Oreos suck .
My dad has informed me that prices in the UK are in excess of £5 per gallon, making our prices over $10 per gallon T_T Hydrogen fuel cells do not produce ozone, all they produce is energy and water. Ozone is mainly produced when high electric currents are passed through the air. This causes O2 (oxygen) to break down and reform as O3 (ozone). Car pooling and public transport are the only real options at the moment. At least until the big corporations wise up and realise that people aren't buying their highly fuel inefficient cars anymore because they can't afford to run them. Then the funding for alternate fuel sources might get a boost.
The main problem today is that money is thrown about and therefore wasted. The government pours "aid" money in, but doesn't research where it is actually going. Most of the time the aid doesn't even get through because of the corrupt government and/or militias (I'd say most of Africa's governments are heavily corrupt and couldn't be trusted with the simplest of tasks >_>). When people see that the government is giving X million here and X million there it makes them feel better, even if it doesn't actually help anyone. This being the main reason why I often don't give to charity. Why should I give my money if I don't know exactly where it is going and if it is actually going to help people? This being why I think that tangible results are much more important than any "feel good" factor.
The light blue at the bottom of your sig is a little too light lol The rest is great, though your avvy looks a tad too "cut-out" if you know what I mean. Like there should be more but it just isn't there =/
I've touched dead meat before and I had no qualms, although mince mixed with raw egg is like so awesome to touch and mould and crap 8D
One of my relatives was killed by uncooked meat T_T
Killing in self-defense is usually fine, especially if the force used is reasonable force (i.e. roughly equal to the force being used against you). However, I hate and despise killing for fun or for sport. Neither are acceptable or excusable. The main argument relating to this was fox hunting, it was "tradition" and the ponces in England wanted to continue their tradition. They said that foxes were vermin (on an equal level to rats) that terrorised farms and destroyed livestock (well, chickens). But that is just lies, a fox kills a chicken to live. It is doing what it was born to do, it is following instinct. There is no excuse to kill them. Luckily the practice was banned (unfortunately this left a masive surplus of fox hunting dogs with nowhere to put them, I'm not sure how many were put down =/)
I remember asking what 4chan was ages ago, and being told I could only know by going but that I shouldn't Still haven't been, so still don't know ;D
Lol you lot obviously haven't heard of the petrol prices in the UK. £1.20 a litre and shows no sign of stopping. That is roughly $2.40~, but only for a litre (dang it, use litres you philistines >_> ;D). But yeah, it's disgraceful. I can remember when it was under £1. Here we've had lorries protesting against it by blocking roads in and out of major cities such as Cardiff and London. On top of this the government wants to raise fuel duty (yeah, ours is massively taxed [roughly 70p out of every £1 goes straight to the taxman]) and road tax on the most polluting cars. It's a rough time for commuters everywhere and all of it caused by the price of oil (which certainly isn't helped by the bloody speculators *shoots all of them* =_=). Bio-fuels suck as well, they are destroying food supplies and cause more damage to the enviroment than good =/
Simtards are the best kind of tards srsly
Using "Ignorance is Bliss" as an excuse is selfish and borderline negligent. We have to know about things if anything is ever going to be done about them. If we went through life ignoring anything which might cause us concern the world would continue to be the way it is forever, if not get worse. As for our parents rigid-thinking making us the open-minded people we are today (well, some of us anyway), that also sounds kind of like an excuse. Thinking that the parents who don't teach their children right from wrong, teach them to be racist, anti-gay and generally scum-like is all some elaborate reverse-psychology gimmick is going a bit far =/
I believe that people are the sum of their past experiences and memories. Things like genes will definitely have an influence, but in the end we choose what we do, who we want to be and what we do with our lives. As I said before, we are as much our own person as we want to be. As there is with most things, there is no common ground with all of humanity on this issue, some people are completely their own person while others allow others to make the decisions for them.
Everything we know we have learned from the previous generation. It was their job to mould us in a positive way and often they fail, miserably. I'm not saying that they all suck, there are plenty of good parents out there. But the massive levels of knife crime in England and gun crime in the USA could not have spontaneously arisen without help from the previous generation. Lol anytime I think of a problem I can nearly always track it back to how the person was brought up, or through the atmosphere in which they grew up which was created by the previous society. So yes, we definitely should be paying attention and forming our own opinions about important issues that may or may not affect us. The more separate they are from those of our parents, the better.
Many of the ways in which you have said that animals are better than humans are down to the fact that they have evolved to fit a particular niche of existence. Many of those things would be nice to have but just aren't necessary for our survival, so we don't have them. As for animals, they don't have supernatural abilities. Nothing has supernatural abilities, as supernatural means that it is outside of nature and the laws of physics and therefore is impossible. As to this, instinct is a major player. A dog may start barking at a wall and may not even know why. A subtle change in its external environment triggering a subconscious mechanism. It would be very hard to understand, but I'm sure with sufficient research and money poured into it it could be understood (not that many companies would be interested enough in it to try).
