Like I said, hunting for food is one thing (survival) and hunting for pleasure is another. This guy's site seems to capitalize on the latter -- I find that quite barbaric.
And I cannot understand why hunting is still legal - it's quite barbaric and uncivilized.
Hunting for food is one thing, hunting for pleasure is quite another. But ofcourse, when we're still showing malevolence to our fellow human beings, it's asking too much to show the same thing to animals I suppose.
But still -- I wish hunting were formally banned, guys like this make me wonder if we can dare to call ourselves civilized. Atleast our ancestors had an excuse -- the need for food.
Actually, we do not yet know if there are any Tollans left.
After Tanith wiped out Tollana's capital city, they showed the Tollan evacuating their planet in ships. They showed many being shot down, but several could have been shot down.
Besides, do remember that if it is only people who are "dead" or "enslaved" they can always be brought back/resurrected/saved in the SG world. So, you never know. And it's not like SG to kill off an entire race of "good guys" in one go -- after all, the reason they were wiped out is because they helped us.
You know, I'm replying to this post a little too late perhaps, but I've been thinking of your reply for a while now. And I realize that you are probably right.
The only thing that makes us better than them is that we still cling onto our humanity, or make an attempt to. The moment we ignore that, we're no different from them.
Good point, although I've trouble treating them the same way as anyone else, I realize that this is probably due to our prejudice - amongst other things.
Thanks, and I'm surprised how ridiculous my comments seem now -- we're lowering ourselves to their level -- the whole pig wrestling thing, you know?
Agreed, it had good storylines too -- but then so does Enterprise, for that matter even (eww) Voyager. But the way the characters handled it was what made it better.
I mean, I simply love Patrick Stewart's speeches, and the way he handles situations. It's... impeccable. Ditto for Brent Spiner and a lot of other characters.
The characters in ST:TNG were strong, and they felt real. The characters in Voyager felt ridiculous. Enterprise tries, but sadly they do not have the kinda cast that TNG did.
I guess that's one of the reasons SG:Atlantis is failing too. While SG-1 had a good cast -- not exemplary by any standards, but good for sure -- SG Atlantis has a mediocre cast. The difference shows.
And whos' the guy behind the camera of SG:Atlantis? Half the time he's showing the sky and not the faces.
Actually, SG-1 started off like that but picked up real quick. For instance, they introduced the Nox, the Tollans, the Azhard all in the first season -- _and_ they did it really really well.
Season 2 was good too, especially some episodes such as the Fifth Race and Tok'Ra -- it wasn't just about fighting aliens, it was being out there and there was something special about humanity's deepest aspirations to be out there, and do cool stuff.
Ironic, because your post is more insightful than funny.
Ofcourse, one could argue that _people_ breed fear and intolerance, by their own prejudice and merely use religion as a tool (or an excuse) -- but that would become a kinda sorta cyclical argument.
Well, yeah. It's only a matter of time -- when IP would threaten the big players, or when some company in China or Brazil would violate the laws, things will change.
Besides, most patents are quite ridiculous and have prior art - just that the patent office ignores them.
Good one -- however, this poses a problem only for us, because a lot of countries out there do not care about IP at all.
While we plot our own destruction this way, China is probably violating a few thousand really valid patents and we're quite possibly turning a blind eye for trade reasons. I really do not like the sound of that - our own system could bring us down.
Some of them were armed, and were part of Yassin's convoy. Among the 17 or so who were wounded, several were Hamas members, very few were civlians (about 2-3, I think).
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Google has a problem with this because some of those searches are actually useful.
For instance, when I search for something technical, I often run into search results from DBLP, arXiv, CiteSeer and the like -- although these are really search results within themselves, they're immensely useful to me.
Since we both effectively have a conflict of interest - Google would need to figure out a way to strike a balance.
The UC incident was an accident. Yassin was a terrorist.
I'm quite certain that Warren Anderson did not personally order that the plant should be blown up and kill all those people. Yassin did. There is a difference between the two.
Accidents are one thing, intentional murder is another.
Do you really think it will help matters for Israel to simply begin assassinating everybody suspected of acting against them?
He was not "suspected" of - he was known to have. There is a fine line between soldiers and terrorists. If you blow up innocent civilians, you cannot expect a better end for yourself.
There are times when you are idealistic, and there are times when you cannot afford to be. If Israel had arrested Yassin, it would have been far more harder - putting him in a high security prison, putting up with rescue attempts and what not. And if they left him alone, he'd cause more damage.
While I do not think killing him was a smart thing to do, it seemed to be the quite logical thing to do, and I for one support it. And none of the eight people who were killed were civlians - they were all Yassin's aides, bodyguards or supporters.
You cannot expect Nuremberg trials to people who fight without compunction and do not care about anything but blowing you up. There are times when you have to use force.
He was the _leader_ of Hamas at the time of his assasination. He was _killing_ people. He was _ordering_ the deaths of more civlians through suicide bombings, and openly admitted and challenged Israel to it.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1989, and later on released in 1997 - following which we went back and started a spate of attacks on civilians through suicide bombings. The Hellfire missile hit him and all the people who were killed were his aides and his bodyguards.
Yeah, it's sad that Israel has lowered itself to the level of the militants whom they're up against, but when peace does not work, what is it that we could do against people who would not go against the word of "God".
Ask yourself this: even if a man is guilty, is it right to kill him without trial, without provocation, without immediate threat, and at the cost of innocent lives?
He was guilty, a terrorist who was leading a terrorist group at the time of assasination, who was a threat and would have ordered more, had he been alive. And oh, there were no innocent casualties - the only people who were killed in the vicinity were his aides and bodyguards.
If Osama were out there and we could kill him, do you expect us to stay our hands because we've not had his trial?
And... how different is this from using, say, using a commercial vendor?
Unless your product is something really niche for which there is no good Opensource equivalent, you really do have OSS alternatives. You're using Windows 2000 Enterprise Server and you run into a hitch - whom do you call? Microsoft. So, if you're worried about a similar situation, buy from a commercial vendor like RedHat. In case you run into a hitch, you can call them.
Big deal. You get the same support for a cheaper price. Price is always relative. If you want something absolutely free, obviously you'd have to do part of the support work yourself. If you want it at a cheaper rate, take up an OSS vendor. Unless you prefer "brand-name" or want to pacify your PHBs, or have a very genuine reason not to use OSS, I do not see why you can't choose OSS.
In your case, how is it any different from blaming Microsoft? If you use RH or Mandrake, you'd blame them instead.
*shrug*
Plus, you've a better opportunity to fixing your problems than on Windows. And if you are looking only to blame and not to solve the problems, you probably have other much more serious problems than to be worried about this.
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Like I said, hunting for food is one thing (survival) and hunting for pleasure is another. This guy's site seems to capitalize on the latter -- I find that quite barbaric.
Okay, so I went back and read the article.
.22 caliber rounds at paper and silhouette targets.
Currently, shooters will be able to fire 10 (ten)
Hmm, what exactly does that mean? Are they shooting game or dummy targets?
And then, they go onto say -
If exotic big game hunting is of interest to you, contact us at...
I'm hoping it's not real animals, but I think I'm probably wrong.
And I cannot understand why hunting is still legal - it's quite barbaric and uncivilized.
Hunting for food is one thing, hunting for pleasure is quite another. But ofcourse, when we're still showing malevolence to our fellow human beings, it's asking too much to show the same thing to animals I suppose.
But still -- I wish hunting were formally banned, guys like this make me wonder if we can dare to call ourselves civilized. Atleast our ancestors had an excuse -- the need for food.
"the temperature plummets to around minus 90 degrees Celsius"... of course, we don't know how that measurement was made...
Probes?
> They showed many being shot down,
> but several could have been shot down.
I meant that several could have escaped. God I'm sleepy and it's not even 6 PM yet.
Actually, we do not yet know if there are any Tollans left.
After Tanith wiped out Tollana's capital city, they showed the Tollan evacuating their planet in ships. They showed many being shot down, but several could have been shot down.
Besides, do remember that if it is only people who are "dead" or "enslaved" they can always be brought back/resurrected/saved in the SG world. So, you never know. And it's not like SG to kill off an entire race of "good guys" in one go -- after all, the reason they were wiped out is because they helped us.
You know, I'm replying to this post a little too late perhaps, but I've been thinking of your reply for a while now. And I realize that you are probably right.
The only thing that makes us better than them is that we still cling onto our humanity, or make an attempt to. The moment we ignore that, we're no different from them.
Good point, although I've trouble treating them the same way as anyone else, I realize that this is probably due to our prejudice - amongst other things.
Thanks, and I'm surprised how ridiculous my comments seem now -- we're lowering ourselves to their level -- the whole pig wrestling thing, you know?
And sometimes, not to evolve is the best form of evolution, especially if it has kept your species alive for countless eons.
TNG was awesome only because of its characters.
Agreed, it had good storylines too -- but then so does Enterprise, for that matter even (eww) Voyager. But the way the characters handled it was what made it better.
I mean, I simply love Patrick Stewart's speeches, and the way he handles situations. It's... impeccable. Ditto for Brent Spiner and a lot of other characters.
The characters in ST:TNG were strong, and they felt real. The characters in Voyager felt ridiculous. Enterprise tries, but sadly they do not have the kinda cast that TNG did.
I guess that's one of the reasons SG:Atlantis is failing too. While SG-1 had a good cast -- not exemplary by any standards, but good for sure -- SG Atlantis has a mediocre cast. The difference shows.
And whos' the guy behind the camera of SG:Atlantis? Half the time he's showing the sky and not the faces.
Shouldn't that be "Wraith of Khan" knockoff?
Actually, SG-1 started off like that but picked up real quick. For instance, they introduced the Nox, the Tollans, the Azhard all in the first season -- _and_ they did it really really well.
Season 2 was good too, especially some episodes such as the Fifth Race and Tok'Ra -- it wasn't just about fighting aliens, it was being out there and there was something special about humanity's deepest aspirations to be out there, and do cool stuff.
I somehow find that missing in SG Atlantis.
Nah, Daniel would just get himself killed. Just like the old times.
You're not that far off
With sizzling hot women who want to take you to an entirely different plane of existence.
Yummm. Daniel Jackson, you lucky son-of-a-bitch.
Ironic, because your post is more insightful than funny.
Ofcourse, one could argue that _people_ breed fear and intolerance, by their own prejudice and merely use religion as a tool (or an excuse) -- but that would become a kinda sorta cyclical argument.
Well, yeah. It's only a matter of time -- when IP would threaten the big players, or when some company in China or Brazil would violate the laws, things will change.
Besides, most patents are quite ridiculous and have prior art - just that the patent office ignores them.
Good one -- however, this poses a problem only for us, because a lot of countries out there do not care about IP at all.
While we plot our own destruction this way, China is probably violating a few thousand really valid patents and we're quite possibly turning a blind eye for trade reasons. I really do not like the sound of that - our own system could bring us down.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase Think Tanks, except that in this case -- it's not creation, merely "adoption", or a corrupted version of it.
Maybe in the future, we may have companies which create and "rent" ideas through patents. Ouch.
Scary thought. That'll be the day innovation really stops. If it hasn't happened already ofcourse.
They were _not_ civilians.
Some of them were armed, and were part of Yassin's convoy. Among the 17 or so who were wounded, several were Hamas members, very few were civlians (about 2-3, I think).
Google has a problem with this because some of those searches are actually useful.
For instance, when I search for something technical, I often run into search results from DBLP, arXiv, CiteSeer and the like -- although these are really search results within themselves, they're immensely useful to me.
Since we both effectively have a conflict of interest - Google would need to figure out a way to strike a balance.
What a ridiculous analogy.
The UC incident was an accident. Yassin was a terrorist.
I'm quite certain that Warren Anderson did not personally order that the plant should be blown up and kill all those people. Yassin did. There is a difference between the two.
Accidents are one thing, intentional murder is another.
Do you really think it will help matters for Israel to simply begin assassinating everybody suspected of acting against them?
He was not "suspected" of - he was known to have. There is a fine line between soldiers and terrorists. If you blow up innocent civilians, you cannot expect a better end for yourself.
There are times when you are idealistic, and there are times when you cannot afford to be. If Israel had arrested Yassin, it would have been far more harder - putting him in a high security prison, putting up with rescue attempts and what not. And if they left him alone, he'd cause more damage.
While I do not think killing him was a smart thing to do, it seemed to be the quite logical thing to do, and I for one support it. And none of the eight people who were killed were civlians - they were all Yassin's aides, bodyguards or supporters.
You cannot expect Nuremberg trials to people who fight without compunction and do not care about anything but blowing you up. There are times when you have to use force.
But then again, that's my take.
Hello?
He was the _leader_ of Hamas at the time of his assasination. He was _killing_ people. He was _ordering_ the deaths of more civlians through suicide bombings, and openly admitted and challenged Israel to it.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1989, and later on released in 1997 - following which we went back and started a spate of attacks on civilians through suicide bombings. The Hellfire missile hit him and all the people who were killed were his aides and his bodyguards.
Yeah, it's sad that Israel has lowered itself to the level of the militants whom they're up against, but when peace does not work, what is it that we could do against people who would not go against the word of "God".
Ask yourself this: even if a man is guilty, is it right to kill him without trial, without provocation, without immediate threat, and at the cost of innocent lives?
He was guilty, a terrorist who was leading a terrorist group at the time of assasination, who was a threat and would have ordered more, had he been alive. And oh, there were no innocent casualties - the only people who were killed in the vicinity were his aides and bodyguards.
If Osama were out there and we could kill him, do you expect us to stay our hands because we've not had his trial?
True, but only at a superficial level.
There are commercial enterprises who're willing to take up most lucrative Opensource "projects" and package them into a complete "product".
Except that PHBs can more easily accept that Windows is a product from Microsoft, rather than Linux is a product from RedHat.
And... how different is this from using, say, using a commercial vendor?
Unless your product is something really niche for which there is no good Opensource equivalent, you really do have OSS alternatives. You're using Windows 2000 Enterprise Server and you run into a hitch - whom do you call? Microsoft. So, if you're worried about a similar situation, buy from a commercial vendor like RedHat. In case you run into a hitch, you can call them.
Big deal. You get the same support for a cheaper price. Price is always relative. If you want something absolutely free, obviously you'd have to do part of the support work yourself. If you want it at a cheaper rate, take up an OSS vendor. Unless you prefer "brand-name" or want to pacify your PHBs, or have a very genuine reason not to use OSS, I do not see why you can't choose OSS.
In your case, how is it any different from blaming Microsoft? If you use RH or Mandrake, you'd blame them instead.
*shrug*
Plus, you've a better opportunity to fixing your problems than on Windows. And if you are looking only to blame and not to solve the problems, you probably have other much more serious problems than to be worried about this.