Isn't the big issue here that laws aren't stopping anyone. they find a reason around it or to reinterpret it or negate it?
For a law to stop someone, it has to have teeth in it -- penalties that are sufficient to dissuade one from running afoul of it. They have to be real, and personal, and unprotected by bureaucratic insulation.
Printing a metal part can include blind voids that are difficult or impossible to do with a milling machine. And see my post above regarding 3D printing with stainless steel media.
And turned brass was everywhere. I loved the puzzles, the incredible transport monorails, the sheer quiet brilliance. And quiet it was, and cerebral. Still looking for something quite that good again.
Our Founders (and for that matter, the Supreme Court) acknowledged that a Democratic form of government is not possible without free and anonymous speech, and anonymous voting. And anonymity requires pseudonymity
And this is so precisely because without anonymous speech, it becomes possible to retaliate against people for their speech. An employer can retaliate if an employee supports politics he doesn't like, for example. Or the government can retaliate if certain speech is not appreciated.
Think that's stretching things? Nonsense. Look at the flap about the IRS just this year.
Isn't it something of a human conceit to believe all things actually had a beginning? I mean, just because we generally do, doesn't mean that the universe did. I can see the potential for an infinite series of big bangs and big collapses as just one more macroparticle in universal space-time. I don't see how it is required to have an ultimate beginning, any more than I expect the world to have been created at my birth or destroyed when I go out.
Is there a point where a particle collision around a black hole is so energetic that the particle decomposes into its constituent parts? I'm thinking James Joyce here...
Yes, service will always be necessary as long as cars have wheels, and brakes, and steering, and electrics, and electronics, and shock absorbers, and bearings, and, and.... it isn't just an internal combustion engine and transmission. There's a lot to a modern car.
The information is often out-of-date. My navi computer does the same, but when there's a new construction area (or one goes away), the limit is completely wrong.
I got the message written in my.sig block from a Garman Nuvi. It's real.
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With rare exception, I have found WD-40 to be ineffective as a treatment for software coding errors..
Seems to me reliability in engine control software _is_ doable. Toyota just didn't do it.
Probably some kind of poor management decision that will ultimately be blamed on bad engineering.
Read the links from the summary. It was both crap code and bad management.
Isn't the big issue here that laws aren't stopping anyone. they find a reason around it or to reinterpret it or negate it?
For a law to stop someone, it has to have teeth in it -- penalties that are sufficient to dissuade one from running afoul of it. They have to be real, and personal, and unprotected by bureaucratic insulation.
Do people really fall for this?
Always. There's always more straw to make another straw man.
Printing a metal part can include blind voids that are difficult or impossible to do with a milling machine. And see my post above regarding 3D printing with stainless steel media.
A friend of mine from Monash University told me he attended a demonstration of a 3D printer that used stainless steel as a medium.
This goes a little bit beyond sintered epoxy-bronze powders in terms of strength.
We need a small, portable, dedicated device that performs a bi-directional USB to USB copy. You can remove the insects later.
(And he means that in the nicest possible way!)
Remember why Google took over from Alta Vista as the preferred search engine?
Google was simpler. Think about that for a moment.
Now think about what you're throwing away.
Otherwise known as
"Slashdot Jumps The Shark!"
"That's the second largest duck I've EVER had in my pants."
-- Monkey Island
And turned brass was everywhere. I loved the puzzles, the incredible transport monorails, the sheer quiet brilliance. And quiet it was, and cerebral. Still looking for something quite that good again.
Cherenkov radiation makes the fuel rod containment pools a really pretty shade of blue.
Speaking of CR, I recommend "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" by Larry Niven. He mentions its display in Smallville, and why. Worthy.
I like the ability to filter how I'm perceived by people. Maybe I should have been a salesman.
But I definitely want my work persona and my home persona to never, ever meet.
Our Founders (and for that matter, the Supreme Court) acknowledged that a Democratic form of government is not possible without free and anonymous speech, and anonymous voting. And anonymity requires pseudonymity
And this is so precisely because without anonymous speech, it becomes possible to retaliate against people for their speech. An employer can retaliate if an employee supports politics he doesn't like, for example. Or the government can retaliate if certain speech is not appreciated.
Think that's stretching things? Nonsense. Look at the flap about the IRS just this year.
There was an excellent contemporaneous example during the French Revolution, in how they harried poor old Marat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat
"Poor old Marat - in you we trust;
You work 'till your eyes are as red as rust"
Anonymous Coward is not a pseudonym.
Yes it is.
Haven't we grown out of "the ends justify the means" yet?
Isn't it something of a human conceit to believe all things actually had a beginning? I mean, just because we generally do, doesn't mean that the universe did. I can see the potential for an infinite series of big bangs and big collapses as just one more macroparticle in universal space-time. I don't see how it is required to have an ultimate beginning, any more than I expect the world to have been created at my birth or destroyed when I go out.
Is there a point where a particle collision around a black hole is so energetic that the particle decomposes into its constituent parts? I'm thinking James Joyce here...
Not so. Black holes are formed from collapsing stars and there's a lot of matter inside at the moment they reach critical density.
Three solar masses or more, in fact.
It only proves that fractals are fun. A groove, in fact.
(Looks at watch, presses lap timer)
"September... October... November..."
Yes, service will always be necessary as long as cars have wheels, and brakes, and steering, and electrics, and electronics, and shock absorbers, and bearings, and, and.... it isn't just an internal combustion engine and transmission. There's a lot to a modern car.
The Art of Diplomacy, it is said,
is saying "nice doggy" whilst you look about
for a large enough stick.
I won't install it until 3.11b
The information is often out-of-date. My navi computer does the same, but when there's a new construction area (or one goes away), the limit is completely wrong.
I got the message written in my .sig block from a Garman Nuvi. It's real.