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No, because tearing an animal apart bit by bit by crazed dogs, dangling it in the air for a minute or two and then shooting it is quickly as possible. Have you ever thought how much pain the animal would be going through? It would be completely unbearable. ...? You use dogs to retrieve the dead game...and thats only when shooting small birds. Trust me...those things are long dead before the dog gets them...and the dogs very gently hold them in their mouths (unless you just absolutely didn't train your dog). As I said, from the way you talk, you have never been hunting. I can hit a quarter on a target from 100 yards with a powder-fueled muzzle-loading rifle. I can imagine that a semi-decent hunter can hit the head of a fully-grown buck from 800 feet with a scope. If not, that's what the second shot is for. Your first and primary goal after the shot is to make sure the game is dead. Since this is not Victorian England, most hunters go on foot. Only a literal handfull of hunters worldwide still use horses. Your feet can be silent, a horse is not. The main goal of game hunting is to not be heard before the shot. Getting to a site however might involve ATV's or even a truck if there are decent roads nearby. You would not want to carry a fully grown buck several miles on your back. Like I have said many times, it has always been legal for blind people to hunt anywhere in the US. This law just lets them use lasersights and guides so they can actually hit something. ...Are you joking? Show me an expert hunter riding an ATV at 40 miles an hour while shooting things left and right! YOU DONT SHOOT FROM THE ATV! You leave them a mile or two away. Goodness Gracious you seriously have no idea what you are talking about, do you? Who tought you to hunt? Larry the Cable Guy? He got a degree from Yale, so he is obviously smarter than you. Also, he's from Maryland, he just lives here. Second: Texas has the best non-Ivy University system in the US. Thank you very much. Like I said to Issy, you moronic Yanks think that Larry the Cable Guy is representative of the entire South.

Like...legal programs? I only have 6 gigs of music and photos on my computer, so space is not an issue. I would love to shell out $35 bucks to be able to put my DVD's on my Zune and take them anywhere.

Hunting accidents are rare, and are generally caused by such stupid behavior that they ought to have happened. Believe it or not, most hunters actually know which side of the gun the bullet comes out of, and don't mix guns and alcohol. Cruel and sick? Most times they would never have known what hit them! And it's the moral obligation of every hunter to kill the wounded animal as quickly as possible. It's not like hunters drop the animal in the forest like some Dr. Moreauvian situation. As far as the animal is concerned, they are merely fleeing (if they even know they are being tracked) from a predator. A human with a gun or bow is no more threatening to them than a bear. The squirrel is about as concerned with the hunter as they are with a hawk or an eagle. We are simply higher than that creature on the food chain. Where would we be without hunting? The only acknowledgement I will give that hunting is wrong is the idiots who go out with a 32-pack and just "fire and forget." I applaud the hunters who hold respect for their prey and make sure that it's death serves a purpose.

Wow, the right to have your corpse dragged away and eaten rather than left in the forest. I'm sure the animals are just delighted! Sorry to bump after two weeks, but are you implying that animals should be given equal treatment to humans now? What do you eat? Do you eat meat? Do you eat plants? If the former is the case, those animals spend their entire lives in captivity until Juan the illegal immigrant hits them over the head with a hammer and starts carving them up alive. At least hunted animals have the right to be free and succumb to a predator in the chain of life. In the case of the latter, plants are just as alive as you and me. They can think and react. I'm sure if Mr. Carrot had an electron-based brain like us, he would be offended if you ripped him out of the ground without asking. The basis of these two points? Humans are at the top of the food chain. A bobcat sees a rabbit? Does he ponder the morality of eating it? No. Does the bear worry about the trout's feelings before fishing it out of the water? No. Humans are the same way. We kill, we eat, we survive. Call yourself civilized, but you function in the same manner as Mr. Bear or Mr. Bobcat. If I want to go out and stalk a Buck and bring it down, then eat it, what is wrong with that? Killing animals for sustinence is morally fine. Killing animals for sport and selling the meat so that others can eat it is morally fine. Killing animals for the hell of it and leaving them to die. That is where it is morally wrong. And as I said, Texas sends people who do that to jail. Because they enjoy hunting? Perhaps they were avid hunters before they went blind? Perhaps they are trying it out for the first time. For the last time, people, the blind people are not walking alone shooting at sounds! They have an experienced guide with them! In Jacksburo, Texas, they have a one-armed dove hunt that was started by two Vietnam Vets who lost their arms! And about your comment about the morality of hunting. We are not "murdering" the animals. Murder is what happens when you kill a human being without reasonability. Do we call it murder when a bear mauls a camper? Or when a diver gets attacked by a shark? No, it's an accident. A natural occurance. And about your loose comment about "only skill needed being to hold a gun straight". You have never been hunting. You have to track and stalk your prey for hours. It's nowhere near as simple as aiming and shooting.

I am loving my Zune. Bought the black one to replace my aging Sony Discman (1GB MiniDisk). The interface rocks, and the only thing I don't like about it is having to install the software in order to charge. Unfortunately, the Zune is just going to sit on the back shelves for the saavy customers along with the Sansdisk and other decent MP3 players, since most people who want a good player have an iPod. It of course doesn't help that the majority of idiots just immediately buy the iPod instead of shopping around. I mean, honestly. The iPod is a great machine but it has a freaking speaker dock with a toilet paper dispenser! Thats...ridiculous! The Zune is worth the money, though. I think you can use the Zune software to convert videos. I won't be able to tell until next week, however.

I never bother. A couple of years of typing classes and I am set.

It's not as fun. So killing aniamls for the hell of it is fun? wow. =D> In Texas, killing an animal and not removing the remains is considering a crime punishable by up to 8 years in Huntsville Prison. Hunting is for sport only, and if nothing else you have to turn over the body of the animal to wildlife authorities to dispose of it properly. In addition, there are criminal codes for game. Our animals actually have rights when it comes to hunting.

The sun is great. When I was a kid, we would get a shoebox, tinfoil, and a coat hanger and viola! We cooked hot dogs. Nice project.

Good God, you guys are so inconsiderate. It's perfectly thought out and safe. They have a guide with them. The laser sight is not for the blind man, it's for the guide. The guide tells him which way to move the rifle or bow, so that he can fire. It's been legal all the time for a blind man to hunt, but the problem that this bill addresses is that it is illegal for all hunters in Texas to use laser sights. Since there is no other way for blind men to hunt than to use lasers, this law allows blind men only to use them. Does that help explain it, or do you want to make fun of a completely fair law anymore?

What's wrong with it? They have a guide there to tell them where they are shooting.

Trapical, don't forget to pray that your fever jumps above 110*, and kills you in a few hours. Better than melting from the inside out.

Techno Tejano music. It offends the ears.

Ebola is the deadliest viral strain on earth. It is way more contagious than HIV/AIDS. There is no cure, and victims die in less than a week...violently. Thank God it was not Ebola Brahma. An outbreak of that came close to killing of half of Africa back in the 70's.

Agreed. I definitely think that is what your puppy is going through. I'd try to help her out, but my Dog book is 300 miles away :(.

I have gotten at least a thousand hyts over the years. I was reasonably well known for my service in the OoC before TET. After TET, I seriously can't turn on my private chat because I get swarms of "OMG ITS BARIHAWK *DIES*" :P.

This is really pathetic of me, but is this a joke, or was there an episode of Star Trek about that? If so, which series was it in? [/Trekkie] It was the first episode of Star Trek (3rd produced, 1st to star Kirk, and 7th to air.). It is entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Produced by the dream team of Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon, and Dorothy Fontana.

Be careful. According to Star Trek, if you cross the border of our universe you will acquire ESP and blow stuff up while going insane. I mean, it happened on TV, it's true!

Exactly, Astra. The Fundamentalist Christian view of Judaism is our misguided brothers. We still love them just the same. People who hate Jews for killing Christ are the scum that plagues my Faith. The idiots who don't actually study the Word need to shut up instead of giving the actual Christians a bad name.

It's ok, most Christian leaders hate him, too. Anti-semitics have no place declaring their words the laws of God.

Now we need actually pictures of the full sets :).

Thread is deleted. Tis a shame. I only got to page 8.

If you read my post, you will see that the theory removes mass from the equation. The warp field would reduce the mass of everything inside of it. Including people. We could survive FTL speeds. The early speeds would require G-Suits and thick padded chairs and harnesses. Uncomfortable, but good for research. Eventually, we could find a way to induce internal gravity in a spacecraft, which would provide intertial dampening (as in making it like the ship isn't even moving). The ship would look nothing like Star Trek or Star Wars (probably a large ring-shaped craft, spinning on it's axis).

The UN is actually giving funding to a Nobel-Prize winning scientist who wants to combat Global Warming by releasing a crap pot worth of pollution into the atmosphere in order to de-intensify the sun's rays. It was published in my Uni's newspaper. I had to look it up on the internet to see if it was a joke or not. It isn't. That's right, this is what UN money goes to... (don't ask for the link, you have to register to read the paper online, and must have a valid Uni e-mail)

VOV, our cat's don't even notice the difference. They have adapted and have pretty much full dexterity. Heck, Lucifer still "claws" at furniture. He can even open doors, and trap insects with his paws.

Remember that Faith doesn't come from a brochure alone :P. Do lots and lots of research before you commit yourself to anything. Including Christianity (since all they seem to be teaching converts these days is "Jesus" and that's it. :()