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and what if all the perfect babies were named "Cavendish"?
The Occupy movement will totally create a new social democratic zeitgeist for the 2014 midterms.
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hilarious
My pot dealer for president 2016.
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Just a note, the lower on an AR-15 isn't subject to very much pressure. Most of that takes place in the upper and connected bits.
The original thing was an AR-15 lower receiver (which is the part that's tracked for US gun control purposes, everything else you can just buy off the shelf with no checks or tracking).
This latest one is an entirely 3D printed pistol, save for the firing pin and a chunk of metal to make it detectable.
No word on accuracy/reliability yet.
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Charisma is more then just appearance. Comeliness is strictly appearance.
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who are you voting for
I would have no problem with that if it were a workable model, but how are they going to make money?
OK NOW LET'S CROSS THE PACIFIC
We're just not ready. It's a stupid idea, even if it's theoretically possible. We should just be investing in general aerospace stuff to tool around in orbit, clean up busted satellites, which is an actual problem, maybe head to the moon if we see any need to. Work on some clean power sources that operate well in space (and also maybe run water purification plants / communication infrastructure in remote areas).
we've discussed this before
I think I heard NASA is already outsourcing stuff to SpaceX
Hopefully with a giant gold asteroid.
Eat shit and die, gold bugs.
I think today's conservatives won't oppose tech-oriented body modification in 30 years - we're pretty comfortable with technology and with body modification - and neither will our children, but tomorrow's progressives will oppose it on fairness and equality grounds. I don't know how much traction it'll get but I think more than in the past because inequality of wealth won't have the same visceral rejection factor as purchased inequality of the body / genes. Today's progressives are already often on the wrong side of the argument when it comes to "natural" things - India's salvation in the form of dwarf wheat was vigorously opposed by progressives worried about overpopulation.
In fact the entire issue of "overpopulation" is going to find progressives in the uncomfortable position of arguing that we should let a lot of people die so we can save the planet for organisms that are not us.
It's worse than that, really. When they decided to cross the Pacific all they could do was hope whatever they found on the other side would be similar to where they'd left from. We already know what's on Mars. Nothing worthwhile.
I mean, my whole post is 'Bro, wouldn't it be sweet if...' tier.
But eventually someone will figure it out. The first few beta releases will be buggy (ie. stillborn, die in infancy, come down with weird idiopathic congenital conditions, potentially have weird hidden psychological issues/ticks, etc.). Eventually, though, Science will get better at it and imho within a couple hundred years you'll be able to walk into a doctor's office and customize your baby (and his later adult attributes) with the same level of precision you customize your Skyrim character.
The ethical implications are, imho, an afterthought. No one really considered the ethical implications of the automobile until people started very recently to make noise about traffic and global warming -- and even given those concerns, cars are just changing, not going away.
Hell, looking at it you could probably do it by hand with a manual milling machine if you took your time over it.
This may or may not be why my father may or may not be always on the lookout for accurate BAR schematics.
Rainbow 6 was a cautionary tale.
Well luckily we'll have you there to lead us into a glorious conservative future.
feck
Five bucks says she had that exact conversation with everyone else on the team.
"private space exploration" is a red herring because of this. Whether NASA or Space Co. INC are facilitating the project, it will be heavily funded by taxpayer money.
Now to head to level 2-1.
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doubtful
you can buy/find online plenty of information to make your own homemade gun
which is of course illegal unless you submit it for ATF inspection
Sayng that progressives are for that is just as intellectually dishonest as saying that conservatives are for establishing a literal theocracy.
Sure, a few people on the fringe might be like that, but you can hardly generalize a massive group based on the looney fringe.
Yes, this is a thing that people do now. The law allows it for private use. Selling it runs into a bunch of potential issues.
I think you're pretty off-base here. Progressivism isn't about stopping people from excelling on principle. It's about making sure people don't excel at the direct expense of others. It's about making sure people don't create massive power structures that oppress blocks of people. It's about making sure that everyone has a fair chance at a decent life.
There's nothing inherently in progressivism that says you can't genetically modify your children to have an IQ of 200. All progressivism is interested in is making sure that your genius kids don't use their intelligence to effectively enslave people. And maybe if the disparity in the population becomes too great, progressivism will tax your genius billionaires to supply genetic engineering resources to everyone.
It's about pulling people up, not stomping everyone down.