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Comment Re: Redefine hunting. (Score 1) 397

His first sentence states that
"Bow hunting is for unethical assholes."
That is applying his own morals and ethics determining that a group of hunters are unethical and assholes. He doesn't say this is an opinion, he/she states this as fact.

Since he set this statement in place. I stated that he was imposing his own beliefs and making a judgement on a whole swath of people because of what they do. Important to note: Not why they do it.

Recurve and composite bows are a natural evolution of a traditional. I don't really get what you're trying to say.

Comment Re:Sadistic (Score 1) 397

Because it's practice.
Because even sport killers usually sell the carcases to someone who can skin it/make food out of it.
Drones won't shoot, they're used to scout.
What exactly is a low powered file?

What exactly is wrong about practicing survival skills? I think you're assuming that people do this for pleasure, but maybe it's just practice. There are a lot of scenarios that having some time practicing survival skills can be a matter of life and death. But you went ahead and assumed that it's just for fun. Good for you.

Comment Re: Redefine hunting. (Score 0) 397

Bow hunting is for people who want to practice archery in a practical way.
Boo fucking hoo it hurts the animals. It gives out basic survival skills that even in this day and age are important to know.
For whatever reason if humanity gets knocked back into the stone age who is going to survive? The hunter who knows how to craft their own bows/arrows and use them or the one who only ethically kills with a gun?
Stop imposing your own set of morals and ethics on everyone else. There's reasons why people practice this form of hunting for a hundred thousand years. The human race would of gone extinct if they sat around thinking of a way to survive while also making sure it was painless.

Comment Re:Ivory tower much? (Score 0) 195

so if i was to believe that reason, that would mean their entire staff was comprised of graphic artists who all focused on creating overly complicated textures.
The reality of it is that there are separate teams working on separate things. If they were directed to make the game very details, it's the fault of the managers. However the game failed for many many other reasons. The biggest one being:
It was not fun.

Comment Re:Yeah, too bad there's no real reason to do so.. (Score 1) 292

On the moon all the materials you can find on earth will be available. Water, minerals, lots of sunlight, microgravity.
By burying the habitats you can defend from micro meteor impacts and most radiation.
You can manufacture space ships for interplanetary travel once you have manufacturing capacity and then launch them using a space elevator into orbit for extremely low cost. The poles of the moon can serve as a much better research/space telescope area than anywhere in orbit.
There's a million and one reasons to put a base on the moon for manufacturing capability.
Orbit needs lots of shielding, has no raw materials, is 100% dependent on the earth for resources. It makes 0 sense for manufacturing. For a staging area it makes sense, but the moon can do that and so much more.

Comment of course (Score 1) 178

They're not going to collect it
They won't be sending out signals to the police
They won't be sending out data to your insurance companies
They won't be collecting data for accident coverage
They won't be storing the data and combining it in other databases (ohh you just went to the gym? You just came back from your mistress's place and were tired?)
They won't be selling it to your health insurance provider (xx was driving tired for extended periods of time, must have some disease, drop coverage immediately)
Sorry, there's too many reasons why not to get it and very little reason to get it.

Comment why did they need a diamond to prove this? (Score 1) 48

I thought underground water being stored in molten rock material was already proved during russia's borehole experiment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
"To scientists, one of the more fascinating findings to emerge from this well is that no transition from granite to basalt was found at the depth of about 7 km, where the velocity of seismic waves has a discontinuity. Instead the change in the seismic wave velocity is caused by a metamorphic transition in the granite rock. In addition, the rock at that depth had been thoroughly fractured and was saturated with water, which was surprising. This water, unlike surface water, must have come from deep-crust minerals and had been unable to reach the surface because of a layer of impermeable rock.[8]

Another unexpected discovery was the large quantity of hydrogen gas; the mud that flowed out of the hole was described as "boiling" with hydrogen"

Are you going to say they rediscovered this? This was known back in the 80s.

Comment Re:The danger of commonality (Score 1) 273

Basic literacy and numeracy is indoctrination now? I think your tinfoil hat's a little tight.
The method to teach basic literacy and numeracy (I'd rather use basic math, but whatever) IS in fact indoctrination when you flat out toss past concepts in favor of new ones. Are you trying to say that before core competency came out that everyone else who learned the old methodologies exhibited problems of learning the material? Was there a problem that this new method tries to solve? It's my understanding (not from study, please feel free to correct/quote studies which prove otherwise) that basic math and reading skills was a problem that was tackled and for the most part solved. This new foreign way to teach students how to do basic math, what problem does that solve? Is it in fact easier to to it this way to split the problem into several subset problems and combining them together? Or is this politically driven hand waving at a new solution to a problem that was in fact not a problem at all just to say "something" was tackled and solved?

Comment Re:Dwarfed? yeah right (Score 1) 77

Because the people are dead and the destruction has been done and is over. The meltdown is ongoing and will affect the region for a lot longer than the tsunami ever could.
It also highlights not the threat of nuclear power, but the threat of politics and nuclear power combined make. That plant should have been shutdown for years, a new one should have been built using upgraded technology. But thanks to politics, that wasn't done and they extended the reactor for many more years than it was made to be operational for. The same problem exists here in the US.

Comment Re:Physical security? (Score 1) 374

smart phones aren't used for status symbols. They're used to help navigate, communicate, find information and provide entertainment.
Telling people not to use them in public is removing the whole point of taking a mobile computing device with you.
I recommend instead of blaming the victims, you beat the thieves to death as a deterrent.

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