Everything evolves. You must be new to this species.
FTFY. "Evolve" means "to undergo gradual change" and does not imply getting "better" (or "worse").
Really? Are you confident you know what evolution is? I'm pretty sure a planet full of species, would be willing to disagree with your non-scientific assertion.
-AI
fwiw, I think you made a common mistake and confused the definition of evolution with the definition of evolution of species. And I only made this post since you did say, species.
-- For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion
Yes, I am confident, as the "evolution of species" includes the extinction of a species through natural selection. Do you consider extinction as "better"? If so, then I think we have a different problem on our hands and you should be institutionalized.
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Re:What the???
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Humans are the most destructive species on the planet. If they can't dig it up, cut it down, pave over it, build on it, blow it up, burn it down, or otherwise manipulate it into unnatural fashions,... well... it doesn't exist. They've taken remains of long since dead creatures, and used it to pollute the sky, waters, and land. They've taken relatively safe radioactive elements (safe in their naturally occuring form) and processed them into large scale weapons. Even the radioactive elements used for "good", such as power generation, and either dumped in landfills or used to make even harsher "conventional" DU munitions.
Finding a spot on the planet that hasn't been touched by humans is impossible. Even the depths of the oceans find various debris ranging from unfortunate ships to waste products. Similar can be observed at the extreme "poles", where it is generally considered too cold for anyone to go. Anyone but submarines patrolling under the ice, various camps on top of the ice, and pollution from the air and water.
So as far as the planet goes, extinction would be the best alternative for continuation of the other species.
Sucks when someone says it'd be better if we all went off and died, huh?
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
That depends on the species. Factors could include things such as how much harm they do to the planet or how ignorant, stubborn, or irrational many of them are (regardless of their degree of intelligence in other areas).
Not to mention how stubborn and illogical they seemingly are. Nearly everything is about profit. How much damage is causes is irrelevant to them. If it helps the imaginary economy and keeps it on life support for a bit longer, go for it!
Most of the pollution wouldn't even exist if they put more effort into finding other solutions (oh, wait, that again requires money, which is the most important object in existence).
Well, everything is about profit in some cultures. Unfortunately, those cultures have polluted virtually every other culture there is.
Humans trying to step back to the "simpler time", where money is not an issue, and self sufficiency is, are looked at as hippies in communes, Amish (to some degree), or fringe nutjobs who are trying to escape the trappings of capitalist life. They frequently are called names and looked down upon. If you've never heard "dirty hippie", "communist" or "socialist" in a derogatory and misused fashion, you've been living under a rock.
There are (or were) other cultures who bartered and traded rather than having the need for currency of whatever type. To live in modern society, you have to embrace the capitalist society. It is possible to live outside of it, in a group with a sufficient skill set.
Consider this. If you were in an area which had fertile land for farming, ore for mining, and could build the necessary tools for refining the ore and forging tools, you could live without modern society.
But, you'll be expected to pay property taxes. That takes currency. You'll be expected to pay income tax, as the tax man will eventually figure out that you're producing commodities that could be sold, and therefor has a value that can be considered income.
What happens should you decide to do something exotic, like build a car. It's not impossible. When you decide to drive this car on the roads, assuming you've built all the necessary safety equipment? Well, you'll expected to pay the registration fee (currency) , pay for your license (currency), insurance (currency). Lets assume you're manufacturing your own fuels (vegetable oils work fine as diesel fuel), if you don't pay the road tax, you'll once again have the tax man coming down on you.
In the 2004 movie "The Village", the idea was turned into a movie. Well, a horror drama.
[spoiler alert]
A bunch of folks with some serious financial backing bought a huge piece of land, had a wall erected around it with guards. They lived a simple life, isolated from civilization. Property taxes, guard salaries, etc, were paid for from the profits of long term investments, which were managed by someone living out in civilization. So, if you or I were to attempt such a thing, we'd need some serious financial backing, and assistance from those living in the capitalized society.
A friend of mine decided to give up the trappings of normal society. He went off to live in his truck (a suburban). He had to pay for the vehicle, for registration, insurance, and even then, he had a hard time finding places to sleep at night. Some nights he was awoken by security guards telling him to leave. Some nights it was the local police, citing nonexistent laws stating he wasn't able to sleep in a vehicle anywhere in the area. That didn't provide him with any way to be self sufficient, and even still, he wasn't allowed to make it.
This trend won't change until there is substantial change throughout society. Don't expect it any time soon. Those with money really enjoy having it. They won't let go of that power anytime soon.
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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unil_1005
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It would have been better stated thusly: "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gymbol in the wabe."
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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Desler
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You expect anything BUT crap from samzenpus?
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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badboy_tw2002
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There's a video. So not just a stupid comment. A stupid comment AND a stupid video!
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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HTH+NE1
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I can only guess it must be some kind of flash app embedded in the story page. it's completely invisible to me. All that remains is the meaningless summary with no context.
-- Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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badboy_tw2002
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It took a while to pop up for me. Chrome 10 on Win7.
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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unjedai
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Me too. Tried it in Chrome, Firefox and IE. Nothing.
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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oodaloop
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What are you, Johnny Depp?
-- Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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Qzukk
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My mome raths are outgrabed by this news article!
-- If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????
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snowraver1
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You joke... but such a patch would be pretty awesome.
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Re:Man proficient with video editing, News at 9
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Anonymous Coward
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Man? This is collegehumor, it's a commercial operation. It'd be quite impressive if it were a random youtube by someone, but this is par for the course for the kind of stuff that collegehumor do.
Ok, no slashdot business but...
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Anne+Honime
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I laughed my ass off. 'nuff said.
Re:Ok, no slashdot business but...
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eiiiI'monslashdot
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and it absolutly has nothing to do with this site. other than that, i guess you can say what u said. but it shouldn't be on this url adress.
Re:Man proficient with video editing, News at 9
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Heretic2
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So I take it "par for the course" = "quality of what one OK video editor could produce after a couple hours." Adding overlays => not that hard.
As soon as you see the world IDLE you should already be skeptical that you will be receiving any real information. Sometimes this happens. I, too, had lols, and under no circumstance will I complain about that, even if it's "not what I signed up for" here at Slashdot. Besides, even if you guys have an "amazing point", hasn't this been said on here at least x amount of times already? where x = (uninformative submissions) * (0.20 * userbase) * 100;// Real original guys....
Re:Man proficient with video editing, News at 9
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twidarkling
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Have you watched a collegehumor vid? You just described them accurately. "What one ok editor could do in a day." I think the only reason it'd be impressive by a youtuber is because a) they're not getting paid to bother, and b) 90% of youtube is of absolute shit quality.
-- Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Nice idle
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Anonymous Coward
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Slashdot posts lots of kinect hacks. I think that this is appropriate, slashdot-relevant humor for idle. Also I was amused.
This is a local site...
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NoSleepDemon
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For local people! We'll have no humour here!... Gosh, my nose is bleeding, won't anyone run a story about that??
Don't you people have better things to do with your time than whine about a not-news item being posted on/.? Yeah, it probably should've been tagged as idle instead of games but big deal. If the quality of news is that important to you, try getting out there and making some news that'll make the grade.
-- Why can't we let people believe whatever they like? It's not like a little religion has ever hurt anyone.
Yep.. totally Agree. Why complain about accidently watching some humour that wastes your time, when you chose to waste the time coming to a news site?
Maybe whining would be sensible if you only had 5 minutes each day to read news, and you had a medical condition called chronic-hyper-inverse-news-allergy. I think not!
-- "I split coffee all over my wife's nightie.... serves me right for wearing it"
-Speelberg, no 'Spar
Re:NS;DS (No Script; Didn't See)
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Red_Chaos1
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You saw a yellow rectangle? Thanks to RequestPolicy I didn't even see *that*.:P
This is what happens when I am gone for a week...
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Stregano
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It is like they did not even try. I am not going to lie, I wasted 30 seconds that I want back reading that, and wasted 2 minutes typing this that I want back. Now/.!
-- The world is how you make it
Re:NS;DS (No Script; Didn't See)
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d6
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Slashdot Mirror
Even by idle standards.
Too bearded;didn't watch
What the f**k is this? Slashdot has gone downhill over the last two years - this takes the cake though.
I liked it, but it has no business being on slashdot. It isn't news. (No, I'm not new here.)
It would have been better stated thusly: "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gymbol in the wabe."
Man? This is collegehumor, it's a commercial operation. It'd be quite impressive if it were a random youtube by someone, but this is par for the course for the kind of stuff that collegehumor do.
I laughed my ass off. 'nuff said.
So I take it "par for the course" = "quality of what one OK video editor could produce after a couple hours." Adding overlays => not that hard.
You, sir, are easily impressed.
Because it looks like comedy. In fact, it is comedy, and not news. It's not news about comedy either, just comedy. Which is tragic.
There is no -1 Disagree.
As soon as you see the world IDLE you should already be skeptical that you will be receiving any real information. Sometimes this happens. I, too, had lols, and under no circumstance will I complain about that, even if it's "not what I signed up for" here at Slashdot. Besides, even if you guys have an "amazing point", hasn't this been said on here at least x amount of times already? where x = (uninformative submissions) * (0.20 * userbase) * 100; // Real original guys....
Deadpan!
Have you watched a collegehumor vid? You just described them accurately. "What one ok editor could do in a day." I think the only reason it'd be impressive by a youtuber is because a) they're not getting paid to bother, and b) 90% of youtube is of absolute shit quality.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Slashdot posts lots of kinect hacks. I think that this is appropriate, slashdot-relevant humor for idle. Also I was amused.
For local people! We'll have no humour here! ... Gosh, my nose is bleeding, won't anyone run a story about that??
Don't you people have better things to do with your time than whine about a not-news item being posted on /.? Yeah, it probably should've been tagged as idle instead of games but big deal. If the quality of news is that important to you, try getting out there and making some news that'll make the grade.
Why can't we let people believe whatever they like? It's not like a little religion has ever hurt anyone.
You saw a yellow rectangle? Thanks to RequestPolicy I didn't even see *that*. :P
It is like they did not even try. I am not going to lie, I wasted 30 seconds that I want back reading that, and wasted 2 minutes typing this that I want back. Now /.!
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