I just wonder why people like you always have to feel that we're passing a judgement on you when we say that there are alternatives to eating meat and have to come up with ridiculous statements like the one above?
Why is that you take it as a personal insult if, for instance, someone in a dinner company won't eat meat?
Oh, and give me a rational and intellectually superior argument for why everyone should be eating meat.
who choose their diet based on moral objections to killing animals able to eat a big juicy steak.
And just why do you think we would like to eat a "big juicy steak"?
If we would like to do something like that do you think we would stay on the veggie diet?
Industrially produced meat smells mostly like urine and crap (you do know that's the reason why you spice up a meat dish?) whereas you get a whole range of tastes and smells in even a simple vegetarian dish.
It's well documented that man can very well live without eating the meat of other sentient creatures.
Unfortunately meat eating has not (so far!) been categorized with other atrocities like murder and rape which are just as cruel and barbaric acts like killing sentient creatures simply for food.
Isn't there already something like this? You can buy time on the cable somewhere in the middle of the night and broadcast whatever it is you want the people to see.
And like most open source stuff those "shows" are complete waste of time, too.
Well, one day you will learn that a user-friendly, intuitive and easy-to-install distribution requires lots of diskspace.
Not all of us can deal with "just grep the script to find xxxx and edit the line to get the daemon working on startup", you know.
I just spent half an hour trying to figure out how to start the portmapper upon boot in Mandrake (which is supposed to be easy to use!); ever since the distros started using xinetd instead of inetd life has been hell. Eventually I had to add all the modprobes (where the hell do I specify what modules should be automatically loaded when starting up the system?!) and the portmap call in rc5.d/S99local. What a kludge but at least now it works.
Years ago I tried to get into a bar (that shall remain nameless) in Florida. Back then I was 28 and had my passport with me. "Sorry, that's not a valid ID. Get a driver's license."
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
"Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. " (1947)
the national government get to id us all and then in the future be able to use this information in a bad way?
In many Western European nations all newborn citizens and immigrants automatically get a unique social security number that identifies them in tax, medical and police records for life.
Yeah, there is the possibility of abuse but the advantages really do outweigh the problems.
Go to a doctor, show your ID (and your SS#) and the doc gets access to your medical history. Get a pre-filled tax report with all your account, stock, loan and deduction info calculated for you (in case you don't like the government's proposal, you can correct and resubmit it, of course). No more sleepless nights filling the tax report and trying to find lost receipts.
Just to mention a few advantages of being offically and uniquely recognized by the state.
After a couple of years break, I've again started building Intel-only computers for my workplace.
PIII Tualatin is a sweet core. Plug it in and it beats the hell out of P4:s without melting the motherboard like Athlons. And that blessed silence! It hardly needs active cooling at all. For an AMD CPU you need a fan that sounds like a jet engine and sometimes even that is not enough.
most of the charity work done in the world would go away.
Even if that was true, the charity work could very well be replaced by implementing a World Tax like UN proposed (and which, of course, was soundly rejected by GWB).
Charity is the favourite excuse of a libertarian who wants to avoid his social responsibilities in a nice politically correct way. "Why should I pay taxes when I could benefit the society by being involved in charity work". Well, that sounds might fine, but only taxation guarantees that you participate in building a better society FOR ALL (not just for yourself). Charity is voluntary, so who is going to guarantee that you really do your share?
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I just wonder why people like you always have to feel that we're passing a judgement on you when we say that there are alternatives to eating meat and have to come up with ridiculous statements like the one above?
Why is that you take it as a personal insult if, for instance, someone in a dinner company won't eat meat?
Oh, and give me a rational and intellectually superior argument for why everyone should be eating meat.
Good for you. I'm heterosexual myself, but I wish you find happiness in your new-found sexual identity!
Because we can choose. Animals can't.
And just why do you think we would like to eat a "big juicy steak"?
If we would like to do something like that do you think we would stay on the veggie diet?
Industrially produced meat smells mostly like urine and crap (you do know that's the reason why you spice up a meat dish?) whereas you get a whole range of tastes and smells in even a simple vegetarian dish.
Looks like we've got a meat-eating moderator here who cannot deal with the fact that someone would consider his/her diet unethical.
These meat cubes would be called "Spoo".
Unfortunately meat eating has not (so far!) been categorized with other atrocities like murder and rape which are just as cruel and barbaric acts like killing sentient creatures simply for food.
Before I got it right for my sound card module, it would not load at start up.
Uh? What's so special about Sundays? You mean TV companies somewhere still actually consider Sundays as somehow "holy" days?
I can watch porn on free public TV every night of the week if I want to. Welcome to Europe.
And like most open source stuff those "shows" are complete waste of time, too.
Not all of us can deal with "just grep the script to find xxxx and edit the line to get the daemon working on startup", you know.
I just spent half an hour trying to figure out how to start the portmapper upon boot in Mandrake (which is supposed to be easy to use!); ever since the distros started using xinetd instead of inetd life has been hell. Eventually I had to add all the modprobes (where the hell do I specify what modules should be automatically loaded when starting up the system?!) and the portmap call in rc5.d/S99local. What a kludge but at least now it works.
What a poofter!
"Stay for a while, stayyy forever!"
What an idiot.
Thanks. Being logged in is the only way to do it, really.
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang
but with loads of spam
That's why.
Happened to me, actually.
Years ago I tried to get into a bar (that shall remain nameless) in Florida. Back then I was 28 and had my passport with me. "Sorry, that's not a valid ID. Get a driver's license."
Nice way to treat a tourist.
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
"Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. " (1947)
In many Western European nations all newborn citizens and immigrants automatically get a unique social security number that identifies them in tax, medical and police records for life.
Yeah, there is the possibility of abuse but the advantages really do outweigh the problems.
Go to a doctor, show your ID (and your SS#) and the doc gets access to your medical history. Get a pre-filled tax report with all your account, stock, loan and deduction info calculated for you (in case you don't like the government's proposal, you can correct and resubmit it, of course). No more sleepless nights filling the tax report and trying to find lost receipts.
Just to mention a few advantages of being offically and uniquely recognized by the state.
After a couple of years break, I've again started building Intel-only computers for my workplace.
PIII Tualatin is a sweet core. Plug it in and it beats the hell out of P4:s without melting the motherboard like Athlons. And that blessed silence! It hardly needs active cooling at all. For an AMD CPU you need a fan that sounds like a jet engine and sometimes even that is not enough.
Even if that was true, the charity work could very well be replaced by implementing a World Tax like UN proposed (and which, of course, was soundly rejected by GWB).
Charity is the favourite excuse of a libertarian who wants to avoid his social responsibilities in a nice politically correct way. "Why should I pay taxes when I could benefit the society by being involved in charity work". Well, that sounds might fine, but only taxation guarantees that you participate in building a better society FOR ALL (not just for yourself). Charity is voluntary, so who is going to guarantee that you really do your share?
The people have the right to know about what he does with his GOAT every night!
Man, what do you do with all that empty space and how's your vision after staring at so small icons and text for hours on end?
True, but after the plane was pushed like that, both engines had to be replaced and the old ones refurbished.