Sculptus Poe

Well, it is pretty rare, but those 40 cases were all caused by a reaction to the black tattoo ink. If they didn’t get the tattoo they wouldn’t have had the problem. Still, if there are really only 40 cases in Australia and 25% of Austrailians have tattoos, it seems like there is just a 5.8 per million chance of having that problem. Obviously they have to be pre-disposed, but without a test for predisposition, then you always run that 0.00058% risk that getting a tattoo will blind you or cause you to have to take immunosuppresants forever.

From what I read in the 10 minutes I was interested in it, it seems like the people who spend way more time on that than us aren’t 100% sure that they are a distinct species and only came to that conclusion fairly recently. I like raccoons in general, so I would like to see that distinct family of raccoons protected. I’m not going to argue much that they aren’t a distinct species. They do apparently have a different number of teeth now than their mainland kin. Mountain folk have a different number of teeth than city folk too, but that doesn’t make them extrahuman.

Pretty sad. I do wonder what a healthy population looks like though, since they only exist on one island. They are decreasing, and have been for a while, so probably not 250. Also, they are barely different enough from common raccoons to qualify as a separate species, so i think they are a hard sell to expend much effort on.

(Just including the graph for reference. I’m not sure it helps with proper description or the answer the teacher was asking for, but you can see that from one direction it goes negative as you approach 8 and from the other it goes to positive infinity.)

Truly, this is the end times.

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If they reprinted those scanned books and sold them or even gave them away, they would be in more trouble than you would by sharing on limewire by dent of numbers. That isn’t what they are doing with these books. In fact, they did get in trouble for using the books they didn’t buy.

When a bookstore goes out of business or just can’t sell a book, they don’t return it to the printers, they tear off the cover, return that and by law have to throw the rest of the book in the trash and destroy it. So books are already destroyed by the millions. When I was a kid our hometown bookstore went out of business and I watched them throw away 2 metal dumpsters full of coverless books. If they were destroying ancient texts or valuable copies, that would be more something to get excited about. I doubt that they were doing that though.

Your words are true. I grew up catching fresh freshwater fish, but I would rather eat saltwater fish fresh or no.

I fed some crickets oranges before taking them to a demonstration speech I was giving for speech class. My demonstration was on making “crispy critters” which are rice crispy treats with dry roasted crickets. As an opener, I ate a live cricket (new personal fears of parasites would stop me from doing this now). The cricket tasted just like orange candy, because he had a belly full of oranges. It was better than my dry roasted crickets. I ate a cricket live out of the yard and it tasted like grass. They are what they eat. Even so, when you cook them, they dry up to the point that you are just eating their shells mostly.

So yes, you could make them salty if you drown them in salt water, but the muscle is the major part. We need to figure out how to make them get major gains. Little barbells maybe.

I guess regular bugs have way less need of muscle than swimming bugs. I have eaten crickets in a few different ways, and they never taste anything like shrimp. ALso, living in salt water pre-seasons the flesh maybe. That is my working theory. If we could figure out how to breed crickets that taste anything like shrimp, I would make them part of my diet and maybe even breed them.

I feel like it would have been nicer for him to vomit on the ground instead of in a decorative pot or somebody’s chimney.

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The brick hammer is great for everything up to Snes and GBA. It is my most used device of 7 or 8 that I own. It isn’t good for n64 and up, not because it won’t play them, but because it has no joystick. Even so, for Snes, nes and GBA I really believe that there is no better platform to play them on.

SNES and GBA was peak and most evergreen due to the games being peak pixel art before everything went 3D. Nearly every SNES and GBA game is still beautiful. I tried playing some N64 games, and they are so ugly that they are nigh unplayable. Xbox is just a platform to play modern PC games that isn’t quite as good as PC. Even Playstation 1 and 2 games are too dated to enjoy beyond one or two fighting games.

I mean, really, you probably have $0 worth of damages to worry about. If something in particular happens, like corporate espionage hurting your business that causes real damage, then you have the freedom to sue for that particular thing. (Supposing you aren’t locked out by the settlement.)

These are civil cases, buying your way out is all that happens in the best of circumstances in a civil case. It is just a matter of how much you have to pay to buy out. Punitive damages might do some extra justice, but what would that be? In the end you have to imagine that some radom person has sued you unjustly and decide how you want an innocent person to be treated, or perhaps they sued you with some small real point to their lawsuit, do you want the default to be that you are ruined? Maybe you didn’t intend harm, but want to either make amends or at least get past the lawsuit so you can get on with your life, do you want no recourse possible?

In the end, if Google was forced out of business, many(most) of us would be way worse off. That is not the ideal outcome. Ideally, the case brings enough money to the plaintiff to right any hardship caused and, in the case of punitive damages, does just enough hardship to the defendant that they are dissuaded from pursuing that course of action, but you aren’t trying to kill them.

Good gravy. 1984 wasn’t a guidebook.