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| Topic Started: Oct 27 2010, 01:29 AM (2,017 Views) | |
| T.Neo | Oct 28 2010, 02:40 PM Post #16 |
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We're not Vulcans though.
Race selective viruses are new tech; is opposing their development "plain stupid"? I do get what you're saying though, though my main problem is good ideas not being researched and funded enough, and either people mucking about with them or being preoccupied with other stuff.
Hasn't been a problem for billions of years, and doesn't seem set be problematic for quite a while longer.
There is no such thing as ecosystem collapse, only ecosystem disruption. You can only disrupt an ecosystem from it's present state; the state you put it in would be another matter entirely. Unless you try to commit ecocide or something.
True, but are you going to waste your time depressing over death, or are you going to go out and enjoy yourself?
I agree, but in many respects, Islamic extremists are a serious enemy. They're certainly serious in terms of their hate for the west and their intent to destroy it. It's just that they fortunately aren't in a position to fight a conventional war; though this is why fighting them is so difficult; they are forcing the west to fight in a manner to which they are not geared for, and in many cases, incapable of entirely. If any nation- besides several of the larger nations, such as China, Russia or India was stupid enough to try and wage a conventional war with the US, they would fair very poorly and most likely lose. And that is down to the simple fact that the US is not only the biggest military spender on the planet (4.2% of it's GDP) but also that it posesses quite a large military that is equipped with the latest and most capable technology. Though regarding attitudes to war, I do think that things have become a bit iffy recently, in a lot of the more (and less) sensitive views. And of course you also have the plainly stupid laws surrounding war, that dictate that you can't use hollpoint bullets, but shooting the main gun of a tank into a building that potentially houses civillians is acceptable. Even when hollow point bullets are widely used by law enforcement agencies worldwide, not to mention that civillians can use them as well. And of course, that even deadlier modern military rounds are in existence anyway.
Seconded, though I rather prefer humanity to mankind. Anyone who is really annoying is going to criticise the man in huMANity, and suggest that we be named hairless alligator tadpoles or something to that effect. Gender neutral names apparently disallow professions like chairwomen from existing. Which I find rather annoying; also when it is considered that many job titles and other things contain the word "man", not because it refers to the male gender, but the latin word "manus", which means "hand", inferring capability. But, y'know, since there are people who see anything that starts with an M, middles with an A and ends with an N and act stupid, that's always going to attract nonsense. Oh well. I guess you don't see any "masculinists" going around denouncing the existence of women.
I dunno, I mean, automation in industry is attractive, but if machines replace too many human workers, then a large portion of the population will be unemployed. Though I would much prefer to be met with a human face than a lifeless machine, when dealing with many things. Automatic checkout is something we don't get here, but if it did exist here, I wouldn't use it unless I was in a bad hurry. Jobs like that are even more essential here, where the unemployment rate is high. And of course there are also jobs that machines simply cannot do, and if you do manage to build a machine advanced/complex enough to do them, it'll take so much effort that it'd be bound to attract attention and gain flak from people. |
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| Holben | Oct 28 2010, 02:42 PM Post #17 |
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Ecosystem collapse is disruption to the point of extinction, isn't it? Or have i been misled? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| T.Neo | Oct 28 2010, 02:55 PM Post #18 |
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There's still an ecosystem during/after an extinction, just that it's in a very poor state. |
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| colddigger | Oct 28 2010, 06:22 PM Post #19 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Woof, I find people bitching about gender equality in words to be incredibly annoying, policeman is just a title, I'm going to use the term for both men and women, and if I feel that person might be of the particularly feminine mindset and would be uncomfortable with it I will call her an officer, but I'm not going to slap down the word policeperson for political correctness' sake. C'mon. Although I do call lady actors actors rather than actresses and waiters rather than waitresses more often than not, so there ya go. And that's kind of what I'm getting at T. Neo, if a person is capable of doing the job, then a person should be doing the job -so long as it's... humane... and within common sense... I don't think I need a person under my sink ripping up and crushing the bits of food I wash down there...- Where I live we do have self-check out and I hate them, they are awful things and their instructions on how to operate them are downright insulting. And you know they're only put there so that the store can save a few bucks not paying an employee... YET they have to hire someone to be there to help you if you need help. So it's counter productive. |
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| T.Neo | Oct 28 2010, 06:31 PM Post #20 |
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Yeah, pretty much... that is just disgusting. The self-check out makes no sense if they hire someone to guide people through it. That's just stupid.
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| colddigger | Oct 28 2010, 06:45 PM Post #21 |
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Well, it's like, one person for six machines, and they only do something if the machine fucks up. Which it does all the time. The instructions are these stupid little things on a screen telling you what to do with a repeating moving picture of some cgi lady do it, and a very, very loud voice. Sometimes I wonder if the people who made these things did this through trial and error or they really think people are just that stupid. |
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| Kamidio | Oct 28 2010, 07:53 PM Post #22 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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This world is rotten! With too many rotten people, it needs to be fixed! |
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| Practically Uninformed | Oct 28 2010, 08:00 PM Post #23 |
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Informed enough to care
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What's wrong with the world is that we're born with different brains and different bodies. |
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| colddigger | Oct 28 2010, 09:46 PM Post #24 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I personally enjoy the variety. |
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| Holben | Oct 29 2010, 07:17 AM Post #25 |
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I second Colddiger. Imagine if all the girls looked the same, and... never mind. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Oct 29 2010, 12:20 PM Post #26 |
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I never said being depressed, or constantly think about it. I mean acknowledging that you are going to die some day and living you life accordingly. And by serious enemy I meant a large conventional war at home or with important allies. Islamist nutters need to be rooted out before they poison the Muslim world or attack more civilians, but they are not a major threat, not in the way the Japanese were in WW2.
Why are you calling Policewomen A Policemen? The gender neutral term is Police Officer. Not everyone wants to be tang. |
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| T.Neo | Oct 29 2010, 01:45 PM Post #27 |
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An indentical people world... uh, no. Imagine a world where every single woman is identical to your mother. Have fun sleeping!
Many people do get depressed over it though. I suppose sex and sweeties is "living your life accordingly", though it really depends on personal preference.
Well, sure. But that's a different sort of war entirely. One that the US would stand a good chance of winning. Not that a war against an enemy as large as India, China or Russia would be at all easy... they would almost certainly give the US a run for their money. But then again, China going to war with the west is downright silly in their case, since the west is practically their biggest customer. Politics don't look set for a major war now. But then again, politics didn't look set for a major war in 1904. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like any superpower has either a world domination plan or a hate for a particular country. Edited by T.Neo, Oct 29 2010, 01:46 PM.
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| colddigger | Oct 29 2010, 02:16 PM Post #28 |
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I never said I was being gender neutral, and I stated that I'll call them police officers too, but I'm so used to saying policeman that that is just the term I use for people in that employment. Then again, I also use terms such as "cop" "fuzz" "pig" "po-po" "Them folk with the flashy lights". I'm just not going to call them policepersons when I recognize them as policemen. |
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| lamna | Oct 29 2010, 03:54 PM Post #29 |
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Well actually in 1904, the Japanese were fighting the Russians and sank several British fishing boats in the North Sea, thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats. It very nearly lead to war between the British Empire and Russia, who France would have been obligated to aid, and with the Fashoda Incident fresh in everyone's minds there is an excellent chance they would have aided them. That's not even including Operational Plan Three, the Kaiser's plan to invade* the USA which was only abandoned in 1907. As for today, well we might be. I'm of the opinion that in the 21st century we could easily see Russia rebuild it's sphere of influence and we could see another Cold War, though I doubt it will get quite that far. Check out the Union State, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas and the three break away Client states** of Russia. Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. The Ukraine could also go either way. About half want to go EU-NATO and half like the Russians more. Just to clarify this is about social issues and not politics right? *More of a raid really. The shelling of a few cities and the occupation of some to force the USA to negotiate. **Calling them puppet states would be inacurate, as they do their own thing, and were not set up by Russia but are very close to them, with annexation being a real possibility, especially in Transnistria. Edited by lamna, Oct 29 2010, 03:59 PM.
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| T.Neo | Oct 29 2010, 04:07 PM Post #30 |
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I suspected you were going to provide an incident like that in the year 1904. I guess that's what I get when I make silly claims around people who have better knowledge of history than I do. The Bolivarian Alliance is... interesting. I don't see how it's intent on destroying the best, beyond Chavez's anti-American ideals. And how bad is the Union State compared to Russia alone (with Belarus tacked on)? And I can see potential for unrest in those breakaway client states, but I doubt they could match up well to the US... I seriously doubt how any country that is not a superpower could match up well to the US in military conflict. Not that I doubt the military of, say, Venuzuela though. |
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