Easily, because it's a common sight out in farmland. Maybe not so much in the big corporate farms but smaller family farms will usually have anywhere from a dozen to fifty or so cats running around the farm taking care of rats, mice, keeping 'coons and foxes at bay, etc. In fact, two of the cats I now have indoors, were born to barn cats and taken in while still kittens.

America was founded on the ideals of religious freedom by people who were predominantly Christians, this led to Christianity being the 'popular' religion of this country, but it is in no way the only religion.

Unfortunately that has led to as many problems for Christians as it has solved. Since Christianity is the 'popular' religion many people say they are a Christian when they really aren't (i.e. 'Sunday Christians'). This has led to many incidents where people who claim to be Christians do something terrible which then gets blamed on Christianity as a whole instead of the individual, this is especially disheartening when their actions go against Jesus' teachings.

Think of it like sports fans who only follow the team that is currently winning, and as soon as another team comes out on top they switch over and are running around with a whole new set of colors and jerseys. Meanwhile they are starting fights and causing disturbances all of which get blamed on the 'fans' of the team whose jersey they happen to be wearing at that time.

As for the original sentiment, I agree that as 'punishment' death is far too excessive for assault and armed robbery, however as 'Karma' it works just fine.

Something like a slightly modified Raspberry Pi with a custom OS that simply pulls all the content and saves it as a drive image that can be scanned and parsed, or maybe just grabs specific files (just image files or pdf files) and ignores all other files. In the end delivering it to another USB drive or an SD card in such a way that it's safe to open from your computer...

(optionally) uploads new content to the USB drive.

This sounds like a fun project, I'll have to start playing around with it. :D

However, if you compile the LLVM/Clang in another compiler (say GCC) then you should be good, injecting "compile into" backdoors into all compilers, to target all compilers, would definitely be noticeable.

Leviticus is primarily a book with how the Levites are supposed to live. The Levites are one of the twelve tribes who's primary purpose (set out in Leviticus but started from leaving Egypt) is to be the religious administrators within the Jewish religion (priests, temple servants, etc.).

Why does this matter? Every time some idiot pulls up a rule from the book of Leviticus and tries to point out how Christians are hypocrites because they aren't following that rule are being the idiots, those rules are for the priests of Judaism, not for the common Christian.

Trying to apply rules from Leviticus to modern Christians is like trying to apply proper care of your horse to driving an electric hybrid.

I'm not sure if that really counts as prior art, but another Lab(sorry Japanese only, but with pictures) from the university I graduated from already had a system that displayed both 2D and 3D sprites of real players on soccer field in real time on a interactive 3D soccer field with tons of real time information about them. They also had tons of similar systems not only for soccer and sports but also classrooms, training facilities, theaters etc. And that was like, 2005, back when I was in my first semester of the Bachelor course.
I guess using a profile thumbnail instead of a 3D model is innovation.

I'm guessing this is referring to the mantra of the Mentat from Frank Herberts Dune series:

I'm not really understanding the hate for this feature. From what I've heard this feature like a new dialog optimized for 3D printing. Just like when you press Control+P on almost any text app and the print dialog pops up with basic, de-facto standard options as well as a more advance menu based on the drivers of each printer. But instead of printing a 2D document it prints a 3D object. If this is the case then why all the hate?
At work, whenever I what to print anything, I have to save my work as a STL file in SolidWorks or Blender. Then I have to open another app(Catalyst EX for Stratsys Dimension printers for example) that connects to the 3D Printer embedded computer on the LAN, load the model there and then I can print. This system works, even has some advantages over the driver/dialog/OS integrated model, but it's far from ideal. Just being able to press Control+3 or whatever and directly print my stuff sounds great. I hope 3d printer manufactures offer both options just like hi-end office printer manufactures do(web server interface or OS drivers). As a hardware medical/system engineer I hope microsoft(and Linux) also add similar support for the not so popular CNC mills as well, including PCB mills(gerber data compatibility).

I think the technology is interesting but what is the purpose of a VTOL rocket? VTOL aircraft make sense because you can use them for rescue and military operations were a track may not be available. But rockets are just for sending payloads in to orbit. For reusable space craft, unless I see numbers proving me wrong, I think vehicles that use "passive" methods to come back (gliding) like the space shuttle or the Virgin Galactic prototypes seem a lot more economical(dollars/payload weight/launch). Even if the objective is to use VTOL craft for landing on another planet/asteroid/moon and then use the same craft to come back you still need fuel and infrastructure.
Because, at least for me, it's hard to imagine a use, it's hard to get funding as well. I guess the reason SpaceX is spending time and money on these rockets is not because they are actively interested in VTOL vehicles either, but just because they want to benchmark the engines and sensors, so that they can use some of this tech on more useful products.

As a Russian who lives in Japan this really is pissing me off. If they aren't counting Imperial Russia Era then they shouldn't count Imperial Japan Era either. Democratic Constitutional Monarchy Japan is only about 63~64 years old.

Yeah. The deadly metal 3d printer thing is more like a joke than any real danger. Not only our company is installing in a well ventilated area but we also have a sensor that goes off on the entire building in case the O2 concentration goes bellow 18.5%(which is still safe). However according to the experts installing the printer, if by any chance Murphy's Law decide to work and you have simultaneously, ventilation power failure, sensor failure and uncontrolled Argon leakage and the O2 concentration goes bellow 16% you're as good as dead, because once you breathe the Argon in it seems you can't breathe it out. The chances of this happening are lower than me winning the lottery, but we all know printers attack when we expect the least.
As for the printer model, it's a EOSINT M (for metal, don't remember the exactly model number, but I have the feeling it's the same one you have. According to the sales company there are only two other places here in Japan that have this printer) and we are also getting the EOSINT FORMIGA (for polymer, also uses a CO2 laser but doesn't need Argon, BTW, based on the sample models they gave us this is by far the BEST plastic 3d printer I've seen in my life)

It's not just cheap 3D printers. My workplace has whole collection of professional 3D printers at our disposal: multiple Dimension ABS printer models, an Eden Acrylic printer(hate this one in particular), and a couple of Vantage poly-carbonate printers and we're getting ourselves ready for a million dollars DMLS metal 3D printer. The plastic ones have a malfunction at least once every 4~6 months. The metal one can literally kill you if the Argon gas, used to avoid metal oxidation at high laser temperatures, leaks(death by asphyxiation). 3D printers are just another type of printers after all. Anyone would be just fooling themselves if they think that Stratasys products are more human friendly than the usual HP/Xerox/Cannon/Brother products.

Now back on the original topic. I think the technology is ready for consumer level. But being a consumer product doesn't necessarily make it a mainstream product. 3D printing is useful for people that know how to intelligently use it and already have a specific set of objectives in mind. The average Joe has no business with 3d printing. Buying a 3d printer for an occasional toy/statue that you casually downloaded from the internet is just not worth it. 2D printers succeeded in the mainstream market because everybody NEEDS to print school reports, tax reports, CVs, invitations, tickets, pamphlets, etc.
On top of that 3D printing was(and still is) just immensely overhyped by the internet. Blogs/News websites/Comments and people who never even used a 3D printer before just treated the tech as if it was the ultimate home appliance: "buy a 3D printer and print everything else you need". For example another currently overhyped tech field that will suffer the same "disappointing" effect is VR: occulus/omni/hydra VR paraphernalia is useful for some applications but are far from the "holy grail" of gaming/computing for dozens of reasons. Eventually I believe all these techs will become essential parts of daily life but there are still many obstacles to overcome, from product features and services to user mentality and place in the society.

Someone please mod this guy up. For some reason I never have points when I want them.

Hopefully these guys are the next target. I LOVE their sashimi. Easily my favorite food ever. Eat at least once every week. Too bad according to some projections, they are supposed to go extinct in the next 10 years. Hopefully this tech also helps with the whaling problem as well. I don't like whale meat(and even living in Japan I'm yet to meet a single person who eats whale other than public school lunch) but for some reason Japan loves to kill them.