Music, movies, and microcode. And high speed pizza delivery.

The US it is federally legal to manufacture your own firearm. There are some state level restrictions depending on which one of those you’re in. In the rest of the world it’s probably considerably more regulated, but then again in the rest of the world it’ll be tougher to get your hands on the all the other parts you’d need as well.

3D printed guns do not “get past metal detectors.” This is not nuance. It’s not a matter of techicalities. You just told a bold faced lie, and you did it speficially to try to fear monger.

Printed guns still require metal springs, metal pins, metal bolts, metal barrels, and metal ammunition.

To prevent the empty tank from rusting, you can use fogging oil. It should be available at your nearest auto part store. It’s the same stuff you spray down into cylinder bores to keep them from rusting in storage. You’ll also want to cover the giant hole where the fuel pump goes. For tanks on carbed bikes rather than fuel injected this is rather easier, because all you have to do is put the cap back on and close the petcock.

The redneck method, especially for tanks with petcocks, is to just leave a pint or so of kerosene in it and cap it off. Obviously, drain most of it out before you use the tank again, or at least enough of it that once you dilute it with gasoline it won’t matter anymore.

If it existed, Califoirnia would be in the running for the largest economy in the world. (As it stands, California Prime is 4th largest.)

I won’t steal your data either.

I will, however, split your firewood.

We are totally knife

Ha! I am vindicated with the lower pixel count and thus fatter pixels on my R10.

…That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Correct. Just having the .icc file in hand doesn’t do anything for you, nor does the act of generating it with your calibrator tool. (Probably, anyway. Its software may allow you to apply it to your Windows color settings, i.e. in a manner that’ll affect the display of literally everything on your computer monitor. If so, don’t do that.) You need to load it in your image editing/viewing software so it can apply those corrections to your display output.

One other thing to note here. ICM/ICC/whatever can simulate what an output device will produce (a printer or a press) or what an input device will give you (a camera or more likely a scanner) but only if your display is capable of producing a wider color gamut than your output device. It won’t do much for you the other way around.

You’ll also have the fun of playing around with rendering intents once you have your ICC profile loaded. This is one of those things that fries everyone’s brain. It still kind of sends me for a loop.

You’re probably going to want to start with a relative colorimetric intent to start with. Try that, and see if the output from your printer makes sense to you relative to what’s on the screen. If not, you can try switching to absolute colorimetric. For your application, perceptual will probably continue to produce out-of-whack looking results. I only use that for photographs.

Bear in mind that your output in print will also be impacted by your choice of paper. “White” consumer paper is not actually optically white. Using your profiling tool and either of the colorimetric rendering intents you should be able to compensate for the whiteness or lack thereof of your paper also, but remember that any time you switch papers you’ll need to do another test print and create another output profile.

In light of all of the above it’s no wonder normal people just declare the heck with it, use their editors inbuilt CYMK simulation profile, and console themselves with that being good enough.

Because you’d be in jail.

8 pounds. The weight is listed in the copy at the bottom. Another 13 ounces if you want the accessory to get channels above 13.

It’s $2,086.88 in today’s money, also.

It costs $90 to recoup the R&D expenses incurred from developing a way to make a plastic keycap with no moving parts or electronic components mysteriously stop working three months after purchase, so we can deny your warranty claim on it. That was a very difficult feature to add, we’ll have you know.

Ah. Yes. Welcome to part of my world.

This is a persistent, but more or less solved problem in the fields of professional graphic design and press, but home users are going to have a tougher time of it.

TL;DR: You’re on the right track, here. There is a system for this called ICM — Image Color Matching. You need an ICM or ICC profile for your printer, which professional-ish image editing software will be able to load and use to tweak its display output in order to more or less match its appearance on your screen to the final output from your printer. This will come in the form of a .icc file.

If you have a decent printer the manufacturer may have been kind enough to provide this for you as part of its software and driver package. If you have a professional class printer, they definitely did. If you have a cheap consumer printer, probably not.

My considerably less than professional but not quite entirely dinkum Canon ImageClass laser printer did, and if I’m doing anything heavy duty enough that I really care about what its output looks like in print, I can use it in Corel to give myself a good preview and adjust my image edits accordingly. This process isn’t 100% perfect, but it’s a damn sight better than nothing. Having your monitor calibrated to begin with certainly helps, but your monitor’s calibration doesn’t actually have anything to do with the relationship between the colors it’s outputting to the colors your printer will output. Just, if your monitor is out of whack you’ll be chasing additional phantoms around and driving yourself nuts, because you’ll be layering one inaccuracy on top of another.

If your printer doesn’t have an ICM/ICC profile available for it, your best bet is to hope that some dedicated nerd on the internet has produced one for it with a color profiling tool and made it available for you to download. Otherwise, you’ll have to buy or build your own color profiling tool to generate your own off of a test print. (I believe you said you had one.) A better cheap-as-free solution would be to use the ICM profile from a different similar printer of the same process (inkjet, laser, whatever) and resign yourself to the conclusion that it’ll have to be better than nothing.

Part of your problem is probably your software. Whatever you or she is using to design and print has to support color profiles, and you’ll have to learn how to use them with that particular piece of software. I use the Corel suite and it makes it pretty easy for me, but that’s an expensive license that I didn’t personally have to pay for, so I kind of made out there. You actually can apply an .icc profile system-wide in Windows as a brute force approach, but this probably isn’t a good idea if you’re going to use that computer for everything else. Content that’s had its colors remapped to match a particular print device’s output are only going to look right in that particular context and will be out of whack compared to everything else. You probably don’t want to apply your printer’s ICC profile to your entire machine’s user interface and all webpages, for instance.

Or maybe you do. I don’t know.

What about mobility carts for the elderly?

I have nothing to contribute here except sharing my one anecdote about this, which is that I once personally witnessed a guy on one of those electric mobility scooters receive a DUI because he was trundling it down the shoulder of the road, presumably while smelling of beer. Given the individual in question the latter part wasn’t much of a stretch. So in some cases, i.e. the ones where the law can be used to harass you, they actually are considered motor vehicles already!

Yes, and they even inserted lines for Jiji where he originally had none in a couple of instances. The Disney dub even more infamously butchered the original musical score by replacing quite a bit of the thematically appropriate songs that contribute to the time period in which the movie is set with generic early '90s pop-slop that sounds like it ought to belong to a daytime soap opera instead.

Compare:

Rouge no Dengon (the opening) / Soaring

Yasashisa Ni Tsutsumareta Nara (the closing credits) / I’m Gonna Fly

And that’s before taking into account that they felt the need to replace much of the incidental music, such as during the crows sequence, with friggin’ Looney Tunes songs.

As I understand it the only reason that all this didn’t result in Miyazaki directly threatening anyone at Disney with his samurai sword was due to there being an ocean in the way. This might have been a lucky escape for all those responsible. (That, and Joe Hisaishi probably deserves to have his complaint heard first.)

It’s pretty trivial for any out of shape schlub to get a garden variety bicycle up to 30 or 35 MPH with the aid of a hill, but only if you don’t go by averages and discount the several minutes spent huffing and puffing up the other side first. I used the big hill in our town to crack 40 MPH once when I was a teenager, complete with no helmet and probably while wearing flip-flops.

Back then the pearl-clutchers screeched about pedal bikes at exactly the same tone and pitch as they’re doing now about e-bikes and electric kick scooters, but analog bikes have since been normalized. The ones now clearly have no idea of the types of shenanigans we got up to with our pedal bikes when we were kids. Back then if you were truly a cool cat you’d fit a little two stroke engine to your bicycle. If you weren’t, we’d skitch on the backs of tractor trailers as they passed through through town, preferably starting by grabbing one that was stopped at a (or rather at the time the) red light.

What it really boils down to is that adults absolutely cannot stand young people having access to personal transportation because it makes said young people harder to control. It was the same shit with skateboards, and before that it was the same shit with roller skates, and before that probably penny farthings. I’ll bet you the first time some caveman’s kid took a carved stone wheel and rolled across the village on it his parents complained about it.

But did you ever figure out just what the hell the plotline of Prince Valiant actually was?

Yes, I imagine parachutes would have to be involved.

(For any of the non-turbo nerds in the audience, the artist has depicted a brake caliper for a disc brake bike on a hub which is clearly a drum brake, and has no brake disc. In fact, the edge of the brake drum would have to pass through the caliper, which in this case may rely on some manner of witch magic.)

For the rest of us, literally every person in the background is from a Miyazaki film except possibly the bus driver, and we can’t tell with him because his face is blocked by Kiki’s radio.

Given that New Jersey is one of if not the most restrictive state for firearms regulations in the country, I don’t think this analogy is quite as sharp as you were expecting.

Bryant, I was quit when I came in here and I’m twice as quit now.