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bugbear writes "I just posted a new version of the Plan for
Spam Bayesian filtering algorithm. The big change is to mark tokens by context. The new version decreases spams missed by 50%, to 2.5 per 1000, even though spam has gotten harder to filter since the summer. I also talk about how spam will evolve, and what to do about it."
More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide each year. For no reason.
Pork is an unhealthy food source. Most people who eat pork also have access to other, non-meat foods.
Pigs are some of the most intelligent beings on our planet. Why do we kill them by the billions? Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
Damn straight!
Homer: "You're not going to eat any meat, Lisa?"
Lisa: "No"
Homer: "Not pork chops?"
Lisa: "Nope"
Homer: "Or ham?"
Lisa: "No!"
Homer: "Or bacon???"
Lisa: "Dad, those all come from the same animal!"
Homer: "Yes, Lisa, a magical animal from fantasy land!"
Homer: "Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?" ... ooh ... yeah ... right, Lisa. A wonderful ... magical animal."
Lisa: "No."
Homer: "Ham?"
Lisa: "No!"
Homer: "Pork chops?"
Lisa: "Dad, those all come from the same animal!"
Homer: "Heh heh heh
"Dolphins are intelligent and friendly creatures!"
"Yeah. Intelligent and friendly on rye bread with some mayonnaise"
Spam actually isn't a Pork product.
If water were beans, I'd be 70% beans.
Spicy SPAMBURGER
Ingredients:
1 (12-ounce) can SPAM® luncheon meat, cut into 4 slices
1 green pepper, cut into thin strips
1 small onion, thinly sliced
½ cup MIRACLE WHIP or MIRACLE WHIP LIGHT Salad Dressing
½ teaspoon ground red pepper
4 hamburger buns, split
Lettuce and tomato slices (optional)
Instructions:
Cook SPAM®, green peppers and onions in large skillet 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Mix MIRACLE WHIP and red pepper. Spread evenly on hamburger buns. Place SPAM®, peppers and onions on bottom halves of buns. If desired, top with lettuce and tomato and cover with top halves of buns. Makes 4 sandwiches.
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I lied. I hate spam of any kind. Bravo Anti-spammers.
-Eric
If I recall correctly, if Physics Jenius is allowed to distort the facts, the implications can be widespread. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: It's easy for us to shake our heads at his foolishness and cowardice. It's easy for us to exclaim that we should advocate concrete action and specific quantifiable goals. It's easy for us to say, "My observations are perhaps unique." The point is that it's easy for us to say these things, because that fact is simply inescapable to any thinking man or woman. "Thinking" is the key word in the previous sentence. Given the range and unpredictability of human behavior, it is quite possible that Physics Jenius uses the word "pathologicopsychological" without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. People who are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated. Are his prognoses good for the country? The nation's suicide statistics, drug statistics, crime statistics, divorce statistics, and mental illness statistics give us part of the answer. These statistics should make it clear that Physics Jenius should not make me the target of a constant, consistent, systematic, sustained campaign of attacks. Not now, not ever.
He really struck a nerve with me when he said that the most valuable skill one can have is to be able to lie convincingly. That lie is a painful reminder that each rung on the ladder of anarchism is a crisis of some kind. Each crisis supplies an excuse for Physics Jenius to fuel inquisitions. That is the standard process by which subhuman, incomprehensible vigilantes undermine the individualistic underpinnings of traditional jurisprudence. Unsettling as that is, the more infuriating fact is that he has stated that he is known for his sound judgment, unerring foresight, and sagacious adaptation of means to ends. That's just pure credentialism. Well, in Physics Jenius's case, it might be pure ignorance, seeing that if Physics Jenius is victorious in his quest to trample over the very freedoms and rights that he claims to support, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity. In the end, we have to ask, "Why can't we simply agree to disagree?" I mean, if you don't think that the consequences of his wretched double standards, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable, then think again.
Taking that notion one step further, we can see that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Physics Jenius. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that if the only way to hinder the power of temperamental warmongers like Physics Jenius is for me to throw in the towel, then so be it. It would indeed be worth it, because we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Physics Jenius Genius. Physics Jenius is a lifelong member of the Church of Power-drunk Priggism. That concept can be extended, mutatis mutandis, to the way that he is trying to brainwash us. He wants us to believe that it's politically incorrect to exert a positive influence on the type of world that people will live in a thousand years from now; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that I and Physics Jenius part company when it comes to the issue of egotism. He feels that his tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany, while I maintain that at no time in the past did militant individuals shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. Although it requires risk, commitment, and follow-through to build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change, someone has to be willing to investigate Physics Jenius's homicidal principles, ideals, and objectives. Even if it's not polite to do so. Even if it hurts a lot of people's feelings. Even if everyone else is pretending that Physics Jenius can achieve his goals by friendly and moral conduct.
The underlying message is that I challenge him to point out any text in this letter that proposes that clericalism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. Physics Jenius's stories about animalism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept's initial implausibility. The confusion that Physics Jenius creates is desirable and convenient to our national enemies. Or, to express that sentiment without all of the emotionally charged lingo, if I may be so bold, Physics Jenius's sophistries are designed to retard the free and natural economic development of various countries' indigenous population. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. As a matter of fact, if I didn't think Physics Jenius would alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations, I wouldn't say that prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially his reprehensible form of it -- is. I recently heard him tell a bunch of people that going through the motions of working is the same as working. I can't adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don't know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text. My goal for this letter was to listen to others. Know that I have done my best while trying always to remove the misunderstanding that Mr. Physics Jenius Genius has created in the minds of myriad people throughout the world. Let an honest history judge.
Ok do the following, then maybe I'll care about your opinion: 1. Solve world hunger so tribe in africa don't need pork to survive 2. Find jobs the farmers who currently raise hogs as a for primary or suplimental income, that require the same skills, knowlege, ect. that they have been building for generations. 3. Find me an example of a civilization that is flourishing with out pork. 4. Find a place to sell grain considerd feed quality for animals but not people. 5. Do the above with the following animals. Cattle, Chickens, fish, sheep. I appoligize for the off topic post, but people who refuse to realize that more is at stake that pig lives bother me. Additionally anyone who says pigs are intellegent has not ever been around pigs, in addition to being intellegent, they are also quite mean.
"I am the Flail of God!" -Genghis Kahn
Pigs would be pretty rare if we never killed them.
Actually, there is a bit of truth to this. There are a lot of cows in America. Why? Because they taste good, or so I'm told, and they make nice clothes.
There are more trees in America now than when Columbus landed. Why? Because we can make all kinds of nifty things out of them, so people grow and sell them, and replant what they sell.
Simmilarly, hunting "culls the herd" a bit, controlling a population that would otherwise likely starve to death.
And, for what it's worth, I'm a vegitarian.
Thomas Galvin