The cheapest 3d printer I can find (which I'm not 100% sure can even make the appropriate size pieces) is something like $220. That's not counting filament.
Right now, if you don't have a criminal record (or maybe if you do! or know someone who doesn't!) you can go buy a brand new, fresh from the factory Hi-Point C9 9mm handgun for $150 MSRP. Also, the C9 tends to sell for even less than that. You can get a lightly used (or possibly new) C9 from gunbroker for $50.
Hi-Points are cheap pieces of shit compared to their market contemporaries but it: -Fires a much more deadly round than a 22LR -Comes with an 8-round (IIRC? 8 or 9 I think) magazine -Won't explode on a misfire -Shoots straight, particularly after one round!
The only solid benefit that the Liberator has is that it won't set off a metal detector if you don't use something metal for the firing pin. That's it.
Zipguns and the like have been around for ages, and if you felt like it you could already easily build a zipgun that didn't have any ferrous parts that would trigger a metal detector (outside of the bullet itself).
Having a 3d Printer be able to crap out the parts with a click is easier yeah but I don't really see the difference between being able to craft a functional one-shot firearm in an hour or two compared to say most of an afternoon. If you're going to do evil things with it you'll probably plan on it as early as you need to make whatever it is you want. Gonna ban people from knowing basic chemistry too? I believe Bleach and Ammonia purchases are monitored and regulated depending on the country but you're not signing off for them here in the US at least. Gonna try to go around and police scrap metal and leftover nails so people can't make thermite? Require a waiting period before you can buy a pressure cooker?
Also, even if the filaments improve you're still trusting a hunk of plastic to contain rapidly expanding, hot gas. I guess if I was a criminal or a psycho wanting to assassinate someone I wouldn't care but generally you'd like your weapon to work instead of spraying shrapnel into your face.
I know absolutely no one who isn't extremely online or some weird greybeard or/g/-poster that has anything but a marginally positive view of Firefox, same with Chrome.
The answer is to just improve the product. Quantum fixed the majority of the weird speed/rendering issues that were annoying me with Firefox. How about just continue from there? Also stop ripping out UI elements to make it look like Chrome?
It's almost like we have a GOP-controlled government that got a SCOTUS appointment and now has another, which will guarantee a court that will basically start from the Janus case and make all labor organization illegal because it infringes on imaginary people (corporations).
Nuclear is nice if you want baseline power you can just anywhere that won't necessarily get cracked wide open by a fault line.
Nuclear has had a ridiculous, insane amount of bullshit FUD spread about it because of old reactor designs, two preventable disasters, and ignoring newer reactor designs that don't do any of the things people cry about. The most modern reactor designs could basically be bombed and cause less environmental damage than a shitload of coal sludge or a few years of fly ash.
The NIMBY crowd is still huge and encompasses basically everyone left center and right because...well, NIMBY people are pretty universally stupid and driven by a primal fear that bypasses party/political affiliation.
It's still way the fuck more expensive than basically all alternatives and still has its own drawbacks and hazards.
My answer: Nationalize electricity production. If we can spend a shitzillion dollars on a piece of shit jet that won't ever accomplish anything outside of asphyxiating pilots when they cross the international date line we can spend it on completely taking over power generation so we can just wholesale move to whatever makes the most sense in terms of protecting the environment and meeting our future power needs.
Man, who would have thought cramming two more cores into a system that already was thermally insufficient would case heat and throttling issues?
I never really believe Jobs was the heart of the company but considering the trend-chasing that Tim Cook has led apple into and the garbage hardware pumped out because no one is around to tell Ives when he has stupid ideas I'm beginning to think there may have been something to that.
Nintendo is basically the mafia (I mean this almost unironically- check their history on how many times they've been busted for their business practices such as price-fixing), and the ROM sites made money giving their IP away for free.
I'm not going to shed a single tear for Nintendo however since they suck as a company and have pretty shitty practices on shifting the electronic content you buy from them around (No virtual console on the switch, meaning eat shit if you bought a bunch of stuff on your WiiU. Hope your dead console keeps working!) and have an 80 year-olds view of the internet as far as their properties are concerned. Remember that they mass DMCA'd fucking Let's Play videos, and demonetize anything with a microscopic amount of footage of their games even if that footage is used in a way that satisfies fair use. They also wanted to start a sort of profit-sharing agreement with youtubers and streamers who merely DISCUSS their games.
Nintendo is scum. They don't deserve your money.
ROM sites are also not innocent obviously. They made money off your downloads, and there was always a better way to get them. There's not much to them- you risk your PC's safety dealing with intrusive ads, bitcoin miners, malware, etc.- the site owner makes money off the download of material they don't own.
Really, if you want to just pirate all of the games for old Nintendo system (which IMO there's nothing wrong with, because they've resold them in one inferior form or another a dozen times, or not at all in the case of many) they've been on bittorrent in the form of easily-to-store ZIP files for years and years. Every NES title ever known (including demos, bootlegs, unreleased games, etc) can be had in a ZIP file that's a hefty 50-ish Megabytes. Every SNES game ever made cames out to the low hundreds of Megabytes. Pull down one of those archives and store it however you wish if you're worried. In the case of the NES/SNES there's even cycle-perfect emulators (which the NES/SNES classic do not use).
GWB was a misguided buffoon with evil, extremely connected people pulling his strings. GWB really IS a "compassionate conservative" and a born-again Christian who thinks that anyone can be redeemed (Huckabee is the same. He doesn't pardon murderers for the purpose of furthering his career. He's scary too however).
Obama is to the right of Nixon, but due to the extremely negative media coverage portraying him as being to the left of Marx he gets cover to sign off on shit like this. Obama was supposed to be better than the average politician even if it meant he would be less effective. He wasn't supposed to be cynical. In practice however Obama is the most cynical president in history; a Clinton-style gamesman. "But, Clinton didn't do that bad outside of the DMCA and bombing an aspirin factory!", yeah, that was with the Republicans imploding during his presidency due to the government shutdown and Americans finding the circus of the Monica scandal repulsive. The popular media (Fox/Drudge/Most local newspapers) is far more hostile to Obama than it ever was to Clinton. The Senate/House makeup and the general mindset of "defeat anything with Obama's name attached to it" among the GOP means we're going to get a shittier form of Clinton.
No economic boom, no sane legislation passing unmolested through both houses, but you bet your ass every "the MPAA can came to your house and literally rape you" or "The government reserves the right to legally disappear you forever" law will make it through.
Lieberman is done come this next election cycle. He's just getting his last gasp of relevancy before he rightfully disappears off to academia or punditry. Good fucking riddance too, since he's a piece of shit and a bad human being in general.
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TFA seems to think that most of the DLC that's included for "Free" with newer titles (i.e. everything from Bioware now, Red Dead Redemption, etc) is sort of an "Oh, we got this done after we had to go gold" afterthought deal.
No, it's there because you have to make an account and tie your name and credit/debit card to your game to get it. If for example you buy Mass Effect 2 and register on Bioware's HORRIBLE community website (also they commit the xbox live sin of using nebulous points as currency) to get the "Cerberus Pack" which includes a character (Zaheed) and a set of armor, if you go to sell your copy or trade it in you need to give up that name and password with it otherwise the person who buys the game used will have to create their own account and pay $7-10 for the DLC you got for "free".
DLC isn't loved by game companies just because they can nickel and dime you for shit that should've been in the original package, but it's also a way to pry money out of the pockets of people who buy games from the used market they despise so much.
Last I heard each campaign of SC2 is going to be priced at the cost of a full game.
Half Life 2's "episodes" were short but at least they were priced at expansion pack costs. Not that they were worth it (speaking as someone who bought both).
You're a sucker if you buy SC2. Go play something else. Go get League of Legends or something. Don't encourage this shit where you pay $50-60 a pop 2-3 times just to get an entire game.
Aren't the "Young" and "Hip" developers usually the douchebags who collect a check until they complete whatever it is they are personally working on and then they quit and create a shitty startup company whose entire purpose is to be bought out by Microsoft/Google/Apple so they can retire early?
"You mean if'n we all took up arms against the gov'ment they'd turn off my power and I couldn't go home and watch the Idol after a day of shootin feds? And pretty much all business would stop so I couldn't go to the Wally World or McDonalds?...I think I'll just vote for the Republicans like Rush sez."
That's what aristocrats kept telling the people right until the French Revolution. Apparently when everything fails, the good old "kill, rape and pillage the fuckers" still works wonderfully. Back then, being rich made you a target, the more riches, the bigger target, the more the mob tortured you before you lost your head.
Moments like these, one has to wonder if pro-gun folks, regardless of their political inclination and their "government must fear us" agenda is dead on.
The idea is "sexy" (wooo, grab the pitchforks and storm the bastille!) and generally correct but the practice of it is most definitely not. In a nation of 300+ million people that spans an entire gigantic continent, you'd need pretty much the entire populous motivated to do something. Nothing on that scale has ever happened in human history.
Americans will never "eat the rich" because they've bought completely into the myth that they have a reasonable chance of being one of them. They vote against tax hikes for multi-billionaires for god's sake.
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I always thought that was a shitty demonstration because I can sure as fuck turn a human off for 5 minutes with a shot of the right anesthetics.
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The cheapest 3d printer I can find (which I'm not 100% sure can even make the appropriate size pieces) is something like $220. That's not counting filament.
Right now, if you don't have a criminal record (or maybe if you do! or know someone who doesn't!) you can go buy a brand new, fresh from the factory Hi-Point C9 9mm handgun for $150 MSRP. Also, the C9 tends to sell for even less than that. You can get a lightly used (or possibly new) C9 from gunbroker for $50.
Hi-Points are cheap pieces of shit compared to their market contemporaries but it:
-Fires a much more deadly round than a 22LR
-Comes with an 8-round (IIRC? 8 or 9 I think) magazine
-Won't explode on a misfire
-Shoots straight, particularly after one round!
The only solid benefit that the Liberator has is that it won't set off a metal detector if you don't use something metal for the firing pin. That's it.
Zipguns and the like have been around for ages, and if you felt like it you could already easily build a zipgun that didn't have any ferrous parts that would trigger a metal detector (outside of the bullet itself).
Having a 3d Printer be able to crap out the parts with a click is easier yeah but I don't really see the difference between being able to craft a functional one-shot firearm in an hour or two compared to say most of an afternoon. If you're going to do evil things with it you'll probably plan on it as early as you need to make whatever it is you want. Gonna ban people from knowing basic chemistry too? I believe Bleach and Ammonia purchases are monitored and regulated depending on the country but you're not signing off for them here in the US at least. Gonna try to go around and police scrap metal and leftover nails so people can't make thermite? Require a waiting period before you can buy a pressure cooker?
Also, even if the filaments improve you're still trusting a hunk of plastic to contain rapidly expanding, hot gas. I guess if I was a criminal or a psycho wanting to assassinate someone I wouldn't care but generally you'd like your weapon to work instead of spraying shrapnel into your face.
I suggest we start with anonymous slashdot posters.
I know absolutely no one who isn't extremely online or some weird greybeard or /g/-poster that has anything but a marginally positive view of Firefox, same with Chrome.
The answer is to just improve the product. Quantum fixed the majority of the weird speed/rendering issues that were annoying me with Firefox. How about just continue from there? Also stop ripping out UI elements to make it look like Chrome?
"I'm all for honesty in advertising, so how about a product name like "Memory Leak" or "Developer Denial" or "Bundled with Spyware"?"
but that's now how you say Chrome?
It's almost like we have a GOP-controlled government that got a SCOTUS appointment and now has another, which will guarantee a court that will basically start from the Janus case and make all labor organization illegal because it infringes on imaginary people (corporations).
Nuclear is nice if you want baseline power you can just anywhere that won't necessarily get cracked wide open by a fault line.
Nuclear has had a ridiculous, insane amount of bullshit FUD spread about it because of old reactor designs, two preventable disasters, and ignoring newer reactor designs that don't do any of the things people cry about. The most modern reactor designs could basically be bombed and cause less environmental damage than a shitload of coal sludge or a few years of fly ash.
The NIMBY crowd is still huge and encompasses basically everyone left center and right because...well, NIMBY people are pretty universally stupid and driven by a primal fear that bypasses party/political affiliation.
It's still way the fuck more expensive than basically all alternatives and still has its own drawbacks and hazards.
My answer: Nationalize electricity production. If we can spend a shitzillion dollars on a piece of shit jet that won't ever accomplish anything outside of asphyxiating pilots when they cross the international date line we can spend it on completely taking over power generation so we can just wholesale move to whatever makes the most sense in terms of protecting the environment and meeting our future power needs.
I should have been more specific: I was referring to the people WITH all the money.
Is there a public service that these brain geniuses think can't be replaced by ~*the free market*~?
It's not so much the money as it is that the "other half" are trash that don't deserve it and are fucking poisonous to the country. :)
Man, who would have thought cramming two more cores into a system that already was thermally insufficient would case heat and throttling issues?
I never really believe Jobs was the heart of the company but considering the trend-chasing that Tim Cook has led apple into and the garbage hardware pumped out because no one is around to tell Ives when he has stupid ideas I'm beginning to think there may have been something to that.
Nintendo is basically the mafia (I mean this almost unironically- check their history on how many times they've been busted for their business practices such as price-fixing), and the ROM sites made money giving their IP away for free.
I'm not going to shed a single tear for Nintendo however since they suck as a company and have pretty shitty practices on shifting the electronic content you buy from them around (No virtual console on the switch, meaning eat shit if you bought a bunch of stuff on your WiiU. Hope your dead console keeps working!) and have an 80 year-olds view of the internet as far as their properties are concerned. Remember that they mass DMCA'd fucking Let's Play videos, and demonetize anything with a microscopic amount of footage of their games even if that footage is used in a way that satisfies fair use. They also wanted to start a sort of profit-sharing agreement with youtubers and streamers who merely DISCUSS their games.
Nintendo is scum. They don't deserve your money.
ROM sites are also not innocent obviously. They made money off your downloads, and there was always a better way to get them. There's not much to them- you risk your PC's safety dealing with intrusive ads, bitcoin miners, malware, etc.- the site owner makes money off the download of material they don't own.
Really, if you want to just pirate all of the games for old Nintendo system (which IMO there's nothing wrong with, because they've resold them in one inferior form or another a dozen times, or not at all in the case of many) they've been on bittorrent in the form of easily-to-store ZIP files for years and years. Every NES title ever known (including demos, bootlegs, unreleased games, etc) can be had in a ZIP file that's a hefty 50-ish Megabytes. Every SNES game ever made cames out to the low hundreds of Megabytes. Pull down one of those archives and store it however you wish if you're worried. In the case of the NES/SNES there's even cycle-perfect emulators (which the NES/SNES classic do not use).
The fact that you think only 50 people died at Chernobyl is a good indication of how much credence your argument should be given*.
*hint: none, because you are literally retarded
*smugly posts about Linux/Unix/OSX*
*Doesn't understand a pretty simple UI change that just moves some buttons around*
*unironically complains about it on Slashdot*
GWB was a misguided buffoon with evil, extremely connected people pulling his strings. GWB really IS a "compassionate conservative" and a born-again Christian who thinks that anyone can be redeemed (Huckabee is the same. He doesn't pardon murderers for the purpose of furthering his career. He's scary too however).
Obama is to the right of Nixon, but due to the extremely negative media coverage portraying him as being to the left of Marx he gets cover to sign off on shit like this. Obama was supposed to be better than the average politician even if it meant he would be less effective. He wasn't supposed to be cynical. In practice however Obama is the most cynical president in history; a Clinton-style gamesman. "But, Clinton didn't do that bad outside of the DMCA and bombing an aspirin factory!", yeah, that was with the Republicans imploding during his presidency due to the government shutdown and Americans finding the circus of the Monica scandal repulsive. The popular media (Fox/Drudge/Most local newspapers) is far more hostile to Obama than it ever was to Clinton. The Senate/House makeup and the general mindset of "defeat anything with Obama's name attached to it" among the GOP means we're going to get a shittier form of Clinton.
No economic boom, no sane legislation passing unmolested through both houses, but you bet your ass every "the MPAA can came to your house and literally rape you" or "The government reserves the right to legally disappear you forever" law will make it through.
TL;DR: Death is Certain.
Being profoundly blind in one eye, glasses-free 3D means precisely fuckall to me.
3D can enhance the experience of playing by providing more immersion, but it's not nearly the same kind of enhancement the second screen was.
Lieberman is done come this next election cycle. He's just getting his last gasp of relevancy before he rightfully disappears off to academia or punditry. Good fucking riddance too, since he's a piece of shit and a bad human being in general.
TFA seems to think that most of the DLC that's included for "Free" with newer titles (i.e. everything from Bioware now, Red Dead Redemption, etc) is sort of an "Oh, we got this done after we had to go gold" afterthought deal.
No, it's there because you have to make an account and tie your name and credit/debit card to your game to get it. If for example you buy Mass Effect 2 and register on Bioware's HORRIBLE community website (also they commit the xbox live sin of using nebulous points as currency) to get the "Cerberus Pack" which includes a character (Zaheed) and a set of armor, if you go to sell your copy or trade it in you need to give up that name and password with it otherwise the person who buys the game used will have to create their own account and pay $7-10 for the DLC you got for "free".
DLC isn't loved by game companies just because they can nickel and dime you for shit that should've been in the original package, but it's also a way to pry money out of the pockets of people who buy games from the used market they despise so much.
Last I heard each campaign of SC2 is going to be priced at the cost of a full game.
Half Life 2's "episodes" were short but at least they were priced at expansion pack costs. Not that they were worth it (speaking as someone who bought both).
...you're gonna have to buy this game 3 times.
You're a sucker if you buy SC2. Go play something else. Go get League of Legends or something. Don't encourage this shit where you pay $50-60 a pop 2-3 times just to get an entire game.
Aren't the "Young" and "Hip" developers usually the douchebags who collect a check until they complete whatever it is they are personally working on and then they quit and create a shitty startup company whose entire purpose is to be bought out by Microsoft/Google/Apple so they can retire early?
"You mean if'n we all took up arms against the gov'ment they'd turn off my power and I couldn't go home and watch the Idol after a day of shootin feds? And pretty much all business would stop so I couldn't go to the Wally World or McDonalds? ...I think I'll just vote for the Republicans like Rush sez."
That's what aristocrats kept telling the people right until the French Revolution. Apparently when everything fails, the good old "kill, rape and pillage the fuckers" still works wonderfully. Back then, being rich made you a target, the more riches, the bigger target, the more the mob tortured you before you lost your head.
Moments like these, one has to wonder if pro-gun folks, regardless of their political inclination and their "government must fear us" agenda is dead on.
The idea is "sexy" (wooo, grab the pitchforks and storm the bastille!) and generally correct but the practice of it is most definitely not. In a nation of 300+ million people that spans an entire gigantic continent, you'd need pretty much the entire populous motivated to do something. Nothing on that scale has ever happened in human history.
Americans will never "eat the rich" because they've bought completely into the myth that they have a reasonable chance of being one of them. They vote against tax hikes for multi-billionaires for god's sake.