Well, if you’ve going to write a check…20 years ago. I bet he thinks green stamps are still a thing.
I’m willing to bet he hasn’t set foot in a store in the past 35 years where he’s had to pull his wallet out. And has he even heard of green stamps?
He thougth he could use those to pay the playboy hooker.
The story about Bush41 being astonished by a supermarket scanner was overblown (he was at most mildly impressed), but I could totally believe Trump believes photo ID is necessary to buy groceries. If anyone asks him about it, he’ll maintain it’s true, and then later deny he ever said it, and 100% believe whatever he is saying at any given moment.
I think he heard the argument you’re supposed to make as a right-wing vote-suppressor, which is “you need photo ID to get a job or food stamps, so why shouldn’t you need one to vote?” and it got mangled in his diseased brain.
A businessman like him? Holder of stocks and bonds?
googled “sdmb - the pit - gun thread” to post this in the appropriate thread - no luck.
Hence another “well, gotta post this somewhere” post:
grooviness:
Federal judge blocks website that offered “what could possibly go wrong?” downloads on 3-D printed plastic guns.
PBS reported there have been at least 1,000 downloads.
You might want the Stupid Gun news of the day thread; there is a “positive gun news” thread, but it is supposed to be about ‘yay, that guy shot not-the-wrong-other-guy’.
Ah, thanks.
Thinking of cross-posting it, but, eh, whatevs
Usually google’s not too bad for finding SDMB threads, but here they’re outa thah paaarrk!!! (said 1920’s grumpy-ump-style, pointing to a clubhouse)
This is obviously the work of gun advocates trying to provoke liberals, and/or to make the case that gun control is useless and therefore we shouldn’t even try to regulate guns. And we seem to be falling for it.
Fact is, consumer 3D printers can only print plastic, so they are only good for printing certain parts of the gun that aren’t under a lot of stress. There are 3D printers that can print metal, but those are expensive (tens of thousands of dollars, last I checked), and the results are still not great - not suitable for moving parts. It’s easier to set up a traditional machine shop and make guns the old-fashioned way (i.e. cutting metal). Of course in the US it’s even easier to just go out and buy guns.
Gonna be a lot higher than that seeing as it was uploaded to the Bay about 0915 this morning, and actively seeded right now. That horse is definitely out of the barn and likely no way to get it back in there. Oops. Plus, the files add up to only about 200Mb or so for download.
Probably won’t be long 'til news stories of those guns injuring some shooters by ‘explosive disassembly’ show up on headlines.
We are going to see a small but dramatic demonstration of Darwinism in action.
Who could possibly have foreseen that tearing up a binding international agreement for petulant reasons would send the message that agreements made with the US were effectively worthless? WHO KNEW?
OTOH, seeing as how the NRA is owned by the gun manufacturers, I can’t see how they’d be in favor of free guns, even as a PR tactic.
Because ghost guns are pieces of shit that will blow up in people’s faces ; so the NRA can go “OK, young techheads, you’re good people who support this 3D printing freedom loving crapola ; it’s very good family values you’re espounsing but you know what you *really *need to support the 2nd amendment ? A belt-fed M-16 !”
Yeah, but the thing about technology is that it improves. Printed guns may be useless now, but the gun manufacturers have to know know that if they don’t suppress the technology now, they’ll be Blockbuster to the Netflix of death.
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I agree that inflation eats away some of your capital gains, and am not sure how to deal with that. I did read somewhere that part of the reason for a lower tax rate on cap gains is to deal with that. It makes sense, but I’d never seen that explanation before - it’s always “it will encourage investment”, when most stock purchases of course don’t actually provide money to the company involved.
Yep. That will put the NRA in an awkward position. Back the manufacturers or the members?
Plus, the lawsuits against printer companies will come rapidly from the maimed and murdered. Somehow I doubt congress will pass a law shielding them from liability.
In the end, I think printer companies could become strongly incented to disallow printing of guns - just as printer companies block currency.
Oh, aren’t you precious. For-profit organizations looking past immediate benefits and taking even the medium-term into consideration ; and humans in general basing their decisions on records of the past. Speaking of, I have a wonderful bridge in downtown NYC I’d be willing to sell to you, provided you made it worth my while… :D.
(no offense meant to you, mate - just being my cynical-ass self)