I have a 16 year old Green Iguana, who is very socialized and very intelligent.
My wife, who is an environmental biologist who studied Western Fence Lizards, thinks my Iguana is at least as intelligent as the Cacatuidae birds, but not as smart as True Parrots.
When he is learning and observing you can tell he needs a few seconds to process, but for things like food and threats he is very crafty and communicates well.
No it really doesn't Even if the gap is closed to 30,000 years, that is thousands of large vertebrate generations apart.
There are very few continuous beds of fossil-bearing rock which cover a time range from several million years before the K–T extinction to a few million years after it, so extinct large vertebrates could very well have become extinct millions of years before the K-T layer in some places and survived for millions of years after it.
The K-T boundary and the asteroid hypothesis as the one true theory is junk science for scientists who like to star in flashy TV programs about "Asteroids killed the Dinosaurs!"
Nice stereotyping around the rural US, but in the areas they are talking about generally it's farm and ranch country very far from traditional telecom and railroad right of ways.
If the US hadn't let the regional freight railroad for the Great Plains fail in the 1970s, most likely it would have been much cheaper to get good data connections out there.
Example - I'm originally from north central South Dakota, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad began failing in 1964, was out of Montana and the Dakotas by 1977 with right of ways auctioned and tracks gone by 1985 for the most part. Now the town I am from is 90 miles from the nearest true broadband connections, trenching is very expensive and running lines above ground is problematic because poles fall during winter storms.
The margin of error on when the last dinosaurs were existent and the margin of error on when the K-T boundary was deposited are both hundreds of thousands of years.
In some places there are at least 300,000 years of sediment between the fossil evidence of the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event and the K-T boundary.
K-T boundary has is dated to (65.5 ± 0.3) Ma, the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event is dated to 65.5 Ma, so the impact could have been the day the last dinosaurs were alive, it could have been 300,000 years before, 11 years after, or 213,417 years after.
My uncle is a Doctor and he was stuck with a Blackberry too, apparently it locked up on him one time too many and he shot it the next time he was out in the country at his family farm.
Studebaker was an American company with a plant in Canada.
Studebaker Plant 7 was at Walkerville, Canada, where complete cars were assembled from South Bend, Detroit, and locally-made components for the Canadian and British Empire (right-hand-drive) trade. By locating it there, Studebaker could advertise the cars as "British-built" and qualify for reduced tariffs.
After World War Two, Studebaker moved operations to Hamilton, Ontario in 1947, until December 1963, it manufactured automobiles as a satellite facility using engines produced in the United States. Studebaker half-ton pickup trucks were assembled at Hamilton from 1950 through 1955.
My cousin works for a company that up until 1 Jan 2011 was RIM exclusively, you could not have another mobile device at work there.
We are at dinner, his phone has "locked up" and he proceeds to start taking out the battery, I ask why and he says "thats what you do when a Blackberry locks up, you don't do that to an iPhone?" When I asked how often he has to pull the battery, he answered "Once a week or so." I can't remember the last time my iOS devices required a hard reboot.
On 1 Jan 2011 his company lifted the restriction on mobile devices, he got an iPhone 4 when they rolled out on Verizon, now he also has a company issued iPad to replace paper maps (he is an airline pilot).
Nope, to RIM 1 or 2 MB a month is normal data usage, “RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005."
"Mike is convinced people won’t buy an iPhone because battery life isn’t as good as a BlackBerry,” a different source said. Mike apparently is in disbelief that people can use over 15GB of data on their iPhone and Android devices,"
So this genius at RIM is so much in denial that he doesn't get that Apple is cutting away at RIM while Android and iOS are raping RIM because he doesn't understand the market anymore.
Actually, incandescent bulbs take quality and good materials, thats a reason why they still made them in the United States until 2011.
Also when an incandescent bulb breaks it doesn't turn the area into a chemical spill site.
I deal with high end incandescents and CFLs for my pet reptiles, while CFL cut power use, they degrade over time, even the highest quality ones, and a good incandescent will last just as long or longer with the same light output than CFLs will.
"The leak exposed massive corruption by Daniel Arap Moi, and the Kenyan people sat up and took notice. In the ensuing elections, in which corruption became a major issue, violence swept the country. "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak," says Assange. It's a chilling statistic, but then he states: "On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information and 40,000 children a year die of malaria in Kenya. And many more die of money being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased."
What a wonderful attitude, they are poor and they'd die anyway, so who the fuck cares that more died and were displaced? It's for the greater good!
If Wikileaks was accused of going after Dick Cheney or George W. Bush's email and telephone records there would be overwhelming support for the actions. But News Corp asshats did it so it's a bad thing.
It's actually a bad thing no matter who did it, wikileaks, the FBI, FBS, News International, etc.
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I have a 16 year old Green Iguana, who is very socialized and very intelligent.
My wife, who is an environmental biologist who studied Western Fence Lizards, thinks my Iguana is at least as intelligent as the Cacatuidae birds, but not as smart as True Parrots.
When he is learning and observing you can tell he needs a few seconds to process, but for things like food and threats he is very crafty and communicates well.
No it really doesn't Even if the gap is closed to 30,000 years, that is thousands of large vertebrate generations apart.
There are very few continuous beds of fossil-bearing rock which cover a time range from several million years before the K–T extinction to a few million years after it, so extinct large vertebrates could very well have become extinct millions of years before the K-T layer in some places and survived for millions of years after it.
The K-T boundary and the asteroid hypothesis as the one true theory is junk science for scientists who like to star in flashy TV programs about "Asteroids killed the Dinosaurs!"
Dinosaur remains have been found as close a cm from the K-T layer and out to a meter, the 13cm distance in west Texas is 300,000 years of sediment.
There is no way you can get 3G across Montana, even on the I-90 corridor its very spotty outside of cities to even get decent EDGE data.
Nice stereotyping around the rural US, but in the areas they are talking about generally it's farm and ranch country very far from traditional telecom and railroad right of ways.
If the US hadn't let the regional freight railroad for the Great Plains fail in the 1970s, most likely it would have been much cheaper to get good data connections out there.
Example - I'm originally from north central South Dakota, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad began failing in 1964, was out of Montana and the Dakotas by 1977 with right of ways auctioned and tracks gone by 1985 for the most part. Now the town I am from is 90 miles from the nearest true broadband connections, trenching is very expensive and running lines above ground is problematic because poles fall during winter storms.
The margin of error on when the last dinosaurs were existent and the margin of error on when the K-T boundary was deposited are both hundreds of thousands of years.
In some places there are at least 300,000 years of sediment between the fossil evidence of the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event and the K-T boundary.
K-T boundary has is dated to (65.5 ± 0.3) Ma, the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event is dated to 65.5 Ma, so the impact could have been the day the last dinosaurs were alive, it could have been 300,000 years before, 11 years after, or 213,417 years after.
My uncle is a Doctor and he was stuck with a Blackberry too, apparently it locked up on him one time too many and he shot it the next time he was out in the country at his family farm.
"RIM has something that no one else has and they need to stay with it."
Falling market share and profits.
Studebaker was an American company with a plant in Canada.
Studebaker Plant 7 was at Walkerville, Canada, where complete cars were assembled from South Bend, Detroit, and locally-made components for the Canadian and British Empire (right-hand-drive) trade. By locating it there, Studebaker could advertise the cars as "British-built" and qualify for reduced tariffs.
After World War Two, Studebaker moved operations to Hamilton, Ontario in 1947, until December 1963, it manufactured automobiles as a satellite facility using engines produced in the United States. Studebaker half-ton pickup trucks were assembled at Hamilton from 1950 through 1955.
My cousin works for a company that up until 1 Jan 2011 was RIM exclusively, you could not have another mobile device at work there.
We are at dinner, his phone has "locked up" and he proceeds to start taking out the battery, I ask why and he says "thats what you do when a Blackberry locks up, you don't do that to an iPhone?" When I asked how often he has to pull the battery, he answered "Once a week or so." I can't remember the last time my iOS devices required a hard reboot.
On 1 Jan 2011 his company lifted the restriction on mobile devices, he got an iPhone 4 when they rolled out on Verizon, now he also has a company issued iPad to replace paper maps (he is an airline pilot).
Nope, to RIM 1 or 2 MB a month is normal data usage, “RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005."
"Mike is convinced people won’t buy an iPhone because battery life isn’t as good as a BlackBerry,” a different source said. Mike apparently is in disbelief that people can use over 15GB of data on their iPhone and Android devices,"
So this genius at RIM is so much in denial that he doesn't get that Apple is cutting away at RIM while Android and iOS are raping RIM because he doesn't understand the market anymore.
The Swiss, Israel, France and Japanese have good free or nearly free healthcare and all have good militaries.
The UK and Canada also have good healthcare but are letting costs spiral out of control and it's greatly impacting military spending.
Actually, incandescent bulbs take quality and good materials, thats a reason why they still made them in the United States until 2011.
Also when an incandescent bulb breaks it doesn't turn the area into a chemical spill site.
I deal with high end incandescents and CFLs for my pet reptiles, while CFL cut power use, they degrade over time, even the highest quality ones, and a good incandescent will last just as long or longer with the same light output than CFLs will.
Wouldn't it be best to use Tor to distribute it?
It's against Federal law and state law to knowingly acquire stolen property.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods#United_States
No, but the Feds can.
Leaking information on current and former US military personnel is just going to fan the flames of "shut everything down" in Congress.
People keep poking at the bear and eventually it's going to wake up and rip things apart.
Yes, I know its from a military contractor, that distinction will be lost on Congress.
So they'll be executed for hampering Iran's nuclear weapon program.
If its in the garbage it's abandoned property.
http://www.dps.alaska.gov/apsc/docs/legalmanual/AABANDONEDPROPERTY.pdf
If it were land filled in 1973 Anchorage, right now it would be under a property development between one of the airports and Muldoon, lost forever.
The Municipality of Anchorage and State of Alaska didn't care to recover the rock, the guy saved it, it's his now by state law.
Wikileaks spokespeople are completely unrepentant about people killed from Wikileaks dumps, so if death is the metric, Wikileaks is much worse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/01/julian-assange-wikileaks-afghanistan
"The leak exposed massive corruption by Daniel Arap Moi, and the Kenyan people sat up and took notice. In the ensuing elections, in which corruption became a major issue, violence swept the country. "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak," says Assange. It's a chilling statistic, but then he states: "On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information and 40,000 children a year die of malaria in Kenya. And many more die of money being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased."
What a wonderful attitude, they are poor and they'd die anyway, so who the fuck cares that more died and were displaced? It's for the greater good!
Or something.
No, no one misses Dan Rather, he didn't try to show anyone the truth about President Bush, he tried to swing the election with forged documents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents#Review_panel_established
If Wikileaks had done it.
If Wikileaks was accused of going after Dick Cheney or George W. Bush's email and telephone records there would be overwhelming support for the actions. But News Corp asshats did it so it's a bad thing.
It's actually a bad thing no matter who did it, wikileaks, the FBI, FBS, News International, etc.
The Tamil Tigers. Nationalists, not religious or ideological freaks.
Suicide bombers for Fatah, also not religious or ideological freaks, just plain old nationalists.
Suicide planes were a strategy for the Luftwaffe though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Elbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Squadron
Tamil Tigers were, they invented the suicide vest.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2008/january/tamil_tigers011008