That was intended to be a joke, but thank you. (Seriously.) I always figured the filet was a different area of muscle tissue, something softer than the regular steak areas. I didn't realize it was related to how the meat was cut.
I worked at an Army HQ between '00 and '04 (IT contractor), and at some point in that range we were all (soldiers, civilians, and contractors) getting CAC cards.
Where a traditional brash American northerner gets angry, but never fights for honor, a traditionally polite American southerner stays polite until you go to far and then goes for blood.
When I used to work in a place with a fridge and microwave in our NOC, I would always hold the Hot Pockets in front of the cooling vents of the massive A/C units in our NOC. A good 45 seconds in front of those vents was usually sufficient. (Not to mention that it amused me greatly to use a NOC A/C to cool my lunch.)
Think about it, we are going from tech geeks and designers wanting these, to gun fans, which there are a lot of. Also, the venn diagram of the two groups isn't close to overlapping, so the tech is going to spread, and fast.
Hi, I'm a tech geek and a gun fan. That Venn Diagram does overlap. The desire for this tech may still spread quickly, but not because this particular Venn doesn't overlap. (Because, obviously, it does.)
They have been trying to stop digital child porn since the early days of the net, and that is a clearly winnable war.
Clearly? Unfortunately, that's about as winnable as the war on drugs.
I am not too concerned about criminals getting (more) guns, but I am worried about your average slob with poor judgement being empowered like this, since there are far more of them with plenty of good intentions.
What makes you think that the "average slob with poor judgement" will even care about having tech like these printers? When I think of someone like that, I think of the lazy people who called me to fix their DSL and, oh, while I'm at it, to set up their wireless routers. If those people get printers like these, I'm willing to bet they won't be able to find the files needed - or be willing to shell out the money for the building materials - to make these things. On top of that, the important parts of firearms - the slide, the firing pin, the barrel, etc. - are still going to be metal for a long, long time, and even when it's possible to print metals at home, there's still the cost of the raw materials.
No, the "average slob with poor judgement" will not have easy access to unlimited firearms via 3D printers.
I mean, just as an example, if you feel a little peckish and you have a bit of change on you, what is easiest: buying a chocolate bar or buying a small bowl of salad?
And don't forget that the salad - even a small bowl - is likely to be more expensive than the chocolate bar. That just one more problem in this whole situation.
Eh, Make Room! Make Room! didn't really do anything for me. I wanted to read it so I could read the book that Soylent Green was based off of, but I completely lost all suspension of disbelief at the beginning of the book when Harrison gave us a completely impossible premise, one even more impossible than most SF tech. (That is, that the Catholic Church managed to get enough clout worldwide that it was able to impose an international and permanent ban on all forms of contraception.)
On top of that, the ending fell flat on its face, too. All through the book, we're told that there are so many humans that most habitable places have people standing (or lethargically slouching) cheek to jowl, that's it's because of this massive overpopulation that food variety is almost nil, that overpopulation has used up almost all resources, and then the final line in the book tells us that the US population on 1 January 2000 is 344 million. (I seem to recall that he mentioned a global population, too, that also wasn't far off from what we have today. I don't have my copy of the book near me, or I'd verify this.)
Now don't get me wrong - I don't have a problem with the idea of resource management and all that. What I have a problem with is that he obviously didn't get anyone to help him with his math. He described how densely-populated the cities were, and he did so rather well. But the numbers that he gave us at the end of the book don't live up to that description, and that ruined it for me.
Interesting. I had a similar situation in Ontario, California.
The TSA female told me it was a $25 fee for opting out. I told her, "That's fine. You can go ahead and collect it from the bag-check fee I had to pay to check my bag." She laughed again, "That'll be another $25 for being smart." I laughed back, "That's fine. I won't have to pay, since I'm not smart."
She let it drop after that, either because she was out-witted or because my frisker was ready. Not sure which.
I've worked for the company twice: FEB98-OCT00, NOV06-DEC10. (Got laid off and had to return to the Beast.) First time I worked in Media, mostly selling software, this latest time I worked in the warehouse of my store.
Frequently as we stocked the truck, we'd have Geek Squad people getting the laptops we were stocking so they could do all the prep work on them. There was even a point where they were checking the quantities of each SKU so that they could grab as close to 40% of each SKU as possible. (I don't say this as a dig at the GS guys; most of them were decent.)
Why did they do this? Because someone at District said that they had to to that to 40% of each SKU.
I can't speak for the other stores in my district, but what ended up happening at our store is that most people wouldn't want to pay the extra money for that service, the unmolested laptops would sell out first, and a few days after we received our shipments, all that would be left were the 40%. It got so bad that some models, week after week, wouldn't sell any modified laptops, so we'd have 20-30 of the modified laptops that were weeks old. Any customers who came in at the end of the week (especially if it was a model on sale) would find only the modified laptops. And these laptops were, of course, more expensive than the tag price they were looking at in front of the model.
Then, naturally, since management was desperate to make sales, if a customer complained about it just a little, the managers would waive the service fee and sell a serviced laptop at the original price.
And they wonder why they keep making less and less money.
I was watching the feed for a few minutes, and I couldn't figure out how this was beneficial. I mean, admittedly the feed was lagging for a few seconds every few seconds, but it looked to me as if the slice, (as it was being sliced off), was bunching up on the blade. On top of that, the operator removing the slice seemed to be just wiping it off of the blade with some wand-like instrument. How can this benefit science if the brain slices just get wadded up?
Something like this was inevitable, considering how those few people who loved the game also tended to want to know more about it.
I guess this means I can stop writing my ICO fanfic, as, from the sounds of this article, my fanfic and this novel will be covering the same topics.
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That was intended to be a joke, but thank you. (Seriously.) I always figured the filet was a different area of muscle tissue, something softer than the regular steak areas. I didn't realize it was related to how the meat was cut.
You, ah, you frequently hunt cattle? I guess it's easier to find them than deer.
I worked at an Army HQ between '00 and '04 (IT contractor), and at some point in that range we were all (soldiers, civilians, and contractors) getting CAC cards.
Were you trying to quote this comment, or are you both the same person?
Bless your heart.
When I used to work in a place with a fridge and microwave in our NOC, I would always hold the Hot Pockets in front of the cooling vents of the massive A/C units in our NOC. A good 45 seconds in front of those vents was usually sufficient. (Not to mention that it amused me greatly to use a NOC A/C to cool my lunch.)
Think about it, we are going from tech geeks and designers wanting these, to gun fans, which there are a lot of. Also, the venn diagram of the two groups isn't close to overlapping, so the tech is going to spread, and fast.
Hi, I'm a tech geek and a gun fan. That Venn Diagram does overlap. The desire for this tech may still spread quickly, but not because this particular Venn doesn't overlap. (Because, obviously, it does.)
They have been trying to stop digital child porn since the early days of the net, and that is a clearly winnable war.
Clearly? Unfortunately, that's about as winnable as the war on drugs.
I am not too concerned about criminals getting (more) guns, but I am worried about your average slob with poor judgement being empowered like this, since there are far more of them with plenty of good intentions.
What makes you think that the "average slob with poor judgement" will even care about having tech like these printers? When I think of someone like that, I think of the lazy people who called me to fix their DSL and, oh, while I'm at it, to set up their wireless routers. If those people get printers like these, I'm willing to bet they won't be able to find the files needed - or be willing to shell out the money for the building materials - to make these things. On top of that, the important parts of firearms - the slide, the firing pin, the barrel, etc. - are still going to be metal for a long, long time, and even when it's possible to print metals at home, there's still the cost of the raw materials.
No, the "average slob with poor judgement" will not have easy access to unlimited firearms via 3D printers.
I mean, just as an example, if you feel a little peckish and you have a bit of change on you, what is easiest: buying a chocolate bar or buying a small bowl of salad?
And don't forget that the salad - even a small bowl - is likely to be more expensive than the chocolate bar. That just one more problem in this whole situation.
Eh, Make Room! Make Room! didn't really do anything for me. I wanted to read it so I could read the book that Soylent Green was based off of, but I completely lost all suspension of disbelief at the beginning of the book when Harrison gave us a completely impossible premise, one even more impossible than most SF tech. (That is, that the Catholic Church managed to get enough clout worldwide that it was able to impose an international and permanent ban on all forms of contraception.)
On top of that, the ending fell flat on its face, too. All through the book, we're told that there are so many humans that most habitable places have people standing (or lethargically slouching) cheek to jowl, that's it's because of this massive overpopulation that food variety is almost nil, that overpopulation has used up almost all resources, and then the final line in the book tells us that the US population on 1 January 2000 is 344 million. (I seem to recall that he mentioned a global population, too, that also wasn't far off from what we have today. I don't have my copy of the book near me, or I'd verify this.)
Now don't get me wrong - I don't have a problem with the idea of resource management and all that. What I have a problem with is that he obviously didn't get anyone to help him with his math. He described how densely-populated the cities were, and he did so rather well. But the numbers that he gave us at the end of the book don't live up to that description, and that ruined it for me.
The nothing that can be defined (as a quantum vacuum) is not the true nothing.
Interesting. I had a similar situation in Ontario, California.
The TSA female told me it was a $25 fee for opting out. I told her, "That's fine. You can go ahead and collect it from the bag-check fee I had to pay to check my bag." She laughed again, "That'll be another $25 for being smart." I laughed back, "That's fine. I won't have to pay, since I'm not smart."
She let it drop after that, either because she was out-witted or because my frisker was ready. Not sure which.
I've worked for the company twice: FEB98-OCT00, NOV06-DEC10. (Got laid off and had to return to the Beast.) First time I worked in Media, mostly selling software, this latest time I worked in the warehouse of my store.
Frequently as we stocked the truck, we'd have Geek Squad people getting the laptops we were stocking so they could do all the prep work on them. There was even a point where they were checking the quantities of each SKU so that they could grab as close to 40% of each SKU as possible. (I don't say this as a dig at the GS guys; most of them were decent.)
Why did they do this? Because someone at District said that they had to to that to 40% of each SKU.
I can't speak for the other stores in my district, but what ended up happening at our store is that most people wouldn't want to pay the extra money for that service, the unmolested laptops would sell out first, and a few days after we received our shipments, all that would be left were the 40%. It got so bad that some models, week after week, wouldn't sell any modified laptops, so we'd have 20-30 of the modified laptops that were weeks old. Any customers who came in at the end of the week (especially if it was a model on sale) would find only the modified laptops. And these laptops were, of course, more expensive than the tag price they were looking at in front of the model.
Then, naturally, since management was desperate to make sales, if a customer complained about it just a little, the managers would waive the service fee and sell a serviced laptop at the original price.
And they wonder why they keep making less and less money.
Thank you. That clears things up. Makes a lot of sense, too.
The way that's written, my first thought was using dogs as bioweapons. I doubt that's really the case, so what do they really mean by this?
Does this mean we're one step closer to having to worry about Keepers?
If we stop using "cyberspace", that means I'll have to stop using "meatspace", too. :(
I was watching the feed for a few minutes, and I couldn't figure out how this was beneficial. I mean, admittedly the feed was lagging for a few seconds every few seconds, but it looked to me as if the slice, (as it was being sliced off), was bunching up on the blade. On top of that, the operator removing the slice seemed to be just wiping it off of the blade with some wand-like instrument. How can this benefit science if the brain slices just get wadded up?
Something like this was inevitable, considering how those few people who loved the game also tended to want to know more about it. I guess this means I can stop writing my ICO fanfic, as, from the sounds of this article, my fanfic and this novel will be covering the same topics.