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There's nothing wrong with being vegetarian. I don't happen to be, but there are valid reasons for it. Peta, however, is a pretty radical organization in my opinion. I can see not wanting to harm mammals, which do a pretty good job of acting like sentient beings. But, they go far beyond wanting to help cute bunnies and friendly cows.

Take a look here for example. Not only should you give up beef to save the cows, but you should give up honey to save bees and give up silk to save worms! This is what lost the last shred of credibility I had for PETA. I mean, insects? By this logic it's immoral for me to rid my house of termites because I would be cruelly murdering thousands or millions of innocent, sentient, insects for my own financial well-being. Whatever. By this definition of moral behavior, it is virtually impossible to live your life at all. My recommendation for all PETA members is to save the planet: kill yourself. Except that that would deprive all the innocent E. Coli in your guts a home. Oh well. At least the rest of us will be rid or your misguided guilt about your own existence.

"Why You Won't Have Free Will" by Bill Gates in Forbes magazine

"You Are Irrelevant" by Bob Metcalf in U.S. News & World Report

"Resistance is Futile So Give Up" by Jeff Bezos in Time magazine

"Humans Are Obsolete" by Michael Dell in Business Week

"You Don't Matter So Just Stay In Bed" by Marc Andresson in Newsweek magazine.

You must be very careful when reading these articles. The clown has been using his influence for years on churches with little effect, so now he is moving into the popular media.

NEWS FLASH In a recent slashdot article on sleep deprivation, many posters remembered the radio DJ Peter Tripp who once stayed up for 201 hours straight. It was announced today on Howard Stern that he has died, and I would say that it was the doing of the clown. This is sad for us all, staying awake did not help poor Mr. Tripp in his endeavor to avoid being eaten by the clown.

NEWS FLASH In a recent slashdot article on sleep deprivation, many posters remembered the radio DJ Peter Tripp who once stayed up for 201 hours straight. It was announced today on Howard Stern that he has died, and I would say that it was the doing of the clown. This is sad for us all, staying awake did not help poor Mr. Tripp in his endeavor to avoid being eaten by the clown.

If the human genome is open source the clown will be able to replicate me using Perl (thanks a lot Larry Wall). He will then monitor my clone and learn more about me. Bill Joy is predicting this in the new issue of Wired (he was also on Charlie Rose last night, which I of course saw because I can't sleep). The clown has gathered my genetic material from my trash dumpster. How am I to defend myself? A guy walking up and down Michigan Avenue yesterday with a megaphone was wearing a poster claiming that the Nazis had discovered methods of weather control, and the Russians obtained it from labs at the end of the war, and that the Russians are using it in their current conflicts with breakaway republics. Will they eventually open-source this technology? The clown will then be able to make it rain all night in my neighborhood (because he will discover from my replicant that I can't help sleeping on rainy nights). Please help me, or at least pray for me in church this weekend.

It only took me two minutes to find this picture. But censorship wouldn't help me, it would just make me think the clown is not out there when in fact he is. My ignorance would make me more vulnerable. Please pray for me in church this weekend.

Vote Al Gore!

He just needs to go some place where he can drop about 8 to 12 feet. Put a noose of 3/4" rope around the neck, and place a nice soft mattress under the spot he is jumping from. Jump and let the rope do the rest! When the rope stops his fall just short of the fall, the jolt will dislodge kitty from his offending member. Kitty will land harmlessly on the mattress and go on to live a much more pleasant life. His neck will break, ending the misery he must be in.

This really is the best solution... lots of great reasons available here.

God Bless, and best of luck to kitty what's left of her nine lives!

You Americans just don't get it. Producing non-disposable goods (read: toxic or slowly decomposing waste like diapers or plutonium) or generally products from non-regenerating sources (like oil) or food from animal by-products is just making things worse for the environment. In addition, by UN sources, 75% of the consumption of natural resources on earth is done by US citizens. Even with that highly materialistic doctrine of yours you don't produce that much.

Read more cold facts.

In addition, your number of 95% looks made up.

Sure it is, it could have been 100% as well. Precise numbers are for humour impaired.

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You Americans just don't get it. Producing non-disposable goods (read: toxic or slowly decomposing waste like diapers or plutonium) or generally products from non-regenerating sources (like oil) or food from animal by-products is just making things worse for the environment. In addition, by UN sources, 75% of the consumption of natural resources on earth is done by US citizens. Even with that highly materialistic doctrine of yours you don't produce that much.

Read more cold facts.

In addition, your number of 95% looks made up.

Sure it is, it could have been 100% as well. Precise numbers are for humour impaired.

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The destruction of very young babies (and not just handicapped ones as suggested) is one Gedankenexperiment among many in Singer's wider interest in the cognitive science and the issues it raises. He investigates how our moral principles consistent with our modern scientific knowledge.

For example, Singer was involved in starting the Great Ape project, which advocates equal rights for primates, the same moral and legal rights as humans. (Rights but not obligations, in the same way that young children and the mentally ill are absolved of certain responsibilities.)

This fact suggests a rather different 'spin' on the quote than /. suggests. It does seem, to me at least, to be inconsistent to believe that apes should be protected and respected, but not so children.

Not the sort of mistake a Princeton professor would make.

On the other hand sparking debate through controversy is no bad thing.

Slashdot circa 1933 (?)
Shock horror: Physics professor advocates poisoning of kittens to test nuclear theory.

- Kazparr

As the department of energy euphemistically likes to call such things, a criticality excursion often results in a flash of light and a sensation of warmth.
The blue glow is called the Heaviside effect, IIRC. It happens because there's a shitload of ionizing radiation in a small area causing nearby matter to glow.
The Trinity Atomic Web Site at enviroweb.org lists a scary-big table of past US accidents and has a nice index of criticality accidents.
The people living near the Japanese plant probably have little to fear. Workers and rescuers who got too close to the tank as it was fissioning, however, could be in a world of hurt. Radiation affects the body's ability to generate new cells and repair existing ones. Immedeately after a fatal dose the victim may feel nauseous and disoriented, but soon 'recovers'. Several days later the white blood cell count drops to zero and the GI tract's lining begins to disolve and sluff off. It's a horrible agonizing way to die. I really, really, really hope that no one took a heavy dose.

As the department of energy euphemistically likes to call such things, a criticality excursion often results in a flash of light and a sensation of warmth.
The blue glow is called the Heaviside effect, IIRC. It happens because there's a shitload of ionizing radiation in a small area causing nearby matter to glow.
The Trinity Atomic Web Site at enviroweb.org lists a scary-big table of past US accidents and has a nice index of criticality accidents.
The people living near the Japanese plant probably have little to fear. Workers and rescuers who got too close to the tank as it was fissioning, however, could be in a world of hurt. Radiation affects the body's ability to generate new cells and repair existing ones. Immedeately after a fatal dose the victim may feel nauseous and disoriented, but soon 'recovers'. Several days later the white blood cell count drops to zero and the GI tract's lining begins to disolve and sluff off. It's a horrible agonizing way to die. I really, really, really hope that no one took a heavy dose.