__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 23 December 2006 07:57 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 22 December 2006 14:21 \__
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Looking Glass on Ubuntu
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>>>>| The Sun's Looking Glass Project for a 3D GUI running on
>>>>| Ubuntu Linux (Dapper).
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>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ4Nza34ak
>>>>
>>>> With this particular background picture (3D environment rather), this
>>>> looks like Vista on steroids.
>>>
>>> <OT whinge>
>>> I've never really liked this term very much. As someone who's had to
>>> administer both topical and tabular steriods to his own child for years,
>>> fully cognisant of the permanent skin damage it causes, I can't really
>>> see steroids in such a positive light. I'm not deeply offended by it,
>>> of course, but at the same time, I'm not sure it's ideal in this usage.
>>> </OT whinge>
>>
>> I hate the term myself. As you know, I finished second in this year's Mr.
>> Fitness contest because the winner was *ahem* doping. I won the previous
>> two contests, in 2003 and 2004. No drugs. Never.
>>
>
> Yeah - these are people who are taking steroids by choice, of course, so
> I suppose it's up to them, except, as you say, in such situations, it
> does rather give an advantage. In the case of my kid, we had to do this
> because of his illness, and topical application permanently thins the
> skin, which isn't all that nice.
>
> I understand that taking steroids in the fitness world also shrinks the
> testicles and causes breast development?
Yes, among many other things. I once saw a famous poster which lists about 30
negative side-effects. Essentially, having the testestorone levels of a
horse is not what evolution led homo sapients to cope with. In bodybuilding
competitions, it's often a matter of who can inject and absorb the most
hormones without getting the heart attack (or develop tumours). It's saddens
me to see people who throw away their lives just so that they look more
impressive, very temporarily. I used to have some fierce arguments in the
weightlifting newsgroups over this... I'm not getting back there any time
soon... they are stuck in their own perception as to what's right and what's
wrong. Fortunately, the gym that I go to has gentler people, not posers.
There is a feminine analogy to this scenario: the popularisation/ubiquity of
boob jobs, among other cosmetic surgeries. With braces becoming the ol'
fashion and nose/wrinkle 'intervention' on the rise it's almost as though we
are Defective by Design. How long before people manufacture kids (DNA, sperm
banks, cloning) and suck the humanity out of Earth? Virtual reality (e.g.
Second Life) suddenly seems like a minor impact on people's lives in the
modern/developed world...
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