"...the equivalent of shitting on your elderly neighbor's lawn. You may not have to deal with it right away, but it's eventually going to come back and haunt you."

I'm pretty sure I'll outlive my elderly neighbour. In fact, I think I'll *make* sure I do, brb.

Or having executions at all. Civilised countries don't execute people, no matter their crimes.

The former.

No one who knows me by name and is on Facebook posts anything about me. I've asked.

I remember the Aphex Twin encoding data into a track such that when run through a spectrum analyser visualisation (like that in WinAmp) a picture of his face appeared. I also remember that this was well over a decade ago.

Ever notice how when there's some story from somewhere obscure in US a whole bunch of arseholes jump in with "is that a real place, lol"? No, me neither, because as residents of other countries we aren't brought up to be arrogant parochial dickheads.

Try that shit in UK, with our contract laws and consumer rights and see how far you get.

I remember the last line (and have it as well as Rage on my bookshelf) from another short story Stephen King wrote about going postal (Cain Rose Up, in Skeleton Crew): '"Good God, let's eat", he said, and started squeezing the trigger again.'

You only need a stick and to know which direction south is (for Northern hemisphere) to tell the time during the day. Trust an engineer to over complicate things.

Oh well, you can always eat the rats that outnumber the population in cities by about three to one...

The reason there was a massive reduction in the number of farm animals and viable crops during the Black Death is because it killed those who farmed them. Seems like your studies weren't that extensive if you didn't pick up that major point.

This is one of the few comments to mention animal husbandry, and even then obliquely. The only farming mentioned is arable, and just go out and shoot stuff you want to eat something that can run away from you. Maybe it's an artifact of having the right to bear arms ingrained in the psyche that encourages the "well, if we want meat, we'll hunt it", but it comes across as trigger happy weapon obsession by a bunch of city slickers that would only lead to massive wastage of the finite resources.

We already have cattle that near enough *do* come up to humans saying "eat me". What we don't have - certainly in this discussion - are sufficient people stating they are capable of keeping them alive instead of going "ooh, steak!", blazing away and then wondering what to do next with half a ton of dead creature.

The "only following orders" defence was invalid 70 years ago. Why do you think it is valid now?

Then they'd be asking themselves and marking their own homework. Isn't Obama a lawyer who specialised in the Constitution? That's worked out well.

You *douse* the meat with beer should it catch fire. If it doesn't then you souse yourself with it instead.

"I've been on the internet since roughly 1998, and it's relatively challenging to find information on me from that far back."

You're doing it wrong. I've been on the internet since 1994 and it's relatively challenging to find information on me from last Tuesday.