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7201
« on: January 23, 2015, 11:16:40 AM »
It's not a human at that point,
I think the word you're looking for is 'person'. Fetuses are human.
I think what he means is that a fetus isn't as biologically sapient as a developed human, any more than an acorn is a developed tree.
Humans aren't sapient until after infancy. That doesn't seem pertinent to personhood.
By sapience I mean something that can register physical pain. Fetuses do not fall under that category, and I fail to see how they can be different from a clump of skin cells and deserve the same rights as a grown human.
Sapience refers to awareness and comprehension, not simply pain. I'm not convinced by using the point of feeling pain as the start of a person's humanity; it just feels arbitrary. I don't think anyone's arguing that fetuses deserve the same rights as a grown human -- they can't own property, get married, work, etc. But I agree with the founding fathers when they describe the self-evidence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all humans at their creation. At a basic level it only seems logical for a fetus to be given the very basic right to be unharmed.
7202
« on: January 23, 2015, 11:11:58 AM »
Going-away party for our admin guy at a local brewery.
7203
« on: January 23, 2015, 11:08:26 AM »
I don't see any practical way for the wealthy to be barred from power, and vice versa, although I do think that may be beneficial. Allow the lower class to largely control society while keeping the wealthy subservient, ineligible from enacting political change, but complacent because of how well-off they are. Sounds interesting.
7204
« on: January 23, 2015, 11:05:08 AM »
Spoiler omg can I just mention how awesome your avatar is
like more than usual
Thanks bae. It was hard giving up my Halo 2 emblem, but it was time to move on.
7205
« on: January 23, 2015, 10:34:41 AM »
It's been extrapolated from observations of adaptation taking place to fill niches, with similarity between species and genera. It's evidenced by fossil records demonstrating the development of a species over time. We can see it in vestigial body parts that no longer serve a purpose but haven't been eliminated. It's ostensibly the only model that fits, and it fits quite well. In fact, besides subscribing to a fantastical notion that god created the animals instantly, which no Western religion explicitly teaches, then there's really no other alternative to evolution.
I can ask my sister who has a master's degree in anthropology, if you'd like an off-the-cuff response from an actual scientist.
7206
« on: January 23, 2015, 08:49:13 AM »
I've been thinking on this for a few days, and I can't really come up with anything. I admire Ayn Rand because I think she's a very good writer (she has archetypes for characters, but they're just more pronounced than some other authors) and has an impressive attention to technical and industrial detail. And Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite authors, despite being a mormon, with all the pseudo-homophobic beliefs that come with that.
7207
« on: January 23, 2015, 08:35:08 AM »
It's not a human at that point,
I think the word you're looking for is 'person'. Fetuses are human.
I think what he means is that a fetus isn't as biologically sapient as a developed human, any more than an acorn is a developed tree.
Humans aren't sapient until after infancy. That doesn't seem pertinent to personhood.
7208
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:52:45 PM »
The Gravemind was on High Charity when it flew through the portal, and at least one flood-infected ship crashed on Earth.
Did you skip the first half of the game?
High Charity didn't fly through the portal [it's too big]. Gravemind slipspaced his way through it.
That Flood infected ship was Cortana's message being sent to Earth.
Details, details.
7209
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:47:09 PM »
Am I mistaken in claiming that this idea has been pretty well established since the classical era?
It was back then, but it seems like a lot of places have forgotten about it.
Living life to the fullest because of the permanence of death seems like some of the most commonplace reasoning throughout philosophy.
7210
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:43:50 PM »
The Gravemind was on High Charity when it flew through the portal, and at least one flood-infected ship crashed on Earth.
Did you skip the first half of the game?
7211
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:36:11 PM »
Blue Scholars, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Common Market, and Kanye gets an honorable mention for Graduation and MBDTF.
7212
« on: January 22, 2015, 02:48:57 PM »
Book sounds great, can't wait to see Buck in H5 outside of multiplayer as well.
Is this happening?
He's an SIV voice in multiplayer already. I'm almost entirely positive they're not going to flesh out his character in a book only to have it not pay off in a game... which he's already in.
90% confirmed
So he becomes a Spartan, then sometime in the future a civil war breaks out among humanity, so Buck casts off his armor to join the browncoats of the Independence, ultimately losing the war and living out his live under the pseudonym Malcolm in the fringes of human territory while captaining a crew of outlaws?
7213
« on: January 22, 2015, 02:44:06 PM »
I've never really related with the idea that I can't live a fulfilling life without the prospect of death looming over me. It's going to happen, of course, but I just don't see it as a motivator.
7214
« on: January 22, 2015, 02:35:33 PM »
Book sounds great, can't wait to see Buck in H5 outside of multiplayer as well.
Is this happening?
7215
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:37:32 PM »
You don't seem to really want a manual... Like at all.
I don't see any benefits over CVT, but I like the WRXs power and styling, so I'm looking for excuses to get it over the automatic Impreza Sport, which is underpowered and has a cheaper interior but is more economical and gets much better mileage.
will you ever get any real use out of that power?
Carrying heavy stuff, potentially hauling a small trailer.
7216
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:28:46 PM »
You don't seem to really want a manual... Like at all.
I don't see any benefits over CVT, but I like the WRXs power and styling, so I'm looking for excuses to get it over the automatic Impreza Sport, which is underpowered and has a cheaper interior but is more economical and gets much better mileage.
7217
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:22:47 PM »
yut
7218
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:22:25 PM »
I'm narrowing in on a car and I'm pretty interested in the Subaru Impreza WRX hatchback. Unfortunately, they're almost all stick shifts and the car itself is rare enough, so I'm not hunting all over the country for an automatic. The problem is that I never learned how to drive stick, so I've never experienced it except when driving with others.
My parents both drove stick in hilly Iowa and are avowed against it, saying the hassle of hills, weather, and traffic make it more of an inconvenience than the benefits. I'm also not swayed by the appeal of 'more control'; you can engine brake and control gear shifts in an automatic without using an extra hand and foot, and CVT gets as good or better mileage than manual, not to mention that the WRX gets significantly less mileage than something like the Impreza, due to the power of the WRX.
Convince me to buy a manual (or not).
7219
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:57:41 AM »
Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Bill Clinton 
7220
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:35:24 AM »
I think the word you're looking for is 'person'. Fetuses are human.
Even if they weren't biologically human, it seems pertinent to bestow personhood upon them at least from the point at which the CNS is developed, if not conception.
Really? I'd always taken you as a 'personhood at birth' kinda guy.
7221
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:33:07 AM »
Just off the top of my head I'd say I'd like to do a trial of no corporate tax, cut agricultural subsidies, create a quick path to citizenship to increase the supply of workers, impose consumption taxes largely in place of income taxes, a negative income tax in place of typical social welfare programs, legalize soft drugs, nuke Iran, focus heavily on safe fission and funding for fusion, and negotiate a smaller role of America in NATO, to be picked up by our allies, to reduce costs of expensive carrier battle group deployments and overall military spending.
Love it, love everything about it.
I nuked Iran just for you, bby. Off topic, but I've always liked your username because in 11th grade one of my teachers (still my favorite after all these years) had us do a daily log of our class activities, and at the start we'd do something called "metacognition" in which we'd take a few minutes and quietly record what we thought was important about the last lesson, what we'd like to learn more about, and one thing we were thankful for that day. At the start of every class. I'm not sure where you came across the name, but that's always stood out to me.
7222
« on: January 22, 2015, 09:27:37 AM »
It's not a human at that point,
I think the word you're looking for is 'person'. Fetuses are human.
7223
« on: January 22, 2015, 09:25:36 AM »
Just off the top of my head I'd say I'd like to do a trial of no corporate tax, cut agricultural subsidies, create a quick path to citizenship to increase the supply of workers, impose consumption taxes largely in place of income taxes, a negative income tax in place of typical social welfare programs, legalize soft drugs, nuke Iran, focus heavily on safe fission and funding for fusion, and negotiate a smaller role of America in NATO, to be picked up by our allies, to reduce costs of expensive carrier battle group deployments and overall military spending.
7224
« on: January 22, 2015, 09:15:39 AM »
That helps explain why a conservative’s reaction to a liberal critique often isn’t “you’re wrong.” It’s “you don’t even know what I’m trying to say.” Right on the money.
7225
« on: January 21, 2015, 11:08:38 PM »
"Wildly watered-down and unproven thing about popular science stuff", say scientists
Dark matter and wormholes are theoretically possible, but are nowhere near proven nor is there anything that can give a scientist a reasonable excuse to say something like this.
"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesise the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself," said Professor Paulo Salucci. ^^This is literally some of the most irresponsible buzzword bullshit pop-science I've seen in a very long time.
Because I'm sure you know more about the universe than people whose jobs are to know about the universe.
None of what they said is untrue. Wormholes may exist (though of the scale of a whole galaxy is pretty absurd), and dark matter may exist, but to report it as "our galaxy may be a wormhole and we might be able to travel through it someday because of dark matter" is complete nonsense. Scientists use these tactics in journals all the time to get more attention on their paper, and it apparently worked.
7226
« on: January 21, 2015, 11:06:05 PM »
While it's definitely not child abuse on the level of "you fucked up, pick between a belt, stick, or wrench for me to punish you with," it's not something insignificant. I'd definitely condemn anyone who did that to their child. Smoking weed while pregnant, though, is harmless.
It could be argued that alcohol or drug use has much longer-lasting impacts than even physical beatings. In the scenario I included in the OP, the couple's kid is going to die in a few days because of defects caused by incest.
7227
« on: January 21, 2015, 11:02:40 PM »
"Wildly watered-down and unproven thing about popular science stuff", say scientists Dark matter and wormholes are theoretically possible, but are nowhere near proven nor is there anything that can give a scientist a reasonable excuse to say something like this. "If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesise the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself," said Professor Paulo Salucci. ^^This is literally some of the most irresponsible buzzword bullshit pop-science I've seen in a very long time.
7228
« on: January 21, 2015, 10:47:31 PM »
Max, since you live near Stone, have you ever been to Ballast Point? Victory At Sea (porter) is in my top 5 beers.
7229
« on: January 21, 2015, 10:46:24 PM »
i wasted so much fucking time on this
That'd be a pretty good deathbed quote.
7230
« on: January 21, 2015, 10:31:40 PM »
 Bottoms up.
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