A frog is not as intelligent because... he doesn't need to be that smart and reasoning to survive. His mechanism is having 10,000 little eggs and, with any luck, a handful will survive to reproduce.
actually frogs have a very developed breeding system based on pheromones- the same way that a pack of wolves or coyotes will not go into heat and reproduce until the alpha male secretes the "go ahead" signal there is in a community of frogs the ability for an "alpha frog" to secrete pheromones that not only bring about the breeding go ahead, but also creates a forced gender change in the surrounding frogs making them- basically his bitches. As well there are a number of other animals (mostly lizards I believe) that are unisex and have the ability to both widen the genepool through reproduction as well as increase their lineage by laying "cloned eggs" that contain their own genetic material.
all in all our human reproduction is pretty limited and uncreative
except for the fact maybe that animals can't score over the internet
the thing that I find so ironic though is that
1. Fight them and attempt to deny them success in their attacks and their goal of gaining power. who is this targeted at?
insurgents in iraq?
the are INSURGENTS not terrorists... another word for insurgents is rebels.
we cannot call them that because, we support rebels, people that stand up to a gov't that they feel is wrong are supported by the US, unless they are INSURGENTS.
look, I don't support the insurgents, but we are really in the middle of a civil war and trying to choose sides, it is ridiculous to do so. if you ask people who do they want to win sunni or shea here in the US most people don't know or care- neither one of them is al-qeda all they want to do is opress their population in the manner that they see fit- sunni one way shea the other. The fact of the matter is that I wouldn't be surprised if once we are gone from iraq whoever ends up in charge will commit atrocities on the other population.
it is great and all to be proud of your brother, but I have had 5 friends here that were in the "backdoor draft" of the national guard and reserves, 1 of them has come back ok, 1 of them is dead and the others have all come back totally screwed up. The argument that people make isn't that soldiers are stupid or butchers or what have you- the argument is really: what are we really trying to accomplish for this country and is it worth killing and dying for and is any of this worth the hurt that it is doing to our country economically and militarily
I think that you will find that most people don't see that there is anything accomplished and that it is stretching ourselves thin in our actual defenses at home from both terrorism and natural disasters. You will also find, that as I believe the war is doing nothing but working to serve the self interests of a few people who are willing to destroy and throw away the lives of hundreds of thousands of people (both americans and iraqis).
this is why if we can get this data it seems more probable to have a "replicator" than a "transporter", if we can find a way to decode the structure quickly, or store it, all we need is some raw atomic material to reconstruct it. That is more probable with a kobe steak than a person.
absolutely wrong- that is network broadcasting which is provided free to the public, you pay for an internet connection in order to access mainly user and small business generated content, how would it be if when you were on your cellphone every time you made a call you had to listen to a commercial before it dialed?
....ummm I heard them say something similar to:
Make your own prgorams and run them on the console's super-fast cell processor!
in an interview when they announced support for yellowdog linux on the ps3 to encourage user generated content
"So in America, A president ordering others to repeatedly violate your constitution and violate the rights of the people you are not punished but if you get a blow job from an ugly fat girl you get impeachment hearings. My god you guys have issues with sex." ...I thought Monica Lewinsky was kind of cute
I would give it up - in the mean time I would just get a tight little portable internet device and wait it out till mobile phones move on in the tech world like pagers did-
either that or pay someone a half a million pounds to kill the guy watching me to make sure I don't get a cell phone
totally concur on the youtube- atomfilms and ifilm were around long before youtube - the only difference is the ease to upload the video by the common user.
along those lines the "blog" thing drives me nuts- ever since the media got ahold of "blog" it became new- but look at livejournal- how long was that around before the word "blog" hit CNN?
stem cells: first of all not technology- built by the human body -will be incredibly useful prolly about 10 yrs down the line, not now- but saying that stem cells won't be useful ridiculous because it is just the understanding of the natural cell replication process that stem cells give us, in the long run the objective is to throw the stem cell away and replicate the functions of it. nano-tech: it is being used regularly in most of the major technological manufacturing base developments right now- think OLED those are microscopic alignments that are performed to create it- same goes for a number of new fiber optic technologies, that sparkly opalescent paint- all considered nano-tech and then there is all of the microprocessor and micro storage development...
read: "A FEDERAL judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico"
the reason the pot clubs get busted is because federal trumps state law- this is a federal judgment- there will obviously be an appeal, but until further notice the judge has laid the groundwork that has to be overturned.
I wish more people here in the US understood their own political/court system.
I do agree wait a lot of what you said- but I do believe that rather than community support that we need to have more state government, and here in California, regional (since we are so big) government support. Also I don't think that it is inherent to the government to become corrupt, but individual power does attract those that wish to abuse it.
I disagree 100% with this one, the government needs to be depended on and it needs to be accountable. It is like hurricane Katrina- where there were a million "heartwarming stories" of people giving to help people in need and it made me sick to my stomach- when FEMA couldn't do their damn job- there is a reason that about a third of my paycheck goes away every month and that isn't to give money to corporations and to pay for killing citizens of Iraq and to give the **AA new laws, it is to pay for the security that our government supplies against things like natural disasters and to keep national highways running and to make sure people aren't starving in the streets and to keep our borders secure from criminals (not farmworkers) and the list goes on and on. The government is big and like a parent to it's citizens- if you saw a mother deciding that if she starved her kids so that she could by a Ferrari would you say- "It's the kid's fault- he/she should get a job and pay for themselves"? Hell no you would say that the mother is abusing her position as a parent and needs to change what she is doing.
what you are talking about is totalitarianism (a country led by 1 person)- think rome ruled by the senate vs. rome ruled by an emperor...back then it was called a dictator and we don't like dictators, do we?
I have personally always thought that we should have a board of presidents- 5 presidents and a cabinet of policy made up of ranking vice presidents- it would force the office of the president to come to a consensus on policy before it is made and takes away the 1 vote veto that the president holds. I mean think about it- how many corporations have 1 guy that makes all of the decisions- every company no matter how bad has a board of directors that are held accountable for some form of consensus on major company decisions- the offie of the president should be like this.
barring this I think that we should go back to the most votes is pres.- second most is VP like the office was designed- if this white house was bush and kerry or the previous being bush and gore- the whole world would be a lot different.
yes, but the great thing about having them all under 1 roof is doing things like the avengers and excallibur and x-factor which pull characters/actors from other people that are holding the film rights- you can still pull hollywood people to work for you. and so far as "The Roger Corman version of Fantastic Four", I thought that the new one (though I haven't seen the silver surfer one) was as bad as the corman version, and I thought that the incredible hulk tv show blew the movie out of the water- and daredevil was cooler in the I. hulk tv show as well.
Slashdot Mirror
funny- I guess that really does make them the MAFIAA- being prosecuted as organized crime
actually frogs have a very developed breeding system based on pheromones- the same way that a pack of wolves or coyotes will not go into heat and reproduce until the alpha male secretes the "go ahead" signal there is in a community of frogs the ability for an "alpha frog" to secrete pheromones that not only bring about the breeding go ahead, but also creates a forced gender change in the surrounding frogs making them- basically his bitches. As well there are a number of other animals (mostly lizards I believe) that are unisex and have the ability to both widen the genepool through reproduction as well as increase their lineage by laying "cloned eggs" that contain their own genetic material.
all in all our human reproduction is pretty limited and uncreative
except for the fact maybe that animals can't score over the internet
1. Fight them and attempt to deny them success in their attacks and their goal of gaining power. who is this targeted at?
insurgents in iraq?
the are INSURGENTS not terrorists... another word for insurgents is rebels.
we cannot call them that because, we support rebels, people that stand up to a gov't that they feel is wrong are supported by the US, unless they are INSURGENTS.
look, I don't support the insurgents, but we are really in the middle of a civil war and trying to choose sides, it is ridiculous to do so. if you ask people who do they want to win sunni or shea here in the US most people don't know or care- neither one of them is al-qeda all they want to do is opress their population in the manner that they see fit- sunni one way shea the other. The fact of the matter is that I wouldn't be surprised if once we are gone from iraq whoever ends up in charge will commit atrocities on the other population.
the cartoon wouldn't be as funny I guess, if wiley e. coyote caught the roadrunner
it is great and all to be proud of your brother, but I have had 5 friends here that were in the "backdoor draft" of the national guard and reserves, 1 of them has come back ok, 1 of them is dead and the others have all come back totally screwed up. The argument that people make isn't that soldiers are stupid or butchers or what have you-
the argument is really: what are we really trying to accomplish for this country and is it worth killing and dying for and is any of this worth the hurt that it is doing to our country economically and militarily
I think that you will find that most people don't see that there is anything accomplished and that it is stretching ourselves thin in our actual defenses at home from both terrorism and natural disasters. You will also find, that as I believe the war is doing nothing but working to serve the self interests of a few people who are willing to destroy and throw away the lives of hundreds of thousands of people (both americans and iraqis).
ooh ooh #4 please.... "I would like to play global thermonuclear war"
this is why if we can get this data it seems more probable to have a "replicator" than a "transporter", if we can find a way to decode the structure quickly, or store it, all we need is some raw atomic material to reconstruct it. That is more probable with a kobe steak than a person.
absolutely wrong- that is network broadcasting which is provided free to the public, you pay for an internet connection in order to access mainly user and small business generated content, how would it be if when you were on your cellphone every time you made a call you had to listen to a commercial before it dialed?
yes- that is me. I am on playlists all over and I want no money for it- I also want no one to collect money for it-
in an interview when they announced support for yellowdog linux on the ps3 to encourage user generated content
you don't know I am having an affair with your wife..... who downloads pirated mp3s
I really hope you are joking, I would like to think that people here aren't complete morons
they didn't fix the Millennium Edition issues either- let's hope vista goes to the same place
I would give it up - in the mean time I would just get a tight little portable internet device and wait it out till mobile phones move on in the tech world like pagers did-
either that or pay someone a half a million pounds to kill the guy watching me to make sure I don't get a cell phone
totally concur on the youtube- atomfilms and ifilm were around long before youtube - the only difference is the ease to upload the video by the common user. along those lines the "blog" thing drives me nuts- ever since the media got ahold of "blog" it became new- but look at livejournal- how long was that around before the word "blog" hit CNN?
stem cells: first of all not technology- built by the human body -will be incredibly useful prolly about 10 yrs down the line, not now- but saying that stem cells won't be useful ridiculous because it is just the understanding of the natural cell replication process that stem cells give us, in the long run the objective is to throw the stem cell away and replicate the functions of it.
nano-tech: it is being used regularly in most of the major technological manufacturing base developments right now- think OLED those are microscopic alignments that are performed to create it- same goes for a number of new fiber optic technologies, that sparkly opalescent paint- all considered nano-tech and then there is all of the microprocessor and micro storage development...
games are one of the best reasons for virtualisation- dos based text and adventure RPGs, TBS's, early RTS's- all awesome win 95 or less software
read:
"A FEDERAL judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico"
the reason the pot clubs get busted is because federal trumps state law- this is a federal judgment- there will obviously be an appeal, but until further notice the judge has laid the groundwork that has to be overturned.
I wish more people here in the US understood their own political/court system.
I do agree wait a lot of what you said- but I do believe that rather than community support that we need to have more state government, and here in California, regional (since we are so big) government support. Also I don't think that it is inherent to the government to become corrupt, but individual power does attract those that wish to abuse it.
I disagree 100% with this one, the government needs to be depended on and it needs to be accountable. It is like hurricane Katrina- where there were a million "heartwarming stories" of people giving to help people in need and it made me sick to my stomach- when FEMA couldn't do their damn job- there is a reason that about a third of my paycheck goes away every month and that isn't to give money to corporations and to pay for killing citizens of Iraq and to give the **AA new laws, it is to pay for the security that our government supplies against things like natural disasters and to keep national highways running and to make sure people aren't starving in the streets and to keep our borders secure from criminals (not farmworkers) and the list goes on and on. The government is big and like a parent to it's citizens- if you saw a mother deciding that if she starved her kids so that she could by a Ferrari would you say- "It's the kid's fault- he/she should get a job and pay for themselves"? Hell no you would say that the mother is abusing her position as a parent and needs to change what she is doing.
what you are talking about is totalitarianism (a country led by 1 person)- think rome ruled by the senate vs. rome ruled by an emperor...back then it was called a dictator and we don't like dictators, do we?
okay this can go a number of ways but I will go with..... was he upset that it was a boy?
I have personally always thought that we should have a board of presidents- 5 presidents and a cabinet of policy made up of ranking vice presidents- it would force the office of the president to come to a consensus on policy before it is made and takes away the 1 vote veto that the president holds.
I mean think about it- how many corporations have 1 guy that makes all of the decisions- every company no matter how bad has a board of directors that are held accountable for some form of consensus on major company decisions- the offie of the president should be like this.
barring this I think that we should go back to the most votes is pres.- second most is VP like the office was designed- if this white house was bush and kerry or the previous being bush and gore- the whole world would be a lot different.
yes, but the great thing about having them all under 1 roof is doing things like the avengers and excallibur and x-factor which pull characters/actors from other people that are holding the film rights- you can still pull hollywood people to work for you.
and so far as "The Roger Corman version of Fantastic Four", I thought that the new one (though I haven't seen the silver surfer one) was as bad as the corman version, and I thought that the incredible hulk tv show blew the movie out of the water- and daredevil was cooler in the I. hulk tv show as well.