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by Randomiser » Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:01 pm | |
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AHA! We finally have clear textev on the long discussion about whether or not it is possible to install neural interfaces, 'wetware', for adults or only for infants, and it turns out to be perfectly possible to retrofit adults, the only hassle has been the difficulty of concealing them, as some of us have been interpreting the existing textev for a long time.
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by Randomiser » Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:06 pm | |
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Really it's pretty plain. Keith_w just had an off day, or didn't read the text very carefully. |
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by Keith_w » Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:32 pm | |
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I apologize for my post. I read the snippet and Nimue and either skipped "Alban" or failed to recognize the implications thereof. Nimue C was a major part of that conversation and obviously that was who I was thinking of. --
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by DrakBibliophile » Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:52 pm | |
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Very Good One!
Oh, I was wondering about the heir problem and am glad to see that there's a solution. *
Paul Howard (Alias Drak Bibliophile) * Sometimes The Dragon Wins! [Polite Dragon Smile] * |
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by runsforcelery » Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:04 am | |
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Wish I had a nickle for every time I missed something in a passage. Heck, then I could just give you guys the books. At least until we have 3 in college simultaneously in about two years. "Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead. |
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by Kufat » Mon Dec 10, 2018 11:56 am | |
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It's a little late in the year for my allergies to be acting up like this...sniffle
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by Vinea » Mon Dec 10, 2018 6:11 pm | |
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Would I abort a child if I knew he or she would not live past 10 because of a medical condition if I knew that the years they had would still be good and the end mercifully swift? I think not but it's arguable either way. Is it selfish to have kids in a doomsday scenario? I dunno if I would but I could see it being arguable either way unless you believe that the scenario is fundamentally different from parents needing to make the same decision after getting a bad result from prenatal testing. |
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by PeterZ » Mon Dec 10, 2018 6:34 pm | |
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There are parallels. However, there is also a difference between aborting a child after conception and to avoid conceiving altogether. To conceive a child who I KNOW will live only 10 years of life filled with people treating him/her as an object of pity with no contemporaries to speak of. A life where hope does not exist and for the vast majority nothing one does MATTERS. Even the devout will see all life ground under the Gbaba juggernaught. The Second Coming.....doesn't come and God's salvation doesn't manifest however one's religion says it will. Recall that Operation Ark is a complete secret and almost everyone on Earth dies BELIEVING humanity is dead. Would I subject my child to that? I think not. |
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by SCC » Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:00 am | |
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Sort of, people of Nimue's social circle may well have, but that's because they knew the real score with regards to the Gabba, most people didn't and still kept having children from what textev we have. I also find it interesting how the possibility of Owl not reconstructing Nimue's DNA so that the child of Nimue and Gahrvai would be Nimue's biological daughter, is that impossible or does Owl that have that information? And what level of gene engineering can OWL perform? And will the kids be getting implants? |
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by Keith_w » Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:33 am | |
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Thank you RFC. Having had 2 in college at the same time, I understand what you are looking forward to. I hope that they will be attending locally so that you will still have time to write while busy assisting their college careers --
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