Growing meat is _not_ necessarily less efficient than growing crops. Welsh lamb, for example - the sheep are often let loose on non-agricultural land, and require very little maintenance. You could not do anything with that land, in terms of growing crops, without massive innefficiencies. If we were to go to mars, man hours would be a very valuable resource, and managing crops in innapropriate terrain which livestock could easily graze seems a stupid waste of people's time.
Right. Vegan diets are extremely unhealthy for pregnant women and young children, even leading to miscarriage, disfigurement or death.
Not with supplements. It's only nutjob vegans who attempt it without supplements, the vast majority of vegans accept that a pure vegan diet is not healthy without dietary supplements. A vegan diet with supplements is just as healthy as a normal diet AFAIK.
I succumbed and installed MSE a little while ago after hearing good things about it... it found one virus in a zip file (which I knew was dodgy, and had never run), then proceeded to hose my system on reboot. Repeated BSOD reboot, Vista64. It's the only OS crash I've ever had since running Vista (apart from during installation). I had to do a system restore from a few days prior - worked better than I expected, tbh. I'm not going to touch consumer antivirus ever again on my system.
Freedom of speech doesn't imply the freedom to publish - or threaten to publish - someone else's work without their permission.
Freedom of speech does not only imply that, it expressly allows that, by its very name. If there are restrictions on freedom of speech, it is not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is nonexistant in any current society, and for good reason IMO. This weird definition of "freedom of speech" that some people have that has loads of caveats is not freedom of speech, it's purely demarcation of allowed speech in certain areas. The sooner people get used to the fact that speech is restricted _all the time_, the faster society will get better.
Copyright is a direct restriction on free speech. It's always been so, and (probably) always will be. Most Americans believe the advantages gained from their copyright laws outweigh the restrictions on their speech. _Some_ Americans are deluded enough to believe they have the absolute right to free speech except for shouting fire in a crowded theatre, but they are not in the majority.
“In terms of effect on the world, it’s very good that I’ve lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn’t do it. But I sure wish I hadn’t had so much pain.”
To be honest, this quote strikes me as something that a self-important emo would say. All I can think when reading it is that he's relatively well off, he's relatively well respected, and he's moaning like fuck about it. I feel a hell of a lot more sympathy for those with his talent who have been ground down and not managed to obtain what he has.
I not denigrating what he has done here, it's just the way it comes across to me.
Some of these images were flashed for up to 80ms.... that seems like far from subliminal to me. If you're not noticing an image in from of you for almost 1/10th of a second, you've got bigger problems than a fast food short attention span association.
As much as everyone hates to deny it, calories are basically the only things that matter. It doesn't matter if you get them by carbs or fats, if you eat too many calories, you'll get fatter. People rant about different diets... eg the atkins. They did a study of people doing Atkins diets, and they found that the people who lost weight took in less calories. It wasn't about carbs or fat, it was just purely less calories.
Some people (like me) genuinely take a long time deciding - I will be thinking about what I want to order from the time I get in the line, but occasionally can't decide between two items, and eventually have to decide to be dissatisfied with which ever decision I make.
That's absolutely fine as long as you do it on your time. If you start doing it on my time, I'm going to get a little pissed off.
I do know that dogs and cats have souls. Some humans don't.
You do know that dogs and cats are engineered to get along with humans, by humans, don't you? So if they have a soul, then we have created it. Actually I'll stop fucking about - that comment is moronic beyond all categorisation. You have set yourself up to judge which entities have souls, it just happens to coincide with animals that we've bred to live alongside us, and excludes some "nasty" humans in your opinion.
IMO... Dogs and cats don't have souls. People don't have souls. Arguing about souls does not actually mean anything, nor accomplish anything, especially if you are arbitrarily assigning souls to entities that you like.
BTW - Volcanic winters aren't generally caused by any clever chemical reactions - they're mainly caused by the fact that there's a lot of crap in the atmosphere, therefore less sunlight hits the earth. The Sulphuric acid haze (which was only part of the effect) was only effective in cooling because it blocked sunlight.
I'm English, but I grew up in Oman, so I do know hot (it has hit 50C in the shade there). Despite that, none of the cars over there had air-con. You just didn't _ever_ park in the sun, and drank lots. Most of the houses did have air-con though, and you learned to live with it - you never went out in mid summer:P.
This past winter the UK has been frozen for weeks at a time, as well as having quite a lot of snowfall... and the UK is one of the warmer places in Europe. I live relatively near London, and all standing water was frozen solid for over a month this year. I think it hit about -15C here, it got colder further north. The year before last it hit 35C in London in _May_ too (but that was unusual).
All that being said, England is between 5 and 20C about 90% of the time, so I do understand your point. However, we do know what hot is, and we know what cold is... we just don't see either that regularly. One thing about the UK is that night and day don't show much of a temperature difference usually...
Another thing about the UK that people don't realise - where my parents live gets about 12 inches of rain annually, ie 1 inch of rain a month... that is super unusual for the UK though:P.
Test flights have resulted in relatively worrying problems. Those were not computer models. Airspace closures have been enacted on the "better safe than sorry" principal, but would you really want to be the official to stand up to the press if a commercial airliner came down because of this? The airspace closures were absolutely _not_ entirely based on computer models, there is lots of clear evidence there is volcanic ash in the atmosphere over much of northern Europe at the moment.
I'm all for calling the goverment out for nannying when they are, but I'm not sure they are now. Unless you know something no one else in the world does - ie. the extent and density of the volcanic ash, you've got no real basis for assertions of fearmongering.
Or it could be that _everyone_ wants solid state devices now, and they're difficult to manufacture en mass quickly? There's no need for a global conspiracy theory here, it's just boring old supply and demand.
Note that supply and demand looks a lot like collusion in many cases - When the demand rises, all suppliers automatically will increase prices at about the same time to reflect the market. The best answer is to wait until the product gets cheap, which _will_ happen soon(ish).
Of course you've got a right to bitch about other people doing something that doesn't harm you. If you didn't have that right, you couldn't complain about that child murdering cannibalistic cult just down the road, that keeps itself to itself.
Not unimportant does not mean the same thing as important, in the same way that not unnecessary does not mean the same thing as necessary. I'm not saying GP used it right, but double negatives like this convey different meanings.
There is a desire to procreate. However, rich white people are not doing so... from the BBC : "Britain's ethnic minorities are growing at 15 times the rate of the white population, newly-published research shows."
Europe's indigenous population has been stable for _ages_, and is currently decreasing.
Basically what I'm guessing here is that cultural factors are causing this drop in birthrate, and the biological desire to procreate just isn't strong enough to overcome those factors. That's just my guess... but it is absolute fact the indigenous European populace is shrinking.
Yep, that'd be fair. Well, that is unless smokers weren't already taxed on their habit. Wait, how many billions do smokers contribute again? Way more than they use on healthcare?
Go look at the figures and one you realise how much smokers are actually subsidising plans like medicare you may have a different opinion.
I think any reasonable person would agree that narcotic addition is rarely (if ever) less than fundamentally negative for people and society in general.
Just about every single civilization on earth has had narcotic use central to regular social and/or spiritual gatherings. Addiction is a relative term.
I don't know how cocaine is rated so high there. As I said in a previous post, there are an estimated 1 million users in the UK. I'll go from personal experience here - everyone who I know who has used held down a decent job, and were good people in society. I used to use, but I got caught once, and moved on because I can't afford to get caught again. I used occasional weekends, and it was great. It did absolutely 0 harm to my work, did 0 harm to my social life. I quit it just because of the illegality..
I know in lab tests on rats cocaine is a scary drug. Rats dependant on both heroin and cocaine will always hit the cocaine first when withdrawing. However, fuck rats.... also fuck other people who can't control themselves. I want regulated drugs, not this illegal underground where anyone who wants anything can get it anytime they want. If I want to kill myself slowly, tax me at least.
Meh... like I said in a previous post, I moved on to mephedrone, and from tomorrow will probably try naphyrone.
I notice you've not mentioned any "bad" drugs in your list of things you enjoy. Personally, I agree with you, I think absolute banning of any drug is completely stupid, and infringes citizen's rights. I don't take cocaine any more because I got caught once, and if I get caught again, I'll probably be at least on community service. So I've been taking less well know drugs, which are legal, like mephedrone. That's becoming illegal tomorrow here (UK), so I'll move on to something like naphyrone.
Regulation is key, but banning stuff is stupid. There are an estimate one million cocaine users in the UK... that of a total population of 60 million or so. Cocaine possession has a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison. Imprisoning responsible users of drugs is absolutely suicidal for the government, since it'd have to lock at least 5% of the adult working population up.
I _absolutely_ agree that people should be held accountable for their actions, whether high, drunk, or anything. The war on drugs has not worked, at all. What it has done is criminalised loads of people who should not have been criminalised. What it has also done is pushed people onto legal drugs that may well be more harmful. Like I said before, I absolutely agree with regulation, and even taxation of drugs... banning them has been shown to absolutely not work.
Tax from cigarettes = 8.1 Billion.
NHS spending on cigarette related illness = 1.7 Billion.
These are UK statistics, per year. Honestly, don't worry about us smokers costing you money, worry about where the money would come from otherwise. Cigarette taxpayers in the UK are funding non-smokers, many times over what the extra costs are from being a smoker.
In the UK there are plenty of motorways with very restricted exits, and very few service stations. The M11 is about 60 miles long, has about 10 junctions (some of them 1 way, so if you leave you can't get back on), and 1 service station. If you don't know which exit is ok to leave at, you can end up going cross-country for 10 miles.
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Growing meat is _not_ necessarily less efficient than growing crops. Welsh lamb, for example - the sheep are often let loose on non-agricultural land, and require very little maintenance. You could not do anything with that land, in terms of growing crops, without massive innefficiencies. If we were to go to mars, man hours would be a very valuable resource, and managing crops in innapropriate terrain which livestock could easily graze seems a stupid waste of people's time.
Right. Vegan diets are extremely unhealthy for pregnant women and young children, even leading to miscarriage, disfigurement or death.
Not with supplements. It's only nutjob vegans who attempt it without supplements, the vast majority of vegans accept that a pure vegan diet is not healthy without dietary supplements. A vegan diet with supplements is just as healthy as a normal diet AFAIK.
I succumbed and installed MSE a little while ago after hearing good things about it... it found one virus in a zip file (which I knew was dodgy, and had never run), then proceeded to hose my system on reboot. Repeated BSOD reboot, Vista64. It's the only OS crash I've ever had since running Vista (apart from during installation). I had to do a system restore from a few days prior - worked better than I expected, tbh. I'm not going to touch consumer antivirus ever again on my system.
Freedom of speech doesn't imply the freedom to publish - or threaten to publish - someone else's work without their permission.
Freedom of speech does not only imply that, it expressly allows that, by its very name. If there are restrictions on freedom of speech, it is not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is nonexistant in any current society, and for good reason IMO. This weird definition of "freedom of speech" that some people have that has loads of caveats is not freedom of speech, it's purely demarcation of allowed speech in certain areas. The sooner people get used to the fact that speech is restricted _all the time_, the faster society will get better.
Copyright is a direct restriction on free speech. It's always been so, and (probably) always will be. Most Americans believe the advantages gained from their copyright laws outweigh the restrictions on their speech. _Some_ Americans are deluded enough to believe they have the absolute right to free speech except for shouting fire in a crowded theatre, but they are not in the majority.
Absolute free speech is far from desirable.
“In terms of effect on the world, it’s very good that I’ve lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn’t do it. But I sure wish I hadn’t had so much pain.”
To be honest, this quote strikes me as something that a self-important emo would say. All I can think when reading it is that he's relatively well off, he's relatively well respected, and he's moaning like fuck about it. I feel a hell of a lot more sympathy for those with his talent who have been ground down and not managed to obtain what he has.
I not denigrating what he has done here, it's just the way it comes across to me.
Some of these images were flashed for up to 80ms.... that seems like far from subliminal to me. If you're not noticing an image in from of you for almost 1/10th of a second, you've got bigger problems than a fast food short attention span association.
As much as everyone hates to deny it, calories are basically the only things that matter. It doesn't matter if you get them by carbs or fats, if you eat too many calories, you'll get fatter. People rant about different diets... eg the atkins. They did a study of people doing Atkins diets, and they found that the people who lost weight took in less calories. It wasn't about carbs or fat, it was just purely less calories.
Some people (like me) genuinely take a long time deciding - I will be thinking about what I want to order from the time I get in the line, but occasionally can't decide between two items, and eventually have to decide to be dissatisfied with which ever decision I make.
That's absolutely fine as long as you do it on your time. If you start doing it on my time, I'm going to get a little pissed off.
I do know that dogs and cats have souls. Some humans don't.
You do know that dogs and cats are engineered to get along with humans, by humans, don't you? So if they have a soul, then we have created it. Actually I'll stop fucking about - that comment is moronic beyond all categorisation. You have set yourself up to judge which entities have souls, it just happens to coincide with animals that we've bred to live alongside us, and excludes some "nasty" humans in your opinion.
IMO... Dogs and cats don't have souls. People don't have souls. Arguing about souls does not actually mean anything, nor accomplish anything, especially if you are arbitrarily assigning souls to entities that you like.
BTW - Volcanic winters aren't generally caused by any clever chemical reactions - they're mainly caused by the fact that there's a lot of crap in the atmosphere, therefore less sunlight hits the earth. The Sulphuric acid haze (which was only part of the effect) was only effective in cooling because it blocked sunlight.
I'm English, but I grew up in Oman, so I do know hot (it has hit 50C in the shade there). Despite that, none of the cars over there had air-con. You just didn't _ever_ park in the sun, and drank lots. Most of the houses did have air-con though, and you learned to live with it - you never went out in mid summer :P.
This past winter the UK has been frozen for weeks at a time, as well as having quite a lot of snowfall... and the UK is one of the warmer places in Europe. I live relatively near London, and all standing water was frozen solid for over a month this year. I think it hit about -15C here, it got colder further north. The year before last it hit 35C in London in _May_ too (but that was unusual).
All that being said, England is between 5 and 20C about 90% of the time, so I do understand your point. However, we do know what hot is, and we know what cold is... we just don't see either that regularly. One thing about the UK is that night and day don't show much of a temperature difference usually...
Another thing about the UK that people don't realise - where my parents live gets about 12 inches of rain annually, ie 1 inch of rain a month... that is super unusual for the UK though :P.
Test flights have resulted in relatively worrying problems. Those were not computer models. Airspace closures have been enacted on the "better safe than sorry" principal, but would you really want to be the official to stand up to the press if a commercial airliner came down because of this? The airspace closures were absolutely _not_ entirely based on computer models, there is lots of clear evidence there is volcanic ash in the atmosphere over much of northern Europe at the moment.
I'm all for calling the goverment out for nannying when they are, but I'm not sure they are now. Unless you know something no one else in the world does - ie. the extent and density of the volcanic ash, you've got no real basis for assertions of fearmongering.
Or it could be that _everyone_ wants solid state devices now, and they're difficult to manufacture en mass quickly? There's no need for a global conspiracy theory here, it's just boring old supply and demand.
Note that supply and demand looks a lot like collusion in many cases - When the demand rises, all suppliers automatically will increase prices at about the same time to reflect the market. The best answer is to wait until the product gets cheap, which _will_ happen soon(ish).
Of course you've got a right to bitch about other people doing something that doesn't harm you. If you didn't have that right, you couldn't complain about that child murdering cannibalistic cult just down the road, that keeps itself to itself.
Not unimportant does not mean the same thing as important, in the same way that not unnecessary does not mean the same thing as necessary. I'm not saying GP used it right, but double negatives like this convey different meanings.
There is a desire to procreate. However, rich white people are not doing so... from the BBC : "Britain's ethnic minorities are growing at 15 times the rate of the white population, newly-published research shows."
Europe's indigenous population has been stable for _ages_, and is currently decreasing.
Basically what I'm guessing here is that cultural factors are causing this drop in birthrate, and the biological desire to procreate just isn't strong enough to overcome those factors. That's just my guess... but it is absolute fact the indigenous European populace is shrinking.
Yep, that'd be fair. Well, that is unless smokers weren't already taxed on their habit. Wait, how many billions do smokers contribute again? Way more than they use on healthcare?
Go look at the figures and one you realise how much smokers are actually subsidising plans like medicare you may have a different opinion.
I think any reasonable person would agree that narcotic addition is rarely (if ever) less than fundamentally negative for people and society in general.
Just about every single civilization on earth has had narcotic use central to regular social and/or spiritual gatherings. Addiction is a relative term.
I don't know how cocaine is rated so high there. As I said in a previous post, there are an estimated 1 million users in the UK. I'll go from personal experience here - everyone who I know who has used held down a decent job, and were good people in society. I used to use, but I got caught once, and moved on because I can't afford to get caught again. I used occasional weekends, and it was great. It did absolutely 0 harm to my work, did 0 harm to my social life. I quit it just because of the illegality..
I know in lab tests on rats cocaine is a scary drug. Rats dependant on both heroin and cocaine will always hit the cocaine first when withdrawing. However, fuck rats.... also fuck other people who can't control themselves. I want regulated drugs, not this illegal underground where anyone who wants anything can get it anytime they want. If I want to kill myself slowly, tax me at least.
Meh... like I said in a previous post, I moved on to mephedrone, and from tomorrow will probably try naphyrone.
I notice you've not mentioned any "bad" drugs in your list of things you enjoy. Personally, I agree with you, I think absolute banning of any drug is completely stupid, and infringes citizen's rights. I don't take cocaine any more because I got caught once, and if I get caught again, I'll probably be at least on community service. So I've been taking less well know drugs, which are legal, like mephedrone. That's becoming illegal tomorrow here (UK), so I'll move on to something like naphyrone.
Regulation is key, but banning stuff is stupid. There are an estimate one million cocaine users in the UK... that of a total population of 60 million or so. Cocaine possession has a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison. Imprisoning responsible users of drugs is absolutely suicidal for the government, since it'd have to lock at least 5% of the adult working population up.
I _absolutely_ agree that people should be held accountable for their actions, whether high, drunk, or anything. The war on drugs has not worked, at all. What it has done is criminalised loads of people who should not have been criminalised. What it has also done is pushed people onto legal drugs that may well be more harmful. Like I said before, I absolutely agree with regulation, and even taxation of drugs... banning them has been shown to absolutely not work.
See my reply above. Smokers contribute way more in taxes than they cost medically.
Tax from cigarettes = 8.1 Billion.
NHS spending on cigarette related illness = 1.7 Billion.
These are UK statistics, per year. Honestly, don't worry about us smokers costing you money, worry about where the money would come from otherwise. Cigarette taxpayers in the UK are funding non-smokers, many times over what the extra costs are from being a smoker.
I doubt that that film can be remade better.
I know, I know.... she could have _four_ tits in the remake!
In the UK there are plenty of motorways with very restricted exits, and very few service stations. The M11 is about 60 miles long, has about 10 junctions (some of them 1 way, so if you leave you can't get back on), and 1 service station. If you don't know which exit is ok to leave at, you can end up going cross-country for 10 miles.