OK, I'm interested in one of those cheaper machines you mentioned but ten minutes of searching doesn't produce anything. Can you post a link or two?

To do the kinds of things a 3D printer can do you'd likely want a CNC mill and those things are way pricier than a 3D printer. Even a mini mill with the necessary accessories is more expensive than a printer.

Milling is not like printing in that it is subtractive, not additive, and thereby more wasteful. Don't get me wrong. I love milling stuff, but there is clearly a place for both tools in the shop. Figuratively speaking of course. I'm trying to figure out where to put a 3D printer.

I'm an atheist and I still enjoy the Christmas season. Time off, lighter traffic, fewer people at work....

"In the spy cryptography business, mum's the word."

It's amazing we were able to find out about rot-13.

That's pretty much true. You should only get a Mac if you're trying to do real work. For web surfing and email a Chromebook would be better for most non-savvy users.

Really the goal should just be to make the tailgater go away, which I do by just gradually slowing down to about 50 m.p.h. on the freeway. They eventually pass. Mind you I'm in the slow lanes while doing this, where of all places I should be allowed to follow the law without someone trying to drive up my tailpipe.

"Watch the next few years as freeing China becomes a constant narrative...."

Although not in the same way that China liberated Tibet I hope.

"So what do you want to believe..... today?"

I want to believe that your post is a rationalization.

I read that "troll" as someone who was just making a joke.

It's OK. There won't even be an economy if there are no people left who can afford to buy the products.

That seems a little far fetched considering that Apple was the company that cared enough about human interface to come up with the Human Inteface Guidelines in the first place. I will Google for some of theses studies but if you have any links please post them.

Thirty nine years.

I'm still trying to figure out how the hell the freezer got on Mercury in the first place.

So, here's the deal. I went back to school at age 45 to get a masters in CS. I don't fit the profile here. Sure, I'm chronologically older, but I'm in that enthusiastic stage and happy to put in the hours, and I'm not a very expensive employee because I'm "new". Plus, I have a lot of insight into working with people that a lot of the younger folks around me see to be missing sometimes.

Is ageism really based on how one works or is it really just about not being cool any more because one is older?

"People are so worried about entering an intersection on red that they are causing rear-end accidents by sudden stopping..."

That's a basic misunderstanding of safety. The people tailgating are the ones causing the accidents.