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Not sure where to put this -- not exactly "politics" -- but are our overseas friends on this forum getting the news from Cleveland about Amanda Berry and (America's unlikeliest hero) Charles Ramsey? I assume so, it's the lead news story here in the U.S. In short, three women who had been missing for around a decade(!) were found, alive and reasonably well, in a house in Cleveland, where they had been kidnapped and imprisoned, and evidently raped (one of the women had a six-year-old daughter). The events are made even more captivating by Ramsey, the guy who heard one of the women screaming and rescued her from the house, and who is completely irreverent and hilarious. The whole story is amazing. Too many interesting details to recount here, but this one takes the cake: While the disappearance of Amanda Berry in particular had been sensationalized in the press, another of the women, Michelle Knight, who had been kidnapped for about 12 years, had not even been reported missing by her mother because she and her mother did not get along. Read that last sentence again.
 
The thing is, people in prison make guns out of materials they can find/sneak in. Anyone that really wants to fire a projectile at someone will find a way. But beyond guns, these 3D printers are cool as hell and could really revolutionize manufacturing, invention/innovation, and medical science.
 
And I wonder if it'll mean job losses in more traditional manufacturing industries? Mind you, it could also mean businesses could manufacture goods in house instead of sending contracts out to the Far East
 
I would think large manufacturing plants already have some for of this, you can see that on the How It's Made TV show ... I think where it has more implications would be in things like on the fly customization and for smaller manufacturers that would not be able to afford more expensive automation.

As far as medical science, there was this story a few months ago where they created a human ear using one of these. The potential for organ transplants and limb replacement is amazing

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/bionic-ear_n_3224379.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-use-3d-printing-to-grow-lifelike-human-ears-2013-2
 
LooseCannon said:
There is no Benghazi coverup.
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I do not think there is a coverup .. but I do think it was handled incredibly poorly ... namely everything Susan Rice said/did on all the Sunday shows she went on.

What is interesting .. from the Washington Post


‘Whistleblower’ blowback

Hicks provided compelling testimony that he was punished by senior U.S. officials for questioning Rice’s comments and also for agreeing to an interview with House investigators without a State Department lawyer present. (Hicks said the lawyer did not have the proper security clearance.)
He described a phone call by an “upset” Cheryl Mills, State Department chief of staff and close confidante to Clinton, concerning his meeting without the lawyer. And he said that when complained about Rice’s statement, asking “why she had said there was a demonstration, when we had reported that there was an attack,” Jones curtly gave him the sense “that I needed to stop the line of questioning.”
After that, he said, relations with his superiors went downhill, especially with Jones, who gave him “a blistering critique of my management style.” He eventually returned from Libya and was given a job that he described as a significant demotion.
There are obviously two sides to any such exchanges. (The State Department, in fact, disputes these allegations.) But Hicks’ description of the internal dynamics — and reported retaliation for questioning the administration’s public posture — is certainly new.
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The price I heard was $8,000 for the initial printer, but materials and other parts are incredibly cheap after the initial purchase.
 
Well, we don't have proof whether or not it was a cover up, but it still wasn't handled very well like Bearfan pointed out.

Also, from: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...ama-Spent-11-45-Million-Per-Green-Job-Created
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to create 5 million “green jobs” if elected president. However, an analysis by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) finds that since 2009, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) $26 billion loan program created just 2,298 permanent jobs, at a cost of $11.45 million per job created.
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The whole Green Jobs promise and the few attempts to fill those jobs has been a total waste of time and money with some really poor loans to companies like Solyandra, Fisker, etc. Though I guess it made for a good talking point. Those jobs may happen at some point in the future, but it would be better if governments involvement was limited at most to some tax credits.
 
Dems are really reaching trying to sell ObamaCare

Rep. Janice Hahn (D-Calif.) on Thursday said President Obama's landmark healthcare reform law would result in fewer “bad marriages.”

Speaking at a Small Business committee hearing on Health and Technology, Hahn offered the anecdotal example of a friend of hers who got involved in relationship to gain access to more affordable healthcare.

“It’s an interesting angle, to talk about people who really only have jobs for the health insurance as being one angle to that,” Hahn said. “I had a friend who got married to the wrong person just so she could have heath insurance. So, we’ll also have a lot of less bad marriages as a result of this.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/298845-dem-rep-healthcare-law-will-result-in-fewer-bad-marriages#ixzz2SppPtyBj
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Cornfed Hick said:
Not sure where to put this -- not exactly "politics" -- but are our overseas friends on this forum getting the news from Cleveland about Amanda Berry and (America's unlikeliest hero) Charles Ramsey? I assume so, it's the lead news story here in the U.S. In short, three women who had been missing for around a decade(!) were found, alive and reasonably well, in a house in Cleveland, where they had been kidnapped and imprisoned, and evidently raped (one of the women had a six-year-old daughter). The events are made even more captivating by Ramsey, the guy who heard one of the women screaming and rescued her from the house, and who is completely irreverent and hilarious. The whole story is amazing. Too many interesting details to recount here, but this one takes the cake: While the disappearance of Amanda Berry in particular had been sensationalized in the press, another of the women, Michelle Knight, who had been kidnapped for about 12 years, had not even been reported missing by her mother because she and her mother did not get along. Read that last sentence again.
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Just noticed this Cornfed, it was hidden in all the gun crap. I did see this, just as crazy was the woman that resurfaced after being missing, more like disappeared, for 11 years. Last seen dropping her kids at school in Pennsylvania and all of a sudden popping up 11 years later, homeless and kinda crazy in Florida...

As for the kidnapping case, barely catching up with it as we were all busy with the circus that was the Jodi Arias case... fucking stupid. This case got big for no reason. Woman killed her boyfriend, so what? Why was it big news? Oh because they were freaky in the bedroom. Really? that's a new low, even for our infotainment culture.
 
... the IRS apologized today for unfairly targeting conservative groups.

Reuters) - An investigation of the Internal Revenue Service was launched on Friday after a senior IRS official publicly apologized for subjecting conservative political groups to "inappropriate" scrutiny.
In a practice that drew complaints during the 2012 election campaign, groups with the words "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names were flagged for closer IRS review when they applied to the agency for tax-exempt status.
"We would like to apologize for that," said Lois Lerner, director of the IRS tax-exempt office at an American Bar Association conference. She said the practice "was absolutely incorrect and it was inappropriate."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/10/us-usa-politics-irs-idUSBRE9490S720130510
 
More of the government knows best, this time Biden and a right winger agree. WTF is wrong with people

United States Vice President Joe Biden believes it would be no problem to tax violent games. As part of a recent gun legislation strategy meeting with religious leaders, Biden said that an idea brought forth by Reverend Franklin Graham to tax violent media could be a smart move.

Participants in the behind-closed-doors session told Politico (via Game Politics) that Biden said there is "no restriction on the ability to do that; there's no legal reason why they couldn't" tax violent media.
He also said that that he would like to see a comprehensive study done regarding the impact of violent games and movies on young people.

Reverend Graham said that funds derived from the tax should go towards helping victims of gun violence, along with their families. Excise tax on violent media is nothing new, with multiple calls for such legislative action popping up since the Sandy Hook massacre and before the school shooting.
In a landmark 2011 decision, the Supreme Court sided with the video game industry, ruling that games are protected free speech under the first amendment.
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I don't know... Mario Bros. is pretty violent... PETA might agree with taxing it with all the plumber on turtle violence...
 
.. and in another government acting like fascist (or socialists .. take your pick) .. the Justice Department unleashed a very broad and massive seizure of phone records (business and personal) from the AP. Between this and the IRS story .. which is expanding daily .. it is pretty clear that the federal government has waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much power

An op-ed
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffber...f-ap-phone-records-the-buck-stops-with-obama/

News story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d1bb82-bc11-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html
 
The IRS mess just pisses me off .. from ABC news. It is also looking like this was not confined to one office, but to at least 3 (that we know of so far).


When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn’t know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status.

The Ohio woman also did not expect that providing information about the books her group read would be part of the application process.
“I was trying to be very cordial, but they wanted copies of unbelievable things,” Bower told ABC News today. “They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies.”

She ultimately sent one of the books, “The Five Thousand Year Leap,” promoted frequently by Glenn Beck, to the IRS official handling her tax-exempt request in Cincinnati. She also sent a paperback copy of the Constitution.

“They wanted a synopsis of all the books we read,” Bower said. “I thought, I don’t have time to write a book report. You can read them for yourselves.”
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