Archive for May 23rd, 2008

Tannerite appears illegal in Oregon, Washington

23 May 2008

I guess I’ll have to go on a crusade and find the state laws which appear to prohibit Tannerite from being possessed in various states. I was prompted to look into Oregon by DoubleTapDrew’s assertion:

It’s legal. They need a centerfire round to be set off so I don’t think it’s much of a concern to the ATF. It’s not like someone will bring a few pounds of the stuff on an airplane then pull out an AK-47 to set it off.

Here is Oregon, chapter and verse:

Ry Jones here, Assistant Director of the Boomershoot. The ATFE definition of explosive does not include the detonation method; that an explosive is or is not impact sensitive does not matter when it comes to laying out rules for handling, transport, or storage. For that matter, it doesn’t matter when it comes to prosecution, either.

Please choose your battles with the ATFE wisely. If you want to read the “bible” of federal explosives law, read the Orange Book. DoubleTapDrew, you’re from Oregon; here is what appears to be the law that applies:

480.210 Certificate of possession required; exceptions; display of certificate upon demand; defenses.

(1) A person may not possess an explosive unless:

(a) The person has in immediate possession at all times during the possession of the explosive a valid certificate of possession issued to the person under ORS 480.235; or

(b) The person is licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to be a manufacturer of explosives, a dealer in explosives or the authorized agent of such a manufacturer or dealer.

(2) A person in possession of an explosive shall display a certificate of possession upon the demand of the issuing authority, a magistrate or a law enforcement agency, public fire department or fire protection agency of this state.

(3) It is a defense to a charge under subsection (1) of this section that the person so charged produce in court:

(a) A certificate described in subsection (1)(a) of this section that was valid at the time of the arrest of the person; or

(b) Proof that the person is licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to be a manufacturer of explosives, a dealer in explosives, or the authorized agent of such a manufacturer or dealer. [1971 c.518 §3; 1999 c.980 §3; 2007 c.71 §159]

I don’t know how a plain reading of the law squares with your statement that “it’s legal”. Yes, if you have an ATFE license, it is legal. As I said on my blog, those $295 DIAS in Shotgun News are legal, too.

I already linked to Washington law in my previous post.

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Stats; proposal for new unit for link love: the Raymond

23 May 2008

Sebastian writes that a link from Huffpo is worth about five hits; a link from Brady is worth about one. My most popular non-Raymond Chen posts are all of the “how to hard reset a device” variety. How to hard reset a Touch Dual is worth from 50-60 hits a day. How to hard reset an HTC Touch is worth 30-40 hits a day. Zune 2 hard reset? 10-20. ipaq 110 classic hard reset is worth 5-10 (this means every owner is hard reseting every day, and forgetting how to do so! Ha! Ha!). These aren’t one-day hits; for the leaderboard there, it’s all Raymond Chen.

Raymond Chen is worth more residual traffic (20 hits a day) than Instanpundit, Say Uncle, or Joe (all at ~0 residual hits). A link from Chen is worth a couple thousand hits in a few hours (right around 0700). A link from Glenn is worth a thousand or so hits over a few more hours. A link from Uncle, while gratifying, is hidden by the daily fluctuation of “Touch Dual” hits. A link from Joe is about 1/3rd an Uncle; however, since Joe is close to me on many axis, I suspect we share subscribers.

To put some scale to this, a link from Instapundit has 0 residual and is worth about 1/4 of a link from Chen initially (about half the hits over about twice the timespan).

Huffpo would rank up there on my all-time hits for Aluminum Foam. An article with one hit, ever? Area 29 Snomobile Maps.

Because I hate that every scandal is post-fixed with “gate” and every expression of link love is a “-lanche”, I propose a new unit for directed unique user visits: the Raymond, which I define as 2,674 uniques per hour.

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