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"Funfact", about 2/3 of natural pregnancies end in miscarriage as the zygote fails to properly anchor itself in the womb. So to all the "pro life" lunatics out there: if there's a God he's the greatest abortionist ever, think of all the poor, poor zygotes! If only a crazy scientist was along with his test tubes they could all be raised to proper humans, but God doesn't roll like that...

For fucks sake, we're talking about a collection of cells here. Less living matter than what you shed each day, through shit scraping your anus when you're on the crapper. No it's *not* a human being and abortion is *not* murder as this collection of cells is far from having *any* of the qualities that makes a human.

Going by the same logic you could prosecute woman who menstruate, for they haven't been knocked up... all those eggs are wasted yet they could've become a living a human! (...or not) ...or prosecute guys jerking off... all those poor sperm! Never mind that only a single one of the myriad would "get lucky" even in the best case... or less... getting a girl pregnant is not a given thing.

There is *no* logical reason against abortion when the girl is young, without income of their own and the US is already doing everything it can to kill the poor.

97 titles. Full list below. Don't check this, 'til you've watched the video

Watch this young, whipper snappers! Unless you can identify a good dozen (more like two dozen) animes featured in this video you are NOT familiar with anime history and probably haven't watched enough stuff made before 2000.

BTW this video is close to 10 years old:

Actually you're wrong on something: It's not illegal to have sex under 18.

The age of consent determines how old someone has to be to give their consent to sex. Over that they can have sex with whoever they want.

However there's no law forbidding sex on the minor's part. It's just that if one participant is over the age of consent, while another is above it, the later would be committing statutory rape (in some states if they're close in age then it's still OK) which *is* a crime.

So if children are rutting in the hay, *they* are not breaking any laws. When an adult/teen of age is involved in something sexual involving children then the adult/teen *is*.

Next: Your libertarian agenda has some gaping flaws in it. It was also greatly influenced by all out psycho and serial killer groupie Ayn Rand a woman that if I've had the pleasure to meet would have sent me running for the hills.

Here is the "Anti-Libertarian FAQ" that lists several things that irk about your views:
http://www.raikoth.net/libertarian.html

However if it's tl;dr then here's a story that illustrates the problem well:
A libertarian complains at the saloon that nothing good ever came from state intervention. He downs his last beer (non-toxicity thank to the FDA), pays his bill leaves the building (built according FHA safety regulations) drives his car (built accorind DOT safety regulations) home (on a road built & maintained by the DOT), then calls his daughter over the telephone (which is was not monitored or had a jacked up price thanks to the FCC) to arrange his flight the next week (on a plane once again built & operated acording federal regulations, this time the FAA) for a visit...

...I could go on and on, but this is WAAAAY too easy.

The same principles also apply as to why society as a whole has to take care of *all* its members, instead forcing everyone to pay for everything. Granted it shouldn't be encouraged so that people can live off popping out kids... however it's not the child who should be penalized. The least they can be given is a chance to grow up, study and even go on to collage/university if they have the potential using state given scholarships... for otherwise we're just living in modern feudalism where the lords have money instead lands and advancement is based on rank instead merit.

...and you believe this can't happen anyway?

*When* (not if) we have tech that allows augmenting the brain, we will *also* have tech that allows tapping into one. Maybe all that will be needed is a ("tinfoil"-)hat, maybe something more invasive (a mind-probe)... but be "assured" the contents of your brain would be only a single scan away.

At least having implants & programming will allow oneself to build defenses. (Mind encryption anyone?)

Could you elaborate what kind of anti-hero? Here's the tvtropes sliding scale of anti-heroes:

Type 1 - Feeble Hero (ie. Arthur Dent)
Type 2 - Knight in Sour Armor (ie. Disney Anti-Hero).
Type 3 - Good is Not Nice (ie. Clint Eastwood played these).
Type 4 - Pay Evil Onto Evil (ie. Archer from F/SN.)
Type 5 - Heroic Sociopath (ie. only a hero because those he takes out are even worse)

BTW I'd be Type 4, with the distinction that my response would be measured to their crimes. Ie. I'd be perfectly willing to gun down indiscriminate killers, while I'd stick to some forms with an assassin who has demonstrated a code to keep bystanders out of way and I likely wouldn't hurt a pickpocket/thief et all... I'd just knick all his stuff.

What they're talking about it primarily shading and CGI. In the past, when stuff was done of cells, shading had to be done by hand and everything on the scene was also drawn. When computers (and digital tablets) started to replace cells, studios switched to computer assisted shading and more and more stuff was created using CGI.

Granted, you can do amazing things on digital animation - often by hand - however, most studios simply use digital shading and CGI as cost cutting measures. It also resulted in a lot simpler character designs... all done to cut down on manpower needed per frame.

In the end, "digital anime" while seemingly "nice" can be often very sparse and once one grows accustomed to its quirks is just skin deep. Granted there are still animes with awesome animation and elaborate shading/design out there, it's just that most of the time it's not the case.

This is something oft overlooked, hence why I have tendency to call classical cyberjunkies "metalheads", as they're all about stuffing ever more tech into your body, instead augmenting the most important thing: the mind.

The mind machine interface would allow so much more. What if you could not only interface with machines, but directly augment your brain? Memorizing data, recalling stuff with perfect clarity, running data analysis inside your head, seeing in sound, tasting x-rays... all possible and more. But those are just tricks with data... what if you could literally *change* who you are, and not just as a person, but as something more than an instinct driven bio-machine. The potential, to "reprogram yourself" seems limitless.

Active Directory by default is all about letting people access their files in a network (even in a big one) independent from the workstation they use.

However for actual production, something like SVN that Tegumi recommended is a lot better, as Active Directory doesn't natively handle *tracking* changes, only *access* and *access management*.

SVN is a *versioning* tool that allows one to work on a project and "commit changes" that can *rolled back*, *merged* (when more then one change was made at the same time) as well as automatically handle *version numbering*, so you can tell when something changed and makes it easier to track down when a problem was introduced. It's typically used for programming, since nowadays writing software is a team effort.

I don't know what are the best tools for office work - creating documents, spreadsheets, etc. - though a MS certified person will doubtless enlighten me as this seems like an obvious feature of networked Office Suits.

EDIT: apparently it's possible to marry MS Office to the Subversion system
http://newgeeks.blogspot.com/2006/08/word-document-management-using-svn.html
https://code.google.com/p/msofficesvn/

Ah! Microsoft's product for this is called "Microsoft Sharepoint"
https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/introduction-to-versioning-HA010021576.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharepoint



...and it's free.

Bullshit.



Bullshit.

You people never watched stuff from the OVA boom. Hmm... how to qualify what I'm speaking about:

1960-1970': Early anime, creation of classical genres
1980-1990': OVA BOOM, masssive experimentation, ridiculously high budgets, anime branches out into more adult themes. Debut of a new generation of directors and artists. Sci-fi is the flagship theme and anime frequently have cool settings made for the show. Also (body-)horror and over the top violence.
1990-2000': Age of Televise anime with frequent product tie-ins. Widespread Commercialization, end of high budgets, Codification of several genres. Era of deconstructions, often darker and edgier. Earlier new generation is making a variety of shows. More TV shows, so violence (compared to the boom) was toned down. Still quite a lot of good shows.
2010-today: Age of Otaku and DVD sales. Milking genres and pandering to earlier tropes... genuine invention is harder to encounter, usually relegated to big budget projects with veterans in the seat. Possible crash of industry due the over-reliance on shows pandering to fandom instead innovation. In one word: All that MOESHIT. Good shows are still made, however they're less frequent than before due overt codification and executive meddling.

PS.: No, I can enjoy good find slice of life animes as well as one focusing on "cute" things... however when this is done to the detriment of everything else (story, characterisation, innovation) then I find it highly annoying.

Read my sig (How to create a catalog! - I'll need to redo the screencaps ...again, thanks to the rollback) on how I do it.

I have a strict naming scheme: Frenchise {Artist/Doujin Circle} - Title [Translator].
I keep every manga/doujin zipped and I use Comic Rack to read them. Using the "Tags From Filename" plugin one can even import all this data into Comic Rack's database which makes it a lot easier to browser your stuff.

It's a media player that you directly hook up to your TV/stereo. Some models accept hard drives, others can use an external one through USB or you can stream data to it (from a NAS or a tweaked out Router if you don't want a PC running) through WiFi or LAN.

These can play almost *anything*. Realmedia, windows media, divx, xvid, h264, they can handle avi, mkv, ogm, containers; support multiple audio and subtitle tracks.

They're around a 100$, and what with 1 TiByte hard drives costing as little as 50$ these seem like the cheapest method to enjoy a massive quantity of films on your TV with the least amount of hassle.

IMHO burning stuff to DVD - especially when combined with a hassle to convert it to a MPEG2 format - is not worth the effort nowadays.

You're much better off buying an external HD and something like this:

You people miss the point. Good cyborg shells won't be robotic... well they won't *seem* robotic. They'll probably have high strength frames instead bones, maybe some form of motors/myomers/tech instead some muscles, but over all that tech... they'll be soft, beautifully sculpted, warm things, essentially tissue tailor made to your wishes. Maybe wholly biological.

There's this joke. Ever want to see, what functional, high sophisticated, wet-nanotech looks like? Look in a mirror.

Nature has already come up with some amazing machines. As technology advances our own machines will be more, not less like living things.