I wasn't bad mouthing the 1911. Since it is in the public domain the design has been refined repeatedly over the last 100+ years and there are literally hundres of manfactureres of them. Nobody can squash it claiming IP/patent rights. It'll be around another 100 years as the lead (or hyper velocity, explosive, titanium cased (enviro friendly), IR guided, anti-personnel round) tosser of choice.
Will an offset printing press fit on my desk at home and print out what I want when I want(no matter where my "desk" happens to be located? No? Then it is useless to the common man. Sure the offset printing press can do it for 1/100 the price at 1000 times the speed, but that's only if I want what everybody else wants.
That is not the promise of a laser printer, nor is it the promise of the 3D printer.
I see the end game for 3d printers pretty much nulling most industry requirements for well just about everything. You need a tool you print it. You break the tool, you drop the broken parts into a grinder and print up the new one with minor improvements to keep it from breaking so easily next time. It doesn't matter that CNC machines are faster, you don't care because you don't need that giant industrial tail that delivers that nice big block of refined metal for the CNC machine to cut. All you need is the metal in some sort of powdered form and the 3D printer will do the rest.
no one knows with any accuracy what the weather will be like in 5 days, why bees are dying, and whales beach themselves
Actually we do know why the bees are dying, just stop looking to media types who are just looking for an alarmist story, large ag buisnesses looking for subsidies, or acedemics looking for grants to get answers (we don't know yet but if you give us more money I'm sure we can find out).
Go talk to a freaking beekeeper already if you really want to know what is going on. There is no one thing causing the bee die offs, and those reasons are hardly a secret in the apiary community.
In what way? By printing a gun from 1911? I'm thinking the patent on that ran out more than a few years ago, which just happens to be why the 1911 is so popular. Anyone can make their own version, even if it is an exact copy of the original.
Charity does work, people who don't work starve unless they aren't a douche bag and have friends.
The key for charity to work is zeroing in on the whole not being a "douche bag" part
Here let me give you a few examples to help you understand.
1. You are the town drunk/drug user. You've been arrest 10 times before you were 18 and now you are homeless and hungry. Douche bag.
2. You are the child of the town drunk. Your father is in jail....again and you are hungry and homeless. Not a douche bag
3. It's ten years later since you were the child of the town drunk, and now you are out on the corner begging for money because you are a drug user, hungry, and homeless just like your dear old dad. Douchebag.
4. You are a bunch of politically connected and corrupt unionized workers and corporate boobs at the largest automobile manufacturer in the world and after decades of helping run the company into the ground, need a 50 billion dollar bailout in order to avoid being unemployed. Douche bag
See how that works. Not a douche bag, you deserve help. Douche bag you should be told to go pound sand.
How big does a business (how many people) have to be before it's a "business"? The correct answer would be 1. So if you invest in anything that can in turn when used, generate wealth....you....are....a....capitalist. When you buy a form of transportation (a car) car and a clothes to wear to work in, you have participated at one of the most fundamental levels of capitalism. You don't have to buy stocks in a company to be one.
It's a leap of faith for most people at this point because capitalism is such a dirty word to everyone, but that doesn't change the facts.
No. Capital only refers to investment in productive assets, not private property in general.
All private property is a productive asset, maybe some more than others. Can you wear clothes? Can you sleep in your house? Can drive your car to work? Can your children work in the fields? Can any of those things be rented to someone else? Well yes, then all of those are all "productive assets"
There is private property and public property and that's it. Just because a business owns it doesn't magically make it not "private" property.
A Capitalist is anyone that invests in property. Whether that be a car, an iPhone, a house, or in the stockmarket, and expects to be able to use said property in the way they see fit.
Socialists on the other hand feel that the state and or society has a right to either that property or the benefits from the use of said property over the rights of the owner.
If you work and expect to be paid more than you "need" (resonable costs), then you are a capitalist.
If you work your butt off, save your money, and invest in equipment, property, your education, land, or business and expect to generate even more moeny then you are known as a "greedy" capitalist.
You are using the term capitalist very narrowly by only applying it to a single type of capitalist, the investor. "Croney" capitalists are more likely what you are refering to, but they are not capitalists but actually national socialists. (Private capital with heavy handed gov't control) Can you name a National Socialist group that had a big impact in history?
Webster Dictionary an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Investopedia Capital is different from money. Money is used simply to purchase goods and services for consumption. Capital is more durable and is used to generate wealth through investment.
Moron, if you do anything for pay and therefore end up with any posessions you are by definition a "capitalist"
To not be so means you would be willing to share everything you have with anyone else at their leisure.
So unless you are willing to let me borrow free of charge your tooth brush, your car, your spare kidney, your house, your wife, or your 16 year old daughter you are a freaking, dyed in the wool.......capitalist.
The whole "scary" part of 3d printed guns is that there is no "buyer". You just print the damn thing. high schools have 3d printers now, colleges and tech schools have full blown fab shops with all the CNC goodies that can make modern metal firearms.
The cat has been out of the bag for the better part of a decade and they politicians are just now getting a clue.
So where did all that "ammo" come from for the past oh say 700 years? You do realize ammo has been available longer than cheaperthandirt.com has been around? Considering you can go to the hardware store and buy all the components for basic gun powered and make it in your garage in like an hour or two. More advanced smokeless powder versions can be made with a high school chemistry education and maybe one or two more stops on the way home from the hardware store.
So yay we stopped the "gun" violence, but do you think the dead will care if they are dead because they were shot, stabbed, poisoned, or run over by a bus? Getting rid of guns will do nothing more than make people less free and helpless to fight back against people with guns.
Yes, because Western Europe has fewer per-capita violent and petty crime than the USA. Oh, no it doesn't
I think you'll find that centuries of living with our (and occasionally hanging/shooting some of our thieving/criminal) neighbors has led us to not have to worry as much about having your home invaded or our person assaulted or property vandalized than the average European citizen.
Actually more than half. Most "school shootings" are not mass shootings and get no press. I guess a couple of wannabe thugs murdering a third on or near school grounds is less newsworthy than a bunch of white precious snow flakes getting murdered in a yuppy, clueless utopias by a brain damaged millennial with mommy and daddy issues.
Me neither, plus it get's really cold in the winter time in Chicago, Detroit, New York, and DC. Plus way too much traffic.
I prefer to live in the place where guns are so prevalent that they necessitate having a gun rack in ones vehicle. For some odd reason they typically have few problems with guns in places like that.
You've obviously never have heard of a bullet press and a lathe. It's easy to make bullets out of any material of any size and fit them into shell casing again of any material and of any size.
The age varies but even pre-teens can have access to firearms legally in most States and Teenagers can legally own them. Hell in a lot of states 18 year olds can get concealed weapon permits. So what exactly is your point again?
Yeah, I know, I hate all those pointed stick killing massacres we've experienced lately. Or all the accidental oops my 6-year old killed her brother with a pointed stick episodes.
Tell that to the 8 year old little girl who was stabbed to death by her 12 year old brother in April. Bare minimum you might point poke someone's eye out. Pointy stick are dangerous and must be registered.
I remember a few decades ago saying the same exact asinine thing as a younger man. The only thing worse now are the women are much looser, cars are cooler, electronics are cheaper.....oh wait. Never mind the future is pretty cool.
The real problem is not that we are polluting more, the problem there are a lot more people. Get rid of half the population and you'll get rid of half the pollution. Feel free to go first to set the example.
No but I buy Glocks, no safety no problem. As far as everything else. I train to deactivate the safety before pulling the trigger. It has become an ingrained habit and is no longer and issue.
An electronic lock that could override my wishes is another thing all together. I would refuse to buy a firearm that would refuse to do what I want it to do 100% of the time.
That's the #1 requirement of life period......"adapt or perish".
Natural selection is a bitch, but it really is for your own good, or at least for those of us who can adapt. Cheaper beachfront property fewer dumbasses.
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Dehydrated H20. Much easier to carry around since it doesn't have all that moisture to weigh it down.
Well tell that to my dog Max who only naps in the sun beams.
I wasn't bad mouthing the 1911. Since it is in the public domain the design has been refined repeatedly over the last 100+ years and there are literally hundres of manfactureres of them. Nobody can squash it claiming IP/patent rights. It'll be around another 100 years as the lead (or hyper velocity, explosive, titanium cased (enviro friendly), IR guided, anti-personnel round) tosser of choice.
That is not the promise of a laser printer, nor is it the promise of the 3D printer.
I see the end game for 3d printers pretty much nulling most industry requirements for well just about everything. You need a tool you print it. You break the tool, you drop the broken parts into a grinder and print up the new one with minor improvements to keep it from breaking so easily next time. It doesn't matter that CNC machines are faster, you don't care because you don't need that giant industrial tail that delivers that nice big block of refined metal for the CNC machine to cut. All you need is the metal in some sort of powdered form and the 3D printer will do the rest.
Actually we do know why the bees are dying, just stop looking to media types who are just looking for an alarmist story, large ag buisnesses looking for subsidies, or acedemics looking for grants to get answers (we don't know yet but if you give us more money I'm sure we can find out).
Go talk to a freaking beekeeper already if you really want to know what is going on. There is no one thing causing the bee die offs, and those reasons are hardly a secret in the apiary community.
In what way? By printing a gun from 1911? I'm thinking the patent on that ran out more than a few years ago, which just happens to be why the 1911 is so popular. Anyone can make their own version, even if it is an exact copy of the original.
The key for charity to work is zeroing in on the whole not being a "douche bag" part
Here let me give you a few examples to help you understand.
1. You are the town drunk/drug user. You've been arrest 10 times before you were 18 and now you are homeless and hungry. Douche bag.
2. You are the child of the town drunk. Your father is in jail....again and you are hungry and homeless. Not a douche bag
3. It's ten years later since you were the child of the town drunk, and now you are out on the corner begging for money because you are a drug user, hungry, and homeless just like your dear old dad. Douchebag.
4. You are a bunch of politically connected and corrupt unionized workers and corporate boobs at the largest automobile manufacturer in the world and after decades of helping run the company into the ground, need a 50 billion dollar bailout in order to avoid being unemployed. Douche bag
See how that works. Not a douche bag, you deserve help. Douche bag you should be told to go pound sand.
It's a leap of faith for most people at this point because capitalism is such a dirty word to everyone, but that doesn't change the facts.
All private property is a productive asset, maybe some more than others. Can you wear clothes? Can you sleep in your house? Can drive your car to work? Can your children work in the fields? Can any of those things be rented to someone else? Well yes, then all of those are all "productive assets"
There is private property and public property and that's it. Just because a business owns it doesn't magically make it not "private" property.
Socialists on the other hand feel that the state and or society has a right to either that property or the benefits from the use of said property over the rights of the owner.
If you work and expect to be paid more than you "need" (resonable costs), then you are a capitalist.
If you work your butt off, save your money, and invest in equipment, property, your education, land, or business and expect to generate even more moeny then you are known as a "greedy" capitalist.
You are using the term capitalist very narrowly by only applying it to a single type of capitalist, the investor. "Croney" capitalists are more likely what you are refering to, but they are not capitalists but actually national socialists. (Private capital with heavy handed gov't control) Can you name a National Socialist group that had a big impact in history?
Webster Dictionary an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Investopedia Capital is different from money. Money is used simply to purchase goods and services for consumption. Capital is more durable and is used to generate wealth through investment.
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To not be so means you would be willing to share everything you have with anyone else at their leisure.
So unless you are willing to let me borrow free of charge your tooth brush, your car, your spare kidney, your house, your wife, or your 16 year old daughter you are a freaking, dyed in the wool.......capitalist.
The cat has been out of the bag for the better part of a decade and they politicians are just now getting a clue.
So yay we stopped the "gun" violence, but do you think the dead will care if they are dead because they were shot, stabbed, poisoned, or run over by a bus? Getting rid of guns will do nothing more than make people less free and helpless to fight back against people with guns.
You are not very bright.
I think you'll find that centuries of living with our (and occasionally hanging/shooting some of our thieving/criminal) neighbors has led us to not have to worry as much about having your home invaded or our person assaulted or property vandalized than the average European citizen.
Actually more than half. Most "school shootings" are not mass shootings and get no press. I guess a couple of wannabe thugs murdering a third on or near school grounds is less newsworthy than a bunch of white precious snow flakes getting murdered in a yuppy, clueless utopias by a brain damaged millennial with mommy and daddy issues.
I prefer to live in the place where guns are so prevalent that they necessitate having a gun rack in ones vehicle. For some odd reason they typically have few problems with guns in places like that.
You've obviously never have heard of a bullet press and a lathe. It's easy to make bullets out of any material of any size and fit them into shell casing again of any material and of any size.
The age varies but even pre-teens can have access to firearms legally in most States and Teenagers can legally own them. Hell in a lot of states 18 year olds can get concealed weapon permits. So what exactly is your point again?
Tell that to the 8 year old little girl who was stabbed to death by her 12 year old brother in April. Bare minimum you might point poke someone's eye out. Pointy stick are dangerous and must be registered.
The real problem is not that we are polluting more, the problem there are a lot more people. Get rid of half the population and you'll get rid of half the pollution. Feel free to go first to set the example.
That would coming mostly from China now, if you can find someone over there that cares.
So what does nuclear waste have to do with CO2 there?
An electronic lock that could override my wishes is another thing all together. I would refuse to buy a firearm that would refuse to do what I want it to do 100% of the time.
Natural selection is a bitch, but it really is for your own good, or at least for those of us who can adapt. Cheaper beachfront property fewer dumbasses.