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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	23 May 2013 19:30
To:	ANT_THOMAS	85 of 104

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If I ignore that then yes sure. And really I'm haven't been assigned a judge so people can do what they want, doesn't matter what I think does it? ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	Manthorp	23 May 2013 19:38
To:	ANT_THOMAS	86 of 104

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Gay and lesbian couples are often adopters of those unwanted children who would otherwise grow up unloved and in care.That seems to me as socially useful a role as any other couple. "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951 www.mynameislegion.org

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	23 May 2013 20:07
To:	Manthorp	87 of 104

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I honestly couldn't agree more. In 10 years I would like to see the divorce rates of homosexual couples compared to heterosexual couples. My guessing is that it will probably be lower. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	JonCooper	23 May 2013 21:36
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I don't agree with the difference being because we don't have guns hand guns were only banned here after the Hungerford incident in 1987 before that they were legal, and shotguns / rifles still are for licensed people the difference seems to be a deeply ingrained cultural thing even when we could have guns with very little issues, we didn't really want them Jon

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From:	milko	24 May 2013 09:28
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I thought handguns were banned even more recently, after Dunblane? I may be mistaken. But yes, primarily cultural for sure - so nations like Canada that also have quite a lot of guns don't have USA-style murder stats.

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From:	Monsoir (PILOTDAN)	24 May 2013 09:36
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The Hungeford aftermath was primarily rifles and shotguns. Dunblane prompted the handgun ban. Dan Herman

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From:	Monsoir (PILOTDAN)	24 May 2013 09:40
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Went to check, and Wikipedia had the following in the Dunblane bit: quote: 162,000 pistols and 700 tons of ammunition and related equipment were handed in by an estimated 57,000 people - 0.1% of the population, or 1 in every 960 persons.[57] I think that says quite a lot about our attitudes towards firearms. Even when they were legal, it just wasn't something most people wanted. Dan Herman

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	24 May 2013 12:37
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This is timely. ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	24 May 2013 12:52
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	93 of 104

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The failed one looks a bit grim! ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	24 May 2013 12:53
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Yes it does, I wouldn't want to be holding it when something like that happened. ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	koswix	24 May 2013 14:07
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	95 of 104

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That's why guns aren't made of plastic. Also, I winder what range they shot the balistics gell from.


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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	24 May 2013 15:29
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I wonder how carbon fiber would fair. ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	koswix	24 May 2013 16:22
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	97 of 104

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Probably not great, I'm not sure what temperature gunpowder goes boom at but it'd probably be enough to soften the resin.


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From:	af (CAER)	25 May 2013 07:30
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	98 of 104

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I think the meat cleavers thing was a deliberate choice on their part. If just wanted him dead, they could have done it in a much less attention-grabbing way, so it's not about what's an effective tool for killing someone. Also, like Dan said, proper guns* are designed exclusively to kill things. More to the point, they make it really really easy to do so – so much so that even killing someone accidentally is very easy. I would further argue that psychologically, killing someone with a knife is a very different thing to killing someone with a gun. With a knife, you have to get close, in their personal space, and risk retaliation. With a gun there is none of that – the balance of power is overwhelmingly in your favour. edit: oops, didn't realise this thread was so long and that most of these points have already been made :$ caer.me

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From:	koswix	25 May 2013 08:58
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	99 of 104

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Video of it going boom:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/liberator_3d_printed_gun_catastrophic_failure/


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From:	Killamarshian (HAL9001)	27 May 2013 16:01
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I'll never understand the 'I have a gun to defend me in the street' attitude. Is it still the wild west in the US? If someone pointed a gun at me, I would do exactly what they say, whether or not I had a gun on me.

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From:	koswix	18 May 2023 21:36
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	101 of 104

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So where we at with this 3D printing tech? Have a huge amount invested in WAAM research at work (welding arc additive manufacturing - 3d printing near net shapes with welding consumables, basically), and they've produced some amazing parts that have met the same quality requirements as forged equivalents. Very impressive stuff, although I'm not convinced the microstructure is comparable to forged metal and although it's passed the quality tests for forged I remain suspicious that it is worse in some other ways that were not directly testing but could cause unexpected failure later (particularly with fatigue loads). Any progress on your gun? ▪ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ │ │ │ │ ▪ │ └────┘ │ │ ──┐ ┌── │ ▪ ┌──────┤ ▪ ▪ │ ┌┘ │ │ ▪ ┌─┤ └──┐ │ │ ┌──┘ │ │ │ ││ ││ │ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┼┤ └┴─┴───┘ │ │ │ ─┘│ │ │ │ ┌──────┐ └┬──────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┘ └───┘ If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	19 May 2023 14:20
To:	koswix	102 of 104

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Client in heavy industry is supposedly using it to repair and manufacture critical parts for ... critical things. If the marketing is to be believed. "Distant, Lonely Galaxy is Isolated Because it Annihilated Its Neighbors"

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	19 May 2023 19:31
To:	koswix	103 of 104

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Good question! I still have a job so I suspect it's not quite there yet, and I really haven't kept up to date on what's been happening with printing metals. I wouldn't be surprised to see some really cool things happening, the world never sleeps! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you don't like donut, then leave it alone. Nobody force you to eat it."

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	19 May 2023 19:32
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	104 of 104

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I watch a channel on YouTube where a guy repairs stuff by spraying metal particles through a torch to repair damaged parts, that has to be very similar to printing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you don't like donut, then leave it alone. Nobody force you to eat it."

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