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- Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:04 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Code of Ethics for Government Service
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6061
Re: Code of Ethics for Government Service
2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion. So, no knowingly circumventing immigration laws or the military "don't ask don't tell" policy, or aiding others to do the same. Yeah, that'll ...
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:58 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions You Dread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5761
the stuipd district wouldnt accept me because i was born in December. and i was 4(only a few more months til my 5th birthday) when my mother registered me, but they told me to wait another damn year I had the reverse problem. I was barely old enough, to the point where the school district was like ...
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Philadelphia Freedom
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5200
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:26 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which character most annoys you?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 156212
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:46 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10694
AI mental enhancements would be more akin to transplant organs in the early stages There is a black market for organ transplants, which is unscrupulous and dangerous but cheaper. Why wouldn't there be one for human enhancements? Say a new Nazi-style totalitarian regime rises a thousand years in the...
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:11 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10694
I'm confused. The kind of sensitive access you'd need to someone to meddle with any technological enhancements is at least as, if not more considerable than the access you'd need to cause severe harm now. Where do you perceive the risk increasing? The kind of sensitive access you'd need to meddle w...
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:52 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10694
From what i read, brain's plastic enough even for birth blind people to learn to interpret what they see when they recover sight. Surely true, but recognizing what you see takes practice. Gaining one's sight after a lifetime of blindness gives one a childlike understanding of sight. See the movie A...
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:49 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which character most annoys you?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 156212
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:33 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10694
Please, explain. What are those concerns that would be harmed by the improvement of the human body and could supercede it? Independent will, for example. It is conceivable that artificial enhancements to the body would be subject to hacking and, thus, lend the body (or parts of it) to control by so...
- Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Transhumanism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10694
Transhumanism seems like an obsession. Overcoming obstacles, removing one's own weakness to become a better version of oneself, that stuff makes sense. But transhumanism seems to take it to an extremity that is not necessarily reasonable, in which that principle of self-improvement vetoes all other ...
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:52 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean and Ender
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2873
It seems clear to me. Ender's physical body died, but his exercise of his will lives on through Young Val and Young Peter. Bean's physical body lives on, but his exercise of his will is limited to the minutia of raising his doomed children. Being so radically separated from society and alienated fro...
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:46 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What Do You Think About The "Romances" In EnderVer
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12726
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:45 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which Character Are You More Like?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9935
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:25 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Which Character Are You More Like?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9935
If I'm allowed to pick characters from Ender's Shadow, I'd say I'm most like Nikolai. I'm good at things, but it seems like I'm never quite good enough to get by on pure skill. Sometimes I have to make do with social pull, which isn't honorable. If it's strictly Ender's Game only, I'd say Petra. We ...
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:54 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The PWEB Club for 54- Posters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2849
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:16 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Extra-Elitist, Super-Snobby Pweb Lounge for 1000+Posters
- Replies: 226
- Views: 42169
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:06 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions You Dread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5761
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:59 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Goals
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5407
I'm getting a $50k mortgage here soon. My goal is to pay it off in 5 years. I'll probably be getting a second job that will go, in it's entirety, into mortgage payments above and beyond the minimum due. It's a cheap little mortgage, so it should be doable. grammatically unfortunate sentences. Excell...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Game
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3351
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:16 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: my Enders Game website
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13277
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:37 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: DINK AND PETRA?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5039
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:46 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Web Comics
- Replies: 161
- Views: 55494
No mention of Digger? Shame.
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:20 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Presence of the Monitors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2639
- Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:32 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Reaction to Ender's Game
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2169
I found Petra far more interesting than Janus did. I got the impression that Petra was an intensely aggressive girl who, in the end, didn't fit in anywhere. She's outcast from her gender just being in the battle school, and she's outcast from males because she's such an obscure example of something ...
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The better bits of politics
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2987
The better bits of politics
I was curious what political beliefs folks around here have, but I don't want left/right loyalty checks or political party affiliations. I want to know what principles you think a society and it's government should follow in pursuit of that lofty goal, good governance. A list of issue positions is O...
- Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:27 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Periodic Movie Review
- Replies: 783
- Views: 253985
I thought that very clever to explain magic in real life terms. It made there be a reason they are special not just some mystical reason you have to take for face value. Makes magic that much more real when its based in real science. But then why bother calling it magic ? Magic is, by definition, n...
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:19 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Proposition 8 Overturned
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6875
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:24 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Proposition 8 Overturned
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6875
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:23 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions you've wondered about your fellow pwebbers
- Replies: 595
- Views: 163536
I would also suggest Anthem and We the Living, if you haven't read them. They are much smaller novels but quite powerful. I'll be sure to. I recently bought about a dozen books in one (extremely enjoyable) shopping spree, so it may be a while. Incidentally, whenever I see Anthem coffee creamer in g...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:42 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions you've wondered about your fellow pwebbers
- Replies: 595
- Views: 163536
Question for Young Val: What kind of action hero appeals most to a literary woman like yourself? I've always wondered how wide the gap is between pure, distilled machismo type action stars and the champions in true literature. I'm a little surprised that you're 29 but not surprised I'm surprised...i...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:36 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Your Favourite TV That No One's Ever Seen
- Replies: 199
- Views: 59028
The Gates. I just read an article a few days bemoaning how it went from terrible pilot to actually good television and everything still thinks it looks like crud I couldn't finish watching the pilot, but maybe I'll try again. Rome I'd like to see the US Revolution from James Otis to the ratificatio...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:35 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions you've wondered about your fellow pwebbers
- Replies: 595
- Views: 163536
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:34 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions you've wondered about your fellow pwebbers
- Replies: 595
- Views: 163536
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:20 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Questions you've wondered about your fellow pwebbers
- Replies: 595
- Views: 163536
Warning: I'm responding to an entire 11-page thread in one massive post. I have questions... Everyone: How did you find this site? What novel turned you on to the Bean/Enderverse? What about that novel did you like? How old were you when you read that novel? Did it mean something to you the first ti...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:35 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Your Favourite TV That No One's Ever Seen
- Replies: 199
- Views: 59028
When it comes to obscurity, I like to mention Tales from the Neverending Story . Canadian show that tells the same plot as the 80s movie, except a little darker and so slowly and boringly you want to die. Until the last episode; they knew they weren't going to get renewed for another season, so they...