Comments on: Quote of the Day http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5980.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Fri, 25 May 2012 10:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: George Weinberg http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5980.html/comment-page-1#comment-251563 George Weinberg Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:22:21 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=5980#comment-251563 That's why open source rules! Photoshop might refuse to print currency, but that just means you have to wake up the Gimp! That’s why open source rules! Photoshop might refuse to print currency, but that just means you have to wake up the Gimp!

]]> By: Joshua http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5980.html/comment-page-1#comment-250951 Joshua Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:57:34 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=5980#comment-250951 <i>Once every man can be a gunsmith simply by hitting print on a computer, the foolishness of control efforts via law instead of via personal responsibility will have been fully exposed.</i> I'm not so sure about this. It seems to me that if <a href="http://boards.sportslogos.net/index.php?showtopic=59942" rel="nofollow">Photoshop can be engineered to block the printing of images of currency</a>, then distributed manufacturing software can be similarly engineered to block the production of guns or other weapons. I, for one, fully expect gun controllers to pursue this avenue vigorously. Once every man can be a gunsmith simply by hitting print on a computer, the foolishness of control efforts via law instead of via personal responsibility will have been fully exposed.

I’m not so sure about this. It seems to me that if Photoshop can be engineered to block the printing of images of currency, then distributed manufacturing software can be similarly engineered to block the production of guns or other weapons. I, for one, fully expect gun controllers to pursue this avenue vigorously.

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