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New Mammal Species Found in Borneo
lemonysam writes "The BBC is reporting that a new mammal species has been discovered in Borneo by a conservation group trying to document the local species, as part an effort to prevent the destruction of their habitat by logging and agriculture. The species, which has not been identified by local experts or the indigenous population, is roughly the size of a domestic cat and is believed to be carnivorous."
Further in France's defence, consider the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The British got themselves slaughtered. The French, OTOH, did a bloody good job. Had we been up to their military standards that day, there'd be a damn sight fewer names on memorials all over England, and the war might have ended a good deal sooner.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
This new species, homo estupidus, has actually existed for thousands of years. The earliest known findings of evidence of their existence dates back to the middle ages, when these creatures were known to mimic human behavior, except that they tended toward an extreme displeasure of difference, especially with respect to social standing and wealth. Particularly, they were displeased with the social or socioeconomic advancement of others. While homo estupidus pervaded western Europe in the middle ages, the industrial period brought forth their mass expulsion from Western Europe, during which time masses of homo estupidus, voluntarily even, were loaded onto boats and shipped to a little-known new land called Massachussets. There they thrived, and were renamed in the mid 1900's from homo estupidus to the simple name of just Kennedy. Since then, they have been a thriving culture and have almost perfected their methods of preventing social and economic growth in other species, even going so far as to drown members of other species when it was deemed necessary to further their cultural goals. There have been occasional perturbations in their species, however, with some of them becoming socially tied to homo republicanus, but such can be expected when they travel to the extreme western part of the North American continent so far from their home land, and there have been only few documented cases of such cross-breeding.
Yup. And the French lost the war in Vietnam...
...and it's so great to know that America has won the War on Terror!
Can you smell hubris?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
Why is it that when some imbecile like you comes along, you never get the talking down you deserve?
Stop stereotyping, asshole, values have nothing to do with gender.
I think you're you're mistaking gender and feminine and masculine energy. I'm sorry I didn't clarify that in my post, but I will try to give a short explanation here:
Even if you are a man, you possess some feminine qualities, and vica versa. Nobody is 100% feminine or 100% masculine, or if they are pretty close to 100%, they have some hormone imbalance (saw a documentary about that once).
Feminine energy or values is about nurturing, heart-connection, love, education, sharing and openness.
Masculine energy or values is about control, power, achievements, height, everything big and huge and pretty darn impressive and controlling.
Every human being display some balance of each in different settings, so this is again not about gender. Indeed, the balance can be totally opposite for a given gender, giving rise to homosexuality or behaviour which is seen as more appropriate for the other sex.
The world has been in an age of masuline energy dominating for quite some time (a few thousand of years), with the result of men ruling the world. Before that, societies with women ruling was the norm (believe it or not, but archeological finds and folklore confirms this). However, what we're seeing now is the rise of feminine energy again (this has been going on for the last hundreds of years). This marks a new age, because the imbalance of masculine energy has caused alot of war and suffering.
Feminine energy is indeed superior to masculine energy, because it doesn't lead to suffering, confusion and war, like masculine energy. This is, if you don't love war over peace though, so preferences may vary. However, a balance of both may become far superior to any of them alone, which can give rise to both love and power.
This is a very interesting time to be living.
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