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Comment Re:'may dissuade customers from buying items from (Score 1) 243

"I will tell you what dissuades me from buying from Amazon, the the 50% broken package delivery rate, and that their "Customer Service" is just a robotic platitude response system. I have tried, there is no way to actually talk to a real person, or to get anything else but one of a few algorithmic responses.
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Troll is not a replacement for I disagree."

I'll see your anecdote and raise you two: first, you know you're trolling, right?; second, I've been their customer for over 5 years and had _one_ damaged package (the item was fine). Once, I received an old boombox (yes, that's right, a _boombox_ ) instead of a new high-end laptop. I had a return prepaid label and a $50 credit in 10 minutes (and a laptop the next day).

Comment Re:Private enterprise to the rescue (Score 1) 292

"Like Chernobyl? Run by the government for the public good... then it exploded in 1986."
That seems to be too subtle for trolling so I guess you're just not very smart.
Yes, the Chernobyl power plant was government-run. Did it happen b/c of that? No. Was it made worse b/c of the party? Yes. Anybody who bothered to actually read up on the accident knows it.
Now, do you by any chance remember any accidents that happened at private companies? Like, I don't know, about four years ago in the Gulf of Mexico? Also, does the term "superfund site" ring a bell? Come one. You were a techsupport manager. This is junior high level of research. You can do it. I believe in you.

PS. Anybody who thinks accidents are a government "thing" is an idiot.

Comment Re:A blow to vegetarians (Score 1) 318

Thanks for the clarification :)

"A beast which has been running around and and living a full life is pretty much nicer to eat, texture wise, the meat is much better, no idea if you ever tried eating animals that haven't come from a supermarket."
I do, but never notice any difference. Still, I agree that free ranging is better for a number of reasons.

"meant, "they never spend time to hunt and kill", true, rare are the few individuals who actually spends time knowing their food, killing it, burning calories to make the food, most are now heavilly enslaved to the food industry. "
I'm not sure why it matters. People can burn calories in other ways too.

"People have a tendency not to make kids and share their genes that much in the west, rather than the make thousands of kids in the east. (which also is a problem when it comes to resource allocation, but heh, forking to the max ensures the continuity of the species if some has to die in hunger due to that, it is nature's way of dealing with it)."
That's a gross exaggeration. Also, the birth rate will drop significantly in poor countries as well once they stop being so poor (eventually).

"Paranthropus boisei have lived/evolved longer than the homo sapiens, (read up on the evolution timeline). "
They didn't "live" longer than humans. They "existed as a species" for longer. Dinosaurs existed for an even longer period. That doesn't make them more evolved or better than humans, does it?

"it was always men who forced themselves up on women, and hence characteristic of intelligence were largely being left out while mostly stronger males or more powerful males got to spread their genes. While nowadays that patriarchal society being nearly dead, we end up in a world where it is the chick who gets to choose"
It's another exaggeration.

"apes cross breeded among different apes of different species, this is a highly possible scenario, because this happens even now in nature. "
I've never heard of Hominidae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae) interbreeding.

Comment Re:A blow to vegetarians (Score 1) 318

"Most Modern human eat stressed up meat"
As compared to the cavemen whose prey was relaxed and happy?

"nothing they ever spent time to hunt and kill"
Umm, what?

"modern man rarely fork (except the chinese or the indians)"
Umm, WHAT?!

" modern man do not get to choose with whom they want to fornicate, it is now the female who choose with whom they want to fournicate"
Let me guess: you emigrated to North America or Western Europe from the Middle East, Africa or Asia and just can't get used to the fact that women here usually get to decide who they have sex with?

"modern man doesn't really have a right to say tiger nut eating man sux at evolution :p, modern man is still lagging behind in terms of years lived. "
Lagging behind whom?

"apes seems to mate with each other and will even mate with other species of its own kind"
With whom of the what?

PS. Did you learn English from the Bible or something?

Comment Re:A blow to vegetarians (Score 1) 318

"My girlfriend is vegan and she takes B12 supplements, which is fine by me. The way I see it, it's much more environmentally friendly to produce a B12 tablet then it is to grow, slaughter and cook an animal."
I wonder if anybody looked into the environmental friendliness of the B12 production (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12#Synthesis_and_industrial_production). That'd be interesting.

Comment Re:A blow to vegetarians (Score 1) 318

"i've been a vegetarian for 26 years. i do not take supplements. for many years i biked up to 100 miles a day, including a 3100 mile month. now it could be, i'm a stan lee superhuman, but i doubt it. my personal suspicion is that like other areas in dietary research, there's a lot of self-affirming bullshit floating around."

My personal suspicion is that you're bullshitting. What's your average speed? 15 mph? That's almost 7 hours of biking every day. Doing this for many years is unlikely unless you are "independently wealthy". 25mph? 4 hours, but that would be the Tour de France top level ( http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/07/news/186088_186088 ). Doing that without steroids - let alone supplements - would require a Stan Lee superhuman.

Comment Re:Not an ancestor (Score 1) 318

You only need to go back to high school to find out how wrong you are. Or, just google. Hint: drying, salting, smoking, pickling, burying in the ground or using lye.

Also, you apparently think that freezing is only possible with "modern refrigeration". Time to finally get out of the basement. The white stuff falling from the sky is called "snow".

You're welcome.

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