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ApharmdB writes "The BBC has a story about the possibility of performing face transplants within the year. Obviously, people are worried about the ethical ramifications, but would someone with your transplanted face actually look like you? Either way, everyone better be careful, or Nicolas Cage may try to steal their family."
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It took a long time to mold my nose into the shape of my boss's rectum.
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He can _have_ my family, especially for thanksgiving. I don't know if it's because grandpa stopped wearing pants or uncle ed gets loopy on pernod, but holidays just aren't what they used to be.
Maybe if they're lucky he'll bring those tripped-out alka-seltzer tablets that did him right in the movie.
bleh.
How about modular faces you can switch out at will?
:)
Tom Cruise on Monday...
Brad Pitt on Tuesday...
Weird Al on Wednsday...
Ebay won't let you sell body parts, but maybe you can sell your face on uBid
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Uh... well, I don't know where Michael Jackson got his face from, but the nose is obviously from another planet.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
was the tragically unsuccessful guinea pig for most of this experimentation? It would explain so much. Trying to give that poor man the face of some long dead woman.
Inside a dark room, the man who calls himself Linux Torvalds awakes.
Linus: What...what has happened to me?
Stands up, groggily making his way to the mirror - but what looks back at him isn't his face, it's...Steve Balmer!
Linus: Nooooooo!
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away at Linuxworld....
Hacker (in crowd): Hey, is it just me, but did Linus gain like 300 pounds?
Hacker2: Totally. The guy needs to go back on his mac n' cheese diet.
On the stage, a man who's face looks like Linus's is jumping about the stage, clapping his hands.
Steve: Developers, developers, developers....!
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Due to the fact that parents are now 34% more likely to have ugly children, I fully support this. (If that statistic sounds wrong, it's because I made it up).
I wrote an editorial on a topic similar to this right here. It makes a strong case for the right to choose what humans should look like. (Note to those with no sense of humor: Clicking this link will ruin your day).
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Imagine your body deciding to reject the transplant, on the bus to work, in the morning....
Most people would try to hold the face on with one hand and grope for the cell phone to call up a doctor. The typical Slashdot reader would stand up and bellow something about stealing souls.
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that one should forward to one's spouse...
If a generic face were available as a "loaner", could we go in, have our faces removed, and get them "serviced" to be younger. then after a few weeks/months/years of work, could it be put back on with 15 years taken off?
Disturbingly enough I find the options here to be limitless.
I can see rich phuck suing some poor people that have similar faces for face squating.
"They are devaluing my face! I want them to have those faces REMOVED NOW!"
I think this face transplanting has been going on for quite some time. Why, as a student I would go out to a bar and go home with a beautiful stunner. But, next day her face had been 'transplanted' leaving the stunner with the face of a munter. ;-)
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Take that biometrics!
"Swallow your soul!"
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
While I want my hard drive backup to be an exact copy, I'd prefer it if my face backup looked a little more like Bruce Campbell, thanks.
Freedom: "I won't!"
And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
No, I think the rediculous part is the suctiony *pop* noise the faces make when they come off...
Talk about loving the Aqua skin! Now you can have Aqua Skin(TM).
I want Ron Jeremy's face!He seems to get the chicks, I assume it's just because of his darn good facial features!
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Winamp, Mozilla, and now THIS?? You're gonna look might silly when your face doesn't match the remaining native widgets on the rest of your body.
I was planning on mapping my own face in case I ever needed to replace it due to some unfortunate accident (and science could manage it), but I just got a cease and desist letter from my mother. Apparently she holds the copyright. =(
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In my experience going to bars, most bodies reject my face.
or those with certain birth defects at birth.
I'd like to meet someone who got a birth defect after birth.
Under the above statement, a picture of Michael Jackson taken that day in court.
Under the Picture: Don't let THIS happen.
I know there's a Michael Jackson joke here somewhere...
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He's at least six faces past "Phase 2".
Will the DMCA takedown provision extended to copyrighted faces? "Rip his face off, he looks just like me". Will the megacorps be able to sneak into our houses and look at our photo albums looking for infringment? Will Al Queida develop a f2f (face to face) network to fool Tom Ridge and his merry band? Can I go faceless for halloween?
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I think it might be time for my new invention:
The DCMA razor!
Takes a picture of your face and checks it against it's database
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Removes your features if you look like Tom Cruise
(don't worry, the average
Profit!?
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âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Some kid'll walk up to you and say "I see dead people!" Someone'll probably make a movie about it :)
>I picture someone walking in a mall and they see their son who committed suicide a bit back walking by.
That's easy. Public Service Ads.
"Hi! We're the band members from Nirvana, and this is our new friend Michael Jackson! We'd like to remind you that being a multi-platinum rock star sucks so fucking hard that not even a brand new face can cure that gnawing need for heroin, uh, happiness, that's deep down inside there, and you finally decide to end it all, you should be a responsible citizen! Make sure to do it right! Be like Kurt! Erase Your Face!"
Yet another reason why you should wash behind your ears... your face might have to be scraped off if you don't.
I vote we call it a FacePlant instead.
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You might wake up in some cheap hotel in a bathtub full of ice ... *insert Psycho sound effects here* ...WITH NO FACE!!!!!
Sounds like a great new Urban Myth!
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