Life In 19x19

You have really been brainwashed by the media, haven't you Herman?

He's been providing detailed posts displaying his knowledge of the subject, citing credible sources, and researching the validity of other people's sources. Instead of refuting the actual arguments he proposes, you attack his ...

shapenaji wrote:
What kind of quality of life are we maintaining if the animals can't form familial units?

Do you know what quality of life animals who are raised for slaughter currently have?

I understand that in order to eat a cow, I have to kill a cow, and I can do it personally if I have to (although I rather not.) But it will never be a joy for me to do so, it will always be the sad necessity, not something I celebrate or even trivialize and dismiss. I will never teach my kids its ...

Yes, this is a big difference between KGS and other rating systems. If you have a sustained win rate of 60% in even games (at the dan level), the KGS rating system will never promote you. In some other rating systems (IGS in particular), a sustained win rate over 50% will eventually get you ...

Thanks for posting this - I'd been working really hard for my most recent rank increase (which I finally earned a couple weeks ago). Then, I happened to lose several games coinciding with this huge rank shift, and I was just stunned that I not only had lost my rank increase, but I was a considerable ...