You don't need a machine shop. You can buy a small 3-axis CNC milling machine and lathe for a few thousand dollars. That plus some G-Code and you can already make untraceable guns that are much more capable than anything you can get out of a 3-d printer. You can do it even cheaper if you are handy with electronics.
So change the amendment then. What if we did a little search and replace on your comment?
That said, I think the first amendment is definitely taken greatly out of context. We are honestly using the thoughts and ideas of people who lived 200 years ago to have the slightest idea what makes sense in terms of things like state run press. And we're also using their perspective on what makes sense when the entire population of the US was 2.5 in 1776. 2.5 million people barely counts as a single city in 2026.
Look, I don't really love guns either, and I'm not married to gun ownership as a civil right. But as it stands, as both a matter of law and custom, it is one. I don't think we should get to wave it away with courts or simple majority laws, otherwise we put just about everything on the table.
So the logic that I've heard by someone who sounded reasonably intelligent (ie: not MAGA) is that Social Security has a hard limit on the payout side. To offset the fact that there is a payout limit, they also limit the amount of income that is brought into it.
That argument only makes sense if wages and wealth wealth were equitably distributed. They aren't so it doesn't.
Yeah, I must have totally forgotten about the time Obama sent masked agents to go door-to-door looking for anybody with an accent.
ICE has always been kinda like this. Trump has certainly worsened it and let them off their leash, because he's interested in using them to punish the people in places he doesn't like. But you can find reporting on them brutalizing detainees and kids in cages and outdoor detention centers going back at least 15 years if not more.
Here's the key difference: Obama's policies were bad if you were an immigrant or an immigrant friend/family member. Trump's policies impact everyone in their path because they effectively suspend the 4th amendment for everyone regardless of citizenship (not to mention the thread of summary execution for exercising the 2nd and arrest for exercising the 1st).
Ok, so it's fine as long as it's happening to brown people you don't know? Obama sucked on this issue, and Trump sucks worse, but there is no point in defending the former.
Cargo aircraft crash regularly, killing people in the aircraft and on the ground. Delivery vans get involved in accidents, sometimes fatal.
When evaluating drones, we need to compare them to other options. Are they more or less dangerous?
There is a pilot in the cargo plane whose life is on the line though, so there is at least one person who has an existential stake in the vehicle's safe operation. Also man-rated vehicles are generally subject to stricter inspections.
When considering drones we also have to account for how ubiquitous they might become. If Amazon intends to use them them for a significant plurality of deliveries, then we are talking 10s or 100s of thousands of the things. At that scale, even a very low per annum crash rate per drone is going to cause huge issues. Also, not to mention the horrible noise pollution of having large, low flying drone whizzing overhead all day.
Their OLED Bravia "master" line of TVs are actually really nice. They edge out LG in picture quality due to a superior image processing pipeline, and the fit and finish is a little better, IMO. You pay through the nose for it though. Hopefully that secret sauce went over to TCL with the sale of the brand.
Since Sony owns Bungie now, I thought this was an oblique way of saying that China had seized ownership of them! (Yes I know MS retains ownership of Halo, but still)
Or they will use "parallel construction" and get away with straight up lying in court.
Sure, but most of those issues are with EVs in general. What's your specific beef with recessed handles? And if there were open-by-wire protruding handles, would you be OK with them?
I'm not OK with non-mechanical door handles full stop. You should be able to actuate the mechanism and unlock the car without power for either the outside or inside.
Recessed handles are just annoying because they are often done badlywith no mechanical backup and they cope with snow/ice poorly.
My car happens to have mechanical recessed handles which is sub optimal but not a deal breaker. You can manually actuate them if the motor which presents the handle isn't working or doesn't have power. I also have a keyhole hidden behind the recessed handle, so in the event of a power failure I can still get into the car.
He traded a worthless stake in xAI for additional stake in SpaceX, which has significantly more earning potential.
LOLS
Keep proving you're an ignorant troll.
No wait, don't, just fuck off. We don't need your willful ignorance on Slashdot.
The article you linked proves the opposite of your point:
That’s plenty of safety risk, but what about the benefit to vehicle efficiency? As it turns out, it doesn’t actually help that much. Adding flush door handles cuts the drag coefficient (Cd) by around 0.01. You really need to know a car’s frontal area as well as its Cd, but this equates to perhaps a little more than a mile of EPA range, perhaps two under Europe’s Worldwide Harmonised Light vehicles Test Procedure.
So yes, while frontal area is the primary contributor to drag, door handle loss is so small that it is basically a rounding error. Certainly not worth designing a handle that gets people killed.
You can have flush handles which present themselves when the car is unlocked and ALSO still can be actuated when NOT popped out. They just can't come out parallel. You can use a lever action instead which pops out when you press on the leading end of the recessed handle, and also use an actuator to push it out when wanted.
My Hyundai does this. It's got a lever handle that sits flush when closed and pops out when unlocked, but you can still manually pull it open and it is a mechanical actuator. I still don't like it them, for one they advertise to the world when I've left my car unlocked. For the second, if I ever forget to lock them when cleaning my car off after a snow storm, or heaven forbid, leave the car unlocked during a snow storm, they get hopelessly crudded up with snow and/or ice and don't retract all the way.
It's not about zones - it's about toggling the defroster, or outside air circulation to control humidity. Sometimes you need to toggle the temperature up to an uncomfortably warm level to keep the windshield from icing up, but once it's deiced, or if the precipitation lets up or conditions otherwise change, you'd like to turn it back down to 68.
Batteries however should not catch fire unless seriously damaged and it should be quite possible to design a battery compartment that would survive anything short of an IED going off underneath.
We are making the batteries out of one of the most reactive elements on the planet. Making them totally fire proof is almost impossible. Yeah, we could encase them in tungsten or something, but we don't for the same reason we don't make fuel tanks out of a honeycomb of depleted uranium - it's an unacceptable tradeoff of weight for safety. If we wanted to be absolutely safe we'd all drive around in tanks, or better yet take a bus or train.
Some risks you just have to accept as part of the design tradeoffs. However, those risks should be mitigated in other areas, including being able to exit the vehicle when it loses power. That's just fucking idiocy on Tesla's part.
You might not like the risk of not being able to open your car if the battery is flat but since I see these mostly on EVs, if your battery is dead you have bigger problems. Other than that's what's bad about them?
If your car crashes and catches on fire and you lose 12V power, your "bigger problems" include dying horribly in a lithium fire. Also, your "bigger problems" could include getting inside the car to pop the hood so you can change the dead battery. I'd rather not have to jimmy the lock or smash the window to do that.
They also suck in places with cold weather. Water gets behind them and they freeze, getting stuck. If you don't lock your car when brushing snow off off the roof, then you gotta try to pick compacted snow out from behind them. They are just a needless frivolity to save like
Fortunately while my car has the idiotic things, they still mechanically operate the door latch when you pull on them, both inside and out, so I don't have to worry about getting trapped inside. There's also a mechanical lock hidden behind the handle, so if the battery is dead I can still unlock the car.
Vitamin C deficiency is apauling.
