According to this, people walking their unvaccinated pets in Yellowstone are spreading diseases among the wolf population in the park, resulting in a drop in survival for the pups there.
This basically stems from two things: either they are too cheap to vaccinate the dogs (not likely, considering poor people tend not to go on vacations like these), or it's just part of the nation-wide histaria regarding vaccinations in general. People actually seem to think it's harmful. They don't get what a vaccination actually is. It's creating an immune system response so your body can fight the disease when the stronger varieties invade the system! Our bodies, when you get right down to it, are simply piles of chemicals organized into a complex series of machines based on programmed data. The line between natural and unnatural is arbitrary at best, and people need to realize that whatever their definition of natural and unnatural, it has no bearing at all on what is healthy or unhealthy for a person. In fact, things you just pick out of nature, they tend to be complex enough they are more likely to do harm as they haven't been carefully broken down to a level where the human body's reaction to it can be safely predicted. You want natural? The bubonic plague, snake venom, poison ivy, and various birth defects such as heart murmurs are natural by most definitions of the term. Indeed, certain supplements that claim to produce chemicals our body naturally creates can really do harm. The word "herbal supplement" should never be taken to mean "no side effects", no matter what some snake oil salesman will tell you. ANYTHING powerful enough to have a physical effect on the body is powerful enough to have a negative physical effect.
Well, rant mode off. I'm just trying to point out that if that is the reason these wolf pups are dying, it would seem that the strange attempt to "return to nature" in such an ignorant fasion has actually damaged it in the process.
Quote:"Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and Nintendo yesterday announced the development of 'Silent Hill 5' for the Japanese company's new console, codenamed Revolution. Although everyone initially thought that the new edition of this horror series would arrive exclusively for PS3 [C3 note: since the rest of the series has been on Sony formats], it would seem that the development team was seduced by the innovative Revolution controller. According to Akira Yamaoka, Producer of the series: "We are excited with the great possibilities of the new control. We believe that the Silent Hill series will have a great jump [in the next generation] and the Revolution is the solution to materialise our innovative plans ". Silent Hill 5 will be launched exclusively for the Nintendo Revolution. The first images will be published, according to Yamaoka, during the Eletronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in May 2006."
All I can say is... fucking WOW. No doubt in my mind whatsoever that I'll be owning a Revolution as soon as possible!
How to enable EMS memory in WinME, most basic way... How did I manage to miss this for four years... actually it looks like I tried before, but it re-activated, or I didn't look hard enough or something, because one line was deactivated already and another identical one below it not, but whatever... it would have been really nice to have EMS years ago too, not just now. :( (I know, I can run all of those games in DOSBox, and that's what I did, but lots of them run too slow in DOSBox... of course some run too fast in normal speed, but too fast is often better than too slow, as long as it's not TOO fast...) :(
This had been annoying me for so long... it's really frusterating to find that it was something so simple...
This fellow wants to eliminate the property tax (the idea being a sound one I suppose, to encourage land ownership). Of course, the government needs a means of supporting it's own existance, so where to get replacement funds? Of course, tax the things "we" don't want while not taxing things "we" do want.
I believe his decisions on what "we" think are unwanted are a little arbitrary, however I must add that there's the whole issue as to whether this would actually benefit the state. Unfortunatly I can't really think of a logical reason why it wouldn't if the decided "unwanted" things to be taxed were agreed upon by the public and didn't infringe on the rights of the minority in the process. Still, something seems "off". Is it just in my head or is there a good logical reason why I should be against/for this sort of thing (in concept rather than execution)?
I had predicted as much... Sure there's some rational thought to some of their arguments, but it seems that neither side can claim to be using rational thought in their decision making process. They've made up their minds in advance and twist whatever they hear to match their world view, instead of the other way around. Yes, I'll admit it. My position is so weak minded I can be easily swayed by something so base as empirical evidence :D.
Well, some clever soul just took a gif editor and lined up all the shots from that infamous bigfoot siting video I'm sure everyone has seen before so it looks like a still panoramic shot. This is a perfect way to eliminate any wobbling in an image, and it's pretty much impossible to create additional artifacts with this method.
