So can 3-d printers print 3-d printer parts?

And how?

Asperger's is a lot more than being a "very shy child". There are sensory issues, prosopagnosia(the inability to recognize faces), and obsessiveness.

And the "shyness" you described comes not from normal apprehensiveness or from past social failure but from a (sometimes complete) lack of social understanding, or a complete lack of social intuition. It's not that people with Asperger's or Autism want to be sociable and am just afraid to, or that they want to be sociable and don't know how. Sometimes autistic people don't understand that they're expected to interact in particular ways, or don't understand that they're supposed to interact at all. I can't explain how shocking it is every time I find out that other people have been interacting in ways that I had never conceived of.

If only it was shyness, that would make things so much easier. It's not. Saying that Asperger's Syndrome is just being very shy is exactly the thing you're complaining about, identifying a symptom but missing its cause.

Autism is a disorder, yeah. Autism is definitely a disorder.

Right. Human vision sensors tend to come in a 2:1 configuration. 16:9 is a lot closer to that than 4:3.

Sure it will.

When is the last time Microsoft named subsequent operating systems subsequently?

Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7 (?!?!?!?!)

The next version of Windows may be called "Windows 8". But given their history, it just seems incredibly unlikely.

I'd expect the next version of Windows to be called "Windows Kumquat" or something equally nonsensical and meaningless.

Except that every Fox story is something like "Is Barack Obama the antichrist?" or "Do Democrats want to kill your grandmother?" or "Are liberals spineless cowards?" or "Is global warming actually good for you?"

It may be that they only answer the question with opinion and not facts 55% of the time, but 99% of their headlines are in that form, "asking a question" to make a statement.

Imagine I brought you on a show, and you didn't know what for, and then you found out the discussion of that episode was "Have you stopped beating your wife?" You can answer the question in a non-biased way, but the question was asked in a biased and leading way. MSNBC answers their questions in a biased way, absolutely, but the last time I checked(and admittedly it's been many years since I was a regular viewer), they were still asking real questions.

I turned on MSNBC just a minute ago. The question on the screen said "Can Mark Sanford win over family-values Republicans?" Then I turned on Fox. The question on the screen said "Automatic gun ban fail: Did the press pass on the news?" One of those is a real question, and one of those seems to be trying to put an answer in your head.

4.5 billion years.

Seagate bought Maxtor.

Free market, my ass.

You hypocrite.

You're adorable.

That the term is too long overall is not a separate argument.

If you're concerned that older writers are unfairly disadvantaged because younger writers could sell the authority to use their creations for decades, then the solution seems obvious: Reduce the younger writers' ability to sell the authority to use their creations.

I am going to die at some point. I have no intention of leaving an heir. When I die, the idea that authority over the things I have created would somehow be held by some private individual instead of being available for the common good is not only not desirable to me, but I see it as really detrimental, and despicable that someone might hope to gain from my work by denying it to others.

A movie studio can make a billion dollars off of a movie in five years. Your objection would seem to point to copyright terms being too long in general rather than them being too short.

I don't believe heirs should get any reward for your invention.