Although Home Depot started as a pure DIY operation, it already has a lot invested in virtual home design software as a service (visualize what your new kitchen remodel will look like, then contract to have the work done). Offering 3D print as a service is a natural fit for the same part of the store. For customers, it will be a risk-free way of trying out an expensive and temperamental new technology.

For this discussion it is the same country, because the space hardware developed in Soviet times was not magically made to disappear when capitalist Russia took over.

It was the Luddite lobby, not "Reaganomics" which has prevented NASA from doing anything significant in manned programs. The ONLY way we will ever return to the Moon or explore Mars will be in the private sector. Companies like SpaceX are using orbital contract work to develop the flight experience they will need for the big missions.

This situation already arose in Swiss banking: the IRS tried to assert jurisdiction over American accounts held in Switzerland. Switzerland 's response was, Screw you. All American accounts there were closed down and the US has been totally spliced out of dealings with this major world financial center. They found they could get along perfectly well without us.

My impression (I have in-laws there) is that same thing is about to happen in Swiss IT. Swiss companies will buy their equipment directly from China and close any operations in the US. As the Obama Dark Age rolls on, we become a tech as well as a financial backwater.

You are the idiot. Again, for the idiot that you are: USA went on a fishing expedition, issuing blanket demands to banks that operate to give up customer information (customers, that are not even account holders in USA branches of the targeted banks), trying to force foreign banks on foreign soil to give up account information on all USA citizens that have accounts in those banks. No court order for any specific crime, nothing, simply a demand to give up all data. Similar to NSA recording all phone calls (including that of all USA citizens) without any court order whatsoever. The difference is of-course that companies based in other countries with accounts opened in other countries are not subject to any USA demands and if companies complied with anything, they are suffering for it now domestically (loss of trust among the account holders and public in general), which is why foreign banks don't even want to accept new Americans as customers.

It's always fun when someone forgets about the difference between the 'rule of law' vs 'rule of man'.

We live in a rule of law society, the kid you are likening things likely lives in a mixed mode household... where the parents can ground the child at any time and for any reason... but can't kill him for talking back.

Wrong, in a global Internet age it shouldn't be that individuals all of a sudden lose more of the individual freedoms, it is governments that should lose their authority. In a global economy and society there is no place for government meddling, intrusion into our lives. The less intrusion that we suffer from governments of any place in the world the better.

WARS ARE STARTED BY GOVERNMENTS. People are mass murdered by governments. Governments are the enemy of the People, not voluntary cooperatives or businesses. It's governments that murder and torture people and do it 'legally' (since they are the ones defining what 'legally' means.) Governments are the enemy of the free thinking individuals.

- that's because you have no idea what you are actually defending OR talking about. In case I am pointing out USA DOJ was on a FISHING EXPEDITION, there weren't even court orders against any specific people, there was a BLANKET DEMAND FOR ALL INFORMATION ON ALL ACCOUNTS HELD BY ANY AMERICANS IN A SWISS BANK.

- proves one thing, you have 0 idea of what you are talking about. 0 (*zero*, nada, zilch, zip, empty space, empty head).

Tax evasion is not a crime in Switzerland and shouldn't be anywhere else either, by the way. Defining tax evasion as a crime is an act of aggression against individual rights of people on this planet by the cooperating collective mob and the mafia known as 'government'.

Again, the foreign companies are not USA citizens and foreign companies are not subject to USA law on their own land. However if you are an American then you are a SECOND CLASS CITIZEN today (or lower) because foreign banks that have any presence in the USA whatsoever DENY your request to open a bank account :)

If you think this is normal and that is how all countries operate, think again. When you are in Switzerland if you are from India or from China or from Russia or from Germany or from UK or from Brazil or from Uganda you are not going to be prevented from opening a bank account. However if you are from good old US of A you will not be able to open a bank account if you do not have another passport, that's what it is like today to be an American. USA government turned USA citizens into persona non grata for foreign businesses.

By the way, USA is the only of 2 or 3 countries in the world that tax 'world income', as in even if you are not a resident in the country, you are forced to file income taxes every year and above certain income you are forced to pay USA related income taxes :) Great success building that 'independence' and 'freedom'. USA was created to escape this type of persecution, now it is one of the worst offenders against human rights in the world and when I say human rights I am talking about the right to be an individual, the right to self determination, the right not to be a slave to a collective.

By the way, there is 0% wrong with having foreign bank accounts all over the world. AFAIC in today's society everybody needs to have more than one passport and many many many bank accounts and business investments around the world not tied to their country of residence. Of-course you don't have to do it, but then you are owned, aren't you?

This has nothing to do with USA citizens, this is about sovereignty of people and countries that are not USA in the first place. Swiss bank doesn't have to disclose ANYTHING to the USA regime about its account holders in Switzerland. Of-course current oppressive USA regime disagrees, apparently you are on the wrong side of the individual rights on this one as well.

By the way, any sufficiently truthful statement is indistinguishable from 'flamebait'. In other words, TRUTH HURTS, doesn't it?

Oh, and by the way it is not only just foreign businesses that operate on USA soil that are forced to comply with nonsensical USA demands, the foreign governments are giving in whenever presented with any demand really. USA is way out of line on all of its oppressive tactics, it will not end well.

- what do you mean it is a 'question'? We already know the answer to this. If a business has any presence on USA soil, the oppressive dictatorial USA government feels that it has full authority to demand all information from that business about its customers and their transactions.

You bet! Buy a 'bot, find the parts that are missing, print new ones, and...

Oh wait...

That taxation is my biggest issue. My bank does not have free, unlimited ATM transactions on my plan. I withdraw my cash, spend it where I will, and don't pay their damned ATM fees.

Why the hell should I pay them to spend my money?