I'm also in Japan right now, and you apparently ride the wrong trains (to Roppongi maybe?:). Hentai/pornography is definitely less than 10% of what I see, both on trains and in bookstores.
Right, and what is in there is that you either watched a truly wild ride with no more than 5 minutes of the 10 hours were from the same source, or that your current sources suck. I mean sure, the more you've seen, the fewer truly new conceps will occur, but really, the same is true for literature and moviemaking. "All the good stories have already been told" and such...
First, your history is wrong: Samurai were already replaced by Salarymen in the Meiji restauration, which happened in the later 19th century. Second, the theory about "outlet" is not wrong, but to say that all manga is about dark conflicts and sexual explicitness is bullshit; manga is merely a medium, and in Japan it's simply employed to a much wider range of topics than everywhere else. Many manga depict everyday life; basically, everyhing that is done in literature is also done in manga: silly comedies, exciting adventures, complex dramas, character studies, porn, whatever.
Probably a routine examination of old geological structures - someone happened to use a microscope of it and noticed there was something squiggly inside...
If this were the case, how come life is not still confined to the oceans? And bacteriums are carried out of their original habitats by chance all the time.
Then why is it that so many people die of staph infections?
Because the bacteria multiply faster than the immune system can destroy them. Not a good strategy for the bacteria, since the host dies before the infection can spread very far. And that's the reason why so few people die from it...
Face it, even your much-vaunted "immune system" won't save you in the long run...
Um, it does just that for the majority of people...
HIV can defeat the immune system because it constantly changes its shape; the immune system works just fine, but it can't keep up with the shape (that's part of the reason, anyway).
And you know the reason why such bacteria live in environments where their effects can't reach us? because they can survive only in those environments. Sure, that bacterium may just generate a deadly poison, but unless it spreads into something that humans consume (for which it would have to overcome current immune systems, which it is not likely to, for reasons stated) we couldn't care less, unless someone actually guzzles down the culture, in which case they deserve whatever happens to them.
Um, you don't have any actual knowledge about how the immune system works, do you? It's is completely non-specific and works on any kind of protein. There is no such thing as "discarded protection", antibodies are developed as they are needed against whatever comes up.
"Lost" resistance? You don't have any genetic "resistance" to ANY of the microorganisms that exist today, either - you develop antibodies agains new foreign microorganisms all the time, that's a perfectly natural process. Just being old doesn't make a bacterium miraculously deadly.
People have been saying that for 5 years, and it's not dead yet. Amiga: the cockroach of operating systems... (hey, I had one too, and stuck to it longer than most people).
I really don't see how having a lot of projects that do the same thing is bad as long as some of them produce good results. When people do something because they enjoy it, being "cost-effective" is not a valid criterium.
And I think that once all those people have noticed that their own pet project doesn't get much attention (and maybe become better coders in the process), many of them will flock to big, famous projects and be content with being only one of many to contribute to something big.
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I'm also in Japan right now, and you apparently ride the wrong trains (to Roppongi maybe? :). Hentai/pornography is definitely less than 10% of what I see, both on trains and in bookstores.
Actually, as used in Japan, it describes any animated film, including Disney stuff.
Right, and what is in there is that you either watched a truly wild ride with no more than 5 minutes of the 10 hours were from the same source, or that your current sources suck. I mean sure, the more you've seen, the fewer truly new conceps will occur, but really, the same is true for literature and moviemaking. "All the good stories have already been told" and such...
First, your history is wrong: Samurai were already replaced by Salarymen in the Meiji restauration, which happened in the later 19th century. Second, the theory about "outlet" is not wrong, but to say that all manga is about dark conflicts and sexual explicitness is bullshit; manga is merely a medium, and in Japan it's simply employed to a much wider range of topics than everywhere else. Many manga depict everyday life; basically, everyhing that is done in literature is also done in manga: silly comedies, exciting adventures, complex dramas, character studies, porn, whatever.
Probably a routine examination of old geological structures - someone happened to use a microscope of it and noticed there was something squiggly inside...
If this were the case, how come life is not still confined to the oceans? And bacteriums are carried out of their original habitats by chance all the time.
Yes, It effectively did exactly that by being confined in that salt crystal with no interaction with the outside world.
Um, no. They don't. If they did, they would be everywhere already, but the onews that actually are everywhere are no problem for our immune system.
Um, did you read the article at all? This bacterium has been around for 250 million years less than the ones we have today...
Because the bacteria multiply faster than the immune system can destroy them. Not a good strategy for the bacteria, since the host dies before the infection can spread very far. And that's the reason why so few people die from it...
Face it, even your much-vaunted "immune system" won't save you in the long run...
Um, it does just that for the majority of people...
HIV can defeat the immune system because it constantly changes its shape; the immune system works just fine, but it can't keep up with the shape (that's part of the reason, anyway).
And you know the reason why such bacteria live in environments where their effects can't reach us? because they can survive only in those environments. Sure, that bacterium may just generate a deadly poison, but unless it spreads into something that humans consume (for which it would have to overcome current immune systems, which it is not likely to, for reasons stated) we couldn't care less, unless someone actually guzzles down the culture, in which case they deserve whatever happens to them.
Um, you don't have any actual knowledge about how the immune system works, do you? It's is completely non-specific and works on any kind of protein. There is no such thing as "discarded protection", antibodies are developed as they are needed against whatever comes up.
Um. Yoohooo? This thing was sitting in a firring cave... You really think it was less likely to be set free there?
"Lost" resistance? You don't have any genetic "resistance" to ANY of the microorganisms that exist today, either - you develop antibodies agains new foreign microorganisms all the time, that's a perfectly natural process. Just being old doesn't make a bacterium miraculously deadly.
People have been saying that for 5 years, and it's not dead yet. Amiga: the cockroach of operating systems... (hey, I had one too, and stuck to it longer than most people).
I really don't see how having a lot of projects that do the same thing is bad as long as some of them produce good results. When people do something because they enjoy it, being "cost-effective" is not a valid criterium. And I think that once all those people have noticed that their own pet project doesn't get much attention (and maybe become better coders in the process), many of them will flock to big, famous projects and be content with being only one of many to contribute to something big.
Actually, what I noticed most was that the "historical events" were almost exclusively very recent and very US-centric.
Not quite, but almost. Back then, line-oriented editors were the norm, and punched cards and paper tape was still being used.
You're just soooo wrong. Try to get your hands on a Unix book from 25 years ago, and watch them describe vi as bloated and unnecessarily luxurious.
Um, I never mentioned "10 years ago". If that's all the criticism you can mount...
If this were right, how did PalmOS and EPOC get so popular in the first place?