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  1. Re:Except He's Not Blind on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 1

    I had thought getting a tag for the Kodiak bears when you were not a state resident was rather expensive, and the cheap ones were a perk for locals... I might have read wrong, I last looked up what was involved to take a kodiak grizzly over a year ago.

  2. Re:It's Funny - Laugh on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 1

    I'd also like to point out in your favor that deer are DELICIOUS, and I can't get them in the market.

  3. Re:It's Funny - Laugh on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 1

    I can understand a hunter that goes blind wanting to be on a hunt, even pull the trigger, since that is the only part of hunting a blind person can safely do on their own, as part of his life's experiences. However, as a comment totally separate from if this should be legal or not, WHY would a person who was not previously a hunter who is blind want to do that? If they just pull the trigger, there's no reason to go hunting, it's the same as putting the animal in a guillotine and him flipping the switch to drop the blade. Nothing special about triggering a slaughter button. On his end, there is the same ammount of skill and sport with the guilitine switch and pulling the trigger. As long as assitance is required, and the blind person is only the 'trigger" person, I see no reason for it to be illegal, it just seems pointless in all but a few circumstances.

  4. Re:Except He's Not Blind on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know a guy who got one of the few available legal permits for grizzly bears with the intent of taking on an Alaskan grizzly bear with a sword...

  5. Re:Boycott Cliff this Christmas on Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions · · Score: 1

    It... BURNS..... oh god the burning... please make it stop...

  6. Re:Boycott Cliff this Christmas on Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions · · Score: 1

    I'm supposed to know who Cliff Richard is, arnen't I?

  7. Re:I take it that they didn't use any on Apple Gene for Red Color Found · · Score: 1

    I thought fruit was bright colored and tasty specifically so it WOULD be eaten by pests, and the seeds deposited along with "fertilizer"...

  8. Re:You mean... on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    I was found stoned a few times, but there was nothing on me so the police had to let me go...

  9. Re:It has to be said on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    By that logic, lead is stronger than steel, because it's more dense... just the first example I could think of. Mechanical properties needed to support load are not necissarily strongly depended on density, though it certainly plays a role.

  10. Re:Many private schools disprove this. on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    What area are you in? In my area, the private schools are generally lower quality, but advertise themselves as better quality by giving almost all students good grades and saying "look how much better our kids are doing." Then they take the AP tests for college credit and get 1's.

  11. Re:Can't they just promise to do it? on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    It's main basis in science thought is that IF time travel exists, and true paradoxes do not, it MUST be correct. So it can be taken as true under a certain limited set of criteria.

  12. Re:"You'll never even think about the graphics whi on PS3 and Wii — Head To Head · · Score: 1

    At the very end of FFX, when you have to destroy all of your summon creatures as they are possessed, one by one, after all their help, was a really good moment as far as mature fantasy with moral ambiguousness. That kind of emotional effect was good, as was the ending, first one I remember having real guts too it, rather than a default happy ending. I may check out those ultimas if they have that type of thing.

  13. Re:Can't they just promise to do it? on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    There is a time travel theory which suggest the time stream is simply VERY robust - if you change something, more other things outside of your knowledge will change to force the future to the exact state at which you can be sent back, as otherwise you couldn't go back.

  14. Re:Can't they just promise to do it? on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    My guess would be that the time machine, being built in HIS future, returns him to HIS universe, period, rather than any of the others he may have created by tinkering.

  15. Re:I heard about this on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    Tungsten carbide drills are actually very usefull in the "spade" bit shape for drilling glass - they are actually hard enough to do the job many times without needed a new cutting edge put on them.

  16. Re:"I am so high right now" on PS3 and Wii — Head To Head · · Score: 1

    With this country entering a near suveylence state, I can't see why people think it's a good idea to use ID's that would result in an officer having reasonable suspicion to search their house. Sure it seems far away in another world now, but data searching automations are getting better and better. Also(and I have nothing against drugs or pot specifically) it would seem to me that emphasizing that aspect of your life so much as to make it part of your online identity is a little overboard, even if you toke on the green stuff daily. I mean, you don't see tobacco smokers using handles like "Nikko-Teen," "MentholMan" or "CigarDaddy" on Xbox. At least, I havn't, and the ratio couldn't possibly be in line with the number of weed smokers using it in theirs.

  17. Re:"You'll never even think about the graphics whi on PS3 and Wii — Head To Head · · Score: 1

    My mature, I mean much more grey area in your possible actions, perhaps even some things that would be rewarded in game play but you might opt out of because you don't like the actions involved. Evidence of the existence of sexuality, in some sense, other than the presence of occasional married NPC's(slight exaduration, but only slight). I'd love to see it remain with popping enemies and bright colors, actually. Read "Stardust" and not only will have spent the time very well, you'll know exactly what I mean.

  18. Re:"You'll never even think about the graphics whi on PS3 and Wii — Head To Head · · Score: 1

    I would have to see the Zelda series "grow up" a bit before I could go back to it. Ocarina of Time I couldn't get into, and the same for anything since. I still want it to be a fairy tale world, but that can mature and still be fantastical... I'd like to see done to Zelda what Neil Gaiman does to to the fairy tale style in "Stardust" - it's fantastical, and it's a fairy tale, but it's adjusted to the palate of the older audience, the audience that misses fairy tales but can't enjoy the old ones anymore because their minds are more mature.

  19. "I am so high right now" on PS3 and Wii — Head To Head · · Score: 1

    Is the statement you hear from someone that's REALLY done off. People that just say "I'm so high" or "I'm trashed" aren't so bad to play with, not near as gone as those that feel the need to inform you that this is occuring RIGHT NOW, concurrent with them telling you they are high, as through there is any way you could miss that fact. I've always found it best to avoid having pople who are "So high right now" on my side for their tendency to pass out while playing or spend time walking into walls.

  20. Re:Endorphin on Tarantula Venom and Chili Peppers Share Receptor · · Score: 1

    If it feels as good as a nice hot boneless buffalo wing, sign me up for extended biting experiments!

  21. Isn't that just rouge? on Nanorust Used To Purify Water · · Score: 1

    Aren't nanoparticles of iron oxide simply jewler's rouge, the same stuff used for brightening gold and silver and in the final polish stages of harder materials?

  22. Re:Nuh-uh! on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    I've always taken those things to fall under free will in that we have not taken the time and energy to prevent them, either by not living where they occur or not actively finding ways to stop them, that being something we should do using our sense of reason. I do love your point about it not disproving Yahweh, or other neutral Gods, cause quite frankly, the Book of Job is my favorite, and that God is one cruel bastard.

  23. Re:They repaired the virus remains to make it viab on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would implant in the genomes of other primates and move their evolutionary direction closer to ours. Well, maybe it would in a Sci Fi Original Movie.

  24. Re:Nuh-uh! on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    You know how the kids that hang out with and support the bullys get shitted on less? I think the idea is kinda like that.

  25. Re:Nuh-uh! on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    I'm not christian, and find this type of debate generally annoying, but given that humanity has free will, nobody should be blaming anyone but humanity for human suffering, and that goes twice as much with atheists using as it a reason there is no god.