Nah, think about it in terms of energy - potential vs. kinetic.
Sure, you bought 100 shares of AAPL at $7/share so you have a huge *potential* profit. Or you've got a big rock sitting on the edge of a cliff.
But until you sell the stock, or lever the rock over the edge, it is just potential.
The AR still craps where it eats. It did when it was developed, it did when it was adopted by the US military, it did when it was it was updated to teh A1 configuration (chrome lined bore, forward assist), it did when it went to A2 configuration (3 round burst instead of auto), and still does in M4 guise (burst, auto, maybe both, plus short barrel). The 3 round burst was done to keep folks from panicing and draining a mag, and to cut down the amount of training needed for controlling full auto.
user@darkstar:~$ links -dump http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html | grep "the people"
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
or to the people.
Why is it that one of these "the peoples" isn't considered to be The People?
That is actually what the Fed prosecutor argued in Miller v US - the full auto and short barrel shotgun weren't like the arms issued to infantry at the time.
And the M4 has several variations - semi and burst only, or semi, burst (3 rounds per trigger pull) and full auto. The M16A2 went from full auto to only 3 round burst, because the idea behind auto is controlled bursts but doing that takes training, so the (US) military requested the mechanical change to allow only 3 shot bursts. Most other countries just stick with plain full auto.
Guns haven't been necessary to defend rights since the war of independence
Might want to read up about the Battle of Athens, Tn. http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/athens.htm
Yup - the language is your tool. And there are lots of similar tools, but sometimes one particular one is best suited for the task. For example, unscrewing the machine screws on the back of a computer case - just about any phillips head screwdriver will work. Or, in a pinch, a very small flat head. Or even a pair of pliers - it would be messy (I'll write a HR management system in bash shell scripting and use mysqlclient commands to do it all!) but it would work, possibly with a little brute force. But some uses - screws on a very fine shotgun, etc. you want the bit style that doesn't mar, fits in the screw slot exactly, etc.
You can do the same thing with motion and some creative scripting. So... old box, some webcams, some time...
Honestly, when it comes down to keeping an invasive creature out, I say gassing the container was the proper thing to do anyway.
And based on the students I teach in my "intro to linux" class, a good 30% are dependent on GUIs and aren't capable of becoming half way competent in using a command line only system over a 14 week term.
Typically, these are the same students that are in a networking track because "i'm good at helping grandma with facebook and I like to play world of warcraft" - not because they are curious about computers and networking
Cult: A small, unpopular religion.
Religion: A large, popular cult.
So should public domain status be "viral" like the GPL ? The actual performance of the work (speaking the words as well as the animation) and the recording thereof is what is copyrighted, not the actual story. Should derivative works automatically become public domain (and only public domain, no "cross licensing")?
Oh, like my mom - who has a S4 phone and wants to install skype on it so she can call her boyfriend on his phone (on the same plan!).
I asked her - "So you have a phone, acting like a computer, that you want to install software on so it will act like a phone?"
She says "yeah, I think that will be cute"
(Feel free to start with the "your mom" jokes, but she's 77 and has been using computers since the 386 days and has proven to be fairly trainable)
I have "Classic Discussion System" selected in my
Dunno if thats been done via a cookie on first visit and login or just read from login preferences... but it works for me. ymmv.
Sadly, even though FN was offering a free license to manufacture, the US went with the M14 instead of the FN-FAL (tested as the T-48). 94 other countries issued or still issue it, and it is still being produced today (in Brazil and Nigeria)
Or do the HK method and hammer forge around a mandrel (polygon shape on HK stuff). Or by "buton rifling" which involves pulling a cutting head through
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra
