. Firewalling failed, for sure.
Once you're in the front door, you're going through the system. Only offline backups can be trusted to 'be there'.
And no offline copies of the VM environment? I think of those as especially precious. DO I want to rebuild those from scratch? Nope.
I don't really back up my mail. I copy one mailbox to two others via IMAP and POP3. Another mailbox I copy via IMAP. And then I also have a copy in my beloved (/s) Microsoft Mail. It's not really a backup, I think, just copies. And I have a glorious spam library dating back to the 90s in some of it, just too lazy to clean it up.
If you remember spam from the 90s, you know why some of it I've had to delete.
It *is* a PITA to put a tape in your bag, open up the fireproof safe at home, throw it in, get the *correct* one out, put it in your bag, and remember the next day to put that where it needs to be. And repeat. /s
I did that for years. And I slept a little better.
Exactly. these mobs, and anyone else, didn't weaponize the 'dislike' button... YouTube did.
I have the opposite problem - my work tools have been migrated from IE dependencies and to Chrome. And now, recently, Edge is being refused as misidentified as Chrome (this one app can't tell that a non-IE browser isn't Chrome...).
Now I have this obstacle.I prefer to do personal browsing, as permitted by corporate policy,in Chrome, signed on to my Google account and all. This presents huge problems, with mixed credentials and all sorts of settings.
Not sure how to handle this, since I'm being forced to Chrome, Edge/Chromium isn't real quite yet, and Firefox is without portfolio in our corporate space. I'm not looking for a Windows 10 version of Safari, thanks for the thoughts.
You could then add Lotus Jazz. Underwhelming box, underwhelming product.
But a retailer in my home town had the ultimate product box in the window for years, fading into violet obscuring - Modern Jazz.
They got the box for display, but the product never shipped. that's a rare item.
Is it 'better the con you see than the one you don't' time?
Or did you like it when that all was happening virtually unopposed? Me, I like it when the philosophy I reject is being rejected and overthrown. Those that support that philosophy, though, even resort to direct violence in response. War? Molon Labe.
'best phone Apple has made'
As in, form and function maximized, does it all, reliably, at reasonable or at least lower cost. Somewhat repairable, still performs adequately, yes, it is. If my AD didn't absolutely demand a better camera and more screen, this would be it.
Yes, the SE is a damned good bargain, if only because Apple broke the $1000 cherry and misjudged the market so slightly that it only damaged perception.
"The document said this could be rolled out without upsetting staff because workers didn't know what the existing rate was"
- Many of Google's employees are relatively competent in mathematics. They can be expected to determine the previous rates with little difficulty.
"...also proposed reducing wage bumps when workers get promoted."
- Corporate policy. Perhaps well described as a calculated risk. Win or lose, this is just management.
"also suggested changing Google's approach to "spot bonuses,""
- More corporate policy. More risk.
"The proposal also included converting holiday gifts to staff into charitable donations"
- And so converting these into probable corporate tax deductions instead of expenses. Sharp practice. Look it up.
Overall the evil meter is getting close to the red pin.
As I posted, I saw systems doing this 30 years ago. Not machine learning, but fairly straightforward analysis.