The APA don't recognise porn addition as a condition itsself, and they are as close to an authority as you're going to get. They may classify it as an impulse control disorder - akin to compulsive gambling or kleptomania. This is an area still prone to revision, as reliable research on the subject is still lacking.
A counterfeitable item must be: 1. Made entirely of plastic. 2. Have no highly intricate mechanisms, though simple joints and gears are ok. 3. Cost more than the bill of materials. 4. Be subject to copyright, trademark and/or patent protection.
I can think of a few things that fit those criteria. The first to come to mind are Warhammer figures. The second is high-end or branded audio gear. Currently the equipment for injection molding is bulky and expensive, which means tricky to hide - you have to get imports smuggled through customs. With a 3D printer, anyone could run an operation from their bedroom. It might mean a transition of counterfeiting from organised crime to disorganized individuals, much as internet piracy transitioned copyright infringement from the domain of gangs with tape replication factories to a primarily hobbyist activity.
I can imagine a lot of Warhammer enthusiasts printing figures, both to save money and because it gives them more flexibility in altering the game rules to play new scenarios and settings.
Want to see more overpriced plastic bits? Spares for Toshiba laptops.
The NB510* in particular. There's a severe flaw near the right hinge - the stress of the hinge attachment is on a tiny bit of plastic, and the power connectors is supported by another tiny bit of plastic. Far too small, and prone to breakage. When it breaks, you need to replace** the entire lower chassis. Nothing but a bit of molded plastic, but it costs quite a bit.
*DO NOT BUY THIS MODEL ** You don't really 'need' to replace if it's the power connector, you can just glue it back together with superglue. It'll actually be stronger that way.
3D printing is always going to be more expensive than conventional approaches for mass production. It has niches when you need lots of unique items (medical applications, like making dentures perfect for each individual mouth), when you want to customise items (Get a unique model of your game avatar) and when you need to print parts but don't know in advance what you'll need (Repairs).
There's also the cost of finding the part. "I need a new ECU connector dust-cover for a Nissan Micro*, 2013 model. European version. No, has to be a revision-one, before they switched to the new enclosure design. Yes, I know those were only made for three months before they moved to revision-two. No, not the British version - they had to flip the ECU housing over for the right-hand-drive. You got one? Only in the German warehouse, two weeks shipping delay?"
3D printing parts can save a fortune in logistics and lost time, enough to offset the higher manufacturing cost.
No, but there's a copyright on photos of 100 year old paintings. It's one reason many galleries forbid photography. So long as they have the original and no high-resolution scans exist, they alone can offer the authentic art-viewing experience.
Surveillance can be a valid solution to some problems. Cop cameras are a good case - accusations of police abusing their position to intimidate or threaten people are commonplace, but often difficult to prove because the sector has a culture of protecting their own. Giving every police car and officer a camera could be a way to solve that one: Police are going to behave much better when they know they might face real consequences for their actions.
It only works if you have means in place to ensure defense has access to the evidence and prevent tampering though. It's no good if every attempt to retrieve proof of wrongdoing by the police just reveals that the camera 'happened' to be broken that day, or someone forgot to turn it on, or the government claims revealing the footage could compromise another investigation.
That helps, but it doesn't solve another issue: Law is really, really complex. Book after book of precident on every subject, and the laws themselves can be the length of a novel, often only granting power to regulations that can be changed more easily. Laws can have interactions, and often run into conflict with other laws - especially in the US, where federal and state governments are actively trying to subvert another a lot of the time. That's why lawyers exist: Because the subject is far more complicated than a non-professional can be expected to understand.
The article suggested graphite with active cooling. Graphite is good up to around 4000k. You only need keep it 2000k below ambient - something that could be done via an active cooling system. You'd need need a pumping station the size of a city. It'd be a real mega-project, eclipsing anything in human history by orders of magnitude, but it's doable in theory. Just ridiculously impractical.
Easier to install guide rails. Plus you can use them for motors to compensate for any friction.
Given the speed, you could probably carry some magnets and make the shaft lining conductive. Inductive repulsion would push you away every time you got near. You'd lose velocity though, so you'd need a propulsion system to compensate.
They already have some very impressive abilities for their small brain size, and many are already natural mimics for sound. Some crow species even have tool use - and one step beyond, tool creation. Just a little bit of a boost and you might get a parrot that can understand what it's saying. The potential is there - Alex showed that, but Alex was a fluke, no other has come close.
Easy to regulate. Neurosurgeons are rare enough that the government could easily track them and watch for some under-the-table surgery, and the implant procedure would be prohibitively expensive. Now, a TMS rig might work. It's non-intrusive. Aiming would be tricky.
Humans already have as big a skull at birth as is possible. Any larger and it simply wouldn't fit through the pelvis. If you want to try a larger-brained human, you'll have to get it out by caesarian.
That would be problematic. Our notions are already inconsistent - the lowest-mental-capability humans (The brain damaged, the mentally disabled, the very young) are already far below the level of many animals on practically any scale you could come up with. It's impossible to come up with some 'you must be this advanced to qualify' definition for legal rights that a two-month old child could pass and an adult rodent couldn't. The current approach is to just assume humans are magical creatures and so deserve production just because they are human: It works right now, mostly, but it's not something that can be easily revised. If you aim for consistency you're going to have to either recognise legal rights for cats (Which would incur widespread ridicule) or classify babies as non-human expendables (Would incur widespread outrage and possibly violent protest).
They surrendered in WW2 and still can't live it down, but aside from that the meme isn't accurate. Their special forces are usually considered some of the best in the world, and the french resistance certainly managed to make the Nazi occupiers lives difficult.
The English still remember kicking French arse at Agincourt, of course. Even if it was six hundred years ago. We didn't just win - we won by such a margin as to give them humiliation that will last a thousand years.
Read a few comment sections and you'll soon realise that giving people access to all human knowledge doesn't actually grant them the ability or desire to process it properly. The internet has proven a fertile ground for a new wave of urban legends, conspiracy theories, junk science and agressive political views.
My theory is that he finished up with Microsoft and realised most of the world saw him as a tyranical businessman who stopped at nothing to destroy all competition. He doesn't want to be remembered as a robber-baron, so he started the foundation in hope of achieving a more positive legacy.
The battery idea has some problems. Batteries are not interchangeable - age and quality matters. You might drive up to the station with a shiny new battery, get it replaced - and your new battery is two years old and only has half the effective capacity. Or worse, you might get given a battery which was previously damaged in an accident and is now prone to catch fire, or which a previous owner hacked to disable the under-voltage protection circuit and squeeze a bit more capacity from while ruining the cells, or which was manufactured by the cheapest factory in China with a counterfeir controller chip - all things that expose the station operator to liability. The only way it would work would be to inspect every battery as it came in and before sending it out again, which means every station needs a skilled attendant and frequently needs to buy new batteries. Expensive.
Highways are the ideal place for them. No adjacent buildings, no pedestrians, no complicated signage. Just a long, straight road. Depos are already built near highways. A robo-truck with an extra-large fuel tank could drive across the entire country without stopping - and with a bit of well-organised management, it only needs to go from the turn-off to the nearest parking spot to meet a driver who can take over for the final stretch. Not only do you save on driver pay, but the trucks can be more productive too as they aren't limited on long-haul runs by the driver's need to sleep.
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Sampling bias, much?
The APA don't recognise porn addition as a condition itsself, and they are as close to an authority as you're going to get. They may classify it as an impulse control disorder - akin to compulsive gambling or kleptomania. This is an area still prone to revision, as reliable research on the subject is still lacking.
A counterfeitable item must be:
1. Made entirely of plastic.
2. Have no highly intricate mechanisms, though simple joints and gears are ok.
3. Cost more than the bill of materials.
4. Be subject to copyright, trademark and/or patent protection.
I can think of a few things that fit those criteria. The first to come to mind are Warhammer figures. The second is high-end or branded audio gear. Currently the equipment for injection molding is bulky and expensive, which means tricky to hide - you have to get imports smuggled through customs. With a 3D printer, anyone could run an operation from their bedroom. It might mean a transition of counterfeiting from organised crime to disorganized individuals, much as internet piracy transitioned copyright infringement from the domain of gangs with tape replication factories to a primarily hobbyist activity.
I can imagine a lot of Warhammer enthusiasts printing figures, both to save money and because it gives them more flexibility in altering the game rules to play new scenarios and settings.
Want to see more overpriced plastic bits? Spares for Toshiba laptops.
The NB510* in particular. There's a severe flaw near the right hinge - the stress of the hinge attachment is on a tiny bit of plastic, and the power connectors is supported by another tiny bit of plastic. Far too small, and prone to breakage. When it breaks, you need to replace** the entire lower chassis. Nothing but a bit of molded plastic, but it costs quite a bit.
*DO NOT BUY THIS MODEL
** You don't really 'need' to replace if it's the power connector, you can just glue it back together with superglue. It'll actually be stronger that way.
3D printing is always going to be more expensive than conventional approaches for mass production. It has niches when you need lots of unique items (medical applications, like making dentures perfect for each individual mouth), when you want to customise items (Get a unique model of your game avatar) and when you need to print parts but don't know in advance what you'll need (Repairs).
There's also the cost of finding the part. "I need a new ECU connector dust-cover for a Nissan Micro*, 2013 model. European version. No, has to be a revision-one, before they switched to the new enclosure design. Yes, I know those were only made for three months before they moved to revision-two. No, not the British version - they had to flip the ECU housing over for the right-hand-drive. You got one? Only in the German warehouse, two weeks shipping delay?"
3D printing parts can save a fortune in logistics and lost time, enough to offset the higher manufacturing cost.
*Random model, I've no idea how they are built.
No, but there's a copyright on photos of 100 year old paintings. It's one reason many galleries forbid photography. So long as they have the original and no high-resolution scans exist, they alone can offer the authentic art-viewing experience.
Surveillance can be a valid solution to some problems. Cop cameras are a good case - accusations of police abusing their position to intimidate or threaten people are commonplace, but often difficult to prove because the sector has a culture of protecting their own. Giving every police car and officer a camera could be a way to solve that one: Police are going to behave much better when they know they might face real consequences for their actions.
It only works if you have means in place to ensure defense has access to the evidence and prevent tampering though. It's no good if every attempt to retrieve proof of wrongdoing by the police just reveals that the camera 'happened' to be broken that day, or someone forgot to turn it on, or the government claims revealing the footage could compromise another investigation.
That helps, but it doesn't solve another issue: Law is really, really complex. Book after book of precident on every subject, and the laws themselves can be the length of a novel, often only granting power to regulations that can be changed more easily. Laws can have interactions, and often run into conflict with other laws - especially in the US, where federal and state governments are actively trying to subvert another a lot of the time. That's why lawyers exist: Because the subject is far more complicated than a non-professional can be expected to understand.
The article suggested graphite with active cooling. Graphite is good up to around 4000k. You only need keep it 2000k below ambient - something that could be done via an active cooling system. You'd need need a pumping station the size of a city. It'd be a real mega-project, eclipsing anything in human history by orders of magnitude, but it's doable in theory. Just ridiculously impractical.
He proposed graphite with an active cooling system. That might be able to withstand the heat, but the pressure is going to be a lot harder.
Easier to install guide rails. Plus you can use them for motors to compensate for any friction.
Given the speed, you could probably carry some magnets and make the shaft lining conductive. Inductive repulsion would push you away every time you got near. You'd lose velocity though, so you'd need a propulsion system to compensate.
They already have some very impressive abilities for their small brain size, and many are already natural mimics for sound. Some crow species even have tool use - and one step beyond, tool creation. Just a little bit of a boost and you might get a parrot that can understand what it's saying. The potential is there - Alex showed that, but Alex was a fluke, no other has come close.
Easy to regulate. Neurosurgeons are rare enough that the government could easily track them and watch for some under-the-table surgery, and the implant procedure would be prohibitively expensive. Now, a TMS rig might work. It's non-intrusive. Aiming would be tricky.
Humans already have as big a skull at birth as is possible. Any larger and it simply wouldn't fit through the pelvis. If you want to try a larger-brained human, you'll have to get it out by caesarian.
That would be problematic. Our notions are already inconsistent - the lowest-mental-capability humans (The brain damaged, the mentally disabled, the very young) are already far below the level of many animals on practically any scale you could come up with. It's impossible to come up with some 'you must be this advanced to qualify' definition for legal rights that a two-month old child could pass and an adult rodent couldn't. The current approach is to just assume humans are magical creatures and so deserve production just because they are human: It works right now, mostly, but it's not something that can be easily revised. If you aim for consistency you're going to have to either recognise legal rights for cats (Which would incur widespread ridicule) or classify babies as non-human expendables (Would incur widespread outrage and possibly violent protest).
They surrendered in WW2 and still can't live it down, but aside from that the meme isn't accurate. Their special forces are usually considered some of the best in the world, and the french resistance certainly managed to make the Nazi occupiers lives difficult.
The English still remember kicking French arse at Agincourt, of course. Even if it was six hundred years ago. We didn't just win - we won by such a margin as to give them humiliation that will last a thousand years.
Presumably they named it thus because it never forgets.
Read a few comment sections and you'll soon realise that giving people access to all human knowledge doesn't actually grant them the ability or desire to process it properly. The internet has proven a fertile ground for a new wave of urban legends, conspiracy theories, junk science and agressive political views.
My theory is that he finished up with Microsoft and realised most of the world saw him as a tyranical businessman who stopped at nothing to destroy all competition. He doesn't want to be remembered as a robber-baron, so he started the foundation in hope of achieving a more positive legacy.
Failing to find what the theories predict is still an advancement in knowledge.
That, and a significent part of the US considers public transit to be one step away from communism.
The battery idea has some problems. Batteries are not interchangeable - age and quality matters. You might drive up to the station with a shiny new battery, get it replaced - and your new battery is two years old and only has half the effective capacity. Or worse, you might get given a battery which was previously damaged in an accident and is now prone to catch fire, or which a previous owner hacked to disable the under-voltage protection circuit and squeeze a bit more capacity from while ruining the cells, or which was manufactured by the cheapest factory in China with a counterfeir controller chip - all things that expose the station operator to liability. The only way it would work would be to inspect every battery as it came in and before sending it out again, which means every station needs a skilled attendant and frequently needs to buy new batteries. Expensive.
Captive market!
Highways are the ideal place for them. No adjacent buildings, no pedestrians, no complicated signage. Just a long, straight road. Depos are already built near highways. A robo-truck with an extra-large fuel tank could drive across the entire country without stopping - and with a bit of well-organised management, it only needs to go from the turn-off to the nearest parking spot to meet a driver who can take over for the final stretch. Not only do you save on driver pay, but the trucks can be more productive too as they aren't limited on long-haul runs by the driver's need to sleep.