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Comment Re:The sliding scale of activist groups. (Score 1) 367

No you wrong.
Some will be slaughtered when the get size, others will be saved for breeding.
Granted they won't live to old age, but they live longer on average with people feeding them, protecting them from predators and illness.
A properly raised animal should have only one bad day in its life.

Comment Re:But that was not the same! (Score 3, Interesting) 622

Following societies unrealistic standards most of us too sexual for proper society. Most of us have our odd fetish and are turned on by some thing.
Sure taking pics and sending them on the internet isn't that good of an idea. However it shouldn't need to represent the overall character of the person. Unless say you want to expose to your boss and the general society things like your Google Searches, or your DNS logs, magazines, or surveillance camera of you taking a second glance at the one other person.

Comment Rare False Positives (Score 0) 265

The creator said he gets rare false positives... That meas he gets some false positives.
For some of us a False Positive just as long as it is rare. For others any false positives are a big deal. So 99.99% gets blocked and people miss that 0.01% in false positives. So 100thousand email per billion emails. That means you can have 200thousand people complaining. (The Sender and receiver). Some will get legal on you. Say Gmail blocked a congressional election email from a republican runner, who is already ready to tare Liberal Google a new one, now has proof that Google is part of some grand conspiracy to Censor the Republican Party!

Comment The sliding scale of activist groups. (Score 3, Interesting) 367

Animal Abuse - Sure a no brainier.
Fur Coats - I can see that we don't need Fur Coats anymore as there is a big selection of cheaper and effective other sources for coats. (Fur as in they need to kill the animal)
Food from babies - Veal and Lamb. Tasty but the animal is so cute I loose my appetite when I think of it that way.
Food meats - Sure people are happy being vegetarian. I tried it myself my body hated me for it. (I will need to add leather although it isn't food, but a product from the animal from the processing of the rest of the food)
Anything made from animal - Wool, Egg, Milk products come to mind. Now we are going to the crazy zone. These animals although are in sub-human conditions are still much better off then if they were out in the wild fending for themselves. Efforts should be towards improving their conditions not stopping their usefulness.
Pets and worker animals - These are like family to us, and are treated extremely well often much better then most people who care for them live. Pets like Dogs have evolved (threw breading) to really like being around humans and helping us out. To say the dogs should be wild is actually making go against their nature.

Comment Re:Couples where one partner says, "Well yeah but" (Score 3, Insightful) 447

With the "Correlation doesn't equal causation" argument doesn't mean you can just dismiss the findings.

For example.
The 1-2+ years before marriage, means that the couple takes marriage seriously, and wants to be sure it is the right person not just a random fling.
Having a wedding vs eloping. means that the family is supporting the wedding and less stress of being with that person that is in conflict with your family.
The length of the wedding. The old wives tail that a long wedding means the couple has been coupling for a while and they are not anxious to consummate their marriage. The shorter wedding means they are much more eager. It could also just mean shorter weddings means they are much more interested in each others than trying to impress other people.
Money of course creates a lot of tension. Having more of it means less overall stress in the marriage.

Comment Re:Costs (Score 2) 315

Those extra costs that you mention them be Liberal Sissy Hippy Talk.

Not that I disagree with you, however in order to get real change you need to show the savings in dollars, not in difficult to quantify values.
Deaths due to pollution vs deaths not due to pollution, hard to quantify.

When you say you save $1,000,000 a year vs. Saying a 25% mean decrease in death +/-5% margin of error.

What helped the growth of Hybrid Cars, Energy Efficient Lightings, Etc... isn't the feel good about being green, But the fact that there is a quantifiable amount of money being saved.

In general the Environmentalists have a good thing going for them, however they suck at marketing.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 315

That would be Cold Fusion.
The type of fusion where the energy goes most nearly into electricity. The problem with current fusion is the heat it creates often damages the containers of it, so it will need to be replaced all the time.

Fusion we can do that... Get it so it doesn't melt the equipment meant to collect it isn't

Comment Re:If yes then what ? (Score 1) 389

I took a class on Creativity in college.
I was thoroughly unimpressed with the class. As it centered around the standard disciplines of creative people. Art, Music and Writing.
The student who did the best were the ones who could regurgitate the most "creative" imaginary they had in the past.

The student who got lower grades were ones who often did something more unique however failed in their execution.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 3, Insightful) 993

People don't like other people for a whole slew of mostly stupid reasons.

You internet presence causes a lot of those non-verbal cues to get left out. We often say a lot of things, but not all things are weighted equally.

If one would say they are for Gun Rights and Anti-Abortion you could think that they are a right wing nut-job. But if you get the non-verbal communications you may find out that the person is actually far more liberal on most issues except for say those too.

A lot of people have a hard time with gray zones anyways, so they can't really get how a person can have a complex relationship between topics and still be in a particular camp.

Comment Re:Navel gazing (Score 1) 652

If you go to people saying you can't have what you currently enjoy you are going to have a lot of problems.

Sure I can lower my Carbon Foot print, by not using the lights in my house, or watching TV or browsing the internet. But to have me stop my current habits will require that I get something out of the deal.

We as human beings can deal with only so many problems. Global Warming is only one of them in our lives. The fact that it is so Big and out of our control, and for the most part not/mis-understood means you will have big brother saying what you can and can't do. That will in general piss off people, to the point where they take arms.

Comment Re:What happens to that heat? (Score 4, Informative) 423

The ice caps which are melting are taking some of the heat. Evaporating water will cool it down too. The currents moving the water to cooler areas will go to warm up the cold areas. That it is called global climate change. Not global weather change the whole system is changing from the imbalance.

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