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How long until Obama bans 3D printers? - Page 2

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sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
July 29 2012 10:24 GMT
#21
On July 29 2012 17:35 boon2537 wrote:
Nice, with this we can pirate physical stuff in the future


Exactly! What happens to commodity capitalism then?

Answer: it creates a police state to keep us in line!
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emythrel
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom2599 Posts
July 29 2012 10:42 GMT
#22
On July 29 2012 19:24 brachester wrote:
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On July 29 2012 19:17 KalWarkov wrote:
On July 29 2012 17:57 Lorizean wrote:
Printing your own weapons = freedom ?
that is a weird definition.


couldnt agree more.
also, the obama reference makes little to no sense.
extremly weird blog

he prob was referring to gun control, but it's unnecessary calling out obama like that.


especially since Obama was rated very badly by a gun control lobby and has done virtually nothing to stifle gun owners....
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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
July 29 2012 10:58 GMT
#23
Honestly I don't think he was being malicious towards Obama overall. Sounds more like a misinformed title whose purpose is more to draw views and what not

But yeah...could really take piracy to new levels depending on what kind of materials it may be able to work with.
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Grend
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
1600 Posts
July 29 2012 11:05 GMT
#24
A pistol made of glued together pieces of plastic.
Sounds like high quality precision equipment to me!
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JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
July 29 2012 11:12 GMT
#25
I can't seem to find the video... :-/
TerraTron
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada137 Posts
July 29 2012 12:18 GMT
#26
I read somewhere that it only makes plastic parts, so you can build PARTS of a gun, but not a whole gun. Also 3d printers can only print in additive processes, which appears to have some effect on building weapons, but I have no knowledge of how guns work and the link I read this off seems to be down right now (http://www.3dprinter.net/gunsmith-makes-rifle-with-3d-printer).

The part he made with the 3d printer seems to be this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11770

and another confirming it http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/07/26/the-worlds-first-3d-printed-gun-is-a-terrifying-thing/
nihoh
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia978 Posts
July 29 2012 12:20 GMT
#27
Remindz me of det film with the body guard n whitney hooston in it, wut wuz the film called again?
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Nymphaceae
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States350 Posts
July 29 2012 12:21 GMT
#28
This has got to be a troll thread. There's no way that a 3d printer is the way of the future. With the number of people failing algebra in America, I'm guessing there's even a far larger percentage who fail physics and chemistry.
nihoh
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia978 Posts
July 29 2012 12:21 GMT
#29
On July 29 2012 21:20 nihoh wrote:
Remindz me of det film with the body guard n whitney hooston in it, wut wuz the film called again?

Just found out, In the Line of Fire.
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Nazza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1654 Posts
July 29 2012 13:20 GMT
#30
On July 29 2012 19:24 sam!zdat wrote:
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On July 29 2012 17:35 boon2537 wrote:
Nice, with this we can pirate physical stuff in the future


Exactly! What happens to commodity capitalism then?

Answer: it creates a police state to keep us in line!


You'd have to steal a 3D printer first . I heard they are a tad pricey.
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Severedevil
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4839 Posts
July 29 2012 13:29 GMT
#31
Eventually, you'll be able to download a file and print complex devices in your own home. And that will have plenty of ramifications. But you sure as hell can't do so yet.
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iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4374 Posts
July 29 2012 13:43 GMT
#32
On July 29 2012 22:20 Nazza wrote:
You'd have to steal a 3D printer first . I heard they are a tad pricey.

Maybe 5 years ago but not these days. $2000 ain't all that much , in the long run it would probably save you money.
Besides most people here are too short sighted , what happens when they start creating stronger plastics to use with these things? Theres videos on youtube of 3d printers that use stainless steel dust to make metal objects.

It's the future , get used to it left wingers.Government control over guns will be null and void when you've got 3D printers popping out guns left right and centre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
July 29 2012 14:16 GMT
#33
All the articles have so far been misleading, as you can only print out the guns receiver. Somebody who wanted a working gun would still have to acquire the other parts.
Caihead
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada8550 Posts
July 29 2012 14:16 GMT
#34
On July 29 2012 22:43 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
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On July 29 2012 22:20 Nazza wrote:
You'd have to steal a 3D printer first . I heard they are a tad pricey.

Maybe 5 years ago but not these days. $2000 ain't all that much , in the long run it would probably save you money.
Besides most people here are too short sighted , what happens when they start creating stronger plastics to use with these things? Theres videos on youtube of 3d printers that use stainless steel dust to make metal objects.

It's the future , get used to it left wingers.Government control over guns will be null and void when you've got 3D printers popping out guns left right and centre.


I gave this thread a chance after seeing the title but that's just troll bait from the creator. There isn't one comment that's remotely leftist in this thread, adding a political slant to a technology that should be used for enriching the educational and scientific process is just ridiculous.
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Heh_
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Singapore2712 Posts
July 29 2012 14:38 GMT
#35
On July 29 2012 23:16 Caihead wrote:
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On July 29 2012 22:43 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 29 2012 22:20 Nazza wrote:
You'd have to steal a 3D printer first . I heard they are a tad pricey.

Maybe 5 years ago but not these days. $2000 ain't all that much , in the long run it would probably save you money.
Besides most people here are too short sighted , what happens when they start creating stronger plastics to use with these things? Theres videos on youtube of 3d printers that use stainless steel dust to make metal objects.

It's the future , get used to it left wingers.Government control over guns will be null and void when you've got 3D printers popping out guns left right and centre.


I gave this thread a chance after seeing the title but that's just troll bait from the creator. There isn't one comment that's remotely leftist in this thread, adding a political slant to a technology that should be used for enriching the educational and scientific process is just ridiculous.

You should take a look at the OP's previous blogs. He has a history of creating troll bait blogs..
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24750 Posts
July 29 2012 14:43 GMT
#36
3d plastic printers aren't the only possible alternative source of guns; in a place where gun manufacture is banned but demand is high, machine shops could knock together cheap, unsafe metal firearms pretty easily. In fact, in the USA, this is probably what would happen if there was a sudden ban on the production and distribution of firearms for civilian use.
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L3gendary
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada1470 Posts
July 29 2012 15:06 GMT
#37
lol you can't "print" any of the mechanisms of the gun just a plastic body. It took a gun smith to make it work...
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Masq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1792 Posts
July 29 2012 15:27 GMT
#38
I remember awhile back they were looking into printing organs for transplant using a 3D printer and stemcells
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
July 29 2012 16:04 GMT
#39
Lol so confused by this topic. I am unsure of the abilities of 3-d printers, but I find it hard to believe that a printer could make something THAT technical, something that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment to mass produce.
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Antimatterz
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1010 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-29 16:13:27
July 29 2012 16:06 GMT
#40
On July 29 2012 17:59 SnetteL wrote:
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On July 29 2012 17:52 Antimatterz wrote:
On July 29 2012 17:41 zalz wrote:
This seems fake.

Almost obviously so.


How about the doctors who can print human skeletons, and the engineers who print micro structures?

3-D printers are the future. No joke.


Just.. No.

If you knew anything about material requirements and processing technologies you would know how wrong you are.


I definitely have read in multiple places about 3-D printers that can do this.

Edit: On second thought it might have actually been that they are working on being able to do this, but I read that a while ago so I'll stand by the fact that they can do it haha
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