No. You can make a zipgun out of a ball point pen. Everyone has the ability to make a weapon; most people simply don't have the need, desire, or psychosis to do so.... and admittedly, many don't have the imagination for it either.
Technically a zipgun is made from plumbing parts: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23323372/Zipguns-Pipe-Guns-Silencers
But you're right about the imagination.
It happens enough in the US that prosecutors are willing to do unethical and sometimes illegal things to get their conviction.
Sad but all too true.
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1984 and/ or Soylent Green. The movie was so depressing. Would never bother to read the book. Was there an actual novel ?
"Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison.
Heh, I can see the ads now: "You wouldn't steal a galactic assault cruiser . .
Dammit! Now I want the Thingiverse files for a galactic assault cruiser!
*searches E-Bay for quantum string reels for his Makerbot*
Better than, I'm supposed to use this dingly dangly to do work, but the tools I'm allowed to use don't quite do what I need. If I could just use this app I could increase productivity, but IT has the system so locked down that to even think about using a different app is grounds for termination. Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT doesn't make money for the company it enables the money making areas to make the money. A wise IT dept allows users to add additional tools, but with the caveat that the only fix available is a system wipe and restore to original configuration. The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up. As to the Gadget aspect, if the company didn't buy it, the company isn't responsible to fix it. If the company did, the company should have an extra stockpile, and any broken gadget is simply replaced with a baseline new one, again leaving it up to the employee to restore the apps and data they want. And it's the employee's job if their failure to maintain a backup causes critical data to be lost. Okay, everybody tell me how wrong I am.
You're not wrong. But neither is the parent. And this is all known by anyone that's been in the I/T field for any serious length of time. It's all a balancing act. And since you have to balance security with efficiency your friend through all the pitfalls (besides common sense) is documentation. Make the end user sign a piece of paper saying the device is his and will only be supported for X purpose and only to Y point.
When the user breaks something you told them is unsupported past a certain point that documentation will help point the user in the right direction and keep both yourself and the company safe from rampant I broke my $device while doing company work on it! Fix it or get me a new one!
The first two Doctor Who feature films weren't so bad. Why do you think this one will be?
Because this director specifically says he wants to completely depart from the existing Doctor Who. In the hands of Hollywood that can only mean a disastrous big budget action film that means nothing to existing fans and would be Doctor Who only in name.
It would be a large-scale train wreck similar to the US version of Top Gear.
don't blame the artist, they are getting shafted by the same ass-clowns that are issuing out these notices. The RIAA steals so much money from them it's unbelievable. I just wish that the suit against the Canadian RIAA hadn't been settled and had gone the course. Then, at least, the artists would have had some semblance of hope in seeing some money back from the thieves ill-gotten gains.
Part of what needs to happen is the artists need to stand up for themselves and stop being the slaves that the **AA turn them into.
Unfortunately most of them are stuck on the golden hamster wheel and are afraid to get off.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
