You should try Kaffeine. You can skip everything and change your audio/subtitle/etc settings with the right-click menu.

other peoples articles

They're just as much misterdiscreet's articles as anyone else's.

Exactly. "I don't like it" arguments usually get thrown out in deletion discussions.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have journalism majors write for Wikinews instead? They could even get accredited for press passes.

That's because personal computers are low-cost consumer goods. You can buy a decent one for a couple hundred bucks and it quickly devalues. When it breaks, it might be more cost-effective to just buy a new one than to get it fixed. Now compare that to your house. It takes years to pay off, and its value remains relatively constant. When it breaks, you get it fixed! You can't afford a new house!

I'd imagine the Secretary-General of the United Nations would be the most reasonable choice. He's the closest thing Earth has to "our leader".

Probably.

Any needless killing bothers me. My claim isn't that "humans and only humans" should not eat meat, it's "anything that knows better and can safely do so" should not eat meat.

I've had ADHD my entire life. While I was in college (not too long ago, people had laptops) know what I did? Showed up on time and sat near the front. It's amazing how easy it is to avoid distraction when the professor is right there, with no laptops in between you.

I'm sure plenty of people have an excuse as to why they can't sit near the front or why that's not good enough, but it comes down to taking personal responsibility for your own education and saving the excuses for the professional world. :-P

if that were true, you would spend your time attempting to reason with chimpanzees

For all I know that's exactly what I'm doing. The only reason I'm discussing this with you in particular is because you seem intelligent and rational enough to understand; whether or not your favorite food is termites on a stick changes nothing.

They'll stop pooping.

Would you eat people if they tasted good?

Human interaction is a part of nature. There is no drawing a line between the two.

Naturalistic fallacy. Like I said, I will eat meat when unable to obtain better food.

Do you believe humans have rights? Since you don't believe in human exceptionalism, you should believe animals have rights too.

there is a code, understandable by all meat eaters, that eating meat is not cruelty, its simple sustenance.

You can obtain sustenance of equal quality from a vegetarian diet. The only reasons to eat meat are if you believe in human exceptionalism or if you're unable to obtain better food.