I don't play CS, however with Action Quake 2 (which I play), shooting through walls is a pointless action, as bullets don't go through walls.
However, people using see through drivers will often attempt impossible shots, which are timed so well that they can't possibly be just coincidence. People who are especially good around corners, but not out in the open tend to be suspect. The only good way to confirm if people are using see through drivers I've found is to use them myself.
People who want to cheat will. In fact Asus allready released see through drivers which are in widespread use. I see people cheating online all the time. If we all had see through drivers it would be easier to prove someone was cheating, and the only real way these people are going to stop is if they get banned from some servers.
Any decent server is going to ban people who cheat, so why get rid of our means of detection?
The technology industry has to prove its commitment to privacy and security in order to encourage user acceptance of the technologies. Furthermore, the next phase needs to be presented in a simple and compelling fashion so that individuals and businesses may make use of them easily.
And at Microsoft, they're committed to security.:)
Is there any way to impliment a system whereby we moderate/. editors? Ideally our moderation would effect salary directly.:)
In all seriousness though, I know that we can change our preferences to ignore articles from certain editors, but perhaps an editor moderation system would increase the quality of headlines and submissions around here. While most publications make headlines inflamatory and eye catching, few blatently lie like/. has lately.
Check out www.ninjatune.net. Lots of good flash microsites created for their artists. The Amon Tobin microsite is especially good. Coldcut (the guys who started Ninjatune) have also released a software package called VJamm, which is used to sequence video clips to make music. Apparently it can be used in realtime to great effect, although I've never tried it.
Also check out the flash site for Requiem For A Dream. Makes more sense if you've seen the movie, but a very impressive site either way.
If anyone would like to send a comment to the BBC I have sent the following:
I have a complaint about your article "Napster blamed for CD sales slump", which is located at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new sid_1190000/1190724.stm.
The article makes statements which can be misconstrued. You state that "[s]ales of music compact discs fell by 39% last year". While it is true that the number of CD Singles shipped last year fell by 38.8% last year, CD units shipped rose by 0.4%, while the dollar value from these cds rose 3.1%. These numbers are from the Recording Industry Association of America's 2000 Yearend Statistics available at http://www.riaa.com/pdf/year_end_2000.pdf.
I find your article to be blatently misleading, and one sided, as it does not put the statistics quoted in proper context. CD Single sales accounted for only 1.06% of the
dollar value of combined sales for CDs and CD Singles. This is down from 1.7% last year. Total dolar value of CDs and CD Singles increased last year from $13,038,700,000 to $13,357,200,000 an increase of 2.4%.
I trust you will find this information useful, and that you will endeavor to reduce factual errors such as those in your article.
While I aggree with a lot of people who are posting saying that good production will not make a bad album good, and that many great albums were produced without the top of the line gear that's in studios today, I think there is something they are missing. There is _fantastic_ music being made today, with phenominal production work, you just might not be hearing it.
Listen to Fila Brazillia stuff. Listen to Ninja Tune artists. Listen to Deltron 3030. Listen to Handsome Boy Modelling School. This is not only good music, but really well produced music. The fact is that you in a home studio may be really talented, but you won't get me to listen to your stuff, because it doesn't sound as nice as people who use studios and are also super talented.
I think a key example here is MC Paul Barman. I've got some of his mp3s that he independantly produced (I'm assuming, if anyone knows different please tell me) before he teamed up with Prince Paul, and quite honestly, while his lyrical flow is good, and some of the songs are catchy, the productions makes the songs sound like absolute shit. When compared with the production on It's Very Stimulating, where Prince Paul did the music, there is no comparison.
I consider production skills to be just another facet of being talented musically. And when you have access to the best tools, you'll be able to do better than those without. For a bunch of geeks who spend our time searching out the best in computers and video cards because they're the latest, the fact that any of us can discount the large advantage people with studio quality production tools have is IMO absurd.
i will also clarify my stance that this is in no way meant to say "you'll never make a good song without a professional studio". but you'll never be able to match production values for the time with a home computer. there'll always be advances, and the best will always be used by professionals first. producting isn't everything. but it is important.
Well, we allready have GMT. And theres also a version of GMT that doesn't take into account DST (it begins with a U but the name escapes me now). So the system you're proposing is allready in place, it just isn't used.
There is a site trying to get people to use "Internet Time" which uses 360 degrees for the day (a degree = 4 minutes). It would be standard all over the globe, so there would be one time for all places. It's completely useless in my opinion, as is any time system which doesn't accomodate all the different locations around the world...
Just to play devils advocate, maybe 5 years down the line the company will want to release a compilation of their best games, and they want to include Quarantine. However now that everyone has it from abondonware, will people buy it? Some probably will, if it's cheap. But many probably won't. It's been stated before, but the company does own copyright for the game, and it legally makes sense for them to retain full rights for usage and distrubution, even if that means you can't get every game you want when you want it.
That being said I think it's pretty sad it's going to take at least another 25 years before the copyright on things like Pong & Tetris expire.
I think the best things about digital film are that it gives filmakers:
More choice with respect to style and feel.
The ability to make films for a lot less.
I just hope studios don't eliminate celluloid altogether. Just as there is an undefinable "warmth" to vinyl for some people, there is also a certain indestinguishable quality celluloid has that makes it enjoyable to watch. I saw Waydowntown, a Canadian indie movie, which was shot almost entirely on digital, with a few scenes of celluloid. You should check it out to see if you can tell which scenes were on (real) film. I found it odd that the difference in the scenes wasn't so much quality as it was tone. Diversity of filming techniques has been used to great effect many times before (eg. Natural Born Killers). I think digital film will be most effective if it is used as another film making tool, instead of a replacement for celluloid and traditional film entirely.
Of course it's allready becoming apparent that digitial film is making appearances in indie films much more than traditional movies because of the cost benefit, and also the general experimentation which is usually present in indies. It will be interesting to see movie making become as prolific and accessible as music making is.
Re:It is not about the rice.
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Dollars = Lives - The US gross national product per capita is $31,746 SO, if you work from age 18 to 65 on average you will produce about 1.5 million dollars in a lifetime. Therefore the average US life is worth 1.5 million dollars. When someone accumulates vast wealth they are in fact harnessing the output of other people for their own gain. 100 billion dollars is 66,000 lives. The creation of 100 billion dollars requires 66,000 people to born, work their entire lives and die. Despite Bill being a nice guy and donating 3 billion to charity (there is that less than 3% again) He is personally responsible for 66,000 deaths. Take these figure out across the NYSE and NASDAQ and you will have Billions of people dying To benefit a select few.
You should have stopped at your other points, which were well thought out and were quite interesting. This on the other hand is bullshit. Wealth isn't created by merely being born, it's created by productivity. And productivity changes with people. Your rewards are not 100% proportional to your output and many rich people do screw over middle and lower class people all the time. But this fallacy that the rich do nothing to get rich except work off the backs of others is insulting. People who start businesses and create markets and innovate should be rewarded proportionally, and they create better lives for all of us while creating them for themselves too.
>The Pentium Pro had a much better superscaling
>architecture - four pipelines, for handling
>different types of micro-op, and far fewer
>restrictions on what could be issued at the same
>time. It also broke CISC instructions into RISC-
>ian primitives for execution, which made
>superscaling much easier. While there wouldn't
>be a quantum leap in performance over the
>Pentium, it should have gotten much closer to
>the theoretical factor-of-two-over-486 than the
>Pentium did on most code (even optimized code).
>
>The Pentium MMX and the Pentium Pro were two
>divergent forks off of the Pentium - not
>successors to each other. The Pentium MMX used
>the old Pentium core with a larger cache and
>SIMD integer instructions. Not terribly
>noteworthy (though the cache definitely helped).
>
>The Pentium II was basically a P-Pro with the
>SIMD instructions and a larger cache. More of an
>incremental polishing over the P-Pro than
>anything else.
Is the Pentium II a descendant of the P-Pro? I thought Intel dumped the idea of doing CISC to RISC conversions. Obviously the PII takes some of the ideas of the P-Pro, but wasn't the defining feature of the P-Pro the fact that it was a RISC chip masquerading as a CISC? And if so, is the PII like that?
If it's allready been answered, sorry for the redundancy. Cruising at +3 is such a pain.:)
Phil G is pretty much right on here.
I will usually use mp3s and napster to find music that I've heard of, but haven't heard. I'm unlikely to go out and spend $40 on an imported Funkstorung album without listening to it. I'm much more likely to buy it if I've found it on the net and listen to it and like it.
I find out about new music on my own, but napster is set up to do that too. That's what the channels are for.
I am 100x more likely to buy a cd with value added though. Case in point: The last 5 cds I've bought have all been released by Ninja Tune. The reason (aside from the good music they put out): The CDs I bought all came with videos on them. If more CDs were actively trying to add value they would get my cash.
BTW: For those who care, emusic.com is awesome. I don't remember seing it posted as a story, which is a shame because it's licensed mp3s for a subscription fee that works (or at least it appears to).
After having spent countless hours arguing over genres and classifications, I've come to the conclusion that if no two human beings can aggree to what genre certain artists belong to, how is one guy making a program going to be able to make a definitive judgement?
It's all subjective.
As a (pointless) note, the Beastie Boys sample the Beatles 'The End' off Abbey Road in 'The Sounds Of Science' off Pauls Boutique which was produced by the Dust Brothers, who coincidentally, also made the soundtrack to Fight Club, which starred Brad Pitt, who starred in Sleapers with... Kevin Bacon!
Since this forum seems to be a big plug for all different Q3 mods, I thought I'd shamelessly plug the one that looks the best, at least for anyone who was a fan of Action Quake 2. Urban Terror, which now has a beta1 release date of August 5th seems to be the only Q3 mod in the vein of the Action Series (AQ2, Action Half Life).
Q3A and CS multiplayer has never struck me as fun being that Q3A sacrifices reality for instant gratification (big rocket must be fun because it's big and explodes good), and CS sacrifices fun for reality (inability to move quickly, not making movement as valuable a skill as aim). AQ2 I found as a good balance, by giving you real weapons, and making movement a big part of the game. However many people can't get past the fact that the Quake 2 engine is old and looks it.
Urban Terror (which unfortunately shares its abbreviation with another all to well known multiplayer game) should be great fun for anyone who played AQ2, and for anyone who didn't I'd recommend checking out the beta when it comes out. More info @ Silicon Ice Development.
In true/. fashion we could all quite easily download some mp3.com heavy metal bands free mp3s, rename them to "Metallica-The Metallica Effect" and then share them on napster. This would cause a glut of users who would probably be fingered as "sharing" Metallica mp3s, who wouldn't be breaking any copyright laws.
Just thought the choice of movies you decided to mention as better than the Matrix was odd as both ExistenZ & Cube are Canadian. I guess we really should blame Canada.
Also please tell me I'm not the only one who though Pi used cool music to attempt to jazz up a basically pointless film the contained nothing but art house dribble attempting to masquerade itself as insight.
I don't know if anyone knows what these things are, but I was in a local second hand store the other day and ran across something called an Electronic Capacitance Disc player (or a Capacitance Electronic Disc player, something with Capacitance in there that's for sure). Oddly enough it looks like the predecessor to laserdiscs. You get a double sides casing with a moving inside. Basically you slide the casing in, the disc stays in and then you pull the casing out. It was a very funny looking machine. The inside disc part looked a bit like a record only a lot more flexible. I could've even bought The Terminator (original of course) for it.
So then I poured hot grits in it.:)
Will Pi day ever come for much of the world?
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If I'm not mistaken doesn't most of the world use dd/mm/yy as their date format as opposed to the mm/dd/yy of north america? In which case 03/14/00 (or more accurately 03/14/15) will never come. Unless of course we add a few more months, which, in my opinion, is well worth it to have a day the whole world can enjoy.
Make the law so Joe Citizen can understand it... otherwise, your law is poorly written and needs to be rewritten until it is understandable to the layman.
I think this misses the reason laws are written the way they are. Laws are written so that logically they cannot be overbroad, or misleading in their intentions. This specificity of laws do make them hard to read, but making them easy to understand by a layman would almost definitely leave them open to interpretation (something far worse than a few people not understanding every intricate detail of the law).
Part of the reason so many laws are broken is that they are confusing, contradictory, or just plain unknown to the citizen.
Not to belittle your point, and I understand what you're trying to say, but I think it's painfully obvious that most people convicted of crimes in a court of law are not convicted because they didn't understand the law fully. Perhaps they serve a little more or a little less jail time unjustly (and that is wrong, I aggree with you). But I don't think there is any example you can give where someone not understanding the law suddenly put him unjustly at the will of the government. Or at least theres no example I can give.
One law I don't understand is how it is illegal to tape a conversation with someone, unless you didn't know at the time it was illegal. What's with that one?
Could you please back up the statement that you can only "suirvive... a few years without meat" with some fact?
Sure any bad diet *can* kill you. And as I said, some people do require meat to be healthy. I don't even care if you continue eating meat. As far as the ethics go I have no problem with anyone killing animals that they've raised for slaughter. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. But I think you're ignoring the fact that some people on this earth do not require meat to remain healthy. You may not have met them, but I know people of all ages who are perfectly healthy with vegetarian diets.
If there is anything to be added to this argument of the *factual* nature rather than the speculative, and both sides of this argument are guilty of this, I would love to hear it.
Oh yeah, and that dilberito thing looks basically just like a multivitamin ground up into a burrito.:)
Sorry, just thought this was a bit funny to see within 2 lines of each other:
we don't need a particular kind of food
We *need* animal products
As far as the content, I've seen this stuff before on talk shows about how "unhealthy" vegetarian eating is. It must be easy to paint everyone with the same brush. Not everyone needs meat, and not everyone can take a veg(etari)an diet. But it's not impossible for many people on this planet to be healthy without eating meat.
What strikes me as dangerous are the people on both sides who think their way is the only correct way.
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I don't play CS, however with Action Quake 2 (which I play), shooting through walls is a pointless action, as bullets don't go through walls.
However, people using see through drivers will often attempt impossible shots, which are timed so well that they can't possibly be just coincidence. People who are especially good around corners, but not out in the open tend to be suspect. The only good way to confirm if people are using see through drivers I've found is to use them myself.
People who want to cheat will. In fact Asus allready released see through drivers which are in widespread use. I see people cheating online all the time. If we all had see through drivers it would be easier to prove someone was cheating, and the only real way these people are going to stop is if they get banned from some servers.
Any decent server is going to ban people who cheat, so why get rid of our means of detection?
And at Microsoft, they're committed to security. :)
Is there any way to impliment a system whereby we moderate /. editors? Ideally our moderation would effect salary directly. :)
/. has lately.
In all seriousness though, I know that we can change our preferences to ignore articles from certain editors, but perhaps an editor moderation system would increase the quality of headlines and submissions around here. While most publications make headlines inflamatory and eye catching, few blatently lie like
Does /. have some rule against linking to other tech news sites? This was posted on Ars Technica about an hour and 15 minutes before /.
Blah.
someone set up us the asteroid.
and the knee-jerk reaction is to act like he's banging his shoe on the table, shouting "We will bury you."
Best News Radio reference ever.
Just my own tastes of course, YMMV:
Check out www.ninjatune.net. Lots of good flash microsites created for their artists. The Amon Tobin microsite is especially good. Coldcut (the guys who started Ninjatune) have also released a software package called VJamm, which is used to sequence video clips to make music. Apparently it can be used in realtime to great effect, although I've never tried it.
Also check out the flash site for Requiem For A Dream. Makes more sense if you've seen the movie, but a very impressive site either way.
Fuck dance. Lets art.
If anyone would like to send a comment to the BBC I have sent the following:
w sid_1190000/1190724.stm.
I have a complaint about your article "Napster blamed for CD sales slump", which is located at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/ne
The article makes statements which can be misconstrued. You state that "[s]ales of music compact discs fell by 39% last year". While it is true that the number of CD Singles shipped last year fell by 38.8% last year, CD units shipped rose by 0.4%, while the dollar value from these cds rose 3.1%. These numbers are from the Recording Industry Association of America's 2000 Yearend Statistics available at http://www.riaa.com/pdf/year_end_2000.pdf.
I find your article to be blatently misleading, and one sided, as it does not put the statistics quoted in proper context. CD Single sales accounted for only 1.06% of the
dollar value of combined sales for CDs and CD Singles. This is down from 1.7% last year. Total dolar value of CDs and CD Singles increased last year from $13,038,700,000 to $13,357,200,000 an increase of 2.4%.
I trust you will find this information useful, and that you will endeavor to reduce factual errors such as those in your article.
Thanks
While I aggree with a lot of people who are posting saying that good production will not make a bad album good, and that many great albums were produced without the top of the line gear that's in studios today, I think there is something they are missing. There is _fantastic_ music being made today, with phenominal production work, you just might not be hearing it.
Listen to Fila Brazillia stuff. Listen to Ninja Tune artists. Listen to Deltron 3030. Listen to Handsome Boy Modelling School. This is not only good music, but really well produced music. The fact is that you in a home studio may be really talented, but you won't get me to listen to your stuff, because it doesn't sound as nice as people who use studios and are also super talented.
I think a key example here is MC Paul Barman. I've got some of his mp3s that he independantly produced (I'm assuming, if anyone knows different please tell me) before he teamed up with Prince Paul, and quite honestly, while his lyrical flow is good, and some of the songs are catchy, the productions makes the songs sound like absolute shit. When compared with the production on It's Very Stimulating, where Prince Paul did the music, there is no comparison.
I consider production skills to be just another facet of being talented musically. And when you have access to the best tools, you'll be able to do better than those without. For a bunch of geeks who spend our time searching out the best in computers and video cards because they're the latest, the fact that any of us can discount the large advantage people with studio quality production tools have is IMO absurd.
i will also clarify my stance that this is in no way meant to say "you'll never make a good song without a professional studio". but you'll never be able to match production values for the time with a home computer. there'll always be advances, and the best will always be used by professionals first. producting isn't everything. but it is important.
There is a site trying to get people to use "Internet Time" which uses 360 degrees for the day (a degree = 4 minutes). It would be standard all over the globe, so there would be one time for all places. It's completely useless in my opinion, as is any time system which doesn't accomodate all the different locations around the world...
That being said I think it's pretty sad it's going to take at least another 25 years before the copyright on things like Pong & Tetris expire.
I just hope studios don't eliminate celluloid altogether. Just as there is an undefinable "warmth" to vinyl for some people, there is also a certain indestinguishable quality celluloid has that makes it enjoyable to watch. I saw Waydowntown, a Canadian indie movie, which was shot almost entirely on digital, with a few scenes of celluloid. You should check it out to see if you can tell which scenes were on (real) film. I found it odd that the difference in the scenes wasn't so much quality as it was tone. Diversity of filming techniques has been used to great effect many times before (eg. Natural Born Killers). I think digital film will be most effective if it is used as another film making tool, instead of a replacement for celluloid and traditional film entirely.
Of course it's allready becoming apparent that digitial film is making appearances in indie films much more than traditional movies because of the cost benefit, and also the general experimentation which is usually present in indies. It will be interesting to see movie making become as prolific and accessible as music making is.
You should have stopped at your other points, which were well thought out and were quite interesting. This on the other hand is bullshit. Wealth isn't created by merely being born, it's created by productivity. And productivity changes with people. Your rewards are not 100% proportional to your output and many rich people do screw over middle and lower class people all the time. But this fallacy that the rich do nothing to get rich except work off the backs of others is insulting. People who start businesses and create markets and innovate should be rewarded proportionally, and they create better lives for all of us while creating them for themselves too.
>The Pentium Pro had a much better superscaling >architecture - four pipelines, for handling >different types of micro-op, and far fewer >restrictions on what could be issued at the same >time. It also broke CISC instructions into RISC- >ian primitives for execution, which made >superscaling much easier. While there wouldn't >be a quantum leap in performance over the >Pentium, it should have gotten much closer to >the theoretical factor-of-two-over-486 than the >Pentium did on most code (even optimized code). > >The Pentium MMX and the Pentium Pro were two >divergent forks off of the Pentium - not >successors to each other. The Pentium MMX used >the old Pentium core with a larger cache and >SIMD integer instructions. Not terribly >noteworthy (though the cache definitely helped). > >The Pentium II was basically a P-Pro with the >SIMD instructions and a larger cache. More of an >incremental polishing over the P-Pro than >anything else. Is the Pentium II a descendant of the P-Pro? I thought Intel dumped the idea of doing CISC to RISC conversions. Obviously the PII takes some of the ideas of the P-Pro, but wasn't the defining feature of the P-Pro the fact that it was a RISC chip masquerading as a CISC? And if so, is the PII like that? If it's allready been answered, sorry for the redundancy. Cruising at +3 is such a pain. :)
Phil G is pretty much right on here. I will usually use mp3s and napster to find music that I've heard of, but haven't heard. I'm unlikely to go out and spend $40 on an imported Funkstorung album without listening to it. I'm much more likely to buy it if I've found it on the net and listen to it and like it. I find out about new music on my own, but napster is set up to do that too. That's what the channels are for. I am 100x more likely to buy a cd with value added though. Case in point: The last 5 cds I've bought have all been released by Ninja Tune. The reason (aside from the good music they put out): The CDs I bought all came with videos on them. If more CDs were actively trying to add value they would get my cash. BTW: For those who care, emusic.com is awesome. I don't remember seing it posted as a story, which is a shame because it's licensed mp3s for a subscription fee that works (or at least it appears to).
After having spent countless hours arguing over genres and classifications, I've come to the conclusion that if no two human beings can aggree to what genre certain artists belong to, how is one guy making a program going to be able to make a definitive judgement?
It's all subjective.
As a (pointless) note, the Beastie Boys sample the Beatles 'The End' off Abbey Road in 'The Sounds Of Science' off Pauls Boutique which was produced by the Dust Brothers, who coincidentally, also made the soundtrack to Fight Club, which starred Brad Pitt, who starred in Sleapers with... Kevin Bacon!
Since this forum seems to be a big plug for all different Q3 mods, I thought I'd shamelessly plug the one that looks the best, at least for anyone who was a fan of Action Quake 2. Urban Terror, which now has a beta1 release date of August 5th seems to be the only Q3 mod in the vein of the Action Series (AQ2, Action Half Life).
Q3A and CS multiplayer has never struck me as fun being that Q3A sacrifices reality for instant gratification (big rocket must be fun because it's big and explodes good), and CS sacrifices fun for reality (inability to move quickly, not making movement as valuable a skill as aim). AQ2 I found as a good balance, by giving you real weapons, and making movement a big part of the game. However many people can't get past the fact that the Quake 2 engine is old and looks it.
Urban Terror (which unfortunately shares its abbreviation with another all to well known multiplayer game) should be great fun for anyone who played AQ2, and for anyone who didn't I'd recommend checking out the beta when it comes out. More info @ Silicon Ice Development.
In true /. fashion we could all quite easily download some mp3.com heavy metal bands free mp3s, rename them to "Metallica-The Metallica Effect" and then share them on napster. This would cause a glut of users who would probably be fingered as "sharing" Metallica mp3s, who wouldn't be breaking any copyright laws.
Just thought the choice of movies you decided to mention as better than the Matrix was odd as both ExistenZ & Cube are Canadian. I guess we really should blame Canada.
Also please tell me I'm not the only one who though Pi used cool music to attempt to jazz up a basically pointless film the contained nothing but art house dribble attempting to masquerade itself as insight.
I don't know if anyone knows what these things are, but I was in a local second hand store the other day and ran across something called an Electronic Capacitance Disc player (or a Capacitance Electronic Disc player, something with Capacitance in there that's for sure). Oddly enough it looks like the predecessor to laserdiscs. You get a double sides casing with a moving inside. Basically you slide the casing in, the disc stays in and then you pull the casing out. It was a very funny looking machine. The inside disc part looked a bit like a record only a lot more flexible. I could've even bought The Terminator (original of course) for it.
:)
So then I poured hot grits in it.
If I'm not mistaken doesn't most of the world use dd/mm/yy as their date format as opposed to the mm/dd/yy of north america? In which case 03/14/00 (or more accurately 03/14/15) will never come. Unless of course we add a few more months, which, in my opinion, is well worth it to have a day the whole world can enjoy.
Make the law so Joe Citizen can understand it... otherwise, your law is poorly written and needs to be rewritten until it is understandable to the layman.
I think this misses the reason laws are written the way they are. Laws are written so that logically they cannot be overbroad, or misleading in their intentions. This specificity of laws do make them hard to read, but making them easy to understand by a layman would almost definitely leave them open to interpretation (something far worse than a few people not understanding every intricate detail of the law).
Part of the reason so many laws are broken is that they are confusing, contradictory, or just plain unknown to the citizen.
Not to belittle your point, and I understand what you're trying to say, but I think it's painfully obvious that most people convicted of crimes in a court of law are not convicted because they didn't understand the law fully. Perhaps they serve a little more or a little less jail time unjustly (and that is wrong, I aggree with you). But I don't think there is any example you can give where someone not understanding the law suddenly put him unjustly at the will of the government. Or at least theres no example I can give.
One law I don't understand is how it is illegal to tape a conversation with someone, unless you didn't know at the time it was illegal. What's with that one?
Could you please back up the statement that you can only "suirvive... a few years without meat" with some fact?
:)
Sure any bad diet *can* kill you. And as I said, some people do require meat to be healthy. I don't even care if you continue eating meat. As far as the ethics go I have no problem with anyone killing animals that they've raised for slaughter. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. But I think you're ignoring the fact that some people on this earth do not require meat to remain healthy. You may not have met them, but I know people of all ages who are perfectly healthy with vegetarian diets.
If there is anything to be added to this argument of the *factual* nature rather than the speculative, and both sides of this argument are guilty of this, I would love to hear it.
Oh yeah, and that dilberito thing looks basically just like a multivitamin ground up into a burrito.
Sorry, just thought this was a bit funny to see within 2 lines of each other:
we don't need a particular kind of food
We *need* animal products
As far as the content, I've seen this stuff before on talk shows about how "unhealthy" vegetarian eating is. It must be easy to paint everyone with the same brush. Not everyone needs meat, and not everyone can take a veg(etari)an diet. But it's not impossible for many people on this planet to be healthy without eating meat.
What strikes me as dangerous are the people on both sides who think their way is the only correct way.