The placebo effect is very real, it really works, and that's what this is, ie. placebo in the guise of "Energy Medicine" instead of a sugar pill.

Yes, it can cure, it can help people, but not people with real diseases/illnesses.

In no circumstances should it substitute proper science if there's something seriously wrong with you.

Most of the skills you'll learn at the moment with sub-$1000 printers are:
* Calibration/leveling
* Throwing away models because of bad calibration/leveling
* Recalibration/adjusting the leveling
* Throwing away models because of bad print options that caused the plastic to droop
* Trying different print options to find one that works for that particular object

Printers (and printer driver software) will eventually improve and make most of those skills obsolete.

That's funny. I could have sworn one of the hottest technologies around was a thing called a "cellphone".

I guess I must be old fashioned...

This proposal will get a lot of publicity.

The "rejected" vote will come after the next elections and will be played down by the media...

...and how does Google dumping money into something make it un-doomed? It can still fail just as badly as before.

The name, for starters. How much untold confusion has that caused?

Then there's the language....

Still, JavaScript isn't any worse than all those other languages that the BASIC programmers of the world seem to prefer. Even if JavaScript hadn't 'won' it would have been something similar. Better the devil you know.

My router has a separate "guest" WiFi that I can limit the bandwidth on. I'm free from any lawsuit hassle if I open that up ...?

The camera on the "Pro" is useless (720p resolution), the camera on the "RT" is actually better (5 megapixels).

That's got to be a deal breaker for many people (it is for me).

Yep. There's a lot of printers out there among 'makers', and if there really is any money in it then there'll soon be a lot more.

My advice to him would be to get an angle grinder and chop 0.3" off the side of the brake pedal to bring it up to international safety standards.

You can never be too careful.

I don't think a car which breaks if you hit both pedals is a car I'd want to buy...I'd like to be able to continue my journey.

No I haven't. I though you meant you stomped the brake pedal when you went for the clutch.

All the parking brakes I've seen are way higher than the other pedals and way over on the left. Pretty darn difficult to hit accidentally.

Yep, I've done that....

Yep.

Nothing else explains the radio silence, transponder shut-down, etc. Those things are designed to keep basic electrical and comms functions working no matter what.

If it flew for a few hours after the 'failure' then it should have communicated with ground. The only conclusion is that it was deliberately done by somebody with cockpit access.

Rubbish.

Spy satellites aren't in geostationary orbit so they have to pass over ocean sometime.