Protip right back at ya: Humans got out of the caves and invented food technology some thousands of years ago. You have better stuff to do with your time and brains than play pretend Tarzan.
While I don't condone animal cruelty, I don't much care for "mother nature" and its mindlessness either.
Yeah right, they hunt and eat seal hearts out of "necessity" as per m.ducharme, but they would really not prefer to have a Panera Bread restaurant next door. Cause you know, the real estate prices would really drop then! And all that free time from not living at a subsistence level, that would be just the worst thing possible for society right? And really, who needs time to think or create when you can be out killing stuff?
I'm sorry. If she's been through all that and still is stupid enough to pull that seal heart stunt, yeah she deserves that epitaph.
William Fucking Shatner at the very least inspired 2 or 3 generations of kids around the world to look at the stars and dream of achieving great things.
Yes, in fact I do. It was a pointless and barbaric public stunt.
Just because people are "indigenous" doesn't suddenly make them saints or angels or beyond reproach.
How about enabling them to move into the real world? Education and the like? Set up a Panera Bread or something? Oh wait.. not newsworthy enough. Lets keep the "indigenous" where they are! Dependent on handouts and and always on display for a pitying public in the yearly photo ops.
"Michelle Jean... was a person that could be looked up to for her journey through life and her efforts to support those less fortunate"
By eating raw seal hearts? Yeah real classy.
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Wow, that's some deep thinking there man.
Good sentiments, but why stop there? Some people go beyond and call themselves 'world citizens', others call themselves just 'humans', others still just 'animals' and some claim to be just part of the universe.
I guess different people have different levels of self-definition.
Most Indians also use the word 'cum' regularly. As in 'Actor-cum-Producer' for someone who's both an actor and a producer. Very jarring.
Actual advantages of Android phones:
Google Voice integration
Free navigation (no need to carry a separate gps device)
Porn (via apps)
Sufficient to beat the higher polish on the iphone? Many people think so. Funnily enough, all these advantages would not exist if Apple had an open app store policy.
They carefully learn all of the science, which can take 5 years of graduate school, 2 years of post-doctoral work and 5 years as a professor.
But you are still expected to produce papers all of those years or you don't get to progress from stage to the next at all! I wonder how that works.
So, you're saying Apple is suddenly afraid of taking on puritans (of all people)?? That's not the counter-culture Apple I grew up admiring.
Lets face it, Apple is getting Disneyfied/Pixar'ed. You may make oodles of money, but it's just not the real world.
I was making a comparison, not holding up America as a gold standard on relationships or something. Also, the "West" usually includes much of Europe as well.
You're just showing you/your friends' shortsightedness/arrogance. Just being in the West does not automatically mean you lose all family and relationships. In fact, one could say the West enjoys usually a much more mature and nuanced set of relationships than India which is still struggling to come to terms with even basic sexuality. All that in addition to freedom and independence _from_ society if you want it, makes the West quite attractive to certain types of people. This has a direct correlation with creativity, the sort that can build an iPod or a Google search engine. You/your friends just see that top of the societal iceberg and proclaim its shallowness not realizing the history and the grandeur of ideas underlying it, stretching back to the Romans and Greeks.
IMO, the youth in India is being misled by the cry of development of infrastructure/technology thinking that's what will make them great, that merely adopting the outward look-n-feel of the West (better roads/taller buildings/more cars) is sufficient while ignoring wholesale the foundations that enabled the West to build those things and then improve on them. I think India can have modern facilities sure enough but it will not have modern people. The West for all its faults will still bear the burden of giving this world a direction.
Kudos to you sir. "Release the data when you publish the paper" needs to beaten into the heads of some of these scientists.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
