Oh, for goodness sake, there's nothing anti-semitic about being opposed to the political stance of Israel. That'd be a bit like saying it was anti-Atheist to dislike the Soviet Union. And the secret Jewish conspiracy is being rolled out? Hmm, the Illuminati and Knights Templar can't be far off!
No-one's asking the US to invade Saudi. They are asking it to stop SUPPORTING Saudi. There's more to life than grant political failures or invade, you know.
The EU has succeeded in its regulation of lead products and a number of other things, and may soon be influencing the LAWS of other major countries; a law coming into effect in the next few years will ban importation of cosmetics from countries who permit testing of cosmetics on animals. I suspect it will hold its ground on this too.
Bear in mind that Europe is currently undergoing massive expansion and "harmonisation", which is likely to generate vast new bureaucracy (this isn't meant as a derogatory term; the EU's the best thing that ever happened to my country and has improved things immesurably over the past 30 years here) and unified health computer systems and so on. I'm sure MS wouldn't like to be barred from bidding on these...
Probably overjoyed at the thought that someone might write them a free compiler, really. The more people working on writing stuff for that weird architecture the better from their point of view, I'm sure.
B12 was until recently almost exclusively animal-derived. Modern biotech has changed that in the last few years tho.
And you're dead wrong about 'concentration' of food, btw. Sure, eating grass would be inefficient; we're not geared up for it. But eating protein-rich vegetable-matter is just as efficient as bits of cow, from the human's point of view, and many times more efficient from a total energy wasteage point of view; for every 100 joules that go into the cow you get less than a joule out. (Not a vegetarian myself, btw, but felt this required comment).
And overindulgence in meat is one of the major reasons that America is now the land of the wobble-bottom;) Eating meat on a regular basis for the majority of people is quite a new thing.
Those who eat members of their own species tend to die horribly, btw;)(Kuru)
If you're vegetarian for ethical reasons, it actually makes little sense to eat eggs (or milk) but not meat. If you're vegetarian for cultural, health, economic or yuck-factor reasons, it makes more sense.
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Sony added steel to early Trinitrons, 'cause customers in the west were suspicious of these new (comparitively) light TVs.
That's not particularly accurate, you know. The pseudo-communist state in China arose out of a civil war, not a conventional revolution.
Oh, for goodness sake, there's nothing anti-semitic about being opposed to the political stance of Israel. That'd be a bit like saying it was anti-Atheist to dislike the Soviet Union. And the secret Jewish conspiracy is being rolled out? Hmm, the Illuminati and Knights Templar can't be far off!
No-one's asking the US to invade Saudi. They are asking it to stop SUPPORTING Saudi. There's more to life than grant political failures or invade, you know.
Stranger things have happened; remember Dimitri Sklyarov?
The EU has succeeded in its regulation of lead products and a number of other things, and may soon be influencing the LAWS of other major countries; a law coming into effect in the next few years will ban importation of cosmetics from countries who permit testing of cosmetics on animals. I suspect it will hold its ground on this too.
Bear in mind that Europe is currently undergoing massive expansion and "harmonisation", which is likely to generate vast new bureaucracy (this isn't meant as a derogatory term; the EU's the best thing that ever happened to my country and has improved things immesurably over the past 30 years here) and unified health computer systems and so on. I'm sure MS wouldn't like to be barred from bidding on these...
Eventually resulting in the European Commission aquiring all the money in the world.
Probably overjoyed at the thought that someone might write them a free compiler, really. The more people working on writing stuff for that weird architecture the better from their point of view, I'm sure.
B12 was until recently almost exclusively animal-derived. Modern biotech has changed that in the last few years tho. And you're dead wrong about 'concentration' of food, btw. Sure, eating grass would be inefficient; we're not geared up for it. But eating protein-rich vegetable-matter is just as efficient as bits of cow, from the human's point of view, and many times more efficient from a total energy wasteage point of view; for every 100 joules that go into the cow you get less than a joule out. (Not a vegetarian myself, btw, but felt this required comment). And overindulgence in meat is one of the major reasons that America is now the land of the wobble-bottom ;) Eating meat on a regular basis for the majority of people is quite a new thing.
Those who eat members of their own species tend to die horribly, btw ;)(Kuru)
If you're vegetarian for ethical reasons, it actually makes little sense to eat eggs (or milk) but not meat. If you're vegetarian for cultural, health, economic or yuck-factor reasons, it makes more sense.