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I stumbled across some of the things DARPA have been doing - this I thought was very cool. Other things include genetically altered soldiers, laser guns and thought controlled limbs... The latest being flying cars. -Lynx

Left.

This thread is pointless and only thrives off one line of bullshit. Firstly, if you request the morning after pill - you get it. That's it... You don't get asked any other questions other than: Do you have severe liver disease? Do you suffer from porphyria (Which I might add is a *VERY* rare condition)... If either of them answers are yes, then you will be provided another form of post coital contraception. If a doctor wants to share their opinion, that's their right. Most won't, as the morning after pill is completely harmless and even on a moral ground, is hugely acceptable. If a doctor/gp/pharmacist refuses to provide you it, then they're not fit for their job - and somebody has quite obviously made a rather large flip flop somewhere hiring them into a position where their ethical judgement clouds pragmatic medical opinion. Aceflyer> Unlike clerks or pharmacists, whose jobs do not involve making judgment calls, doctors' jobs actually involve making judgment calls. Every decision about whether or not to prescribe a specific medication or whether or not to recommend a specific procedure involves a judgment call about what the doctor believes would be best for the patient. You can't regulate how people think. In the case of a pro-life doctor, for instance, he or she is not going to think that prescribing the morning after pill is best for the patient. You can't force the aforementioned doctor to make the judgment call that prescribing the MAP would be best for the patient. This is a completely fair argument on the basis that the morning after pill is going to kill them if they take it... That's about the only grounds for that argument - but is completely off-topic to the point that was being made by BaK in the initial post. Aceflyer> Medicine is an art - not a hard, black-and-white science like, say, mathematics. Doctors' professional opinions are necessarily based not only on their objective knowledge but also on their experience, feelings, instincts, and beliefs. Even many/most objective/quantitative results in medicine require an accompanying subjective analysis and judgment call based on said experience, feelings, instincts, and beliefs. Medicine isn't an art - it is a Science, we're just far too simple to treat it like a Science. Any decent doctor will only focus on how to cure you, or help you out of your problems causing the least distress as possible - and that's it. If it clouds their personal beliefs, they're in the wrong line of work. BaK> That's assuming that you can figure out that your doctor is withholding information. But you went to the doctor for the information. If you go to a doctor asking for family planning, you'll be referred to a family planning centre where the staff have been trained to provide you impartial advice. If this doesn't happen, somebody done an oopsie. Dav> I always thought if a doctor refused to treat on moral or religious grounds you had to be referd to another doctor I think this only ever happens in cases of euthanasia, which is rare and off point. -Lynx

Lol.. I own Subspace.

No, they're probably like "!@#$%^&* WE'RE ALL GOING TO !@#$%^&*ING DIE AHHHHHH!"

Wall-E is a Mac. <3 -L

I'll give you some charity birthday attention. -Lynx

I'd come back if Continuum supported that..

Nov 7: GOW2

Whenever has anybody credible ever said anything like that? Anyway guys, let me give some constructive advice here... Wait until November 7th, and play gears of war two, because it looks like the dogs bollocks. Peace, -Lynx

It doesn't cost 38K because it's amazing, it cost that much because it's not m!@#$%^&* reproduced and actually costs a lot to build, and as it's bespoke, they can charge a lot more for it, also, it's not like they're selling these things to kids in africa - it's going to a very wealthy business. -Lynx

My eyesight fails, I've spent too much of my childhood in-front of a cheap CRT screen with a wobble. -Lynx

34. !@#$%^&*ing.

Hey, how's your self-respect doing Audry? -Lynx

Firstly, I doubt that this trip has any deposit what-so-ever, but I'd bet that this trip was planned on the companies tab. However, if there were a deposit, it would only be on the rooms. The article states that the rooms cost $1000 a night, and stated that $200,000 was spent on rooms. So, thinking about how much a deposit typically is (Around 15-20%) - so at 20% a company that should be looking to find viable ways to spend it's money would save $352,000 (If the deposit was made on the whole service - which is unlikely), or, if it were only paying for the rooms it would have saved around $400,000. Also, I hardly think that not fueling an extortionate resort would translate to losing jobs, but each to their own opinion I guess. However, saying all of this - and knowing how much my place of work spends on stupid little meals monthly, I doubt this little resort even made much of a dent on their budget sheets. Also, on the UK not allowing any stupid bonuses for the execs, I wonder how long that will last. Will it only be for this time of crisis or will it only be until people stop scrutinizing the way these banks are spending stupidly. -Lynx

It's not exactly a swift movement: so far I've only got the installer running - but I've still got a lot of things to address. Hopefully some other people will get interested in some posts I make on the Wine website, but activity as it seems has got a little dry lately. Oh well, I'll hope for the best. Even if this doesn't work, it's easy to CTM in Parallels or even in any virtual machines. (I'll try not to think of these easy way outs, though. ) -Lynx

Continuum runs smoothly in Parallels, and I'm looking at Mac WINE to see about getting it running (almost) natively. I also agree on the websites, and I guess the only people who will write the same old boring posts to keep websites active are those who this thread is directed to: Trolls. It'd be nice to see some new faces around, though. -Lynx (As for Mac WINE, I've downloaded it, compiled it - and I'm tinkering. DirectX is a !@#$%^&*, though.) Edit: Bear with me though, I've only had this MacBook for two days

You have no idea how long I've spent on this website lately. :/ -Lynx

I keep thinking of something to say, then I keep looking at 2Pacs sig.. !@#$%^&*ing thing. -Lynx

Well, this is Subspace, so nobody new can be trusted. Way it works, right?

Nice thing to LOL at there.. Anyway, it's all about what you're used to. It takes quite a while to get good at touch typing, but if you only want to get really fast at typing, qwerty probably isn't for you - however, for usability (depending on where you live) qwerty is the one... ps. azerty is a !@#$%^&*er, and I hate it. -Lynx

You can't compare two different environments against each other, and say that is what determines the differences between two genders - as that simply defeats the object. Going by that logic, you could brain wash either gender to only have sex with cats, and to those brainwashed people, it would simply seem normal to have sex with cats. However, I'm sure if you were to bring up a bunch of humans in a completely neutral environment, which isn't pressured by the day to day social conditioning we have in our lives, I'm pretty sure that the males would be predominantly determined to have sex. .. However, it's quite an impossible experiment to carry out, although, I'm pretty sure it's quite a coacher logic to run by. As for the sex novels somewhat lowering your sex drive - There's an explanation... You were reading lots of erotic romantic novels which made you interested in something else... That's a social conditioning effecting your prime logic which has been hard-wired into you - and it's not exactly surprising. It's not hard (well it might be) to have an attractive chick in front of you saying "!@#$%^&* ME" and you say.. "Nope.." - even if you really wanted to dip your rod in her honey pot you can still resist it as we're not overpowered by our urges. I'd say that you've read all of these novels, and you simply got more interest in something which has been said in the novel (some blah romance) and you wished upon that for yourself.. (making you !@#$%^&*.. j.k ) Whatever, anyway... I have a 'platonic' friend coming around, and I swear - we're not going to have sex or anything.. she's just a friend. ... losers. -Lynx