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Tim Kaine, this Tim Kaine http://i.onionstatic.com/onion...

I like to think he's not dead, he's just moved somewhere else.

Well, it's too goddamned cold to be out washing your Trans Am in daisy dukes in the middle of January!

Bush is nothing like animatronics. More like a ventroloquist's dummy

Does the article discuss (or does anybody more familiar with today's dinosaurs, not the ones that they thought existed back when I was a kid, most of which seem to have been revised or eliminated, know) if the 'flight-capable' cranial capacities occurred in dinosaurs that, while not capable of flying, had enough pseudo-wing structure available that assorted flight-like stabilization and assisted locomotion strategies would be available, or is the conclusion that correlation between inferred brain structure and flight capabilities is surprisingly weak?

Surprisingly weak is my guess. (This seems generally true of so many theories pushed into the mainstream press these days). Phrenology revisited.

Flight may well have been preceded by centuries of hopping around in tree tops or cliff sides, and gliding down (like "flying" squirrels) thereby selecting for those capable of developing mental models of 3D space, and processing not necessary for ground animals. That life style would also favor those animals with lighter bodies, flattened tails and grasping claws.

The theory, as characterized in the summary, suggests by analogy that humans were already specialized for typing long before inventing the typewriter. Clearly they didn't mean that, (one hopes), but they without access to the paywall, its hard to know which animals were selected for analysis.

You remind me of the clerk in this "stolen" The Onion comic. If you don't want something "stolen" off the public web, don't publish it there.

That's ridiculously stupid. Stores don't lock their doors, does that mean that people are free to steal from them? Of course not. Simply being on the web doesn't magically make everything free, nor should it. The mental gymnastics you're doing to justify the crime is absurd.

Your shoplifting example is analogous to receiving priced merchandise from an online store without paying the amount requested by the seller. I agree that this is not done "freely," as even if an online store were so inept so as to allow this to occur, criminal law prohibits acquiring merchandise without paying the seller's the agreed upon price.

However, I thought we were discussing downloading data from a public-facing web server, that is offered just as freely as any of the comments I've contributed to this site, (as well as the photos, essays, code, and so on that I've contributed on other sites, Usenet, and BBSs) — data for which no price has been indicated, and no overt mechanism for providing payment has been presented. You call downloading these items a "crime" — under which U.S. law are these downloads criminalized?

You remind me of the clerk in this "stolen" The Onion comic. If you don't want something "stolen" off the public web, don't publish it there.

That's ridiculously stupid. Stores don't lock their doors, does that mean that people are free to steal from them? Of course not. Simply being on the web doesn't magically make everything free, nor should it. The mental gymnastics you're doing to justify the crime is absurd.

What exactly is being stolen from Google?

Engineering time, designer time, bandwidth costs, server costs, etc...

YouTube.com didn't just magically appear and run itself completely free of charge.

Google makes money off the properties of others.

No shit sherlock. That's not justification for you to steal from Google nor the owners of said content. You seem oblivious to the fact that the content owners *GET PAID* when those ads are shown, not just Google.

You remind me of the clerk in this "stolen" The Onion comic. If you don't want something "stolen" off the public web, don't publish it there.

I can't believe I'm responding to such a poorly constructed troll, but by "high quality", I'm talking about the way it's produced, not the part of the animal. There's plenty of things you can do with the rest of the animal (tripe, soups, stews, etc), and still have the source be high quality instead of factory farmed. I'm not talking about eating fillet mignon every night.

As for your dream cuisine, here you go, buddy:

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/8983/Dennys-Bucket_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85.jpg