Don't be jealous, there's plenty of me to go around.

That's adorable that you're keeping score.

Seems like it'd be worthwhile to trial a real computer of similar spec to what he's wanting vs. a virtual server, to see relative speed and relative cost. You can get some pretty stonking powerful VPS instances if you're willing to pay for them, and with Amazon you can optimize for different workloads such as GPU, CPU, or fast IO.

There can't be that many projects on CVS who are sticking with it only because they're waiting for someone else to manage the switch to git, and you'd need a fair number to make this worthwhile, IMO. I think he may be tilting at windmills.

Oh, look. Speaking of fringe libertarians, here's one of /.'s more notorious ones now, here to defend the tribe's honor against an apostate.

Run along, kid. I know better than to think you're willing to change your mind about your religion.

Why do this instead of spinning up an Amazon AWS instance on demand? It shouldn't cost much to convert a source repository with that method, especially compared to buying a whole computer.

And then he turned into a neoconservative/fringe libertarian nutbar after that business with the skyscrapers in '01.

Poorly, most likely. Enfields manufactured in the subcontinent (India and Pakistan both) aren't well-regarded with respect to quality.

At any rate, rechambering will require replacing the barrel, bolt, receiver, sights, and possibly parts of the magazine. That's most of the gun already, and you're compounding your logistics problems by having a small number of guns with this specific configuration.

Closer to 1889, not 1930. The late 1880s through early 1900s was when the common military rifle cartridges of the World Wars were developed. Trivia: the .303 British was originally filled with black powder, not smokeless.

However, it hasn't been produced in a long time (parts wear out), it's for an obsolescent caliber (complicates logistics a bit), and there are better rifles now.

The Finns came up with a good solution with their reworked Mosins: 3-piece wooden stocks. They left gaps between the pieces to allow for expansion and contraction with ambient air temperature and humidity.

*whoosh*

BINGO!

{a link to mises.org filled out my card}

It'd be a lot simpler to implement an outright wealth tax if that's what you're after.

True believers don't care. True believers are much like conspiracy theorists and the religious that way: no matter how many ways you disprove their pet belief, they think there's always some angle you didn't cover.

Now. It used Gnome 2 when Dell started selling Ubuntu computers.