I was enjoying YouTube secretly being the new Napster, but it looks like the cat's out of the bag now. It was better than torrents for finding obscure music. Of course there are still ways to use it as before, but I'll continue to keep them quiet.
Came here to say this. We would have said the same thing about the iPhone if we knew how hard it would suck (from a geek's POV) compared to the competition. See also: CmdrTaco's famous iPod vs. Nomad comparison.
When I was learning to use GIMP, it helped to think about how much money I was saving by not using Photoshop. Just a tip for the GP on staying motivated.
Likewise the cost, inflexibility and PITA factor of Windows helped motivate me to learn Linux, but that's another story.
You may dismiss this as fantasy created by the "copyright industry", but you'll wonder what happened when every new movie you see has a Hindi song and dance number at crucial plot points.
If it makes every action movie come out like Endhiran, I say go for it!:D
With that in mind, I'd say it's likely that homosexuals in the past might have "married straight" and had children for purely practical/utilitarian purposes (maybe even a gay guy and a lesbian having kids together).
Well who says homosexuality is genetic? You're assuming that, and there's no evidence that this is the case AFAIK.
There are some theories that homosexuals would be advantageous to a society as surrogate caregivers though, which may explain why it hasn't been "corrected" by the evolutionary process, if that's possible.
I wonder what homosexuality rates are like in creatures that share zero child-rearing responsibility, vs. intelligent creatures that form societies and do share responsibility...
Yep, this is why I think it's hilarious when women think most men want polygamy and consider the practice bad for women and good for men.
Thank your lucky stars that polygamy is illegal in most places, guys, or all the women would be married to the richest guy in town. The rich lifestyle of the husbands cheating rampantly and the wives looking the other way is just the closest they can legally get to rich guys keeping harems.
Maybe it's backwards to say that I like that a form of consensual adult relationship is illegal, but don't kid yourself, it's good for all us dudes.
I always thought it was funny that creationists think their god created static creatures in some kind of I Dream of Jeannie special effect. Seems to imply that their deity isn't too creative or intelligent.
Yeah the "debate" has been raging for over 200 years now, I don't expect to live to see the end of it.
It also gives us a glimpse at the likely future of the AGW "debate" which we've been witnessing pretty much from the beginning: Arguments with any possible scientific merit dry up within a few decades, and for centuries later the "skepticism" consists of mighty stonewalls of outright denial and/or batshit insanity, although at slowly decreasing prevalence.
Yeah when I saw this on CNN it immediately reminded me of Futurama's "I dated a robot!" educational film (which is not available online in full. It's the FYOOCHAR!).
Coastal reservoirs with hydro-power dams. Place your municipal water intakes here so that the outgoing water supply is reused before it hits the oceans.
Worse than caps, low bandwidth and poor reliability of cellular data is enough to make "the cloud" as far-off a concept as FTL travel. I wish it could work, but it can't.
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I was enjoying YouTube secretly being the new Napster, but it looks like the cat's out of the bag now. It was better than torrents for finding obscure music. Of course there are still ways to use it as before, but I'll continue to keep them quiet.
I see some Troll Science potential here...
Finally we may beat the mosquitoes by fighting them with tiny anti-mosquito UCAVs.
Came here to say this. We would have said the same thing about the iPhone if we knew how hard it would suck (from a geek's POV) compared to the competition. See also: CmdrTaco's famous iPod vs. Nomad comparison.
The invisible hand is giving you the finger.
I was gonna say "zombies," but, yeah.
Government work kills people on the inside.
Even just leaving the IT department unmanned with the systems running might be enough.
You can see where they got the idea of "harmony" - throughout most of history, it was a pretty evenly-matched fight.
You can escape taxes, but then death will be right on your heels.
When I was learning to use GIMP, it helped to think about how much money I was saving by not using Photoshop. Just a tip for the GP on staying motivated.
Likewise the cost, inflexibility and PITA factor of Windows helped motivate me to learn Linux, but that's another story.
You may dismiss this as fantasy created by the "copyright industry", but you'll wonder what happened when every new movie you see has a Hindi song and dance number at crucial plot points.
If it makes every action movie come out like Endhiran, I say go for it! :D
With that in mind, I'd say it's likely that homosexuals in the past might have "married straight" and had children for purely practical/utilitarian purposes (maybe even a gay guy and a lesbian having kids together).
Well who says homosexuality is genetic? You're assuming that, and there's no evidence that this is the case AFAIK.
There are some theories that homosexuals would be advantageous to a society as surrogate caregivers though, which may explain why it hasn't been "corrected" by the evolutionary process, if that's possible.
I wonder what homosexuality rates are like in creatures that share zero child-rearing responsibility, vs. intelligent creatures that form societies and do share responsibility...
Yep, this is why I think it's hilarious when women think most men want polygamy and consider the practice bad for women and good for men.
Thank your lucky stars that polygamy is illegal in most places, guys, or all the women would be married to the richest guy in town. The rich lifestyle of the husbands cheating rampantly and the wives looking the other way is just the closest they can legally get to rich guys keeping harems.
Maybe it's backwards to say that I like that a form of consensual adult relationship is illegal, but don't kid yourself, it's good for all us dudes.
I always thought it was funny that creationists think their god created static creatures in some kind of I Dream of Jeannie special effect. Seems to imply that their deity isn't too creative or intelligent.
Interesting article I read on that this morning (written by a climate denialist, but on the topic of a legitimate study):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/29/science_and_maths_knowledge_makes_you_sceptical/
Yeah the "debate" has been raging for over 200 years now, I don't expect to live to see the end of it.
It also gives us a glimpse at the likely future of the AGW "debate" which we've been witnessing pretty much from the beginning: Arguments with any possible scientific merit dry up within a few decades, and for centuries later the "skepticism" consists of mighty stonewalls of outright denial and/or batshit insanity, although at slowly decreasing prevalence.
Yeah when I saw this on CNN it immediately reminded me of Futurama's "I dated a robot!" educational film (which is not available online in full. It's the FYOOCHAR!).
Mind you this is often disabled in Linux these days with the noatime mount option.
I like reading it, every time I hear this it means solar power is a little bit closer to being financially relevant to me.
$25k to install, WTF? Why does it cost so much? Seems like it should be possible to DIY if you have the electrical knowledge...
I'd been off of Slashdot for a while, first thing I see when I come back is bonch taking a big shit on the first post again -_-
One of these loaded with Chuck Norris could make the rest of the US military obsolete!
Coastal reservoirs with hydro-power dams. Place your municipal water intakes here so that the outgoing water supply is reused before it hits the oceans.
Worse than caps, low bandwidth and poor reliability of cellular data is enough to make "the cloud" as far-off a concept as FTL travel. I wish it could work, but it can't.