Because if you said it was 'not a prank per se' then you would be implying that, considering various other factors, one could consider this a prank or perhaps consider it prank-like.

I don't think it is possible to consider this a prank. So your use of the word per se is correct per se, but incorrect when one considers the conversational implicature.

>> ^Sarzy:

I'm fairly certain that would be correct usage of "per se". What makes you think it isn't?
>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
That's not what "per se" means, though.

You sound like the Joker after Batman burns him in a vat of toxic waste - "You created me!"

>> ^quantumushroom:

...where they could be capped in less than TWO MONTHS. Also, congrats to the greens for preventing drilling in ANWR, on 1% of 1% of a people-less sheet of ice. Because caribou self-esteem is more important than energy dependency.

>> ^entr0py:
You're absolutely right. This disaster is the best proof yet that environmentalists were insane to not want oil rigs close to the shoreline.

Industrialized agriculture, and the like, may well be an enabler for massive population growth. However this growth is entirely unsustainable over the long term (100 years+) - a fact which will rapidly become evident over the next few decades.

The 'Green Lifestyle' raises the capacity for our planet to support a healthy, happy population over an extended period of time.

The antithesis relies on an ever increasing population to sustain itself - not necessarily a bad thing - but it is a flight towards a brick wall - that wall being the limits of the Earth's resources.

By the way, the 'Green Lifestyle' is a combination of numerous approaches. Your failure to appreciate this bigger picture is why your argument stinks. For example, ignoring costs and dangers, yes, nuclear power is very powerful and we could get a lot more power if we switched everything over to nuclear. However, you don't mention one of the fundamental tenants of mainstream environmentalism, which is that we shouldn't need this extra power in the first place if we lived and worked smarter.

>> ^lore_weaver:

Things like Organic Farming and "Green lifestyle" do more to lower the capacity our planet has for humans.

>> ^westy:

allso due to the nature of street fighting chances are annyone who actualy has intent to hurt you will have a kniffe or a gun

Whilst I somewhat agree that the likelihood that years of martial-arts practice is going to one day save your life in a street fight is pretty slim, I would point out that Bas is from the Netherlands and Pancrase is centered around Japan. In neither of these countries are you likely to encounter people carrying guns on the street, like you would in America. At worst they would have a knife... and a trained martial artist would certainly be able to fend off a junkie with a knife.