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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18412 Posts
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VelJa
France1109 Posts
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ThomasjServo
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On April 16 2015 21:09 VelJa wrote: boogers ? means morve I believe it is in french. | ||
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VelJa
France1109 Posts
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11952 Posts
I am not convinced that the disadvantages of having 3m long arms would even outweigh the advantages. The main problem i guess would be society and some people treating you like a freak. But if you are a Pro Basketball player of world caliber, i don't think that would be a major problem. http://www.truthaboutit.net/2012/05/true-or-false-half-of-all-7-footers-are-in-the-nba.html. According to this, you havea 17% chance of being in the NBA if you are 7 foot tall. That number is obviously not very exact, numbers for this vary a lot, but the general tone is clear. If you are really big, you have a high chance of being in the NBA. Now imagine having 3m long arms that you can actually use reasonably well. Instant NBA dollarmillions. So who cares if you need a personal clothier, you have got the money to afford to tailor everything specifically for you. So you need a car where the seat is back a bit more than for other people? Easily solvable with money. Masturbating? Please, you have millions of dollars. You don't need to masturbate, you can afford as many sex partners as you like. And should you not desire those, you can just fucking fold your arm and reach your junk without problems, that is what elbows are there for. | ||
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VelJa
France1109 Posts
 2nd, I don't think NBA allows someone with 3M arms to play in theyr league. its an unfair advantage. Do the Siren run with swimmers at any contest? guess what : NO ! So I think at the best u can reach a handisport league. Last point REALLY important : this is not because u can have all girls in the world that u can't masturbate. | ||
Najda
United States3765 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18412 Posts
On April 16 2015 22:11 VelJa wrote: First, I will just said that I really enjoy your answers. I'm @ work and reading u guys makes me laught a lot 2nd, I don't think NBA allows someone with 3M arms to play in theyr league. its an unfair advantage. Do the Siren run with swimmers at any contest? guess what : NO ! So I think at the best u can reach a handisport league. Last point REALLY important : this is not because u can have all girls in the world that u can't masturbate. You realize Sirens (mermaids?) don't actually exist, right? And if Aquaman were a real thing, I find it hard to believe he would be banned from swimming in the olympics because of a genetic advantage. That's what part of being really fucking good at sport is all about in any case. Even if I trained as much as Ursain Bolt, I would not be able to sprint as fast as he can: I am simply not built for it, and that's genetics. Part is nature, part is nurture. So if there was a guy with 3m long arms, I don't think the NBA has any regulations in place to stop him from playing. Of course, he would still have some issues: even with his elbows folded, his arms would be 1.5m long. Imagine tying a 1m long stick to the end of your elbows and then try running around with that. | ||
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VelJa
France1109 Posts
On April 16 2015 22:24 Acrofales wrote: You realize Sirens (mermaids?) don't actually exist, right? And if Aquaman were a real thing, I find it hard to believe he would be banned from swimming in the olympics because of a genetic advantage. That's what part of being really fucking good at sport is all about in any case. Even if I trained as much as Ursain Bolt, I would not be able to sprint as fast as he can: I am simply not built for it, and that's genetics. Part is nature, part is nurture. So if there was a guy with 3m long arms, I don't think the NBA has any regulations in place to stop him from playing. Of course, he would still have some issues: even with his elbows folded, his arms would be 1.5m long. Imagine tying a 1m long stick to the end of your elbows and then try running around with that. I'm sorry dude, mermaids are real, I see them on TV in a movie. And it was an old Pirats movie, so I guess they exist since a looonng time | ||
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fancyClown
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Since you do not have the strength to hold them up all the time, you have to drag them on the floor while walking. Dust and garbage accumulates on the arms, you constantly have to explain yourself in social settings. Also, that people with 3M arms cannot masturbate is a myth. As long as the elbow divides the arm in the middle it's fine. Source: I do have 3M arms. | ||
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ThomasjServo
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Oshuy
Netherlands529 Posts
On April 16 2015 22:24 Acrofales wrote: I find it hard to believe he would be banned from swimming in the olympics because of a genetic advantage. That's what part of being really fucking good at sport is all about in any case. Even if I trained as much as Ursain Bolt, I would not be able to sprint as fast as he can: I am simply not built for it, and that's genetics. Part is nature, part is nurture. So if there was a guy with 3m long arms, I don't think the NBA has any regulations in place to stop him from playing. Of course, he would still have some issues: even with his elbows folded, his arms would be 1.5m long. Imagine tying a 1m long stick to the end of your elbows and then try running around with that. One question is the definition of humanity: how different can you be and still compete. If your parents were tagged human, you are too by default. But if you are 4 meters high, wander around on 4 legs, with tusks and a trunk, you are probably still an elephant and that would give you an unfair advantage in a number of sports. Closer to a real case is genetic engineering and modification of a foetus. We know how to modify a selected egg to prevent some diseases that would appear in the child. Modifying the egg to ensure the child gets over 7feet if properly fed isn't that far off. Where does the cure end and the genetic doping begin? How do you identify a specific set of genes as incorrect ? Do you reject a Usain Bolt clone ? Do you accept one twin because naturally born and reject the other because produced in a lab ? | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
On April 16 2015 23:00 ThomasjServo wrote: How many people on here have a hard drive, external or otherwise dedicated to storing music files. I used to have one solely for music, but as I finally bought a 2tb one so now it also stores pictures and movies. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On April 16 2015 23:07 Oshuy wrote: One question is the definition of humanity: how different can you be and still compete. If your parents were tagged human, you are too by default. But if you are 4 meters high, wander around on 4 legs, with tusks and a trunk, you are probably still an elephant and that would give you an unfair advantage in a number of sports. Closer to a real case is genetic engineering and modification of a foetus. We know how to modify a selected egg to prevent some diseases that would appear in the child. Modifying the egg to ensure the child gets over 7feet if properly fed isn't that far off. Where does the cure end and the genetic doping begin? How do you identify a specific set of genes as incorrect ? Do you reject a Usain Bolt clone ? Do you accept one twin because naturally born and reject the other because produced in a lab ? You've convinced me. Mass infanticide then, only way to be sure we don't dope children. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11952 Posts
On April 16 2015 23:07 Oshuy wrote: One question is the definition of humanity: how different can you be and still compete. If your parents were tagged human, you are too by default. But if you are 4 meters high, wander around on 4 legs, with tusks and a trunk, you are probably still an elephant and that would give you an unfair advantage in a number of sports. Closer to a real case is genetic engineering and modification of a foetus. We know how to modify a selected egg to prevent some diseases that would appear in the child. Modifying the egg to ensure the child gets over 7feet if properly fed isn't that far off. Where does the cure end and the genetic doping begin? How do you identify a specific set of genes as incorrect ? Do you reject a Usain Bolt clone ? Do you accept one twin because naturally born and reject the other because produced in a lab ? And that will become a very important question that sports (and humanity in general) will need to answer once genetic modifications are available and/or cybernetics that perform better than basic human parts exist. For cybernetics it is a bit easier than for cybernetics by just putting limits onto what kind of cybernetics an athlete is allowed to use. The most reasonably solution will probably go along the lines of more rigidly defined weight classes, with added maximum lengths of body parts, maximum amount of red blood cells, and whatever else might be useful. Or people will just stop giving a fuck about physical sports when they are no less than a competition of who has the better genesmiths. Though i guess people still care about car races, which are basically the same already, so i don't know how people will react. But currently, genetics on that level don't exist yet, and thus if you are born with some freak modification that makes you godly at some sport it is just an extension of the fact that being 7 foot tall makes you good at basketball. And thus i can see no reasonable grounds on which the NBA could not accept a player just because he happened to be born with 3m arms. I highly doubt that the NBA has a rule for maximum arm length in place. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
cases in point, surgery for reparation of damage will often increase strength of the body part repaired. (TJS, platelet treatments, potential hip and other replacements) reception: OK steroid used for pain suppression can achieve dramatic performance increase in the short term (cortisone), judged OK visible replacement of limb/leg - potentially cybernetic invisible bone replacement/repair that strengthen a joint - mending the natural body the presentation of the same treatment can sway this game of labeling. if the same steroid is produced by a 'food', it is ok. but if it is designed and 'synthesized' in laboratory conditions, it's a seed of corruption. selective emphasis also has the feature of reductive about causes. when an athlete takes a modification or substance that is deemed 'unnatural', the whole person is contaminated, and totally invalidated in the eyes of some. moralizing based on such a primitive and unreflected idea of the pure human body is retarded and already unstable with existence of technology. it's another aspect of the purity morality making use of rather primitive concepts. this makes the exercise of trying to determine a correct boundary rather silly since the boundary is resting on some already shoddy and thin concepts. in layman terms, it's mostly just an emotional judgment and the objective factors are post-hoc rationalizations, so it is a mistake to try to figure out the contours of this arbitrary and emotional judgment based on objective factors that don't really matter. | ||
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ThomasjServo
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Acrofales
Spain18412 Posts
On April 17 2015 00:54 ThomasjServo wrote: What do you think of emoticons in work emails? Unprofessional, or helps to create a more realistic exchange? Depends on how friendly terms you are with the other party. Avoid like the plague in formal emails. If the email is very informal (even being a work email), emoticons can be acceptable (in moderate quantity, and not the silly image ones, just a small : ) or so) | ||
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