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The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement
An anonymous reader writes "Yale University hosted a conference on transhumanism which organizers say served to
coalesce transhumanism from a subculture to a 'movement.' They're even sketching out where the role of violence becomes legitimate in the quest to become a cyborg.
But most of the talk was of peaceful integration and continuation of democratic values."
done purposely now to tie in with Terminator 3? :)
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
I was afraid they would discuss something stupid!
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
Any decent cyborg could simply destroy anyone who disagrees with them, thus ensuring their status as a sentient super being with power over all mankind. No self-respecting super-being would be seen dead in a namby-pamby meeting to talk about rights! Wannabes!
Freedom is irrelevant
Choice is irrelevant
You will escort us to sector 001 where we will begin assimilation of your species. Resistance is futile.
Yes - I want to find out if Duke Nukem Forever will come out at some point.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Would you really want microsoft in control of your privates?
Hesh: Well, then Hesh will stay human!
Sparks: Don't expect any mercy during the Great Robot Wars.
Hesh: Yeah? Well, have fun on the robot reservation, suckers! We're not gonna honor those bogus treaties! Hesh, will see you, in He -
Sparks kills the transmission.
Sparks: He's right. They will screw us.
The dudes midsection is like good ol' c3po's, including the ever illusive C3PO Schwantz
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
Any minute now, I'll be getting some rights!
Watch out you humans, here I come!
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
From the article:
From the front page of Slashdot:
It's too late to discuss this - they've already taken over and are using violence to manipulate Slashdot...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Hmmm. I was going to rate this a troll.
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But then I noticed -- maybe it's just my imagination -- but the cyborg's seems bigger than the human's.
No wonder it "coalesced" into a movement. Before, it was just a few random, scattered geeks. Then, when they were running with the idea, they said to themselves "Hey . . . if I could get a bigger, stronger, artificial bicep, then what about my . .
And suddenly, it's a movement.
Did they decide which operating system to use? And, more importantly, how to make it secure? I'd hate to get a shiny new metalic body, only to have some 14-years old punk hack into it and make me stand on my head while peeing.
our new cyborg overloads. But seriously I don't have a problem with this. Maybe in 100 years we can upload our brain to memory along with a coding of our dna. Then we could be sent through space for 1000 years. When you get there grow a new body and upload your brain. Nice. I for one want a super powerful crushing arm.
-- Karma Karma Karma Karma, Karma Chameleon - Boy George
In the hippie future you would have to take mosquitos to small claims court.
I can see it now. The defense lawyer Johnny Coakroach says "If it hasn't bit you must acquit."
I understand that, in a general sense, we are all cyborgs (glasses, fillings, pacemakers, etc.), but I can't think of any civil rights issues in these cases. So, as soon as someone starts getting oppressed for having their arm replaced with a particle cannon, I'll be the first to march on Washington, holding a big "Particle Guns for Freedom !" sign. Until this technology actually becomes available, though, the cyborg rights people might as well throw their support behind the Tooth Fairy. At least they might get some free teeth out of that one.
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Animals have three purposes:
1) To fit well
2) To be delicious
3) Anything else we damn well want to do with them
Evolution is a competition. It's not a cooperative effort. Sure, humans are the dominant species on earth right now, but that could all change in a hearbeat (or an asteroid, or a virus, etc...). Humans are not so all powerful that we can play the role of benevolent caretaker of the world. We should take advantage of our position in the food chain now, while we still can, because the fossil record tends to show that it won't last long.
You've apparently never heard of this quiet subculture that uses things called "dildos."
Heh, there was even something at http://www.cyberdildonics.com/ a while back, though I'm too lazy to see if it's still up. The website, that is.
I reckon the prevalence of the wang-chung on our carbon-fiber hero is more attributable to the IMpossibility of reproduction from his, shall we say, deep sea fishing.
Paper? Porn mags.
The phone? Phone sex lines.
Internet? persiankitty
Cyborgs? Unrestricted, unsimulated hooch-making.
It's the future, welcome to it.
dinna call me an 'Anglo' or I'll havta kick yur pur lil' pasty arse!
do we really have to wear clown makeup?
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
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> And suddenly, it's a movement.
Walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in, say "Shrink -- you can mod any parts you want at Cyberdyne Restaurant" -- and walk out.
You know, if one Slashdotter, just one Slashdotter does it, they may think he's really sick and they won't take him.
And if two Slashdotters do it -- in harmony -- they may think that they're both trollin' and they won't take either of them.
And if THREE Slashdotters do it! Can you imagine three Slashdotters walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Cyberdyne Restaurant" and walkin' out? They might think it's a HACKER CONSPIRACY.
And can you imagine FIFTY Slashdotters a day? I said FIFTY Slashdotters a day -- walkin' in, singin ' a bar of "Cyberdyne Restaruant" and walkin' out? Friends, they may think it's a movement, and that's what it is.
The Cyberdyne Systems T-800 Model 101 Trans-Humanist Movement!
And all you gotta do to join it is to mod me (+1, Funny) the next time the mod points come 'round on the thread view. With feelin'.
You can mod any parts you want at Cyberdyne Restaurant (or be an Alice!)
You can mod any parts you want at Cyberdyne Restaurant
Implants, fuel cells, and neural hacks,
Muscle over bones made outa railroad track,
Oh, you can mod any parts you want at Cyberdyne restaurant...
Today's geeks are already into sharing in many ways: source, ideas, music, etc. Becoming Borg will just take things to a much higher level.
The one thing I am not so sure about is how Linus fits in as "the queen"...
That does, however, put a disturbing new spin on the age-old question: "Do robots dream of electric sheep?"
Great now I'll have to wait even longer to get through airport security as those Cyborgs get screened manually. Crap.