Comment Re:I suppose this is how we'll transition (Score 1) 139
Public Roads (albeit, they're restricted to 25 MPH).
Public Roads (albeit, they're restricted to 25 MPH).
Just move fast enough that you continually miss the ground.
You want to try to live peacefully with a group that burns people at the stake and beheads them regularly?
Well, I do usually try to live peacefully with people from the South-Eastern US, where there is a history of similar sorts of killings happening from a certain Christian organization, and in many cases the people responsible could easily still be alive. Somehow, we all moved on. It might take a generation, but we can probably make it work.
Except for Amalekites. Murder all of them, including their suckling babes and farm animals. (1 Samuel 15)
They should ticket the 10,000, with a full-road blockade and ticket-writing party 3 miles down the road from a couple cops with radar guns, radios, and binoculars sitting on the back-side of a underpass.
Then they can just party for a month since they filled their quota!
It's not setting fire to the life boat and denying fire exists. It's setting fire to the life boat, then claiming fire has existed naturally for millennia, so there's no way to prove that the guy with the lighter and gasoline started it...
"Anonymous marches on Slashdot offices for calling them cowards."
Technically, the Phaser (as a stun weapon utilizing lasers) does exist as a weapon. Electrolasers (specifically the model HSV Technologies demonstrated, but never made commercially viable), can ionize the air, then send pulsed electrical charge along the ionized channels that will cause a target to drop (apparently with less danger than a taser for unintended over-shock, as well). I remember seeing the announcement of it, but it wasn't exactly portable yet (it needed a backpack or briefcase due to battery requirements -- so ended up more like a ghostbusters proton pack). Probably still can't be shrunk down quite enough currently, though they might be able to get it to a rifle/shotgun form factor now. However, the relevant individual tech pieces do exist to make it a possibility as a "upcoming replacement" in a reasonable time frame.
Ok, I think you're taking the "fabric" part in there a little too seriously.
First: Fabric hardened with epoxy is no longer fabric. It's essentially plastic with fiber for stability. For example, a plaster medical cast is made that way. Fabric (a bandage), is dipped in an epoxy (plaster), and then wrapped around your arm. After it hardens, I wouldn't call a cast a "frame made of fabric", although technically that might be what it is.
So let's look at what the article you linked says... Internals secured by fabrics? Sure. Exterior covered by fabric? Yep. Frame made of fabric? No, not it is not, not even in that article. Also a "specific material that required a specific company to make it" doesn't sound like it's just some simple cotton weave. Goretex, kevlar mesh, and even fiberglass can be considered "fabric", but they're nothing like my shirt, and would have very different cleaning requirements.
Yes, but if you really meant the frame, then I don't see the relevance of your post. The frame is plastic and metal. It's a solid chunk. It is definitely not fabric. There might be some edging that is foam or fabric in the final design - however, for masks and helmets that's not uncommon and is pretty easy to clean by hand. Maybe it'll even be a modular part that can be replaced easily (that'd be best - also allow for more custom fits with different size foam pads, similar to bike helmets), but I have no idea, I've only gotten to poke at a DK1 briefly.
Hmm. I wonder what that strap holding my safety goggles on was, then... Weird, I could have sworn is was an elastic fabric, with some fabric-style padding around the face.
Only if you can find someone else to work that keyboard for you.
Most of those costs come from the name and rarity, and the high price point that drives certain types of people to want it simply because it is expensive and rare. The ingenious IP isn't that expensive, or said costs could easily be recouped just by spreading it in lots of additional vehicles at a lower price point (as eventually happens). Or are you going to tell me this $41,500 purse is filled with ingenious IP as well?
The nice thing about being in the gutter is that there's nowhere to go but up.
Don't be so sure... there's always the storm sewer. Or the guy handing you a shovel and telling you to start digging.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
