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dpboehm commented on the blog post State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D Printable Gun Files
The above should read “make the “knowledge” *illegal* “.
I would also point out that this could allow people to make weapons that comply with new regulations when the firearms the currently own would run afoul of them–particularly in states like California where a rifles with certain features are deemed assault weapons if they have readily removable magazines. They are not banned if they require a tool to remove the (the infamous bullet button). This would make printing a compliant receiver easy without modifying the existing parts of the firearm.
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dpboehm commented on the blog post State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D Printable Gun Files
The firearms industry will still make plenty of money, because this technology still doesn’t permit the creation of a functioning firearm, only the plastic parts. This is why trying to regulate it and make the “knowledge” required to build the parts is both futile and silly. You can buy a receiver (the only part considered a “firearm” by law) or now print your own, you still have to buy an “upper” (barrel and chamber, made of steel and not printable), trigger group, stock/grips (these may be printable), Magazines (parts of which may be printable)and so on. What many people don’t understand about weapons like the AR-15 is that they are a modular platform. This is part of the reason for their popularity. A receiver from one manufacturer will work with an upper from another and a trigger group from a third and stock and grips from yet another.
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dpboehm commented on the diary post Ads That Make You Go Hmm… by Crane-Station.
I generally agree that gun safety should be taught early and often if firearms are a part of your family life. This includes range safety, learning how to safely store and handle firearms at an appropriate age. Until that age, if you see a gun, don’t touch it and tell an adult. After you have [...]
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dpboehm commented on the diary post Ads That Make You Go Hmm… by Crane-Station.
As to the marketing, it seemed more aimed at parents, with a cheesy “buy your kid’s love and happiness” sort of undertone that you see a lot. One could argue that the 4-10 age range cited is a defective warning, but the issue here was lack of supervision and lack of care in storing the [...]
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dpboehm commented on the diary post Ads That Make You Go Hmm… by Crane-Station.
It’s as much “lawyer speak” as “cop speak.” Using the passive voice to make things sound less bad is covered in most legal writing classes. Legally, it’s an “accident” because the only other causes of death a coroner can find are “natural,” “suicide,” and “homicide” or “at the hands of another.” Generally a death is [...]
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dpboehm commented on the diary post Senator Elizabeth Warren: Asking Sensible Questions by jeffc.
It’s difficult to understand something when your salary depends on you not understanding it.
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dpboehm commented on the diary post You know that kidnapped doctor rescued by SEAL Team Six over the weekend? by JP Sottile.
I would expect that like many “soft power” organizations over the years funded by the likes of USAID, they do some quasi-legitimate development and aid work while using their position to conduct State Department and intelligence activities. You would think they could afford to pay for a less amateurish, phony NGO looking website without staged [...]
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dpboehm commented on the diary post How Efforts Like Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee Could Undermine the Credit Reporting System by dpboehm.
As I understand it, a paid collection account does not raise your score. A collection account is still a collection account on your report whether it’s unpaid, paid in full, settled, or charged off. The only thing that will make an appreciable difference on your score is to delete the collection activity or have enough [...]
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dpboehm wrote a new diary post: How Efforts Like Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee Could Undermine the Credit Reporting System
Much of the progressive intelligensia has been yawning over Occupy’s newest initiative to buy up and forgive distressed debt. The effort is seen as futile or useful only as a means of attracting attention to the issue of staggering personal, educational, and medical debt as a result of decades of declining household income. There is more [...] -
dpboehm commented on the diary post What Even Woodward and Bernstein Can’t Say Out Loud: Nixon Wrecked the Paris Peace Talks by Phoenix Woman.
Treason is an especially difficult charge to prove, and I’m not sure the facts here would fully support it. It seems like Nixon violated the Logan Act, a law created specifically to address this situation. Unauthorized persons are barred by this law from conducting foreign policy on behalf of the United States. Going after Nixon [...]
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dpboehm commented on the blog post Libyan Intervention Ratcheted Up By “Do-Something” Neocons
The use of war as an “instrument of national policy” has been illegal since the Kellogg-Briand Agreement c. 1929. This is why we havn’t declared war on any nation since then with the exception of WWII and even then only after we were attacked.
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dpboehm commented on the blog post Moody’s Swings
Bond rating agencies have some kind of chutzpuh questioning US debt after the historic role their malfeasance played in helping create the crisis that made much of the debt necessary. Treasury rates are at historic lows, indicating that investors still view US debt as the safest bet in the world.
