Does it matter? Those events were catalytic in creating the biosphere of today. If today's biosphere is valuable, we owe it to those events. People need to get over extinctions. Extinctions are natural, they have happened to 99% of all species that once lived on earth over geologic time. Without the mass extinction caused by the oxygen catastrophe of the Siderian period, no animal life as we know it would exist on earth. Even though it seems contradictory, extinction demonstrably enables the advancement of life, just different forms of life.
So you think freezing the biosphere forever is really the answer? Environmental changes have given successively more and more advanced biospheres, but you would stop that just because you're afraid of how things might be different? You do realize that regardless of whether such an effort is successful or not (it literally can't be, but we'll let that aside), homo sapiens will eventually become extinct. If you can't rationally face the mortality of the species, can you rationally face your own mortality?
Hey guess what Mr. Gloom & Doom: the P-Tr extinction about 250 million years ago killed 96% of all marine species without our help, and you know how empty the oceans are now? Oh, that's right, speciation naturally filled the hole, once again without our help. If the environment changes and things die, whatever doesn't die will change to meet the needs of the new environment so long as there are resources to consume. The end.
ATTN: All people including parent who don't understand how long and with how much effort a virus needs to effectively cross barriers between species of hosts (let alone viruses like these that affect prokaryotic bacteria jumping to fucking eukaryotic animals! Are you kidding me?)
Please STFU. You paranoia is sourced in horror movies and cheap sci-fi novellas. Go read about real microbiology. Thanks.
Yeah, go tell 2advanced what charlatans they are, and make sure you tell their clients like Ford, Nintendo, and Motorola too. I'm sure they'll be really interested in hearing what plain text can do for them in capturing the market of Lynx users.
People who bring up adoption rates of new core technology amuse me. Do you work for Intel? Tell me again how 64bit architecture isn't important on the consumer desktop. HA HA HA!
I mean seriously, we're talking about HTML here for chrissake. Wide-scale adoption is beyond inevitable, and it such a core technology that it will happen with extreme rapidity.
Chrome is bitchin' fast. I know people complain about it being Google's evil eye of Sauron watching everything you do, but I don't care. It's bitchin' fast.
The idioms do mean things in modern language, that's why they're used. What you're trying to say is that the actual practice from which the idiom is derived is no longer in use outside of Ren Fairs. That doesn't matter, because meaning is independent of literal reading, which is the whole foundation of idioms in the first place. An idiom is literally some word or phrase that cannot be understood by literal translation. The end. So basically you're asking why do we use idioms at all, as though you want a bland, flavorless, mechanistic language with no depth, no humor, no layers, etc. etc.
Actually she's open to the idea, or claims to be, but we're so busy and we have a daughter so it's very difficult logistically to set anything up, let alone agreeing on who to approach. Consensus and comfort is extremely important in such a matter, so I'm not going to apply any significant unilateral pressure. I'm a very patient person.
I grew up in very religious conservative circles with very homophobic parents. I've taken the path of least resistance, dating women and even marrying (to a wonderful woman who accepts everything about my sexuality, luckily). I haven't given myself much of an opportunity to express my homo side, but I don't live in denial. I get off to gay, straight, and transgender pr0n. If I'm attracted to a guy I'll probably comment on him to my wife, though we never seem to agree on which guys are hot (or girls for that matter).
I think that being forthright about these things really separates valuable, tolerant people from the assholes. People who are bigoted, or the sort you talk about that think men are stereotypically unrestrained, sex-crazed pigs who can't be trusted (or that being bi just means you haven't "made up your mind" and are likely to change horses midstream and leave them), need to be culled from any sort of pool of serious relationships anyway. They are essentially insulting and demeaning by their very opinions, as though who you are and what you like automatically makes you untrustworthy, disloyal, and otherwise deficient of character. I don't associate with such people.
Prior to Prop 8 I used to say that nobody needed to know, but now it seems imperative that everyone voluntarily out themselves to increase acceptance of these minority sexual preferences.
This is pretty much it. I see it more as a political statement than an in-your-face sexual declaration, which is why I don't go into any detailed exposition. My family is homophobic in the extreme, in fact when I was growing up my dad would talk about how all "the gays" should be rounded up and exterminated. Not only am I bi, but I've had years of issues with gender dysphoria (and no, I never transitioned). Needless to say I've spent a lot of hours in therapy. All of this has underscored how important it is to stand and be counted in some form. So I make mention of it now and then, just so people don't labor under the impression that everybody they meet is straight unless they're full-on limp-wristed flaming/mincing.
Oh believe me, my UID does not do me any credit, since I lurked for ten years before registering, and that only for the/. anniversary parties. (Seattle's was freakin' awesome BTW.) I've seen every variation of the 'basement slashdotter virgin' joke.
Oh, and though it's been alluded to, it has not been explicitly stated by others that all known life does depend on the sun in some way, if for nothing else than providing the energy to keep the earth at a temperature above 2.7 Kelvin of deep space. So, stick that in your pipe and nuclear fusion it.
As they say, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Fact: Hetero males have more anal sex then homosexual men. See how that fits in your little hetero world. Thinking the universe revolves around you is more common then you think.
This is true, but only if you think in absolute terms instead of per capita terms. There are simply more heterosexual people, therefore even if only a fraction of them have anal relations frequently, the shear number overcomes the number of homosexuals who have such intercourse all the time. As with most 'number of people' issues, only a per capita model has any relevance, and therein things are exactly as you expect.
You're ignoring the huge, huge chasm between unicellular and multicellular organisms, one which was not bridged by evolutionary processes for over 3 billion years by most estimates. It was previously thought that multicellular life without an oxygen-based metabolism was impossible, because previous models of microorganism evolution pegged multicellular development to a point after the Oxygen Catastrophe of the Siderian period. This discovery may lead to wholesale revision of models of microorganism evolution over geologic time.
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Does it matter? Those events were catalytic in creating the biosphere of today. If today's biosphere is valuable, we owe it to those events. People need to get over extinctions. Extinctions are natural, they have happened to 99% of all species that once lived on earth over geologic time. Without the mass extinction caused by the oxygen catastrophe of the Siderian period, no animal life as we know it would exist on earth. Even though it seems contradictory, extinction demonstrably enables the advancement of life, just different forms of life.
So you think freezing the biosphere forever is really the answer? Environmental changes have given successively more and more advanced biospheres, but you would stop that just because you're afraid of how things might be different? You do realize that regardless of whether such an effort is successful or not (it literally can't be, but we'll let that aside), homo sapiens will eventually become extinct. If you can't rationally face the mortality of the species, can you rationally face your own mortality?
Hey guess what Mr. Gloom & Doom: the P-Tr extinction about 250 million years ago killed 96% of all marine species without our help, and you know how empty the oceans are now? Oh, that's right, speciation naturally filled the hole, once again without our help. If the environment changes and things die, whatever doesn't die will change to meet the needs of the new environment so long as there are resources to consume. The end.
ATTN: All people including parent who don't understand how long and with how much effort a virus needs to effectively cross barriers between species of hosts (let alone viruses like these that affect prokaryotic bacteria jumping to fucking eukaryotic animals! Are you kidding me?)
Please STFU. You paranoia is sourced in horror movies and cheap sci-fi novellas. Go read about real microbiology. Thanks.
Adam West thinks that is funny.
Uh, dude, didn't you even read the summary where they talk about Mozilla's Direct2D feature that's in development?
Badonka-donk?
Yeah, go tell 2advanced what charlatans they are, and make sure you tell their clients like Ford, Nintendo, and Motorola too. I'm sure they'll be really interested in hearing what plain text can do for them in capturing the market of Lynx users.
You mean German? Maybe because English is a Germanic language?
What's wrong with the UI? Being able to move tabs in and out of windows is awesome, not to mention the other tab context controls.
People who bring up adoption rates of new core technology amuse me. Do you work for Intel? Tell me again how 64bit architecture isn't important on the consumer desktop. HA HA HA!
I mean seriously, we're talking about HTML here for chrissake. Wide-scale adoption is beyond inevitable, and it such a core technology that it will happen with extreme rapidity.
Chrome is bitchin' fast. I know people complain about it being Google's evil eye of Sauron watching everything you do, but I don't care. It's bitchin' fast.
The idioms do mean things in modern language, that's why they're used. What you're trying to say is that the actual practice from which the idiom is derived is no longer in use outside of Ren Fairs. That doesn't matter, because meaning is independent of literal reading, which is the whole foundation of idioms in the first place. An idiom is literally some word or phrase that cannot be understood by literal translation. The end. So basically you're asking why do we use idioms at all, as though you want a bland, flavorless, mechanistic language with no depth, no humor, no layers, etc. etc.
In short, you're a dolt.
Oh bloo bloo bloo cry me a river. Disable flash if you want. Never mind all the rendering that HTML5 does.
You want your web back? Here you go, enjoy.
I'll bet that Chrome and Firefox will have this in production before IE9 is released.
Actually she's open to the idea, or claims to be, but we're so busy and we have a daughter so it's very difficult logistically to set anything up, let alone agreeing on who to approach. Consensus and comfort is extremely important in such a matter, so I'm not going to apply any significant unilateral pressure. I'm a very patient person.
I grew up in very religious conservative circles with very homophobic parents. I've taken the path of least resistance, dating women and even marrying (to a wonderful woman who accepts everything about my sexuality, luckily). I haven't given myself much of an opportunity to express my homo side, but I don't live in denial. I get off to gay, straight, and transgender pr0n. If I'm attracted to a guy I'll probably comment on him to my wife, though we never seem to agree on which guys are hot (or girls for that matter).
I think that being forthright about these things really separates valuable, tolerant people from the assholes. People who are bigoted, or the sort you talk about that think men are stereotypically unrestrained, sex-crazed pigs who can't be trusted (or that being bi just means you haven't "made up your mind" and are likely to change horses midstream and leave them), need to be culled from any sort of pool of serious relationships anyway. They are essentially insulting and demeaning by their very opinions, as though who you are and what you like automatically makes you untrustworthy, disloyal, and otherwise deficient of character. I don't associate with such people.
Prior to Prop 8 I used to say that nobody needed to know, but now it seems imperative that everyone voluntarily out themselves to increase acceptance of these minority sexual preferences.
This is pretty much it. I see it more as a political statement than an in-your-face sexual declaration, which is why I don't go into any detailed exposition. My family is homophobic in the extreme, in fact when I was growing up my dad would talk about how all "the gays" should be rounded up and exterminated. Not only am I bi, but I've had years of issues with gender dysphoria (and no, I never transitioned). Needless to say I've spent a lot of hours in therapy. All of this has underscored how important it is to stand and be counted in some form. So I make mention of it now and then, just so people don't labor under the impression that everybody they meet is straight unless they're full-on limp-wristed flaming/mincing.
Oh believe me, my UID does not do me any credit, since I lurked for ten years before registering, and that only for the /. anniversary parties. (Seattle's was freakin' awesome BTW.) I've seen every variation of the 'basement slashdotter virgin' joke.
Oh, and though it's been alluded to, it has not been explicitly stated by others that all known life does depend on the sun in some way, if for nothing else than providing the energy to keep the earth at a temperature above 2.7 Kelvin of deep space. So, stick that in your pipe and nuclear fusion it.
Precisely. I think we have a winner.
I'm starting to cease being surprised when this joke gets trotted out every time I reference my sexuality.
(Read as: you're not original.)
Fact: Hetero males have more anal sex then homosexual men. See how that fits in your little hetero world. Thinking the universe revolves around you is more common then you think.
This is true, but only if you think in absolute terms instead of per capita terms. There are simply more heterosexual people, therefore even if only a fraction of them have anal relations frequently, the shear number overcomes the number of homosexuals who have such intercourse all the time. As with most 'number of people' issues, only a per capita model has any relevance, and therein things are exactly as you expect.
And for the record, I'm bi.
You're ignoring the huge, huge chasm between unicellular and multicellular organisms, one which was not bridged by evolutionary processes for over 3 billion years by most estimates. It was previously thought that multicellular life without an oxygen-based metabolism was impossible, because previous models of microorganism evolution pegged multicellular development to a point after the Oxygen Catastrophe of the Siderian period. This discovery may lead to wholesale revision of models of microorganism evolution over geologic time.