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During the course of the Revolution, approximately 1,700 letters of Marque were issued to privateers. In the War of 1812, President James Madison issued more than 500 letters of Marque to privateers. These letters of marque created what was, essentially, legal piracy, and it was sanctioned by the government and even deemed necessary. So how did these privateers arm their vessels? With cannons that they purchased as individuals. Our colonial navy had approximately 1,200 cannons on board less than 65 ships. The privateers, on the other hand, had almost 15,000 cannons – all privately owned. Throughout much of this country’s history, privately-raised militia units have fought side by side with regular artillery units, with the only difference being that these militia units were using cannons that had been privately purchased. Many artillery units in the Civil War were funded privately.

https://www.ammoland.com/2021/06/actually-mr-president-you-can-own-a-cannon/

fuck off.

HAte to break it to ya @stux
but @icedquinn is spot on. It is a well known (And not particularly disputed) fact that cannons and other heavily artillery were overwhelmingly owned by private, rather than military, entities during the early history of the USA.

Not only did the 2A include (intentionally) heavy artillery and clearly was not limited to the musket, but automatic fire weapons were already invented something like 100 years prior and well known to the founding fathers.

Long story short, the idea that the 2A was written specifically with muskets in mind really has no basis in reality at all when the facts are examined without the rhetoric.

Hey, folks!
Has anyone seen such an output for a ramp coming out of a DAC?
This is produced by a simple counter counting from 0 to 4095 and then wrapping.
The sharp dips are absolutely stable and deterministic. They occur at bit switches but I don't seem to get my head around why.
Identical curves on two different DAC peripherals on the same μC and even across different chips/boards (I'm almost certain it's a software problem).

I'm trying to build a potentiostat for cyclic voltammetry, it seems it requires further calibration but at least my signals (red) are similar to those expected (blue)

@ryanschultz If the US dollar experiences hyperinflation and looses all its value you arent insured by banks either. Banks dont secure the **value** of the money, only that if money becomes worthless you will still see a fictional number on your bank account (which you still cant withdrawl since it wont physically be there)... Yea banks arent much better.

@atomicpoet Decentralized currency, duh. That said as far as crypto goes it isnt a particularly useful one given its lack of smart contracts.

@al1r4d@mstdn.io
I dont see that one on the list, which one is that again?

Saved a dehydrated bird. Took him in and fed him water from a syringe until he was able to fly again. Just released him and he seems good.

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