I was born in the USSR, I lived through a number of currency collapses just in THAT country and then after the dissolution through collapse of new currencies created AFTER that country collapsed.
Yeah, I remember.
I also know enough history and geography that if you want, I can name close to 50 currencies of top of my head that collapsed. Oh, USA also had that, it was called the Continental. Today it's called the Federal.
The purpose of public education is to keep the power to the elites by instilling a specific set of believes into the populace.
The purpose of police is to protect the power from the populace.
If you actually want education today as opposed to a mortgage and no house, you can get that education for just the cost of your time, it's easier than ever before. But that's if you are determined to get that education. If you attend public school and most colleges you won't get anything better than that.
Google now only considers graduates from the most elite schools, if you didn't go to some Ivy league school don't bother sending in the resume, that's because Google (and other companies) are doing the same thing exactly as this guy from an earlier/. story, you CAN thank inflation in education for that, and that's a direct consequence of government money in education.
The way to get a productive member of society you have to have society that offers him freedoms that are guaranteed by an equally applied law. You have to get rid of government wars on drugs, wars on poverty, wars on money. You have to have a wealthy society if you want members of it to be productive.
You can't have people coming out of artificial college settings into a society that is poor due to socialist/fascist nature of it and expect them to do well. Why would they do well in a poor society? Socialism does one thing: it guarantees poverty in the long term, an equal outcome of poverty.
Individual freedoms do not guarantee any outcomes, but they guarantee that you can try and not be punished for trying and if you fail you can try again and you won't be held back by the system that promotes unequal treatment of people on the institutional level.
It is OK to try and fail, but in a poor society you are going to be very limited as to how many times you can attempt (if any at all). At the extreme, you have socialist or fascist societies that tell you how to live, where to work, what your economic output will be, it's all predetermined before you even get out into the real world. You cannot be all you can be, you can only be what you are told (or you can be a criminal and the system will eventually destroy you).
Productive members of society.... they don't come from hive mind, they don't come from a place, where from the early age you are told that society OWES YOU something, anything, any product, any service. They come from a place where from young age you know that you are equal under law but your failure is yours alone.
Total disaster, never happens in real world, not virtual one. Except for all the times when 'real world' currencies undergo devaluations, revaluations, forced exchanges, just plain old inflation, all the things that lead to currencies collapsing. I mean name me a paper currency that lasted longer than 80 years on this planet without a major restructuring, without collapsing?
This is a technical problem, I am pretty certain it will be addressed. Not that I care much about Bitcoin in itself, but I like the idea of competing currencies and this is definitely a revolutionary one, so it's interesting to observe. I don't think it's going away any time soon even with technical issues.
Greece wasn't considered to be in trouble until it could no longer borrow. The socialists 'borrow' from the productive people. Once the interest rates for them go up they can no longer pay for their socialism. So they circle the wagons around their ethnic majority, that is the natural progression for docialists to nazism. So Greece has this growing a rather smooth transition.
But you wanted it, your entire ideology is based on destroying equality under law.
Your entire ideology requires to discriminate against some to provide subsidy to others, this is just a tide going the other way, you have pushed and pushed and you have gotten now what you inevitably pushed towards - inflation, lack of productivity, lack of personal responsibility and lack of individual initiative.
The government creates the moral hazard of fake loans that nobody in their sound mind would EVER give you out of their savings to go 'study' sociology, philosophy, literature. There was a story earlier in the day on this site about an employer not interested in these graduates, they are not worth the time, they have huge debts and they have proven themselves to be incapable of not following the crowd, they have proven to be lemmings.
Obama's new 'Pay as you Earn' idea is going to change the way people pay back loans, no more the loan payment will be tied to the actual loan amount, now it will be tied to your yearly earnings, so it will make sense to rack up the biggest debt you can and stay in college as long as you possibly can stretch, and then find a low enough paying job so that you won't be repaying too much. In 10 years the remainder of your loan is forgiven, and so colleges will raise tuition faster than ever before in history, I even fully expect to see doubling of tuition in a single year. Why not, you are not paying for it, you are not price sensitive.
It's a bail out, it's inflation. Elizabeth Warren wants to push interest rates for student loans to be the same as the rate the affiliate banks get at the Fed's discount window.
Good politics, I am sure 99% of you will agree and 99% of you want that to happen. Of-course it's terrible economics, the banks should not be getting that free money, that's inflation.
Of-course the banks are getting it from the Fed so that they can turn around and buy US Treasuries, to maintain the artificially low interest rates, to maintain the ability of the gov't to spend on your bankrupt social and military programs. The Fed also wants the banks not to fail for as long as they can stretch it, so the banks make the spread between the Fed's discount rate and the Treasury yield, a couple of percent, nothing fancy.
Except that it's over 2Trillion a year not counting the new 85Billion a month in just mortgages and refinancing. The Fed wants to reinflate the housing market, they are somewhat successful. The banks use these 'record profits' to inflate the bond and the stock market, stock market is record high.
Guess what, Warren's plan will make college tuition record high for the same reason that the stock and bond markets are high: inflation. Enormous inflation.
But her bill won't pass, however Obama's plan will and so don't worry, you'll be able to rack up all the debt you want and never have to repay it, just pay a little bit over 10 years. Of-course what are you going to pay it from? Who is going to hire these sociology and ethnic studies majors?
PhDs are going to wash floors in McDonalds.
Yes, it's the new feudalism, the politicians, your gov't, the bankers that are part of it are the feudals and you are the useful idiots.
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Now go ahead, this comment only has one way to go.
So I see, an argument about individual freedom not to be abused by government is 'religious' and applied research does not lead to better understanding of principles. Applied research also may not lead to anything profitable and it also increases our knowledge of the universe around us, the added benefit is that we do not have to absorb cost of millions of failed research teams and time that is wasted (most of the time) on nonsense, so it doesn't hurt the economy in any way. Basic research should be done if there are enough people to donate to the cause of it and whoever wants to do it should be asking for donations from private parties, not using violence of gov't, which creates resentment.
so what about my own home made 3D printer that I put together back in 2005-6 from parts I salvaged from other printers and fax machines and some steel pieces and electrical motors? Will I now have to register my own concoction with the Mr. police state there?:)
Apparently nothing is good for you, a company invests in research and shelves it because it didn't pan out and later the need resurfaced, the research is not research because a particular goal was in mind. So the particular goal in mind is what separates research you like from research you don't like? The money that goes towards research you don't like comes from the pockets of the people that are willingly spending on it and inventing or discovering something that becomes useful decades later, but you don't like their intentions, I see, yet you don't have a problem with the gov't violently stealing money from people to subsidise the goal-less (I take it) research that you personally approve of.
Also I did leave a number of times, I left a number of countries.
So how do you deal with anybody who haven't stayed 'current'? What do you mean by 'dealing'? What do you need 'current' for and what degrees of 'current' are we talking about?
How about hiring people for the job when you need the job done and if you don't need a person, then let him go. Doesn't that answer any and all questions?
First of all: scientific research for no relevant purpose at all should be done with DONATIONS not with violent attack on individual freedoms to deprive people of their property.
In 1962 Corning developed a new toughened automobile windshield designed to be thinner and lighter than existing windshields, which reduced danger of personal injury by shattering into small granules when smashed. This toughened glass had a chemically hardened outer layer, and its manufacture incorporated an ion exchange and a "fusion process" in special furnaces that Corning built in its Blacksburg, Virginia facility. Corning developed it as an alternative to laminated windshields with the intention of becoming an automotive industry supplier. The new windshields debuted on the 1970 model year Javelins and AMXs built by American Motors Corporation (AMC). As there were no mandatory safety standards for motor vehicle windshields, the larger automakers had no financial incentive to change from the cheaper existing products. Corning terminated its windshield project in 1971, after it turned out to be one of the company's "biggest and most expensive failures." However, like many Corning innovations, the unique process to manufacture this automotive glass was resurrected and is today the basis of their very profitable LCD glass business.
use strict; use warnings; ## Two arguments ## $1 Youtube URL from the browser ## $2 prefix to the file name of the video (optional) #
## collect the URL from the command line argument my $url = $ARGV[0] or die "\nError: You need to specify a YouTube URL\n\n";
## declare the user defined file name prefix my $prefix = defined($ARGV[1]) ? $ARGV[1] : "";
## download the html code from the youtube page my $html = `wget -Ncq -e "convert-links=off" --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies/dev/null --no-check-certificate "$url" -O-` or die "\nThere was a problem downloading the HTML file.\n\n";
## collect the title of the page to use as the file name my ($title) = $html =~ m/<title>(.+)<\/title>/si; $title =~ s/[^\w\d]+/_/g; $title =~ s/_youtube//ig; $title =~ s/^_//ig; $title = lc ($title);
## collect the URL of the video my ($download) = $html =~/"url_encoded_fmt_stream_map"([\s\S]+?)\,/ig;
## collect the url and signature since the html page randomizes the order my ($signature) = $download =~/(signature=[^&]+)/; my ($youtubeurl) = $download =~/(http.+)/; $youtubeurl =~ s/&signature.+$//;
## combine the url and signature in order to use in wget $download = "$youtubeurl\&$signature";
## a bit more cleanup $download =~ s/&+/&/g; $download =~ s/&itag=\d+&signature=/&signature=/g;
## print the file name of the video collected from the web page title for us to see on the cli print "\n Download: $prefix$title.webm\n\n";
## Download the file using wget and background the wget process system("wget -Ncq -e \"convert-links=off\" --load-cookies/dev/null --tries=50 --timeout=45 --no-check-certificate \"$download\" -O $prefix$title.webm &");
Scientistsâ(TM) work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But what if itâ(TM)s not the best way to do science?
By the way, who is preventing any scientist from publishing his papers anyway he or she likes at all? Who is standing in their way just throwing the stuff on some free Internet site, like, I don't know this or even this silly site?
People should be just eating more fresh vegetables and fruits and fewer grains, animal fats, meats, but it seems that unless these peppers and tomatoes come in pill form, many won't have them.
I remember on some radio show a few years back there was a topic of tomatoes being useful in preventing some forms of cancer, something to the tune of: have 2 tomatoes a day, it reduces cancer risk. The show host was like: that's too much pizza I have to eat every day!
It is definitely a weird or maybe even a troubling sign that there are spies on Mars and even more strangely there are EARTH features on that other planet. GEOlogical?
That's all that people that go to QA need: a huge debt and no house to show for it in 4 years, while they could be working for those 4 years at a low but growing wage, gathering experience.
If one wants actually to learn about software development and testing methodologies, one can learn on his own, a piece of paper from college does not prove anything actually at this point, except that you are a sheep that goes to the slaughterhouse with the rest of the herd.
No, making molds doesn't nullify the advantage of using a 3D printer, it gives the 3D printer a real purpose - making other tools.
3D printers are terrible for mass production, there are much better tools for that, and if 3D printers can be used to build parts of machines that can be used for that and build molds and other things of that nature, then they can be part of your own production line. Isn't that a good idea, to own your tools of production? That's what makes you much more productive, it gives you ability to be your own manufacturer at some point and be a manufacturer for profit as well.
That's how and why capitalism and industrialisation made the world as wealthy as it never was before: capitalism is ownership and operation of private property (so you own and operate your tools of production) and it allows you to re-invest and build your productive capacity from your savings. So you invest into one machine and labour, eventually you make enough profits to invest into another machine, you can use your earlier machines to build newer machines, etc.
I think not everybody is interested in that, but those who are interested have a much better chance now than before.
Legislating that guns must be detectable by metal detectors so that they cannot be brought onto airplanes......
I mean, if you haven't understood yet how retarded so many laws are and how much of a show it is for a politicians who is pushing for nonsense legislation to make a name for himself, just look at this one.
So it remains or becomes illegal to make fully plastic guns that cannot be detected, but how is it legal to bring guns on planes anyway? It's illegal right now (used to be legal in USA), so it doesn't matter if it's a plastic gun or any other gun. But the point is:
a person who wants to bring a plastic gun that he prints onto a plane is already committing an illegal act by taking the gun to the plane. This legislation does NOT prevent him from printing the gun and bringing it onto the plane.
What it does do it prevents people from legally printing plastic guns that they are not taking on planes. Understand?
This legislation is nonsense, it doesn't change anything. People who want to bring undetected plastic weapons on planes will not be stopped by that law.
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Look up the history of currencies just over the last 100 years.
Latest off top of my head is North Korea with 100 to 1 devaluation over 2 day weekend.
90%? How about 99%?
I was born in the USSR, I lived through a number of currency collapses just in THAT country and then after the dissolution through collapse of new currencies created AFTER that country collapsed.
Yeah, I remember.
I also know enough history and geography that if you want, I can name close to 50 currencies of top of my head that collapsed. Oh, USA also had that, it was called the Continental. Today it's called the Federal.
The purpose of public education is to keep the power to the elites by instilling a specific set of believes into the populace.
The purpose of police is to protect the power from the populace.
If you actually want education today as opposed to a mortgage and no house, you can get that education for just the cost of your time, it's easier than ever before. But that's if you are determined to get that education. If you attend public school and most colleges you won't get anything better than that.
Google now only considers graduates from the most elite schools, if you didn't go to some Ivy league school don't bother sending in the resume, that's because Google (and other companies) are doing the same thing exactly as this guy from an earlier /. story, you CAN thank inflation in education for that, and that's a direct consequence of government money in education.
The way to get a productive member of society you have to have society that offers him freedoms that are guaranteed by an equally applied law. You have to get rid of government wars on drugs, wars on poverty, wars on money. You have to have a wealthy society if you want members of it to be productive.
You can't have people coming out of artificial college settings into a society that is poor due to socialist/fascist nature of it and expect them to do well. Why would they do well in a poor society? Socialism does one thing: it guarantees poverty in the long term, an equal outcome of poverty.
Individual freedoms do not guarantee any outcomes, but they guarantee that you can try and not be punished for trying and if you fail you can try again and you won't be held back by the system that promotes unequal treatment of people on the institutional level.
It is OK to try and fail, but in a poor society you are going to be very limited as to how many times you can attempt (if any at all). At the extreme, you have socialist or fascist societies that tell you how to live, where to work, what your economic output will be, it's all predetermined before you even get out into the real world. You cannot be all you can be, you can only be what you are told (or you can be a criminal and the system will eventually destroy you).
Productive members of society.... they don't come from hive mind, they don't come from a place, where from the early age you are told that society OWES YOU something, anything, any product, any service. They come from a place where from young age you know that you are equal under law but your failure is yours alone.
Oh shit, the sky is falling.
Total disaster, never happens in real world, not virtual one. Except for all the times when 'real world' currencies undergo devaluations, revaluations, forced exchanges, just plain old inflation, all the things that lead to currencies collapsing. I mean name me a paper currency that lasted longer than 80 years on this planet without a major restructuring, without collapsing?
This is a technical problem, I am pretty certain it will be addressed. Not that I care much about Bitcoin in itself, but I like the idea of competing currencies and this is definitely a revolutionary one, so it's interesting to observe. I don't think it's going away any time soon even with technical issues.
Authenticated Public-Key?
Advanced Power Kit?
Amplitude Phase-Shift Keying?
Alex P. Keaton ?
Greece wasn't considered to be in trouble until it could no longer borrow. The socialists 'borrow' from the productive people. Once the interest rates for them go up they can no longer pay for their socialism. So they circle the wagons around their ethnic majority, that is the natural progression for docialists to nazism. So Greece has this growing a rather smooth transition.
But you wanted it, your entire ideology is based on destroying equality under law.
Your entire ideology requires to discriminate against some to provide subsidy to others, this is just a tide going the other way, you have pushed and pushed and you have gotten now what you inevitably pushed towards - inflation, lack of productivity, lack of personal responsibility and lack of individual initiative.
The government creates the moral hazard of fake loans that nobody in their sound mind would EVER give you out of their savings to go 'study' sociology, philosophy, literature. There was a story earlier in the day on this site about an employer not interested in these graduates, they are not worth the time, they have huge debts and they have proven themselves to be incapable of not following the crowd, they have proven to be lemmings.
Obama's new 'Pay as you Earn' idea is going to change the way people pay back loans, no more the loan payment will be tied to the actual loan amount, now it will be tied to your yearly earnings, so it will make sense to rack up the biggest debt you can and stay in college as long as you possibly can stretch, and then find a low enough paying job so that you won't be repaying too much. In 10 years the remainder of your loan is forgiven, and so colleges will raise tuition faster than ever before in history, I even fully expect to see doubling of tuition in a single year. Why not, you are not paying for it, you are not price sensitive.
It's a bail out, it's inflation. Elizabeth Warren wants to push interest rates for student loans to be the same as the rate the affiliate banks get at the Fed's discount window.
Good politics, I am sure 99% of you will agree and 99% of you want that to happen. Of-course it's terrible economics, the banks should not be getting that free money, that's inflation.
Of-course the banks are getting it from the Fed so that they can turn around and buy US Treasuries, to maintain the artificially low interest rates, to maintain the ability of the gov't to spend on your bankrupt social and military programs. The Fed also wants the banks not to fail for as long as they can stretch it, so the banks make the spread between the Fed's discount rate and the Treasury yield, a couple of percent, nothing fancy.
Except that it's over 2Trillion a year not counting the new 85Billion a month in just mortgages and refinancing. The Fed wants to reinflate the housing market, they are somewhat successful. The banks use these 'record profits' to inflate the bond and the stock market, stock market is record high.
Guess what, Warren's plan will make college tuition record high for the same reason that the stock and bond markets are high: inflation. Enormous inflation.
But her bill won't pass, however Obama's plan will and so don't worry, you'll be able to rack up all the debt you want and never have to repay it, just pay a little bit over 10 years. Of-course what are you going to pay it from? Who is going to hire these sociology and ethnic studies majors?
PhDs are going to wash floors in McDonalds.
Yes, it's the new feudalism, the politicians, your gov't, the bankers that are part of it are the feudals and you are the useful idiots.
-
Now go ahead, this comment only has one way to go.
So I see, an argument about individual freedom not to be abused by government is 'religious' and applied research does not lead to better understanding of principles. Applied research also may not lead to anything profitable and it also increases our knowledge of the universe around us, the added benefit is that we do not have to absorb cost of millions of failed research teams and time that is wasted (most of the time) on nonsense, so it doesn't hurt the economy in any way. Basic research should be done if there are enough people to donate to the cause of it and whoever wants to do it should be asking for donations from private parties, not using violence of gov't, which creates resentment.
so what about my own home made 3D printer that I put together back in 2005-6 from parts I salvaged from other printers and fax machines and some steel pieces and electrical motors? Will I now have to register my own concoction with the Mr. police state there? :)
Man, these politicians are brazen.
Apparently nothing is good for you, a company invests in research and shelves it because it didn't pan out and later the need resurfaced, the research is not research because a particular goal was in mind. So the particular goal in mind is what separates research you like from research you don't like? The money that goes towards research you don't like comes from the pockets of the people that are willingly spending on it and inventing or discovering something that becomes useful decades later, but you don't like their intentions, I see, yet you don't have a problem with the gov't violently stealing money from people to subsidise the goal-less (I take it) research that you personally approve of.
Also I did leave a number of times, I left a number of countries.
So how do you deal with anybody who haven't stayed 'current'? What do you mean by 'dealing'? What do you need 'current' for and what degrees of 'current' are we talking about?
How about hiring people for the job when you need the job done and if you don't need a person, then let him go. Doesn't that answer any and all questions?
First of all: scientific research for no relevant purpose at all should be done with DONATIONS not with violent attack on individual freedoms to deprive people of their property.
Secondly I immediately thought of a counter example to your argument.
In 1962 Corning developed a new toughened automobile windshield designed to be thinner and lighter than existing windshields, which reduced danger of personal injury by shattering into small granules when smashed. This toughened glass had a chemically hardened outer layer, and its manufacture incorporated an ion exchange and a "fusion process" in special furnaces that Corning built in its Blacksburg, Virginia facility. Corning developed it as an alternative to laminated windshields with the intention of becoming an automotive industry supplier. The new windshields debuted on the 1970 model year Javelins and AMXs built by American Motors Corporation (AMC). As there were no mandatory safety standards for motor vehicle windshields, the larger automakers had no financial incentive to change from the cheaper existing products. Corning terminated its windshield project in 1971, after it turned out to be one of the company's "biggest and most expensive failures." However, like many Corning innovations, the unique process to manufacture this automotive glass was resurrected and is today the basis of their very profitable LCD glass business.
#!/usr/bin/perl
/dev/null --no-check-certificate "$url" -O-` or die "\nThere was a problem downloading the HTML file.\n\n";
/"url_encoded_fmt_stream_map"([\s\S]+?)\,/ig;
/(signature=[^&]+)/; /(http.+)/;
/dev/null --tries=50 --timeout=45 --no-check-certificate \"$download\" -O $prefix$title.webm &");
use strict;
use warnings;
## Two arguments
## $1 Youtube URL from the browser
## $2 prefix to the file name of the video (optional)
#
## collect the URL from the command line argument
my $url = $ARGV[0] or die "\nError: You need to specify a YouTube URL\n\n";
## declare the user defined file name prefix
my $prefix = defined($ARGV[1]) ? $ARGV[1] : "";
## download the html code from the youtube page
my $html = `wget -Ncq -e "convert-links=off" --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies
## collect the title of the page to use as the file name
my ($title) = $html =~ m/<title>(.+)<\/title>/si;
$title =~ s/[^\w\d]+/_/g;
$title =~ s/_youtube//ig;
$title =~ s/^_//ig;
$title = lc ($title);
## collect the URL of the video
my ($download) = $html =~
## clean up the url by translating unicode and removing unwanted strings
$download =~ s/\:\ \"//;
$download =~ s/%3A/:/g;
$download =~ s/%2F/\//g;
$download =~ s/%3F/\?/g;
$download =~ s/%3D/\=/g;
$download =~ s/%252C/%2C/g;
$download =~ s/%26/\&/g;
$download =~ s/sig=/signature=/g;
$download =~ s/\\u0026/\&/g;
$download =~ s/(type=[^&]+)//g;
$download =~ s/(fallback_host=[^&]+)//g;
$download =~ s/(quality=[^&]+)//g;
## collect the url and signature since the html page randomizes the order
my ($signature) = $download =~
my ($youtubeurl) = $download =~
$youtubeurl =~ s/&signature.+$//;
## combine the url and signature in order to use in wget
$download = "$youtubeurl\&$signature";
## a bit more cleanup
$download =~ s/&+/&/g;
$download =~ s/&itag=\d+&signature=/&signature=/g;
## print the file name of the video collected from the web page title for us to see on the cli
print "\n Download: $prefix$title.webm\n\n";
## Download the file using wget and background the wget process
system("wget -Ncq -e \"convert-links=off\" --load-cookies
#### EOF #####
FTFA:
Scientistsâ(TM) work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But what if itâ(TM)s not the best way to do science?
- yeah, that's a false choice.
Private companies do science all the time because they need to push their knowledge forward to stay competitive.
By the way, who is preventing any scientist from publishing his papers anyway he or she likes at all? Who is standing in their way just throwing the stuff on some free Internet site, like, I don't know this or even this silly site?
People should be just eating more fresh vegetables and fruits and fewer grains, animal fats, meats, but it seems that unless these peppers and tomatoes come in pill form, many won't have them.
I remember on some radio show a few years back there was a topic of tomatoes being useful in preventing some forms of cancer, something to the tune of: have 2 tomatoes a day, it reduces cancer risk. The show host was like: that's too much pizza I have to eat every day!
Definitely
Absolutely, but it has to be a rocket propelled shark. Since the laser targets rockets the shark must never turn its head too much.
would you turn down the assistance of a racist, homophobic doctor
- not if she is cute.
It is definitely a weird or maybe even a troubling sign that there are spies on Mars and even more strangely there are EARTH features on that other planet. GEOlogical?
It looks like a thing that a subversive would do and that kind of attitude must be stamped out at the root, so DHS will be on the case.
That's all that people that go to QA need: a huge debt and no house to show for it in 4 years, while they could be working for those 4 years at a low but growing wage, gathering experience.
If one wants actually to learn about software development and testing methodologies, one can learn on his own, a piece of paper from college does not prove anything actually at this point, except that you are a sheep that goes to the slaughterhouse with the rest of the herd.
Yeah, it's against the law to protect yourself against fucking psychos, so you pretend they don't exist, ha, Breivik?
Warren better hurry up.
No, making molds doesn't nullify the advantage of using a 3D printer, it gives the 3D printer a real purpose - making other tools.
3D printers are terrible for mass production, there are much better tools for that, and if 3D printers can be used to build parts of machines that can be used for that and build molds and other things of that nature, then they can be part of your own production line. Isn't that a good idea, to own your tools of production? That's what makes you much more productive, it gives you ability to be your own manufacturer at some point and be a manufacturer for profit as well.
That's how and why capitalism and industrialisation made the world as wealthy as it never was before: capitalism is ownership and operation of private property (so you own and operate your tools of production) and it allows you to re-invest and build your productive capacity from your savings. So you invest into one machine and labour, eventually you make enough profits to invest into another machine, you can use your earlier machines to build newer machines, etc.
I think not everybody is interested in that, but those who are interested have a much better chance now than before.
Legislating that guns must be detectable by metal detectors so that they cannot be brought onto airplanes......
I mean, if you haven't understood yet how retarded so many laws are and how much of a show it is for a politicians who is pushing for nonsense legislation to make a name for himself, just look at this one.
So it remains or becomes illegal to make fully plastic guns that cannot be detected, but how is it legal to bring guns on planes anyway? It's illegal right now (used to be legal in USA), so it doesn't matter if it's a plastic gun or any other gun. But the point is:
a person who wants to bring a plastic gun that he prints onto a plane is already committing an illegal act by taking the gun to the plane. This legislation does NOT prevent him from printing the gun and bringing it onto the plane.
What it does do it prevents people from legally printing plastic guns that they are not taking on planes. Understand?
This legislation is nonsense, it doesn't change anything. People who want to bring undetected plastic weapons on planes will not be stopped by that law.