It helps if you put the rounds in correctly (pointy end forward). Maybe that's davy's problem.

Well, there is Vimeo....

Or you could Rule 34 it.

I'm glad people don't walk around naked because I have some modicum of taste and decorum. The vast majority of people really, really need to leave their clothes on.

Except that the magazine in question has 'just' managed a couple of hundred rounds before tanking. So we're back at the learning curve.

I guess what I'm saying is that the tech to make rifle magazines is so generally available as to be useless to try to limit. Even in my tiny little town, there are three or four guys with the requisite machine shop that could crank high quality parts out. As cheaply as the factory? No, probably more hand forming and filing.

But we are NOT anywhere near dumping a file into the a 3D printer and pulling out a magazine, popping it into the rifle and running off to stem the apocalypse. Wake me up when you can. Until then, I've got my Sherline tools and welders and whatnot. And you know what? I've not been bothered by anybody yet. I really don't think the feds care that much. They're too busy entrapping disaffected teenagers.

See my earlier post. Magazines for 'assault rifles' are not high on the list of Difficult Things To Make. The order fulfillment / paperwork / advertising aspect of selling these things is likely harder. If you want one, you go to Shotgun news and order it. If they make it illegal, you go to Shotgun news and order the version that has a plastic tab glued in the bottom so it 'only' holds three or seven or whatever number of rounds is OK.

"The Children" do not want an AR-15. They want an EMP gun.

As a matter of fact, so do I. Ammo is getting hard to get.

Why is this at all important? You can make a magazine 'the old way" with a spring, some sheet metal, a spot welder and a metal brake (something that bends sheet metal). Yes, it takes some skill, but you're saying that a 3D printer is at the level of an iPhone?

The canonical 'assault rife', the AK-47, is pounded out in factories that look more like garbage dumps than anything else. If you look at pictures of the magazines you see a bunch that look, well, rather primitive. But they work.

This is not rocket science, folks. It's machine shop 101.

Please report to the re education camp immediately, citizen.

We will fix that little problem you're having.

(There's an app for that, you know.)

Of course, it shouldn't be too hard for Slashdot to allow for comment editing, right?

to swipes,,,,

That's what a jailbreak is for. I finally did that to my 4S because I started using a bluetooth keyboard for emails at work. PITA to go into settings, to swipes and a button push or two just to turn BT on and off (yeah, I know, First World problems....).

It really shouldn't be that hard Apple. But I suppose it's Not The One Way....

Cost money. A fair amount of money.

In North Dakota, they are starting to do exactly that - build out a compressor / filter plant and hook it next to a turbine to run the rigs. Economically viable only in areas that are 1) starved for power and 2) have enough infrastructure density to make spending a half a million on the plant sensible.

Remember, places that don't have pipelines are often the same places that don't have high voltage feeder lines. The Middle of Nowhere.

Incorrect. Although the natural gas price has been dropping for a couple of reasons (oversupply being one), there are many wells that are frakked for nat gas. And oil. And nat gas and oil. What you may be getting confused about it the fact that they are flaring a lot of natural gas because the price is low.

This just points out to one of the many insanities about how we go extracting resources. Natural gas pretty much requires pipelines to make it recovery sensible in economic terms. No pipeline, you flare it. But if you have a pipeline, you sell it.

The economics of the shale plays (tight gas / tight oil) are complicated and resemble the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch in more ways than one.

TL'DR - head out to the Oil Drum for more than you ever wanted to know about this.

At least in the medical field, every damned 'training' company, every manufacturer, every news site uses Flash. And uses it poorly. But it's not going away any time soon.

What? You mean Punctuated Equilibrium, not Physical Education, right? P-E vs gradualism is the biggest mechanistic argument in evolutionary biology. It limits the genetic / molecular mechanisms to certain behaviors which has been pretty much born out over the last two decades.

It certainly attempts to answer the problem of 'how you get here from there'.

Yes. Gradualism vs. "something else" (which is now Punctuated Equilibrium) has been argued pretty much since Darwin. Even he was kind of lukewarm on the idea - he just didn't have any other explanation at the time. Remember, he worked out evolutionary theory before genetics and before DNA.

P-E fits newer data much better than gradualism but there are still gaps in our understanding. However, they're relatively small gaps - the basic foundation is actually quite solid.