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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.

Nope.

You listen to the contents of your computer's RAM for music?

Firing squad?

Don't worry, it's worth it when you get there.

Where you are coming from is your own little world. And just because you hold the opinion doesn't make it justified. I might think I'm the King of All Undinia and wear a shiny hat, that doesn't make it true. If some poor person is born without a fully functional heart, say, then they will die. Unless a team of medical experts intervene to CHANGE nature.

Nope. Nothing nature creates can be considered a freak. What man makes, on the other hand, is debateable. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That is a blatantly obvious and poor fallacy.

Varies by state, doesn't it? There might be a Federal minimum requirement (sign up, name check, delay until pick up of weapon). clickie

Careful, you're teetering on the brink of hedonistic economics there: where old and infirm people, those who have (through injury, illness or accident) become useless to society, are abandoned by society ... "

I see you aren't married. :D

You could use a microphone and the Karaoke facility of the HiFi.

Best thing for them. ^_^

I completly agree.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey! That's my opinion! Get your own! It's true, though, the parents are doing what is best for their daughter; the fact that it is more convenient for them in their capacity as carers for her is of lesser importance, but still a minor factor. (Think of an extreme case where the carers would be unable to care for someone without some intervention.)

That's a good point. But, sometimes a person (i.e. the PC in a game) will have a nefarious intent and this may or may not be detectable / detected by the NPC(s) in the scenario. Sometimes, too, a false negative should occur, where the NPC thinks the PC is lying when they aren't. The system that they have outlined over at Afterfall seems a pretty good basis:

Works best with a multi-attack Force power, like electricity.

It'll fill up faster if you download your pr0n collection. "

This is the PC Format's assessment and budget recommendation: Vista CPU GPU MoBo RAM HD extra Full Min Spec 800MHz Any Any 512MB Any None No MS Recommend 1GHz 128MB SM2 Any 1GB 40GB DVD-ROM Yes Budget E6300 1.88GHz 7900GS Intel 965 2GB 250GB DVD-ROM Yes The minimum specification will run Windows Vista Basic (no Aero interface, but still DirectX10). One caveat, though, I read recently (I think it was last month's PC Format) that Vista uses more RAM than XP. In a side-by-side comparison with some games (like WoW and Doom 3, I think) that run happily with XP and 1GB RAM, Vista makes extra trips to the HD, no doubt doing some cacheing legerdemain. This extra admin goes away when it has more than 2GB.

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