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Okay, back to the original topic (the debate about whether body parts have been sold): ...you need a functioning body to have 'body parts'... Again, where do you get this? It's certainly not from any standard or medical definition of terminology. Parts of a body (whether dissected or not, and whethe...

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That's exactly my point - it's a continuous developmental progression. Attempting to create distinctions ( "that's not an arm, it's a blob... but this over here is an arm" , "that's not a part, it's just tissue" , etc.) that don't actually have any real demarcations is a huge par...

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... such fetuses tend to be around 1 inch in size, largely undifferentiated tissue with pockets of differentiated cells forming... ...They are embryonic tissue blobs, nothing else. Make up your mind. Which is it? Are they fetuses of about 1 inch (that's ~8 weeks, where the embryo already has clearl...

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tunnelcat wrote:Antiabortionists like to make sure ALL babies are born, but then turn their backs when support of those babies becomes an social issue.

Ah, the deflective (and fairly inaccurate, particularly for me) stereotype.

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I'm not saying the fetus is that small, but the tissue samples being discussed in the PP tapes are. ...They are dissecting, post abortion, the fetuses, before the cells in them die. So then, back to your claim that body parts are not being sold: You're basing that on a distinction between "bod...

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The tissue in question consists of clumps of cells(maybe 100) stored on dry ice, to be cultured in petri dishes. ...Where did you get that idea? Most aborted fetuses are relatively far beyond that point. Heck, at the 100-cell mark (a few days after conception) most mothers don't even know they're p...

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Fetal tissue is NOT a body part. Again, this (the perspective that tries to make distinctions between a fetus and a human body) is one of the critical issues surrounding the abortion topic. --------- For the sake of argument, let's say you're correct, that it's just "fetal tissue". At wha...

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Did no one notice that the economic boom actually correlates best to Taylor Swift hits?

Correlations of political elections to economic movement (whether the President or Congress) are really weak. Comparisons to actual legislation, on the other hand...

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Note: I'm not seeing the connection between the original topic (Trump) and the abortion tangent.

Let's keep it on-topic, guys. (Unless you can show they are related?)

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yet, Foil, you kept [ quote ] intact? Yes. From a moderator's perspective, there is a distinct difference between: statements of the form "[party/group/view] is [opinion] because [blah]" (i.e. 95% of the political debate in here is of this form. If you find it wrong, then counter it profe...

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Keep it professional, guys. Demands for "proof" (whatever that could be in this context) is one thing. Personal shots are another.

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When my family was on an ACA policy last year, it was decent coverage (not as good as my employer policy, but far better than nothing, as we had a big spike in medical expenses which it mostly covered), and the premiums were about what I expected without qualifying for subsidies. Regarding costs, I'...

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Sweet!

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What? No embedded videos?

(Protip: You can use the [ youtube ] [video-id] [ /youtube ] tags to embed a video in your post.)

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I have a coworker who is heavily into competitive shooting, and he loves to talk sights and equipment and venues and such. I haven't tried any competitive shooting, myself, but it sounds like it would be fun, albeit expensive. If nothing else, I imagine it serves to assist firearms training, which i...

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[mod] Removed pot-shots and personal crap. [/mod]

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Isaac wrote:Lots of composting...

Eww.

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If there's nothing more than partisan shots in this thread next time I visit, I'm throwing it over to "No Holds Barred".

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I'm sorry you couldn't make it Foil! Hope to see you next time! Yeah, I was bummed that I missed it. BTW, what was Wed night fight club? Sounds interesting. It was a semi-regular thing set up by [RIP], and went for a number of years. Basically, it was a "variety" game - lots of different ...

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This might actually get me in for a game or two.

If interest in D3 starts rising again, perhaps we can reinstate the old "Wednesday Night Fight Club" games, too.

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Rotating the phone/tablet works for the three rotational axes, yes. The problem is that for it to be 6DoF, you have three more thrust axes to design controls for, requiring (at least) two controls on the surface. ...Add in the need for firing controls, and you've gone beyond a handheld rotation + th...

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[mod]Keep it professional here, folks. I've already removed one post taking a personal shot at someone's humanity.[/mod]

It would help if there was some actual legal analysis here, rather than speculation and rhetoric.

10th vs 14th amendments, anyone?

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Having done some graphics development on mobile (iOS and WinRT) platforms, I've often dreamed about making a good 6DoF game for the tablet/phone environment... ...but I've never been able to work out a decent 6DoF control scheme that works in that scenario. If you can work that out, without sacrific...

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[mod] Cleaned up a couple personal-shot posts. Keep it professional here, folks. [/mod]

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Oh slick, will you please stop reading things and join in the hysteria? You're such a killjoy with you facts and crap... thanks for contributing absolutely NOTHING to the discussion. I'm glad you took Lothar's words to heart. this is a Viable topic, maybe you should consider actually engaging... Wh...

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I play on occasion, when I have time. CTF and BreakOut will sometimes get me into a game.

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Congrats!

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[ I just removed two useless posts. Keep it professional, guys. ] ------------ TB, you've made a number of posts over the last few years about imminent massive international wars, yet none of them have happened. I'm not claiming it can't happen (I obviously don't know the future), but is it possible...

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E&C had about a 5 year run where there was a lot of good discourse about politics. It wasn't perfect, but it was a whole lot better than what we have now. I'm curious, roughly when was this? Could it be "rosy retrospection" at work? In the decade that I've been around, the volume of d...

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I had hoped this thread would evoke some good discussion about the way dialogue happens here in E&C, rather than devolving into back and forth shots...

...it appears that hope was misguided. I'll leave this thread, for the value of the original post, in contrast to what followed.

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1v1 games in Kata and BI3 are up. PM me with any other requests.

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I'll set those up after work today.

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Hi Lady Silver, I'm sorry I didn't see this until now. For reference, I am one of the Team RIP admins, we run the "Descent Retirement Home" servers, which is US-based. Any time you want a server here, let me know via PM (which notifies me immediately), and I should be able to set it up qui...

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So mods, any practical ideas here...? If your goal is to prevent issues between members of E&C from "spilling out" into other forum sections, here's something that would help: Allow E&C mods to clean up other forums, or at least allow them to move threads (e.g. to E&C for hand...

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Heh, interesting that a thread about moderation devolves into personal shots (and thus itself needs moderation.)

If I were moderating this forum, the last four posts would be removed (yes, I'd leave a note), and the thread might be locked.

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No, I think that's a bad idea. "New blood" is relatively rare these days in E&C, but it's still needed (and it still helps). Isolating E&C from the outside would make it even more stagnant. Ugh.

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... there's quite a mix. Some episodes are very heavy on the action... But none of those you mentioned was really primarily an action/effects episode (i.e. action-oriented, with a supporting storyline). I always found Trek (particularly the series episodes, not as much the films) as primarily about...

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I'm just going to leave it at modern directors and writers just don't "get" Star Trek. They say it is a action flick, when the most memorable and popular Star Trek episodes I remember have no action at all. (ST: City on the Edge of Forever, TNG: Inner Light) Dammit, where's that "Lik...

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I'll be upgrading at least two of my machines, but because Microsoft decided to drop WMC in Win10, that means that my media center machines (which use WMC as a TV/DVR) won't be getting upgraded. Regarding the icon, here's how it can be disabled: http://superuser.com/questions/922068/how-to-disable-t...

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I'll second Jeff250's point about large amounts of cash being problematic. Just out of college, I briefly worked as a property claims adjuster, and it was absolutely stunning how many people thought that it was a good idea to keep thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of dollars under their mattre...

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