You feel guilt for something somebody else did?

I don't know. Why don't you ask John Hancock?

So knowing how to live off the land is simply foolish? Knowing how to track, kill and prepare game is simply foolishness? The only people that should have this knowledge are ranchers, butchers and cooks? I don't think so. I think it's useful to know how to use a compass; how to make fires; etc...

No one thing is "salvation." But space exploration is important for a whole slew of reasons.

Are you mad? Do you know how many businesses struggle with payroll? Where owners take loans (or are late paying other bills) in order to cover payroll. This is SOOOOO fu*king common. Start a business and see how often it happens to you.

I think of government as bloated corporations with guns, jails and the force of law behind them.

No. It never was a Democracy. You know just a few weeks ago I was castigated by other /.ers for saying that the US was never a Democracy. Democracy is antithetical to individual freedom.

It's becoming less and less of a representative republic because we are disempowering the individual (in the name of the greater good) and wondering why there are no checks and balances.

Again - that's not the definition given by Karl Menger, von Mises, Hayek, Ayn Rand, Friedman, Rothbard and others.

But you say I should go by wikipedia,

Then take back the government. Here's where you can team up with laissez-faire capitalists and libertarians and take back the government. AND maybe learn a lesson that giving more and more power to the government means, in practice, making you more and more powerless.

Yes surface area to volume has been understood - but having the technology to make the surface area to volume just so for a person with physical characteristics (gender, age, weight, x, y ,z) with condition x as opposed to condition y has not existed.

You make a pill and it takes t amount of time to dissolve for 95% of the population. But for some people it would dissolve much quicker and others much longer.

Of course I didn't read the f'ing article but being able to further fine tune the delivery of medicine a good idea. And 3D printing can be used to create pills (objects) with a dramatically altered surface to volume ratio.

Yes there are. I see the maker community and the development of cheap computers playing a far greater role in personal computing. The iPad (or whatever) will always have its use but people concerned about being "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" will always exist whether the aggressor is a thief or the government.

That being the case small personal computers and encryption will become an ever more important issue.

But people keep voting for government to take more and more of their money and to control their life even more - why because think think CAPITALISM is EVIL and only an ALL POWERFUL and ALL KNOWING god (I mean GOVERNMENT) can make things better.

Old-fashioned Friedmanesque economics said the old-fashioned Keynesian guy.

Because before 3D printing this couldn't be done - now could it? At least AFAIK.

Yes people hype 3D printing to death but 3D printing is still a useful tooll.

I ask you to consider the statement "generally accepted definition." Generally accepted by whom? Defenders and promoters or capitalism or detractors? If capitalism that uses the sanction of government to prevent competition is not capitalism. The term for that is mercantilism.