Hmmm, but if they cannot digest meat then they can only be classified as herbivores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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Hmmm, but if they cannot digest meat then they can only be classified as herbivores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Only if you have a tenuous grasp of logic. The fact that nobody has tried doesn't equate to it being impossible, it just means that nobody has tried.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
I clarified very explicitly about six times (inlcuding the last two posts), you simply ignore it or feverse it each time. That's why I'm saying it is you. You can't seem to get over the idea, which was your own, that...well, I can't say it, or you'll quote it out of context. It just comes down to me saying that A is always B, which you consistently interpret to mean that B is also always A, which is not true.Quote:
I think clarifying the role of the extra red tiles is the key.
It's kind of clever, because you managed to make up the case, then stated that the case couldn't be made up. You stated that I created the rules a couple days ago, then go on to state that the rules "can't be deduced by anyone looking at the message". So...how did I deduce the rules a few days ago if nobody can do so by looking at the message? Did I not figure them out from looking at the message, and if so, then where did I get them from? They do happen to be sufficient for interpreting the message, which you don't dispute (a good thing, because they happen to be sufficient), and you say that I didn't have them before a few days ago, so where did they come from?Quote:
Where is the error?
I don't have a problem with you saying that they are mainly used as a character delimiter. By number or frequency, that is clearly true. The issue I have is with you then going on to assume that that that is the SOLE role they serve, which is not true.Quote:
Too late, I have already established that the main role of the red tiles is to act as a character delimiter and you agreed. =)
But you said that nobody could do that, so I must not have done that. How could I be doing something that you have proven I could not have done.Quote:
I merely noticed the obvious error you inserted into your binary pattern, then you tried to cover it up by inventing some rules. :p
As for the first one, rather than the hassle of cutting two tiles in half (and having to decide whether that should be a gray or tan tile that I cut, or half of each), couldn't I just use a tile of a different color? As for inserting a gap...no, I don't believe I can work that out. How about a suggestion?Quote:
You can use two half tiles to make everything line up neatly, and I am sure that you can work out how to insert a gap without generating a tripping hazard.
They can digest what they need to from that. Whether they are interested in the meat is a question I don't know the answer to. What they certainly ARE interested is in the minerals that go into the bones. Those are found in meat, as well, to some extent. The assumption I have seen is that minerals are the reason rather than protein, but I have never seen any study on meat consumption in deer to look at what they are and are not digesting from what they eat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
On the other hand, owl pellets are made up of the indigestible parts of what they eat, so there's a carnivore that is not digesting all parts of its meals, either.
Really? That's ALL?Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
Binary Talk == Puppy Talk?
Close enough.
By far my favorite one. Mostly because I like HouseQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Did you add the extra red tiles to throw a visual error and make it difficult to decipher the message, or to make it impossible to decipher the message?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Not true, most recently you tried to tell me that you added the extra horizontal red tiles as fill at the end of your message, then admitted the end of the message was not even in that picture and that any such fill would have to be vertical rather than horizontal, and then you failed to explain the actual role of the extra red tiles even when I asked you directly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Anyone looking at the pattern would, as I did, instantly recognise that the extra red tiles are obviously there to obstruct or block anyone from reading the message, and you even admitted the extra tiles throw off the pattern. Then you changed your mind and forged rather than deduced some new rules a couple of days ago, and simultaneously tried to retract your admission regarding the extra tiles. The truth is that those extra tiles throw a clear red visual error through your binary encoded message and removing those tiles, not a difficult job as it is only a few tiles, is the only way to remove the error. I don't imagine you have managed to con anyone into believing your new rules should be taken seriously.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
True, you also use them to throw an error in your binary pattern.:cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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Originally Posted by Witis
I think you have to clarify what you mean there Shaggy, as it is does not make any sense to me. I never stated that it was impossible to throw an error by inserting extra red tiles, nor did I indicate that it was impossible for you to forge some new rules in an attempt to cover up the act of inserting the error into you message that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
It is zero fill, so half tiles are in which ever colour represents zero. Also using more than two colours to represent binary is just not very intuitive and will make anyone looking at the pattern think it is anything other than binary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
In the absence of any evidence suggesting that deer can digest meat, I can only view them as herbivores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Owls are definitely carnivores. "Like other birds of prey many owl species exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism in size, where females are larger than males (as opposed to the more typical situation in birds where males are larger)" - wikiQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That confession is enough for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Why can you hear a lot of barrking?Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
If you think about it, a cow is basically just concentrated grass. Thus by eating steak I am merely engaging in a more efficient form of vegetarianism.Quote:
If God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of tasty meat.
Doin' my bit for the planet.
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Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Are you really happy slitting their throats just because cows taste good even though they have committed no crime?
Isn't killing something without just cause called murder?
What about switching to fish?
Why do you feel fish are so inferior?Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
That's not really a flippant question, either. If you see killing a cow as wrong, how is it that you see killing a fish is fine?
Cows are herbivores, they don't out looking to make a kill, they might defend themselves if they have to to stop themselves from being eaten which makes them innocent creatures. Also they have a relatively placid nature when left to graze on their own adding more support for their case. If they were humans they would represent law abiding citizens, and the word vaccine is derived from the latin for cow. ˚ᵕ˚
By contrast fish are designed entirely differently. In the case of the grey nurse shark their criminal behaviours begin during pregnancy where there are approximately 20 shark pups in each uterus, the fastest developing pups eat all the other pups until there is only one pup left in each uterus - that's fratricide.
They will eat each other just for the hell of it - that's homicide and cannibalism.
Also they never stop growing, meaning that if you created a robotic shark it would continue to eat and grow until it takes over the universe, unless you kill it first.
So by eating fish you are saving the universe.
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It certainly isn't for the hell of it. There's a reason for that. You see it all over the place, too. There are lots of birds where the first born will push the rest out of the nest, or kill them. When a new queen bee hatches, it will generally sting and kill any other queen pupae not yet hatched. This isn't done for the hell of it, it's done because of competition for limitted resources.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
As for cows and sheep, they have been bred domestically for thousands of years. We weren't breeding hostility or territoriality into them, for sure. Non-domestic animals don't play so nicely. Elk, deer, and every other ungulate that I am aware of, will kill each other. Deer have eaten baby birds, and it is likely that cows will, too. Pigs can be vicious, as can all domesticated fowl.
Meanwhile, you mention only sharks. Do you eat sharks? Maybe you do, but you have shown several pictures of salmon nigiri. Salmon do eat other fish, including other salmon (if they can), but not all fish do. How about tilapia? Do you not eat tilapia since they are vegetarian?
By the way, do you eat mushrooms? Do you care whether they are parasitic?
You can't just dismiss the flawed design and criminal behaviours of the piscine pests as mere competition as there are plenty of animals that compete over resources and do not commit fratricide, do not engage in cannibalism, and will not grow until they take over the universe. Mammals are classic examples as they do not typically murder each other merely to fill their bellies, and cannot grow indefinitely and take over the universe. Birds that are not raptors are another good example, they often mate for life and cannot grow indefinitely, although there are some exceptions like the boobies that do behave badly by letting one chick kill all of the others until there is only one left in each season - hence the expression booby prize. Cuckoos are another bad exception:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO1WccH2_YM
I'd eat a cuckoo clock. All of the birds of prey also behave very badly.
I am not sure that I believe your assertion that elk, deer, etc will kill each other, they might get into a rut in breeding season, they might tire each other out in battles over females, they might even injure each other, but I do not believe you that their intent is to murder each other. Although I'd be interested to read about precisely how viscous pigs can be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
One of my aims is to dine on some mako shark if I can get hold of some, and a good chef. Salmon are tasty, and I eat a lot of salmon each week, same goes for tuna. As far as tilapia goes, it is slightly more difficult to make a case against them, and marine iguanas, as they only consume vegetable matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Sure I eat edible mushrooms, they have a root stock which allows them to continue to grow even after the fruit are picked, although I would not eat any of the poisonous or parasitic species, for example like those:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgkL8PulPdE