Yeah, right. Do we throw out all the research that the Nazis performed on the Jewish populace under their control? No, we gained a LOT of valuable medical knowledge from their research and experiments.
Good and evil are relative terms in scientific research. Humans, monkeys, rabbits, carrots...to a pure researcher, they're all merely test subjects.
There are a few things that control how much support(money) a research grant will entail, but Good/Evil is not one of them. Rather, its replaced by public opinion.
Of course, I'm one that firmly believes people should not be penalized for choosing not to have children. If govt wants to give a $1500 tax credit to families for children, a couple with no children should also receive the same tax credit. Perhaps they are saving money to start a family...
Either way, I feel equal rights are important. People shouldn't be penalized for saving.
I know I'm a cold hearted sob but I don't want to support children that aren't my own.
Hehehe, now how's that for flamebait? (or trolling)
Not in Minnesota, at least. My Topaz has a blue book value of about $2,500. According to the make/model/year book they have at the DMV, my car has a value of $11,000! This really shocked me, especially considering I received the car for free (in OR). (She even showed me the page and she was right...)
So, I gave the lady at the DMV a really sweet deal, she could take my car for $7k, as is.
Needless to say, the first person that genuinely offers me $11k for the car can have it. I know its worth that much, at least to the MN DMV. ;)
Assuming artifical gravity is an internal only feature of the ship, why did he go bouncing across the hull? If artificial gravity isn't strictly an internal feature, why don't other things accelerate towards the ship at a comparable rate, given the change in distance.
(not to bring trek into this)I could see a handy vulnerability to all those 'cloaked' ships if gravity wasn't localized to the internal part of the ship.
This is an American film. It was not made in Japan. As such, it is a landmark. Could you imagine seeing an American made film like this 10 years ago? 5 years? 1 year?
Try Heavy Metal.
Titan AE is no landmark except that its an American animation that isn't necessarily made for children XOR adults. Scratch that, I almost forgot about "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm."
I watched the movie, the storyline was a little cliche but I liked it. My biggest peeve was that I thought virtually all of the aliens were lame. (In the way they were drawn mostly.) The dregs were ok but they seemed a bit too much like overlay when they weren't on a CG background.
Heavy Metal 2 is coming out this summer, watch it and then rewatch Titan AE. If MH2K the step up to HM like its supposed to be, you should be very impressed. :)
I know its dated but I recall Blizzard being available for purchase at one point. I'm sure Diablo, StarCraft & Warcraft would be nice additions to the collective. Well, I would think that anyway.:)
Time will tell whether or not Bungie has truly given up their heritage.
Its sad but I watch Buffy/Angel weekly while I code/play Starcraft.
I can't help but find them funny. Every time Buffy comes on one phrase keeps popping up, "This one time, at band camp...."
Charisma Carpenter is also a nice distraction on Tuesday evenings.
Re:Check out Vampire Miyu. Far creepier.
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I don't know. I really wasn't scared by either one. VPM was ok but I liked D more probably because it had a plot almost taken from "Shane." The find the whole drifter scenario intriguing.
I do like Lain although its a little slow to show up in MN. (Can't afford going out and actually buying the whole thing yet.)
If Terra had higher angular momentum, wouldn't the planet as a whole expand a little? Whether its a significant amount or not is another matter.:)
I could see Terra having a much higher L, meaning there would be an added force to keep the plates closer to the Equator, thus giving sauropods the optimal location for the effects of gravity reduction. (As far as land masses go.)
Then one day, wham! An asteroid hits at an angle such that it not only blocks out the sun for a bit but it hits at an angle that actually reduces L enough that the effects of gravity are felt even more.
The only way I can view the trailers to the new Heavy Metal 2K movie that came with the soundtrack is to connect to a special site to get the "access" to view the data that is already on the CD.
-Veldrane
P.S. Since I purchased my Dreamcast I've played a total of four hours in the last month. For me, at least, it needs a very good RPG like FF series to help it out.
I can imagine the dairy farms you've visited and I know how humans waste natural resources to produce numerous things, grain crops included.
For me, too much of any one thing is bad. From the things I've witnessed first-hand, I believe I can say that nature (and the ecosystem) agrees with this perspective. The ecosystem is a fragile, yet sometimes cruel, system of checks and balances. The genetic engineering of plants to make them bug resistant, for example. Why do people feel that is a necessary endeavor? Because they are going from the basis that insects can be VERY devastating to crops. Why are they devastating? Because the crops are concentrated into very close locations so insects can gorge themselves without having to do a lot of searching. With the removal of natural predators, deer and rodents also become significant parts of this equation.
Another problem with such large fields is that they are usually planted with the same crops each year (soybean, canola & corn are all high profit crops) and this will leach nutrients out of the soil. I'm sure its not as bad as the suffering of an animal but its a scar upon the Earth nonetheless.
Other things I detest in the agriculture market are feedlots and commercial dairy farms. Dairy cattle are being bred (not the same type of genetic engineering as messing directly with the genes but still engineering) in many parallels to those deformed goldfish many people think are cute.
But just because someone uses Napster to pirate mp3s doesn't mean Napster and every single person who uses it are criminals.
Hens in small confined cages, alongside a seemingly infinite row of cages just for the eggs is wrong. Waste management and pest control just to name a couple reasons without hitting the "moral/ethical" reasons. A small number of chickens in a free range environment where a caretaker collects the daily remains of the hen's period is not bad. The chickens seem happy enough to boot.
As far as leaving more or less water, unless you're planning on a space flight, I don't see how eating beef instead of a vegie burger makes a difference. I won't discuss my dismay over the whole "casket" funeral thing. I am just very disappointed that its illegal to be buried in a pine box in the hills of home without my corpse pumped full of preservatives. Such a waste.
I guess the main reason that I don't draw the same conclusions is that I have seen quite a lot. From both sides of the fence and with a lot of the prejudice and bias that is out there. Is it a shame? Hard to say. If it is, my perspective is that its a shame that you haven't seen enough to draw similar conclusions to the ones that I have.
Its a tough claim to state that you stand on firm ground about a subject when you claim that its either all good or all bad. I have yet to see any topic that is either all good or all bad.
Say for example fishing. I don't personally approve of people who catch what they consider "junk fish" only to leave them on the bank to rot. I also don't see it as strictly a recreation. I also see that in some locations, it is an activity that needs to be regulated so as not to destroy it. But I do find that fish make an excellent source of food as well. I also feel that it is ok to get some level of enjoyment out of the activity just as one would get harvesting food out of a garden. I also don't approve of large fish farms because that introduces a lack of variety which is highly vulnerable to problems.
Do you know what kind of cannisters these were? All I know is that a 55 gallon drum of nitric acid sitting around in a non-containment setting is a little crazy. I remember playing with this acid (as well as HCl) in high school. Not the safest thing in the world but teenagers don't always adhere to the rules. From what I can remember, the concentrated nitric acid (both liquids, btw) didn't leave black spots on my arm when they were "accidentally" dripped on me with a rubber stopper, nor did I fall over dead from sniffing the bottle. (No, I'm not a "sniffer!" I just wanted to know what it smelled like...not exactly the brightest thing in the world but curiosity is a weakness at times;)
Although I have a shirt that tells the tale all too well of the effects of conc. HCl and conc. HNO3 (IIRC) on clothing.
Of course, I don't know if they have to keep these containment drums highly pressurized for etching procedures or what, but there are government regulations for the proper handling of chemical (you've seen the 4-colored signs with the numbers signifying severity, right?). This also goes for working in the presence of these hazardous materials. It seems to me highly stupid (of the company) that people would be walking around without the appropriate protective gear. OSHA(I believe) would be on this company for a breach of safety something fierce.
how does clearing the rainforest to produce beef help the eco-system?
This is a strawman argument. I don't support the clearing of the rainforest. The slash-n-burn techniques are not used because they want more land to produce beef. Its primary use is to produce food-bearing flora because of the rich soil.
how does killing most of the whales help the eco-system?
This is yet another strawman argument. I don't make any claims regarding whale harvesting other than they aren't vegetarians and some people seem to think that not being a strict vegetarian is a problem.
how does drinking cow's milk help the eco-system?
Yet another strawman comment? Wow, before you ask these questions in an attempt to distract, how about asking how your eating habits "help" the ecosystem. There isn't a hyphen, btw. How does soymilk help the ecosystem?
I do have a genuine question for you (whether you answer it or not remains to be seen): Do any of your information sources come from things other than those little propaganda pamphlets that litter college campuses?
I admit I know very little about IC's but my understanding is that chips are essentially flat or 2-D. Am I wrong about this? (assuming I'm not) What are the problems with building chips in 3-D? Are there heat dissipation issues that make this unrealistic at the current time? Would this avenue create potentially faster chips (or cubes) by locating different parts closer to the rest?
I guess I'm just thinking how cool it would be to see the next AMD chip shaped like a borg cube sitting inside my box.
I really don't need to delve on your opinions on murder and responsible hunting as I feel other responses did a very adequate job of introducing a new word to your vocabulary, "ecology."
I am genuinely interested in your opinions on how we should handle some of these notorious 'murderers': For the sake of homogenity(sp?) I am assuming you view the death of fish as murder as well.
Big cats (lions, tigers, et al) Wild dogs (including dingos, wolves, foxes, etc) Whales Sharks Bears Centipedes Birds of Prey (Eagles, osprey, falcons) Snakes & other reptiles
How do you view these? Acceptable? Non-relevant? Part of nature? Should we start a crusade to have them wiped out? Or should we try and convert them to vegetarianism? (They kinda are...they eat vegetarians.;) I can't imagine you have a bumper sticker that says, "Kill the Whales!" but I can only guess on that point. Humans are part of this ecosystem that is called Terra. Part of nature. As a species, we aren't herbivores nor are we carnivores. We're omnivores. You know, part of the "Circle of Life" and all that. As a rather nasty species, we've done a real good job of removing the natural predators out of most habitats that we've touched. Usually in the name of greed and "protecting the children." Unfortunately, in order to preserve the ecosystem, we need to either reintroduce those predators (good luck!) or fill that role ourselves.
Personally, I don't have much use or respect for "sport/trophy hunters" because they are so wasteful.
If you don't believe me that animals can be a pest, just read some of the other posts. Or take a trip to the Gettysburg memorial and the overpopulation of deer there. Its such a beautiful site is it not?
Another thing, deer *love* soybeans. If it comes down to you vs. whitetail deer for that food, you can put your money on the fact that the deer will trample and gore you with no second thought to get that food.
And as for the attack on my evil tendencies: I view things as either necessary or not necessary. I tend to remove my emotions from those types of decisions so I can be as efficient and objective as possible. A little cold, yes, but nature/reality isn't some warm cuddly Disney flick. If I'm going to get emotional about snuffing the life out of something, I won't use weapons, I prefer to use my bare hands. (for reference, see my autobiography where I go out to the garden as a child to kill a few carrots by uprooting them.)
-Veldrane
P.S. I don't trip. I get enough enjoyment out of reality.
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Yeah, right.
Do we throw out all the research that the Nazis performed on the Jewish populace under their control? No, we gained a LOT of valuable medical knowledge from their research and experiments.
Good and evil are relative terms in scientific research. Humans, monkeys, rabbits, carrots...to a pure researcher, they're all merely test subjects.
There are a few things that control how much support(money) a research grant will entail, but Good/Evil is not one of them. Rather, its replaced by public opinion.
Perhaps, in itself, that is an evil philosophy.
-Veldrane
Of course, I'm one that firmly believes people should not be penalized for choosing not to have children. If govt wants to give a $1500 tax credit to families for children, a couple with no children should also receive the same tax credit. Perhaps they are saving money to start a family...
Either way, I feel equal rights are important. People shouldn't be penalized for saving.
I know I'm a cold hearted sob but I don't want to support children that aren't my own.
Hehehe, now how's that for flamebait? (or trolling)
-Vel
Not in Minnesota, at least.
My Topaz has a blue book value of about $2,500. According to the make/model/year book they have at the DMV, my car has a value of $11,000!
This really shocked me, especially considering I received the car for free (in OR).
(She even showed me the page and she was right...)
So, I gave the lady at the DMV a really sweet deal, she could take my car for $7k, as is.
Needless to say, the first person that genuinely offers me $11k for the car can have it. I know its worth that much, at least to the MN DMV.
;)
-Vel
I could only testify that it would be consistent.
Assuming artifical gravity is an internal only feature of the ship, why did he go bouncing across the hull?
If artificial gravity isn't strictly an internal feature, why don't other things accelerate towards the ship at a comparable rate, given the change in distance.
(not to bring trek into this)I could see a handy vulnerability to all those 'cloaked' ships if gravity wasn't localized to the internal part of the ship.
Don't forget the whole scene about the roach's gravity generator and then they walk onto the Titan and gravity works as is they're still on earth.
I keep forgetting the movie cliche: gravity only works properly when it is being used as a plot device.
Or the "exhale because we're jumping into open space without pressure suits."
-Vel
Naa, they had to have been eating something with a little more toxicity than crayons...
Of course, I thought the non-CG aliens ranked right up there with Heavy Metal.
Either way, Japanese animation is still way ahead.
This is an American film. It was not made in Japan. As such, it is a landmark. Could you imagine seeing an American made film like this 10 years ago? 5 years? 1 year?
Try Heavy Metal.
Titan AE is no landmark except that its an American animation that isn't necessarily made for children XOR adults. Scratch that, I almost forgot about "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm."
I watched the movie, the storyline was a little cliche but I liked it. My biggest peeve was that I thought virtually all of the aliens were lame. (In the way they were drawn mostly.) The dregs were ok but they seemed a bit too much like overlay when they weren't on a CG background.
Heavy Metal 2 is coming out this summer, watch it and then rewatch Titan AE. If MH2K the step up to HM like its supposed to be, you should be very impressed.
:)
-Vel
I know its dated but I recall Blizzard being available for purchase at one point. :)
I'm sure Diablo, StarCraft & Warcraft would be nice additions to the collective. Well, I would think that anyway.
Time will tell whether or not Bungie has truly given up their heritage.
-Vel
I already subsist on Ramen and Sam's Choice so that's already taken care of. :)
I may have to take a look at Icewind Dale...
-Vel
So it isn't only DE.
-Vel
I've been saving up weeks of vacation for this....
Hehehe...
-Vel
Can't expect everyone to like it...
Mission Impossible 2 had a nigh record weekend and I could care less about such a lame movie.
Of course, if I watched D with the intent of getting scared, I'd have been seriously dissappointed.
Its sad but I watch Buffy/Angel weekly while I code/play Starcraft.
I can't help but find them funny. Every time Buffy comes on one phrase keeps popping up, "This one time, at band camp...."
Charisma Carpenter is also a nice distraction on Tuesday evenings.
I don't know. I really wasn't scared by either one. VPM was ok but I liked D more probably because it had a plot almost taken from "Shane."
The find the whole drifter scenario intriguing.
I do like Lain although its a little slow to show up in MN. (Can't afford going out and actually buying the whole thing yet.)
One of the best in Dark Anime...
If you watch enough anime you'll se a common theme in a lot of the series that reminds me of the daily plot from Power Rangers.
-Vel
It Rules. Esp vol.5 of the 1st series.
Nothing like having a little black pig as an archnemesis.
Others. Records of the Lodoss Wars, Ruin Explorers, Bastard!
-Vel
If Terra had higher angular momentum, wouldn't the planet as a whole expand a little? Whether its a significant amount or not is another matter. :)
I could see Terra having a much higher L, meaning there would be an added force to keep the plates closer to the Equator, thus giving sauropods the optimal location for the effects of gravity reduction. (As far as land masses go.)
Then one day, wham! An asteroid hits at an angle such that it not only blocks out the sun for a bit but it hits at an angle that actually reduces L enough that the effects of gravity are felt even more.
-Vel
Check out HyperCD Technologies.
The only way I can view the trailers to the new Heavy Metal 2K movie that came with the soundtrack is to connect to a special site to get the "access" to view the data that is already on the CD.
-Veldrane
P.S. Since I purchased my Dreamcast I've played a total of four hours in the last month. For me, at least, it needs a very good RPG like FF series to help it out.
I can imagine the dairy farms you've visited and I know how humans waste natural resources to produce numerous things, grain crops included.
For me, too much of any one thing is bad. From the things I've witnessed first-hand, I believe I can say that nature (and the ecosystem) agrees with this perspective. The ecosystem is a fragile, yet sometimes cruel, system of checks and balances.
The genetic engineering of plants to make them bug resistant, for example. Why do people feel that is a necessary endeavor? Because they are going from the basis that insects can be VERY devastating to crops. Why are they devastating? Because the crops are concentrated into very close locations so insects can gorge themselves without having to do a lot of searching. With the removal of natural predators, deer and rodents also become significant parts of this equation.
Another problem with such large fields is that they are usually planted with the same crops each year (soybean, canola & corn are all high profit crops) and this will leach nutrients out of the soil. I'm sure its not as bad as the suffering of an animal but its a scar upon the Earth nonetheless.
Other things I detest in the agriculture market are feedlots and commercial dairy farms. Dairy cattle are being bred (not the same type of genetic engineering as messing directly with the genes but still engineering) in many parallels to those deformed goldfish many people think are cute.
But just because someone uses Napster to pirate mp3s doesn't mean Napster and every single person who uses it are criminals.
Hens in small confined cages, alongside a seemingly infinite row of cages just for the eggs is wrong. Waste management and pest control just to name a couple reasons without hitting the "moral/ethical" reasons.
A small number of chickens in a free range environment where a caretaker collects the daily remains of the hen's period is not bad. The chickens seem happy enough to boot.
As far as leaving more or less water, unless you're planning on a space flight, I don't see how eating beef instead of a vegie burger makes a difference. I won't discuss my dismay over the whole "casket" funeral thing. I am just very disappointed that its illegal to be buried in a pine box in the hills of home without my corpse pumped full of preservatives. Such a waste.
I guess the main reason that I don't draw the same conclusions is that I have seen quite a lot. From both sides of the fence and with a lot of the prejudice and bias that is out there. Is it a shame? Hard to say. If it is, my perspective is that its a shame that you haven't seen enough to draw similar conclusions to the ones that I have.
Its a tough claim to state that you stand on firm ground about a subject when you claim that its either all good or all bad. I have yet to see any topic that is either all good or all bad.
Say for example fishing. I don't personally approve of people who catch what they consider "junk fish" only to leave them on the bank to rot. I also don't see it as strictly a recreation. I also see that in some locations, it is an activity that needs to be regulated so as not to destroy it. But I do find that fish make an excellent source of food as well. I also feel that it is ok to get some level of enjoyment out of the activity just as one would get harvesting food out of a garden.
I also don't approve of large fish farms because that introduces a lack of variety which is highly vulnerable to problems.
I can never remember this so perhaps you can remind me. Which is the proper way to dilute acid?
Pour water into the acid or the acid into the water? I keep thinking its the second.
-Vel
I can see the problem now:
Boss: Blah blah bl...Hey, you're not paying attention to what I have to say!
Peon: Uhh, yeah I am!
Boss: I can see your computer and it just opened a browser to a pr0n site and one to slashdot!
>;)
-Vel
Do you know what kind of cannisters these were? ;)
:)
All I know is that a 55 gallon drum of nitric acid sitting around in a non-containment setting is a little crazy. I remember playing with this acid (as well as HCl) in high school. Not the safest thing in the world but teenagers don't always adhere to the rules. From what I can remember, the concentrated nitric acid (both liquids, btw) didn't leave black spots on my arm when they were "accidentally" dripped on me with a rubber stopper, nor did I fall over dead from sniffing the bottle.
(No, I'm not a "sniffer!" I just wanted to know what it smelled like...not exactly the brightest thing in the world but curiosity is a weakness at times
Although I have a shirt that tells the tale all too well of the effects of conc. HCl and conc. HNO3 (IIRC) on clothing.
Of course, I don't know if they have to keep these containment drums highly pressurized for etching procedures or what, but there are government regulations for the proper handling of chemical (you've seen the 4-colored signs with the numbers signifying severity, right?). This also goes for working in the presence of these hazardous materials. It seems to me highly stupid (of the company) that people would be walking around without the appropriate protective gear. OSHA(I believe) would be on this company for a breach of safety something fierce.
If I'm mistaken, do let me know.
-Vel
how does eating battery hens help the eco-system?
Just what, exactly, is a battery hen?
how does clearing the rainforest to produce beef help the eco-system?
This is a strawman argument.
I don't support the clearing of the rainforest. The slash-n-burn techniques are not used because they want more land to produce beef. Its primary use is to produce food-bearing flora because of the rich soil.
how does killing most of the whales help the eco-system?
This is yet another strawman argument. I don't make any claims regarding whale harvesting other than they aren't vegetarians and some people seem to think that not being a strict vegetarian is a problem.
how does drinking cow's milk help the eco-system?
Yet another strawman comment? Wow, before you ask these questions in an attempt to distract, how about asking how your eating habits "help" the ecosystem. There isn't a hyphen, btw. How does soymilk help the ecosystem?
I do have a genuine question for you (whether you answer it or not remains to be seen): Do any of your information sources come from things other than those little propaganda pamphlets that litter college campuses?
I admit I know very little about IC's but my understanding is that chips are essentially flat or 2-D. Am I wrong about this?
(assuming I'm not)
What are the problems with building chips in 3-D? Are there heat dissipation issues that make this unrealistic at the current time?
Would this avenue create potentially faster chips (or cubes) by locating different parts closer to the rest?
I guess I'm just thinking how cool it would be to see the next AMD chip shaped like a borg cube sitting inside my box.
-Veldrane
I really don't need to delve on your opinions on murder and responsible hunting as I feel other responses did a very adequate job of introducing a new word to your vocabulary, "ecology."
;)
I am genuinely interested in your opinions on how we should handle some of these notorious 'murderers':
For the sake of homogenity(sp?) I am assuming you view the death of fish as murder as well.
Big cats (lions, tigers, et al)
Wild dogs (including dingos, wolves, foxes, etc)
Whales
Sharks
Bears
Centipedes
Birds of Prey (Eagles, osprey, falcons)
Snakes & other reptiles
How do you view these? Acceptable? Non-relevant? Part of nature?
Should we start a crusade to have them wiped out?
Or should we try and convert them to vegetarianism? (They kinda are...they eat vegetarians.
I can't imagine you have a bumper sticker that says, "Kill the Whales!" but I can only guess on that point.
Humans are part of this ecosystem that is called Terra. Part of nature. As a species, we aren't herbivores nor are we carnivores. We're omnivores.
You know, part of the "Circle of Life" and all that.
As a rather nasty species, we've done a real good job of removing the natural predators out of most habitats that we've touched. Usually in the name of greed and "protecting the children."
Unfortunately, in order to preserve the ecosystem, we need to either reintroduce those predators (good luck!) or fill that role ourselves.
Personally, I don't have much use or respect for "sport/trophy hunters" because they are so wasteful.
If you don't believe me that animals can be a pest, just read some of the other posts. Or take a trip to the Gettysburg memorial and the overpopulation of deer there. Its such a beautiful site is it not?
Another thing, deer *love* soybeans. If it comes down to you vs. whitetail deer for that food, you can put your money on the fact that the deer will trample and gore you with no second thought to get that food.
And as for the attack on my evil tendencies: I view things as either necessary or not necessary. I tend to remove my emotions from those types of decisions so I can be as efficient and objective as possible. A little cold, yes, but nature/reality isn't some warm cuddly Disney flick.
If I'm going to get emotional about snuffing the life out of something, I won't use weapons, I prefer to use my bare hands. (for reference, see my autobiography where I go out to the garden as a child to kill a few carrots by uprooting them.)
-Veldrane
P.S. I don't trip. I get enough enjoyment out of reality.