I'm disturbed by the fact that you can make vapid, unsubstantiated sneering comments and get upmods. Obviously the article doesn't prove anything -- it's just a news article -- other than the fact that someone wrote the article; but if you are going to claim it is a hoax -- your weasel wording is duly recognized for its true value and thus summarily disregarded -- then you should at least address the point that melanin is in fact an organic semiconductor. Anything less makes your post a contemptible troll.
And they contribute to culture, how? I see them as a parasitic drain on culture. Copyright is granted to content creators by society for the purpose of promoting useful works. If it serves to promote parasitic feces, then it should be revoked.
Sure. My clarification: Wikipedia is wrong. There's no significant beneficial mutation which can be derived from mammalian mutation rates. 1 codon in ten billion per generation is not a sufficient rate to provide meaningful advance by point mutation.
Get that stupid error out of your head before it spreads, please. Mutation != evolution. Evolution does not require mutation. If it did, there would be no speciation in geologic history, because mutation rates are too low in essentially everything bigger than a virus.
And maybe your head is up your backside. But in fact, it is not, and in fact all of the measurements of mammalian mutation rate come to 10e-10 base pairs / generation.
However, it is essentially a universal function of species. For any given species the mutation rate on Earth is approximately constant. For mammals the rate is about 1 bp in 10e10 per generation.
No, the idea of evolution is not based on mutation. If that were true, there would be no significant evolutionary adaptation, because the rate of beneficial mutation is approximately zero. There is significant evolutionary adaptation. Hence evolution does not require mutation.
Unless you live in a free country, such as Montana, where you can have all the machine guns you want, and the state police will defend you against attack by the BATF.
The complexity of the issue lies in controversy over who gets the right and when they have that duty. Certainly most Americans, under most practical circumstances, will be subject to prosecution -- whether legitimately or illegitimately I will not comment -- for use or even possession of most if not all categories of firearm.
Oh please. "Pain management" is a joke in the U.S. because the D.E.A. imprisons people in wheelchairs on dilaudid drips, and prosecutes their physicians. "Criminal justice" is not an oxymoron.
Horsepucky. No one wants to scrape their Mom's brains off the garage wall. Even less do parents want to clean up after their kids with no chance to ground them during prom for making the mess. This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with how gross your insides are and how much we'd like them to stay inside.
The vast majority of the people in the U.S. live in abject poverty, and their economy has been the single most massive ecological catastrophe in human history.
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I'm disturbed by the fact that you can make vapid, unsubstantiated sneering comments and get upmods. Obviously the article doesn't prove anything -- it's just a news article -- other than the fact that someone wrote the article; but if you are going to claim it is a hoax -- your weasel wording is duly recognized for its true value and thus summarily disregarded -- then you should at least address the point that melanin is in fact an organic semiconductor. Anything less makes your post a contemptible troll.
And we all know how good government-funded "art" is.
Avril Lavigne and Celine Dion split the money with the gangsters who bought Parliament.
I suspect people just don't buy anything from a Canadian store. 99% of them live within a few miles of a U.S. Walmart.
> I would have to say that explosives are the most abused technology in all of history.
I'd go with blunt instruments, myself.
And they contribute to culture, how? I see them as a parasitic drain on culture. Copyright is granted to content creators by society for the purpose of promoting useful works. If it serves to promote parasitic feces, then it should be revoked.
They buy the congressmen that make the whole world sing.
Sure. My clarification: Wikipedia is wrong. There's no significant beneficial mutation which can be derived from mammalian mutation rates. 1 codon in ten billion per generation is not a sufficient rate to provide meaningful advance by point mutation.
You, sir (or madam), rock.
Try being dumb. It sucks worse.
Get that stupid error out of your head before it spreads, please. Mutation != evolution. Evolution does not require mutation. If it did, there would be no speciation in geologic history, because mutation rates are too low in essentially everything bigger than a virus.
If mutation were required for speciation, there would be no speciation. The mutation rate is too low.
And maybe your head is up your backside. But in fact, it is not, and in fact all of the measurements of mammalian mutation rate come to 10e-10 base pairs / generation.
However, it is essentially a universal function of species. For any given species the mutation rate on Earth is approximately constant. For mammals the rate is about 1 bp in 10e10 per generation.
No, the idea of evolution is not based on mutation. If that were true, there would be no significant evolutionary adaptation, because the rate of beneficial mutation is approximately zero. There is significant evolutionary adaptation. Hence evolution does not require mutation.
Not distrustful enough though.
Unless you live in a free country, such as Montana, where you can have all the machine guns you want, and the state police will defend you against attack by the BATF.
I thought the south seceeded because the yanks were taxing them unfairly with a cotton export tarrif.
The complexity of the issue lies in controversy over who gets the right and when they have that duty. Certainly most Americans, under most practical circumstances, will be subject to prosecution -- whether legitimately or illegitimately I will not comment -- for use or even possession of most if not all categories of firearm.
You know, that might just be the most effective form of abstinence education yet, um, conceived. You, sir (or madam), are a freaking genius.
Oh please. "Pain management" is a joke in the U.S. because the D.E.A. imprisons people in wheelchairs on dilaudid drips, and prosecutes their physicians. "Criminal justice" is not an oxymoron.
Horsepucky. No one wants to scrape their Mom's brains off the garage wall. Even less do parents want to clean up after their kids with no chance to ground them during prom for making the mess. This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with how gross your insides are and how much we'd like them to stay inside.
The vast majority of the people in the U.S. live in abject poverty, and their economy has been the single most massive ecological catastrophe in human history.
When an ambassador commits suicide, the overwhelming preponderance of presumption should be that he was quietly "assisted" by the CIA.
Wars, yeah, okay, but not laws.