Aha, found someone who has one! Okay, what the hell does polyphonic mean? Sounds to me like it can play more than one note as a ringer, like a song or something. In that case, what's the big deal? Otherwise, what does polyphonic really mean?
I would argue that you are correct for the wrong reasons. Nothing Steve Jobs says matters, really, I think this falls under the assumed combination of the two phrases, "Stuff for Nerds."
> weirdly compelled to incesstantly advertise the Segway on your own
Why is everyone jumping on this guy? Wierdly compelled? In that case, stop incessantly advertising [Linux|Macs|Windows|Whatever], since you obviously have an ulterior motive. He's entitled to his opinion and this is called word-of-mouth advertising. Guess what IT'S EVERYWHERE, but just because he's one out of maybe 10 people on here who owns one, he's a corporate lackey? WTF. I don't own one, don't want one, but I don't care if he posts suggesting people try it. Maybe, someday, I'll see one & get to try it out. If I think it's cool enough, I'll be a dork and tell everyone to get one too.
> It's a winning solution, well, except for the welfare recipients, but what an incentive to get off the dole!
Well, that is a good idea to me, but the problem is, in America, people have the right to sit on their fat asses and leech off the government. This is not to say that all welfare recipients are lazy -- in fact I think it's just a small percentage who are, but if you truly want a job & can't find work, military service should be a great choice. But it's a choice that rarely gets made.:(
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I love how moderators Mod down someone who has the correct facts because it doesn't fit within their mostly-wrong economic view.
> That's really not fair. Specifically what did he fabricate?
Obviouslt you haven't read any of the HUGE LISTS of fabrications in that movie so you aren't likely to do this, but I'll bet you can find a good one by googling for "Michael Moore is a big fat fucking liar" or something like that. The one that springs to mind immediately is how he rearranged some of Charleton Heston's speeches to sound bad, he claimed that that speech was immediately after Columbine, which it wasn't, and same for the one in Flint. He also claimed that Heston went to Columbine (actually Denver) JUST BECAUSE of the shooting, which is entirely false: he was planning on going there before the shootings happened. He also did not have the authority in his group to cancel the meeting, but he was able to shorten it dramatically because of the shooting. Still, somehow he's a horrible person.
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> Or, as Churchill put it, "the Americans always do the right thing after they've exercised every other option."
Churchill wasn't exactly a perfect person...
Why is it that when the U.S. stays out of something they are being cruel, but when everyone else stays out of something the U.S is oppressive?
> There *always* has to be an overlap period in which members of the two related groups co-occur.
Yes, but it is a slow transition. In-between, the species would be a mix between the two, it doesn't just suddenly happen that Species A has a new offspring that is a different species. It takes a long time -- I suppose a better way to look at it is that there really aren't two species, but one changes into the other -- therefore they can't coexist (except on a personal level, ie 1 animal is both species [sorta]).
> your time between generations is at least 12 years or so.
12 years? Wouldn't that mean that the average woman becomes pregnant at the age of 11yrs 3mos? I realize you said "at least" 12 years, but it looks like a low estimate to me.
> Is it religion that must accomodate science, or science converging with religion?
Neither, they must be taken completely separately without trying to make one support the other. That is not to say, however, that they should not be looked at as interrelating.
WAAAAY Off-topic, but I've wondered why some people use "an" instead of "a" when using a noun that starts with an "h." The H makes a sound, so why say "an?"
Despite the fact that there was no post, the point is very good. Since they are fossils, they are just copies of the original skull (fragments) made from deposited rock/limestone/whatever and not the actual skull of the person.
> I think that it's fairly likely that if one bacterium can evolve from the primodial ooze on its own, another should be able to also.
That's a very interesting point. Maybe multiple starting points explains why we have such diversity of living things, such as plants, mammals, amphibians, insects, etc.
> Since these particular homo sapiens were concurrent in time with some neanderthals, the posibility of the homo sapiens descending from the neanderthal is ruled out
I believe that it is ruled out because evolution is so slow. Can you name an existing species that was directly descended from another species that is still alive in the same area? Granted, I've never researched anything like this, but my guess is that you probably can't.
> How would primitive man have an understanding that the 'grey hunk of matter' was responsible for their ability to think?
They might not have immediately known that the brain was the source, but it seems like a reasonable beliefe that it is the head area... Except for touch (the skin, duh), all of our observational senses are located around the head, so the head would appear to be the most important part of the body even to a non-educated human-ape.
Of course, this is entirely a guess, but it makes sense to me. Now why they thought they would gin
> Don't the Philistine's sound an awful lot like the Neandertals,
That's interesting, & I'd like to read that, but unfortunately I have very limited knowledge of the Bible. Do you know where (not necessarily the verse, but at least the book & general idea of chapter) they are described?
> He clearly, many times in the NT, directly claims to be fully God.
Is it possible he never claimed that? Maybe all his followers were putting words into his mouth. Which appears to be what you are doing to the parent poster -- he didn't call Jesus a liar or a lunatic.
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> There's not a single chance for SCO to sue them.
Not having a good case hasn't stopped them before...
> I've been showing off the polyphonic ring tones
Aha, found someone who has one! Okay, what the hell does polyphonic mean? Sounds to me like it can play more than one note as a ringer, like a song or something. In that case, what's the big deal? Otherwise, what does polyphonic really mean?
> It's "stuff that matters."
I would argue that you are correct for the wrong reasons. Nothing Steve Jobs says matters, really, I think this falls under the assumed combination of the two phrases, "Stuff for Nerds."
> weirdly compelled to incesstantly advertise the Segway on your own
Why is everyone jumping on this guy? Wierdly compelled? In that case, stop incessantly advertising [Linux|Macs|Windows|Whatever], since you obviously have an ulterior motive.
He's entitled to his opinion and this is called word-of-mouth advertising. Guess what IT'S EVERYWHERE, but just because he's one out of maybe 10 people on here who owns one, he's a corporate lackey? WTF. I don't own one, don't want one, but I don't care if he posts suggesting people try it. Maybe, someday, I'll see one & get to try it out. If I think it's cool enough, I'll be a dork and tell everyone to get one too.
> It's a winning solution, well, except for the welfare recipients, but what an incentive to get off the dole!
:(
Well, that is a good idea to me, but the problem is, in America, people have the right to sit on their fat asses and leech off the government. This is not to say that all welfare recipients are lazy -- in fact I think it's just a small percentage who are, but if you truly want a job & can't find work, military service should be a great choice. But it's a choice that rarely gets made.
I love how moderators Mod down someone who has the correct facts because it doesn't fit within their mostly-wrong economic view.
> Maybe deals with car companies to make cars that don't work if they don't smell the "official additive" in the hydrogen.
That is absolutely absurd & paranoid. As soon as one person found out, the press would jump all over it & class-action lawsuits galore would ensue.
> That's really not fair. Specifically what did he fabricate?
Obviouslt you haven't read any of the HUGE LISTS of fabrications in that movie so you aren't likely to do this, but I'll bet you can find a good one by googling for "Michael Moore is a big fat fucking liar" or something like that. The one that springs to mind immediately is how he rearranged some of Charleton Heston's speeches to sound bad, he claimed that that speech was immediately after Columbine, which it wasn't, and same for the one in Flint. He also claimed that Heston went to Columbine (actually Denver) JUST BECAUSE of the shooting, which is entirely false: he was planning on going there before the shootings happened. He also did not have the authority in his group to cancel the meeting, but he was able to shorten it dramatically because of the shooting. Still, somehow he's a horrible person.
> Or, as Churchill put it, "the Americans always do the right thing after they've exercised every other option."
Churchill wasn't exactly a perfect person...
Why is it that when the U.S. stays out of something they are being cruel, but when everyone else stays out of something the U.S is oppressive?
> There *always* has to be an overlap period in which members of the two related groups co-occur.
Yes, but it is a slow transition. In-between, the species would be a mix between the two, it doesn't just suddenly happen that Species A has a new offspring that is a different species. It takes a long time -- I suppose a better way to look at it is that there really aren't two species, but one changes into the other -- therefore they can't coexist (except on a personal level, ie 1 animal is both species [sorta]).
> your time between generations is at least 12 years or so.
12 years? Wouldn't that mean that the average woman becomes pregnant at the age of 11yrs 3mos? I realize you said "at least" 12 years, but it looks like a low estimate to me.
> Is it religion that must accomodate science, or science converging with religion?
Neither, they must be taken completely separately without trying to make one support the other. That is not to say, however, that they should not be looked at as interrelating.
> an homo sapiens sapiens
WAAAAY Off-topic, but I've wondered why some people use "an" instead of "a" when using a noun that starts with an "h." The H makes a sound, so why say "an?"
> maybe when they become FOSSILIZED
Despite the fact that there was no post, the point is very good. Since they are fossils, they are just copies of the original skull (fragments) made from deposited rock/limestone/whatever and not the actual skull of the person.
> another had an adamantine reinforced skeleton and extra retractable claws.
extra claws... as opposed to just the regular adamantium claws that come standard with most people?
You may no speak-a-de-english, but that's still funny.
> I think that it's fairly likely that if one bacterium can evolve from the primodial ooze on its own, another should be able to also.
That's a very interesting point. Maybe multiple starting points explains why we have such diversity of living things, such as plants, mammals, amphibians, insects, etc.
> Since these particular homo sapiens were concurrent in time with some neanderthals, the posibility of the homo sapiens descending from the neanderthal is ruled out
I believe that it is ruled out because evolution is so slow. Can you name an existing species that was directly descended from another species that is still alive in the same area? Granted, I've never researched anything like this, but my guess is that you probably can't.
>Christians sure are racist though.
Of course... just as racist as atheists. And Jews... Can't say the same for Buddhists, but they're different in a lot of ways.
> How would primitive man have an understanding that the 'grey hunk of matter' was responsible for their ability to think?
They might not have immediately known that the brain was the source, but it seems like a reasonable beliefe that it is the head area... Except for touch (the skin, duh), all of our observational senses are located around the head, so the head would appear to be the most important part of the body even to a non-educated human-ape.
Of course, this is entirely a guess, but it makes sense to me. Now why they thought they would gin
> Don't the Philistine's sound an awful lot like the Neandertals,
That's interesting, & I'd like to read that, but unfortunately I have very limited knowledge of the Bible. Do you know where (not necessarily the verse, but at least the book & general idea of chapter) they are described?
> Arent there something like 50 different words for "snow" in the Innuit language?
FYI, no, there is not -- that "fact" was made up. There are, in reality, only a few (2-5?), which is still interesting (maybe).
> He clearly, many times in the NT, directly claims to be fully God.
Is it possible he never claimed that? Maybe all his followers were putting words into his mouth. Which appears to be what you are doing to the parent poster -- he didn't call Jesus a liar or a lunatic.
> Is that any different than baseing your entire belief system on a book?
hehe, touche'
> he does [have a nickel for every time Windows crashes]
Come on, he's only a multi-billionaire... He'd have trillions if that was the case.