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Comment Re:Gas station out of power? (Score 1) 79

I was in IT for a company that was upgrading to an IBM AS/400 mini-computer, with a brand new computer room. Our boss believed in doings things right, and we had a UPS which was specced out for more power than we'd need, with plenty of time for either an orderly shutdown, or for the length of the blackout.

Fortunately, the first blackout only lasted about twenty minutes. This was a short enough time that we kept running, but long enough to realize that the system console terminal - necessary to shut the computer down - was one of the few things in the room that hadn't been plugged into the UPS.

Comment Re:Another judge legislating from the bench (Score 1) 418

That makes it new technology, not new territory. The 'territory' in question involves whether you can legally manufacture your own guns or not - and that has been settled.

Whether you use a drill press, or a numerically controlled mill, or a 3-D printer is immaterial - the effort required on your part to build it does not dictate whether or not you should have that right .

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