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You are pretending that the little girl will grow, her mind learning and adapting to a changed body. Her mind will not change, so her body needn't.

Hey! What's with the dangling adjective? Perfectly what?

So preventing a tumour from traversing "it's [sic] natural growth cycle" is an "unnatural" change, too, then? She will continue to have the body she already has. Hence, "no change".

Ditto, but THERE ARE NO PEOPLE! At all. Why are these car-creatures shaped in such a way to take human-shaped passengers when none exist. That's just silly.

OEM is always cheaper. Or you could buy it second hand (google or eBay). The Home edition is an inferior product, by the way.

That sounds completely ludicrous.

Sounds a lot like Space Rangers 2 ... which also has Infocom-type text adventures as well as mech RTS minigames ... "

... And there are no humans.

Interesting statement about the average age of a torrenter ...

Ah! *smacks head* I always end up shooting it into orbit after I get annoyed trying to get a hoop ... "

:D I'm glad someone else decided to try that too. That thing is a killer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where did you get the rollermine?

Just read an interesting update on STALKER ... seems it is on track and it sounds very Falloutish.

For once, you're wrong. I'm 5'6" and a terrible swimmer. :D I struggled like hell for that swimming merit badge in my Scouting days. My wife used to be a lifeguard and she loves poking fun at my aquatic shortcomings. Good luck getting back into lifting. I have to say, nothing is harder than starting weightlifting again after a few years off. It's embarrassing to realize how much strength you've lost. And then the soreness sets in on that second day and you think, "good Lord, why am I doing this to myself?" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've been back weight-training for over eight months (took most of December off due to a persistent cold that just wouldn't go away: I thought I'd beaten in in the first few days but wound up with a secondary infection), and I am very familiar with the fitness / pain threshold, don't worry.

And a hardware vocation, with big tools? :D

They'll need a good supply of energy, then ... like Iraq. "

I usually run for 20 minutes. I was never really good at any of the sports I played, but I did work really hard in the weight room - which was the reason I could even hold my own at those other sports. I won my weight class (156-165 lbs.) at a few powerlifting meets back in high school. I'd stay with the leaders in the bench press and deadlift, and then I'd kill them in the squat. I was able to bench 100 pounds over my body weight and I could squat 400 pounds! But alas, I couldn't bench press OPG (OverPoweredGodzilla). That guy was a pimp. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have a light frame (it's taken me decades to put on any weight; I'm about a stone heavier than I was in highschool) so running doesn't feel uncomfortable. I was always running, though; my father used to say I would be a long-distance runner as I was continually running for long periods as a (very young) child. It's certainly true I have more slow-twitch muscles: I don't run particularly far, I just don't stop. Sounds like you might be taller / bigger framed than average. You might like water-polo as a sport (seriously). I'm just getting back into weight-training, though: I didn't go near a dumbbell for over five years until about six months ago (though I have been pumping iron since I was fifteen). Consequently I am just back to benchpressing my own weight (for sets, not as a total maximum).

*Superdense objects famously end up as black holes, depending on whether they transcend their Schwartzchild radius and are above their Chandrasekhar limit; otherwise they might just end up as white dwarf or neutron stars.

I sincerely have no qualm with this idea. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> See, this is what I mean. I would hope she can be happy whatever happens, but changing her entire body? I'm feeling like we're in a Philip K.Dιck novel. Ultimately I'd be in favour of people learning to cope with who she is anyway. I mean, it's not like mentally disadvantaged people are going to stop being around. Surely the one stop shop is for the rest of us to be less judgemental. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The doctors (at the parents' behest, from whom "informed concent" has been obtained) are not "changing" the girl's body; they are merely inhibiting the body from changing (through puberty).

Fascinating. The seeming scale of the picture looks like they have gotten these down to a managable size now. Wish they would have discussed the power generation/consumption of the gun and how frequently it can be fired. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's probably a state secret, don't you think? Not sure the Navy wants every country to start their own super-weapon production, now that they have just got theirs ...

Sport is a mandatory part of school in Australia, so I participated in Rugby Union and Cricket; my father was the yachting age champion for Victoria when he was 19, so he encouraged me to learn and compete in sailing (I am a fully qualified yachtsman and I can always just travel around the world from one yacht club to the next, as a professional crewman). As part of school I competed in swimming, cross-country running and, my personal favourite, gymnastics (I was senior champion), which was probably helped by the inground trampoline I had at home whilst I was in highschool. Of course that was two decades ago; since then I have continued weight-training regularly and keeping aerobically fit by swimming (in appropriate countries, usually 1km in a 50m pool) or various classes (tried aerobics: I'm not a good one for choreography, so it wasn't very successful) of which I am now doing kickboxing (that's only recent: I have boxed before but I always thought my lower body flexibility was not sufficient for kicking; I have been working to improve that in the last twelve months) and various circuit classes (boxercise) and in the lat couple of months I have started yoga (more flexibility than meditation, fortunately). Occasionally I run: running is a favourite sport; I am able to zone out (the regular breathing helps to make the activity more like meditation) and I usually run for an hour or two.

Perhaps you should have just asked this question, then.

Nope.

Well I was trying to understand why pixies made such a silly comparison. How about an equivalent one from me: You guys have more GBs of music than I have on my Deus Ex[/i] DVD.[/i] "

You are attempting to reclassify all human intervention as "unnatural" and, further, as "freakish" and "unethical". If a person is born with two hearts, then, I assume, it is perfectly acceptable (in your hypothetical worldview) to remove one. If twins are congenitally conjoined, and the only way to save one of them is to separate them and save one, then I am lost as to your definition. In any case, I reject your definition, as it is completely unworkable and pointless.