in fact you are not: in a recent poll (gah, I forgot the link, but you can believe me) over 47% of all males between 14 and 34 answered exactly like you when asked about their secret fantasy. From the same poll: apparently only 34% of the same age group dream about having sex with their neighbors dog. Funny, eh?
And: they say over 70% of all survey results are made up on the fly. But I tend to call that BS.
"purpose" and "design" are terms that don't go well with evolutionary concepts. I think assuming these leads to wrong directions in the biological sciences and to a "wrong" view of the biological world in general. Try "contingency" and "randomness" and "billions of years" instead.
Hello? I don't think any scientific finding is worth it if we have to pay with such horror and cruelty for it" Such horror and cruelty. Puncturing some bloody rats. Go to a hospital, see HUMANS there. Rethink argument.
Maybe I overdid when I said "troll", but... ah, forget it.
grrr... must resist urge to feed troll... grr-
No, I can't. Ok, you go live in you inconvenient world. I can't wait to hear from you again when some of those scientific advances of medicine has healed your cancer or whatever...
This is a most cynical discussion. Will someone pleas think of the children!
Oh wait, I know what you'll say next: mmmhhh, children. I like children...
...why all my witty and charming replies got eaten and never showed up in public. Man, each of those might have been glorious "+5, godlike"
slashdot, you destroyed my life!
Why does the threading of comments work in yesterdays threads but not in this one or any other one of today? I mean, I posted something and it's there (I find it in the post history) but it doesn't get displayed???
actually I think there are whole batteries of behavioral test that can figure out rodent visual acuity and other properties of vision. Just imagine a setup like this: mouse learns decision whether to take left or right arm of Y-maze depending on image shown above entrance. Train mouse a lot. Change image properties until mouse performance drops significantly. Find acuity threshold.... et cetera ad nauseam
my (only slightly edicated) guess is: perfectly possible! And visual cortex seems to be highly capable of adult plasticity, so I'd say the new wavelength range will be merged into the visual impression. Not that you'd be able to tell "this is UV" or this is "IR" but maybe brightness? Central color coding in the brain is quite complicated. Maybe the rod receptor cells would be better candidates for adding new wavelength ranges, as they only "code" light intensity anyway?
maybe it's just because there is a decline in standards actually going on at wikipedia right now? I heard about cases of "viral marketing" with wikipedia, using fake articles and stuff like that. maybe the platform has become too popular... if that is possible.
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in fact you are not: in a recent poll (gah, I forgot the link, but you can believe me) over 47% of all males between 14 and 34 answered exactly like you when asked about their secret fantasy. From the same poll: apparently only 34% of the same age group dream about having sex with their neighbors dog. Funny, eh? And: they say over 70% of all survey results are made up on the fly. But I tend to call that BS.
If it is a country, it should have a unique TLD, or not? What about ".sea"?
I have to add: and we didn't care about orthography those days, you know!
let me quote something from my activism days: "because fasicm is not an opinion but a crime" and laws are there to prohibit crime. period.
"just a bunch of fiefdoms with a semi-common language" and in large parts of the country, this hasn't changed a bit. Hello "neue Bundesländer" :-)
Deja vu also in patients suffering from schizophrenia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=p ubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=169 05402&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum. Thats when it gets really weird... did I have this delusion before...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-Day_Attack oh... I must be new here...
"purpose" and "design" are terms that don't go well with evolutionary concepts. I think assuming these leads to wrong directions in the biological sciences and to a "wrong" view of the biological world in general. Try "contingency" and "randomness" and "billions of years" instead.
as a regular mountain-biker I say: suv's suck !!
nah, "engineer" sounds so technical and... theoretical. you know, penetration is all about love and practical experience.
now, "sniffer" is another porn industry job that... ah, never mind...
penetration tester. now that's a job! is it somehow related to the porn industry?
"hot"mail. Now I get it... tehehe
Hello? I don't think any scientific finding is worth it if we have to pay with such horror and cruelty for it" Such horror and cruelty. Puncturing some bloody rats. Go to a hospital, see HUMANS there. Rethink argument. Maybe I overdid when I said "troll", but... ah, forget it.
grrr... must resist urge to feed troll... grr- No, I can't. Ok, you go live in you inconvenient world. I can't wait to hear from you again when some of those scientific advances of medicine has healed your cancer or whatever...
If all else fails, send some flowers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_plant
I don't think so, Tim!
This is a most cynical discussion. Will someone pleas think of the children! Oh wait, I know what you'll say next: mmmhhh, children. I like children...
...why all my witty and charming replies got eaten and never showed up in public. Man, each of those might have been glorious "+5, godlike" slashdot, you destroyed my life!
Why does the threading of comments work in yesterdays threads but not in this one or any other one of today? I mean, I posted something and it's there (I find it in the post history) but it doesn't get displayed???
actually I think there are whole batteries of behavioral test that can figure out rodent visual acuity and other properties of vision. Just imagine a setup like this: mouse learns decision whether to take left or right arm of Y-maze depending on image shown above entrance. Train mouse a lot. Change image properties until mouse performance drops significantly. Find acuity threshold.... et cetera ad nauseam
my (only slightly edicated) guess is: perfectly possible! And visual cortex seems to be highly capable of adult plasticity, so I'd say the new wavelength range will be merged into the visual impression. Not that you'd be able to tell "this is UV" or this is "IR" but maybe brightness? Central color coding in the brain is quite complicated. Maybe the rod receptor cells would be better candidates for adding new wavelength ranges, as they only "code" light intensity anyway?
maybe it's just because there is a decline in standards actually going on at wikipedia right now? I heard about cases of "viral marketing" with wikipedia, using fake articles and stuff like that. maybe the platform has become too popular... if that is possible.
no way! we will need the sunshade thingy because very soon we'll all use these SUV-style http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/ 04/032202 graphic cards.