Thanks for replying... good post. =) Here's my thoughts:
There's just one problem: It will never work. No, really, it won't.
Think about it: Do you honestly think that thousands of companies across a multitude of industries are going to allow the average consumer to simply download a blueprint for something and "print" it out on their 3D printer (or nanoscale as you called it)? Of course not. Assuming such devices were to become affordable, it would represent a risk to the very core of their business.
Do I think the Government Inc.orporations will allow the average consumer to print stuff on 3D? HELL NO! I'm with you on that.
And there will be many more of these MAFIAA suing downloaders, uploaders, grandmothers and wombats. I know that.
Yet the way I see the future, it's a evolution of our technology, that will happen weather [?] they like it or not. Let's take it to extremes. If they make 3D nanoscale printers illegal, with one obtained on the "pirate network" side of things, is enough to print all other copies. If they keep locking down the internet, via ISPs and regulations: we can combat with better anonymity, a parallel "quasi" internet running p2p, sneaker nets (100 Terabytes of transfer? Why not? Just give the guy a hard disk/solidState drive).
Again, I'm with you. Will they "fight" it, hell yes. Will we win? It's just no other way.
And I know a "nanoscale printer" is not something that will get whipped up in 3 days of AutoCAD design (pirated). Yet that's where we're going!
On the other hand, our economic system relies exclusively on the economics of scarcity. What would happen should we be able to replicate common goods on the cheap--or, fancifully speaking--replicate just about anything from "bulk matter?" Chaos.
Chaos. Um... yeap! That's pretty much the way I've seen it.
And after that chaos? 250 years in the future? Bliss. (if we survive!) Some place with rockets going to the Moon and Mars. Medicine being super advanced. Materials/goods being completely superior.
Let's keep on expanding the "ease of use" for anonymous p2p networks.
p2p is the ENTIRE future of our progress as humanity. Governments/Corporations (and Government, Inc.orporations) have no idea what will happen when nanoscale-printers arrive, USB Plug&Play Ready.
Think about pirating processors... monitors... wireless antenna designs... turbochargers... medicines... perfumes... textiles... Rolex watches... solar panels... more nano-printers.
The future belongs to us. Let's work on the p2p networks.
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It's like if Honda is in a odyssey of recycling everything.
It would gleam an insight if they did a pilot for these names. Don't know what to do with the passport.
=)
If you want to really piss off the SEC, forget a mass tweet protest. No, start an unauthorized Web site providing coverage of SEC events, and make it better than what the SEC and CBS offer. That'll get their attention in a big way.
d00d!
0. website that gathers fans' updates+uploads 1. fans signup+contribute real-time 2. outside fans check out your site, instead of CBS 3. ??? 4. Profit!!! (crap... that's 5 steps...)
First, while I know that big companies are in business to make money, Comcast should not be in a financial situation to buy a company the size of Disney nor Vivendi.
What is this bullshit? Why the fuck not? Where's the ceiling? And why? Isn't this capitalism?
Please... help me out... because I can't understand your reasoning.
Didn't kMart buy Sears? SEARS for fucksake!
The USA thrives on having companies, big and small, go through their life cycles... if it ends in death, so be it. "Saving" GM and Chrysler was bittersweet... we can still buy a ZR1 and a Viper ACR... yet shit. If they fucked up, then that should have been the end of them.
Yet putting a ceiling on how big a company can get is truly fucked up. When will google be broken up? (or is that the reason they keep everything in Beta?)
Wired used to be cool and had decent writers. Wired used to be something to/read/.
Amen to THAT! I stopped reading Wired about 8 years ago...
Another magazine to which that happened: - Popular Science (now Popular Mechanics is better! WTF!!)
PS: PUBLIC MSG TO WIRED: Guys, I never renewed my subscription. As such, I never cared much when you kept sending them (duplicates, every month!). Would you please stop sending me bill collection letters?
We're not arrogant. We're angry. Angry that such engineering talent went into solving a problem that didn't need to be solved instead of the very real problems that do need to be solved.
DAMN! YES! I'm also angry! Angry we are wasting money on these dumb cars! ARrghhh!!
Excuse me, I'm off to the Moon colony in the newest version of the Apollo 32 rocket.
1. Each year 186 billion tons of CO2 enter the earth's atmosphere. Of that, only 6 billion tons are from human activity (3.2%). Some 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and the rest from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.
At this point, you're going to run up against the one advance in airplane security that *has* been made post-9/11: you're not getting through the reinforced cockpit door with anything less than a battering ram.
Do I have to spell out everything??
Just open the plane's side door, crawl to the front of the cockpit, and crank open the Captain's window and climb inside.
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Dude, your sig rules. Seriously. I'm doing that every morning. Thanks =)
Save the latest maps with undersea comm cables and just tap into them as needed.
This video sums up part of your post pretty neatly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
It is entitled "Copying is not theft"
Funny enough, there are 'techno remixes' of that song.
Enjoy!
THANK YOU!
Going to read this now.
=)
Thanks for replying... good post. =)
Here's my thoughts:
There's just one problem: It will never work. No, really, it won't.
Think about it: Do you honestly think that thousands of companies across a multitude of industries are going to allow the average consumer to simply download a blueprint for something and "print" it out on their 3D printer (or nanoscale as you called it)? Of course not. Assuming such devices were to become affordable, it would represent a risk to the very core of their business.
Do I think the Government Inc.orporations will allow the average consumer to print stuff on 3D?
HELL NO!
I'm with you on that.
And there will be many more of these MAFIAA suing downloaders, uploaders, grandmothers and wombats.
I know that.
Yet the way I see the future, it's a evolution of our technology, that will happen weather [?] they like it or not.
Let's take it to extremes.
If they make 3D nanoscale printers illegal, with one obtained on the "pirate network" side of things, is enough to print all other copies.
If they keep locking down the internet, via ISPs and regulations: we can combat with better anonymity, a parallel "quasi" internet running p2p, sneaker nets (100 Terabytes of transfer? Why not? Just give the guy a hard disk/solidState drive).
Again, I'm with you.
Will they "fight" it, hell yes.
Will we win? It's just no other way.
And I know a "nanoscale printer" is not something that will get whipped up in 3 days of AutoCAD design (pirated).
Yet that's where we're going!
On the other hand, our economic system relies exclusively on the economics of scarcity. What would happen should we be able to replicate common goods on the cheap--or, fancifully speaking--replicate just about anything from "bulk matter?" Chaos.
Chaos.
Um... yeap!
That's pretty much the way I've seen it.
And after that chaos?
250 years in the future?
Bliss. (if we survive!)
Some place with rockets going to the Moon and Mars.
Medicine being super advanced.
Materials/goods being completely superior.
=)
Let's keep on expanding the "ease of use" for anonymous p2p networks.
p2p is the ENTIRE future of our progress as humanity.
Governments/Corporations (and Government, Inc.orporations) have no idea what will happen when nanoscale-printers arrive, USB Plug&Play Ready.
Think about pirating processors... monitors... wireless antenna designs... turbochargers... medicines... perfumes... textiles... Rolex watches... solar panels... more nano-printers.
The future belongs to us.
Let's work on the p2p networks.
=)
All the way!
..and one Turbo switch per core!! =)
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The last one I want to mention is:
PriorityColo.com
http://prioritycolo.com/
Why? Because they have the balls to tell "big shot lawyer companies" to STFU when they send shaky take-down notices.
Hope that helps! =)
Yeah... and they said "being submerged 20 feet for 30 mins"
How much is that in meters?!
VW Bugs laid end-to-end?
British Reporter breaks phone... in retaliation, American site breaks British site...
Somebody tell me what nationality the phone is!
Here is a picture of the dish,
http://www.wikipuertorico.com/index.php?title=Arecibo_Observatory
Pretty cool thing to go and visit!
Obviously, a Beowulf cluster of clouds! Maybe we can call it Hurricane Computing!
It's like if Honda is in a odyssey of recycling everything. It would gleam an insight if they did a pilot for these names. Don't know what to do with the passport. =)
d00d!
0. website that gathers fans' updates+uploads
1. fans signup+contribute real-time
2. outside fans check out your site, instead of CBS
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
(crap... that's 5 steps...)
What is this bullshit?
Why the fuck not?
Where's the ceiling?
And why?
Isn't this capitalism?
Please... help me out... because I can't understand your reasoning.
Didn't kMart buy Sears? SEARS for fucksake!
The USA thrives on having companies, big and small, go through their life cycles... if it ends in death, so be it.
"Saving" GM and Chrysler was bittersweet... we can still buy a ZR1 and a Viper ACR... yet shit.
If they fucked up, then that should have been the end of them.
Yet putting a ceiling on how big a company can get is truly fucked up.
When will google be broken up? (or is that the reason they keep everything in Beta?)
Put the link in man!
=)
http://liqbase.net/
I've been following liqbase for a while now... very cool!
Check this guy's website out! And mod him up!
Faster than paper
Wired used to be cool and had decent writers. Wired used to be something to /read/.
Amen to THAT!
I stopped reading Wired about 8 years ago...
Another magazine to which that happened:
- Popular Science (now Popular Mechanics is better! WTF!!)
PS: PUBLIC MSG TO WIRED:
Guys, I never renewed my subscription.
As such, I never cared much when you kept sending them (duplicates, every month!).
Would you please stop sending me bill collection letters?
We're not arrogant. We're angry. Angry that such engineering talent went into solving a problem that didn't need to be solved instead of the very real problems that do need to be solved.
DAMN! YES! I'm also angry!
Angry we are wasting money on these dumb cars!
ARrghhh!!
Excuse me, I'm off to the Moon colony in the newest version of the Apollo 32 rocket.
And yes, if Stephen Hawking passed I'd imagine it would still be a fairly big event as well.
Actually, just a silent whoosh of the electric motors.
It's pretty maneuverable.
11. Profit!
Two of my Belkin products come to mind:
I have one of their 110v electrical surge suppressors.
No http hijacking there!
And after their usb wifi adapter failed, the long usb extension cord has worked flawlessly!
I think this would be a good place to link to one of today's article in AmericanThinker.com
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/co2_fairytales_in_global_warmi.html
Titled: CO2 Fairytales in Global Warming
Give it a read.
It's an eye-opener.
A choice quote:
We contribute less than 5%.
5.
Cheers!
1. Get a Passport
2. Buy dozens of SIM cards and pre-paid phones
3. Sell them to people wanting anonymous phones
4. Profit!!!
Store Name: 1984phones.uk
Do I have to spell out everything??
Just open the plane's side door, crawl to the front of the cockpit, and crank open the Captain's window and climb inside.
Shit guys...
The actual reason for three wheeled vehicles is... the law. (surprise!)
Three wheelers are under the same category and safety standards as motorcycles.
Yes, motorcycles.
Add a fourth wheel... and now you're looking at federal crash tests, airbags, ABS, 2,500W stereo, crumple zones, etc.
Great quote from the great Mr. Colin Chapman (founder and soul of Lotus Cars):