{"id":6863,"date":"2003-06-03T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/03\/6863\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T22:05:28","slug":"6863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/03\/6863\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Built a Gun From Sulphur, a Tube, and His, uh, Urine and Vinegar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a> (and other sources) are reporting about the New Zealand guy who&#8217;s building a cruise missile in his garage from parts he bought, essentially, in electronics catalogs from around the world, and get this, <b><i>New Zealand Customs didn&#8217;t stop the legal parts trafficking!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Let the uproar begin.  So this yahoo fancies himself Tom Swift or the modern equivalent, who instead of building a time machine or rocket to get to Saturn, builds a cruise missile or a Ptomekin-class nuclear submarine.  It ain&#8217;t easy to do on one&#8217;s own, and if he can do it, more power to him.  However, the Hysterics-That-Be will undoubtedly want to clamp down on mail order now and maybe even curiosity among the civilian populace.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Captain James T. Kirk once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/library\/tos_episodes\/episodes_tos_detail_68698.asp\" target=\"new\">built a gun<\/a> out of the surrounding environment (while nearly shirtless, no less).  But in the end he didn&#8217;t kill the guy in the awkward lizard costume out of <b>civilized<\/b> behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps society and its emissaries (of which government is but one, and a subserviant one at that) should work on promoting civilization and not worry so much about taking away our individual pointy objects.  Civilized people don&#8217;t use them on one another without good reason.  Or reason, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fark (and other sources) are reporting about the New Zealand guy who&#8217;s building a cruise missile in his garage from parts he bought, essentially, in electronics catalogs from around the world, and get this, New Zealand Customs didn&#8217;t stop the legal parts trafficking! Let the uproar begin. So this yahoo fancies himself Tom Swift or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21218,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/21218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}