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I would disagree, feeling that one's physical being(body, physiology, etc) are at the core, and essentially determine much of the development of the more cerebral aspects you note. Great approach for a thread.......nice thread to ponder with the morning coffee here! Thanks. Not a problem, Slick. I ...

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Unlike my previous threads , this time around I'd like to discuss the nature of a man. By this I mean, what makes us human. What is a person? Are they their body? But if that were the case, pulling the plug on braindead patients would be murder, as their bodies are often still functioning, even if ...

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Our culture is exceptionally violent. While violence in the United States continues to fall along with world trends, we lag far behind our peers (Europe, Australia, Japan, etc..). That fact alone should be a little disturbing considering places like Bosnia have a lower rate of violence -- and they ...

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Jeff250 wrote:They moved the link to the E&C down to where the Gallery used to be because of how horrible you people are to each other or something.

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CUDA wrote:SO once again NICE TRY at the Hyperbole. EPIC fail on your part

That statement in and of itself seems a bit hyperbolic, Cuda.

And did someone mention IKEA?

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Yeah, I'm inclined to think his chances of surviving this at all are slim to none. Still, pioneer work has to be done at some point I suppose, and it will just make the next person's chances a little better. I believe there's a team of a dozen or so highly trained and skilled surgeons who will be pa...

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Not sure if this was posted yet, but a quick skim over the first couple of pages didn't seem to turn up anything. Basically this guy has a rare and severely debilitating condition and has volunteered for a head (or body?) transplant - they lop off his head and the head of a brain-dead but otherwise ...

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tunnelcat wrote:Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! We're puny little insignificant blips!

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Are we puny enough for you yet?

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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. That being said, it does happen to be one of their primary intended purposes. There's a saw mill in my town. Several unexplained accidents have occurred there, including an incident where a man was clean...

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Didn't embed it because it's got some language that isn't exactly E&C kosher. Pretty much sums up what I think of all of this, though.

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My computer itself isn't worth discussing, as it is perpetually (and indefinitely) in that state I like to call "In The Shop", i.e. I don't have a proper rig. I'm running on a terrible little get-me-by refurb deal that's on its last leg. So instead, I'll mention the bits actually worth som...

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Nuke China, solve this mess and global warming in one fell blow???

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Basically, I advocate free will, but encourage consideration for others. Everyone should retain personal, individual liberty but should be self-compelled to practise moral restraint and consideration for others. And as my dad says, "practise what you preach"| So basically you don't stand ...

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I'm not sure what I think about preservation of individual liberty. I guess your definition of libertarian is different than mine. Everyone's definition is different from everyone else's on everything. I'm against taking away individual, personal liberties as a rule, moreso than most of society I w...

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Artificial bioluminescence! We'd be human fireflies.

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Nae thet's wot Ee'm talkin' boot! (Why am I using a scottish accent?!) Nah, I'm not a homegrown terrorist. Mad scientist, yes, but only because a) I'm a scientist, b) I'm mad, and c) I come up with off-the-wall ideas for technologies and also consider myself a transhumanist. That last bit alone is e...

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To be honest, one of the biggest reasons I believed we absolutely could not be the cause or even a major influencing factor in climate change or global warming was the nuke scenario... by which I mean, even if you took all the nuclear weaponry we have ever designed over the years as a race, put them...

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Okay...you're kind of barking up the wrong tree here, as you're trying to conflate a bunch of related topics and mash them together to reach incorrect conclusions. Again, this is a question of scales. Yes, of course the Earth as a whole has been much warmer than this in the distant past, and yes, w...

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But if you take a look at a graph like this instead, you see that our current warming period is taking place over a mere two centuries, with the steepest portion only within the last 50. From your link: An instrumental history of temperature is also shown in black. We aren't that far off base, so f...

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And it's not our doing . Direct impact of human emissions is only a drop in the multimillenial bucket . That being said, our pollutants aren't helping matters. ... The second statement directly contradicts the first... My bull****-o-meter is burying the needle. :roll: Way to drink that kool-aid. Cl...

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Yeah, but like I was saying, 1 shot from a BMG50 should be enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZtdHUVD0KE :P Holy Mass Driver Batman!! That is impressive. I think that is way more energy being delivered than anything alive could withstand. You could always use a punt gun . Or a .950 JDJ rifle ....

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You guys are making me feel left out...

Whatever happened to Kilarin? Am I the only libertarian still around?

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Rising global temperatures actually mean lowering local temperatures in some cases, and surprisingly enough, putting sulfates into the atmosphere can actually counteract the effect of greenhouse gases . And it's not our doing . Direct impact of human emissions is only a drop in the multimillenial bu...

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But the boys can be clueless birdbrains too. :wink: http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/10-hilarious-examples-guys-not-realizing-8217-being-155900715.html Those are hilarious, and remind me a bit of a story of mine: On the second morning of our honeymoon, my wife and I went to a little place for breakf...

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Duper wrote:one of the comments on the blog said it was a satire? perhaps?

Someone said so on the internet... it must be true!

Is it still satire if your premises for criticism are off?

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My thing is, it seems like too much of a blanket overgeneralisation. Sure, there are guys who are just looking to get in girl's pants. I'm not arguing that. But what about the guys that genuinely start out as friends, with no ulterior motives, then fall in love over time? Why lump them in with the b...

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"Why do men keep putting me in the girlfriend zone?"

Can someone tell me exactly what the Fonz is going on here?

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Would you rather be marooned on a desert island with a bunch of doers or thinkers? Doers… Masons Plumbers Electricians Carpenters Etc… Those four vocations you listed would not exist in their current form without thinkers, and if the supplies needed for their occupations are unavailable, then they ...

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No I mean, they have good ideas, but are completely dependent on others to see it's production ;). People who are self-sufficient, meaning brains and brawn, can see a project through to completion. No one is completely self-sufficient. No one individual is capable of achieving every single thing th...

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flip wrote:Heh, no in reality, nerds are chronic tunnel carpal syndrome sufferers that can only do one aspect of a job

You mean specialists, just like all those oversaturated-with-testosterone manly men.

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No, manly men traded away those brains for that extra muscle. They can't have both because all that muscle and extra testosterone causes men to liquify what brains they do have when they beat the crap out of each other all the time. :P Manly men didn't create computers and technology, so I rest my ...

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(political only…yea I know there plenty of extreme religious views here) Fair enough. Political views here are argued rather vehemently, but that's religious extremism in action. The political views themselves are actually somewhat centrist, according to your own definition of the central 70%. Even...

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Centrists? really? THAT'S comedy gold right there. The mere mention of Obama sends the the most active people into **** mode, talking about how bad he is. all. the. time. This is the only board that I visit that does this. Anywhere else and it's rational, sane people holding a mature discussion. He...

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Nice car. Wish I could afford it.

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Hehe, well, all I can say is this. If I had my hands on some of that stuff and thought I might could make somebody cluck like a chicken, I'd have to try it! :D In fact, this is exactly how the Air Force thinks too: “The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging an...

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First off, I am Flip, not Isaac :) Secondly, this is no conspiracy theory thread, that is a legitimate link in my first post, which I doubt you read. Actually, I did! It was interesting, to say the least. Thirdly, my point was along with Foil, as it depends on the frequency ;) and since faraday cag...

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CDN_Merlin wrote:I also like LodeRunner

Had that one too.

What other C64 games did you play?

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So you're saying that the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms for set theory aren't as good/valid as others, because they don't allow a universal set? Okay, fine, but now you have to explain why it's somehow critically necessary to allow for the universal set. (Why do you need it? Is it related to your origina...

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C64 Impossible Mission. Loved the game but was to young to actually finish it. I had that game! Excellent, really, but maddeningly difficult and time-consuming. I came close to completing it but never quite did. "Another visitor! Stay awhile... stay FOREVER!" Pretty much sums it up. :lol:

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Why can't set a (the set of all sets) contain itself? Or can it? It's because that definition leads to a contradiction, at least under the normal set-theory axioms. (For example, it would have to include a set we already know is paradoxical: the classic "set of all sets which do not contain th...

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