A tiny fossil of a creature that lived some 425 million years ago has entered the record books as the oldest unequivocally male animal. The organism, which resembles a cross between a shrimp and a clam, sports a large penis which has been perfectly preserved in three dimensions.
David Siveter, professor of palaeontology at Leicester University, said there was no doubt the fossilised creature was a male, making it the oldest unambiguous member of its sex.
Professor Siveter said the fossil was found at a site in Herefordshire where soft body parts of ancient creatures have been perfectly preserved by being buried in volcanic ash before being rapidly mineralised within rocky nodules.
The animal, whose Latin name Colymbosathon ecplecticos means "swimmer with a large penis", is just 5mm (2/10ths of an inch) long and a member of a group of crustaceans known as the ostracods, crustaceans like crabs and lobsters and the most complex organisms studied within the field of micropalaeontology.
Three-dimensional images of the fossil, in the journal Science, were constructed by the scientists who carefully ground away layers of the rock while photographing polished cross-sections of the fossil as they went. One of the most intriguing aspects of the study was the discovery that the basic body plan of the 425 million-year-old ostracod looks essentially the same as the body plan of present-day ostracods, Professor Siveter said.
"The ground plan of the fossil strikingly resembles living groups of ostracods which shows the pace of evolutionary change has not been particularly fast," he said.
The copulatory organ of the fossilised male is "large and stout" which indicates that "maybe size mattered" for the ancient ostracods, he added.
"This is a male and there must have been females around. The discovery tells us something about the biology of reproduction; it provides unequivocal evidence for sex in an animal that lived in the Silurian age," he added.
In addition to the penis, the scientists were able to trace the animal's entire digestive tract from mouth to anus as well as study anatomical details such as its six pairs of gills and the limbs it used for sensing, feeding and swimming.
"The whole animal is amazing," Professor Siveter added. "We've got something we could only dream about before."
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THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS' manipulation of the Medicare vote was characteristic of the bullying, win-by-any-means style that has become the congressional norm. More than at any time during their nine years in control, congressional Democrats have been unabashed in their exercise of raw political power. However poisonous relations between the parties were heading into the 108th Congress, this session has witnessed levels of partisanship unhealthy not only for both sides but for the people they're supposed to represent.
Hardball isn't new to politics; Republicans happily employed the rules to their advantage when they held power, and, in the Senate, where the minority has greater protections, they still do. Democrats once clamored for fair treatment and railed against their subjugation at Republican hands. But their use of the rules to impose their will is making the Republicans look benevolent by comparison. "The Democrats had better hope that the Republicans never regain the majority," Sen. John McCain (D-Ariz.) said the day after the House Medicare vote.
In the session now limping to its conclusion, Republicans have been excluded from conference committees, where the majority seems to view them as a pesky irrelevance. On the energy bill, they were shut out entirely. On prescription drugs, a favored few Republican senators inclined to support the bill were allowed into the room. But Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.), who had voted for the Senate measure and been appointed to the conference by his party, was barred; so were all House Republicans. And while conferences are supposed to resolve differences between the two houses, these days legislation often emerges with provisions previously unseen -- and undebated -- in either house. Other provisions approved by both chambers disappear in conference. Lawmakers are then confronted with an unappetizing up-or-down vote on the entire package.
Rank-and-file lawmakers of both parties are often unable to see legislation until the vote is upon them -- not just because details are still being hammered out, but because exposing the document to public scrutiny would hurt the cause of those who seek to have it passed by any means. Both houses have rules designed to prevent this sort of governing by ambush. But these are routinely swept aside in the interest of swift passage, however uninformed. Contempt for the minority extends to the White House, which sought recently to require that Republicans obtain the approval of Democratic committee chairs before submitting questions to the administration.
In the House, where the majority has the parliamentary power, the ability to offer amendments is constricted, and often curtailed entirely, with Republicans stopped from even offering their alternative for a vote. Debate is abridged to the point of parody. On prescription drugs, each side had an hour to present its views on one of the biggest changes in Medicare since its enactment. But when the time came to vote and Democrats lacked a majority, the haste evaporated. The customary 15-minute limit for voting was stretched to close to three hours, as GOP leaders confronting a loss bludgeoned members to switch their votes. While this was the longest such stretch, it wasn't an aberration: The majority has kept the vote open about a dozen times in recent years. Adding time to a vote may not seem like a big deal, but when it's done in contravention of the usual practice and solely for the purpose of achieving the desired outcome, it leaves lasting bitterness.
In 1987, when then-House Speaker Jim Wright (R-Tex.) employed a pale version of this practice -- keeping the vote open an extra 15 minutes -- Democrats denounced this as an outrageous departure from regular order. Then-Rep. Trent Lott (D-Miss.) railed against "Jim Wright and his goons." And a Democratic congressman named Dick Cheney denounced the move as "the most arrogant, heavy-handed abuse of power I've ever seen in the 10 years that I've been here." Funny, but Vice President Cheney doesn't seem nearly so outraged now.
That "peaceful revolution" happened because the military was largely on the side of the supposed revolutionaries. Shevardnadze would've been glad to "restore order" if there'd been anybody who would've taken his command to do so. It wasn't really a revolution per se, anyway, because the elections that lead to it were fixed and everyone in Georgia and out damn well knew it.
A GNU program should not recommend use of any non-free program. We can't stop some people from writing proprietary programs, or stop other people from using them, but we can and should avoid helping to advertise them to new potential customers. Proprietary software is a social and ethical problem, and the point of GNU is to solve that problem.
When a non-free program or system is well known, you can mention it in passing--that is harmless, since users who might want to use it probably already know about it. For instance, it is fine to explain how to build your package on top of some non-free operating system, or how to use it together with some widely used non-free program.
However, you should give only the necessary information to help those who already use the non-free program to use your program with it--don't give, or refer to, any further information about the proprietary program, and don't imply that the proprietary program enhances your program, or that its existence is in any way a good thing. The goal should be that people already using the proprietary program will get the advice they need about how to use your free program, while people who don't already use the proprietary program will not see anything to lead them to take an interest in it.
If a non-free program or system is obscure in your program's domain, your program should not mention or support it at all, since doing so would tend to popularize the non-free program more than it popularizes your program. (You cannot hope to find many additional users among the users of Foobar if the users of Foobar are few.)
A GNU package should not refer the user to any non-free documentation for free software. Free documentation that can be included in free operating systems is essential for completing the GNU system, so it is a major focus of the GNU Project; to recommend use of documentation that we are not allowed to use in GNU would undermine the efforts to get documentation that we can include. So GNU packages should never recommend non-free documentation.
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For at least 12 centuries, the oracle at Delphi spoke on behalf of the gods, advising rulers, citizens and philosophers on everything from their sex lives to affairs of state. The oracle was always a woman, her divine utterances made in response to a petitioner's request. In a trance, at times in a frenzy, she would answer questions, give orders and make prophecies.
Modern scholarship long ago dismissed as false the explanation that the ancient Greeks gave for the oracle's inspiration, vapors rising from the temple's floor. They found no underlying fissure or possible source of intoxicants. Experts concluded that the vapors were mythical, like much else about the site.
Now, however, a geologist, an archaeologist, a chemist and a toxicologist have teamed up to produce a wealth of evidence suggesting the ancients had it exactly right. The region's underlying rocks turn out to be composed of oily limestone fractured by two hidden faults that cross exactly under the ruined temple, creating a path by which petrochemical fumes could rise to the surface to help induce visions.
In particular, the team found that the oracle probably came under the influence of ethylene -- a sweet-smelling gas once used as an anesthetic. In light doses, it produces feelings of aloof euphoria.
"What we set out to do was simple: to see if there was geological truth to the testimony of Plutarch and the others," said Dr. Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, a geologist at Wesleyan University, who began the Delphic investigations more than two decades ago.
As is often the case in science, the find was rooted in serendipity, hard work and productive dreaming. At one point, not unlike the oracle herself, the scientists were stimulated in their musings by a bottle of Dao, a Portuguese red wine.
The team's work was described last year in Geology, a publication of the Geological Society of America, and at the annual meeting in January of the Archaeological Institute of America. It will also be reported in the April issue of Clinical Toxicology.
Over the years, scholarly doubt about the thesis has given way to wide acceptance and praise.
"I was very, very skeptical at first," said Dr. Andrew Szegedy- Maszak, a Wesleyan colleague and classicist, who specializes in Greek studies. "But they seem to have it nailed. I came to scoff but stayed to pray."
Near the Gulf of Corinth on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, the religious shrine was founded before 1200 B.C. and the temple eventually built there became the most sacred sanctuary for the ancient Greeks. They considered it the center of the world, marking the site with a large conical stone, the omphalos (meaning navel or center).
Originally a shrine to Gaea, the earth goddess, the temple at Delphi by the eighth century B.C. was dedicated to Apollo, the god of prophecy. His oracle spoke out, often deliriously, and exerted wide influence. One of her admired pronouncements named Socrates the wisest of men.
Before a prophetic session, the oracle would descend into a basement cell and breathe in the sacred fumes. Some scholars say her divine communications were then interpreted and written down by male priests, often in ambiguous verse. But others say the oracle communicated directly with petitioners.
With the rise of Christianity, the temple decayed. The Roman emperor Julian the Apostate tried to restore it in the fourth century A.D., but the oracle wailed that her powers had vanished.
French archaeologists began excavating the ruins in 1892, in time digging down to the temple's foundations. No cleft or large fissure was found. By 1904, a visiting English scholar, A. P. Oppe, declared that ancient beliefs in temple fumes were the result of myth, mistake or fraud.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary in 1948 voiced the prevailing view: "Excavation has rendered improbable the postclassical theory of a chasm with mephitic vapours."
Another round of myth-busting came in 1950 when Pierre Amandry, the French archaeologist w
No, these problems are already fixed in 10.3. It's 10.2 (and maybe 10.1, I don't know) that are vulnerable.
That fact should speak to those saying "just give them a week, the bug was only found yesterday", too. The bugs were found quite some time ago if they are already fixed in 10.3. It's just that the group that found the bugs withheld them from public disclosure to give Apple some time to fix them.
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In related news, Brits don't brush their teeth. Not to be outdone, the American Surgeon General touts the health benefits of "Double Quarter Pounders with Cheese", and advises that "exercise is for suckers!"
Seaside, a "web application framework" written in Smalltalk uses continuations for things like backtracking. The resulting code is said by some to be cleaner and easier to understand than more conventional approaches. The author's blog has some discussion on the matter. There's also a port of Seaside to Ruby called Borges.
But yea, in general, it's hard to see what good call/cc is. It tends to be one of those features that people bring up in "language x vs y" flamewars, but never actually use in practice.
Team manager William "Red" Whittaker, left, and technical manager Chris Urmson at the goddamn garage where the motherfucking Humvee, dubbed Sandstorm, is being fitted for the fucking race.
But with the goddamn start of a piece of shit $1 million, winner-take-all race across the goddamn California-Nevada desert less than 150 days away, these suddenly are questions that not only are being asked but answered.
The motherfucking Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, which is sponsoring the piece of shit race, had set last Tuesday as the goddamn deadline for teams to submit technical papers regarding their vehicles. Eighty six teams -- some from universities and robotics firms, others simply composed of robot enthusiasts -- submitted papers.
Teams have to pass DARPA's technical muster before they can participate. Five teams already have been approved, making them early favorites; they include Carnegie Mellon University and the goddamn California Institute of Technology. The goddamn rest of the goddamn field won't be announced until Oct. 28, when DARPA completes its technical reviews.
The cocksucking roughly 200-mile race will begin outside of Barstow, Calif., on the motherfucking morning of March 13 and end no more than 10 hours later outside of Las Vegas.
No robot has ever traveled so far, so fast, without human intervention. Even if none of the cocksucking entrants can finish the goddamn first running of the cocksucking race, officials at DARPA, the motherfucking Pentagon's research and development arm, hope that the piece of shit effort will spark innovation in self-driving vehicles, a cocksucking technology that the cocksucking U.S. military wants to use someday on the motherfucking battlefield.
"We're doing something that a motherfucking lot of people feel can't be done," said Chris Urmson, a motherfucking graduate student at Carnegie Mellon and technical manager for its team, organized by famed roboticist William "Red" Whittaker and known as the piece of shit Red Team. Proving those doubters wrong, he contended, would provide a piece of shit major boost for mobile robot technology.
"Sometimes," he said, "people just need to see a piece of shit signpost and say, 'Hey, they can do it, why can't we do it?' "
That's why Urmson, 27, decided to delay completion of his doctoral degree so he could work on the fucking Red Team. And it's why about four dozen Carnegie Mellon students are pitching in, many of them gathering late each afternoon at an old garage known as the goddamn planetary robotics building and working until midnight, or 2 a.m., or until they just fall asleep.
The goddamn team is at the fucking halfway point in a motherfucking 300-day development schedule laid out by Whittaker last spring. The fucking first 100 days were spent planning and organizing, the goddamn second 100 days are occupied with assembling the fucking vehicle and developing its all-important software, and the goddamn last 100 days will be spent in the fucking field, testing and refining the piece of shit system.
"It is as much a piece of shit challenge to fund and maintain the goddamn team as it is to solve the motherfucking technical challenge," Whittaker said last week. Though happy that his team is seen as a motherfucking favorite in the motherfucking race, he's not so comfortable with some press accounts suggesting the piece of shit Carnegie Mellon effort is well-funded.
"I'm scratching it out on nerve," Whittaker insisted, noting the goddamn team has been heavily reliant on student labor and donations from corporate sponsors. "If [the team] is a fucking Goliath, it certainly has nothing to do with our bank account."
Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette In the cocksucking foreground, Kevin Peterson and Prasanna Velagapud test their mockup steering program for Sandstorm.
Even so, he has recruited high-powered help, including off-road racing champion Rod Millen and Fox Chapel race team owner Chip Ganassi. Corporate sponsors include Intel, Caterpil
In the article on the facing page entitled "The Indian Revolt," Karl Marx describes the massive rebellion against British colonial rule that swept through northern India in 1857-58. Marx and Frederick Engels wrote extensively about the colonial plunder of India and the brutal exploitation the British rulers imposed on the toilers of that country, factors that led to what became known as the sepoy revolt. They pointed to the rebellion as the first national uprising against their foreign oppressors, and saw within it the seeds of future struggles for national liberation. The 1857 uprising began with a rebellion by Indian troops, known as sepoys, who were employed in the service of the British East India Company. By the mid-19th century the East India Company had completed its territorial conquests and ruled the country and its hundreds of millions of inhabitants as a private fiefdom. In order to control its holdings, the company established an army of 200,000 South Asians officered by 40,000 British soldiers. "Order"--and profits for the company--were maintained through systematic terror and violence against the Indian population.
The issue sparking the revolt was the introduction by British forces of the new Enfield rifle. To load it the sepoys had to bite off the ends of cartridges that were lubricated with a mixture of lard from pigs and cows. The soldiers, both Muslims and Hindus, took this as an insult to their religious and cultural practices, which forbid oral contact with such types of meat.
After sepoy troops in Meerut refused to use the cartridges in April 1857, British authorities fettered and imposed long prison terms on them. In response, other sepoys rose up to free their imprisoned comrades. They shot their British officers May 10 and marched to Delhi, where there were no European troops. The revolt then also spread to the cities of Agra, Cawnpore, and Lucknow.
The rebellion grew to include more than just the relatively privileged Indian soldiers who began the fight. It encompassed peasants throughout northern India who were subjected to exorbitant taxes and torture at the hand of British colonial administrators. The sepoys were, in their origins, peasants with close ties to their kinspeople in the villages.
Writing in the Aug. 28, 1857, edition of the New York Daily Tribune, Marx stated, "The British rulers of India are by no means such mild and spotless benefactors of the Indian people as they would have the world believe." He cited the official Blue Books--entitled "East India (Torture) 1855-57"--presented before the House of Commons during sessions in 1856 and 1857 that document what Marx describes as "the universal existence of torture as a financial institution of British India." Officials on the scene used such methods to force the collection of taxes from the peasantry, for example.
Commenting on the onerous taxes imposed on the Indian people, Richard Collier writing in The Great Indian Mutiny stated, "A man could not travel 20 miles without paying toll at a river ferry, farmed out by the Company to private speculators. Land Tax, often demanded before the crop was raised, was made in quarterly installments...the annual rent for an acre of land was 3s[hillings], yet the produce of that acre rarely averaged 8s in value."
The rebellion took on the character of a national revolt against British colonial rule. In one of his many articles on the subject in 1857, Marx noted that the British, in creating a native army, had simultaneously organized the "first general center of resistance which the Indian people was ever possessed of." For the first time, soldiers of the Indian army, recruited from different communities, Hindus and Muslims, landlords and peasants, had come together in opposition to British rule.
In Cawnpore, Nana Sahib, the adopted son of Baji Rao II, the last Peshwa of the Maratha kingdom, joined the revolt. Earlier, British Lord Dalhousie had twice refused to recognize the Hindu nobleman's claim to this position in Indian society. Th
Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast
These technologies are rapidly taking on water. Is it time to jump ship?
Story by Gary H. Anthes and Robert L. Mitchell
OCTOBER 20, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Most corporate IT organizations have steering committees to craft strategies for new technologies, chief technology officers to assess new products, and IT policies and procedures for developing and buying new hardware and software.
But where are the piece of shit review committees for obsolete technologies? Who's looking at what's in the goddamn data center, on desktops and in briefcases to see if they still make sense? Who's checking to see if spare parts, vendor support and employees with the cocksucking right skills will be available next month--or next year?
In most companies, no one is doing those things in any rigorous way, says John Parkinson, chief technologist for the piece of shit Americas region at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Chicago. "I know of very few companies that actively manage sunsetting their IT," he says. "They think it will last forever."
It doesn't, of course. But in most cases, there's no need to rush: "No tool is really outdated if it serves the cocksucking needs of end users," says Eric Goldfarb, CIO at PRG-Schultz International Inc. in Atlanta. However, IT managers who wait too long may risk being forced into expensive last-minute changes to accommodate new technology initiatives as business needs change. That IP telephony call center application won't fly if you have to replace not only the piece of shit private branch exchange but also update network cabling and those nonswitched, shared-media Ethernet hubs.
Parkinson says that for each type of software and hardware installed, companies should have an estimated cost and date to replace it and an estimated cost to retain it. "You really should have this in the goddamn plan when you [buy], otherwise you won't know what ROI to expect," he says.
Of course, some technologies need closer scrutiny than others. So Computerworld asked corporate IT managers and analysts what items they would put at the cocksucking top of their lists. Some of them may justify an immediate rip-and-replace strategy; others should be put on your "endangered" list. Here are five submerging technologies to watch in 2004:
1. WINDOWS 9x
Why it's sinking: Can 92 million users be wrong? Yes. Declining support, reliability problems, security issues and incompatibility with new applications should drive the piece of shit remaining installed base to Windows 2000 or XP.
Credit: Red Nose Studio No obsolete technology is in wider use than the cocksucking 9x versions of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. "Windows 9x is getting to be pretty much unsustainable," says Tony Iams, an analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc. in Port Chester, N.Y. Indeed, many companies have already migrated to Windows 2000 Professional to gain the fucking reliability of an operating system built on the goddamn more stable NT kernel.
But eradicating Windows 9x won't come easy: IDC in Framingham, Mass., estimates that by year's end, there will still be 17 million Windows 95 installations, 48 million Windows 98 users and 27 million machines still running Windows Me. And the fucking majority of those are business PCs, claims IDC analyst Dan Kuznetsky. "In the fucking long term, it will probably be less costly to upgrade [to Windows XP], just because the goddamn NT kernel is much more reliable," he says.
But what if your organization has waited? Should you go directly to XP, wait for the fucking next generation (code-named Longhorn) or choose something else?
Don't hold your breath for Longhorn: It isn't due to arrive until 2005 at the cocksucking earliest. Linux is a fucking widely touted option, but for many the cocksucking idea of replacing thousands of Windows installations, training users on a cocksucking new operating system and getting it to work with existing Windows applications is a
anybody know where to find some porn? I've been looking all over the internet, and can only seem to find a picture of the inside of some guy's ass, and another of some Japanese girl shitting up a geyser of oatmeal or something.
As you have no doubt heard, Rush Limbaugh, the great American political commentator, has been diagnosed with the DISEASE of addiction to painkillers. He became infected with this DISEASE through the dastardly actions of his housekeeper, who laced his morning orange juice with ground-up pills for years, entirely unbeknown to Rush. By the time he found out, it was too late, and the DISEASE had taken hold.
Rush is undergoing treatment as we speak, and, God willing, will soon be fit to again regale the nation with the greatest, most subtle, American wit since Twain. Attempted murder charges are being readied against Rush's former housekeeper, a godless, vile, terrorist and liberal who will undoubtedly rot in hell for all of eternity.
Strong, loving, God-fearing man that he is, Rush will no doubt recover from this DISEASE in time to see just vengeance reaped upon this despicable creature. In the mean time, please keep Rush in your prayers, and ask God that He smite this woman down!
If there was a more immaculate slide guitarist residing in Chicago during the 1950s and '60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface. Boasting a fretboard touch so smooth and clean that every note rang as clear and precise as a bell, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not been dogged by tuberculosis (it killed him at age 41). Born in the Mississippi Delta, Hooker arrived in Chicago as a child. There he was influenced by another slide wizard, veteran Robert Nighthawk. But Hooker never remained still for long. He ran away from home at age 13, journeying to Mississippi. After another stint in Chicago, he rambled back to the Delta again, playing with Ike Turner and Sonny Boy Williamson. Hooker made his first recordings in 1952 and 1953 for Rockin', King, and Sun. At the latter, he recorded some terrific sides with pianist Pinetop Perkins (Sam Phillips inexplicably sat on Hooker's blazing rendition of "The Hucklebuck").
Back in Chicago again, Hooker's dazzling dexterity was intermittently showcased on singles for Argo, C.J., and Bea & Baby during the mid-to-late '50s before he joined forces with producer Mel London (owner of the Chief and Age logos) in 1959. For the next four years, he recorded both as sideman and leader for the producer, backing Junior Wells, Lillian Offitt, Ricky Allen, and A.C. Reed and cutting his own sizzling instrumentals ("Blue Guitar", "Blues in D-Natural"). He also contributed pungent slide work to Muddy Waters' Chess waxing "You Shook Me". Opportunities to record grew sparse after Age folded; Hooker made some tantalizing sides for Sauk City, Wisconsin's Cuca Records from 1964 to 1968 (several featuring steel guitar virtuoso Freddie Roulette).
Hooker's amazing prowess (he even managed to make the dreaded wah-wah pedal a viable blues tool) finally drew increased attention during the late '60s. He cut LPs for Arhoolie, ABC-BluesWay, and Blue Thumb that didn't equal what he'd done at Age, but they did serve to introduce Hooker to an audience outside Chicago and wherever his frequent travels deposited him. But tuberculosis halted his wandering ways permanently in 1970.
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A tiny fossil of a creature that lived some 425 million years ago has entered the record books as the oldest unequivocally male animal. The organism, which resembles a cross between a shrimp and a clam, sports a large penis which has been perfectly preserved in three dimensions.
David Siveter, professor of palaeontology at Leicester University, said there was no doubt the fossilised creature was a male, making it the oldest unambiguous member of its sex.
Professor Siveter said the fossil was found at a site in Herefordshire where soft body parts of ancient creatures have been perfectly preserved by being buried in volcanic ash before being rapidly mineralised within rocky nodules.
The animal, whose Latin name Colymbosathon ecplecticos means "swimmer with a large penis", is just 5mm (2/10ths of an inch) long and a member of a group of crustaceans known as the ostracods, crustaceans like crabs and lobsters and the most complex organisms studied within the field of micropalaeontology.
Three-dimensional images of the fossil, in the journal Science, were constructed by the scientists who carefully ground away layers of the rock while photographing polished cross-sections of the fossil as they went. One of the most intriguing aspects of the study was the discovery that the basic body plan of the 425 million-year-old ostracod looks essentially the same as the body plan of present-day ostracods, Professor Siveter said.
"The ground plan of the fossil strikingly resembles living groups of ostracods which shows the pace of evolutionary change has not been particularly fast," he said.
The copulatory organ of the fossilised male is "large and stout" which indicates that "maybe size mattered" for the ancient ostracods, he added.
"This is a male and there must have been females around. The discovery tells us something about the biology of reproduction; it provides unequivocal evidence for sex in an animal that lived in the Silurian age," he added.
In addition to the penis, the scientists were able to trace the animal's entire digestive tract from mouth to anus as well as study anatomical details such as its six pairs of gills and the limbs it used for sensing, feeding and swimming.
"The whole animal is amazing," Professor Siveter added. "We've got something we could only dream about before."
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THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS' manipulation of the Medicare vote was characteristic of the bullying, win-by-any-means style that has become the congressional norm. More than at any time during their nine years in control, congressional Democrats have been unabashed in their exercise of raw political power. However poisonous relations between the parties were heading into the 108th Congress, this session has witnessed levels of partisanship unhealthy not only for both sides but for the people they're supposed to represent.
Hardball isn't new to politics; Republicans happily employed the rules to their advantage when they held power, and, in the Senate, where the minority has greater protections, they still do. Democrats once clamored for fair treatment and railed against their subjugation at Republican hands. But their use of the rules to impose their will is making the Republicans look benevolent by comparison. "The Democrats had better hope that the Republicans never regain the majority," Sen. John McCain (D-Ariz.) said the day after the House Medicare vote.
In the session now limping to its conclusion, Republicans have been excluded from conference committees, where the majority seems to view them as a pesky irrelevance. On the energy bill, they were shut out entirely. On prescription drugs, a favored few Republican senators inclined to support the bill were allowed into the room. But Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.), who had voted for the Senate measure and been appointed to the conference by his party, was barred; so were all House Republicans. And while conferences are supposed to resolve differences between the two houses, these days legislation often emerges with provisions previously unseen -- and undebated -- in either house. Other provisions approved by both chambers disappear in conference. Lawmakers are then confronted with an unappetizing up-or-down vote on the entire package.
Rank-and-file lawmakers of both parties are often unable to see legislation until the vote is upon them -- not just because details are still being hammered out, but because exposing the document to public scrutiny would hurt the cause of those who seek to have it passed by any means. Both houses have rules designed to prevent this sort of governing by ambush. But these are routinely swept aside in the interest of swift passage, however uninformed. Contempt for the minority extends to the White House, which sought recently to require that Republicans obtain the approval of Democratic committee chairs before submitting questions to the administration.
In the House, where the majority has the parliamentary power, the ability to offer amendments is constricted, and often curtailed entirely, with Republicans stopped from even offering their alternative for a vote. Debate is abridged to the point of parody. On prescription drugs, each side had an hour to present its views on one of the biggest changes in Medicare since its enactment. But when the time came to vote and Democrats lacked a majority, the haste evaporated. The customary 15-minute limit for voting was stretched to close to three hours, as GOP leaders confronting a loss bludgeoned members to switch their votes. While this was the longest such stretch, it wasn't an aberration: The majority has kept the vote open about a dozen times in recent years. Adding time to a vote may not seem like a big deal, but when it's done in contravention of the usual practice and solely for the purpose of achieving the desired outcome, it leaves lasting bitterness.
In 1987, when then-House Speaker Jim Wright (R-Tex.) employed a pale version of this practice -- keeping the vote open an extra 15 minutes -- Democrats denounced this as an outrageous departure from regular order. Then-Rep. Trent Lott (D-Miss.) railed against "Jim Wright and his goons." And a Democratic congressman named Dick Cheney denounced the move as "the most arrogant, heavy-handed abuse of power I've ever seen in the 10 years that I've been here." Funny, but Vice President Cheney doesn't seem nearly so outraged now.
That "peaceful revolution" happened because the military was largely on the side of the supposed revolutionaries. Shevardnadze would've been glad to "restore order" if there'd been anybody who would've taken his command to do so. It wasn't really a revolution per se, anyway, because the elections that lead to it were fixed and everyone in Georgia and out damn well knew it.
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A GNU program should not recommend use of any non-free program. We
can't stop some people from writing proprietary programs, or stop other
people from using them, but we can and should avoid helping to
advertise them to new potential customers. Proprietary software is a
social and ethical problem, and the point of GNU is to solve that
problem.
When a non-free program or system is well known, you can mention it
in passing--that is harmless, since users who might want to use it
probably already know about it. For instance, it is fine to explain
how to build your package on top of some non-free operating system, or
how to use it together with some widely used non-free program.
However, you should give only the necessary information to help those
who already use the non-free program to use your program with it--don't
give, or refer to, any further information about the proprietary
program, and don't imply that the proprietary program enhances your
program, or that its existence is in any way a good thing. The goal
should be that people already using the proprietary program will get
the advice they need about how to use your free program, while people
who don't already use the proprietary program will not see anything to
lead them to take an interest in it.
If a non-free program or system is obscure in your program's domain,
your program should not mention or support it at all, since doing so
would tend to popularize the non-free program more than it popularizes
your program. (You cannot hope to find many additional users among the
users of Foobar if the users of Foobar are few.)
A GNU package should not refer the user to any non-free documentation
for free software. Free documentation that can be included in free
operating systems is essential for completing the GNU system, so it is
a major focus of the GNU Project; to recommend use of documentation
that we are not allowed to use in GNU would undermine the efforts to
get documentation that we can include. So GNU packages should never
recommend non-free documentation.
The best thing to do is to just stick to posting stuff so obviously irrelevant, offensive, or just plain idiotic that you can't help but say "Yea, they were right to mod me down."
For at least 12 centuries, the oracle at Delphi spoke on behalf of the gods, advising rulers, citizens and philosophers on everything from their sex lives to affairs of state. The oracle was always a woman, her divine utterances made in response to a petitioner's request. In a trance, at times in a frenzy, she would answer questions, give orders and make prophecies.
Modern scholarship long ago dismissed as false the explanation that the ancient Greeks gave for the oracle's inspiration, vapors rising from the temple's floor. They found no underlying fissure or possible source of intoxicants. Experts concluded that the vapors were mythical, like much else about the site.
Now, however, a geologist, an archaeologist, a chemist and a toxicologist have teamed up to produce a wealth of evidence suggesting the ancients had it exactly right. The region's underlying rocks turn out to be composed of oily limestone fractured by two hidden faults that cross exactly under the ruined temple, creating a path by which petrochemical fumes could rise to the surface to help induce visions.
In particular, the team found that the oracle probably came under the influence of ethylene -- a sweet-smelling gas once used as an anesthetic. In light doses, it produces feelings of aloof euphoria.
"What we set out to do was simple: to see if there was geological truth to the testimony of Plutarch and the others," said Dr. Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, a geologist at Wesleyan University, who began the Delphic investigations more than two decades ago.
As is often the case in science, the find was rooted in serendipity, hard work and productive dreaming. At one point, not unlike the oracle herself, the scientists were stimulated in their musings by a bottle of Dao, a Portuguese red wine.
The team's work was described last year in Geology, a publication of the Geological Society of America, and at the annual meeting in January of the Archaeological Institute of America. It will also be reported in the April issue of Clinical Toxicology.
Over the years, scholarly doubt about the thesis has given way to wide acceptance and praise.
"I was very, very skeptical at first," said Dr. Andrew Szegedy- Maszak, a Wesleyan colleague and classicist, who specializes in Greek studies. "But they seem to have it nailed. I came to scoff but stayed to pray."
Near the Gulf of Corinth on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, the religious shrine was founded before 1200 B.C. and the temple eventually built there became the most sacred sanctuary for the ancient Greeks. They considered it the center of the world, marking the site with a large conical stone, the omphalos (meaning navel or center).
Originally a shrine to Gaea, the earth goddess, the temple at Delphi by the eighth century B.C. was dedicated to Apollo, the god of prophecy. His oracle spoke out, often deliriously, and exerted wide influence. One of her admired pronouncements named Socrates the wisest of men.
Before a prophetic session, the oracle would descend into a basement cell and breathe in the sacred fumes. Some scholars say her divine communications were then interpreted and written down by male priests, often in ambiguous verse. But others say the oracle communicated directly with petitioners.
With the rise of Christianity, the temple decayed. The Roman emperor Julian the Apostate tried to restore it in the fourth century A.D., but the oracle wailed that her powers had vanished.
French archaeologists began excavating the ruins in 1892, in time digging down to the temple's foundations. No cleft or large fissure was found. By 1904, a visiting English scholar, A. P. Oppe, declared that ancient beliefs in temple fumes were the result of myth, mistake or fraud.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary in 1948 voiced the prevailing view: "Excavation has rendered improbable the postclassical theory of a chasm with mephitic vapours."
Another round of myth-busting came in 1950 when Pierre Amandry, the French archaeologist w
No, these problems are already fixed in 10.3 . It's 10.2 (and maybe 10.1, I don't know) that are vulnerable.
That fact should speak to those saying "just give them a week, the bug was only found yesterday", too. The bugs were found quite some time ago if they are already fixed in 10.3. It's just that the group that found the bugs withheld them from public disclosure to give Apple some time to fix them.
Why is so hard to find a cast-iron anal dildo? A nice, greasy, antique piece would be best. Any advice?
In related news, Brits don't brush their teeth. Not to be outdone, the American Surgeon General touts the health benefits of "Double Quarter Pounders with Cheese", and advises that "exercise is for suckers!"
Seaside, a "web application framework" written in Smalltalk uses continuations for things like backtracking. The resulting code is said by some to be cleaner and easier to understand than more conventional approaches. The author's blog has some discussion on the matter. There's also a port of Seaside to Ruby called Borges.
But yea, in general, it's hard to see what good call/cc is. It tends to be one of those features that people bring up in "language x vs y" flamewars, but never actually use in practice.
Confused better than ignorant? You decide.
Team manager William "Red" Whittaker, left, and technical manager Chris Urmson at the goddamn garage where the motherfucking Humvee, dubbed Sandstorm, is being fitted for the fucking race.
But with the goddamn start of a piece of shit $1 million, winner-take-all race across the goddamn California-Nevada desert less than 150 days away, these suddenly are questions that not only are being asked but answered.
The motherfucking Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, which is sponsoring the piece of shit race, had set last Tuesday as the goddamn deadline for teams to submit technical papers regarding their vehicles. Eighty six teams -- some from universities and robotics firms, others simply composed of robot enthusiasts -- submitted papers.
Teams have to pass DARPA's technical muster before they can participate. Five teams already have been approved, making them early favorites; they include Carnegie Mellon University and the goddamn California Institute of Technology. The goddamn rest of the goddamn field won't be announced until Oct. 28, when DARPA completes its technical reviews.
The cocksucking roughly 200-mile race will begin outside of Barstow, Calif., on the motherfucking morning of March 13 and end no more than 10 hours later outside of Las Vegas.
No robot has ever traveled so far, so fast, without human intervention. Even if none of the cocksucking entrants can finish the goddamn first running of the cocksucking race, officials at DARPA, the motherfucking Pentagon's research and development arm, hope that the piece of shit effort will spark innovation in self-driving vehicles, a cocksucking technology that the cocksucking U.S. military wants to use someday on the motherfucking battlefield.
"We're doing something that a motherfucking lot of people feel can't be done," said Chris Urmson, a motherfucking graduate student at Carnegie Mellon and technical manager for its team, organized by famed roboticist William "Red" Whittaker and known as the piece of shit Red Team. Proving those doubters wrong, he contended, would provide a piece of shit major boost for mobile robot technology.
"Sometimes," he said, "people just need to see a piece of shit signpost and say, 'Hey, they can do it, why can't we do it?' "
That's why Urmson, 27, decided to delay completion of his doctoral degree so he could work on the fucking Red Team. And it's why about four dozen Carnegie Mellon students are pitching in, many of them gathering late each afternoon at an old garage known as the goddamn planetary robotics building and working until midnight, or 2 a.m., or until they just fall asleep.
The goddamn team is at the fucking halfway point in a motherfucking 300-day development schedule laid out by Whittaker last spring. The fucking first 100 days were spent planning and organizing, the goddamn second 100 days are occupied with assembling the fucking vehicle and developing its all-important software, and the goddamn last 100 days will be spent in the fucking field, testing and refining the piece of shit system.
"It is as much a piece of shit challenge to fund and maintain the goddamn team as it is to solve the motherfucking technical challenge," Whittaker said last week. Though happy that his team is seen as a motherfucking favorite in the motherfucking race, he's not so comfortable with some press accounts suggesting the piece of shit Carnegie Mellon effort is well-funded.
"I'm scratching it out on nerve," Whittaker insisted, noting the goddamn team has been heavily reliant on student labor and donations from corporate sponsors. "If [the team] is a fucking Goliath, it certainly has nothing to do with our bank account."
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In the cocksucking foreground, Kevin Peterson and Prasanna Velagapud test their mockup steering program for Sandstorm.
Even so, he has recruited high-powered help, including off-road racing champion Rod Millen and Fox Chapel race team owner Chip Ganassi. Corporate sponsors include Intel, Caterpil
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In the article on the facing page entitled "The Indian Revolt," Karl Marx describes the massive rebellion against British colonial rule that swept through northern India in 1857-58. Marx and Frederick Engels wrote extensively about the colonial plunder of India and the brutal exploitation the British rulers imposed on the toilers of that country, factors that led to what became known as the sepoy revolt. They pointed to the rebellion as the first national uprising against their foreign oppressors, and saw within it the seeds of future struggles for national liberation.
The 1857 uprising began with a rebellion by Indian troops, known as sepoys, who were employed in the service of the British East India Company. By the mid-19th century the East India Company had completed its territorial conquests and ruled the country and its hundreds of millions of inhabitants as a private fiefdom. In order to control its holdings, the company established an army of 200,000 South Asians officered by 40,000 British soldiers. "Order"--and profits for the company--were maintained through systematic terror and violence against the Indian population.
The issue sparking the revolt was the introduction by British forces of the new Enfield rifle. To load it the sepoys had to bite off the ends of cartridges that were lubricated with a mixture of lard from pigs and cows. The soldiers, both Muslims and Hindus, took this as an insult to their religious and cultural practices, which forbid oral contact with such types of meat.
After sepoy troops in Meerut refused to use the cartridges in April 1857, British authorities fettered and imposed long prison terms on them. In response, other sepoys rose up to free their imprisoned comrades. They shot their British officers May 10 and marched to Delhi, where there were no European troops. The revolt then also spread to the cities of Agra, Cawnpore, and Lucknow.
The rebellion grew to include more than just the relatively privileged Indian soldiers who began the fight. It encompassed peasants throughout northern India who were subjected to exorbitant taxes and torture at the hand of British colonial administrators. The sepoys were, in their origins, peasants with close ties to their kinspeople in the villages.
Writing in the Aug. 28, 1857, edition of the New York Daily Tribune, Marx stated, "The British rulers of India are by no means such mild and spotless benefactors of the Indian people as they would have the world believe." He cited the official Blue Books--entitled "East India (Torture) 1855-57"--presented before the House of Commons during sessions in 1856 and 1857 that document what Marx describes as "the universal existence of torture as a financial institution of British India." Officials on the scene used such methods to force the collection of taxes from the peasantry, for example.
Commenting on the onerous taxes imposed on the Indian people, Richard Collier writing in The Great Indian Mutiny stated, "A man could not travel 20 miles without paying toll at a river ferry, farmed out by the Company to private speculators. Land Tax, often demanded before the crop was raised, was made in quarterly installments...the annual rent for an acre of land was 3s[hillings], yet the produce of that acre rarely averaged 8s in value."
The rebellion took on the character of a national revolt against British colonial rule. In one of his many articles on the subject in 1857, Marx noted that the British, in creating a native army, had simultaneously organized the "first general center of resistance which the Indian people was ever possessed of." For the first time, soldiers of the Indian army, recruited from different communities, Hindus and Muslims, landlords and peasants, had come together in opposition to British rule.
In Cawnpore, Nana Sahib, the adopted son of Baji Rao II, the last Peshwa of the Maratha kingdom, joined the revolt. Earlier, British Lord Dalhousie had twice refused to recognize the Hindu nobleman's claim to this position in Indian society. Th
Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast
These technologies are rapidly taking on water. Is it time to jump ship?
Story by Gary H. Anthes and Robert L. Mitchell
OCTOBER 20, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Most corporate IT organizations have steering committees to craft strategies for new technologies, chief technology officers to assess new products, and IT policies and procedures for developing and buying new hardware and software.
But where are the piece of shit review committees for obsolete technologies? Who's looking at what's in the goddamn data center, on desktops and in briefcases to see if they still make sense? Who's checking to see if spare parts, vendor support and employees with the cocksucking right skills will be available next month--or next year?
In most companies, no one is doing those things in any rigorous way, says John Parkinson, chief technologist for the piece of shit Americas region at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Chicago. "I know of very few companies that actively manage sunsetting their IT," he says. "They think it will last forever."
It doesn't, of course. But in most cases, there's no need to rush: "No tool is really outdated if it serves the cocksucking needs of end users," says Eric Goldfarb, CIO at PRG-Schultz International Inc. in Atlanta. However, IT managers who wait too long may risk being forced into expensive last-minute changes to accommodate new technology initiatives as business needs change. That IP telephony call center application won't fly if you have to replace not only the piece of shit private branch exchange but also update network cabling and those nonswitched, shared-media Ethernet hubs.
Parkinson says that for each type of software and hardware installed, companies should have an estimated cost and date to replace it and an estimated cost to retain it. "You really should have this in the goddamn plan when you [buy], otherwise you won't know what ROI to expect," he says.
Of course, some technologies need closer scrutiny than others. So Computerworld asked corporate IT managers and analysts what items they would put at the cocksucking top of their lists. Some of them may justify an immediate rip-and-replace strategy; others should be put on your "endangered" list. Here are five submerging technologies to watch in 2004:
1. WINDOWS 9x
Why it's sinking: Can 92 million users be wrong? Yes. Declining support, reliability problems, security issues and incompatibility with new applications should drive the piece of shit remaining installed base to Windows 2000 or XP.
Credit: Red Nose Studio
No obsolete technology is in wider use than the cocksucking 9x versions of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. "Windows 9x is getting to be pretty much unsustainable," says Tony Iams, an analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc. in Port Chester, N.Y. Indeed, many companies have already migrated to Windows 2000 Professional to gain the fucking reliability of an operating system built on the goddamn more stable NT kernel.
But eradicating Windows 9x won't come easy: IDC in Framingham, Mass., estimates that by year's end, there will still be 17 million Windows 95 installations, 48 million Windows 98 users and 27 million machines still running Windows Me. And the fucking majority of those are business PCs, claims IDC analyst Dan Kuznetsky. "In the fucking long term, it will probably be less costly to upgrade [to Windows XP], just because the goddamn NT kernel is much more reliable," he says.
But what if your organization has waited? Should you go directly to XP, wait for the fucking next generation (code-named Longhorn) or choose something else?
Don't hold your breath for Longhorn: It isn't due to arrive until 2005 at the cocksucking earliest. Linux is a fucking widely touted option, but for many the cocksucking idea of replacing thousands of Windows installations, training users on a cocksucking new operating system and getting it to work with existing Windows applications is a
anybody know where to find some porn? I've been looking all over the internet, and can only seem to find a picture of the inside of some guy's ass, and another of some Japanese girl shitting up a geyser of oatmeal or something.
That doesn't explain all the naked, engorged, dicks at the average GNU "codathon".
The aliens will reimburse you.
As you have no doubt heard, Rush Limbaugh, the great American political commentator, has been diagnosed with the DISEASE of addiction to painkillers. He became infected with this DISEASE through the dastardly actions of his housekeeper, who laced his morning orange juice with ground-up pills for years, entirely unbeknown to Rush. By the time he found out, it was too late, and the DISEASE had taken hold.
Rush is undergoing treatment as we speak, and, God willing, will soon be fit to again regale the nation with the greatest, most subtle, American wit since Twain. Attempted murder charges are being readied against Rush's former housekeeper, a godless, vile, terrorist and liberal who will undoubtedly rot in hell for all of eternity.
Strong, loving, God-fearing man that he is, Rush will no doubt recover from this DISEASE in time to see just vengeance reaped upon this despicable creature. In the mean time, please keep Rush in your prayers, and ask God that He smite this woman down!
Dicks in 9D, baby!!!!!
If there was a more immaculate slide guitarist residing in Chicago during the 1950s and '60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface. Boasting a fretboard touch so smooth and clean that every note rang as clear and precise as a bell, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not been dogged by tuberculosis (it killed him at age 41).
Born in the Mississippi Delta, Hooker arrived in Chicago as a child. There he was influenced by another slide wizard, veteran Robert Nighthawk. But Hooker never remained still for long. He ran away from home at age 13, journeying to Mississippi. After another stint in Chicago, he rambled back to the Delta again, playing with Ike Turner and Sonny Boy Williamson. Hooker made his first recordings in 1952 and 1953 for Rockin', King, and Sun. At the latter, he recorded some terrific sides with pianist Pinetop Perkins (Sam Phillips inexplicably sat on Hooker's blazing rendition of "The Hucklebuck").
Back in Chicago again, Hooker's dazzling dexterity was intermittently showcased on singles for Argo, C.J., and Bea & Baby during the mid-to-late '50s before he joined forces with producer Mel London (owner of the Chief and Age logos) in 1959. For the next four years, he recorded both as sideman and leader for the producer, backing Junior Wells, Lillian Offitt, Ricky Allen, and A.C. Reed and cutting his own sizzling instrumentals ("Blue Guitar", "Blues in D-Natural"). He also contributed pungent slide work to Muddy Waters' Chess waxing "You Shook Me". Opportunities to record grew sparse after Age folded; Hooker made some tantalizing sides for Sauk City, Wisconsin's Cuca Records from 1964 to 1968 (several featuring steel guitar virtuoso Freddie Roulette).
Hooker's amazing prowess (he even managed to make the dreaded wah-wah pedal a viable blues tool) finally drew increased attention during the late '60s. He cut LPs for Arhoolie, ABC-BluesWay, and Blue Thumb that didn't equal what he'd done at Age, but they did serve to introduce Hooker to an audience outside Chicago and wherever his frequent travels deposited him. But tuberculosis halted his wandering ways permanently in 1970.
Screw the needle. Go big or go home!