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You don't even really need to judge something based on level of artificiality or whatever. But you will require some rules (or just different leagues) to achieve fair competition. Just like there are different weight and/or age classes in a lot of sports, when cybernetics become significantly better than the baseline body parts you will require some classes. They actually already have them in sports for disabled people, where they judge how much your disability hampers you and put you in different leagues, so you won't have a guy with no legs or arms compete with someone who lost half his pinky.
As for doping, the general ethical problem is when it requires athletes to do something long-term harmful to their body to compete at world level in a sport, and under those circumstances it is usually banned. This works pretty well since most of these dopings don't have a lot of legitimate uses, and there does not appear to be an interest in a fully doped everything allowed league (Probably because that would involve all of the athletes winning once and then dieing 1-2 years later).
Since you can't really do that for cybernetics or genemods, you will just have different leagues with different limits, and the only relevant factor is what league the audience cares about. I don't know if that will be the "no holds barred 12m mecha with laser cannon in his chest" football or the "pure" nonmodified stuff. The one thing that should NOT be allowed is to cheat and compete out of your league by acting like you are nonmodded when you are actually a shaved uplifted gorilla.
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On April 17 2015 00:58 Acrofales wrote:Show nested quote +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)
I think outlook changes that one automatically these days.
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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?
Treat it the same as alcohol. Sometimes it's good to share a casual one when both you and your coworker/boss understand it's casual. But don't drink it at your desk like it's some normal thing.
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On April 17 2015 01:05 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +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? Treat it the same as alcohol. Sometimes it's good to share a casual one when both you and your coworker/boss understand it's casual. But don't drink it at your desk like it's some normal thing.
Wait don't drink at my desk?
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On April 17 2015 01:01 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On April 17 2015 00:58 Acrofales wrote: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) I think outlook changes that one automatically these days.
It does. I either leave it turned (it's still a utf8 character), or sometimes just cntrl-z to return to "pure" txt. What I mainly meant is that yellow smiling pictures have no place in (my) work emails; not even informal ones.
Different story of course is if you're using your work email to organize personal stuff (with work colleagues). Then it's essentially personal email and you should do whatever is okay (remembering that it is still a work email address and potentially monitored by your employer).
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Anyone know the exact type of hot dog and bun used in Nathan's hot dog eating contest? All beef?
I'm thinking about participating in this year's qualifiers.
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Google told me all of the following:
Nathan's Famous is apparently a Hot Dog Trademark, and those are the ones they use (Though i can't seem to find out which type of them). You could just go to a store and look at the ingredients i guess? They seem to be sold in the US.
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Hot dogs aren't supposed to be beef? A proper Frankfurter sausage is pork.
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On April 17 2015 02:14 Acrofales wrote:
Hot dogs aren't supposed to be beef? A proper Frankfurter sausage is pork.
I would say that a hot dog differs from a frankfurter/bratwurst what have you. . Hot Dog leans towards highly processed meats imo.
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It's the US, they do weird things. Like taking the name of a sausage from Germany that is made completely from pork, make beef sausages, and call them by that name.
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On April 17 2015 02:18 Simberto wrote:
It's the US, they do weird things. Like taking the name of a sausage from Germany that is made completely from pork, make beef sausages, and call them by that name.
Meat tube=sausage here on the most general of curves. But if it is the length of a bun and a meat tube, I'd probably call it a brat.
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Yeah, but you call those specific ones Frankfurter.
Meat tube = sausage (Würstchen), but Frankfurter Würstchen (short Frankfurter) is a specific type of sausage that originates from Frankfurt (duh). And what is described there as a Frankfurter is very much not a Frankfurter, as it involves beef, which Frankfurters don't.
This is weird the same way that going around and randomly starting to call some stinky cheese with blue mold Gouda would be weird.
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On April 17 2015 02:25 Simberto wrote:
Yeah, but you call those specific ones Frankfurter.
Meat tube = sausage (Würstchen), but Frankfurter Würstchen (short Frankfurter) is a specific type of sausage that originates from Frankfurt (duh). And what is described there as a Frankfurter is very much not a Frankfurter, as it involves beef, which Frankfurters don't.
This is weird the same way that going around and randomly starting to call some stinky cheese with blue mold Gouda would be weird.
when that is clearly Edammer
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I wouldn't mind if it's all beef, they're usually the more expensive and tasty kind (as opposed to the cheaper pork-chicken mix that tastes like bologna).
The problem is there's many types of Nathan's beef franks. Judging by past video footage of the contest, I'm going to rule out jumbos and bun length franks.
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On April 17 2015 02:25 Simberto wrote:
Yeah, but you call those specific ones Frankfurter.
Meat tube = sausage (Würstchen), but Frankfurter Würstchen (short Frankfurter) is a specific type of sausage that originates from Frankfurt (duh). And what is described there as a Frankfurter is very much not a Frankfurter, as it involves beef, which Frankfurters don't.
This is weird the same way that going around and randomly starting to call some stinky cheese with blue mold Gouda would be weird.
Even odds that usage was because of a German vendor at a baseball game selling them and calling them Frankfurters, we are really good and just dragging words from other languages into our lexicon.
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On April 17 2015 02:14 Acrofales wrote:
Hot dogs aren't supposed to be beef? A proper Frankfurter sausage is pork.
Yeah, but the best hot dogs are all beef.
+ Show Spoiler +America: Stealing the World's Ideas and Making Them Better since 1776.
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On April 17 2015 09:50 Yoav wrote:Show nested quote +On April 17 2015 02:14 Acrofales wrote:
Hot dogs aren't supposed to be beef? A proper Frankfurter sausage is pork. Yeah, but the best hot dogs are all beef. + Show Spoiler +America: Stealing the World's Ideas and Making Them Better since 1776.
In my anecdotal opinion, this is objectively wrong.
Swine-Gobbler fo' life!
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In seriousness though, I thought the whole beef hotdogs thing was because of Jewish culture making Americans eat more kosher?
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On April 17 2015 10:15 Thieving Magpie wrote:
In seriousness though, I thought the whole beef hotdogs thing was because of Jewish culture making Americans eat more kosher?
no it is obviously brought on by obama who is bending over backwards to appease his muslim overlords, and makes you all eat ḥalāl
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On April 17 2015 11:10 puerk wrote:Show nested quote +On April 17 2015 10:15 Thieving Magpie wrote:
In seriousness though, I thought the whole beef hotdogs thing was because of Jewish culture making Americans eat more kosher? no it is obviously brought on by obama who is bending over backwards to appease his muslim overlords, and makes you all eat ḥalāl
Sounds legit. No arguments against  lol
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