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Tame tiger reveals its true nature.
>> ^jwray:
The sensationalized commentary was misleading.
So It can swing a 65 kilo doll around. Big deal. In a one on one fight for survival, a real live human would have a chance, with or without tools. If you can kick a football 70 yards, you can knock out a tiger. The obvious tactic would be to kick the shit out of it before it can even get in range to bite vital areas.
You really should do some research on the tactics a tiger uses to take down it's prey.
Kicking the shit out of it sounds like a great plan, with one small catch. You need to land those kicks, and plenty of them to win. All the while this cat is playing with you like a kitten with a sock. At the point that it gets tired and just jumps at your face, you better be ready to doge like a ninja or die like a chewtoy.
One good kick to the right part of the head could give it a terrible concussion, depending on what sort of shoes you're wearing. As bipedal primates, our kicks are much more agile and long-range than those of quadruped mammals. Tigers rely on stealth and striking from behind because of the ridiculously short range of their main weapon (the teeth). If you see it coming, you have a good chance. Humans are better at long-distance running, too, because we don't overheat as easily. A tiger can sprint faster than a human athlete for only a very short distance. And humans are much better than tigers at climbing trees, or picking up wood from the ground and using it as a weapon (which increases the difference between the tiger's strike range and your strike range). If it tries to pounce from 6 feet away, you have plenty of time to knock it sideways while it is in an unstable posture with only half of its limbs on the ground (its usual prey are quadrupeds whose limbs aren't well oriented to do such a defensive maneuver, and who couldn't turn quickly enough to maintain an orientation facing the tiger).
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Tame tiger reveals its true nature.
So It can swing a 65 kilo doll around. Big deal. In a one on one fight for survival, a real live human would have a chance, with or without tools. If you can kick a football 70 yards, you can knock out a tiger. The obvious tactic would be to kick the shit out of it before it can even get in range to bite vital areas.
Atheist Billboards in Colorado
> http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/4797/answersbillboardnl8.jpg
What a load of bigoted bullshit, to exploit people's fear and ignorance and insinuate the evil presumption that morality consists only in doing the will of a tyrant, whatsoever that will directs.
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein.
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Why not privatize the fire department while you're at it?
There's no good reason for the government to help people when their house is on fire, but not help them when they're infected with some communicable disease. So we'll leave it to a handful of self-interested businessmen to set the prices for putting out fires and determine whether things burn down? Coercion can happen just as much by inaction as by action. They could pose the choice: pay whatever I ask or your house will continue to burn down. This is perfectly analogous to absolutely deregulating healthcare. To neglect to provide public healthcare guarantees, would be to give private healthcare practitioners the power to coerce patients.
You can't comparison shop during an emergency. Whichever service is closest is the one you'll have to use, regardless of whether there's a free market. This gives the purveyors of such services extortionate powers.
Free market worshippers presume that consumers are more rational than they are. Going through the information gathering and calculation to act like a rational consumer takes TIME, and time is money. Free markets commonly reward cranks, liars, borderline frauds, and charismatic purveyors of useless products. That is why we need an FDA to essentially prevent cranks and pseudoscience-based medicine (such as homeopathy, chelation therapy, ultra-high dose vitamins, accupuncture, etc...) from selling bogus treatments (which ought to be defined as a form of fraud, anyway). Unfortunately the FDA hasn't been doing their job lately, by almost completely deregulating pseudoscientific "dietary supplements" and allowing homeopaths to get away with fraud. Many other countries are doing it better. Just because the USA's government is wildly inefficient, do not assume that all government is wildly inefficient.
Man gets jail time for sitting down too slow in court
It's a deliberate stunt for Ian Freeman's self-aggrandizement. More people heard of him as a result of this stunt than had ever heard of him before. Imprisonment for civil contempt is not uncommon.
http://www.answers.com/contempt%20of%20court
And "manhandling"? That was one of the least violent arrests I've ever seen. They were relatively nice with him.
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