I would pay 1500 for the device if all it did was cause you to try to knock it off my nose. I like fighting, and a self defense defense is gold.

I would have bought one ages ago if they'd fucking sell them outside the US.

They should have realized that Americans would be the least receptive people on earth to this thing.

A spokesman for GamerGate says "since there wasn't a women involved, we have no comment on this issue but as soon as we find a woman to blame you can be sure we'll hunt her down and dox her for our crazier members to deal with".

Stratasys have been making reliable rapid prototyping machines for many years, and that making another one isn't a noteworthy achievement.

The compelling thing about 3D printing is that there are open source, non patent encumbered implementations available.

Making an open source non patent encumbered 3D printer that is significantly more reliable would be newsworthy. This isn't.

It's all open source code. Google couldn't pull a MS with Android. So, your point is moot.

I don't know why you would say this. There is a single platform that runs on almost all devices. It's called Android. Everything else is a bit player that you can safely ignore.

I pay my use tax when I go over the catalog exception. It doesn't happen often, but I feel it's my civic duty when it does.

I also REALLY HATE paying use tax, however - it is based on where I live and both my city/county combination has the highest sales tax in the state. Since use tax is based on where you live, you have to pay as if your house is the point of sale. I can drive 5 minutes away and pay nearly 2% less tax (1.86% I believe).

Shit that gets said on the internet, even "fighting words," is about the least threatening form of hostile human interaction possible. As soon as it crosses into the physical world, it becomes a different thing entirely.

actually, no. there's no way of telling whether someone making death threats on the internet is just a moronic blowhard like yourself or a lunatic stalker who can and will carry out those threats.

they may be making absurdist threats like "rip off their head and skull-fuck them" but it's impossible to tell whether they're just a teenage fuckwit over-compensating for having only a tiny penis or if they're seriously deranged and dangerous.

because of that inability to distinguish, threats of violence on the internet have to be taken seriously - and the overall effect is intimidation, which inherently crosses over into the physical world.

it IS a personal attack - their right to attack women is being questioned.

you can't put limits on someone's entitlements and expect them not to get pissed off about it.

A reading of the books of Luke and Acts proves that the Communist Manifesto presented no new ideas, just repackaged old ones.

Even Marx had to inherit from Acts 4:32

Incidentally, the USSR largely chose that for themselves. Lenin wanted Trotsky in charge and Trotsky wanted the party to elect a leader democratically. Unfortunately, Stalin grabbed power in the wake of Lenin's death and exiled Trotsky, convicted him of treason in absentia and eventually had one of his secret service agents assassinate him with an ice axe in Mexico.

Only partially. The rest, he was discussing hypocrisy.

The effective yearly tax rate on Worgl's freegeld was 120%. I think you could fund a whole government on fiat currency alone at those rates.

that is complete bullshit.

i've watched most of her videos, and there's nothing in them that is in the least bit controversial - it's all blatantly obvious stuff that she's pointing out.

the misogyny in many video games is as obvious as the misogyny in american TV shows - and it comes from the same source: american culture is fucked up and misogynystic.

This does a great job of illustrating the advantage of "diversity", which ISN'T having people approach the problem from different perspectives.

Hand in hand with "diversity" is "inclusiveness", and "inclusiveness" is the real point.

If you have a town full of people that rely on "the town farmer" to grow the food, and they have this naive idea that food is something that grows on a supermarket shelf, they're going to govern themselves like idiots any time they're given a voice in how to handle the food supply.

This means that they'd be better off not to participate in a democracy and just make this guy their master because food is so important that they'll kill themselves if they make a mistake, which their ignorance practically guarantees.

So, for the sake of their own security, they need to be included.

BUT

They're ignorant as little babies. Their ideas are founded on nothing at all. There's a system that is providing for their food supply, and their purpose there is to learn it, not assert control over it.

They are there to become grounded in reality, and to surrender to reality, and to be absorbed into what is there.

Coming into a situation with the attitude that you are there to bring something to the table and that your perspective deserves to be respected is demanding that reality be ignored in favor of making you feel comfortable and valued.

So, instead of learning to not rely on the farmer, you basically fire him in a fit of ego and then starve to death when you realize you don't know what the hell you're doing.

A lot of people miss the point on this, and they're running around with this idealistic position that they are doing a good thing by "transforming" cultures to make them more "diverse", and shoving arrogant ignoramuses into positions of authority and demanding that the people whose culture was formed around a set of problems abandon all of their hard won lessons and start playing politics as the systems that are their duty go to shit.