How do we make the punishment fit the crime?

Though I guess a Russian prison is a pretty severe punishment as-is.

They should feel like pricks.

Chimps are self-aware (thank you mirror test). That puts them into a completely different moral context.

Though I am willing to entertain the, "Yeah, but chimps are assholes" argument.

Not only is it real, I know which man did it.

It was me.

How many vegetarians have you seen with the muscle mass to be an effective soldier? I've plenty of vegetarian friends, and they all look like twigs.

Norway doesn't exactly have a very busy military, so I guess they can get away with turning their troops into skinny little weaklings. They'll be issued MacBook Airs next.

Have I got a product for you!

Hah!

If I can't touch them, nobody can.

Is "Trans Fats" the name of a new Linksys wireless router? Or is it the codename for the dev branch of OpenWRT?

There are a lot of features that you need khalmnpr to provide an interface for. But according to 8's startup monitoring, it has the same impact on my boot time that AVG does. I don't mind it from my antivirus, but I have no clue why SetPoint insists on it too.

Maybe a user-mode .exe is a bad way to implement a HAL. But I've never even tried to write a driver, so what do I know.

How about a penal colony?

Don't you mean the 'straw naked boy'?

Its Godwin's Law for situations where you can't mention Hitler.

Or maybe just an early stage of the process. Start with children, finish with Hitler.

I thought the NSA was doing all this to prevent terrorism. Now its law enforcement?

Not that I like diddlers, but there were some good reasons to separate intelligence and law enforcement agencies.