Who remembers the sheer disappointment of having the teacher come by and clear the memory on your calculator after you had spent countless hours programming in the formulas on your text/program editor?
Who also remembers writing a fake clear memory program to fool the teacher the next time around?
And who gave most everyone in the class a copy of this program?
I generally tend to write down the more obscure ones in my desk where I work (which is at 552 W. Cou... oops).
But I write them out of context, meaning I don't write down the username or system they're for (unless they're associated with my standard login name, and I have those memorized). If I'm especially paranoid about certain ones, I just hide them or obscure them in an easy to remember way.
It's a defense because the lesser informed person has an inferiority complex
That also misses the converse of a highly informed person having an inferiority complex... being highly informed because it makes them feel good about him or herself. This could of course be linked to several traumatizing events where the individual was lesser informed. Psychology gives me warm fuzzies.
Cowboy Bebop. It's pretty popular here in the states. It's basically a series of stories about a mismatched group of bounty hunters. The main plot revolves mostly around Spike, an ex-crime syndicate soldier trying to escape his past and a woman he had to leave behind in the process. I wouldn't expect any kid below the age of 16 or 17 to really enjoy every aspect of this series. I'd recommend it to anyone with a budding interest in anime. It's not so obtuse and overly exaggerated in the way that anime is usually stereotyped.
"For instance, if you mix a pathogenic strain with a friendly strain, which one is going to win, and with what kind of speed?"
I can't wait until this becomes an actual game:
"Cell-Wars 3D. Engineer your own pathogens and destroy up to 5000 different types of organisms! Experience multiplayer action over the Internet in a race to be the quickest and most destructive pathogen.
Be sure to enter in our annual contest. The winner will get to see their pathogen recreated in real life by our molecular engineers and injected into a mouse! Total insane action!"
oh dear God, my XML joke above the first post didn't display because I forgot to use the right tags. mod me down into a deep dark hole where I have nothing left but my shreds of shattered humor.
The monkeys (Code monkeys of course) were infected with rage (because they were code monkeys and treated as such by their higher-ups), and started spamming and DDOSing the whole kit'n'kaboodle. Some hippie activist college kids (The OSS people) tried to free them, but were also infected (I.e. lured in by the assurance of actually getting paid), and thus became raging code monkeys as well. Eventually everyone becomes a raging code monkey, writing spam and DDOS code out of their monkey rage.
Ok, so now we're on the topic of suffering. You're drawing the line of being developed enough not to destroy with the capacity to suffer. What do you mean by suffering? Nervous system activity telling my brain that my body is being harmed? That's easy to bypass: shoot me in the head. Dope me up with enough anesthetics to put a blue whale out for a year then drop me in a vat of boiling hot water. There's no difference, I'm not going to suffer. Does the capacity for suffering justify the right to live?
Where you live, there are resources to care for an "unwanted baby". I will take your baby, and other people will too. Look around and see if there are adoption problems on a massive scale resulting from an influx of unwanted babies. (This is my only fact in this entire argument).
Presenting research is not presenting facts. Your research uses the words "some" and "may", which hardly point to any indication of facts.
You re-edited the quotations of the parent post in the post that I initially responded to.
You preempted because you were being presumptious.
I have yet to make any point other than the adoption agency issue. I am asking questions about your points for you to consider. Why does the question, "Is there a line to be drawn in regards to an acceptable time for fetal termination?" need any sort of evidence? It's a question. I state that there is no line to be drawn because there are no acceptable factors for termination (unless you can bring me a reasonable one).
If you're going to be pro-choice, that's fine. There are idiots and rational people on both "sides". I really see this issue as grossly inflated with politicians and religious/anti-religious crazies who go about fighting eachother with the same constant stream of bullshit. I'd probably argue the "pro-choice" side with someone who was overtly biased towards the opposite side.
You're not being logical. You're presenting me with idealisms that everyone's heard before. What if there are no resources? What if the girl was raped? What if the child has downs syndrome? A fetus does not possess sentience. And in consideration of all of those... then, if you can't give the child away for some reason, and you or anyone else lacks the resources to take care of the baby, then it's going to have to die! That's awful, but it's fact. If there is no way for the baby to survive once born, then it will have to die. And in that regard, then hurray (a very morbid hurray) for abortion, because at least it won't have to suffer. And I'm not being sarcastic, if you were to preemptively presume me to be overtly "pro-life", whatever that really means, which I'm not.
The real question is: If there are enough resources for the fetus to live a happy (or miserable if it so chooses) and productive life outside of the womb, do you want to retain your right to destroy the fetus? Or do you want to be forced to have the child then give it away? This is more of a personal question than a question of logic or economical/societal idealism.
Maybe I'm apathetic, but I find no real answer in the whole entire "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life" debate... just like any other of the left vs. right hot topics out there. I could bitch for hours at the idiots involved in the creationism vs. evolution war. Hell, let's all believe in symbiogenesis... it's the cuddliest theory!
I've had my share of pregnancy scares, going to the store to buy my girlfriend a test, etc. Does it frighten me into thinking about abortion? No. Why? Because I can accept the fact that there is no line to draw on when a human being becomes "fully developed". A baby hardly understands the concept of "itself". Does this make it "non-sentient"? Hell, most people don't even regard themselves as "sentient" beings.
You also changed your defintions of human existence. In a previous post you refer to humans as nothing more than a ball of tissue. Now you refer to a fetus as a ball of tissue and humans as "fully-developed".
You're the one who's calling the baby "unwanted". You're the one who's suggesting abortion out of the fear of a pregnancy scare. You're the one stating that "some" research "may very well" point towards your point of view. You're externalizing your argument to outside sources while calling the person you're arguing with names, creating arguments for things they didn't say (you're the one who brought up God in the prior threads, not them), and re-editing his quotations. You've degenerated this argument into a highschool-level cliche of a debate and you're confusing compassion with selfishness and fear.
After much careful thought and consideration, the government has decided to instate a new domain system represented by numbers instead of characters. The reason for this is that characters are much more difficult to organize into a hierarchy. The new DNS system implements a series of four 3-digit numbers seperated by '.'s. One official was quoted as saying, "We're trying to make the system more like the telephone numbering scheme, which has been around for decades, and which everyone is quite familiar with." Each DNS capable machine will include a "contacts" list similar to a cell phone that links the associated DNS number with a name specified by the user.
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Who remembers the sheer disappointment of having the teacher come by and clear the memory on your calculator after you had spent countless hours programming in the formulas on your text/program editor?
Who also remembers writing a fake clear memory program to fool the teacher the next time around?
And who gave most everyone in the class a copy of this program?
I never did. Shame on all of you.
I generally tend to write down the more obscure ones in my desk where I work (which is at 552 W. Cou... oops).
But I write them out of context, meaning I don't write down the username or system they're for (unless they're associated with my standard login name, and I have those memorized). If I'm especially paranoid about certain ones, I just hide them or obscure them in an easy to remember way.
I force my wife make love to a female horse once a week......
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It's a defense because the lesser informed person has an inferiority complex That also misses the converse of a highly informed person having an inferiority complex... being highly informed because it makes them feel good about him or herself. This could of course be linked to several traumatizing events where the individual was lesser informed. Psychology gives me warm fuzzies.
Cowboy Bebop. It's pretty popular here in the states. It's basically a series of stories about a mismatched group of bounty hunters. The main plot revolves mostly around Spike, an ex-crime syndicate soldier trying to escape his past and a woman he had to leave behind in the process. I wouldn't expect any kid below the age of 16 or 17 to really enjoy every aspect of this series. I'd recommend it to anyone with a budding interest in anime. It's not so obtuse and overly exaggerated in the way that anime is usually stereotyped.
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"For instance, if you mix a pathogenic strain with a friendly strain, which one is going to win, and with what kind of speed?"
I can't wait until this becomes an actual game:
"Cell-Wars 3D. Engineer your own pathogens and destroy up to 5000 different types of organisms! Experience multiplayer action over the Internet in a race to be the quickest and most destructive pathogen.
Be sure to enter in our annual contest. The winner will get to see their pathogen recreated in real life by our molecular engineers and injected into a mouse! Total insane action!"
oh dear God, my XML joke above the first post didn't display because I forgot to use the right tags. mod me down into a deep dark hole where I have nothing left but my shreds of shattered humor.
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Yes, the analogy is quite clear.
The monkeys (Code monkeys of course) were infected with rage (because they were code monkeys and treated as such by their higher-ups), and started spamming and DDOSing the whole kit'n'kaboodle. Some hippie activist college kids (The OSS people) tried to free them, but were also infected (I.e. lured in by the assurance of actually getting paid), and thus became raging code monkeys as well. Eventually everyone becomes a raging code monkey, writing spam and DDOS code out of their monkey rage.
Ok, so now we're on the topic of suffering. You're drawing the line of being developed enough not to destroy with the capacity to suffer. What do you mean by suffering? Nervous system activity telling my brain that my body is being harmed? That's easy to bypass: shoot me in the head. Dope me up with enough anesthetics to put a blue whale out for a year then drop me in a vat of boiling hot water. There's no difference, I'm not going to suffer. Does the capacity for suffering justify the right to live?
Where you live, there are resources to care for an "unwanted baby". I will take your baby, and other people will too. Look around and see if there are adoption problems on a massive scale resulting from an influx of unwanted babies. (This is my only fact in this entire argument).
Presenting research is not presenting facts. Your research uses the words "some" and "may", which hardly point to any indication of facts.
You re-edited the quotations of the parent post in the post that I initially responded to.
You preempted because you were being presumptious.
I have yet to make any point other than the adoption agency issue. I am asking questions about your points for you to consider. Why does the question, "Is there a line to be drawn in regards to an acceptable time for fetal termination?" need any sort of evidence? It's a question. I state that there is no line to be drawn because there are no acceptable factors for termination (unless you can bring me a reasonable one).
If you're going to be pro-choice, that's fine. There are idiots and rational people on both "sides". I really see this issue as grossly inflated with politicians and religious/anti-religious crazies who go about fighting eachother with the same constant stream of bullshit. I'd probably argue the "pro-choice" side with someone who was overtly biased towards the opposite side.
You're not being logical. You're presenting me with idealisms that everyone's heard before. What if there are no resources? What if the girl was raped? What if the child has downs syndrome? A fetus does not possess sentience. And in consideration of all of those... then, if you can't give the child away for some reason, and you or anyone else lacks the resources to take care of the baby, then it's going to have to die! That's awful, but it's fact. If there is no way for the baby to survive once born, then it will have to die. And in that regard, then hurray (a very morbid hurray) for abortion, because at least it won't have to suffer. And I'm not being sarcastic, if you were to preemptively presume me to be overtly "pro-life", whatever that really means, which I'm not.
The real question is: If there are enough resources for the fetus to live a happy (or miserable if it so chooses) and productive life outside of the womb, do you want to retain your right to destroy the fetus? Or do you want to be forced to have the child then give it away? This is more of a personal question than a question of logic or economical/societal idealism.
Maybe I'm apathetic, but I find no real answer in the whole entire "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life" debate... just like any other of the left vs. right hot topics out there. I could bitch for hours at the idiots involved in the creationism vs. evolution war. Hell, let's all believe in symbiogenesis... it's the cuddliest theory!
I've had my share of pregnancy scares, going to the store to buy my girlfriend a test, etc. Does it frighten me into thinking about abortion? No. Why? Because I can accept the fact that there is no line to draw on when a human being becomes "fully developed". A baby hardly understands the concept of "itself". Does this make it "non-sentient"? Hell, most people don't even regard themselves as "sentient" beings.
You also changed your defintions of human existence. In a previous post you refer to humans as nothing more than a ball of tissue. Now you refer to a fetus as a ball of tissue and humans as "fully-developed".
You're the one who's calling the baby "unwanted". You're the one who's suggesting abortion out of the fear of a pregnancy scare. You're the one stating that "some" research "may very well" point towards your point of view. You're externalizing your argument to outside sources while calling the person you're arguing with names, creating arguments for things they didn't say (you're the one who brought up God in the prior threads, not them), and re-editing his quotations. You've degenerated this argument into a highschool-level cliche of a debate and you're confusing compassion with selfishness and fear.
After much careful thought and consideration, the government has decided to instate a new domain system represented by numbers instead of characters. The reason for this is that characters are much more difficult to organize into a hierarchy. The new DNS system implements a series of four 3-digit numbers seperated by '.'s. One official was quoted as saying, "We're trying to make the system more like the telephone numbering scheme, which has been around for decades, and which everyone is quite familiar with." Each DNS capable machine will include a "contacts" list similar to a cell phone that links the associated DNS number with a name specified by the user.