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Seems cretinous to me... keep a massive powerful animal in a fish tank and train it to do tricks. I'm amazed anyone is surprised by it casually extinguishing someone.
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Keeping any wild animal in captivity is a shame. That said, some would be extinct if they weren't.
I don't think you can force them to do tricks. Most animals respond to reward and play. A dog helps a blind person, a monkey has a camera, a cat does nothing because it doesn't want to no matter how much you bribe / hit it.
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More pedantic, it's a dolphin, not a whale.
I concede defeat. You are more pedantic than me.
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Seems cretinous to me... keep a massive powerful animal in a fish tank and train it to do tricks. I'm amazed anyone is surprised by it casually extinguishing someone.
Quite. We need more proper wildernesses and decent habitats for animals where our role doesn't distort everything.
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Quite. We need more proper wildernesses and decent habitats for animals where our role doesn't distort everything.
bingo, human aren't the only one who live on this planets, and a lots of people seemed to forget about that, or rather, know about it but just don't care unless it affect them.
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just saw the new lacoste advert utilizing bicycles in a french mag, which made me laugh. such bad photoshopism:
http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lacoste2.jpg
it has been in a couple of fixed gear blogs, allthough the left bike obviously has a coaster break. dunno about the other ones, you cannot see as the driveside has changed from its normal position to a clever leftside drive. ah, and i wish i also had such a thin rear triangle on which i can carry some french girl i can teach one day not wear ballerinas when cycling...
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Isn't it the same woman three times? Model budgets running low?
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hehe, i did not notice that, but they all got the same stupid smile. good, that both left cyclist are just about to crash, which doesn't matter as its a special soft sandy ground which leaves no trails as you cycle over it.
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Starbucks's guns and lattes policy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/01/guns-starbucks-virginia?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments -
Man walks dog...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/02/man-caught-walking-dog-driving-car
From the article:
Officers reported seeing him driving at 5mph along a country lane.Yesterday, at Consett magistrates court, Railton pleaded guilty to not being in proper control of a vehicle....
A police statement read out to the court said that "due to the narrow road there was no area for other cars to pass".Ok, walking a dog in this manner is pretty poor, but they have pretty much said there that they have charged someone for being in the way!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/03/california-eight-years-stealing-cheese
A California man has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for stealing a $3.99 (£2.60) bag of shredded cheese
Last month, a federal judge ordered the state to reduce overcrowding by 55,000, the same week that a state court approved a life sentence for a man convicted of possessing 0.03 grams of methamphetamine.
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American Family Association: Stone To Death Killer Whale Who Killed Trainer.
Crazy Yanks.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/american-family-associati_n_484022.html
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/03/california-eight-years-stealing-cheese
I expect that is all under the three strikes rule.
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WTF??!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8551122.stm
**S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' **
The parents allegedly spent hours following their internet obsessionA South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said. The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.
Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.
He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality.
The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby.
An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition.
The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.
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the comments on this related commentary are pretty insensitive, and make me glad I'm enjoying the UK roads rather than battling in SA.
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Starbucks's guns and lattes policy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/01/guns-starbucks-virginia?showallcomments=true#end-of-commentsThe potential martyr that left this comment has got the right idea I reckon:
*Mr. Adams, I'm very grateful for your editorial.
I'm an American. This whole issue really has nothing to do with the law. I come from a family where my father slept his whole life with a loaded gun under his pillow; my brother is a fierce advocate of owning guns. The reason someone carries a gun is because they are looking for an opportunity to use it. Whether that opportunity is in the instance of self-defence or murder makes no difference: its presence is always at the forefront of the carrier's mind.
Step away from the progressive attitudes of its urban areas and you will find very quickly that America is a volatile and angry country. Most men feel disenfranchised and most women feel frightened, and these are the people who fight strongest for the right to carry a loaded weapon. There is no crime - none - that causes gun-rights advocates to reconsider their position, no Columbine, no accidental death of children, no family massacre can inspire reconsideration: if the victim had had a gun, the argument goes, they wouldn't be dead. And as for the hundreds of children accidentally shot, their parents should have hidden the gun higher and that's just the price you pay.
The angrier the person, the more they want a gun; the more frightened the person, the more they want a gun; the more powerless the citizen, the more they want a gun. The comments here made by American gun-rights advocates always include at least one instance of the above. As education declines, so does reason. As reason declines, so does civilisation. What we're left with is a country that values guns over reason.
So count me in with those who will boycott Starbucks. It's a stupid and bizarre corporate policy, regardless of whether Virginia allows for gun transparency. I think guns should be illegal everywhere, and I would rather die from one than carry one.*
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Much of that analysis is spot on.
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Yep. It took almost no time at all. For may years wolf and human bones have been found together. Wolves would have originally been used for fur and even food, but I think is generally accepted that the were almost instantly ‘domesticated’
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=I8HU_3ycrrEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=domestication+dogs+generations&ots=BadyQFj6n4&sig=O7X1_Fe0RbOtfN86tSO4xCxenpw#v=onepage&q=domestication%20dogs%20generations&f=false
They still looked like wolves and lived outside. In each generation the most tame would be bred and the rest would not. Tame meaning not being shy or afraid of humans as opposed to the tame we accept now in our pets. Started about 14,000 years ago.