Unfortunately, I doubt those detailed rules will be applied, even marginally well, and we're going to have every Joe Yokel cop doing 'constitution free' searches.
I assume, because of how you where treated, you are a brown person, which is of course, almost a hanging offense in this country now. Not that it counts for anything, but I am deeply sorry we let things get this far down the drain, and I deeply regret how much farther they are going to go before we get off our asses and fix the problem.
you can already order a huge number of expensive things custom 3d printed in a vast array of metals and have them mailed to your door. I personally have purchased a set of gaming dice 3d printed from stainless steel. The same company will print in various plastics, silver, gold, or even glass and ceramic. Anything you design that will fit the dimensions their hardware can print, you can order. (they may have a ban on sexually explicit items and weapons, i've never checked). Based on that, I think the idea of printing a working circuit board is more like 5-7 years out, on an experimental scale, and 10-15 on a 'I designed this board, and they printed and mailed it to me' scale.
I still contend that EVE is simply a massive social experiment to see if you can get people to pay for the privilege of working a second full time job managing spreadsheets.
the key here is to find a publicly accessible printer, in a location with a publicly accessible security/web camera, so you can witness the revulsion crossing their bewildered faces first hand.
you think that is bad, I had just converted my service to U-verse from a old style ATT dsl acct, and this outage hit the day it was suppose to switch over and be active.
so much for un-interrupted service.
Thats what I was going to say. I remember years ago, someone was '3d printing' houses using a giant Cartesian/Gantry type machine that placed a special mix of concrete. It worked just like current 3d printing really, just made pass after pass, laying down layers, building up the walls. The advantage there was it did not need a filler in the rooms, it just used a mix that dried quickly enough. If i recall, it could print a 500 square foot house in about 5 days. The guy that was creating the system hoped to be able to use it to print emergency housing after disasters.
the thing is, algae blooms are the whole point of iron oxide in the oceans. the algae bloom, due to the iron being a fertilizer to it. Being plants, they grow, and absorb carbon. The algae eventually reach a critical stage, and die off, and sink to the bottom, sequestering carbon on the sea floor. At least, that is the plan. Only a little testing has been done with this, but you would run the (in my mind, considerable) risk of accidentally starting a red tide bloom, and causing a lot of havoc.
The problem is the plans are rather indiscriminate about how they would go at it, as (obviously) not all the ocean is as you describe and the long term effects of the algae blooms they intend to cause are not particularly well known. We already know that huge algae blooms can have negative effects on other sea life ie red tide. While on the short term, it looks like it may be a viable plan, I personally think that alternatives that do not ADD yet another contaminant to the ecosystem would be far more ideal. (yes, I am aware that iron oxide fertilizes the algae, but if it was not present in that part of the ocean to begin with, we may not want to be fooling with that ecosystem.)
Thats what I was saying before! My position on Global Warming is something along the lines of: Yes, global temperature averages are up. No, I am not convinced that humans are entirely the cause. (anthro centric global warming). However, that being said, I am ENTIRELY FOR any action that reduces the human impact on the environment, WITHOUT the potential to further damage it. (Examples of bad plans that have been floated in the past 5 or so years include iron oxide in the oceans, mylar bags of C02 anchored to the bottom of the oceans, genetically re-engineering both cows and kangaroos(?) to not produce so much methane when they pass gas, and the list goes on.)
We need something like the Hippocratic oath for the environment when it comes to fixing what we may (or may not) have caused. Any by that I mean, anything we do to correct the global climate, MUST not be able to cause a runaway cooling effect if we are incorrect about our involvement in climate trends, or cause any other lasting negative effect to the environment as a whole (the way seeding the oceans with iron oxide may have negative long term effects on sea life).
filtering soot from our emissions is something we can do, that does not have a downside to the environment, and should be at the forefront of our efforts to better our planet.
the tracking ammo is how Mexico does it. You buy bullets 1 at a time, and have to fill out paperwork for each one. And we all see how well THAT is working.
You need to look at Terragen.
I'm 100% sure it can do everything you want, but it can render out worlds anywhere between full globes, to inch scale close ups, with a lot of the effects you are looking for, and, if you learn to run it right, you can load in lots of external data light heightmaps and whatnot.
I know you are trolling and whatever, but people would notice, and report it to the FCC if there was any sort of public spectrum jamming going on, and then the FCC comes in and triangulates the source, and then the FBI comes in and plays 'Federal Pound you in the Ass Prison' for whoever was jamming.
Thanks Neighborhood Sheriff!
Exactly. Cracked had an article that covered the weird proliferation of Russian dash cam video. Seems that there is a huge amount of -attempted- insurance fraud in Russia (just look up on youtube to see dozens of pedestrians walking out into the street and laying down, or leaping onto the hoods of stopped cars and then flopping on the ground like a landed fish). Apparently, the insurance companies are terrible to deal with, so people have resorted to dash cams so they always have visual evidence to bring to court when dealing with this crap.
The article suggests that the researchers developed a diet that causes the intestines to become a inhospitable place for that particular bacteria, which is how they eliminated it from the test subject.
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Unfortunately, I doubt those detailed rules will be applied, even marginally well, and we're going to have every Joe Yokel cop doing 'constitution free' searches.
if it uses electricity. Good luck when they confiscate your pacemaker.
I assume, because of how you where treated, you are a brown person, which is of course, almost a hanging offense in this country now. Not that it counts for anything, but I am deeply sorry we let things get this far down the drain, and I deeply regret how much farther they are going to go before we get off our asses and fix the problem.
An envelope of money to get it in the front door, a briefcase full of money to read it, and a city bus full of money to do anything about it...
you can already order a huge number of expensive things custom 3d printed in a vast array of metals and have them mailed to your door. I personally have purchased a set of gaming dice 3d printed from stainless steel. The same company will print in various plastics, silver, gold, or even glass and ceramic. Anything you design that will fit the dimensions their hardware can print, you can order. (they may have a ban on sexually explicit items and weapons, i've never checked). Based on that, I think the idea of printing a working circuit board is more like 5-7 years out, on an experimental scale, and 10-15 on a 'I designed this board, and they printed and mailed it to me' scale.
I still contend that EVE is simply a massive social experiment to see if you can get people to pay for the privilege of working a second full time job managing spreadsheets.
the key here is to find a publicly accessible printer, in a location with a publicly accessible security/web camera, so you can witness the revulsion crossing their bewildered faces first hand.
you think that is bad, I had just converted my service to U-verse from a old style ATT dsl acct, and this outage hit the day it was suppose to switch over and be active.
so much for un-interrupted service.
Thats what I was going to say. I remember years ago, someone was '3d printing' houses using a giant Cartesian/Gantry type machine that placed a special mix of concrete. It worked just like current 3d printing really, just made pass after pass, laying down layers, building up the walls. The advantage there was it did not need a filler in the rooms, it just used a mix that dried quickly enough. If i recall, it could print a 500 square foot house in about 5 days. The guy that was creating the system hoped to be able to use it to print emergency housing after disasters.
the thing is, algae blooms are the whole point of iron oxide in the oceans. the algae bloom, due to the iron being a fertilizer to it. Being plants, they grow, and absorb carbon. The algae eventually reach a critical stage, and die off, and sink to the bottom, sequestering carbon on the sea floor. At least, that is the plan. Only a little testing has been done with this, but you would run the (in my mind, considerable) risk of accidentally starting a red tide bloom, and causing a lot of havoc.
The problem is the plans are rather indiscriminate about how they would go at it, as (obviously) not all the ocean is as you describe and the long term effects of the algae blooms they intend to cause are not particularly well known. We already know that huge algae blooms can have negative effects on other sea life ie red tide. While on the short term, it looks like it may be a viable plan, I personally think that alternatives that do not ADD yet another contaminant to the ecosystem would be far more ideal. (yes, I am aware that iron oxide fertilizes the algae, but if it was not present in that part of the ocean to begin with, we may not want to be fooling with that ecosystem.)
The problem is, the crazed tree hugging lunatics who think humans are a plague are very loud, and get a lot of attention.
Thats what I was saying before! My position on Global Warming is something along the lines of: Yes, global temperature averages are up. No, I am not convinced that humans are entirely the cause. (anthro centric global warming). However, that being said, I am ENTIRELY FOR any action that reduces the human impact on the environment, WITHOUT the potential to further damage it. (Examples of bad plans that have been floated in the past 5 or so years include iron oxide in the oceans, mylar bags of C02 anchored to the bottom of the oceans, genetically re-engineering both cows and kangaroos(?) to not produce so much methane when they pass gas, and the list goes on.)
We need something like the Hippocratic oath for the environment when it comes to fixing what we may (or may not) have caused. Any by that I mean, anything we do to correct the global climate, MUST not be able to cause a runaway cooling effect if we are incorrect about our involvement in climate trends, or cause any other lasting negative effect to the environment as a whole (the way seeding the oceans with iron oxide may have negative long term effects on sea life).
filtering soot from our emissions is something we can do, that does not have a downside to the environment, and should be at the forefront of our efforts to better our planet.
while it was a fun idea, the book that talked about that really never proved its statement.
the tracking ammo is how Mexico does it. You buy bullets 1 at a time, and have to fill out paperwork for each one. And we all see how well THAT is working.
last I checked, they had a free version thats only limit was the size of the final output renders.
You need to look at Terragen. I'm 100% sure it can do everything you want, but it can render out worlds anywhere between full globes, to inch scale close ups, with a lot of the effects you are looking for, and, if you learn to run it right, you can load in lots of external data light heightmaps and whatnot.
I know you are trolling and whatever, but people would notice, and report it to the FCC if there was any sort of public spectrum jamming going on, and then the FCC comes in and triangulates the source, and then the FBI comes in and plays 'Federal Pound you in the Ass Prison' for whoever was jamming. Thanks Neighborhood Sheriff!
Exactly. Cracked had an article that covered the weird proliferation of Russian dash cam video. Seems that there is a huge amount of -attempted- insurance fraud in Russia (just look up on youtube to see dozens of pedestrians walking out into the street and laying down, or leaping onto the hoods of stopped cars and then flopping on the ground like a landed fish). Apparently, the insurance companies are terrible to deal with, so people have resorted to dash cams so they always have visual evidence to bring to court when dealing with this crap.
someone did.
ah yes, the internet at its finest. I'd hate to be that guy this week.
More than 7 cats.
you sir, are on to something.
thanks for the laugh.
exactly.
by what justification does registering for the selective service NOT count?
The article suggests that the researchers developed a diet that causes the intestines to become a inhospitable place for that particular bacteria, which is how they eliminated it from the test subject.