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Author: | Satis [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:09 am ] | |||||||||
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wow... I didn't realize they did this. Not that I'm specifically against it, but it certainly provides a major incentive to execute people. Organs ftw. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8222732.stm
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Author: | derf [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:12 am ] |
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They're drastically short of donated organs yet they cut their #1 policy? Weird. |
Author: | Satis [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:16 am ] |
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Yea, I dunno... I'm guessing the black market thing is a problem, or maybe international pressure. Personally I'm looking forward to the time when we can custom-grow organs from stem cells and the whole transplant thing becomes a moot point. |
Author: | Rinox [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:13 pm ] |
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Might not be that far ahead. Maybe a little bit too far to be commercially viable in our lifetime, but even that isn't impossible. Man, I'm reading a book right now that is mindblowingly interesting, on the possibilities of 'adapting' the human brain. You should really pick it up, cause I think you'd really dig it. It's called "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge. http://www.amazon.com/Brain-That-Change ... 067003830X seriously |
Author: | Satis [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:22 pm ] |
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I'm not reading anything until I finish Ulysses. Which'll be awhile. ![]() Still, looks interesting. I may check it out. Though my boss (and his boss, and his boss's boss) keep pushing similar 'make yourself awesome' books, which kinda sours me on the genre. |
Author: | Rinox [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:58 am ] | |||||||||
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Bah, Ulysses is a piece of shit. And that's coming from a lit major (maybe not the most orthodox one, though). ![]()
Um...yeah. That makes sense. ![]() ![]() Good luck with Ulysses, even for all my laming about it. |
Author: | derf [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:25 am ] |
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Ulysses = Odysseus? He rocks hardstyle. Greek mythology is the balls. |
Author: | Rinox [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:45 am ] |
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Ulysses is the Latin name for Oddyseus yeah, but in this case it's the name of a very famous novel by James Joyce. ![]() |
Author: | derf [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:49 am ] |
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Oh, for a moment I thought Satis was reading something interesting. ![]() |
Author: | Arathorn [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:45 am ] |
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I tried Ulysses once, but it was lack of time rather than poor writing that made me stop. I feel I need to read books like that in one turn. From what I did read, the novel is more about people's everyday lives instead of something grand, unless I never got to the part where the story takes off. |
Author: | Satis [ Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:30 am ] |
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No, you're right, it basically just follows along with peoples' lives. Nothing much happens, though it's got some weirdo crap that goes on too. I think I'm in someone's dreams at the moment... what's happening makes little sense. ![]() ![]() |
Author: | Rinox [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:45 am ] |
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I hope you manage to crawl to the end, cause I found it excruciatingly boring. I'll compare Ulysses to a good Pynchon novel any day. Same degree of craziness (worse probably), grandiose style, much more amusing and interesting. |
Author: | Satis [ Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:46 am ] |
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Yea, I'm forcing myself to read it. I'm getting close enough to the end now that it's becoming motivational. And yea, it's so completely boring, it's killing me. More boring that Lewis Carroll. I'll definitely be reading modern fluff for the foreseeable future...not feeling like tackling another classic for awhile. |
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