All that is needed is to pass a law requiring 3D printers to only allow signed documents to be printed, with multiple private places acting as clearinghouses that vet items (they are not infringing, not a gun part, etc.) Existing 3D printers can be easily banned with ownership of one becoming a felony, just like how magazines over x amount of rounds are illegal to possess now in NJ, California, and other states.
Like I said, they'll try to control them like the Soviets tried to control typewriters. And that will just result in an economic collapse, as the free countries where anyone can make whatever they want become far more wealthy than the totalitarian Luddites.
It's worth noting that many lawyers believed the export restrictions would be tossed out as unconstitutional for digital files as well as printed books (since not doing so would clearly be insane, though that's obviously no guarantee the Supreme Court would do it), but no-one really wanted to be the test case when they could just print the source code and OCR it abroad.
For good or bad, 3D printing is the end of government controls over physical items, unless they require some exotic material, like plutonium.
They'll obviously try to control them, as the Soviets tried to control typewriters, but that will only be a temporary speed-bump. Widespread availability of the technology is essential if we're ever going to get off this planet.
What's to stop you from doing 100% exactly the same thing you just described on a truck right now?
1. The driver will recognise that someone in a Nixon mask and wig is probably not up to anything good. 2. The driver will kick your ass unless you threaten them, so you're committing a violent crime that could get someone killed, instead of just robbery.
If you can't see the obvious difference, you obviously haven't considered the obvious flaws of humanless vehicles carrying valuable cargo. Who's going to program a truck to drive over anyone who steps out in front of it wearing a Nixon mask and wig?
Let's change all construction practices and infrastructure to try to solve the ways in which self driving vehicles will be completely unprepared for the real world.
While allowing terrists to cause massive pileups with nothing but a can of paint and a brush...
The Apollo Command Module was designed to cave in if it came down on land instead of water (which could happen if it aborted very early in the launch). If I remember correctly, the helium tanks used to pressurize the RCS would crush and absorb the impact.
This is not an expensive computer. Phones are relatively inexpensive, and people just end up buying a new one every year or two anyway if they want the latest doodads.
I believe my Android phone would have been $7-800 if I'd had to pay for it. I paid less than that for my laptop.
That said, it did get 5.0.1 a few weeks ago. Before that it was stuck on an early version of 4.4.
Yeah, like no herbivores, peaked oil, overpopulation and all the other things that *scientists* have been warning us about for years.
Yes, exactly. I remember when I was a kid, *scientists* were warning us that we were entering a new ice age and oil was going to run out by the year 2000, and we must DO SOMETHING while there was STILL A CHANCE!
The left have been playing Chicken Little for decades, and no-one in their right mind takes them seriously any more.
That's what the left usually say, when their short-term predictions turn out to be garbage. If we're still on this planet in 1-2 centuries, we'll have far more important things to worry about.
The US and UK looked at aircraft carrier submarines in the between WWI and WWII and eventually gave up on the idea because of the technical and operational problems.
If, by 'looked at', you mean 'built'. Can't vouch for America, but Britain's M2 was operational for a few years before it sank in the mid-20s.
That's on its face illegal in the USA, though. You'd have to go through the hard mile with the SEC and the IRS before that type of scheme could happen.
Yes.
Thanks to the US government 'protecting' you from companies that take your money, promise a share of the business and then never deliver, you're only allowed to give your money to companies that take your money, don't promise a share of the business, and may or may not do anything. Which is clearly much, much better.
That must have been quite a task. Apparently, Google had no clue about how the the software they write, maintain and distribute, would work on a piece of hardware that they themselves chose.
At the time they released the original Nexus 7, Android was slow as molasses on any hardware I used. Performance has been one of the biggest steps forward in the last few Android releases, though they still seem to need significantly more CPU and RAM than an iPad.
Yeah, when my Nexus 7 dies, I'll probably be getting an iPad, unless Google produce a sane-sized tablet with sane permission controls.The new ones are too big, too expensive, and too full of spyware.
No, the Constitution was written to prevent these people gaining power, by giving the Federal government so little power that there was no point trying to buy them.
Sadly, the 'Progressives' came along demanding that government must be given more and more power, and it's been downhill ever since.
When people talk about 'innovation in aviation', I don't think they mean 'stuffing more people into smaller seats'.
I'd imagine easy money is the big problem. Why spend time inventing something actually useful, when a VC will lend you millions of dollars to build some new hipster site that you can sell to pension funds for a billion dollars.
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All that is needed is to pass a law requiring 3D printers to only allow signed documents to be printed, with multiple private places acting as clearinghouses that vet items (they are not infringing, not a gun part, etc.) Existing 3D printers can be easily banned with ownership of one becoming a felony, just like how magazines over x amount of rounds are illegal to possess now in NJ, California, and other states.
Like I said, they'll try to control them like the Soviets tried to control typewriters. And that will just result in an economic collapse, as the free countries where anyone can make whatever they want become far more wealthy than the totalitarian Luddites.
It's worth noting that many lawyers believed the export restrictions would be tossed out as unconstitutional for digital files as well as printed books (since not doing so would clearly be insane, though that's obviously no guarantee the Supreme Court would do it), but no-one really wanted to be the test case when they could just print the source code and OCR it abroad.
Maybe because electric cars are a piece of revolutionary technology that we are all watching be developed right under our eyes.
ROTFL.
Electric cars have been around for nearly TWO HUNDRED YEARS.
Anyone who claims they're 'revolutionary technology' just shows how little they know about the history of transport.
For good or bad, 3D printing is the end of government controls over physical items, unless they require some exotic material, like plutonium.
They'll obviously try to control them, as the Soviets tried to control typewriters, but that will only be a temporary speed-bump. Widespread availability of the technology is essential if we're ever going to get off this planet.
an end to a currency based economy and the beginning of post-scarcity?
Ha-ha. Commies just never give up.
What's to stop you from doing 100% exactly the same thing you just described on a truck right now?
1. The driver will recognise that someone in a Nixon mask and wig is probably not up to anything good.
2. The driver will kick your ass unless you threaten them, so you're committing a violent crime that could get someone killed, instead of just robbery.
If you can't see the obvious difference, you obviously haven't considered the obvious flaws of humanless vehicles carrying valuable cargo. Who's going to program a truck to drive over anyone who steps out in front of it wearing a Nixon mask and wig?
It's considerably easier to automate flying in a mostly empty sky.
And they still crash when the computer doesn't know what to do.
Let's change all construction practices and infrastructure to try to solve the ways in which self driving vehicles will be completely unprepared for the real world.
While allowing terrists to cause massive pileups with nothing but a can of paint and a brush...
The Apollo Command Module was designed to cave in if it came down on land instead of water (which could happen if it aborted very early in the launch). If I remember correctly, the helium tanks used to pressurize the RCS would crush and absorb the impact.
This is not an expensive computer. Phones are relatively inexpensive, and people just end up buying a new one every year or two anyway if they want the latest doodads.
I believe my Android phone would have been $7-800 if I'd had to pay for it. I paid less than that for my laptop.
That said, it did get 5.0.1 a few weeks ago. Before that it was stuck on an early version of 4.4.
Yeah, like no herbivores, peaked oil, overpopulation and all the other things that *scientists* have been warning us about for years.
Yes, exactly. I remember when I was a kid, *scientists* were warning us that we were entering a new ice age and oil was going to run out by the year 2000, and we must DO SOMETHING while there was STILL A CHANCE!
The left have been playing Chicken Little for decades, and no-one in their right mind takes them seriously any more.
Don't worry. All the Africans are moving to Europe right now, and Europe already exterminated most of its large indigenous herbivores.
All long term issues. Give it 1-2 centuries.
That's what the left usually say, when their short-term predictions turn out to be garbage. If we're still on this planet in 1-2 centuries, we'll have far more important things to worry about.
So where the hell is the budget or plan for the shuttle replacement?
It vanished when Congress decided that launching pork into space was more important than launching humans.
I believe the Apollo capsule landed at ~20mph, and was certified for landing on solid ground if it missed the sea (e.g. launch pad abort).
The US and UK looked at aircraft carrier submarines in the between WWI and WWII and eventually gave up on the idea because of the technical and operational problems.
If, by 'looked at', you mean 'built'. Can't vouch for America, but Britain's M2 was operational for a few years before it sank in the mid-20s.
That's on its face illegal in the USA, though. You'd have to go through the hard mile with the SEC and the IRS before that type of scheme could happen.
Yes.
Thanks to the US government 'protecting' you from companies that take your money, promise a share of the business and then never deliver, you're only allowed to give your money to companies that take your money, don't promise a share of the business, and may or may not do anything. Which is clearly much, much better.
So now we'll have to pay for million dollar bullets on top of everything else?
Cheap at double the price!
We're supposed to believe this will "[pass] light around the individual drops and improving visibility"?
This was mentioned a few years ago, for example: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-s...
I presume this must be the same people. But I agree, I'd rather pay $5 for a replacement headlight bulb than $5,000.
That must have been quite a task. Apparently, Google had no clue about how the the software they write, maintain and distribute, would work on a piece of hardware that they themselves chose.
At the time they released the original Nexus 7, Android was slow as molasses on any hardware I used. Performance has been one of the biggest steps forward in the last few Android releases, though they still seem to need significantly more CPU and RAM than an iPad.
Yeah, when my Nexus 7 dies, I'll probably be getting an iPad, unless Google produce a sane-sized tablet with sane permission controls.The new ones are too big, too expensive, and too full of spyware.
Whereas 5.0 was fine for me, but 5.1 seems to be a clunker. The Kindle app, for example, now likes to hang up so I have to kill it.
No, the Constitution was written to prevent these people gaining power, by giving the Federal government so little power that there was no point trying to buy them.
Sadly, the 'Progressives' came along demanding that government must be given more and more power, and it's been downhill ever since.
When people talk about 'innovation in aviation', I don't think they mean 'stuffing more people into smaller seats'.
I'd imagine easy money is the big problem. Why spend time inventing something actually useful, when a VC will lend you millions of dollars to build some new hipster site that you can sell to pension funds for a billion dollars.