Technology is part of the evolutionary process. One of the things that kept humans thriving as a species was the ability to develop tools. Why would the ability to cut and cook meat be an evolutionary development but not the ability to fly, cure diseases, or troll slashdot?
Nor am I, but even I can tell that you're typing out your ass.
A - so what? Are you assuming people from different races are also members of different species? This is part of evolution, not some kind of end to it.
B - How can you separate our technological advances from our evolution? Do you think neanderthals had the internet? (They may exist on slashdot, but that's another issue entirely). Part of evolution involves the ability (both physical and mental) to make tools that let us do things like survive in environments that may have been unsuitable for our predecessors. This shows evolution advancing, not retreating. That you can't imagine that we would develop more tools in the future to adapt to further environmental changes (eg global warming; space exploration; AIDS; nuclear winter, whatever) shows only the limits of your imagination.
C - this is an idiotic claim. The fact that we have organized our distribution of resources is as much an aspect of our evolving as the fact that earlier generations organized the growing of corn.
D - even more idiotic. Are you saying that people who don't look like models don't breed? Get a grip.
E - Probably true, but this counts against your point, not in favor of it.
Evolution is not just about growing lungs or opposable thumbs, IMHO. To claim that we are reaching the end of evolution just means you aren't looking far enough ahead. Lots of things could change in our environment, and even if our current environment stayed the same for the next 10 millennia, there are a lot of adaptations to our current environment that future human bodies and minds may make.
I think they picked 80 because they figured most people would be ok with that as an upper limit for their kids even if they didn't expect them to follow the speed limit all the time. It's silly though - the worst accident I ever had was at 35 mph. Speed isn't the only factor at work in accidents; if anything this just gives parents a false sense of security.
commodoresloat writes "Slashdot followed their major annual asteroid-collision article with an article called 'Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced.' While the quantity and quality of posts suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of a hacker named 'BENJYMOUSE' who left his mark. Here is the low-down on the slashdot post, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the quality of posts increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded mod points for doing nothing more than rewriting the *BSD troll as an anti-M$ post."
What are they going to do when Jobs finally does pop his clogs? Sooner or later, that is going to happen, and they need to think about that now rather than later.
Nonsense! Sir Jobs is as immortal as he is invincible. You're obviously not listening to your iPod often enough.
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What are the random internet nutcases right about anymore?
Huh? Interesting, but it seems to actually slow me down... I think it would for most people unless you're in the habit of reading only one word at a time. But I think for most people it's customary to pick up several words at a time while reading fast.
Actually I think the best tsunami-fighting device is a giant ball of string; this is pretty clearly proven by the town of Cawker City, Kansas, home to the largest ball of twine in the world, has never been hit by a tsunami. So that proves that the string stops tsunamis; my logic here is impeccable. As for Britain, a lot of people think that country's resistance to tsunamis is due to Stonehenge, but the reality is a much simpler explanation -- the ubiquity of umbrellas. Remember Occam's razor, folks!
Do you think we forgot Hiroshima and Nagasaki??? Keep thinking... Time of our revenge is about to come. The USA are going to pay for all the evil they did around the world...
Oh yes, and surely the best way to exact revenge for these nuclear attacks is by getting faster internet!
OK, I read it. Now you read the fucking Supreme Court's interpretation of it. Sorry, but putting creationism in the science curriculum in US public schools is a violation of the establishment clause of the first amendment. You quoted it, so you are probably already aware of this. Thanks for playing.
What's unconstitutional is putting it into the science curriculum at public schools (violating the establishment clause of the first amendment). As far as "forcing people to teach ____," all public school curriculum is "forced" on teachers in the sense that it is established at the state and local government level.
So the title should say, "Myspace finally integrates their crappy mp3 streamer into the rest of their site by copying imeem".... After all, the purchasing from Amazon thing isn't new... there was a site called amazon.com where you could do this directly without using myspace at all. Don't know if it still exists though....
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Technology is part of the evolutionary process. One of the things that kept humans thriving as a species was the ability to develop tools. Why would the ability to cut and cook meat be an evolutionary development but not the ability to fly, cure diseases, or troll slashdot?
[citation needed]. Seriously, what a bunch of crap. Who modded this insightful?
Nor am I, but even I can tell that you're typing out your ass.
A - so what? Are you assuming people from different races are also members of different species? This is part of evolution, not some kind of end to it.
B - How can you separate our technological advances from our evolution? Do you think neanderthals had the internet? (They may exist on slashdot, but that's another issue entirely). Part of evolution involves the ability (both physical and mental) to make tools that let us do things like survive in environments that may have been unsuitable for our predecessors. This shows evolution advancing, not retreating. That you can't imagine that we would develop more tools in the future to adapt to further environmental changes (eg global warming; space exploration; AIDS; nuclear winter, whatever) shows only the limits of your imagination.
C - this is an idiotic claim. The fact that we have organized our distribution of resources is as much an aspect of our evolving as the fact that earlier generations organized the growing of corn.
D - even more idiotic. Are you saying that people who don't look like models don't breed? Get a grip.
E - Probably true, but this counts against your point, not in favor of it.
Evolution is not just about growing lungs or opposable thumbs, IMHO. To claim that we are reaching the end of evolution just means you aren't looking far enough ahead. Lots of things could change in our environment, and even if our current environment stayed the same for the next 10 millennia, there are a lot of adaptations to our current environment that future human bodies and minds may make.
You mean we need to come up with another justification for having sex with younger women?
Is there any way to change that? I use a mac at school, but I'm not dropping $1000 on a laptop with 1 gig of ram.
Nope there's no way to change it but you cheapskates can just use Ctrl-Z instead.
Well I guess a massive penis could be rather threatening, but how would the terrorists make use of my terrifyingly huge penis?
Well, he said it would be a pain in the ass.
Here's a much better mirror.
I think they picked 80 because they figured most people would be ok with that as an upper limit for their kids even if they didn't expect them to follow the speed limit all the time. It's silly though - the worst accident I ever had was at 35 mph. Speed isn't the only factor at work in accidents; if anything this just gives parents a false sense of security.
commodoresloat writes "Slashdot followed their major annual asteroid-collision article with an article called 'Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced.' While the quantity and quality of posts suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of a hacker named 'BENJYMOUSE' who left his mark. Here is the low-down on the slashdot post, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the quality of posts increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded mod points for doing nothing more than rewriting the *BSD troll as an anti-M$ post."
[citation needed].
not at the same time; note he said "had"
The author just lacks imagination.
What are they going to do when Jobs finally does pop his clogs? Sooner or later, that is going to happen, and they need to think about that now rather than later.
Nonsense! Sir Jobs is as immortal as he is invincible. You're obviously not listening to your iPod often enough.
What are the random internet nutcases right about anymore?
All your base.
It turns out, it really does belong to us.
That disease has your name all over it.
Huh? Interesting, but it seems to actually slow me down... I think it would for most people unless you're in the habit of reading only one word at a time. But I think for most people it's customary to pick up several words at a time while reading fast.
Because they'll come back a few days later?
Fixed that for ya. Sorry, I'm a stickler about eliminating redundancy in slashdot posts.
One of the spectators was player number "363" I believe which was incredibly low (one of the first ever to register on the site).
For particularly high values of "first"? Or particularly low values of "363"?
Actually I think the best tsunami-fighting device is a giant ball of string; this is pretty clearly proven by the town of Cawker City, Kansas, home to the largest ball of twine in the world, has never been hit by a tsunami. So that proves that the string stops tsunamis; my logic here is impeccable. As for Britain, a lot of people think that country's resistance to tsunamis is due to Stonehenge, but the reality is a much simpler explanation -- the ubiquity of umbrellas. Remember Occam's razor, folks!
Do you think we forgot Hiroshima and Nagasaki??? Keep thinking... Time of our revenge is about to come. The USA are going to pay for all the evil they did around the world...
Oh yes, and surely the best way to exact revenge for these nuclear attacks is by getting faster internet!
That makes it much more likely that Japanese slashdot users will get first post!
RTFFA.
OK, I read it. Now you read the fucking Supreme Court's interpretation of it. Sorry, but putting creationism in the science curriculum in US public schools is a violation of the establishment clause of the first amendment. You quoted it, so you are probably already aware of this. Thanks for playing.
What's unconstitutional is putting it into the science curriculum at public schools (violating the establishment clause of the first amendment). As far as "forcing people to teach ____," all public school curriculum is "forced" on teachers in the sense that it is established at the state and local government level.
So the title should say, "Myspace finally integrates their crappy mp3 streamer into the rest of their site by copying imeem" .... After all, the purchasing from Amazon thing isn't new... there was a site called amazon.com where you could do this directly without using myspace at all. Don't know if it still exists though ....
That explains why I never get laid. I guess I need to get me one of these web servers right away!