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a) Animals that are tortured can taste better: e.g. foie gras, veal
b) Some animals are cannibals, but usually only when they HAVE to. If you've seen the movie Alive, I think you might accept that cannibalism is justifiable when there is no other choice, and murder is not involved.
c) I blame Disney, et. el for anthropomorphising everything that moves

And why stop at not killing animals? Who's to say that plants shouldn't be protected too. In fact, lets just all starve to death and save the world from all the pollution we generate.

It's God's way of telling you to change your lifestyle 

It's true, he even re-recorded his famous song as "I'm going to be chrome like a Leopon in Rome..."

Apart from SSH's entry all the rest(I am not the one to judge mine own) is well...shallow and uninspired.

Thanks, but I just cut-and-pasted it almost in entirety from the web...

In the meantime, you could have a function that took a comma-separated String that was a list of properties to load from the schema...

Sounds like a good idea, and I guess not too hard to implement...

OK, I can see I was unclear.

Let's start from scratch...

Obviously there are some physical phenomena for which there are rules. There are some physical phenomena for which there are rules that mankind has not yet discovered. Beyond that there may be physical phenomena for which we will never begin to understand the rules for. And one step beyond that, there may be physical phenomena for which there are no rules, or at least none other than something like "they are not predictable or mesaurable, etc." The boundary between these areas is of course hazy, but I'm suggesting that our universe, or multiverse, or whatever it is may be affected by this.

So who can say that the last area does not exist, when we have no real undertsanding of the areas between t and where we are now?

Does insulin (still) require ongoing animal testing in its everyday synthesis?

Helm, how do you tell the difference between an unfathomable ruleset and one where there are no rules? You're assuming that everything that can happen has a rule. That is true metaphysics: that there exists things that are not controlled by some set of rules, but by a will, be it human, divine or something else.

Helm's argument is based on the assumption that the world is deterministic and that determinism is incompatible with free will. I'd like to see him justify these assumptions, especially in the face of quantum indeterminacy and chaos theory, not to mention the whole basic assumption that there is no metaphysical influence on the material world.

Are you saying that diabetics shouldn't be animal rights campaigners? Since insulin-dependents usually get diabetes at birth or in childhood, you're basically forcing them never to form opinions on the whole subject in later life....

Catchy title.You should make a game out of it!

I think you should probably find some specific examples that you want to quote and ask all the people involved if they agree. And CJ, of course, since its his show.

That was established a long time ago on #ags

Having looked it up, it seems that Organic certification for meat and dairy products means that the animals should have much better living conditions. Why are these then not acceptable?

Perhaps "as god as my witness" is just a similie, comparing something's god-ness to the persons's witness ...?

or perhaps its like people who say "you could of done it" when they mean "you could have done it": they're deaf and ignorant of grammar.

I have Free Willy on DVD, which is nearly the same...

So if you have your own chickens that you look after nicely and don't force to lay lots of eggs, it would be OK to eat those eggs, then?

Also, I was reading in this week's New Scientist that giving babies soya milk formula instead of cows milk formula is very bad for them. Of course human milk is better still...

And what's wrong with smearing poo on one's windows, eh? eh?

And can you wear leather if the cow involved died of natural causes. Also, my feet smell if I use non-leather shoes.

MashPatoto:
Oh, okay, that makes me feel better.  I had the impression that he was insulting me... and that didn't seem right, coming from SSH.  Wait... 

No, I was insulting you 

But seriously, I'm disappointed that no-one replied with "Absolutely nothing"

It is inevitable that any given internet forum with a large number of active members at some point will have a debate about free will... therefore, we do not have free will 

Added the "keep music during chase scene across multiple rooms" functionality suggested by lipoaklipa here and fixed the enum values and type names to all begin with MusicC.