Look, I've never raised a kid (I've taken care of a number including my own siblings for great lengths of time over months or years, though) and it doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist to know certain truths . . . You know, like it's not hard to have a spine and raise your children without caving into their every want. Or... you know... you shouldn't beat your children or feed them ice cream every morning for breakfast.
The problem with commonsense is that is actually uncommon.
so my question is this... if something like this is proven to be safe in humans, allowing large increases in muscle growth, will it ever be available to the public? if not... why not?
Steroids have long been banned in sports because they can have catastrauphic side-effects, and pro atheletes are often seen as role models. however, if a product came out that could dramatically strengthen humans, without nasty side-effects, for what reason shouldn't the average person be able to go out and in two weeks have significantly larger muscles? should it be regulated? and if so, why?
And yet we can freely smoke and drink. Don't expect the drug laws to make sense any time soon.
Whether legal recreational use ever happens or not, isn't really that important IMO - I'd rather see this and other similar discoveries used to combat muscle wasting in AIDS.
there are ethical implications here... the haves vs. the have-nots... those who can afford to increase their muscle mass using the products would perhaps become a superior segment of the human race. imagine a scenario where western countries and their super-citizens gain a distinct physical advantage over the less wealthy countries.
Um, the distinct advantage the west has over the third world is that we can afford to eat. I don't think that they'll be any worse off because we get buff.
On the other hand, since this almost certainly does nothing for neuromuscular response, you'll also end up with a lot of large but mostly useless muscle mass that's untappable for you.
Considering that an alarming amount of men in skimpy spandex outfits with 'world gym' printed on them exercise solely to get bigger, I don't think that this will be a problem.
They will indeed actually make the most absurd suggestions for how you might change the script to make it more salable. Things like "can you put a scrappy kid in?" or "could you change the setting from fantasy to modern reality, get rid of the magic stuff, and make the main character a handsome young guy instead of a tough old man?"-- these are not exaggerations, this is the kind of stuff they actually say! And even if you don't want those changes, if you sell them the script they'll give it to someone else who will make those changes. On rare occasions it'll end up in the hands of someone who truly understands the underlying idea and we'll end up with something interesting, but for the most part the pressure to turn scripts into pablum leaves us with theaters full of stuff like "Cheaper By The Dozen 2".
And then they wonder why I don't buy/rent/watch hollywood movies anymore...
So how do we explain the overly gigantic MALES typical to video games?
Are they there for the homosexual male?
Speaking as a gay man, I can honestly say that I don't ever pause mid frag to admire what I see. The only time my sexuality ever comes up is when some dickhead calls me a fag and I spend the next half an hour blowing his brains out repeatedly. Happy times.
Maybe there's something wrong with me, but if I want to look at sexual imagery I go to the internet. Isn't that what it's there for? Plug for my favourite torrent site: gaytorrentnews.org
Here's a radical idea girls: learn how to program and write your own games if you don't like what you see, or STFU. As usual, there's no shortage of complaint but scant action. IMO whomever invented the scold's bridle should be awarded the nobel peace prize.
Animal navigation. Sadly birds, fish, etc. haven't yet implemented and learned how to use GPS. They'll have loads of trouble.
Well, that's just fucking great!
I've just finished putting the laser on my shark's head and now you tell me this. And after I put the GPS in what's next huh? Am I going to have to put in a DVD player and stripes on the side? It never ends!
You could make the same argument for senior management but somehow when they f-up the company they get a nice severance package from the board. I guess a few mil is a nice reward for running a company into the ground.
That's because senior management are actually hired to fuck up the company, they're just doing their job.
I'll bet that most of us posting to this thread are doing so from single cubicles or (if we're lucky) offices. How many of us would do so from a shared cubicle?
When the last company I worked for decided to go from giving me reasonable deskspace to giving me a laminated postage stamp in a corridor to work on, my Slashdot miles went from 15 minutes in the morning to about 2-3 hours a day. Every time I pushed my chair out from my desk I'd get nasty looks from people trying to get from A to B. If I'd wanted to work out of someone else's personal space/body cavities I would have gotten a job in corrections or customs.
Trying to have confidential conversations or review priviledged information in the middle of an open plan office is always fun. The concept of physical security was one that escaped the great minds running the company too - they could never work out why equipment just kept disappearing.
If the company treats it's workers like shit, it shouldn't be surprised when they start acting like it. Nobody is going to be pleased with effectively being told that they aren't trusted.
Why can't God use effective tools such as evolution? Is it necessary for God to imagine stuff and it suddenly, immediately (even on OUR time scale) pops into existance?
What annoys me about fundamentalists is that they insist on God (or FSM) being as simple as they are.
God is God, why the hell would he think like some inbred white southern hick?
We can't just be feeding people so they go on to reproduce and we end up with more hungry people. At some point you have to look at how to break the cycle.
Wouldn't sterilising them do the trick?
The fact of the matter is that starvation and poverty are political issues. We have the capacity to feed the world many times over but we choose not to.
Seems microsoft is trying to tie web services to windows.
ie. Google threatens microsoft because many google applications run in a web browser that could be running on any platform.
Now if microsoft can get everyone using what is basically Windows GUI in all there web apps then those web apps will be tied to windows.
In the US (I'm unfamiliar with the UK), our rights are not granted by King nor State edict. They're inherent ("God-given") to every human born, US citizen or not.
By the way, you're sorely misguided about the whole "stupid people breeding out of control" issue too. The problem isn't the stupid people breeding too much, it's the so-called "smart" people not breeding enough. We're on our way to a societal collapse because of it.
The problem is that people think that high IQ is the ultimate advantage in life, whereas nature is more interested in those who reproduce. Unless being smart gets you laid more often (unlikely) then it isn't going to be strongly evolutionarily favoured.
If anything, the ratio of smart people has gone up in modern times - not down.
Thank god you posted, every second post was "I worship Myst and all who sail in her".
Who cares how good a game looks if it's boring? If a game makes me feel like I wasted my time playing it, then I don't bother playing it again.
To be fair, I don't get the Sims either - and plenty of people love that game. I figure if you want to play with dolls, play with *real* dolls (no, not realdolls you god damned sickos) in the *real* world (or action figures if 'doll' is a threatening term).
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Well, that didn't work ...
Altar boys gone wild.
The problem with commonsense is that is actually uncommon.
I don't remember the part where they nail a lion to a crucifix (but it would be pretty cool if they had - The Passion of the Lion style).
Steroids have long been banned in sports because they can have catastrauphic side-effects, and pro atheletes are often seen as role models. however, if a product came out that could dramatically strengthen humans, without nasty side-effects, for what reason shouldn't the average person be able to go out and in two weeks have significantly larger muscles? should it be regulated? and if so, why?
And yet we can freely smoke and drink. Don't expect the drug laws to make sense any time soon.
Whether legal recreational use ever happens or not, isn't really that important IMO - I'd rather see this and other similar discoveries used to combat muscle wasting in AIDS.
there are ethical implications here... the haves vs. the have-nots... those who can afford to increase their muscle mass using the products would perhaps become a superior segment of the human race. imagine a scenario where western countries and their super-citizens gain a distinct physical advantage over the less wealthy countries.
Um, the distinct advantage the west has over the third world is that we can afford to eat. I don't think that they'll be any worse off because we get buff.
Considering that an alarming amount of men in skimpy spandex outfits with 'world gym' printed on them exercise solely to get bigger, I don't think that this will be a problem.
And then they wonder why I don't buy/rent/watch hollywood movies anymore ...
Speaking as a gay man, I can honestly say that I don't ever pause mid frag to admire what I see. The only time my sexuality ever comes up is when some dickhead calls me a fag and I spend the next half an hour blowing his brains out repeatedly. Happy times.
Maybe there's something wrong with me, but if I want to look at sexual imagery I go to the internet. Isn't that what it's there for? Plug for my favourite torrent site: gaytorrentnews.org
Here's a radical idea girls: learn how to program and write your own games if you don't like what you see, or STFU. As usual, there's no shortage of complaint but scant action. IMO whomever invented the scold's bridle should be awarded the nobel peace prize.
Well, that's just fucking great!
I've just finished putting the laser on my shark's head and now you tell me this. And after I put the GPS in what's next huh? Am I going to have to put in a DVD player and stripes on the side? It never ends!
That's because senior management are actually hired to fuck up the company, they're just doing their job.
The Jebus made the genus!
When the last company I worked for decided to go from giving me reasonable deskspace to giving me a laminated postage stamp in a corridor to work on, my Slashdot miles went from 15 minutes in the morning to about 2-3 hours a day. Every time I pushed my chair out from my desk I'd get nasty looks from people trying to get from A to B. If I'd wanted to work out of someone else's personal space/body cavities I would have gotten a job in corrections or customs.
Trying to have confidential conversations or review priviledged information in the middle of an open plan office is always fun. The concept of physical security was one that escaped the great minds running the company too - they could never work out why equipment just kept disappearing.
If the company treats it's workers like shit, it shouldn't be surprised when they start acting like it. Nobody is going to be pleased with effectively being told that they aren't trusted.
What annoys me about fundamentalists is that they insist on God (or FSM) being as simple as they are.
God is God, why the hell would he think like some inbred white southern hick?
Wouldn't sterilising them do the trick?
The fact of the matter is that starvation and poverty are political issues. We have the capacity to feed the world many times over but we choose not to.
If you're going to let me choose for you ... no problem
They're fricken huge in comparison.
Don't we all (except the laywers, and who gives a fuck about them anyway).
Give it time, it's only early days yet. When companies see that it's the smart choice (ie. profitable) to be reasonable then they will be.
Rabid litigation has got to be one of the worst cultural exports of the US ever.
ie. Google threatens microsoft because many google applications run in a web browser that could be running on any platform.
Now if microsoft can get everyone using what is basically Windows GUI in all there web apps then those web apps will be tied to windows.
Mono is to .Net as ________ is to Sparkle.
There is nothing to stop people cloning it.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
My best friend used to be a roadie, and she lost 10% of her hearing in the left ear at a single AC/DC concert.
Why does music have to be loud? (God, I must be getting old). I prefer to hear my music as opposed to being pounded by it.
Earplugs are the way to go.
Gitmo.
The problem is that people think that high IQ is the ultimate advantage in life, whereas nature is more interested in those who reproduce. Unless being smart gets you laid more often (unlikely) then it isn't going to be strongly evolutionarily favoured.
If anything, the ratio of smart people has gone up in modern times - not down.
Thank god you posted, every second post was "I worship Myst and all who sail in her".
Who cares how good a game looks if it's boring? If a game makes me feel like I wasted my time playing it, then I don't bother playing it again.
To be fair, I don't get the Sims either - and plenty of people love that game. I figure if you want to play with dolls, play with *real* dolls (no, not realdolls you god damned sickos) in the *real* world (or action figures if 'doll' is a threatening term).
Aren't they supposed to bore into brain tissue?
Stolen goods of course!