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General Discussion / Re: I Have
« on: November 07, 2009, 02:22:24 pm »
Quote from: Jackrabbit on November 06, 2009, 01:20:14 am
I was browsing ED (yes, yes, hate me now) and suddenly I had to see this movie. I'm glad I did.

Now I have to read the Graphic Novel. I hope it doesn't do what Watchmen did and make the movie boring in comparison.

What's wrong with browsing ED? (dramatica, right?)

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General Discussion / Re: Nidal Malik Hasan has gone berserk!
« on: November 07, 2009, 02:20:53 pm »
I dont think you will find anything beyond that he lost it and went amok. I think that many, perhaps most, of these "passional crimes" are like that. You lose it, fight or flight kicks in, and you do things that, well, you never thought you would do.

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General Discussion / Re: Nidal Malik Hasan has gone berserk!
« on: November 07, 2009, 02:10:38 pm »
You know, last year a psychiatrist went berserk over here and killed and raped a girl. There were comments about that this friday. They were around these lines:

"Hey guys, hear this: a psychiatrist in Texas has killed 13 people in an army base and wounded over 30. They say he was under a lot of stress because of talks of relocating him to Iraq"

"What's with psychiatrists lately anyway? Maybe mental disease is catching after all?"

"dunno, but all the ones I've known were kind of creepy. I think only nutcases specialize on psychiatry to begin with"

"I was sort of wondering, why didn't this guy apply the 'doctor, heal thyself' principle? He's a psychiatrist. He should have known that having irresistible murderous urges were a symptom of something"

"Must have been a poor psychiatrist, then"

"Yup. He was a crack shot, though"

"True. Perhaps they SHOULD send him to Iraq after all."

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Other Games / Re: Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
« on: October 31, 2009, 09:33:49 am »
I play it from time to time, but only SP.

I wouldnt mind playing it in normal circumstances, but I havent got a battle-net account, ever since they revamped the system to require you to surrender an e-mail account to their spam.

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General Discussion / Re: Viruses/Illnesses and their Reasons for Existing
« on: October 31, 2009, 09:29:04 am »
The biggest issue with the panspermia hypothesis is that it doesn't either have solid evidence going for it, nor explain the existing gaps in current knowledge (It merely moves the problem of "how did life appear" to elsewhere)

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: October 27, 2009, 08:44:32 am »
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Life Advice / Re: I need to learn Spanish, well and quickly.
« on: October 21, 2009, 04:36:55 pm »
Not saying that it isn't. But for what I've seen native english speakers usually have problems over that.

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Life Advice / Re: I need to learn Spanish, well and quickly.
« on: October 21, 2009, 10:42:15 am »
Pronunciation is not that important in Spanish anyway. He'd have to botch it really throughly to be unable to get through.

Most likely he will have problems with noun gender and number, though.

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Life Advice / Re: I need to learn Spanish, well and quickly.
« on: October 19, 2009, 07:17:47 am »
In my experience interactivity helps when learning a language. Consider chats and computer games in Spanish

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General Discussion / Re: The EU super state...
« on: October 10, 2009, 04:42:41 am »
Quote from: sneakey pete on October 10, 2009, 03:47:06 am
A general will to go to war will be a lot less than, say, 70 years ago.


Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country

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General Discussion / Re: ~Epiricus (another religious discussion)
« on: September 25, 2009, 08:28:20 pm »
MORALITY IS THE HERD INSTINCT OF THE INDIVIDUAL  8)

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Other Games / Re: Slash'EM: It's Nethack, only harder
« on: September 25, 2009, 07:33:54 pm »
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I still wish someone would port that over to Nethack, I honestly think the rest of slash em is a bit much. Too much monsters with the same color and letter for me.
that's why I use a visual port.

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General Discussion / Re: Biology: Current topic, genetic changing after conception
« on: September 25, 2009, 01:05:18 pm »
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Anyway, I had no idea this gene-changing could be done. Why doesn't it result in a massive autoimmune illness?

why would it? genetic changes don't necessarily bring changes in the surface antigens.

There WAS one death in those lines, however, though not exactly for that reason. A kid in France died because he had an immune reaction to the adenovirus used as vector.
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And do these changes in genes actually manifest in the phenotype?
yup. Here's the abridged tale, from Harrison's:

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The first convincing therapeutic effect from gene transfer occurred with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID), which results from mutations in (...) a cytokine receptor required for normal development of T and NK cells.
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The X-linked SCID studies were a watershed event in the evolution of gene therapy. They demonstrated conclusively that gene therapy could cure disease; of the 16 infants eventually treated in these trials, 15 achieved correction of the immunodeficiency disorder. Unfortunately, 3 later developed a leukemia-like disorder, but 12 are alive and free of complications at time periods ranging up to 7 years after initial treatment.

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General Discussion / Re: Biology: Current topic, genetic changing after conception
« on: September 25, 2009, 12:42:46 pm »
Quote from: Nilocy on September 25, 2009, 08:34:32 am
Yeah, starting from the topic on workerdrones illness i felt it was nessiscary to start a new topic on the idea's of changing a creatures genetic after it's been concieved. (not to sure what this point is called properly, but the part after the sperm and the egg meet and make a wee baby.)
Quote from: Nilocy on September 25, 2009, 08:34:32 am
Yeah, starting from the topic on workerdrones illness i felt it was nessiscary to start a new topic on the idea's of changing a creatures genetic after it's been concieved. (not to sure what this point is called properly, but the part after the sperm and the egg meet and make a wee baby.)


Changing the genetic code after conception can be done, and has been done in fact. In humans, first time was in the nineties. So this is older than broadband.

In fact, GERMINAL gene therapy is the troublesome one (and as of now undone).
Quote from: Muz on September 25, 2009, 08:56:08 am
I'm not so into genetic engineering into humans. Not yet. Trying to genetically engineer anything living's with today's technology sort of like someone trying to perform brain surgery in 1000 BC. Technically possible, but risky, and only for a situation where you have nothing to lose.
Actually it's getting refined. The results are acceptably good.

Sort of related: http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/v17/n8/full/mt2009162a.html


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Play With Your Buddies / Re: Cthulhu's Livestream: NIGHT TERROR MISSION WITH SNAKEMEN OH GOOD LORD
« on: September 25, 2009, 01:34:00 am »
throw smoke grenades on your exit.

also, I tend to disfavor plasma, and go for laser rifles + heavy autocannons with explosive/incendiary rounds. Separate your soldiers according to their stats (I use an initials system. For instance SBA/tr would mean that the soldier is Strong, Brave and has good Accuracy, but sucks at throwing and has bad reactions). Use those with the worst stats as scouts and as the guys who go with the stun batons to capture live aliens. Leave the ones with better stats, particularily accuracy and reactions, at the back, sniping. You should also try to build a middle-ground group composed of those with low acc but high reactions, as storm-troopers(IE: when busting into an ovni. The scouts open the door, and quite possibly get shot. Then your high reactions stormtrooper goes in and kills some aliens.) and as guards.

Also: any unit that gets mind controlled repeatedl should be labelled as such and sent into combat as a scout armed only with a stun baton. Psi weak units are useless. Worse than useless, actually, they are a liability.

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