We use 11x17 (aka Ledger or Tabloid) all the time; it's probably the third most common US paper size after Letter and Legal.

recessed cans, yes. Those square fixtures with a metal frame around a frosted glass/plexi lens is what the OP is referring to. You generally don't see those in commercial settings; just residential construction between 1965 or so and 1990.

Isn't that a fair description of a cable box/DVR?

Gosh, whatever did they do before the invention of the taser?

WTF is Starck doing taking a 6% commission? Starchitects take 15%-20%. Perhaps Starck was taking 20% of the interiors budget, with the shipwrights taking 10%-15% on the hull/mechanicals design.

The keyword you're looking for is "Lego Education." Search that on Amazon.

My understanding is that replacing the barrel is something a gun owner might reasonably need to do occasionally, while the lower receiver is both not particularly failure-prone (not subjected to high stresses when firing), and holds all the other parts of the gun together.

Sort of like defining a car as the frame, despite the engine, drivetrain, and interior components contributing many more of the qualities we consider essential to that particular model of car.

I'm saying that the irony of a founding father exhorting gun ownership as a means of averting "slavery" in a slaveowning society is a bit rich.

More generally I'm alluding to his likely belief that women and white males without property similarly need not be armed either.

And that his enthusiasm for personal armament as enabling "freedom" in a society where many were decidedly not free has strong echoes today in the way people on both sides of the gun control debate perceive the social meaning of guns (freedom-preserving self-sufficiency-enabling tools for independence on the pro side; democracy-thwarting social-contract-breaking unequalizers on the anti side).

Which gets at the heart of why the gun control debate goes nowhere - guns mean such different things to the people on either side that arguments to statistics, reasoned solutions, and history don't carry much weight.

I wonder whether the actual slaves were counted among that "whole people." Maybe they got 3/5 of a musket.

Um, that's not what the cops are supposed to do when someone does that. They're supposed to arrest them for trespassing. The taser is supposed to be a last resort before/instead of using a firearm.

We give both Israel and Egypt billions in foreign aid as an incentive to maintain the peace of the Camp David accords. Also, the foreign aid consists of gift certificates to ATK, Lockheed Martin, etc. so the treasury is actually being emptied into the pockets of domestic war profiteers rather than actually sent overseas.

Well, there's Elon Musk, but something tells me he's not going to be buying...

No, the isotope separation to get the fissionable material is the step that costs lots of time and money. The gas chromatography separation setup in Tennessee druing the Manhattan Project was the largest industrial building ever constructed at the time.

See also how Iran has the means and know-how to produce nukes (the engineering of a simple implosion-activated fission device is a solved problem for almost 70 years now, and even in 1945 they didn't even bother testing the gun design), but the isotope separation facility is using hundreds of centrifuges 24/7 over a period of years.

That's pretty much what the preamble to the GPL does.

The so few psychologists may have something to do with the 4 years of graduate training (almost never funded positions), year of internship, additional year of postdoc training, and formidable geographically-constraining licensing exam. That's a long delay in earning a real income, and hard to get through unless you have money to begin with or have a spouse and no kids.