Our ability to create a global extinction event just puts us on the same level as an asteroid, this proposed strain of bacteria, or a chain of volcanoes, from a biological point of view.
And thinking about the importance of a phylum in terms of its biomass is nothing to do with whether a biologist is American or not - it tells you the significance of that phylum in food chains. What does the AC above think the krill eat? They eat plankton. Now tell me, which is there more of? Krill or plankton? And what do plankton do? They use sunlight and nutrients (largely recycled by bacteria from decaying matter), or they use bacteria directly.
How does organic matter in the soil get broken down into a form that plants can use? Fungi and bacteria. Without plants, there would be only a few people living on the sea coasts.
Read Jay Gould. Then read some of the many books he recommends. You will then be able to make more intelligent posts on these subjects.
He remarked in one of his essays that people completely misunderstand evolution, using teleological thinking to believe that we are in some way the "highest form" or "goal" of evolution. But in fact, in terms of biomass and effects on the Earth's ecosystems, we are still living in the Age of Bacteria.
No, it just confirms that voters are easily fooled by propaganda because they are incurious, and tend not to think about why they are told to do certain things.
They are not actually immune to degradation by radiation, but the Hiroshima bomb was strategic and the tubes didn't have to last long.
Years ago we were looking for an ultra-reliable thyristor with very fast response and thought we had found it in a US manufacturer's catalog - but the result of contacting them was an unexpected phone call from someone who sounded very suspicious, and we never did manage to source them. Later I found out they were for bomb triggers in MAD nukes and were very rad-hard. (With a true strategic missile you do not need to put the thing together till you intend to use it as part of your grand plan, while battlefield and MAD weapons need to be deployed very quickly. The Cuba crisis was particularly severe because the Russians only had strategic weapons; once they were ready for launch they were either going to be fired or scrapped, and politicians hate to scrap things.)
That's a little unfair. They were not very successful in WW1 and Germany didn't use them in WW2.
The problem they ran into, at Verdun, was that after chemical bombardment of the enemy you cannot tell the difference between (a) dead enemy and (b) enemy pretending to be dead until you get within accurate artillery and machine gun range.
So no, the Germans wouldn't go for chemical weapons. They would go for ballistic rockets and cruise missiles with conventional warheads, just like they did in WW2. And, back on topic, just like other Middle East countries are doing. The Iranians are far more likely to want a precision ballistic missile that can target the Knesset with a tonne or so of conventional explosive than a nuclear warhead. It is far more of a realistic bargaining tool.
List a few of those stupid rules, that haven't been made up by bonkers Little England newspapers.
You cannot. Because they do not exist. "Welcome breath of fresh air"? Er no, the Commission has the strange idea that citizens deserve to have their rights protected more than corporations deserve the freedom to take them away. That is why the UK neocons want out of the EU: it stands up for ordinary people.
Wife? The purchasing manager of one large European organisation expected to be provided with an escort for the evening during the monthly contract reviews. And a Japanese company decided that a particular purchasing manager needed to visit their headquarters, which included a week of touring with a nice lady companion.
Unfortunately, somewhat later, he was found out. It was probably not a good idea to mention to the competition that he was open to better offers...
You do realise that ikaruga might be a woman? The reference to "pee hole" would certainly suggest it.
There are women who work in IT, you know. Not many, perhaps understandably given the attitudes of which yours might be an example, but the ones who do tend to be good at it
Long battery life and run on batteries you can buy from street vendors?
An awful lot of people live in the 3rd world. Why does Blackberry still sell well in Nigeria? Long battery life and easily replaceable batteries, along with low use of wireless data. These things are still major issues for an awful lot of people. North Americans have to get over the idea that everything has to be useful to them to have a point.
I'm sorry it's poorly thought out; it's what I learned, with sources, from the theology department of the University of Cambridge, that well known nest of woolly thinkers.
That is what we call an ex post facto justification. I don't think that stoning people to death for a bit of nooky comes under "how to live a healthy life".
Leviticus is a complete mishmash of prohibitions, but at least some of them are believed to be simply banning the practices of non-Jahwist religions, and others are deeply rooted in the concept of women as property which still applies in the more backward parts of the Middle East. It's about as realistic as telling us that the Orpheus myth is a warning about the dire consequences of eating food in basement restaurants.
GWBIIs legal counsel in the UK (and poodle) the Rt. Hon Anthony Blair QC, at the request of the said GWBIII caused his government to pass a law that the US could request the extradition of British citizens without having to produce any evidence. I can forgive McCain a lot because he said it was unreasonable.
Blair sold us to Murdoch, he sold us to Bush, he connived at the deaths of many Iraqis.We really cannot point the finger at the US political system; we elected him all by ourselves.
RIM share price has been rising as journalists have been shown BB 10 and seen that it is pretty good. Windows 8 not so much. There is a fight on for no. 3 position in the phone wars, and Nokia now suddenly seems to be worried that it is going to lose.
Patent wars are increasingly a sign that the ideas fountain is drying up. Exactly like water wars...fight over old or weak patents, because we are not expecting to get many new ones.
Water injection dates back to the 1920s. It was used because the technology of the day could not use high compression ratios without detonation. Modern technology overcomes detonation by attention to fuel, gas flow, thermal design and ignition timing. Water injection is obsolete.
Actually, you are wrong. Companies freely admit that they sail as close to the legal wind as possible. Whether they are over the line or not depends on a case coming to court. Avoidance is merely evasion that has not yet been shown to be illegal.
I think you need to know some history. Despite its apparent liberalism after WW2, Finland was on the side of Germany and many Finns were happy with Nazi racial doctrines. It's Norway and Iceland that were the socially liberal states, Sweden more imperialistic and Finland most North Germanic. It hasn't "become a police state", it has always had strong authoritarian tendencies.
Think what the reputation of Scandinavia was in the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, and you will get the point (note- before anybody accuses me of trolling, in real life I have a surname of Scandinavian origin. I just don't buy into the myth that Scandinavia is some pareadise of uncorrupt liberalism.)
Mod points expired, sadly. This is a good post and gets to the heart of the matter.
Also, what has happened to English teachers? Mine were a collection of anti-authoritarian left-wingers (went to those hotbeds of Leninism Oxford and Cambridge). They would all have been horrified by this kind of measure because they believed that herding people destroys individual responsibility.
Since 1990, the USA and the UK have become more like the Soviet Union. And I notice that more and more people post on Slashdot in defense of the authorities, or supporting the arbitrary actions of employers. facilis descensus averni
To clarify, I don't believe this. There is a lot of tinfoil hattery out there about Israel. But it's pretty obvious they have an A bomb or so, and given the size of their territory and the size of the Pakistani arsenal, they would be mad to use them as a first strike weapon. Pakistan only has to get lucky once. Why worry about Iran?
A bombs. About 80 of them. And it is said they have missiles targeted on London, Paris and Berlin. Israel goes, Europe goes too. A good way to keep foreign governments onside. Mind you, I was told this by a South African. YMMV.
In Brave New World everybody had a social life, regular sex, drugs if they wanted them, free medicine and organised games. Huxley thought he was describing a dystopia, but for 95% of the population at the time he wrote he was describing an unattainable paradise. Who would worry about dick-extendermobiles when all the women are beautiful and forever young?
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And thinking about the importance of a phylum in terms of its biomass is nothing to do with whether a biologist is American or not - it tells you the significance of that phylum in food chains. What does the AC above think the krill eat? They eat plankton. Now tell me, which is there more of? Krill or plankton? And what do plankton do? They use sunlight and nutrients (largely recycled by bacteria from decaying matter), or they use bacteria directly.
How does organic matter in the soil get broken down into a form that plants can use? Fungi and bacteria. Without plants, there would be only a few people living on the sea coasts.
Read Jay Gould. Then read some of the many books he recommends. You will then be able to make more intelligent posts on these subjects.
What part of "in terms of biomass" did you not understand?
He remarked in one of his essays that people completely misunderstand evolution, using teleological thinking to believe that we are in some way the "highest form" or "goal" of evolution. But in fact, in terms of biomass and effects on the Earth's ecosystems, we are still living in the Age of Bacteria.
No, it just confirms that voters are easily fooled by propaganda because they are incurious, and tend not to think about why they are told to do certain things.
Years ago we were looking for an ultra-reliable thyristor with very fast response and thought we had found it in a US manufacturer's catalog - but the result of contacting them was an unexpected phone call from someone who sounded very suspicious, and we never did manage to source them. Later I found out they were for bomb triggers in MAD nukes and were very rad-hard. (With a true strategic missile you do not need to put the thing together till you intend to use it as part of your grand plan, while battlefield and MAD weapons need to be deployed very quickly. The Cuba crisis was particularly severe because the Russians only had strategic weapons; once they were ready for launch they were either going to be fired or scrapped, and politicians hate to scrap things.)
The problem they ran into, at Verdun, was that after chemical bombardment of the enemy you cannot tell the difference between (a) dead enemy and (b) enemy pretending to be dead until you get within accurate artillery and machine gun range.
So no, the Germans wouldn't go for chemical weapons. They would go for ballistic rockets and cruise missiles with conventional warheads, just like they did in WW2. And, back on topic, just like other Middle East countries are doing. The Iranians are far more likely to want a precision ballistic missile that can target the Knesset with a tonne or so of conventional explosive than a nuclear warhead. It is far more of a realistic bargaining tool.
You cannot. Because they do not exist. "Welcome breath of fresh air"? Er no, the Commission has the strange idea that citizens deserve to have their rights protected more than corporations deserve the freedom to take them away. That is why the UK neocons want out of the EU: it stands up for ordinary people.
Unfortunately, somewhat later, he was found out. It was probably not a good idea to mention to the competition that he was open to better offers...
So are you suggesting testing not-metro with multiple users and keeping only the ones that like it?
There are women who work in IT, you know. Not many, perhaps understandably given the attitudes of which yours might be an example, but the ones who do tend to be good at it
An awful lot of people live in the 3rd world. Why does Blackberry still sell well in Nigeria? Long battery life and easily replaceable batteries, along with low use of wireless data. These things are still major issues for an awful lot of people. North Americans have to get over the idea that everything has to be useful to them to have a point.
I'm sorry it's poorly thought out; it's what I learned, with sources, from the theology department of the University of Cambridge, that well known nest of woolly thinkers.
Leviticus is a complete mishmash of prohibitions, but at least some of them are believed to be simply banning the practices of non-Jahwist religions, and others are deeply rooted in the concept of women as property which still applies in the more backward parts of the Middle East. It's about as realistic as telling us that the Orpheus myth is a warning about the dire consequences of eating food in basement restaurants.
I am surprised. Type bouc émissaire into Google Translate and you get scapegoat (I only know the term because I like Daniel Pennac's books).
Blair sold us to Murdoch, he sold us to Bush, he connived at the deaths of many Iraqis.We really cannot point the finger at the US political system; we elected him all by ourselves.
Patent wars are increasingly a sign that the ideas fountain is drying up. Exactly like water wars...fight over old or weak patents, because we are not expecting to get many new ones.
Water injection dates back to the 1920s. It was used because the technology of the day could not use high compression ratios without detonation. Modern technology overcomes detonation by attention to fuel, gas flow, thermal design and ignition timing. Water injection is obsolete.
Actually, you are wrong. Companies freely admit that they sail as close to the legal wind as possible. Whether they are over the line or not depends on a case coming to court. Avoidance is merely evasion that has not yet been shown to be illegal.
Think what the reputation of Scandinavia was in the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, and you will get the point (note- before anybody accuses me of trolling, in real life I have a surname of Scandinavian origin. I just don't buy into the myth that Scandinavia is some pareadise of uncorrupt liberalism.)
Clearly educational standards in the US haven't been raised by the supporters of RFID tracking.
Also, what has happened to English teachers? Mine were a collection of anti-authoritarian left-wingers (went to those hotbeds of Leninism Oxford and Cambridge). They would all have been horrified by this kind of measure because they believed that herding people destroys individual responsibility.
Since 1990, the USA and the UK have become more like the Soviet Union. And I notice that more and more people post on Slashdot in defense of the authorities, or supporting the arbitrary actions of employers. facilis descensus averni
To clarify, I don't believe this. There is a lot of tinfoil hattery out there about Israel. But it's pretty obvious they have an A bomb or so, and given the size of their territory and the size of the Pakistani arsenal, they would be mad to use them as a first strike weapon. Pakistan only has to get lucky once. Why worry about Iran?
A bombs. About 80 of them. And it is said they have missiles targeted on London, Paris and Berlin. Israel goes, Europe goes too. A good way to keep foreign governments onside. Mind you, I was told this by a South African. YMMV.
In Brave New World everybody had a social life, regular sex, drugs if they wanted them, free medicine and organised games. Huxley thought he was describing a dystopia, but for 95% of the population at the time he wrote he was describing an unattainable paradise. Who would worry about dick-extendermobiles when all the women are beautiful and forever young?
How about "A device for sending digital data down a telephone line"? Sounds like a catchy title to me.