Posted on 01/18/2013 12:56:41 PM PST by DBrow
There may be a future where many common objects we used can be customized and printed at home, at need.
This won't happen if the government becomes afraid.
Bloomberg’s stooge Israel’s bill is DOA.
Probably. And Obama can’t win with the economy like this. lol
Someone will move to regulate 3d printers. A lot of the stuff we go to Target to buy could be printed in the near future, and the Targets, WalMarts, and Kroegers won’t like that.
3D printing could be the steam engine of a new industrial revolution. The U.S. is in danger of legislating itself right out of the race.
If you could poop C4 by eating a combination of foods, they would regulate that too.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/01/18/nokia-3d-printing-gigaom/1845283/
Or handgrips for a 1911...
Another unenforcable lae
Ah! I see you have tried my venison chili.
Bwhaaaa! Congressman Dufus actually thinks the government has the power to remove something from the Internet! I guess he doesn't understand that nature of the Internet and the fact the once something is put out there it will NEVER truly disappears.
Well, one thing that used to be on the net was an article or two about Abbie Hoffmann visiting the Carter White House while on the FBI Wanted list.
Carter was instrumental in helping Abbie come clean, serve some time, and re-enter society. Abby dated Amy Carter for a while.
But try to find ONE reference to his meetings with Jimmy Carter! Scrubbed clean. It can be done.
/johnny
On the other side, the possibilities are endless. Less waste, pick up your refill cartridges at recycle centers, pick up your print out at Walmart, etc. It could really change many things if it is carried out to the fullest.
Ammonium nitrate... terrorist.
Plastic cube... terrorist.
“Yes, the first to protest and urge ‘regulation’ would be the manufactures and companies that would be threatened.”
And in the article, it’s GUNS again threatening the CHILDREN, not home printers threatening the annual bonuses of CEOs.
I saw a video of an illegal firearms factory in either Pakistan or China. Small foundry, lathe, milling machine.
The sort of thing you could do in a garage.
They might make laws, but it won’t actually stop anything. I know people that make their own guns the hard way (with steel and effort), probably against the law already, doesn’t stop them. That’s the fun part about converting raw materials, if the materials are legal it doesn’t matter if the verb is or isn’t, people will do it. As long as there’s enough thing to do with 3D printing that the general populace wants that core technology available outlawing certain printed objects will be meaningless.
I agree. Until the oppressors grow so strong they can keep us away from fire and metal there will be guns.
I have those tools in my shop. I also have files and hammers. I'm a fairly dangerous man, I suppose.
/johnny
Well, according to the article you are not really dangerous until you add a 3d printer.
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