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$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by mkoubaa »

b345 wrote: post #539
mkoubaa wrote: post #530

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Tell that to the 60 million people who died in the Holodomor.

Holodomor was the result of several unfortunate events including the Ukranian kulaks burning their produce to protest collectivisation, a natural famine and misjudgement of the State. If the responsibility of Holodomor lies solely with the USSR, the nexus between the NATO and occupied Palestine are responsible for at least a billion deaths, going by your intellectual honesty standards. I have factored in death due to…

I have no problem with the proposition that the post-ww2 global order is responsible for a billion deaths.

Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by projektfu »

mothballed wrote: post #550
projektfu wrote: post #417

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There seems to be a jurisdictional escape clause in the sense that possession without use within the US without the intent to attack aircraft may not fall into interstate commerce. In which case the state law would govern the act. IANAL

IANAL. Note they started adding the "interstate commerce" in there after the first version of the gun-free school zone act was found unconstitutional. Which then continued on to do the exact same thing when amended. It's a distinction without difference. Post Wickard v Filburn, mere possession of something has been found to be interstate commerce even if it's just a plant grown on your own property for your own consu…

IANALBIRW

"In Lopez, the Court held that while Congress had broad lawmaking authority under the Commerce Clause, the power was limited and did not extend so far from "commerce" as to authorize the regulation of the carrying of handguns, especially when there was no evidence that carrying them affected the economy on a massive scale. (In a later case, United States v. Morrison, the Court ruled in 2000 that Congress could not make such laws even when there was evidence of aggregate effect.)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by defrost »

markhahn wrote: post #531
throw0101d wrote: post #421

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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-7_Wedgetail Somewhat interesting in that the Pentagon did not want the E-7 (as a replacement to the E-3): * https://www.twz.com/air/e-2-hawkeye-replaces-usaf-e-3-sentry... nominally because it wanted to spend the money on more E-2s, which can operate on smaller and rougher airfields, which would be handy in (e.g.) the Pacific where tiny islands don't necessary 'fancy' runways…

little unclear what drove the E-7 thing - my impression is that accelerationists on the political side wanted to push for space-based defense, and drove the attempt to cancel. it is a reasonable point that any airborne radar is an attractive target to long-range missile. and that if your radar is in space, it's a different, less available class of missile to attack it (and also that so far treating space as contested…

Thanks to you both for the interesting comments.

From a combination of both curiousity and a long standing ANZAC tradition of ribbing allies, I have to ask ... Did these accelerationists push for space based mine sweepers as well??

Not sure I've seen a less prepared, plan absent, voluntary own choice entry into combat.

No drama, I'm sure the current circumstances don't sit well with many.

Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by idiotsecant »

Hasz wrote: post #513
pjc50 wrote: post #489

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> I am arguing there will still be a significant number mass shootings/casualty events These are extremely rare in other countries? It's very hard to achieve true zero, yes, but the UK has about 30 gun deaths per year, almost all of which are crime-related rather than mass casualty events. Those tend to be rare, and tend to be bombs. The Shinzo Abe assassination was also such a "black swan". > I expect they will stil…

We're skipping a lot of discussion to focus on the UK, which has arms measures that exceed (in some, but not all, cases) even the far-fetched hypothetical I threw out above. Shinzo Abe is not a black swan in the context of Japanese political history nor the history of political assassinations generally, but I digress. To answer the point, there is no technical limitation keeping people in the UK from building, creati…

Again, I am arguing devils advocate because I would be quite unhappy with increased forearm regulation - I live in a very rural area where firearms are a tool and a cultural artifact, and I like them.

With that said - almost nobody goes through the trouble of manufacturing anything. Making it difficult to access firearms means that most people who might think about getting a gun will just get something else. Your opponents not having a gun also makes you less likely to feel like you need one.

I won't argue that it's possible to deter a sufficiently motivated person, but most people are not that motivated. Making undesirable things 'uphill' is pretty effective.

Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by jacquesm »

ricardobeat wrote: post #328
bluescrn wrote: post #254

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People can do very scary things with a knife, a car, or petrol+matches. We don't try to regulate those things out of existence like we do with new technology (drones and now 3D printers) Kind of ridiculous that a country with more guns than people and 45k firearms deaths per year wants to regulate 3D printed plastic. Yet collecting and shooting actual guns is still an acceptable hobby in many states.

Can a rocket be used to cut your food, take you to the supermarket or power your car? I'm completely against regulation of any sorts on 3D printing, but you have to admit there is a huge difference in purpose there.

3D printers have absolutely no clue about what it is that they are printing. They just receive X, Y and Z coordinates, temperature settings and extruder feed rates.

Just like an injection molding machine doesn't care about what the shape of the mold is. Just like a lathe doesn't have any restrictions on what you can make as long as it fits the chuck and the tooling.

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Post by speefers »

swiftcoder wrote: post #424

When everyone started working on 3D-printed guns, I was sitting here thinking that if it comes to actual revolution, one is going to need anti-tank/anti-air a whole lot more than (relatively easy to acquire) small arms... Nice to see movement on this front

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Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by ty6853 »

projektfu wrote: post #552
mothballed wrote: post #550

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IANAL. Note they started adding the "interstate commerce" in there after the first version of the gun-free school zone act was found unconstitutional. Which then continued on to do the exact same thing when amended. It's a distinction without difference. Post Wickard v Filburn, mere possession of something has been found to be interstate commerce even if it's just a plant grown on your own property for your own consu…

IANALBIRW "In Lopez, the Court held that while Congress had broad lawmaking authority under the Commerce Clause, the power was limited and did not extend so far from "commerce" as to authorize the regulation of the carrying of handguns, especially when there was no evidence that carrying them affected the economy on a massive scale. (In a later case, United States v. Morrison, the Court ruled in 2000 that Congress co…

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Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by Forgeties79 »

swiftcoder wrote: post #501
mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #495

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I wouldn't call either of those a revolution; they're both top-down directed foreign offensives. A revolution is generally domestic and sparked by widespread popular internal unrest, even if it's sometimes led by elites.

Yes, my point is more that entering into a war for funsies is a similarly stupid decision, and we have a whole bunch of guardrails that are supposed to prevent it, but somehow it just keeps on happening

> we have a whole bunch of guardrails that are supposed to prevent it, but somehow it just keeps on happening

Yes but all of these wars are generally much smaller in scope and less frequent than they were 80+ years ago. The current world order has absolutely reduced the amount of warfare happening in the world as well as a conflict’s tendency to increase in size to include more and more belligerent nations. We just don’t see “big” nations duking it out like they used to, though I also should acknowledge that in the grand scheme of things 80 years isn’t that long so the current situation is far more fragile than I think any of us like to believe.

I don’t think anybody is claiming war has been eradicated and I am certainly not looking to diminish the scale and suffering that has happened over the last century when conflict has emerged. But there’s no doubt things are “calmer“ than they have been historically. That’s why all the wars that have been happening over the last 5 to 10 years have been very alarming. It’s bucking the trend.

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Post by duskdozer »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #543
nxc18 wrote: post #496

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Loads, the various attempts to overthrow the Weimar Republic for one, but many smaller, like the Impresa di Fiume. Maybe not “for fun” but largely for justifications that pale in comparison to the suffering they unleashed. Americans ready to go to war because eggs and gas are too expensive, or their trans teen’s top surgery was delayed, might be making similar mistakes. But Americans are good at making mistakes, perh…

> trans teen’s top surgery was delayed This is in poor taste given there is a bill right now being debated that bans the exact surgery you’re mocking. It also bans trans Americans from participating in gendered sports. You should find a better example.

At this point the laws in several states go far beyond those topics. The people pushing them just figured on had to start with something that would let them mock any opposition as extremist "gender ideology" and the like.

Re: $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

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Post by Forgeties79 »

duskdozer wrote: post #559
Forgeties79 wrote: post #543

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> trans teen’s top surgery was delayed This is in poor taste given there is a bill right now being debated that bans the exact surgery you’re mocking. It also bans trans Americans from participating in gendered sports. You should find a better example.

At this point the laws in several states go far beyond those topics. The people pushing them just figured on had to start with something that would let them mock any opposition as extremist "gender ideology" and the like.

And sadly federal > state law so that means the reasonable states not enacting these awful policies would have to get in line with nationwide, legal discrimination.
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