Would this material make one possible?

Back in the day patents were put in the Constitution to advance the arts and sciences. Medieval guilds protected knowledge which held humanity/society back, so it was preferable to give limited government protection in exchange for opening up the knowledge (so the next generation can have at it, I guess).

Having patents for their own sake seems counterproductive in this regard, as a lot can be reverse engineered in the meantime.

In reality, everyone is told by legal not to look at previous patents ever, just in case they do infringe, it's not willful infringement.... patent portfolios protect the huge corps and the trolls, with very little in between, and the really lucrative stuff is kept proprietary anyway.

So it leads one to ask, while wasting time writing patents apps, what is the patent scheme good for really and is it beneficial for society?

It would be counter to purposes to "win" those wars, when fighting them enriches the special interests involved in pushing them in the first place.

Treatments bring money, cures do not.

I think the most powerful argument that can be made against the NSA (and today's government in general) is that it was once seen as a necessary evil that could be harnessed to protect liberties. It surely wasn't anywhere near perfect ever, but it was hoped that over time, it would eventually slide towards perfection as a servant of the people.

Now, does anyone seriously believe the government is anything but a bureaucratic monster, gorging itself via wars (on terrorism, on poverty, on drugs, etc) to the end of enlarging itself and shrinking everyone else's pie? I mean seriously?

Shilovsky's Gyrocar 1914 ftw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Reminds me of the Carver and the Venture One:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But those tilted with the turn, I wonder how it feels taking a turn when the gyros want to keep this thing upright?

If they take that damn ethanol out of my gas.

MPG and food savings would easily make up for it.

This will suck. Some blotchy metal will come out. This will just be a welder with a robotic arm.

Why not a real printing process, like powdered metal layed down and lasers? Or something.

You are mistaking cynicism for insecurity. I lived through this shit with the vinyl resurrection. Now I'm only waiting for VHS tapes to get a following again but I guess the hipsters might go all the way back to the original reels.

This isn't about learning photography, for kids it's about being retro/hip/individual.

The fact that their pics come out like shit, under exposed, over, out of focus, etc will only add to it like paying extra for ripped, washed jeans or punk music played badly.

I'd take it if it gave me 2GB data (and after that a throttle, not cutoff), 100 mins talk, texts.

But unless it's cheap, I'm hesitant to buy a 1st or even 2nd gen smartphone from a new entrant into the market.

Even if they get everything perfect, apps just won't be there.

A few million? Try a few billion. Imagine the cleanup effort of this flying and pooping over your place:

One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds.

But the devices that allows everyone to use those devices came into being and became cheaper through the pursuit of profit.

Face it, a lot of people will say things like "Everyone should have clean water". But the idealistic goals are the ones that require the most effort where the less hardcore idealists become lazy and drop out.

Profit/capitalism is just someone putting their money where their mouth is, and allowing someone else to fulfill the drudge work for direct benefit. And yes, capitalism needs to be fully regulated so it isn't gamed into another system as individual successful players are wont to do.

Yeah, sure, use bitlocker as sourceforge says.... because MS totally doesn't open backdoors for the NSA that makes goatse jealous. *snort*

http://truecrypt.ch/

People can get a decent smartphone for under $80 here already, this one with no plan:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mo...

I've seen it under $70 just a while back but Walmart must cycle the prices every so often.