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The Flood / Re: iPhone69s+grande confirmed not for hipsters
« on: September 24, 2014, 10:25:10 AM »![](http://i.imgur.com/JY1yUWy.jpg)
No no, it's just the new Bend feature.
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The Flood / Re: iPhone69s+grande confirmed not for hipsters« on: September 24, 2014, 10:25:10 AM »![]() No no, it's just the new Bend feature. 8102
Serious / Re: Should AI be given equal rights?« on: September 24, 2014, 10:20:36 AM »Quote It would be unethical to take their sentience.You're not taking anything away from them. Like I said, we'd be growing a species that isn't sentient. The nearest relative to modern humans that didn't have sentience. 8103
Serious / Re: Climate Change. The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Holy shit« on: September 24, 2014, 10:08:33 AM »
Technocracy, please.
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Serious / Re: Should AI be given equal rights?« on: September 24, 2014, 10:00:44 AM »
Definitely. Here's a followup question though: if we somehow had the capability to clone or grow non-sentient animals in the homo genus (basically the nearest ancestor to humans that did not have sentience or sapience), would it be unethical to use them as slave labor in the same way we use machines?
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Serious / Re: Based Dawkins BTFO's feminist shills« on: September 23, 2014, 11:33:48 AM »
Maybe I'm just dumb but I don't understand what the joke is.
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Serious / Re: Capitalism - a new perspective« on: September 22, 2014, 10:12:24 PM »
I see communism as more of a global renaissance type of system. When everyone is free to pursue their interests without their life focused around working 9-5 to just pay rent, you'd have lots of room to explore and innovate. At the very least we'd probably see the arts flourish more. Then again, the works of Shakespeare were made to pay a meager wage, so I'm not sure. I don't see communism ever being functional on a state scale until war is obsolete and healthcare advances significantly.
So to answer your question, I think technological advance is just a human condition, and an evolutionary one. We're going to progress regardless of our artificial economic system. 8107
Gaming / Re: Playing Destiny made me appreciate« on: September 20, 2014, 04:05:02 AM »
Clearly you just don't get it, OP.
Destiny is an experience. And if you're not happy unless a game has a coherent plot, a lack of senseless grinding, and rewarding challenges, then Destiny just isn't the game for you and you should stick to dumb, casual games like Dark Souls. 8108
Gaming / Re: Why do people insist Destiny is an MMO?« on: September 19, 2014, 04:26:20 PM »
"Minimally multiplayer online RPG"
I was blown away when I realized there was no chat or clan support at all. 8109
Serious / Re: ISIS Draws a Steady Stream of Recruits from Turkey« on: September 19, 2014, 04:20:02 PM »
My bad.
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Serious / Re: Obama goes full foreign aid« on: September 19, 2014, 04:19:07 PM »
Ebola should have sold some of its symptoms and built up its resistance first. Now it's stuck in Africa; it'll never get to Madagascar.
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Serious / Re: It's official, feminists and SJWs have hijacked the Anarchist movement« on: September 19, 2014, 04:16:37 PM »
I was really disappointed to see that article. Of course she doesn't deserve harassment or death threats, but there's a legitimate issue to discuss (for those that, unlike myself, actually give a shit about any of it), but both sides are just focused on mudslinging.
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Serious / Re: If you have to beat your kid, you're a fucking pussy.« on: September 19, 2014, 04:10:57 PM »Yelling and swearing has been phased out of Navy, Air Force, and Army boot camps for several years now due to its ineffectiveness. It continues in the Marine Corps because they have such a heavy emphasis on indoctrination in order to allow the Marines to operate calmly under the stress of combat.Spanking, yelling, and other extreme behaviors undermine you as a leader and as a parent. But to answer your question, no, drill sergeants and drill instructors aren't leaders. They do not lead recruits, they break them down to be built back up. That's not leadership, that's indoctrination (which I'm not saying is a bad thing). Not to mention that the military is entirely voluntary, and consists of adults. It's just a very poor comparison. 8113
Serious / Re: If you have to beat your kid, you're a fucking pussy.« on: September 19, 2014, 03:43:35 PM »
Spanking, yelling, and other extreme behaviors undermine you as a leader and as a parent. If you demonstrate that you can't control or react to a situation in a way that isn't rooted in spontaneous emotion, you're teaching your kid, or your subordinate, or whoever is the subject of your punishment, that you are too incompetent to deal with it logically or reasonably.
Anyone that has to say that they're in control, is not. Anyone that has to hurt another person to get them to behave a certain way has already failed. 8114
Serious / Re: I honestly have no problem with what AP did...« on: September 19, 2014, 03:40:35 PM »I have been hit by extension cords, sticks, belts, and hands. All in all it made me a better person. How so? 8115
The Flood / Re: Post gifs and pics that make you all warm and fuzzy inside.« on: September 19, 2014, 02:59:57 AM »![]() Thank you based turkey. How many cat gifs do I need to post until I get rid of the 'newbie' title? 8116
The Flood / Re: New Member Introduction Thread« on: September 19, 2014, 02:55:11 AM »
Just wondering, where are non-Floodians coming from? Where's this site being advertised?
I don't mind them, I'm just wondering who's who. 8117
The Flood / Re: Post gifs and pics that make you all warm and fuzzy inside.« on: September 18, 2014, 11:40:00 PM »![]() Bongo cat! 8118
The Flood / Re: New Member Introduction Thread« on: September 18, 2014, 10:37:51 PM »
I'm HurtfulTurkey and if you don't know who I am you're bad and you should feel bad.
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