That all sounds nice, but doesnt actually say anything. It is still ignoring the fact that you have to jump from a short snout to a long one. At which length does it become an advantage? Unless everything you said adds up spontaneously and the length grows 5 inches in one generation, it still has to add up bit by bit and like I said, there is no reason for it to grow a few millimeters at a time so long that it turns out to be a 2 meters cumulative.
Remember that it is not about individuals...it is about populations.
Wrong. Mutations happen at the individual level. If that individual doesnt reproduce, then that mutation (benificial or adverse) is lost. When a mutation of significance happens, which might be once every few hundred generations, that individual is the only one that can pass it along. It has to reproduce so much more than normal that it has enough offspring that the mutation is preserved through not only the first generation, but the second, third and so on. Remember, each generation it goes through, there is only a 50/50 chance that the offspring will have it too.
Mutations in genetics during reproduction are actually pretty rare. Note that mutations later in life dont matter because they no longer have the ability to affect the entire organism. It is a localized mutation, like cancer. Even considering the age of the universe and the earth, there isnt enough time for random chance to have created life as we know it. For the slightest change to a species as a whole, it would require not one, but many individuals to have the same mutation (requiring untold generations to pass), and for them all to reproduce so much more than normal that it spreads to the entire offspring population.
He isnt saying poor design. He is saying there are a whole lot of traits that would have had/have zero reproductive advantage, yet are clearly evident in modern animals.
I tend to agree. My example is the elephant. The first animals (presumably like a pig) had a short nose. Some random member of the species gets born with a slightly longer nose. Not much mind you, because they cant have very much variation in only one generation, so this nose is barely noticeable to be longer, yet it has so much reproductive advantage that generations later the short snout has evolved to a long trunk? It doesnt make sense.
Another example, this one from the stupid list in the article. Dolphins and whales breathe through a blow hole. Supposedly their ancestors where land mammals that returned to the sea after having had developed for land. At first they held their breath and breathed like every other land mammal, meaning they stayed near the surface. How does their breathing tract move from their mouth, to another orifice? That isn't something that could have been done incrementally.
Granted evolution makes a lot of sense when you look at it and say "it had X million years to change from this to that", but when you get into individual generations, there are a lot of things that COULD NOT have developed because the change from one generation to another would not have been reproductively advantageous. A pig with a nose.2 centimeters longer than another is not going to breed so much more than his friends that the noses of the species are effected.
Actually a few days ago I found a commercial app called MemberTies that advertises itself as a customizable membership data for clubs and organizations. I've been begging her to do that route as it is exactly what I've been designing in access, but ready made.
Its agravating and amusing to watch people get frustrated doing something the wrong way, then go and show them how to do it correctly in 30 seconds, then next week repeat over again the exact same steps.(Not that I have ever had to mail merge address labels for said club...) If people would invest the time to learn it right the first time, they would save way more later on.
One thing I have noticed about all of the office suites, is that almost nobody uses them correctly. In one of my classes we had to share tips and tricks for MS Word with each other, everyone person making a presentation to the rest and making them "cheatsheets" to hand out. A pathetic amount were about how to copy and paste, or insert a picture. I did a short intro to style sheets and got a lot of glazed looks. My mother does volunteer work for a club she is in handling membership records. The entire thing is done in excel and they email the file back and forth to each other. Backups consist of saving the file to a different name. I've tried to get her to use an Access database, and even designed one for her, but she doesnt want to use it and the rest of the club is scared of it. Computer literacy has a long way to go before the public use even the features we have correctly much less adding new ones.
And everyone is a expert cyclist arent they? Segway is easier to stop for 99.9% of the population. You're special Further, when you are standing on the pedals, you arent pedaling are you? You can't do that forever.
Not really. There is huge variation in a lot of car components. Makes repairs a PITA because you have to wait 2 weeks for the part to be ordered, but it isnt impossible
Baloney. The vast majority of bums and destitute I've talk to (and that being a lot as I do a lot of volunteer work, simply don't want to work for anything and would rather be poor and lazy than work a little and get out of poverty. Many of them are career criminals as the only form of work they seem to tolerate is theft.
I'm going to be modded as flamebait for this, but it is the honest truth about those I've worked with. I like them (most at least) and I pity them, but I also am honest about why they are the way they are.
Heating and AC only are a problem on the return trip as you can have it start heating/cooling while still in your garage at home. The biggest draw is going to be getting to the set point temp, keeping it there is relatively easy after the first few minutes. The option of having a trickle charge solar panel on some models would really be nice to help recharge while at work. It might not get to 80%, but the 8 hours you are at work it could at least get something.
PS:
In my family (parents, siblings, myself) the newest car is 6 years old, and the worst mileage is my pickup (10 years old) that gets 22-25. That is out of some dozen vehicles from motorcycles to minivans. It pisses me off when I see adds on TV for "fuel efficient" sedans that get an amazing 27mpg highway rating. Such advancement in technology that we have had in the past decade!
But why promote them buying another low mileage vehicle? Its up to them if they buy a SUV or not, but to subsidize them is extra stupid (for subsidizing a consumer purchase, and for that purchase being stupid).
19 mpg is horrible. Unless you have a real need to be buying/driving a vehicle like that (construction worker, farming etc) then you are an idiot to buy one, regardless of what your previous vehicle was.
I thought the minimium price was 99 cents, in which case there is no practical way to distribute it to the public (who dont have jailbroken phones nor will pay the developer fee) for free. So IMO the original developer needs to suck it up.
I remember in Morrowind there was a mod that reintroduced children after having been cut before release. I had played for months with out consciously realizing that there were no kids around.
I probably would fit more with one of the small parties, but I also realize that they have little to no chance of being more than a minor annoyance to the Rep/Dem duo. I hate the two party system, but it's not changing any time soon. Maybe its time to buy an island and found my own nation.
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That all sounds nice, but doesnt actually say anything. It is still ignoring the fact that you have to jump from a short snout to a long one. At which length does it become an advantage? Unless everything you said adds up spontaneously and the length grows 5 inches in one generation, it still has to add up bit by bit and like I said, there is no reason for it to grow a few millimeters at a time so long that it turns out to be a 2 meters cumulative.
very insightful for an ac
This is very close to what I personally believe in.
Remember that it is not about individuals...it is about populations.
Wrong. Mutations happen at the individual level. If that individual doesnt reproduce, then that mutation (benificial or adverse) is lost. When a mutation of significance happens, which might be once every few hundred generations, that individual is the only one that can pass it along. It has to reproduce so much more than normal that it has enough offspring that the mutation is preserved through not only the first generation, but the second, third and so on. Remember, each generation it goes through, there is only a 50/50 chance that the offspring will have it too.
Mutations in genetics during reproduction are actually pretty rare. Note that mutations later in life dont matter because they no longer have the ability to affect the entire organism. It is a localized mutation, like cancer. Even considering the age of the universe and the earth, there isnt enough time for random chance to have created life as we know it. For the slightest change to a species as a whole, it would require not one, but many individuals to have the same mutation (requiring untold generations to pass), and for them all to reproduce so much more than normal that it spreads to the entire offspring population.
He isnt saying poor design. He is saying there are a whole lot of traits that would have had/have zero reproductive advantage, yet are clearly evident in modern animals. .2 centimeters longer than another is not going to breed so much more than his friends that the noses of the species are effected.
I tend to agree. My example is the elephant. The first animals (presumably like a pig) had a short nose. Some random member of the species gets born with a slightly longer nose. Not much mind you, because they cant have very much variation in only one generation, so this nose is barely noticeable to be longer, yet it has so much reproductive advantage that generations later the short snout has evolved to a long trunk? It doesnt make sense.
Another example, this one from the stupid list in the article. Dolphins and whales breathe through a blow hole. Supposedly their ancestors where land mammals that returned to the sea after having had developed for land. At first they held their breath and breathed like every other land mammal, meaning they stayed near the surface. How does their breathing tract move from their mouth, to another orifice? That isn't something that could have been done incrementally.
Granted evolution makes a lot of sense when you look at it and say "it had X million years to change from this to that", but when you get into individual generations, there are a lot of things that COULD NOT have developed because the change from one generation to another would not have been reproductively advantageous. A pig with a nose
I caught that too. He thinks he is so much superior than those he is duping, but he is the one living with his mom and no friends.
yes, but people really do say " could of" and "all of a sudden" ive never heard anyone say "for all intensive purposes"
For all intents and purposes, I think you mean to say "for all intents and purposes".
Actually a few days ago I found a commercial app called MemberTies that advertises itself as a customizable membership data for clubs and organizations. I've been begging her to do that route as it is exactly what I've been designing in access, but ready made.
Its agravating and amusing to watch people get frustrated doing something the wrong way, then go and show them how to do it correctly in 30 seconds, then next week repeat over again the exact same steps.(Not that I have ever had to mail merge address labels for said club...) If people would invest the time to learn it right the first time, they would save way more later on.
One thing I have noticed about all of the office suites, is that almost nobody uses them correctly. In one of my classes we had to share tips and tricks for MS Word with each other, everyone person making a presentation to the rest and making them "cheatsheets" to hand out. A pathetic amount were about how to copy and paste, or insert a picture. I did a short intro to style sheets and got a lot of glazed looks.
My mother does volunteer work for a club she is in handling membership records. The entire thing is done in excel and they email the file back and forth to each other. Backups consist of saving the file to a different name. I've tried to get her to use an Access database, and even designed one for her, but she doesnt want to use it and the rest of the club is scared of it.
Computer literacy has a long way to go before the public use even the features we have correctly much less adding new ones.
And everyone is a expert cyclist arent they?
Segway is easier to stop for 99.9% of the population. You're special
Further, when you are standing on the pedals, you arent pedaling are you? You can't do that forever.
Or they can just step off...
thats one of the advantages of just standing. its easy to jump ship.
Not really. There is huge variation in a lot of car components. Makes repairs a PITA because you have to wait 2 weeks for the part to be ordered, but it isnt impossible
Baloney. The vast majority of bums and destitute I've talk to (and that being a lot as I do a lot of volunteer work, simply don't want to work for anything and would rather be poor and lazy than work a little and get out of poverty. Many of them are career criminals as the only form of work they seem to tolerate is theft.
I'm going to be modded as flamebait for this, but it is the honest truth about those I've worked with. I like them (most at least) and I pity them, but I also am honest about why they are the way they are.
Totally agree. It should be a web app accessible from any platform if anything.
Heating and AC only are a problem on the return trip as you can have it start heating/cooling while still in your garage at home. The biggest draw is going to be getting to the set point temp, keeping it there is relatively easy after the first few minutes. The option of having a trickle charge solar panel on some models would really be nice to help recharge while at work. It might not get to 80%, but the 8 hours you are at work it could at least get something.
how do you spell "whoosh"?
If I wanted to look at a lake at 123.456 nanometers, I'd look for a really good microscope before using a satellite.
You could partner up with the people that name stars and give a combo discount!
PS: In my family (parents, siblings, myself) the newest car is 6 years old, and the worst mileage is my pickup (10 years old) that gets 22-25. That is out of some dozen vehicles from motorcycles to minivans. It pisses me off when I see adds on TV for "fuel efficient" sedans that get an amazing 27mpg highway rating. Such advancement in technology that we have had in the past decade!
But why promote them buying another low mileage vehicle? Its up to them if they buy a SUV or not, but to subsidize them is extra stupid (for subsidizing a consumer purchase, and for that purchase being stupid).
19 mpg is horrible. Unless you have a real need to be buying/driving a vehicle like that (construction worker, farming etc) then you are an idiot to buy one, regardless of what your previous vehicle was.
I thought the minimium price was 99 cents, in which case there is no practical way to distribute it to the public (who dont have jailbroken phones nor will pay the developer fee) for free. So IMO the original developer needs to suck it up.
I remember in Morrowind there was a mod that reintroduced children after having been cut before release. I had played for months with out consciously realizing that there were no kids around.
I probably would fit more with one of the small parties, but I also realize that they have little to no chance of being more than a minor annoyance to the Rep/Dem duo. I hate the two party system, but it's not changing any time soon. Maybe its time to buy an island and found my own nation.
I wasnt just talking about economics. Does this sound familier to anyone?