"we somehow need better people" We have plenty of good people. These weapons are for some of the worse ones - really, what would you have us do with the worse people?
I see the greatest appeal in satellite radio in talk radio/news/sports, live content that you wouldn't be able to get(or at least reliably or from a consistent source) if you're on the road.
Plus, like with satellite TV, it could help you get shows from other parts of the country you'd otherwise be unable to get.
Plus, not everyone has the time or inclination to upload their music collections to mp3.
Their logo shows a lion and lamb playing with blocks.
Do they have any idea what lions really do to lambs?
I'd think a nature video would be far more "dangerous" to a kid's psyche(i.e. not at all) than any of those toys.
Chomp, chomp, splatter, splatter.
Mmmmm. Lamb. It's what's for dinner.
These morons have to get out of their isolated lives and realize they're living in a cocoon. Real world sucks, ladies, and if you shield your kids from it and pretend we can all hold hands and sing kumbyah, your kids will be far more messed up.
Hmm, interesting, but there is the problem of preventing contamination, from hand oils, scrapings from stripped screws or whatever, or simply dust - which would eventually weaken the plastic.
But how is that different from when I go into my shed and turn out a gun? The machining isn't particularly hard, and considering that it takes a few hours to turn out a single part it might even be faster for me to do it myself.
The difficulty will still be in the planning. A 3-D printer will not make it any easier to build an "invisible psycho-killer robot fish", since you'd have to design the thing first anyway.
Oh, and unless you get a transporter-style replicator, where's the gunpower/uranium/plutonium gonna come from?
Ah, but how much space/weight does a big cube of ABS take compared to all the tools and parts you *think* you'll need - just to be safe, and the packaging required for all that?
Simpler and smaller. Not perfectly free, but better nonetheless.
And it's the biggest such "family" on earth.
They hire more mathematicians than anybody else - the goons of the NSA, if you will. Might be lacking on linguistics and computers, but can't fault their personell.
Sony does make a usb connection for its newest MD recorders - allows a digital connection rather than simply piping my mp3s out the audio port. But it's only for audio, and you can't cheat it because it simply emulates a digital optical link, and once in the MD recorder, it gets recompressed. Only minidisc decks can do actual bit-by bit recording/reading from the MD, and they only handle audio, not data. Bummer.
There used to be a push for data MD, but it was killed - a shame, because data transfer would be a great byproduct of having an MD recorder, but the implications of writing directly the disc in terms of copyright infringement were too much for Sony.
I was in China in August.
Off of my uncle's business connection, I got cnn.com, and msnbc quite easily(as well as a bunch of hardware sites.) Slow, but it worked.
But the first site I went to, nytimes.com, was banned.
Wierd.
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"we somehow need better people"
We have plenty of good people. These weapons are for some of the worse ones - really, what would you have us do with the worse people?
I see the greatest appeal in satellite radio in talk radio/news/sports, live content that you wouldn't be able to get(or at least reliably or from a consistent source) if you're on the road.
Plus, like with satellite TV, it could help you get shows from other parts of the country you'd otherwise be unable to get.
Plus, not everyone has the time or inclination to upload their music collections to mp3.
Their logo shows a lion and lamb playing with blocks.
Do they have any idea what lions really do to lambs?
I'd think a nature video would be far more "dangerous" to a kid's psyche(i.e. not at all) than any of those toys.
Chomp, chomp, splatter, splatter.
Mmmmm. Lamb. It's what's for dinner.
These morons have to get out of their isolated lives and realize they're living in a cocoon. Real world sucks, ladies, and if you shield your kids from it and pretend we can all hold hands and sing kumbyah, your kids will be far more messed up.
On the other hand, if you knew you were about to die in a flaming fireball, why not risk it?
Better to die a lion than live as a mouse.
[i]"wouldn't be able to tell the difference until you put one to your lips."[/i]
Excuse me, what do you do with a beer?
Drink it? or sit there and admire it?
A perfect replica of a full beer can without beer is like a pretty nun - what's the point?
And how would he enter in information into the screen?
i suppose he could ask the cabbie.
Blind Man: Sir, could you enter my pin and withdraw 500 dollars for me?
Cabbie(smiling wickedly): Sure, sure.
Withdraws entire balance and hands the blind guy 5 singles.
Hmm, interesting, but there is the problem of preventing contamination, from hand oils, scrapings from stripped screws or whatever, or simply dust - which would eventually weaken the plastic.
But how is that different from when I go into my shed and turn out a gun? The machining isn't particularly hard, and considering that it takes a few hours to turn out a single part it might even be faster for me to do it myself.
The difficulty will still be in the planning. A 3-D printer will not make it any easier to build an "invisible psycho-killer robot fish", since you'd have to design the thing first anyway.
Oh, and unless you get a transporter-style replicator, where's the gunpower/uranium/plutonium gonna come from?
Ah, but how much space/weight does a big cube of ABS take compared to all the tools and parts you *think* you'll need - just to be safe, and the packaging required for all that?
Simpler and smaller. Not perfectly free, but better nonetheless.
And it's the biggest such "family" on earth.
They hire more mathematicians than anybody else - the goons of the NSA, if you will. Might be lacking on linguistics and computers, but can't fault their personell.
Somehow I don't think Madonna would be too concerned with her ENUM account.
Linus might have some problems, though.
Sony does make a usb connection for its newest MD recorders - allows a digital connection rather than simply piping my mp3s out the audio port. But it's only for audio, and you can't cheat it because it simply emulates a digital optical link, and once in the MD recorder, it gets recompressed. Only minidisc decks can do actual bit-by bit recording/reading from the MD, and they only handle audio, not data. Bummer. There used to be a push for data MD, but it was killed - a shame, because data transfer would be a great byproduct of having an MD recorder, but the implications of writing directly the disc in terms of copyright infringement were too much for Sony.
I was in China in August. Off of my uncle's business connection, I got cnn.com, and msnbc quite easily(as well as a bunch of hardware sites.) Slow, but it worked. But the first site I went to, nytimes.com, was banned. Wierd.