How nice and romantic. It's a pity that joining a country club, paying the greens fees, and the expense of the clubs is the only possible way to do that.

Horseshit.

You can buy used clubs for around $100.

You can play at a municipal/public course for around $20-$30. My annual membership at my course is less than $1000, and then all of my subsequent golf is free with no additional fees, which means if I play 50 times I'm at an incremental cost of $20/round, and if I play 100 times I'm down to $10/round.

Hell, the course I play at will sell you a pack of 10 plays for $200. So your $100 used clubs and your $200 book of plays is $300 for what for many people is an entire season of golf.

I play with guys who wear sneakers, cargo shorts, and t-shirts, and use 20 year old clubs and cheap recycled golf balls.

I like being around interesting people, not ones who just happen to be wealthy

There will always be golf courses where the people who play are wealthy.

And, equally, there will always be golf courses in which nobody is wealthy, nobody is pretentious, and everybody is much more blue collar in their tastes and sensibilities.

Many many golf courses aren't the old school "golf and country club", exclusivity is a non-existent thing, and while the greens may not be as smooth as glass and there aren't white gloved servers in the smoking lounge, people of all walks of life go and enjoy themselves, and whatever they think they want golf to be.

There are examples of golf being an expensive, snooty, and elitist. That is true of anything. It is also true that there are many many places where you can play which are none of those things.

And that is where you'll find most of the rest of the golfers. And the people at those courses tend to be friendly, down to earth, not overly stressed about their status or how badly you play.

It can be a game for the rich. But it has just as many examples where it's anything but.

You're taking one or two examples of golf, and extrapolating that to the entire realm of golf. And you're horribly wrong because you're generalizing about things you don't know enough about.

Actually, Brass Fetcher uses 20% gelatin, whereas FBI requires only 10% gelatin for penetration testing. So Brass Fetcher's youtube page is a terrific resource.

I actually started loading Remington Golden Sabers instead of Hornady Critical Max in my Glock based on the ballistics tests on Brass Fetcher's channel.

even looking for anybody that acts sanely and rationally that would reform it.

Welcome aboard the Ted Cruz bandwagon.... oh wait, you don't like the 1 guy in DC saying we should abolish the IRS.

I guess it's true -- you really are "Ready For Hillary".

I do get the recreation thing. I just don't get where golfing gets into the recreation thing.

Well, maybe that's more about you, and has nothing at all to do with golf.

Sorry, but hitting a ball and then spending the rest of the afternoon finding it again is not relaxing. It's somewhere between boring and frustrating, depending on how long it takes to find that little white thing again.

Quick, name me your 5 favorite leisure activities.

I bet at least 3 of them I will decree as boring, frustrating, or pointless.

And you know what? It doesn't matter. Because not everybody is the same, and don't always enjoy the same things. That you don't like it or can't understand why someone else would is meaningless. Much like if I said I don't see how you couldn't like golf would be equally stupid and meaningless.

Golf is frustrating when a terrible player thinks he's Tiger Woods and plays every shot, follows every rule, and takes forever looking for balls.

Most recreational golfers streamline their play a little, gloss over a couple of rules here and there, and generally do not subject themselves to the torture of trying to play the perfect round.

I don't spend time looking for lost balls. I just drop another one and get on with my life. Because, really, the extra stroke isn't something I care about, and I'm not playing in tournaments, or for money, or for anything other than enjoyment.

Even golfers accept the tongue-in-cheek line that golf is a good walk spoiled. But, if you're into it and don't stress too much about it, it doesn't need to be that badly spoiled.

It can be a game, or it can be a sport. Played as a game it's far less frustrating. And most of us will never have the skill to play it as a sport and adhere to every single arcane rule.

There are tens of thousands of North Korean refugees in the "Korean autonomous region" in Northern China that borders North Korea. It's considered a bit of a social problem in that region.

Looking forward to part 2, I'm sure you've seen some of the same coding horrors I have in my career.

Writing rubbish like you have just to get the last word is rather pathetic. I'd let it go but you'd take it as some sort of agreement if I did not reply.

This kind of proves the first poster's point. YOU cannot play at Augusta National as it is exclusively for the top 1% of the top 1%.

Allow me to explain the idiocy of what you just said.

Cars are evil, because only the top 1% of the top 1% can afford a Lamborghini or a Ferrari.

Houses are evil because only the top 1% of the top 1% can afford lavish mansions.

Boats are evil because only a select few can afford giant yachts.

Restaurants are evil because not everybody can afford places which serve foie gras, caviar, and thousand dollar bottles of wine.

I'm a fairly avid golfer. I have neither the interest, skill, nor the money to play Augusta.

And do you know what that does in relation to where and when and how I actually do play golf? Not a damned thing.

Augusta is an extreme example, and while there are some places which are still the domain of rich old white men ... that has nothing at all to do with my ability to play at an affordable course whose price and skill level more closely matches what I can manage.

You can readily take up golf with $100 worth of used clubs, and play on courses which cost the $20-$30 the poster you replied to mentioned. I know someone who until a year or so ago played on the same clubs he'd gotten as a teenager.

I have no interest in playing Augusta or any of the crazy courses the pros play -- because they're way beyond my price range and my skill level.

That there exists examples of courses that the average player will never play on has nothing to do with the rest of golf. And for the rest of us, there's actually quite a lot of affordable golf in many communities.

For most of us, golf is a game, and a leisure activity. We ignore or are unaware of half of the rules. We play for fun and a little exercise, and to hang out with friends. We watch the pros to realize just how well the game can be played, and then we laugh and go about our business of playing it our way.

What your saying is akin to saying you shouldn't take up jogging because you'll never make it into the Olympics. The one has nothing at all to do with the other.

Except it did not happen that way because the sheet metal pistols were not deployed. A more serious effort was put into training and equipping the resistance in France and other places. There's biographies of Nancy Wake and others that describe what really happened (eg. getting supplied items up to and including bazookas instead of toy guns).
I really don't know if the liberator was a serious but misguided effort by an ignorant new player or wasteful war profiteering.

Exactly! Thanks for getting to the heart of the matter.

Typically the first one is assembled by the volunteer working with the family, as a training session, and after that they can print replacements and do the assembly themselves.

this approach does require a parent/relative/friend with some dedicated to get started. There's a map of volunteers http://enablingthefuture.org/c... . If you don't have anyone around that wants to help, you'd better have insurance to cover paying a professional to help you out.

Luckily http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/...

Luckily "External limb prosthetic component, Class I" aren't regulated as tightly.

Wow, nice to see someone with an informed post. The amusing thing to me is that we've got tons of videos, and this is the one that made Slashdot. But we're happy with any of the patent's stories. They're pretty cool, actually - patients talking about their prosthetics, shot by either the patients, their parents, or the "maker", and a few videos of people giving presentations (e.g. at TED). Check out http://enablingthefuture.org/m... .

We're not claiming that 3D printed prosthetics are better than commercial prosthetics, just that they're more accessible. Particularly outside of the US and Europe, the cost is a huge barrier, and we're excited that we are producing designs, documentation, etc., empowering people to help each other if they don't have a viable commercial option.

As I said, I used to work in the airplane business. And if you bought a kit for an airplane and built it yourself, you can't sue the company that sold you the kit because you assumed the liability. That's why most innovation in airplanes in the US is in kit planes - commercial manufactures fall under liability, which complicates their lives quite a bit, which (perversely) discourages innovation, so many people are flying airplanes with engine designs from the 1950s.

Hand prosthetics are "prosthetic devices class I, non-significant risk devices" by the FDA.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/... .

The group has a web site http://enablingthefuture.org/ which links to a map of participants, and a very active Google+ community.