Not if you want the bullet to travel more than a few feet or with any sort of velocity.

I have an '11 370z as my daily driver and backing out of a parking spot is neither easy nor safe if you aren't craning your neck out the window. The pillars between the hatch and the main cabin create MASSIVE blind spots that cover the spot where cars would be while you are backing out. I always back /in/ to spaces now so I can pull out without fear of getting run into.

So you think we should not be allowed to run our own web or IRC servers? Are you serious? Right now, I can grab a $10/mo VPS and set up my own mail and web server. That's part of what makes this network so flexible.

That worked well for the USSR, eh?

Then prosecute them for stealing or dealing. Why do we need another crime there?

I've had quite to opposite experience. I've been using GNU/Linux and BSD for 12 or 13 years (still dual-booted my desktop for flight simulator and other games until recently). The biggest problems I had were wireless connectivity on laptops in the early/mid-2000s - easily resolvable with NDISWrapper or something like LinuxAnt. More recently, hybrid graphics have presented battery life problems on a Vaio laptop I own - using VGASwitcheroo fixes that and the script can be mapped to my hardware "speed" and "battery life" switch. I've used Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu (I think starting with Breezy Badger), a few others for brief stints (Gentoo, Backtrack), back and forth between Fedora and Ubuntu and finally settling on Arch. In each case, the install and setup is quite simple and - with the exception of Slackware - package management is quite easy on all of them. Certainly, things have improved noticeably, especially over the last four or five years but I don't think there was a point where I ever thought "boy this sucks", which was the thought I had back with Windows 98 and Windows ME which caused me to go to Linux as primary OS in the first place.

I'll give you a chicken and three ears of corn. Look for my smoke signals.

Except the KGB actually had some badasses in it. Have you seen TSA agents? I could make a run for it and still get on the plane, stow my carry-on and calmly wait for takeoff before they managed to make it to the gate.

Could not stop laughing - awesome. :)

What if the commands need to be signed?

Are you dense? You must be trolling. If you are even moderately skilled, doing all of this doesn't take up all of your time. I have a nice custom mail setup, I program for fun, and I tinker with software and hardware (a lot). Even doing that, I still manage a few non-tech hobbies that take up quite a few hours per week, plus I manage a family life and a job.

One of the rare posts that really hits the nail on the head with all of the points made. Very well done.

I manage a support environment (granted, they are not script-readers) and we pay our support staff very well. I also have one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry, despite the fact that we are busy and the job can be stressful. In fact, most of my turnover is losing support reps to our DBA and Development groups as the folks advance in skill (win/win for the company and for the rep).

It really depends on what you are supporting and your skill level. I'm willing to pay more for someone who is a great problem solver; someone who can connect to a client's environment and do whatever it takes to solve a problem - take risks, explore, and find solutions. I'm certainly not going to replace that person with someone cheaper who can't resolve the problems we face.

Sorry, this is not true. VFR aircraft have a LOT of leeway in airspace that isn't Class A (above 18,000), Class B (around huge airports), Class C (around less huge airports) or Class D (around other towered fields). You don't ever have to talk to ATC if you are flying VFR and stay out of that airspace. You can request specific routes on an IFR (an instrument) flight - in many cases they'll be approved, sometimes not - but many flights are not IFR. There are airways - which doesn't involve specifying the type of aircraft that can fly on them. However, if you are flying in VMC (decent weather), and you aren't in class A airspace, there could be a VFR flight anywhere around you. There is more control in Class D, Class C or Class B airspace as all of the aircraft are talking to ATC but that doesn't cover any significant portion of airspace. For example, on Sunday I took off from my home airport, did some maneuvering, flew about 20 miles into the next state, landed at a different airport, took off, flew over a separate airport and did a practice instrument approach back to my home airport. Not once did I talk to ATC, I communicated only on unicom frequencies to announce my intentions to the aircraft at the airports where I was operating (whether anyone else was listening or heard, I don't know). The responsibility was on me as a pilot to keep my eyes open and look for other aircraft. So let's say a drone is flying on its predetermined flight path through airspace shared with VFR flights. There I am, doing maneuvers, changing altitudes, etc. Am I really going to see something with a 2ft wingspan coming at me from the side? It's hard enough spotting another general aviation aircraft with a 30ft wingspan.