If he's being shot down left and right by everyone from the "established" media as well as bloggers, and ridiculed on Twitter and Facebook, they'll at best become the next Cameron, who had an SI unit named after himself: 1 Cameron being the minimum distance between two blunders.
If you plan to propose a law concerning the internet and telecommunication:
1) Find out how the internet and telecommunication infrastructure works. 2) Ponder how to enforce the law. 3) Ponder who gets to set the required rules and regulations to enforce the law. 4) Propose it.
Jumping straight to 4, as you usually do, leads to ridicule and only accomplishes that you're showing off your ignorance to a more and more computer- and internet-savvy population. In other words: Don't do it if you value your career.
No doubt about it, but look at it: Frankly, it looks like something you'd expect in some cheesy 60s scifi movie. People are used to appliances that are closed black boxes that just spew out what they're supposed to produce, they don't want to see the wiring under the board.
Yes, I do and yes, I agree, the Prusa is a great design and I love it every time I use it, but the topic here is the question why this didn't get mass appeal. And mass appeal is something gained and won by the way it looks. And this looks intimidating to the average Joe out there. It looks like something he won't get under control, and he's not going to shell out 740 bucks to find out whether he does.
And one of the key ones is that there are too many out there. With heatpads and without, with this or that plastic, and let's not get started on the various designs on how to get the filament on the ground. Many different designs, some looking rather ridiculous like something Dr. Strangelove would have invented. Yes, it still is a rather experimental thing, and it looks the part, too.
And people don't want that. Especially with something they're supposed to pay a thousand bucks for or even more. What people want is something that "just works". And "just works", it sure doesn't. It needs tweaking and a lot of try and error to get it right.
And in the end, what do you get out of it? You can print plastic parts. Provided you have the design files for them. Umm... yeah, that's... well,... why sugar coat it, it's bullshit. Unless there is something you can print that you can't buy MUCH cheaper, there is exactly no point to drop a thousand bucks and go through all the hassle on top of it.
Hey, those wars worked great for them. Didn't it make them rich? So what's your problem? That these wars didn't eliminate drugs, poverty or terrorism? Who would want to eliminate that which gets me money?
The problem is that people equate being able and allowed to tell the truth with some sort of obligation to do so, and that's dangerous. You have the same effect as you do with people being dissatisfied with the medical system or with science. I do not want to believe in established science/pharmacy/news, and there is someone else who sells "non-establishment" science/pharmacy/news, so he must be right because "the establishment" is something I don't trust.
And that's dangerous.
Just because A is false doesn't automatically mean that B is true just because B contradicts A.
This is actually a sad case, but even though there are those cases and they are not as rare as one would think, they are not the main route for heroin. People addicted to painkillers are usually reaching for solutions that are closer to legal prescription drugs.
Heroin, at least to my knowledge, is an exit drug, used by people who have pretty much reached the end.
Doing so wouldn't really have told them anything considering I don't have a Facebook account (at least not one that is by any means tied to my name), don't use Twitter or other social media and generally don't really have a very visible online profile.
Hey, maybe that made me suspicious. Time to create a meaningless, happy-go-lucky Facebook page. Which gets me back to the idea I had a while ago, creating a service where you can pimp your Facebook profile so recruiters, law enforcement and in-laws think you're the perfect guy. Kinda like SEO for social media...
A girl licking a boot sure isn't getting me hard either but allegedly that's considered porn by some people. Hell, there's people getting off to the weirdest shit you could imagine. I remember a story about a guy who gets off by sticking his dick into hamburger meat, does that mean every time I have a burger I'm essentially participating in hard vore?
What market has chosen? Apple has chosen to produce an iPhone and people can buy it or not have an iPhone. And people buy it.
Remember how market economy was supposed to be? Suppliers offering choices and people being the decider what sells and what doesn't? What choice do I have? If I want a more or less modern phone, I have to swallow that it's going to have a soldered battery with an anemic lifetime because it's paper thin, along with the phone not being much thicker and needing a protective cover so it doesn't crumple when you put it into your pocket.
And please don't tell me people really HATED those USB ports enough that they DEMANDED them removed...
I actually did have a phone with a tiny keyboard you could flip out underneath. Granted, it was a hint thicker than 2mm, but not much thicker than a contemporary iPhone with its "keeps the tinfoil phone from crumpling in your pocket" protection cover. And it didn't need a cover, so...
You should probably add that one of the key reasons for this being that they don't want debris to fall back down onto the launch facility, either 'cause something goes wrong early on or because a stage gets jettisoned.
Also, it is actually more economical to start the turn early on, it gives you a way better flight profile that also puts less stress onto the parts.
You're joking, but it's kinda disturbing to be woken up by a SWAT team at early dawn just 'cause you bought hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid and acetone, while at the same time being hilarious that they don't dare to touch anything, fearing they might upset the TATP.
Oddly enough, those three chemicals are also very useful to etch PCBs. But thanks to our SWAT team, I now know an additional use for them...
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The Tories should have enough qualified members to take care of the female pics. I'm certain they'll even do it pro boner, I mean pro bono.
And maybe Antarctica...
Probably hoping for some groping.
You think you could get rid of the useless sponges if you had guns? If you do, take a look at the US and ponder again.
You know a country that isn't?
If he's being shot down left and right by everyone from the "established" media as well as bloggers, and ridiculed on Twitter and Facebook, they'll at best become the next Cameron, who had an SI unit named after himself: 1 Cameron being the minimum distance between two blunders.
If you plan to propose a law concerning the internet and telecommunication:
1) Find out how the internet and telecommunication infrastructure works.
2) Ponder how to enforce the law.
3) Ponder who gets to set the required rules and regulations to enforce the law.
4) Propose it.
Jumping straight to 4, as you usually do, leads to ridicule and only accomplishes that you're showing off your ignorance to a more and more computer- and internet-savvy population. In other words: Don't do it if you value your career.
In some countries, people are allowed to change their address. This is called "moving" there. What about the people who can and do that?
No doubt about it, but look at it: Frankly, it looks like something you'd expect in some cheesy 60s scifi movie. People are used to appliances that are closed black boxes that just spew out what they're supposed to produce, they don't want to see the wiring under the board.
Yes, I do and yes, I agree, the Prusa is a great design and I love it every time I use it, but the topic here is the question why this didn't get mass appeal. And mass appeal is something gained and won by the way it looks. And this looks intimidating to the average Joe out there. It looks like something he won't get under control, and he's not going to shell out 740 bucks to find out whether he does.
And one of the key ones is that there are too many out there. With heatpads and without, with this or that plastic, and let's not get started on the various designs on how to get the filament on the ground. Many different designs, some looking rather ridiculous like something Dr. Strangelove would have invented. Yes, it still is a rather experimental thing, and it looks the part, too.
And people don't want that. Especially with something they're supposed to pay a thousand bucks for or even more. What people want is something that "just works". And "just works", it sure doesn't. It needs tweaking and a lot of try and error to get it right.
And in the end, what do you get out of it? You can print plastic parts. Provided you have the design files for them. Umm... yeah, that's ... well, ... why sugar coat it, it's bullshit. Unless there is something you can print that you can't buy MUCH cheaper, there is exactly no point to drop a thousand bucks and go through all the hassle on top of it.
Hey, those wars worked great for them. Didn't it make them rich? So what's your problem? That these wars didn't eliminate drugs, poverty or terrorism? Who would want to eliminate that which gets me money?
But who is "the man"? And who is NOT "the man"?
That's the key question here. Just because someone is wrong doesn't mean that someone contradicting him is right.
The problem is that people equate being able and allowed to tell the truth with some sort of obligation to do so, and that's dangerous. You have the same effect as you do with people being dissatisfied with the medical system or with science. I do not want to believe in established science/pharmacy/news, and there is someone else who sells "non-establishment" science/pharmacy/news, so he must be right because "the establishment" is something I don't trust.
And that's dangerous.
Just because A is false doesn't automatically mean that B is true just because B contradicts A.
Also in the news, dissatisfied house wives plan march on Washington.
Because then they could also spot the fake news that we want to feed them. C'mon. An educated public could endanger our way or life.
If it's going to be as successful as the war on drugs or the war on terror, it should provide a reliable pork barrel for the decades to come.
This is actually a sad case, but even though there are those cases and they are not as rare as one would think, they are not the main route for heroin. People addicted to painkillers are usually reaching for solutions that are closer to legal prescription drugs.
Heroin, at least to my knowledge, is an exit drug, used by people who have pretty much reached the end.
You wanted to go "lalala, I can't hear you", so if you now leave your shore settlement to climb the mountain I'm on, I'll shoot you.
Problem solved. I don't care whether climate change is real anymore. If it ain't, great. If it is and your shores get flooded, drown or get shot.
Doing so wouldn't really have told them anything considering I don't have a Facebook account (at least not one that is by any means tied to my name), don't use Twitter or other social media and generally don't really have a very visible online profile.
Hey, maybe that made me suspicious. Time to create a meaningless, happy-go-lucky Facebook page. Which gets me back to the idea I had a while ago, creating a service where you can pimp your Facebook profile so recruiters, law enforcement and in-laws think you're the perfect guy. Kinda like SEO for social media...
So domestic violence was down? Really? Great. So your chance to get beaten up was going down while your chance to be shot went up. Great trade off.
A girl licking a boot sure isn't getting me hard either but allegedly that's considered porn by some people. Hell, there's people getting off to the weirdest shit you could imagine. I remember a story about a guy who gets off by sticking his dick into hamburger meat, does that mean every time I have a burger I'm essentially participating in hard vore?
What market has chosen? Apple has chosen to produce an iPhone and people can buy it or not have an iPhone. And people buy it.
Remember how market economy was supposed to be? Suppliers offering choices and people being the decider what sells and what doesn't? What choice do I have? If I want a more or less modern phone, I have to swallow that it's going to have a soldered battery with an anemic lifetime because it's paper thin, along with the phone not being much thicker and needing a protective cover so it doesn't crumple when you put it into your pocket.
And please don't tell me people really HATED those USB ports enough that they DEMANDED them removed...
I actually did have a phone with a tiny keyboard you could flip out underneath. Granted, it was a hint thicker than 2mm, but not much thicker than a contemporary iPhone with its "keeps the tinfoil phone from crumpling in your pocket" protection cover. And it didn't need a cover, so...
You should probably add that one of the key reasons for this being that they don't want debris to fall back down onto the launch facility, either 'cause something goes wrong early on or because a stage gets jettisoned.
Also, it is actually more economical to start the turn early on, it gives you a way better flight profile that also puts less stress onto the parts.
You're joking, but it's kinda disturbing to be woken up by a SWAT team at early dawn just 'cause you bought hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid and acetone, while at the same time being hilarious that they don't dare to touch anything, fearing they might upset the TATP.
Oddly enough, those three chemicals are also very useful to etch PCBs. But thanks to our SWAT team, I now know an additional use for them...