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This is pretty awesome. I use SolidWorks where I work for mechanical design. I am also in the midst of creating my own RPG and was thinking about looking to contract with someone for minis. Do you have a website for pricing and etcetera that I can look at? I'm some time away from being able to move...

Hey there! I'm a huge tabletop wargaming fan (particularly Pathfinder and 40k), but I'm terrible with assembling and painting miniatures. So, awhile ago, I started messing around with my school's 3D printer to make my own minis, and after awhile, it eventually turned into a Kickstarter! https://s3.a...

doing what some people suggest would more or less be a political suicide not just for Obama but the whole democratic party and that's assuming Cuba was even willing to help in the first place. Because five years and running of centerist spinelessness, cowardice, and failure to stand up to the Repub...

Other sources say that he was working several jobs at once. I wonder how his tax return would look like. Would he list the outsourcing as a deduction? Why wouldn't he? It's an expense he has from work. His job is to deliver good code, and this expense helped him do so. The civil contract between em...

Yes. Yes they are. You may be running a business for profit, but you are also responsible for the wellbeing of your employees, which includes not firing them because you want to stick your dick in them. In my position as manager and owner, I am responsible for my employees well-being only insofar a...

Yes. Yes they are. You may be running a business for profit, but you are also responsible for the wellbeing of your employees, which includes not firing them because you want to stick your dick in them. In my position as manager and owner, I am responsible for my employees well-being only insofar a...

I can't think of any ethical code that makes it acceptable to fire an employee based on whether or not your spouse likes them. Utilitarianism. I own and run a small business in the United States, and to be perfectly frank, it's not for my employees benefit. If one of them is interfering in the effi...

stop distracting us from the truth behind your real estate scam experiment

It's almost like a sentence. But not quite. I have no words for this strange creature.

Darth Fanboy wrote:So how many years have you worked for Bank of America

I would swear that's a question. But it can't be.

Only if they own a controlling interest. ...And they would own a controlling interest, seeing as the land/housing is the company's primary asset and the bank loaned the money for it. EDIT: Furthermore, now that the bank has foreclosed on the property, they now own ALL of the property, rather than j...

So, basically, you'd set up an arrangement where a corporation you own actually owns your home and you are a tenant within it? If the bank forecloses on that you sure can be evicted - when banks take over rental property it's legal for them to evict tenants if they don't want to be in the landlord ...

Have you accounted for the fact that in many locales various taxes are higher for rental properties? In my area, the property taxes on rental properties are three times higher than on privately owned residences. As just one example. Well, not "accounted for" in the sense that there's some...

In the last few months, I’ve realized something silly about how homes work. If I ran a renting company, and I wanted to upgrade a property I owned – new heating systems, or electrical, or insulation or the like – I could do it without really spending much of my own money at all. It’s an investment i...

This was inevitable when it started to become clear just how far in bed Pakistan was with insurgent groups. Their double-dealing has left them between a rock and a hard place. They can betray their insurgent allies and lose influence...or they can be neutered by the US, and the internal problems the...

I don't think there should be any real question that regulation is required, unless we're inundated with Tea Party lunatics. Yes, it's regulation of human reproduction, but it's not as if police officers will be watching people have sex in their bedrooms. Sperm donation is a commercial and medical ...

I'm going to come down on the side of the drone crew, actually. This is not to say that this isn't a regrettable incident, that more training to avoid confirmation bias isn't required, and that the military officers and pilots here couldn't have acted better then they did. But I think this thread is...

They tried ramming through a gate on a military facility. Last I checked, that could be argued as a potential terrorist attack, which would necessitate being held for interrogation.

Yes. If this actually had happened, that would be correct. Which suggests overwhelmingly that it did not.

You could see me, explaining the meaning of the term "Statistical Fluctuation" wherein you are seeing a pattern in the behavior of random data.

For fun, I decided to analyze TRON at face value. That is everything we see on screen occured exactly as we saw it but we do not suspend our disbelief at any point. We analyze it like rational, intelligent beings observing some very unusual events, but one's that we know for certain actually occurre...

I like how they poo-poo all over the idea without bothering to offer alternatives.

Government spending, dumbass. Have the government build public works, buy things, fund R&D. Get some demand going.

I can't tell if I'm a detractor of transhumanism or not! I'm not sure that there is in fact a common set of ideas that every self-identified transhumanist who has posted in this thread shares that I do not. "You guys" are arguing with "each other" as much as you're arguing with ...

I would be willing to face one of transhumanism's detractors in the Coliseum.

As for the assertion that "Any Utopian Ideal is Stupid" -- let me ask you this. If you had to chose between living in the 10th century (as a functional member of that society, insofar as your world view or health issues will let you function), and sawing your left hand off with a hacksaw,...

I'm a bit of a pessimist, so much as I like Kurzweil and think his logic is valid, I'm a bit more skeptical about his ideas. But, I think the point the debate in this thread is missing is how even trivial changes to the human condition can spark widespread societal change. To give a very basic examp...

What I don't get is why transhumanists talk about uplifting when by the time we have the technology to think about it even according to their optimistic predictions, we could just build android catgirls which will continue to exist for centuries or longer instead of being limited by fundamental bio...