evolution has no bearing on what happens after you stop reproducing. therefore, once you stop reproducing, evolution has no reason to prolong your existance.
There are exceptions, as you pointed out, such as parents the raise thier offspring help to increase the offspring's chance to get to spawning age.
Correct, some people believe this is why women live longer than men on average. women typically are the child caretakers, while the men are off at the pub. I was a little too exclusive with the word "Anything". in this particular case, the urchins do not "raise" their offspring. the involvment of the parents is not helping to lead their evolution in a different direction.
The key to their longevity appears to be always growing, but ever so slowly.
acutally, consistant isn't indicated as the reason for long life... evolution can explain the age of these guys.
Anything that happens after a creature stops reproducing does not contribute to evolution. So, typicaly you see creatures die soon after they stop reproducing, as there is no more need for them to exist. This has been indicated in women recently in small studies, but also makes some sence if you think about it.
The fact that the urchins just keep on putting out sperm and eggs means that longevity can help them spread their genes more than any short lived urchin. and viola... if there is any age after which the urchins do go through a menopause... death for them will probably be within a few years after.
the article never proved that MS was trying to buy google to run it into the ground. His proff consists of: 1) MS's search engine sucks. 2) Google's search engine is good. 3) MS wanted to buy Google
4) therefor MS wanted to run google into the ground and let thisr own service pimp for MS.
Once he assumes this important bit, he can make fun of MS, thus pulling in more readers. Man, I wish I could wrte garbage and get paid for it.
Think Vikings. The worth of a shipwright was measured in how little water seeped into the ship. The better constructed the ship, the less leaking. It is documented that early shipwrights were at least "symbolicly" to drink "all" the water that came in on the first sail. The cases I have heard of only required that the wright drink a cup of the leakage.
I admit, I am having a hard time finding sources on the web.. or I would post citations.
The point was not that a ship builder should drink water, but that one's work can be measured, and that substandard work should be treated as such.
...or you could have purchased your piece of paper from a degree mill and saved all that effort. the degree isn't important. the skill/intellegence is important.
in the old days, greek engineers didn't have degrees to speak of. if they were responsible for building the bridge, they stood under it when the first traffic came through. they owed their lives to working hard and well, not a piece of paper.
master ship builders were forced to drink all of the water that seeped into the belly of the ship during the first day's sail. a man could explode or drown from ingesting hundreds of gallons of water. master ship builders relied on doing the job correctly, not on a piece of paper.
These things are what will make you good at your job... put your ass on the line and trust that you have done your work properly. getting a degree does not teach this. you must get your head past the piece of paper.
yeah... gotta love those sad killer phone numbers... point claws, geological features, and all:
Uncommon Knowledge about a phone number Can it be used for recreation? I say Yes. Do you know any songs about it? I say Yes. Is it a geological feature? I say Yes. Does it cry? I say Probably. Would you find it on a farm? I say Yes. Can it speak? I say Probably. Can it add? I say Probably. Does it have a horn? I say Yes. Does it have four wheels? I say Probably. Is it smart? I say Probably. Can it swim? I say Probably. Does it have ears? I say Probably. Do you carry it in your pocket? I say Yes. Is it a common household object? I say Yes. Does it have feet? I say Probably. Does it have claws? I say Yes.
the nice part is that it is a ~$200 bottle of alchohol. I still haven't ingested mine. I am waiting for a very special day... say my GF's son graduates or I get married. Even if you don't drink, it can be given away as a gift to a friend, or sold.
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worthy of "sig" status: never give your wife a vacuum cleaner as a 'gift', under pain of death
And I agree completely... a somewhat useful gift is more valuable than the cash equivilent. See my other post here...
if you can't give a useful gift, try to give that bonus as a fist full of dollars rather than as a printed check. the bonus becomes more tangible and the day you hand out the bonus, everyone's moral skyrockets.
extra points if you can get everyone to roll around in a pile of $20 bills.
I and about 25 others recieved $1000 cash in 100 dollar bills and a bottle of 1990 Dom Perinon(?). That is less than your 1500$ limit, but is a nice touch. the fist full of hundreds is exciting, and the dom is something that none of them would buy by themselves, but shows that they have class (even if they don't know how to spell it...).
yeah... the problem using this for his solution is that if windows gets to acting strange, unison (is there a windows port?) may not work properly. Also, I believe windows is pretty strict about overwriting system critical files while they are in use, so uniso would fail for a full system sync after booting into windows.
also, unison can be a little tedious when trying to merge thousands of files... without an interactive session it is verrry difficult:(
well... if any power plants burn down... i guess it's good that Cali doesn't support nuclear power plants... they could have a Civ2:CallToPower nuclear fall out zone to clean up...
here you can see the fun spelling and the laying out of plans for developing the code base further. towards the top you can see that there is a call to arms for C++ programmers.
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nope... I meant viola... as in the sound of an american butchering a language.
by far the best idea here tonight.
neither a nor b:
evolution has no bearing on what happens after you stop reproducing. therefore, once you stop reproducing, evolution has no reason to prolong your existance.
There are exceptions, as you pointed out, such as parents the raise thier offspring help to increase the offspring's chance to get to spawning age.
Correct, some people believe this is why women live longer than men on average. women typically are the child caretakers, while the men are off at the pub. I was a little too exclusive with the word "Anything". in this particular case, the urchins do not "raise" their offspring. the involvment of the parents is not helping to lead their evolution in a different direction.
The key to their longevity appears to be always growing, but ever so slowly.
acutally, consistant isn't indicated as the reason for long life... evolution can explain the age of these guys.
Anything that happens after a creature stops reproducing does not contribute to evolution. So, typicaly you see creatures die soon after they stop reproducing, as there is no more need for them to exist. This has been indicated in women recently in small studies, but also makes some sence if you think about it.
The fact that the urchins just keep on putting out sperm and eggs means that longevity can help them spread their genes more than any short lived urchin. and viola... if there is any age after which the urchins do go through a menopause... death for them will probably be within a few years after.
the article never proved that MS was trying to buy google to run it into the ground. His proff consists of:
1) MS's search engine sucks.
2) Google's search engine is good.
3) MS wanted to buy Google
4) therefor MS wanted to run google into the ground and let thisr own service pimp for MS.
Once he assumes this important bit, he can make fun of MS, thus pulling in more readers. Man, I wish I could wrte garbage and get paid for it.
Think Vikings. The worth of a shipwright was measured in how little water seeped into the ship. The better constructed the ship, the less leaking. It is documented that early shipwrights were at least "symbolicly" to drink "all" the water that came in on the first sail. The cases I have heard of only required that the wright drink a cup of the leakage.
I admit, I am having a hard time finding sources on the web.. or I would post citations.
The point was not that a ship builder should drink water, but that one's work can be measured, and that substandard work should be treated as such.
...or you could have purchased your piece of paper from a degree mill and saved all that effort. the degree isn't important. the skill/intellegence is important.
in the old days, greek engineers didn't have degrees to speak of. if they were responsible for building the bridge, they stood under it when the first traffic came through. they owed their lives to working hard and well, not a piece of paper.
master ship builders were forced to drink all of the water that seeped into the belly of the ship during the first day's sail. a man could explode or drown from ingesting hundreds of gallons of water. master ship builders relied on doing the job correctly, not on a piece of paper.
These things are what will make you good at your job... put your ass on the line and trust that you have done your work properly. getting a degree does not teach this. you must get your head past the piece of paper.
that's right.. you must kill the _right_ people, and spare no expense.
:) i don't know why you were modded down... but that would be a great name for a company... or at least a rock band.
the nice part is that it is a ~$200 bottle of alchohol. I still haven't ingested mine. I am waiting for a very special day... say my GF's son graduates or I get married. Even if you don't drink, it can be given away as a gift to a friend, or sold.
huh? son, stick a fork in that, it isn't done.
worthy of "sig" status:
never give your wife a vacuum cleaner as a 'gift', under pain of death
And I agree completely... a somewhat useful gift is more valuable than the cash equivilent. See my other post here...
if you can't give a useful gift, try to give that bonus as a fist full of dollars rather than as a printed check. the bonus becomes more tangible and the day you hand out the bonus, everyone's moral skyrockets.
extra points if you can get everyone to roll around in a pile of $20 bills.
I and about 25 others recieved $1000 cash in 100 dollar bills and a bottle of 1990 Dom Perinon(?). That is less than your 1500$ limit, but is a nice touch. the fist full of hundreds is exciting, and the dom is something that none of them would buy by themselves, but shows that they have class (even if they don't know how to spell it...).
Ultra-Luxury.
What I wouldn't have done for the bag the stock options came in.
All we got was the shaft.
yeah... the problem using this for his solution is that if windows gets to acting strange, unison (is there a windows port?) may not work properly. Also, I believe windows is pretty strict about overwriting system critical files while they are in use, so uniso would fail for a full system sync after booting into windows.
:(
also, unison can be a little tedious when trying to merge thousands of files... without an interactive session it is verrry difficult
rsync is great but it looks like he is going for more a of a PXE or NetBoot solution as pointed out by his post:
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computers will update to that on bootup and be able to update, even if Windows is severely messed up
rsync is only usable from userland, but I suppose if you had no other solution, you could
1) install an initrd on the box,
2) boot into that,
3) rsync the image to a different partition on disk, and
4) pivot_root into that partition.
and is not the arsonist a part of nature?
well... i guess at least we dont' run the same risk of burning down tonight :)
well... if any power plants burn down... i guess it's good that Cali doesn't support nuclear power plants... they could have a Civ2:CallToPower nuclear fall out zone to clean up...
:)
oh wait... boom boom
well... looks like they lucked out this time
drat... new jersey has bad rain clouds tonight. I've always wanted to see a good light show. anyone know if I could have seen it this far south?
Apple iTunes
iTunes currently does not work in CrossOver Office.
found at page 5 of the SUPPORTED apps section
whoops... that link was supposed to be this
here you can see the fun spelling and the laying out of plans for developing the code base further. towards the top you can see that there is a call to arms for C++ programmers.