That's awesome, but how does that relate to crash-testing & safety standards?
Are these such low-volume the normal regulations don't apply?
Do they embed reinforcements or print around a base frame?
Sounds like an awesome concept, but so many questions...
Read this.
http://atheistsareidiots.blogspot.com/2013/04/refuting-epicurus-paradox.html
The comments on that page already seem to do an excellent job of refuting it.
The author's first 3 points are quibbles of what to call the "riddle" or who wrote it, not addressing the content.
A great creation, made using a great new technology, obviously thought of by a bright mind, and it's graduated in... wait for it... inches.
*Sight*
I guess that's what sets the US and Burma apart: one of the two countries can make antiquated objects with 21st century technology. (No wait! Even Burma is switching to the metric system!)
Inches / metric is not an issue. Give this a moment's thought.
Just apply a scaling-factor to the design & print it, you'll have a metric version.
His dial-caliper design already has comments at thingiverse giving the size to print at to produce a metric version marked in mm.
This stuff can be thermally modeled in tools that cost a few $10K at most. There's no need for prototypes just to figure that one out.
That's probably what the Camaro engineers thought...
>> I grew up in a city in the netherlands where city hall was built in 1250 and most of the houses are from the early middleages.
Good for you!
If so, what a relevant comment, and I'd love to hear about your being raised by European squirrels while foraging for berries..
If not, kind of pointless, as this was about a area where civilization was overgrown, not an old town with people still living in it, with operational roads.
It is public knowledge the corporate security contractors had full access to the information being gathered under the NSA auspices. Private for profit individuals with total and full access to all the intelligence information
I'm going to need a cite for that because I've been following this pretty closely and this is the first I've heard of private citizens having "total and full access" to the NSA's data.
Wasn't Snowden a corporate security contractor?
Read the post the parent was replying to.
They're not advocating annoying flashlights in theaters, they're pointing out that most people would find that annoying. Drawing a parallel to cellphone backlights.
Who's "Provocative Action"?
March 29 2013 - Hagel says U.S. has to take North Korean threats seriously
Umm... how is saying we're going to take a country's statements seriously, provocative?
I highly doubt those shotguns have 14 inch barrels.
Why would you doubt that?
It's a direct quote from the GSA request for bids.
And the minimum barrel length mostly just applies to normal folk. Law enforcement can get stuff that's restricted for most folk, or at least, we need to get the right special permits for. If it requires custom work, what do they care? It's government money.
(may not be custom, I don't know if there are standard 14" law-enforcement barrels, there may be)
I'm sure an 18.5" barrel just would not be tacti-cool enough for our IRS lads, what with rescuing hostages, taking down cartels, you know, all that IRS action-hero stuff they do.
The argument I usually see is that when they wrote the amendment they never envisioned something as deadly as a machine gun, tank, or nuclear missile. However, the perspective I feel is relevant, which I never see discussed, is that the people had the same weapons as the state. We may view a musket as a museum piece, but when the Constitution and Bill or Rights were ratified, it was cutting-edge killing technology, and that is what the Federal Government could not touch.
It gets more interesting than that: way bigger weapons than muskets.
At the time, there were privately-held cannon & warships.
Look up what "privateers" were.
If you can afford it, you should be able to get a permit for your own fully-armed PT boat (or whatever the current equivalent is). Guard the dock with some artillery pieces and you're all set.
However, the same could be said for the US government which actually has a worse record of abuse of US citizens than does the Chinese.
I'm can't remember the last time the US rolled tanks against it's own citizens...
Granted, the occasional SWAT team or quarantined "free speech zone", but there's no US "great firewall".
US is definitely NOT perfect, but I think you're exaggerating a bit.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn