Been done. DAG (German military ammo maker) made/makes plastic training rounds in 762x51 NATO (aka 308 Winchester), they can be lethal under 100 yards.

Or, go muzzle loader (not a gun per federal law then) and use a piezoelectric spark to ignite your powder, use a glass marble or other non-metallic item (ceramic?) as your bullet. Plenty effective at short ranges.

Well... on that note... Porsches did not have cup holders until late '03 or early '04. You are supposed to be *driving*, not sipping your Starbucks

However, it is a car designed to allow a driver to use its "flaws" to wring the absolute maximum of performance out of it.

Needless to say, this requires a driver that learns how to drive, and not the driver's ed that most get in high school.

FWIW I learned to drive in a Porsche (356c coupe) and when Dad bought a "replacement" in '88 (a '84 Carrera 3.2 factory turbo look) he immediately took a driver's course at the Sebring race track. Even the 356 with its whopping 75 horsepower is a performance car, and the rear engine design will let it get away from you if you are careless and drive it like it is a Buick.

Think it was more like a whelk's chance in a supernova...

When I was a young 'un, I wished my computer at home (trs-80, then 8088 and then 286 then 386 then...) could have fancy graphics like the arcade dwelling quarter eaters. Then in my early 20s, Quake came out, and I had a Voodoo card, and I started wishing arcades had LAN setups with killer machines and low pings and....

On the other hand, if you've ever worked with a Debian based system, mounting the fs on the sd card and editing ..../etc/network/interfaces is really trivial.

I'd expect that anyone playing with one of these is slightly familiar with Linux. And I'd expect that anyone teaching students with one of these would either give a good introduction to Linux or give very detailed lab instructions on initial setup and configuration.

And hallucinogens.

Before I even booted the image of Raspbian I mounted the file system, set the IP I wanted to use, etc. Still haven't plugged a keyboard or attached a HDMI cable to it, just sshing in and doing stuff. Not sure what I actually want to do iwth it... which is how I got it (someone I know had 2 and just didn't know what he wanted to do with them)

Maybe in some state or municipality, but you have to remember that pistols were not legally required to have one until 1934 and rifles and shotguns weren't required to have one until 1968.

Of course, if a firearm *had* one (military, manufacturer put one on anyway for warranty work, etc) then removing it is a Big No No.

Making a firearm under federal law, if you are a individual and do not have a FFL and SOT for manufacture (SOT - special occupation tax) then you do not have to pay the 11% excise tax (Pittmanâ"Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of '37) or apply a serial number, although the serial number is strongly recommended for identification purposes.

Like with anything BATFE related, there is no hard and fast rule.

No, you cannot make one for the express purpose of selling it (without appropriate licenses aquired and taxes paid, both for operation and for the actual firearm - see the Pittman-Robertson Act).

However, you can sell them at some point. How long later, how many, etc. is all up in the air and up to definition by the BATFE. And even if you get a decision letter from them, it may not apply to other people in similar situations.

So... this becomes a Glock vs. 1911 debate

I appreciate both, both were tremendous changes in design and process for their times.

However, I sold my Glock and bought a 1911.

Bandwidth isn't the killer, it's the latency. Ask the com root server who ibm.com is. Ask ibm.com who www.ibm.com is. Ask www.ibm.com for index.html. Find the css, ask ibm.com who css.ibm.com is. And so on, all at 1.5 seconds each. It's pretty frustrating sometimes. Some web sites are very unfriendly for slow latency connections.

which is why you run a caching only dns server on your local network right?

Or maybe a large percentage aren't legally allowed to own a gun (convicted felons, foreign workers, domestic violence convictions, etc)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes.

Because we bought Nook Colors 2 years ago for under $200 and like having an OS on them that allows great functionality.

Heck, when I bought mine I bought it with the intention of running CM on it. Never even booted it with teh B&N firmware/rom/os image.