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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    genetic engineering has the problem of the most well known guys doing it being real life bond villains
    Abdhyius on
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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    I think someone worked out that in zero-g, some elastic straps (like the resistance bands you get for physical therapy?) would be useful to keep a couple together - otherwise equal and opposite reactions and all that.

    You could steer yourself along with a 'retro-rocket'. :winky:
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  • TehSlothTehSloth On that ass like Charmin Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Huh, kinda surprised they didn't go with .25ACP rather then .22LR. Pressure in the camber for .25ACP is quite a bit lower.

    I heard the new pistol was shooting .380

    .22lr would make a lot more sense, might be that they are trying to accommodate more calibers and don't want to pigeon-hole themselves into rimfire. Not sure how different the mechanisms are.
  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    I'm not sure, but those hippies in the 60s and 70s should have been pushing the government for safer nuclear power instead of against the entire concept, the world might be in a better place.

    Also hippies were against Borlag for similar "gut feeling" reasons. Today the Republicans are a party based entirely on "gut feelings" so I feel the same about them

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i thought chris rock was great in the fifth element
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  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    New nomenclature rule:

    Erectile dysfunction is, by my decree, to be referred to as hypobonerism.

    Priapism is hyperbonerism.

    Hypo and Hyper are so silly, since invariably one is more common than the other and when you do have to use the other people are like "what you mean the opposite one?"

    On my course they have steered away from "hyperthermia" for "pyrexia"

    Even though "pyrexia" is supposed to be something else...
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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Also worth noting that you could probably produce a workable metal AR-15 lower receiver on any of a number of consumer-level desktop CNC mills without too much difficulty.

    Hell, looking at it you could probably do it by hand with a manual milling machine if you took your time over it.

    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.

    It's just interesting that there is hysteria over 3D printed guns when the tech is considerably less mature than and comparably expensive to basic cnc equipment.

    I suppose it's because people can envisage 3D printing being a true consumer technology (in the "one in every home" sense)? Or they're just not thinking that hard about it.

    Basically I think that if you were a generally bad person looking to make (as opposed to buy, or steal) an untraceable gun for nefarious purposes you'd almost certainly buy or rent a CNC machine and use that with any of the freely available schematics online before you'd even consider 3D printing.

    I think it's more that people just aren't aware that making guns isn't some super tricky arcane art that only wizards can do.

    They think that, and then see 3D printed guns and go "oh shit!"

    Possibly a failure of the printer analogy.

    CNC equipment is much closer to "load up file on computer, put raw material in machine, send file to machine, completed part comes out" than 3D printing is at the moment, but people don't know what a CNC mill is, what it does, or how it works, but do know what a printer is.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Which NW server again?
  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    I'm against GMOs on a case by case basis, as everyone should be. The concept doesn't have any morals associated with it any more than any technology
  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    The idea that conservatives are all about dat societal change and liberals are for the status quo is so wft that i don't even know.

    Today's progressives might look slack eyed at Johnny and Jane Bioimplant, but Tomorrow's progressives won't be.
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  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Polyamory.

    Genetic modification, especially of the human body and most especially for selecting / designing children in utero.

    Biotech augmentation of the body, esp. embedded computing.

    These are all things today's progressives will find a bridge too far.

    I would be up for biotech augmentation and embedded computing.

    Genetic modification for certain things is a good idea for and if I have kids. I have Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis and this is all tied to a genetic autoimmune disease. Which also have a few other things that could show up down the line.

    I would be up for genetic modification in the womb so my children would never have the chance to suffer through these chronic genetic diseases.

    Beyond repairing "flaws", I believe progressives of today will be opposed to augmenting the body to make it better or genetically modifying babies in utero to be "better".

    Also, the issue of equality and fairness will lead today's progressives to oppose technological augmentation that give the rich a competitive advantage in the marketplace that is insurmountable by 'natural' humans and is unavailable except at a high price.

    Social justice progressives who oppose space exploration (because we should spend that money on the poor) will also find themselves on the wrong side of the argument in the coming decades.

    it's not obvious to me that genetic enhancement will break along party lines. if anything, i'd guess that conservatives will tend to oppose it out of the traditional right-wing troika of "religious objections," "fear of change" and "general orneriness."

    the left-wing objection would be that it gives those who can afford it an even larger advantage. it's worth noting that these sorts of ideals haven't really done anything to influence politics since, like 1910.

    publicly funded space exploration will continue to be a stupid waste of a money-pit and will be eliminated as soon as private exploration makes some minor strides and the big defense companies see the writing on the wall and stop lobbying their republican congresspeople for space funding.

    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.

    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.

    No dude, it is not a fringe.

    I'm not seeing anything there showing it's not a fringe. All that says is some people have tried opposing it. Yes, I know there are some dumbasses that think anything manmade is evil and will wreck the environment. Yes, those people are going to be criticizing the green revolution. No, that does not mean that it's representative of progressive ideology.

    If you want to prove a point, then show me actual polls of how progressives feel about the green revolution.
  • syndalissyndalis Aballah Can Tah Advancing the Human ConditionRegistered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    I think someone worked out that in zero-g, some elastic straps (like the resistance bands you get for physical therapy?) would be useful to keep a couple together - otherwise equal and opposite reactions and all that.

    You could steer yourself along with a 'retro-rocket'. :winky:
    I also heard about fucking "under the covers" in which the covers are actually attached the the bed.

    Less groundbreaking than floating around and bouncing off the walls, but a hell of a lot more practical.
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  • bowenbowen Registered User regular
    Spool didn't ask for this.
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    So what we really need is 2001: A Porn Odyssey.
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  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    I'm not sure, but those hippies in the 60s and 70s should have been pushing the government for safer nuclear power instead of against the entire concept, the world might be in a better place.

    Also hippies were against Borlag for similar "gut feeling" reasons. Today the Republicans are a party based entirely on "gut feelings" so I feel the same about them

    Mother Earth would not want The Green Revolution.

    #firstworldLudditeprivilege
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    zagdrob wrote: »
    I think someone worked out that in zero-g, some elastic straps (like the resistance bands you get for physical therapy?) would be useful to keep a couple together - otherwise equal and opposite reactions and all that.

    You could steer yourself along with a 'retro-rocket'. :winky:

    no

    fart propulsion during zero g sex in the closed athmosphere that would need is not " :winky: "
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    New nomenclature rule:

    Erectile dysfunction is, by my decree, to be referred to as hypobonerism.

    Priapism is hyperbonerism.

    Hypo and Hyper are so silly, since invariably one is more common than the other and when you do have to use the other people are like "what you mean the opposite one?"

    On my course they have steered away from "hyperthermia" for "pyrexia"

    Even though "pyrexia" is supposed to be something else...

    Look

    Don't get in my way, I'm changing priapism to hyperbonerism and I will cut anyone to see my dream fulfilled. This must happen.
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    I'm against GMOs on a case by case basis, as everyone should be. The concept doesn't have any morals associated with it any more than any technology
    What do you mean as everyone should be?
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Also worth noting that you could probably produce a workable metal AR-15 lower receiver on any of a number of consumer-level desktop CNC mills without too much difficulty.

    Hell, looking at it you could probably do it by hand with a manual milling machine if you took your time over it.

    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.

    It's just interesting that there is hysteria over 3D printed guns when the tech is considerably less mature than and comparably expensive to basic cnc equipment.

    I suppose it's because people can envisage 3D printing being a true consumer technology (in the "one in every home" sense)? Or they're just not thinking that hard about it.

    Basically I think that if you were a generally bad person looking to make (as opposed to buy, or steal) an untraceable gun for nefarious purposes you'd almost certainly buy or rent a CNC machine and use that with any of the freely available schematics online before you'd even consider 3D printing.

    I think it's more that people just aren't aware that making guns isn't some super tricky arcane art that only wizards can do.

    They think that, and then see 3D printed guns and go "oh shit!"

    Possibly a failure of the printer analogy.

    CNC equipment is much closer to "load up file on computer, put raw material in machine, send file to machine, completed part comes out" than 3D printing is at the moment, but people don't know what a CNC mill is, what it does, or how it works, but do know what a printer is.

    Ok that's totally true.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    HYPERBONER TO THE SNOOSNOO QUASAR
  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Which NW server again?

    Beholder.
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  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    I'm against GMOs on a case by case basis, as everyone should be. The concept doesn't have any morals associated with it any more than any technology
    What do you mean as everyone should be?

    You shouldn't be blindly for or against GMOs. Some are good, some are bad.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Overpopulation is not a problem.
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Also, hi, chat
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Which NW server again?

    Beholder.

    Thanks!
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I'm against GMOs on a case by case basis, as everyone should be. The concept doesn't have any morals associated with it any more than any technology

    I'm just angry at monsanto because they're fucking this up for us.
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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    HYPERBONER TO THE SNOOSNOO QUASAR

    Ground Control to Major Tom.
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Also, hi, chat

    Hi Feral! How go things?
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    I'm against gnomes on a case by case basis, as everyone should be.
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Also, hi, chat

    Hi Feral! How go things?

    i has a tiiiiiirrrrrreeeedddddd
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Heard about this on conservative radio:Registered User regular
    The Progressive Bioethics Initiative at the Center for American Progress
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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Gnomes are all evil, but I reserve the notion that one might be born without intrinsic evil existing inside of its tiny five chambered heart.
  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    Damn, it's after 2 and I haven't gotten jack done today and don't want to. But I don't want to have to work hard later in the week either.

    Fuck. It's like Sophie's Choice all up ins.
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  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Irond Will wrote: »
    You think space travel should be private enterprise instead of publicly funded, will?

    I would have no problem with that if it were a workable model, but how are they going to make money?

    they probably won't

    because space exploration is a pointless hobby

    Why?

    because the only real historical benefits of sending people into space are spinoff technologies that you could get from doing less-expensive research into something actually useful.

    i am all for government investment into science and technology, but believe that space is one of the worst, least efficient and most pointless ways to spend that investment.

    defense technologies are a close second.
  • ZephiranZephiran Registered User regular
    PSA:

    Fucking everyone should read [My Course Literature] this shit.

    http://www.worldcat.org/title/vad-bor-staten-gora-om-valfardsstatens-moraliska-och-politiska-logik/oclc/32508358

    You'll be a better person.
  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    I love the smell of automatic rejection emails from computerized application systems in the morning.
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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Libreoffice Calc's square root function appears to only be accurate to about six decimal places.

    That's aggravating because it means I can't brute force a solution to this question that I want to check is correct.

    I'm not sure I can be arsed trying it in octave or whatever for the sake of (I think) four marks.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    lightspeed orgasm
  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    I'm against GMOs on a case by case basis, as everyone should be. The concept doesn't have any morals associated with it any more than any technology
    What do you mean as everyone should be?

    immediately disregarding a technology is ridiculous, rather than judging how its being used

    especially one that when used right feeds billions of people
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  • TehSlothTehSloth On that ass like Charmin Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Also worth noting that you could probably produce a workable metal AR-15 lower receiver on any of a number of consumer-level desktop CNC mills without too much difficulty.

    Hell, looking at it you could probably do it by hand with a manual milling machine if you took your time over it.

    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.

    It's just interesting that there is hysteria over 3D printed guns when the tech is considerably less mature than and comparably expensive to basic cnc equipment.

    I suppose it's because people can envisage 3D printing being a true consumer technology (in the "one in every home" sense)? Or they're just not thinking that hard about it.

    Basically I think that if you were a generally bad person looking to make (as opposed to buy, or steal) an untraceable gun for nefarious purposes you'd almost certainly buy or rent a CNC machine and use that with any of the freely available schematics online before you'd even consider 3D printing.

    I think it's more that people just aren't aware that making guns isn't some super tricky arcane art that only wizards can do.

    They think that, and then see 3D printed guns and go "oh shit!"

    Possibly a failure of the printer analogy.

    CNC equipment is much closer to "load up file on computer, put raw material in machine, send file to machine, completed part comes out" than 3D printing is at the moment, but people don't know what a CNC mill is, what it does, or how it works, but do know what a printer is.

    Ok that's totally true.

    I thought stuff like the maker replicator was basically like that.

    It's also SIGNIFICANTLY less cost prohibitive than a CNC mill for anything but really tiny stuff.
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