Comment Re:So far away (Score 1) 400
I don't have a micrometer sensitive enough, and most of my childhood toys are in storage, so someone else will have to confirm.
I don't have a micrometer sensitive enough, and most of my childhood toys are in storage, so someone else will have to confirm.
from your link
(*) The fit will likely never be as tight as real legos. Those are *tough* tolerances to match. Lego Corp are (i've heard) the masters of injection molded plastic
Now, if you don't really care about the toy aspect of legos--tiny reconfigurable bricks--
sure, you can just make a large hunk of plastic to take the place of dozens of bricks-- but that's a different kind of play.
"holds like glue"
If you apply glue to lego, it'd be less useful.
Lego has a reputation for manufacturing high quality bricks that holds glue yet can be easily dismantled by young hands I'm not sure that you can get that sort of result with 3d printed bricks. After all, Lego has survived without being undercut on price by other manufacturers of plastic toys.
On the other hand, many of Lego's sets are licensed products, with highly specialized pieces that really don't serve a functional role, and may not need the precision tooling that Lego claims is needed to make a strong yet breakable bond.
Sounds as if you are confusing positive liberty with negative liberty.
Is there particular reason why you would choose to group Lego with crappy plastic keychains?
Assuming you could do all that, there'd be a massive safety concern as well.
You may have concerns about safety. But the people who subvert the evil tire cartel may not. To attempt to impose your narrow view of "safety" upon others is the very essence of statism.
Kennedy is an Irish name, and there have been more than a few Irish terrorists. Still, the vast bulk of Irishman, including the vast bulk of Kennedys, aren't.
I approve of my own representative in Congress wholeheartedly. But Congress as a whole is a despicable institution, and other people need to vote their representative out. Repeat 435 times, and nothing will change.
I'm kind of attached to my name, for personal reasons. Perhaps I'll change it for matrimonial reasons, but likewise, I'm reluctant to wed unless it's for love.I shouldn't be forced into either choice for bureaucratic reasons.
Numbers that you can't even comprehend. Any system that uses Windows software on non-upgradeable hardware. Medical devices that require specific levels of precision and predictability.
Have you ever looked closely at medical devices? I work with some systems less than five years old that cost close to $100,000 and they run Windows XP. Should they be replaced? No, not just because the OS beneath the application layer is old. I'm probably the only person in the office that knows it's an XP machine, which helps with security. Sometimes you can't just upgrade.
Forget small black holes. There's a supermassive black hole right in our galaxy.
I saw on CNN that a black hole may have swallowed up flight 370 --about 2 minutes in. So the physicists may be luck.
Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.