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Re: PETA says meat eaters should pay more insurance

jery — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:52:48 -0000

Men live 6 years shorter than women and have more chronic diseases. Meat-eating men live 11-13 years shorter than vegetarian women! We really need to stop these communist subsidies on meat-eating men.

Re: PETA says meat eaters should pay more insurance

jery — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:24:07 -0000

Cool, thanks! ^_^

Re: PETA says meat eaters should pay more insurance

jery — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:50:11 -0000

Um, okay? Do I pal around with terrorists too?

Re: PETA says meat eaters should pay more insurance

jery — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:21:05 -0000

I provided the link to the UN study that says livestock is the #1 human-related cause of global warming. The United Nations is more ignorant than yourself? If you'd like to read the entire study and results (which I doubt, since you don't seem to be very intellectually curious), see below:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm

Re: PETA says meat eaters should pay more insurance

jery — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:09 -0000

Humans have adapted to a lot of things -- including astronomical rates of death during childbirth and lifespans into your 40's if you're lucky. Evolution isn't destiny. All modern medicine and nutrition is "unnatural." A vegetarian diet makes you healthier, and does not cause problems except for the aforementioned B12 issue with vegans who don't eat the handful of natural sources.

Evolution also didn't take into account global warming, for which eating meat (livestock specifically) is the #1 human cause.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20...

Re: PETA says meat eaters should pay more insurance

jery — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:35:19 -0000

Um, that's completely not true. Vegetarians get plenty of protein without supplements, from normal foods like beans, grains, etc. You don't need to drink soy milk any more than you need to drink cow milk (which is also completely unnatural for humans). Many meat eaters drink soy milk because it tastes better to them and is healthier. The only special supplement recommended for non-meat eaters is B12 for vegans, because there are only a handful of vegan sources. Non-vegan vegetarians get plenty.

It's a good idea for everyone to take a nutritional supplement, but without one, meat eaters on average have seven major nutritional deficiencies (calcium, iodine, vitamin C, vitamin E, fiber, folate, and magnesium) while vegans on average only have three (calcium, iodine, and B12).

Large populations of people are strictly vegetarian and there are no health problems. 40% of the country of India is completely vegetarian -- they have health problems due to poverty, but not because they're vegetarian. Strictly vegetarian religious groups like Seventh Day Adventists in California have been studied and they live 5-7 years longer than similar groups of meat eaters. It's been well-studied and well-proven that eating meat raises your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and several cancers like stomach, colon, and breast cancer.

Eating meat is the new smoking, and even if you cling to meat for your entire life, your children probably won't.

Re: Lindsay Lohan’s Life Sucks Right Now

jery — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:23:43 -0000

Uh, she's a 22 year old multi-millionaire who is beautiful and has a great girlfriend. Her life sucks because she can't get $10 million a movie anymore? WTF? I wish my life sucked.

Re: Blogger’s Committing Brand Hari Kari

jery — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:35:42 -0000

I think it enhances a brand when bloggers write about their personal opinions (within reason) even if their blog is mainly about a specific subject. Trying to be "impartial" is so 1960. There are so many tech bloggers out there writing about the same things so we want to know personal viewpoints. Personal opinions affect effect every aspect of a blog - from what to cover, to what is written about a product.

For example, if you look at different bloggers reactions to the launch of MySpace Music, posts range from "music should be free to download" to "MySpace will make a ton of money" to "all of my favorite songs are on here" to "it's worthless without every indie artist" to "MySpace Music just launched - here are the facts" to "who cares about music?" Just from those reactions, you can get some idea of the blogger's viewpoint and it helps you choose which blogs to read.

Personal opinions may deter some readers (for example, I no longer read Mashable because of some weird ultra-conservative postings) -- but nobody likes everything, right? There are always alternatives, especially in a heavily-blogged field like tech.

Re: Microsoft and Seinfeld: The Amazon Edition? (We Hope)

jery — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:04:40 -0000

amazon is such a cheap company, there's no way they'd have an ad campaign like microsoft's. they're way understaffed and overworked, they have crappy offices (which they've finally decided to upgrade), mediocre benefits, etc. they have a lot of revenue but their margins are so small on every purchase they have decided to be very very wary of unnecessary costs.

Re: TC50: Payola or a dodgy site from Ashton Kutcher, I know which I’d pick

jery — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:04:14 -0000

i love ashton kutcher, i love celebrity gossip, i love cutesy cartoons, but their first video was so bad i had to stop it.

Re: Bill Gates Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad

jery — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:23:24 -0000

I like how they managed to throw in some condescending footage about how poor Mexican immigrants are.

In college I served Bill Gates & his wife (cheap) pizza a couple of times -- got a $2 tip both times!

Re: And You Thought the Gymnasts Were Young…

jery — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:19:21 -0000

I can't tell if she's 12 or 25 (and I'm asian)!

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

jery — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:30:45 -0000

Yes, I know how religion works. That doesn't make religion free from criticism. Would you be uncritical of a huge politically and economically powerful church of Satanists? Of course not. That's the way non-religious people feel about Mormons and other socially repressive religious groups. Criticism should be welcome by religions if they want to stay relevant. Look at how Martin Luther or John Smith changed their religions and made them more current and less repressive. If Mormonism changed to accept homosexuals and women and racial minorities as equals, it would benefit them and reduce criticism, just like it benefited them to reject polygamy, accept black people, stop oppressing native americans, etc.

And yes, it doesn't really matter, but the bible does say in Leviticus not to sleep with a man like you would with a woman because it is an abomination. It's right after the parts whereit says not to eat shrimp or pork because it is an abomination, and before the part mandating people to celebrate Yom Kippur every year. Mormons can choose to follow specific LDS church teachings or not, but there are many positions that define you if you are a Mormon, and right now one of those is intolerance.

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

jery — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:10:50 -0000

Most Americans can't change the fact that they're American and America doesn't have a doctrine saying LGBT people are bad. Most gay people can't change the fact that they're gay and gay people don't have dogma saying that certain other groups are bad. Mormons, though, can stop being Mormons any time and they can stop supporting anti-gay political and social rhetoric at any time. (And anti-woman, and white supremecist rhetoric, but that's a different story.)

Just because the Westboro Baptist Church and abortion clinic bombers are out there doesn't mean the Mormon Church is less intolerant and hurtful. Mormons have significant political and economic power and the Mormon Church has a negative effect on many non-Mormon lives through their dogma.

If you want to control the behavior of your family or your church members, that's fine (although still worth criticizing). The Mormon church, though, has stifled civil rights laws in Utah and other states, and put their full political and economic weight towards passing a federal anti-gay marriage amendment. That's not benign, and people should not stop criticizing the Mormon church until they stop trying to dictate how people privately live their lives.

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

jery — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:34:24 -0000

Maybe it should tell you something that you assume someone who sounds angry at the Mormon church has an intimate knowledge of the church.

I don't think ex-convicts are as bitter about jail as ex-Mormons are of the Mormon church.

Re: 8 ways Facebook may change under Mormon ownership

jery — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:31:37 -0000

Um, I don't condone of you acting out Mormon behavior. I don't dislike you, just the horrible disgusting choice you made to become Mormon. That's alright then, right? Once the LDS church stops "not condoning" people's behavior that doesn't affect you I will stop "not condoning" the Mormon church. Maybe then you'll stop being criticized in an "inconsiderate" way.

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jery — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:36:14 -0000

LOOKS GREAT! i'm excited, thank you!!