What a week for gun news to wrap our cold dead hands around. We have already told you about the dust-up in the Senate Judiciary Committee when Canadian anchor baby Ted Cruz (R-Pew! Pew!) mansplained the Constitution to Dianne Feinstein and DiFi told him to STFU and DIAF. Readers who know something about DiFi’s history know she became mayor of San Francisco in 1978 when George Moscone was shot to death along with Harvey Milk, an experience she mentioned in the course of telling the CAB to STFU and DIAF. Last week’s exchange led Glenn
These dumb asses! The danger we all face is not home invasions or carjackings. The real criminals are in board rooms and financial institutions across America and beyond.
Guns get very hot very quickly when they're being used seriously ... the plastic patriots will quickly learn why polymer scientists put the "thermo" in thermoplastic.
Come now! It may be "possible," but believe me, once you've put hands upon a piece of plastic squirted out by an elaborate CNC-controlled hot-glue gun, you'd never ever believe you could really use this to contain the force of gunpowder, let alone put your own face behind a gun made of this stuff to sight down.
I&#039;ve built my own home-built 3D printer, and trust me, the strength of plastic applied in micrometer thick layers is #1, plastic softened just enough to extrude, and #2, still PLASTIC. It isn&#039;t feasible yet. Maybe <i>someday,</i> but hell, the brains inside a 3D printer are the same ones that drive actual metal-milling CNC machines which have been around for many many years, and homemade machine guns aren&#039;t really &quot;a thing.&quot;
Basically the weapon parts made available originally on thingiverse were done in the spirit of extreme trolling, magnified by our new fangled Twitter based news media.
So, it is as real as any other thing you&#039;ve seen on the internet.
Bit late here, but the analogy to computers is faulty. The reason there was such an <i>enormous</i> increase in computational power is the continuous reduction in size (and power consumption) of the basic transistor element. This was possible because the core processing function of computers does not involve manipulating external physical reality. The number of electrons involved in representing a &quot;one&quot; or &quot;zero&quot; has shrunk by about the same amount that processsing power has increased.
A better analogy would be, perhaps, a conventional laser printer, which does have to manipulate some physical elements (paper and toner particles). In 1987, I bought a low-end home laser printer for $1200. Today, the functional equivalent might cost $100. A color laser -- which might have cost $5K or $10K, maybe? -- is what, $300?
There has definitely been progress in reducing cost, or increasing capability, but it&#039;s been 10 or 30X, rather than the 3 or 4 orders of magnitude seen in computers over the same time.
I expect Moore&#039;s Law for 3D printers to have an even smaller exponent that that for laser printers, because of the greater energy requirement involved in manipulating macroscopic amounts of material.
Canada&#039;s right-wing assholes are just like America&#039;s, except five years later. They are, as we speak, trying to keep Terri Schiavo alive.
These dumb asses! The danger we all face is not home invasions or carjackings. The real criminals are in board rooms and financial institutions across America and beyond.
And keeping the other 0.56% down in the basement.
Guns get very hot very quickly when they&#039;re being used seriously ... the plastic patriots will quickly learn why polymer scientists put the &quot;thermo&quot; in thermoplastic.
i have forgotten now. is glenn reynolds the stupidest man on the internet or is that someone else?
frederic bastiat? really?
fucking walking cliche.
Come now! It may be &quot;possible,&quot; but believe me, once you&#039;ve put hands upon a piece of plastic squirted out by an elaborate CNC-controlled hot-glue gun, you&#039;d never ever believe you could really use this to contain the force of gunpowder, let alone put your own face behind a gun made of this stuff to sight down.
I&#039;ve built my own home-built 3D printer, and trust me, the strength of plastic applied in micrometer thick layers is #1, plastic softened just enough to extrude, and #2, still PLASTIC. It isn&#039;t feasible yet. Maybe <i>someday,</i> but hell, the brains inside a 3D printer are the same ones that drive actual metal-milling CNC machines which have been around for many many years, and homemade machine guns aren&#039;t really &quot;a thing.&quot;
Basically the weapon parts made available originally on thingiverse were done in the spirit of extreme trolling, magnified by our new fangled Twitter based news media.
So, it is as real as any other thing you&#039;ve seen on the internet.
Which matter of time was supposed to bring us flying cars and bionic arms? That one so far has been pretty terrible.
Duh, you should print a flying car so you won&#039;t even need a driveway!
&quot;These guns will be almost completely plastic, so melting and failing in your hand will be a concern.&quot;
Uh, just mind your friction, I guess.
Bit late here, but the analogy to computers is faulty. The reason there was such an <i>enormous</i> increase in computational power is the continuous reduction in size (and power consumption) of the basic transistor element. This was possible because the core processing function of computers does not involve manipulating external physical reality. The number of electrons involved in representing a &quot;one&quot; or &quot;zero&quot; has shrunk by about the same amount that processsing power has increased.
A better analogy would be, perhaps, a conventional laser printer, which does have to manipulate some physical elements (paper and toner particles). In 1987, I bought a low-end home laser printer for $1200. Today, the functional equivalent might cost $100. A color laser -- which might have cost $5K or $10K, maybe? -- is what, $300?
There has definitely been progress in reducing cost, or increasing capability, but it&#039;s been 10 or 30X, rather than the 3 or 4 orders of magnitude seen in computers over the same time.
I expect Moore&#039;s Law for 3D printers to have an even smaller exponent that that for laser printers, because of the greater energy requirement involved in manipulating macroscopic amounts of material.
Canada&#039;s right-wing assholes are just like America&#039;s, except five years later. They are, as we speak, trying to keep Terri Schiavo alive.
NERPA!!
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
Ok, but he has to go back to Alberta. He&#039;ll never be noticed amidst all the right-wing assholes there.
Filing the sharp edges might be better, especially for the internal areas. If the exertion causes heavy breathing, that&#039;s a bonus.
Since we are dealing with gun-nuts here, I suggest DIAF (die in a fire) should be replaced with DUF (die under fire).