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Just Chat! / Re: Grumble forum
« on: 27/06/2005 11:14:44 »
Astronomical bitching...
(Perhaps a bit too vulgar.
(Perhaps a bit too vulgar.
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Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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Originally posted by Ultima
I would love some nice enhancements genetic or mechanical. You could have some neato AI program that appears as a person in your filed of vision and tells you stuff you might want to know.
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Have a wireless connection to other people with similar enhancements near to you (or far away []) to share thoughts and ideas[...]
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Imagine the borg from star trek. They appear kind of scary because they take people by force.
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To me they seam like a really good idea, having a shared collective consciousness[...]
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Like what about remotely accessing distant deep space probes so it feels like you are really there flying about in orbit around some newly discovered planet, tele-presence is probably one of the more interesting and feasible ways for man to explore the universe.
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So if someone feels like killing someone they could go red so as to warn people to leave them alone.
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I think there's some kind of signal that slows growth when hair [...] reach[es] a certain length.
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[...]each time the record becomes higher people know they must train harder to break it[...]
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"[...]but in a controlled way[...]"
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[...]give just one generation the modifications.
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[...]"genes get passed on."
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[…]”there will be some disabled person who cares enough and invents a wheel chair with tazors and mace sprays for protection, like what has been done with pimped out cars in South Africa."
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[…]”we still live in a world where someone’s race, appearance and religion devalues their humanness in some one else’s eyes.”
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[…]"hearing impairment is a great example"[…]
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[…]”One side says […] The other say"[…]
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[…]“that’s how they are born and we coped fine and they can be integrated into our lifestyle.”
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[…]”a new born child cannot make the choice for themselves”[…]
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”Cochlear implants are more effective if they are used at an early age”
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“I had a friend at school who had deaf parents and she just signed around her family and spoke anywhere else.”
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”Oh no wait im far more likely to want to just kill them being a geneticist???”
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”If I had something like Huntington’s I would want to chose to have a child free of the defective Huntington gene (Using IVF and selecting the zygote, which is a contested topic in the UK), but I could quite easily just choose to not risk anything and have no kids (the "natural" way) oh look now I don't bring any life into the world for the sake of it. Or would you prefer I do bring a child into the world knowing full well that there was a 1:2ish chance that they would have Huntington’s and die an early death in a fairly horrific way. Sure they might do great things in the time they had, or they might crap themselves all life long because they know they are going to die early without one of their parents? This isn’t a contested disease we know that it’s hereditary and also dominant even before we knew how. Oh I know we have a kid don’t tell them about it, we die early. They go on have a load of kids and then they die without knowing why… and so it goes on, or you can stop the trait dead in its tracks in the family line.”
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”I know where you are coming from but everyone including the disabled with the example of deaf people wants children who are “like” them.”
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“What is your concept of normal and disabled anyway?”
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“If I saw a small kid or and old person struggling to open a door I’d help them. […] Again I would do the same for a disabled person […] I could be accused of taking away their individuality”
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”The world has gone mad!”
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[…]"new muscle enhancer gene therapy[…]"
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”Then an exo-skeleton clad disabled person comes along and beats the crap out of the genetic enhanced people. What a nice picture of the future."
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[…]”technology will make this problem go away.”