Everything posted by Furah
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Do animals have morals?
Psychopaths/sociopaths/serial killers are incredibly rare anyway Most of my close friends are sociopaths.
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Vegetarianism
But it's the ultimate step in caring for the environment. To kill yourself will stop all negative impact you have on this earth by reducing your carbon footprint to nothing.
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Vegetarianism
If the meat industry goes down I'd better learn how to skin + cook game and learn how to breed livestock.
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Minecraft General
Since everyone's addicted I know what I'm buying when I get paid on Wednesday. :thumbsup:
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Vegetarianism
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you're implying that we wouldn't use up as much land for farming, because a lot of our nutritional needs would be met by taking supplements and vitamins? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm god-awful tired haha. He's asking what you're going to do about the vitamins and minerals you don't get enough of? Supplements are also very unregulated at the moment.
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Vegetarianism
Meat is HORRIBLE for the environment. Cows eat around 16 pounds of grain a day, that's a hella lot of grain to grow, just to make 80~ pounds of usable meat for you to eat. Shutting down cow/chicken/pig farming for only year would save more than enough grains and such to seriously affect world hunger. A cow will probably be killed at 3-5 years of growing, meaning 17,088-28,480 pounds of grain consumed, 22,789 pounds being the middle and assuming 100 pounds of meat, that's still 228 pounds of grain for a single pound of meat. All that grain needs space to grow, so they cut down habitats, letting out CO2 by killing trees. (also why I don't support ethanol, but that's a different topic) Yes, sorry that we don't consume that equivalent of an extra 228 pounds of grain per week (assuming you eat 1 pound of meat a week, which is probably a lot less than some of you). That one pound of meat is probably worth at least a month's worth of grain for a block of households. The problem with this argument is that it assumes that the grain eaten by animals is fit for human consumption (it's not,) and that the land used is fertile enough to grow crops (most of the time it's not.)
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[TF2] It's MANN Vs. Machine!
My, my, my. This has got to be my favourite update ever. The Black box is perfect for me and goes hand-in-hand with the Battalion's Backup. I've also got the hand of Your Eternal Reward and can chain-stab very efficiently now, however I find that it only goes well with the invisibility watch. Out of the new items I have; Black Box, Battalion's Backup, Degreaser, L'Etranger, Your Eternal Reward. I also now have a Vintage Triboniophorus Tyrannus and a Vintage Ushanka. I really want to get my hands on a Grenadier's Softcap and Familiar Fez.
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[TF2] It's MANN Vs. Machine!
As Jaziek has stated, he doesn't really play this game any more. If someone who played regularly were to make a new thread then they could keep everything up-to-date. Although, this is only if Jaziek would be ok with it.
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[TF2] It's MANN Vs. Machine!
I think we need to sort of 'change owner' by specifying who becomes the new thread owner and locking this one/letting it die. If Steam would hurry up and let me download the last 150MB, I could see if I like this update.
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Gun Control
Way to generalise everyone, I'm against the continued criminalization of marijuana and believe it needs to be legalised. Thank you for bringing this argument. Of course there will be still those things, however gun control won't limit those things and in fact would just increase the occurrence of them. The shooters of the Columbine massacre violated close to 20 firearms laws in obtaining weapons, would 21 laws really have made a difference? The Pearl High School shooting could have been stopped had the "Gun-Free School Zones" law not passed. Some food for thought, why is it that in rural areas guns are introduced to children at a young age and they learn how to use them, yet those areas are nearly devoid of school shootings. In 1966, the city of Orlando responded to a wave of sexual assaults by offering firearms training classes to women. Rapes dropped by nearly 90% the following year. Drug dealers won't be slowed by gun laws, they already illegally obtain drugs.
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Gun Control
A sign saying trespassers will be shot on sight should suffice. Brilliant idea, I'll bring that to the next senate hearing. I'll tell them I can reduce B&E by 100% by having everyone rig their house to explode should the windows ever be opened. Clearly nobody has common sense these days. The slippery slope argument is also flawed, is cannibalism a common occurrence here in western society? No? Well it should be, after all we started eating animals so by now we should have gone down the slope and have arrived at eating each other. He most likely got it from here http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm, I cannot download the pdf for myself as I am capped at 8KB/s until the 8th of October. I'm sure you're perfectly capable looking for yourself though, a thank you would be nice too.
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Most Wanted Sequels
You guys have it lucky then Steam has a huge habit of; crashing, freezing when I try to start games, freezing just after I exit a game, not letting me update games, not letting me download games, not letting me install games, and not letting me play games. I have another friend who is just as annoyed as I am about those issues.
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Gun Control
I'm saying they could stockpile it. It's not like they wake up one morning and say "I think I'll go on a shooting spree." These things are usually planned years or months in advanced. That gives the person ample time to purchase enough ammo, or to even have someone else purchase some for them. Maybe you shouldn't have a loaded gun in a visible spot. As Kriegsmier has stated, keep it unloaded. All but the most determined criminals would run when you audibly have the means to kill them.
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Today...
About to go off to an information night for the Army Reserves. Starting tomorrow I'm going to get myself fit enough to get through the training. Good? Bad? Don't leave us in suspense! REVIEW! REVIEW! Go see it. It's the only thing with a religion in positive light that I've enjoyed in a while.
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
Be polite and call her.
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Gun Control
Handguns make great self-defence weapons. The light weight of a handgun compared to a rifle makes it easier for you to pick one up and aim it at someone should the need arise. This I do agree with, they chew through too much ammunition and aren't effective at hunting unless you're trying to hunt the whole forest. However, in America atleast, you have a Bill of Rights not a Bill of Needs. As Kriegsmier has stated, shotguns make the best home defence weapon. They're also used for bird hunting and are becoming increasingly popular in deer hunting. What would that serve? A person could buy the max amount of ammunition and wait until he can purchase that amount again until he has the ammunition he needs. He could also have a friend or family member purchase it for him.
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Most Wanted Sequels
HL2:Ep3. Get your priorities right, we need a huge overhaul if the Steam client itself. I find it less stable than lithium.
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Gun Control
Not at all, I could talk with 2-3 people and get my hands on a .45 handgun (at that calibre the handgun would be illegal here) with a suppressor (also illegal, even though a suppressor only makes a big gun sound like a smaller gun.) Alternatively I could get a crate of military weaponry off the back of an army truck.
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Gun Control
Targeting Guns, Dr. Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State University, Aldine, 1997
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Do animals have morals?
Dogs get excited when their master returns from a long day of work. Is this emotion, or is it merely a biological response to an external stimuli? And if the latter, couldn't the same be argued for human beings? Actually it is being submissive, dogs have a pack mentality. These displays of affection you see are actually ways your dog shows respect to you as the dominant male or female of the pack.
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4chan DDoS's some anti-piracy sites.
Personal vendettas get met with posts of "Not your personal army."