Well you apparently live in a nominally sane world. Americans, not so much.
That is, in a nutshell, the whole underlying stupidity about this issue. The receiver is bullshit and it's legal status is just some bizarre American fetish. The barrel and breech - which are the hard parts (which the idiot Wired reporter had to ahem, purchase) and WHICH CANNOT BE MADE BY 3D PRINTING - at least for quite some time.
because they hate us and want us to die. That is why they're flooding the streets with guns. 3D printers make it even faster and more effective. They are more effecting at making us constantly die. That is what this is about.
Yippeee! That means I can get the anti tank weapon I've always lusted for. Those SUVs don't stand a chance!
Not for long. The easy way out of this for the feds is to serialized the barrel. The barrel is 1) the hardest part of a gun to make and 2) the 'gun' part of the gun. COMBINED with the receiver you are mostly there.
I suspect the only reason that this hasn't been tried is that the NRA would cast the Evil Eye on it's clients, er, representatives.
How about parents who smoke in the house? You can prove that by checking conicotine levels in the kid's urine. There are are number of distinct parental behaviors that can demonstrably harm children.
You would need a lot more research that (I don't believe has been done) on how often you really need to adjust your thyroid. As cdrugde mentions, thyroid testing is done infrequently - on the order of months. To have an implantable system that fired off that infrequently is probably not really worth it. Dogma is that thyroid hormones don't change that much - at least a clinically noticeable values.
Most of the thyroid replacement research these days seems to be around the issue of 'minor' thyroid hormones, mostly T3. Even with this issue, we don't have good data. And T3 is produced at about 10% of the rate of T4 (the traditional thyroid hormone) so it isn't some scarce little molecule.
But if you really look closely at how much we know about things like this, it's pretty disappointing. This sort of research is slow and very expensive. Given that thyroid pills are pennies and that people do 'pretty well' on that treatment, the impetus to improve things is small.
One of my inverter / chargers (Kisea Asbo) has a USB charging port on it. I have a battery pack plugged into so if we have a prolonged power outage, I can directly charge the cell phones / flashlights / whatever else. USB charging is so ubiquitous these days I think it will eventually replace the AA cell.
TFA specifically mentioned that this would be unlikely to work. However, you could argue that the irony in the concept of 'copyrights all the way down' might be sufficiently transformative so as to enjoy copyright protection.
Thus, it would really be 'copyrights all the way down'. Or perhaps recursion.
Boat people use 36 or 48V in larger vessels. There is a lot of work done in high voltage DC for people with lots more money than sense.
The higher DC voltages seem to work well for everything except household-class heater appliances like dryers. But 12V isn't going to cut it for house-sized objects. Yes, you can do it - but why would you want to?
For one thing, high amp copper cable is expensive and a PITA to install.
Contract law isn't divine. The manufacturer should have anticipated this, and should share responsibility. I don't care what the small print says because I'm interested in ethics, not a career in law (although I do have a law degree).
Male something idiot proof and the world will build a better idiot.
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Well you apparently live in a nominally sane world. Americans, not so much.
That is, in a nutshell, the whole underlying stupidity about this issue. The receiver is bullshit and it's legal status is just some bizarre American fetish. The barrel and breech - which are the hard parts (which the idiot Wired reporter had to ahem, purchase) and WHICH CANNOT BE MADE BY 3D PRINTING - at least for quite some time.
So this is just posturing plain and simple.
because they hate us and want us to die. That is why they're flooding the streets with guns. 3D printers make it even faster and more effective. They are more effecting at making us constantly die. That is what this is about.
Yippeee! That means I can get the anti tank weapon I've always lusted for. Those SUVs don't stand a chance!
That's OK, there are more people I don't trust with a car. Or anything more dangerous than a Q Tip for that matter.
Not for long. The easy way out of this for the feds is to serialized the barrel. The barrel is 1) the hardest part of a gun to make and 2) the 'gun' part of the gun. COMBINED with the receiver you are mostly there.
I suspect the only reason that this hasn't been tried is that the NRA would cast the Evil Eye on it's clients, er, representatives.
How about parents who smoke in the house? You can prove that by checking conicotine levels in the kid's urine. There are are number of distinct parental behaviors that can demonstrably harm children.
You gonna put everybody in jail?
Let Uncle Nanny raise the kids?
This is an imperfect world. Get used to it.
You would need a lot more research that (I don't believe has been done) on how often you really need to adjust your thyroid. As cdrugde mentions, thyroid testing is done infrequently - on the order of months. To have an implantable system that fired off that infrequently is probably not really worth it. Dogma is that thyroid hormones don't change that much - at least a clinically noticeable values.
Most of the thyroid replacement research these days seems to be around the issue of 'minor' thyroid hormones, mostly T3. Even with this issue, we don't have good data. And T3 is produced at about 10% of the rate of T4 (the traditional thyroid hormone) so it isn't some scarce little molecule.
But if you really look closely at how much we know about things like this, it's pretty disappointing. This sort of research is slow and very expensive. Given that thyroid pills are pennies and that people do 'pretty well' on that treatment, the impetus to improve things is small.
Goodbye slashdot.
AC's are leaving?
Excellent!
You mean they've gimped GIMP?
AIDS, Hepatitis, GC, Herpes - Mac users can get all sorts of infections. It's really scary sometimes.
"Because that's where the money is."
Duh....
Wow. He had real mail. And I bet they weren't Cabela's catalogs.
Just what are they doing on your floor? You should at the very least offer them a chair.
Jeez. No wonder women don't like us....
One of my inverter / chargers (Kisea Asbo) has a USB charging port on it. I have a battery pack plugged into so if we have a prolonged power outage, I can directly charge the cell phones / flashlights / whatever else. USB charging is so ubiquitous these days I think it will eventually replace the AA cell.
No, you (presumably) want the teachers to be teaching. Not being their parents.
That ship sailed long ago. That said, GODDAMMIT; '1984' WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WARNING. NOT AN OPERATIONS MANUAL.
TFA specifically mentioned that this would be unlikely to work. However, you could argue that the irony in the concept of 'copyrights all the way down' might be sufficiently transformative so as to enjoy copyright protection.
Thus, it would really be 'copyrights all the way down'. Or perhaps recursion.
Mutiltas....
Wait! A squir ...
The sad part about is that there are far more people who think that AOL / Facebook / The Blue E / Google is the "Internet" than not.
Then there is the tube guy, but he's dead.
Deleting most people's photos could be considered a feature, not a bug.
No kidding. How about we outsource something good like overpaid CEOs or Congress? :)
Should be pretty easy to do.
Gopros are rebranded 20 bucks Chinese webcams. What's so special about them?
Accessories. Ecosystem. First mover advantage.
Yes, they are cheap pieces of crap. But they caught on. Now even bicycle helmets have mount points for them.
Just because we're all dim bulbs doesn't mean we're low voltage. There is a lot of resistance around here.
Boat people use 36 or 48V in larger vessels. There is a lot of work done in high voltage DC for people with lots more money than sense.
The higher DC voltages seem to work well for everything except household-class heater appliances like dryers. But 12V isn't going to cut it for house-sized objects. Yes, you can do it - but why would you want to?
For one thing, high amp copper cable is expensive and a PITA to install.
Turns out that minimum-size black hole you'll need to destroy Earth is roughly the mass of Mt Everest.
This must be why evil mad scientists are always found underneath large volcanoes. Everything is clear to me now.
Contract law isn't divine. The manufacturer should have anticipated this, and should share responsibility. I don't care what the small print says because I'm interested in ethics, not a career in law (although I do have a law degree).
Male something idiot proof and the world will build a better idiot.
Good luck with that!