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Would you get cybernetic implants?
July 6th 2006, 00:37 CEST by OwenButler Would you get cybernetic implants? To what lengths would you augment yourself with readily available cybernetic implants? Assume cybernetic implants were affordable, painless and invisible. Would you get an eye implant that showed you the correct time for the time zone you are in, in a HUD? Would you get an eye implant that showed a todo list of tasks in your vision which you could create/checkoff using your brain? Would you get an implant that enhanced your vision or hearing? Would you get an implant to correct a chemical imbalance in your brain? Would you get an implant to override your muscle control to drive for you? Reading Peter F Hamilton's Nights Dawn Trilogy got me to thinking: "How amazing would it be to have cybernetic implants?" Assuming you could do anything, how far would you go with augmenting your body with computers/technology? If you have a limit, what is it? Furthermore, why is that the limit? |
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That Wikipedia article is probably the trolliest one I've read in a while. Yeah, somehow I doubt that the whole childfree movement is full of whiny furries. More likely it's because their sample group was a livejournal community. Livejournal is full of whiny furries. Fag up your own internet.
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Call it what you want, but generally no-one adopts Black kids. And when they do, it's more often the lighter ones. A couple in our neighborhood adopted the blackest kid I've ever seen. I kind of feel bad because she'll never see another black kid as long as she lives here. Hopefully kids her age are better than the ones I grew up with. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP
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It wasn't wikipedia. Also, my dad was a product of foster homes and was never adopted. He never learned to read or write and was fucked from the start. Adoption is so much more morally responsible. Feel that? I'm judging you all! |
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Caryn-- It's not really a contention between us; we've just waffled on the whole issue for years. I'm reluctant because if I have a kid next year, they're going to be my direct responsibility until I'm 58. Frankly, I'm just a little bit afraid of raising kids. While it's nice that some of you think I would make a good parent, I'm just not so sure. My patience wears out quickly with small children. Ergo is right, as he always is except the times when his opinion is different than mine.--Mr. Nutty
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That's ok, since you're wrong. Today Officer Coon, Officer Nigger-hater, and Officer Keep-darky-down were acquitted of all racist charges.
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Is that the burning sensation I'm feeling? Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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Ergo, same thing here. I'm not good with kids. I have no idea what to do with them and they annoy the ever loving piss out of me. |
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It isn't that my husband's cold or indifferent to adoptable children -- I don't want to give the wrong impression in case I did. He has a huge heart, and twice on the spot he's offered to adopt or take in the children of relatives (my brother's three daughters when my brother died, and his nephew's daughter when the state took her away). I think the prospect of adoption scares him because he knows that the kids who need adopting most are the ones with the biggest problems, the ones who are too old to go to a home, and those are the kids he would feel like he was abandoning if we restricted our criteria in adopting. (I've told him that you are just as likely to raise a kid with problems just like these if you have a child.) He knows that the idea of adoption is something I'd like to consider, and I don't think he's completely against it. I think he just needs time to consider it more. I'd adopt a child of any ethnicity if we adopted. I have wondered -- and this is going to sound weird, maybe -- if we adopted a black child if they'd be picked on more for being the only black child and being of white parents living where we live. It's a town of 1000 people, all white, in the farmlands of Wisconsin. Of course, providing a child a home overrides that, but it's just something I wonder. Current novel word count: 18,400 words (I'm hoping by putting it here it helps motivate me)
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My patience wears out quickly with small children. My patience wears thin about everything. You don't have to be a saint, you just have to be a dad. Blacker than the last banana.
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At least McBain's won't be always disconnecting from IRC and shit, fuck that's annoying. Today Officer Coon, Officer Nigger-hater, and Officer Keep-darky-down were acquitted of all racist charges.
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We males are pretty well programmed against caring for the fruit of some other yob's loins. Most adopted kids are lucky they don't get eaten. Today Officer Coon, Officer Nigger-hater, and Officer Keep-darky-down were acquitted of all racist charges.
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I'm great with other people's kids, but the thought of being responsible for my own is nightmare inducing. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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At least McBain's won't be always disconnecting from IRC and shit, fuck that's annoying. Heh, I have no patience for lack of respones in IRC. |
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While it's nice that some of you think I would make a good parent, I'm just not so sure. But I must have read hundreds of your posts online, so who better to judge your fitness for parenthood! I'd adopt a child of any ethnicity if we adopted. I have wondered -- and this is going to sound weird, maybe -- if we adopted a black child if they'd be picked on more for being the only black child and being of white parents living where we live. Paint it white. |
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That's probably why you don't really get the joke. Though your drive-bys are also kind of annoying. Today Officer Coon, Officer Nigger-hater, and Officer Keep-darky-down were acquitted of all racist charges.
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If Ergo can be trusted with The List I'm pretty sure he'd make an excellent father, mayor, or bishop. Today Officer Coon, Officer Nigger-hater, and Officer Keep-darky-down were acquitted of all racist charges.
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We males are pretty well programmed against caring for the fruit of some other yob's loins. WRONG! "It's only make-believe until it becomes flim-flam."
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He's talking about heterosexual males, yot. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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I'm sure I'd make a fine father. My decision not to is 100% selfish. I have better ways to spend my life. Fag up your own internet.
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It's not selfish at all. The world has enough people on it. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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That's my opinion on the matter, Warren. |
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The outcome may not be selfish, but my reasoning is. Fag up your own internet.
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We know you're a fundamentalist he-man human hater, Px. "It's only make-believe until it becomes flim-flam."
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I'm with Shadarr -- my primary reason for not having kids and maybe never having them is I'm too selfish with my time. I don't want to shift into a life where my primary goal is someone else's well-being and not my own amusement. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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Frankly, I'm just a little bit afraid of raising kids. While it's nice that some of you think I would make a good parent, I'm just not so sure. My patience wears out quickly with small children. How's your wife with small children? What's great about raising kids with a partner is you don't have to be around them all the time. We have a pretty good understanding when the other is hitting aboiling point so we can swoop in and give each other breaks. And at least for me it becomes alot easier once the kid is 18 month-2 years old. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen
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I'm with Shadarr -- my primary reason for not having kids and maybe never having them is I'm too selfish with my time. I don't want to shift into a life where my primary goal is someone else's well-being and not my own amusement. I think it's great that you've made this decision, it makes me think you aren't selfish at all. It would be much worse if you had the kids and then decided you didn't want to devote any time to them. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen
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Ergo, the gene-pool needs you! |
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I think it's still selfish, or at least openly self-centered. If I had kids, then I'd have to make sacrifices to raise them well because otherwise I'd be a total dick. But I wouldn't choose to have kids, because I don't see any benefit to having them. They're like a high-maintenance girlfriend who doesn't cook, clean or put out. Fag up your own internet.
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We know you're a fundamentalist he-man human hater, Px. Yeah. Did I oversell it? |
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They're like a high-maintenance girlfriend who doesn't cook, clean or put out. That depends how well you train them. |
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That depends how well you train them. HAHAHAHAHAH. How many kids do you have? |
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I plan on having my daghter mowing the lawn by the time she's ten, just like my dad did. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen
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I think it's still selfish, or at least openly self-centered. If I had kids, then I'd have to make sacrifices to raise them well because otherwise I'd be a total dick. But I wouldn't choose to have kids, because I don't see any benefit to having them. They're like a high-maintenance girlfriend who doesn't cook, clean or put out. Didn't you see that episode of Friends where Joey proves to Phoebe that there are no selfless acts? That aside, "not having kids is selfish" is only valid if you believe having kids is a duty or the hallmark of Good People. I figure it's just another one of life's choices, if you want kids then have 'em, if not then don't. And personally I don't, can't stand the little buggers and prefer to shirk any and all responsibility life may throw at me. If that fails then I can claim medical reasons, however flimsy they may be. |
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I claim medical reasons too. I'm sterile. Fag up your own internet.
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Yeah. I still get a tear in my eye when I recall the day. |
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I have fond memories of getting the call to say my sperm count tested zero, but the actual day of the vasectomy sucked. Fag up your own internet.
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Just remember this. My sperm count is through the roof. You'll be leaving the world with more of me and less of you. You evil bastard. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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My philosophy is simple and covers everything from organ donation to the future genetic make-up of mankind: When I'm dead, fuck all y'all. Fag up your own internet.
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I just....I always wanted kids. From when I was a kid, I always wanted them. I can't imagine not having them. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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I have fond memories of getting the call to say my sperm count tested zero, but the actual day of the vasectomy sucked. Did you not here me say I'm having it done in August?!? nhah, nah, nah, plugging my ears so I can't hear you! Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen
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Mine didn't suck other than the fact that the nurse assisting was about a 9 out of 10. |
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What? It's like going to the dentist for fillings, you do it because it needs to be done, not because it's a fun thing to do on a Saturday. Fag up your own internet.
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HAHAHAHAHAH. How many kids do you have? Three, actually. Like jjohnsen, I'm having the snip later this year. |
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What? It's like going to the dentist for fillings, you do it because it needs to be done, not because it's a fun thing to do on a Saturday. That doesn't mean you can't lie for a month and tell me it was a near-painless experience. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen
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Well, sharp things are going to be interacting with your genitals. Kind of hard to sell that as painless. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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That doesn't mean you can't lie for a month and tell me it was a near-painless experience. ***** NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH ******** It's not that bad (unless of course you get an infection). I took a valium beforehand and they give you a local. The surgery took about 10 minutes.The only disturbing part is that you can "feel" the cauterization and the tying of the vas deferens. I was able to have very,very careful sex the next day. |
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*wince* |
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*shudders* I just....I always wanted kids. From when I was a kid, I always wanted them. I can't imagine not having them. Yeah, same here. My kids are insane, but probably the coolest people I've ever been around. :) |
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Hey! 2nd coolest people thankyouverymuch. "[The internet is] not a truck. It's a series of tubes."
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not if you are ranking yourself 1. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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