Comments for Dick Destiny http://dickdestiny.com/blog1 Aka George Smith e-mail: webmaster at dickdestiny Mon, 20 May 2013 15:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Culture of Lickspittle item of the week by George Smith http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/19/culture-of-lickspittle-item-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-35061 George Smith Mon, 20 May 2013 15:38:23 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14952#comment-35061 <i>Very clever. That whole time you are staring at it waiting, you are likely not buying stuff from companies that have practices you might find unacceptable.</i> Perfect score from Culture of Lickspittle press, though. Very clever. That whole time you are staring at it waiting, you are likely not buying stuff from companies that have practices you might find unacceptable.

Perfect score from Culture of Lickspittle press, though.

]]> Comment on Culture of Lickspittle item of the week by Floormaster Squeeze http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/19/culture-of-lickspittle-item-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-35059 Floormaster Squeeze Mon, 20 May 2013 14:10:30 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14952#comment-35059 What is really silly is they all have Wikipedia apps in which they could educate themselves thusly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action What is really silly is they all have Wikipedia apps in which they could educate themselves thusly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

]]> Comment on Cyberwar for the dilettantes by George Smith http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/12/cyberwar-for-the-dilettantes/comment-page-1/#comment-34985 George Smith Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:45 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14872#comment-34985 That would be terrible for business, creates chaos, and make happy the world. That would be terrible for business, creates chaos, and make happy the world.

]]> Comment on The Purpose Driven Nuisance by George Smith http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/10/the-purpose-driven-nuisance/comment-page-1/#comment-34984 George Smith Wed, 15 May 2013 17:01:30 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14850#comment-34984 Yes, this is an exercise in using the tech press to keep his, ahem, "non-profit" for promoting social welfare biz, afloat. What does he do, though, when he runs up against the limit of his equipment? Offer a service and website of plans for parts from various selected weapons, a kind of product of the month club? Plastic knuckles with those spikes on the end might make a good offering. I think he's three quarters of the way to a Claymore mine. Maybe even a plastic 3D pressure cooker bomb? Oh, wait. I would be very surprised is a department of Homeland Security, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, or some intelligence arm hadn't already made plastic 3D guns with a variety of printers and materials to see what was possible and potentials. And, right now, the results are still secret. Yes, this is an exercise in using the tech press to keep his, ahem, “non-profit” for promoting social welfare biz, afloat. What does he do, though, when he runs up against the limit of his equipment? Offer a service and website of plans for parts from various selected weapons, a kind of product of the month club? Plastic knuckles with those spikes on the end might make a good offering. I think he’s three quarters of the way to a Claymore mine. Maybe even a plastic 3D pressure cooker bomb? Oh, wait.

I would be very surprised is a department of Homeland Security, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, or some intelligence arm hadn’t already made plastic 3D guns with a variety of printers and materials to see what was possible and potentials. And, right now, the results are still secret.

]]> Comment on Cyberwar for the dilettantes by Mike Ozanne http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/12/cyberwar-for-the-dilettantes/comment-page-1/#comment-34981 Mike Ozanne Wed, 15 May 2013 14:52:34 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14872#comment-34981 Perhaps I should clue them in on my plan to disarm the US through introducing peace and love vibrations into the electricity supply by contaminating coal shipments with Unicorn turds. Perhaps I should clue them in on my plan to disarm the US through introducing peace and love vibrations into the electricity supply by contaminating coal shipments with Unicorn turds.

]]> Comment on The Purpose Driven Nuisance by Mike Ozanne http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/10/the-purpose-driven-nuisance/comment-page-1/#comment-34980 Mike Ozanne Wed, 15 May 2013 14:46:35 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14850#comment-34980 This story is causing all kinds of fuss well in excess of its actual significance. USA The investment in equipment and materials is vastly disproportionate to the quality of the result. An American citizen with a clean sheet could obtain a diamond encrusted Glock for less than this thing cost to build. Those who would fail a Federal/State check seem to have no problem tooling up on the black market. All this fuss over a third rate zipgun, really? I'd say if anything was really worrying the Feds it would be the guy who printed an Armalite receiver. Make that reliable and shonky dealers could fabricate untraceable military grade rifles from uncontrolled spares. I don't wish to question the wisdom of the US Congress, but in my dream licensing regime there'd be controls on the bit the bullet comes out of, just sayin'. UK We have quite strict controls on ammunition and smokeless propellant. Once you'd printed the thing you'd have to obtain primers and propellant to load whatever you had managed to scavenge or make in the way of brass and projectiles. To get those you'd need a bent contact with at least a shotgun certificate. If you have access to a bent shotgun owner what the f*ck are you doing with this piece of crap? It wouldn't be of interest to our criminal fraternity as they can already get access to real pistols and military grade explosives as shown by this case : http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/07/dale-cregan-trial-hail-of-bullets Looking at the photo, I wasn't sure which was going to burst first the "gun" or his ego... This story is causing all kinds of fuss well in excess of its actual significance.

USA
The investment in equipment and materials is vastly disproportionate to the quality of the result. An American citizen with a clean sheet could obtain a diamond encrusted Glock for less than this thing cost to build. Those who would fail a Federal/State check seem to have no problem tooling up on the black market. All this fuss over a third rate zipgun, really?

I’d say if anything was really worrying the Feds it would be the guy who printed an Armalite receiver. Make that reliable and shonky dealers could fabricate untraceable military grade rifles from uncontrolled spares. I don’t wish to question the wisdom of the US Congress, but in my dream licensing regime there’d be controls on the bit the bullet comes out of, just sayin’.

UK
We have quite strict controls on ammunition and smokeless propellant. Once you’d printed the thing you’d have to obtain primers and propellant to load whatever you had managed to scavenge or make in the way of brass and projectiles. To get those you’d need a bent contact with at least a shotgun certificate. If you have access to a bent shotgun owner what the f*ck are you doing with this piece of crap?

It wouldn’t be of interest to our criminal fraternity as they can already get access to real pistols and military grade explosives as shown by this case :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/07/dale-cregan-trial-hail-of-bullets

Looking at the photo, I wasn’t sure which was going to burst first the “gun” or his ego…

]]> Comment on The Purpose Driven Life by George Smith http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/06/the-purpose-driven-life-4/comment-page-1/#comment-34752 George Smith Wed, 08 May 2013 01:49:57 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14786#comment-34752 Ha-ha. Good show, pip pip! And 'Yippy-Ki-Yay!' Ha-ha. Good show, pip pip! And ‘Yippy-Ki-Yay!’

]]> Comment on The Purpose Driven Life by Gino I. Sparks http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/06/the-purpose-driven-life-4/comment-page-1/#comment-34751 Gino I. Sparks Wed, 08 May 2013 00:44:12 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14786#comment-34751 “That punk pulled a Liberator on me, you know what that is? It’s a plastic gun made in the USA. It brought innovation and manufacturing back to this great nation. Also, it doesn’t show up on your airport metal detectors and probably costs only slightly less than Di Fi’s hairdo and manicure.” – John McClane , Die Hard 5: Are We Dead Yet? “That punk pulled a Liberator on me, you know what that is? It’s a plastic gun made in the USA. It brought innovation and manufacturing back to this great nation. Also, it doesn’t show up on your airport metal detectors and probably costs only slightly less than Di Fi’s hairdo and manicure.” – John McClane , Die Hard 5: Are We Dead Yet?

]]> Comment on A quarter of all adult Americans are mentally ill by George Smith http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/01/a-quarter-of-all-adult-americans-are-mentally-ill/comment-page-1/#comment-34732 George Smith Sat, 04 May 2013 16:25:52 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14726#comment-34732 I posted this on FB and a libertarian immediately showed up to compare it to the old Soviet Union using mental illness classification to quash and imprison dissidents. I posted this on FB and a libertarian immediately showed up to compare it to the old Soviet Union using mental illness classification to quash and imprison dissidents.

]]> Comment on A quarter of all adult Americans are mentally ill by Frank http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2013/05/01/a-quarter-of-all-adult-americans-are-mentally-ill/comment-page-1/#comment-34731 Frank Sat, 04 May 2013 16:00:22 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=14726#comment-34731 That fits right in with the 27% that consistently support teabaggery. That fits right in with the 27% that consistently support teabaggery.

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