Riki1995

Drug cheats is unfair. Hence the word cheat. PLus what about all the athletes that train harder than these steroid junkies.

Just because one takes steroids doesn't mean they train any less hard than someone off them. Case in point, pro bodybuilders. Many of the pros take steroids, but they still train harder than a lot of the other gym junkies. I don't really condone or reject steroid use, but it's a pretty big misconception that steroids are a magical drug that instantly make you better... you still have to work hard to make them useful/worthwhile.

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I think it's too hard to define exactly what can be considered cheating at a competitive sport level. A lot of people get on the case of well known steroids like Stanozolol, and Clenbuterol because they're often used to increase athletic performance, but at the same time we don't jump on the case of people using things like Cortisone shots during games. Cortisone is just as much of a steroid as the more "scary" ones, but it has less of a stigma when used.

Until we can more clearly define what should be off limits, and have a better and more even standard I think they should be able to come back.

An interesting documentary on this issue for those interested: Bigger, Stronger, Faster

The guy focuses mainly on bodybuilding and power lifting, but he does take a look at other sports and more general steroid use as well.

The ban should have been upheld. A cheat will always be remembered as a cheat no matter how "clean" he choses to portray himself after. It's crazy how many athletes could be on PEDs but have been able to cycle off properly. But then again the testing in the Olympics are so hard to pass if you were on something. Maybe the Judge was getting paid off by the athletes sponsers to give it up lol

I think for the most part, a lot of the Olympic drug tests and things like that are relatively easy to deceive. HGH I think can leave the system as quick as 24 hours in some cases, so if you time things right and are aware enough you can cycle off quick enough to pass a drug test.

Are you talking about bionic like Jensen in Deus Ex: HR? Or a bit more biological?

With the advancements in prosthetics and things like that, I feel like by 2030-2050 we'll see people with significant bionic body parts. I don't think we'll necessarily see too many parts that are grafted to the body though.

We've made some crazy advancements though...

Blind people seeing:
http://www.scienceda...01103123255.htm

Robotic arm moved by thoughts:
http://www.mysananto...arm-3564297.php

Realistically twitching robotic butt:
http://zeenews.india...uch_775447.html

I took a Computational Linguistics class once, and a section of the course was dedicated to this sort of thing.

I think one of the earliest versions of this sort of thing was back in the 60's or so, with ELIZA... but yeah, natural language processing and all that is pretty interesting. So far they haven't found a way to make these types of programs and artificial intelligence completely independent, and essentially they have to find clever ways and tricks to make it seem like it's smarter than it actually is.

Another really cool one that had some huge mainstream coverage was IBM's WATSON, there was a special on NOVA or something that gave a backstage look at what went on to make WATSON work, and it was pretty much powered by a super computer, haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE