https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7ch...olice-department-gangs-fbi-shootings/6397730/ FBI warning Chicago Police, this is gonna be a national level thing eventually. Not only is that scary, but extremely sad.
With the election of Trump it was bye bye to all criminal activity and we are living in a Utopia where soylent green is plentiful.
I guess that would depend on one’s definition of “illegal”. My definition being: you get caught with one, you go to jail. Which is true in many metropolitan areas in a lot of circumstances. “heavily regulated” is basically illegal if you ask me. Especially when you’re talking about a right that is supposed to be inherent.
It depends on some circumstances but in most cases the Supreme Court has decided that you are within your rights to possess a firearm and even carry it with you most places. No, you can't bring it to the airport or in a courthouse. And except for Texas it's probably illegal to have one on school grounds. I know you can't have one in a secure facility such as the "Black Box" at Boeing.
What and where is that? You obviously don't mean a flight data recorder. As long as I'm asking, which years were you at Boeing?
Boeing's "Black Box" was facility where top secret work was done. Nothing was allowed out of there, not even any kind of papers whatsoever. You couldn't even bring out scratch paper or a grocery list. It's like the black hole where no light can escape, well nothing escapes the Black Box. I worked there from mid 1985 'till late 1990. My claim to fame, I'm the manufacturing engineer that built the electronic box complete with toggle switches and incandescent lights that said missile away when the most powerful nuclear missile in the world was deployed. Each box had five missiles it could launch. Only one out of every five launch sites was manned. I also worked on the Minuteman missile. Other projects included some efforts on the SRAM II cruise missile and the V-22 Osprey. That took up about half my work time at Boeing. The rest of my Boeing career was in Everett where I built jumbo jets, the 747 and the 767. I worked on a reproducibility team for improving quality, schedule and costs of the three jumbo jets at the time the 747, the 767 and the soon to be released 777. I was moving up since I was a hard worker and getting results but I got tired of Seattle and wanted back in Portland. I tried to get on at Boeing's Troutdale facility but they didn't need anyone with my skill set. I wound up with a small consulting company in Portland but had to quit due to accelerating health issues. Best and most satisfying job I ever had was as an electronics engineer at Tektronix. The negative part of that job was the low pay and like the other two big companies I've worked for there was some nasty politics and some real assholes. Still, in retrospect the Tek job was the best. Good think I left Tektronix for better pay, though because Tektronix eventually laid off about 90% of their workforce and kept less than 10%. Everyone who worked there eventually got really pissed off. Well, that's the risk you take with a big company. Boeing paid the most but treated their engineers like dog shit. At Tektronix and at Emerson Electric I got treated like a professional although with less pay.
I was in Boeing accounting in 1979-81 in Kent. I didn't like living only for my job and returned to small town Bellingham. Yes, they paid well. I have read about the remote control by one crew of 5 launch sites.
For a while I worked across the street from Kent barely inside Renton at the Renton-Benaroya facility.
I was at Kent Benaroya. They moved out 20 or 30 years ago. They still have the bigger Kent Space Center, where 15,000 employees then made ALCMs. I don't know what they make there now. After a few years gone, they offered me to work at headquarters in Renton ("one floor below the President" they said, hinting I would make contacts--I bet it was more floors than that), but I was comfortable in Bellingham.
No no no, this is just Donald, out of the generosity of his heart, giving us a preview of what the Biden presidency will look like, so we make a proper choice.
As much as I hope this doesn't happen, it wouldn't surprise me at all. The ironic twist is that for years we've heard from the right wing that one of the big reasons they supported the Second Amendment was to be able to respond in the event of the government oppressing the citizens using the military and the police.
When I first went to work there and throughout my 5 1/2 years there the headquarters when in my building in Seattle directly across from the King County airport, aka Boeing Field, just West and across the street from the King County airport.. Interestingly enough, my telephone was the one used by the mayor of Renton who worked for Boeing. Some of my workmates told me how it was frequently called by the President of Boeing, Frank Schrontz, with issues involving Boeing and Renton where they built their, what I called baby jets, i.e. smaller airliners like the 727 and the 737. By the way, Jimmy Hendrix is buried in Renton, maybe a mile or two from where I lived. I visited his grave and left the obligatory lit socially customary cigarette on his grave. Had to buy a pack of cigarettes because I don't smoke and don't carry any cigarettes around. I lived on what was known as the Issaquah highway, can't recall it's hwy no but my apartment was in the far Eastern part of Renton. I think it was called Sunset something or other.
