It is only when I hear global warming 'debunking' coming from someone who willingly commutes ten miles to work every day by bicycle that I will lend it any credence as being, beyond question, objective.
Can I crash at your place again? Just one more night?...Couch surfer. I'm couch surfing. I'm a couch surfer, Locked on the inside. I'm locked in but you locked me on the outside, Inside of no longer me; Move to tears beyond into a pond of cool quivers. My being shivers. I'm pure energy beyond the sun, I'm utterly complete union: I'm a couch surfer. Mind if I eat those chips? Oh, that's okay, I don't like salt and vinegar anyways. No, I didn't use Pay-Per-View......I figured it was free.
One can find a way to fit anything into at least one/. section; does that mean it's a defensible action? The politics section here is [not explicitly, but very arguably] for science- and technology-related politics only. See where it says 'Politics for nerds?'
This is not to say that I don't think this is important news. But really -- it's not like Saddam's lawyer made a metaphor about the internet as a series of tubes in his closing statements. If I wanted to be informed about pertinent current events, I'd read the New York Times.
Yours was an anecdotally-based generalization. Thus my anecdotal evidence was valid for the purpose of a counter-example. Anecdotal was all I was shooting for.
As for that long string of tangential straw-man attacking [When did cholesterol enter into the discussion?], I have nothing to say.
And I'll be the first one to admit that a 100% strict vegan diet depends upon a certain level of development. However, so do most of our diets these days. Really, as long as we are not out there farming, foraging, and hunting and trapping our own food, we are all sons of bitches. And I mean that -- all of us.
One wonders, too, about the level of "manufactured crap" in your own diet, friend benzapp.
[Preface: I normally make it a point not to get riled up over the internet, but I frankly can't stand this kind of crap.]
I encourage you to go to www.mikemahler.com and never say "vegan pussy" again. Or the website of any one of many vegan strongmen, marathon runners, or bodybuilders. I myself have been vegan for five years, almost, and I'm willing to bet that I could give you a run for your money in, among others, a one-armed pushup or cardiovascular endurance contest. [7 with each arm, approximately 5 miles run a day.]
Implying that veganism dooms one into being a scrawny wimp is like implying that omnivorism dooms one into being overweight -- anecdotally supported, but wholly wrong.
..."the tactile joy of owning a physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a credit card number into iTunes."
First off, your eternal forgiveness all if it shows through, but I did not RTFA. That said:
My senior year of high school was the pilot year for a mandatory '1:1 eLearning Initiative', which gave a crisp Sony Vaio laptop to each student for a pittance of an insurance deposit. Essentially, as great a learning tool as a laptop can be in eager hands [It's a fantastic one.], during that year, I observed a level of lollygagging and general poor manners that outshone my previous three years' highschool experience combined. Students have been slacking for years with pens and paper, but if you give them a bunch of shiny widgets to play around with and a devil-may-care, laptop-as-only-and-supreme-learning-tool administration, what you get is a bunch of bored teenagers with a veritable mandate to be ill-mannered cockmouths in class. That year of school was a year of daily and recurrent disgust at the depth of the treadmarks that a class full of students can leave on a teacher whose power to hold his/her students' attention has been hopelessly marginalized. No matter the subject or curriculum, if the laptops were opened for any reason, what resulted was a bunch of introverted flash-game diddling, e-mail chit-chatting, etc., etc.
...there is a limit to the amount of criticism that can be heaped on a president who puts on a sweater to cut down on the White House heating bill. Just PR, maybe, but my kind of PR.
Actually, no, a just dessert would be the people actually performing the tests being subjected to their own battery of testing. This is a basic eye-for-an-eye sort of equivalency. The just dessert for the ALF would be subjecting them to threats and attempted firebombings.
So, call me crazy here, but in the face of literacy rates and scant internet access, why put forth the time and effort to create a lame-duck African-language Wikipedia? There are plenty of Wikimedia efforts that could use those intellectual man-hours, if the world isn't ready for an African Wikipedia at the very moment.
Why don't you come out and admit you empathize with these animals and can't stand the fact that they are being "exploited" for science? And at the same time ignore the 100 million animals hunted each year, and the 150 million large mammals killed for agriculture, and the hundreds of millions of rats poisoned each year? Eat your McDonald's cheeseburger on the way to the next UCLA Primate Freedom rally!
I don't hunt, eat meat or animal products, or poison rats -- those conditionals being satisfied, am I allowed to empathize with the macaque monkeys, then? [I'll assume not, as I just admitted to being a vegan, thus negating my right to an opinion with a very special sort of rhetorical leprosy.]
And this is not, by the way, in support of firebombing old women -- I just had to pick this ad absurdum nit so, so badly.
Crazy devil's advocate idea here, but what's to say they didn't make it a dud on purpose? There are some bad criminals out there, but they did have the fellow's home number, and a Molotov cocktail is not exactly rocket science to detonate.
Furthermore, as destructive as their actions may be to property, ELF and ALF activists are vewry characteristically anti-murder. If you look at a large number of ELF and ALF actions, you'll find that in many of them someone 'almost' gets hurt. But, morality of property damage aside, it's only non-living matter that ever bears the brunt of their actions.
I myself am no supporter of eco- and animal rights terrorism, but I understand where these people are coming from, and I don't think they're as stupid a lot of amoral bunglers as the media would have us think.
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It is only when I hear global warming 'debunking' coming from someone who willingly commutes ten miles to work every day by bicycle that I will lend it any credence as being, beyond question, objective.
Has the definition of 'troll' changed while I was at work?
Can I crash at your place again? ...Couch surfer. ...I figured it was free.
...Yeah, I'm going.
Just one more night?
I'm couch surfing. I'm a couch surfer,
Locked on the inside.
I'm locked in but you locked me on the outside,
Inside of no longer me;
Move to tears beyond into a pond of cool quivers.
My being shivers.
I'm pure energy beyond the sun,
I'm utterly complete union:
I'm a couch surfer.
Mind if I eat those chips?
Oh, that's okay,
I don't like salt and vinegar anyways.
No, I didn't use Pay-Per-View...
Alright, and?
/. section; does that mean it's a defensible action? The politics section here is [not explicitly, but very arguably] for science- and technology-related politics only. See where it says 'Politics for nerds?'
/. to get away from hearing about Iraq.
One can find a way to fit anything into at least one
This is not to say that I don't think this is important news. But really -- it's not like Saddam's lawyer made a metaphor about the internet as a series of tubes in his closing statements. If I wanted to be informed about pertinent current events, I'd read the New York Times.
I come to
...this has NO business on SlashDot.
Actually, I totally agree. It was the first and last time I will ever use it. You can mark my words.
I, for one, welcome our new three-trick pony overlords.
I love you.
Yours was an anecdotally-based generalization. Thus my anecdotal evidence was valid for the purpose of a counter-example. Anecdotal was all I was shooting for.
As for that long string of tangential straw-man attacking [When did cholesterol enter into the discussion?], I have nothing to say.
And I'll be the first one to admit that a 100% strict vegan diet depends upon a certain level of development. However, so do most of our diets these days. Really, as long as we are not out there farming, foraging, and hunting and trapping our own food, we are all sons of bitches. And I mean that -- all of us.
One wonders, too, about the level of "manufactured crap" in your own diet, friend benzapp.
[Preface: I normally make it a point not to get riled up over the internet, but I frankly can't stand this kind of crap.]
I encourage you to go to www.mikemahler.com and never say "vegan pussy" again. Or the website of any one of many vegan strongmen, marathon runners, or bodybuilders. I myself have been vegan for five years, almost, and I'm willing to bet that I could give you a run for your money in, among others, a one-armed pushup or cardiovascular endurance contest. [7 with each arm, approximately 5 miles run a day.]
Implying that veganism dooms one into being a scrawny wimp is like implying that omnivorism dooms one into being overweight -- anecdotally supported, but wholly wrong.
Good day, sir.
Pardon me, *World Maggot.
Using our convenient Earth Maggot saddles... [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138813/]
..."the tactile joy of owning a physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a credit card number into iTunes."
Remember: 'joy' is read 'cred'.
Please.
First off, your eternal forgiveness all if it shows through, but I did not RTFA. That said:
My senior year of high school was the pilot year for a mandatory '1:1 eLearning Initiative', which gave a crisp Sony Vaio laptop to each student for a pittance of an insurance deposit. Essentially, as great a learning tool as a laptop can be in eager hands [It's a fantastic one.], during that year, I observed a level of lollygagging and general poor manners that outshone my previous three years' highschool experience combined. Students have been slacking for years with pens and paper, but if you give them a bunch of shiny widgets to play around with and a devil-may-care, laptop-as-only-and-supreme-learning-tool administration, what you get is a bunch of bored teenagers with a veritable mandate to be ill-mannered cockmouths in class. That year of school was a year of daily and recurrent disgust at the depth of the treadmarks that a class full of students can leave on a teacher whose power to hold his/her students' attention has been hopelessly marginalized. No matter the subject or curriculum, if the laptops were opened for any reason, what resulted was a bunch of introverted flash-game diddling, e-mail chit-chatting, etc., etc.
Erm, incoherent, blahsy-blah. Hurm. [/ranting][/raving]
But, yeah, in my opinion, America's youth are not socially apt or courteous enough to handle the power of a laptop in school.
...there is a limit to the amount of criticism that can be heaped on a president who puts on a sweater to cut down on the White House heating bill. Just PR, maybe, but my kind of PR.
...is people remembering to turn off the light when they leave a room. And you know who you are.
Actually, no, a just dessert would be the people actually performing the tests being subjected to their own battery of testing. This is a basic eye-for-an-eye sort of equivalency. The just dessert for the ALF would be subjecting them to threats and attempted firebombings.
So, call me crazy here, but in the face of literacy rates and scant internet access, why put forth the time and effort to create a lame-duck African-language Wikipedia? There are plenty of Wikimedia efforts that could use those intellectual man-hours, if the world isn't ready for an African Wikipedia at the very moment.
Why don't you come out and admit you empathize with these animals and can't stand the fact that they are being "exploited" for science? And at the same time ignore the 100 million animals hunted each year, and the 150 million large mammals killed for agriculture, and the hundreds of millions of rats poisoned each year? Eat your McDonald's cheeseburger on the way to the next UCLA Primate Freedom rally!
I don't hunt, eat meat or animal products, or poison rats -- those conditionals being satisfied, am I allowed to empathize with the macaque monkeys, then? [I'll assume not, as I just admitted to being a vegan, thus negating my right to an opinion with a very special sort of rhetorical leprosy.]
And this is not, by the way, in support of firebombing old women -- I just had to pick this ad absurdum nit so, so badly.
Ah, Preview button, how I passed thee over. 'Very', that should be, and a couple of timely indentations also are lacking.
For the love of God, mod parent up.
Yes, man is the only primate ever to have shown abstract thought.
Crazy devil's advocate idea here, but what's to say they didn't make it a dud on purpose? There are some bad criminals out there, but they did have the fellow's home number, and a Molotov cocktail is not exactly rocket science to detonate. Furthermore, as destructive as their actions may be to property, ELF and ALF activists are vewry characteristically anti-murder. If you look at a large number of ELF and ALF actions, you'll find that in many of them someone 'almost' gets hurt. But, morality of property damage aside, it's only non-living matter that ever bears the brunt of their actions. I myself am no supporter of eco- and animal rights terrorism, but I understand where these people are coming from, and I don't think they're as stupid a lot of amoral bunglers as the media would have us think.
Doubtful. They're likely anarchists.