To be fair, the submission (which is from 2009) is also very reddit-shallow. (Six whole paragraphs, wow!)
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Well, I'm sitting on a 15 day ban right now, so I'm not a 4chan user at the moment.
OP is two years old: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-co...
Isaac Asimov Died 1992
Gregory Benford Alive
Algis Budrys Died 2008
Gerald Feinberg Died 1992
Sheldon Glashow Alive
Frederik Pohl Alive
Jerry Pournelle Alive
Tim Powers Alive
Orson Scott Card Alive
Robert Silverberg Alive
Jack Williamson Died 2006
Gene Wolfe Alive
Dave Wolverton Alive
Roger Zelazny Died 1997
Aluminum could maybe be made to handle .22lr type
pressures, but certainly not .223rem or bigger.
The Alexander Arms .50 Beowolf lower is made out of aluminum. http://www.gunblast.com/50Beowulf.htm
You can also buy single-shot .50 BMG uppers that bolt right onto regular aluminum AR-15 lowers, though of course you can't feed .50 BMG through a 5.56 magazine well.
Does HN have any mods?
2.) Have blue has a blog, he's written two posts about this: http://haveblue.org/?p=1041 http://haveblue.org/?p=1321 It appears to be down right now, though. Cache links: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DlBe32... https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z_5bOF...
3.) He printed a AR-15 lower receiver, which is the part, under US law, considered a "firearm". The high pressure components (barrel, bolt) are all made from conventional manufacturing processes, using steel.
Lowers are typically made out of aluminum, but they don't really experience any great stresses, so it's perfectly possible to make them out of plastic. (There's a number of commercial lowers made out of fiberglass: http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=65134 (I'd link directly to the manufacturer's site, but it seems they're better at making guns than they are at securing web servers)) As he notes, people have even carved them from wood.
Kinda annoying that it loads all its page content from www.colors.commutercreative.com, which RequestPolicy blocks by default, being an external domain.
Just like how its legal to shoot terrorists, but not Americans. All morality is based on drawing tribal lines, and BP isn't in my tribe.
For the quarter ended June 30, Microsoft reported a loss
of $492 million, or six cents a share, compared with a
year-earlier profit of $5.87 billion, or 69 cents a share.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research estimate Microsoft MSFT +0.91% will
earn 62 cents a share on $18.2 billion in revenue, compared with a profit of
69 cents a share, on sales of $17.37 billion, in the same period a year ago.
[...]
At Citigroup, analyst Walter Pritchard said that even with the huge
writedown, he expects Microsoft to report results in line with expectations.
Still, Pritchard said, in a research note, that there are “many moving pieces
in the numbers” from Microsoft, and that the prospects for Windows 8 will be
a big driver of how investors treat Microsoft over the next year.
Microsoft shares rose 64 cents, or more than 2%, to $30.32 Wednesday, and the
stock is up by almost 17% since the start of the year.
Then the fireball, being very hot and much less dense than the air around it, rises. Air is sucked towards ground zero, producing the backwash, and the characteristic mushroom cloud of any very large explosion.
User-agent blocking is completely braindead. It does nothing at all. The fact that somebody in 2012 can possibly think it works is astounding to me.
bbot@magnesium:~> wget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen
--2012-07-15 13:54:29-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen
Resolving en.wikipedia.org... 208.80.154.225, 2620:0:861:ed1a::1
Connecting to en.wikipedia.org|208.80.154.225|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 203481 (199K) [text/html]