Why is the US government wasting the tax money on the Africans, the Moslems, and so on?
Plus there are all of those worthless Jews in Israel that we keep shoveling money at, oh, and the worthless Egyptians who we give money to so they won't kill the worthless Jews. Then there's all of the money we spend defending the worthless Japanese and South Koreans against China, and the money we spend on NATO, a complete waste since the Soviet Union collapsed and the current Russian army can't even manage to invade and subdue Chechnya or Georgia. Oh, and all of the billions we spent invading Iraq because dumbfucks like Dick Cheney thought that Osama Bin Laden was BFF with Saddam Hussein, and the billions we're going to spend in Afghanistan so that President Obama can cover his ass and look tough. Yeah, if we stopped pissing our money away defending a bunch of useless countries who do nothing for us and building high-tech weapons systems that never come in on time or budget and don't work when they finally do come in we'd probably be able to reduce our deficit and build some bitchin new high speed rail projects. Who am I kidding though, that will never happen.
A high percentage of what was reported turned out to be hooey — as I remembered as I reviewed stories that said the iPhone would have a click wheel, a slide-out keyboard, and two batteries, and would run on an Apple-branded wireless network. I'm guessing that much of what we 'know' about iSlate is similarly off-base."
This time is going to be different though! This time Duke Nukem forever will ship with the iSlate.
How about this? Let's have the liberal media pay its fair share. I say that intellectual property should be property taxed. Shouldn't the New York Times and the LA Times be charged a property tax for every back article they have ever written?
Cool, let's charge the fuck out of Faux News too, and let's also charge the Fox Network, imagine how much money we could beat out of that evil old fuck Rupert Murdoch on taxes for all of the Fox Network IP in shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, etc.
While we're at it let's have a 100 percent income surtax on anyone who uses the phrase "liberal media". And anyone who uses the phrase "lieberal media" gets the 100 percent income surtax, two.45 slugs in the back of their head and we harvest their organs for sale.
What different picture do I get? That libertarians are only able to elect candidates to local offices in one of the least significant states in the United States? Yeah, that's impressive.
Maybe California should stop supporting us dumb hicks so they can dig themselves out of debt. Are you really so stupid that you blame the "heartland" for the economic incompetence of the coastal states? So much for your facts.
Maybe they should, it sure would be fun to watch the heartland dry up and blow away without the massive taxpayer subsidies for farming and ethanol. The heartland states are goddamned worthless shitholes full of lazy, stupid, incompetent welfare queens who would die if it weren't for massive transfers of federal tax dollars from better states full of smarter people, like Washington, California, New York, New Jersey, etc.
What's even worse is that the WATB (whiny ass titty babies) in these states are completely clueless as to how completely and totally worthless they really are. Go look at the Tax Foundation's table of Federal Taxes Paid vs. Federal Spending Received by State to see just how useless, lazy and good for nothing most of the red states are. Or you could Google the phrase "Red State Socialism" to find out how lazy and worthless most of the red states are.
Hell, look at Alaska, the home of Sarah Palin, Alaska receives $1.84 in federal spending for every dollar in federal taxes they pay, and everyone in Alaska gets a 1,500 dollar welfare check from the Alaska Permanent Fund for being a lazy fuck who couldn't hack it down in the lower 48. But these are the states that are constantly bitching about how hard they work and how much they're paying in taxes, all while they suck on the federal tit.
Yeah, except New Hampshire is a fucking shithole. It's frozen and chock full of stupid, inbred fucks. If low state taxes are what companies want then why isn't New Hampshire the tech center of the United States? Could it be because the weather sucks, the people are stupid and there are no educational institutions of note? Fuck, I wish we could get all of the libertards to move to New Hampshire for their "Free State Project". Then once they were there we could fortify the borders and let them starve and die, which wouldn't take very long because libertarians are lazy, stupid and incapable of co-operating with each other. Don't believe me? Just go look at the libertarian party's stunning lack of success at electing candidates at the local, state or national levels.
pissed off and demanding Ballmer's head on a pike. How does pumping Microsoft's cash into the coffers of News Corp improve things for Microsoft or Microsoft's stockholders? Yeah, it's a great deal for News Corp's stock holders. I mean how bloody stupid is Steve Ballmer anyways? He's going to spend a bunch of money not trying to compete with Google but instead with having a temper tantrum because Microsoft's efforts to compete with Google have been so lame.
They shouldn't wait for News Corp to de index themselves. Google should take the lead and do it themselves. Put up a letter on the front page of Google that says that Rupert Murdoch does not feel that he is getting enough money from Google when Google sends viewers to his websites where they get to see his advertisements and then de-index every single News Corp site.
While they're at it Google should take out a nice short position in News Corp because I'll bet that once those ad revenues go into the toilet News Corp stock won't be looking so good.
Here's how to get around that if you know that your gear has been damaged by moisture. Buy a can of desiccant packets, wrap iPhone or iPod in a soft cloth and place it inside of can of desiccant packets. Seal can and apply heat to the exterior by wrapping it in warm towels. Do this for about an hour and the moisture inside of the iPhone/iPod will be absorbed by the desiccant packets. At this point your iPod/iPhone may start working again. However if it hasn't the moisture sensor is no longer going to show as tripped because you dehydrated the inside of the case. Worked for me last year when I had an iPod nano get soaked while I was changing a headlight on a wet and rainy night. I took it into the Apple Store, said "hey, this is broken and under warranty" and they gave me a new one.
So... unless you want to exclude the 10 million other environments that can have a detrimental effect on the PC, you're simply picking one because the cause has become socially unacceptable by a large group of people.
No kidding. I used to work for a large e-retailer and the PCs out on our warehouse floor looked horrible. They had huge dustbunnies in them and the ones by the warehouse doors were subjected to extremes of heat and temperature that were way outside of spec. That being said the tolerance of Apple gear and I suspect for most of the compact PCs that Dell and other companies sell, for this kind of environment aren't what they were for older equipment. Have you ever taken a Mac Mini apart? Those little fuckers are jam-packed with all kinds of heat producing components and air circulation is critical. It's not like the innards of your homebrew beigebox where you've got tons and tons of room for airflow.
There are actually surgeries that they won't even try if you're a smoker. Most operations involving tissue grafts won't heal on heavy smokers because their capillaries are too badly constricted by the nicotine to heal. I just had a spinal fusion, they used cadaver bone to fuse my vertebra together. If I'd been a smoker they would have had to use an autograft and cut a chunk of bone out of my thigh for the bone graft needed for the fusion, which is really painful and makes the operation more complicated. I'm really glad I never mastered the whole "smoking a cigarette without coughing and throwing up" thing. It doesn't matter how old you are; if you're an otherwise healthy 25 year old smoker and need a spinal fusion you're going to get an autograft, and doctors won't even try a free flap tissue graft for plastic or reconstructive surgery.
Back to the original topic, I think that Apple is handling this poorly. If they want to make the case that smoking coats the inside of your computer with lots of tar and micro-particulate crap and therefore you're violating the warranty that's one thing. If they're trying to say that handling a computer coated with nicotine is a HazMat situation they're full of shit and coming off like a bunch of self-righteous anti-smoking fucktards who are trying to cheat their way out of honoring their warranties.
The worst part is that in order to qualify for operating in China, you face a maze of conflicting bureaucracy and regulation. Well, it just got a little worse. Now, if you want to operate, you need to hire a 'specialist' to oversee content, and you need to 'enhance socialist values' in your game. They also want to limit in-game marriages and how many player-versus-player combat sessions one can engage in. The circular issued from China's Ministry of Culture contained all the vague verbiage giving them easier reign over who operates and who doesn't.
Join the military you whiny little shit. You disgust me, really you do, you expect everyone to not only open their wallets but to get down on their knees and kiss your ass because you're a student and earning a degree. Whoooo, aren't you special. I have zero fucking sympathy for you and God help any company that's dumb enough to hire someone who has as massive a sense of entitlement as you do.
#2 is also terrible. I worked one year in school, and my GPA dropped nearly a half point. While there isn't a 1-to-1 correlation b/w knowledge and GPA, it's not a zero-correlation either.
So you're one of those guys I used to see who would come in with a resume that had their shiny college experience on it and little or no work experience. I tended to avoid hiring those guys because they felt that their shiny GPA entitled them to a lot more money than they were actually worth and because GPA doesn't say as much about how well you'll work out at a job as prior work experience does.
Because it has incredibly superior throughput. I know that there are lots of fanbois out there who are hung up on substitutes for dick size such as clock speed or number of cores, but the throughput on a cheap Sun T2000 kicks the living shit out of anything Dell has in a comparable size and price. If you're running anything that needs to push a lot of bits back and forth throughput is important. Go ahead and try running a NetBackup master server on an Intel box running Linux. It can be done, but the performance will suck ass compared to a Sun or HP box.
Any moron can put together systems that have lots and lots of CPUS and lots and lots of cores and lots and lots of Mhz and which deliver impressive SpecInt and SpecFPU numbers and many have. However engineering a system which has great throughput is a lot harder to do.
I'm cautiously enthusiastic about Oracle's takeover of Sun and hope that they don't fuck things up. Not having to deal with Oracle's idiotic processor multiplier licensing price for Sparc CPUs will be a huge improvement.
Well at least MS ESP isn't as bad as Vista, ESP edition. You want to know how bad that was? Well remember that movie Scanners. Yeah, it was kind of like that.
Because it certainly has not had any impact on the orgy of irresponsible spending of President Obama and his fellow Democrats.
Shut the fuck up you worthless Republican pile of shit. Where were you when George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans were presiding over the most massive expansion in the federal government since Lyndon Johnson was president? Medicare Part D? The Iraq War. The massive deficits. All of this spending happened with a Republican in the White House and you didn't say a goddamned thing about it, because back then, according to your God, Dick Cheney, "deficits don't matter". But let a black Democrat come in, one who actually budgets honestly instead of trying to hide the costs of the Iraq War with budget games and all of a sudden you're whining about the irresponsible spending of Barack Obama and the Democrats. People like you are just too goddamned fucking stupid to live in this country. You should be rounded up and sold into slavery in North Korea or China, the best thing that you could ever hope to do with your life is die from lead poisoning after a short and miserable life slaving away in a communist prison factory.
Corporations pay taxes for the "services" you describe. But really, it's hard to call it a service because with any service you have a choice to subscribe to it or not, with taxation, there is no choice. If you don't pay, you get fined and possibly even receive jail time. Government services are monopolies. As with any monopoly, shortages happen, service is bad and prices are out of wack. The only difference is that, since it is government, you have no recourse.
Yes, we have no input into our government. We don't have elections, we don't vote, we can't influence representatives. Nope, it's completely and totally unresponsive.
If those services didn't exist and there were no taxes to pay for them, you'd see other corporations and individuals taking up the slacks. Security services, private arbitration courts, irrigation, power generation, distribution, etc would all be taken care of by people that see a need and fill it. The major difference would be that it would be a voluntary choice based on private contracts. Only the people that actually wanted the service would pay, those that didn't use it or didn't want it would be free of the expense. (Most can imagine water and power as private entities, but roads and security is harder because they've been raised to believe in a monopolistic government service. See Walter Block's The Privatization of Roads and Highways, for how those services would work and The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman for how private defense agencies would work.)
Look honey, it's an anarcho-capitalist. Careful, they're shy because they don't often leave the protection of their parent's basement or that of the university computer lab. Anarcho-capitalism is such a beautiful theory, of course so is Marxism. It's just that in the real world it doesn't work. Of course if you try to point this out to anarcho-capitalists they always say, just as the Marxists do when you point out what a disaster communism has been, "Your doin it rong!". As far as private defense agencies, well take a look at Blackwater or the history of the Pinkertons or the Coal and Iron police in Pennsylvania and then come back and tell us all how thugs and armed goon squads working in the private sector are better than thugs and armed goon squads who draw a government paycheck.
Junk DNA is one of the greatest misnomers in genetics. It basically arose because people didn't understand the purpose of a particular gene, or they found (as in this case) that a sequence was prematurely terminated due to an encoding error, which could only be detected via comparison to another working copy from another source.
This opens up a new field of bug detection: looking for broken code, figuring out what patch is needed and then figuring out what you could do with the repaired gene. This is going to call for vast amounts of computer simulations.
In this case we were led to a solution to the breakage by a similar gene in another species. But there must be millions of broken genes laying about that might re-enable some traits, anything from gills to the ability to smell tyrannosaur breath. (Pedants: Look, its a joke, please don't bother pointing out the time line here, Ok?).
There seems a tendency to assume all "lost things", (genes, knowledge, secrets of the universe, methods of building pyramids, etc) are of immense value, and far superior to knowledge we have today. (Slashdotters will surely have a term for this.) Not everything lost is desirable. This is one example that may well be.
Many species might be expected to genetically re-energize, by natural means, any lost protection in the face of a re-appearing threat. That might take eons. If this discovery leads to a treatment, it will be signal the dawn of genetic dumpster diving on a huge scale.
Why would a seemingly useful adaptation such as this one end up being selected against? So, suppose you have a group of people, one group is descended from people who somehow got their theta-defensin production shut down by a coding error, prematurely terminating the sequence, and another group of people who can still produce theta-defensins, wouldn't the second group have a huge advantage over the first and be naturally selected for? Are there perhaps some people out there who have super-duper immune systems because their theta-defensin production still works. Obviously it happened, but from my understanding of natural selection it seems that the second group would predominate over the first unless there was some disadvantage to theta-defensin production (auto-immune disorders?) that ended up selecting against it.
We weren't intended as release version, so full optimization options were not used when compiling. But once our DNA worked... Well, if it works, and if recompiling with different options might break it... Just ship it! Too bad God remembered to strip the symbols at that point, because if he had left them in, we wouldn't have this silly evolution vs. intelligent design argument at all, and wouldn't have to figure out everything about our DNA by ourselves.
Yeah, but wouldn't we have like, 300 chromosomes or something?
No, you're a fucking dickhead. See, here's how it works dickhead. The OP was asking for information on a solar charger for his brother who is being deployed to Afghanistan. Now, instead of imparting useful information to solve the problem you posted something completely irrelevant about military pay scales. The only reason why you did this is because you're a fucking dickhead, you had nothing of value to contribute to the OP but you wanted to show everyone how smart you are by posting completely irrelevant facts about military pay and not any information about solar battery chargers.
People here have made me look stupid so many times I've lost count, but the important thing is that I learned something.
Well you obviously haven't learned to read, else you might have responded with the information that the OP was looking for. Oh, and have you ever asked yourself *why* people keep making you look stupid?
Another reason that the megacorporation in Cupertino made it so quickly is that the BSD folks graciously provided them with the OS to build upon, so Apple could concentrate on the nice things that make OS X pleasant to use.
Would you fucking dildos shut the fuck up about the goddamned BSD kernel already? Jesus Christ, there's a fuck of a lot more to MacOS than the fucking BSD kernel. Don't believe me? Go download and build Darwin and then come back and tell us all how much it is like MacOS without the Cocoa and Carbon programming APIs and Quartz. Let me guess, you're one of the cretins who constantly harps about how Linux was really based upon Minix and blah, blah, blah Linus Torvalds stole everything from Andy Tenenbaum, blah, blah, blah.
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Plus there are all of those worthless Jews in Israel that we keep shoveling money at, oh, and the worthless Egyptians who we give money to so they won't kill the worthless Jews. Then there's all of the money we spend defending the worthless Japanese and South Koreans against China, and the money we spend on NATO, a complete waste since the Soviet Union collapsed and the current Russian army can't even manage to invade and subdue Chechnya or Georgia. Oh, and all of the billions we spent invading Iraq because dumbfucks like Dick Cheney thought that Osama Bin Laden was BFF with Saddam Hussein, and the billions we're going to spend in Afghanistan so that President Obama can cover his ass and look tough. Yeah, if we stopped pissing our money away defending a bunch of useless countries who do nothing for us and building high-tech weapons systems that never come in on time or budget and don't work when they finally do come in we'd probably be able to reduce our deficit and build some bitchin new high speed rail projects. Who am I kidding though, that will never happen.
who are posting taunts on their Myspace accounts are wishing that they could get some attention.
This time is going to be different though! This time Duke Nukem forever will ship with the iSlate.
Cool, let's charge the fuck out of Faux News too, and let's also charge the Fox Network, imagine how much money we could beat out of that evil old fuck Rupert Murdoch on taxes for all of the Fox Network IP in shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, etc.
While we're at it let's have a 100 percent income surtax on anyone who uses the phrase "liberal media". And anyone who uses the phrase "lieberal media" gets the 100 percent income surtax, two .45 slugs in the back of their head and we harvest their organs for sale.
What different picture do I get? That libertarians are only able to elect candidates to local offices in one of the least significant states in the United States? Yeah, that's impressive.
Maybe they should, it sure would be fun to watch the heartland dry up and blow away without the massive taxpayer subsidies for farming and ethanol. The heartland states are goddamned worthless shitholes full of lazy, stupid, incompetent welfare queens who would die if it weren't for massive transfers of federal tax dollars from better states full of smarter people, like Washington, California, New York, New Jersey, etc.
What's even worse is that the WATB (whiny ass titty babies) in these states are completely clueless as to how completely and totally worthless they really are. Go look at the Tax Foundation's table of Federal Taxes Paid vs. Federal Spending Received by State to see just how useless, lazy and good for nothing most of the red states are. Or you could Google the phrase "Red State Socialism" to find out how lazy and worthless most of the red states are.
Hell, look at Alaska, the home of Sarah Palin, Alaska receives $1.84 in federal spending for every dollar in federal taxes they pay, and everyone in Alaska gets a 1,500 dollar welfare check from the Alaska Permanent Fund for being a lazy fuck who couldn't hack it down in the lower 48. But these are the states that are constantly bitching about how hard they work and how much they're paying in taxes, all while they suck on the federal tit.
Yeah, except New Hampshire is a fucking shithole. It's frozen and chock full of stupid, inbred fucks. If low state taxes are what companies want then why isn't New Hampshire the tech center of the United States? Could it be because the weather sucks, the people are stupid and there are no educational institutions of note? Fuck, I wish we could get all of the libertards to move to New Hampshire for their "Free State Project". Then once they were there we could fortify the borders and let them starve and die, which wouldn't take very long because libertarians are lazy, stupid and incapable of co-operating with each other. Don't believe me? Just go look at the libertarian party's stunning lack of success at electing candidates at the local, state or national levels.
pissed off and demanding Ballmer's head on a pike. How does pumping Microsoft's cash into the coffers of News Corp improve things for Microsoft or Microsoft's stockholders? Yeah, it's a great deal for News Corp's stock holders. I mean how bloody stupid is Steve Ballmer anyways? He's going to spend a bunch of money not trying to compete with Google but instead with having a temper tantrum because Microsoft's efforts to compete with Google have been so lame.
They shouldn't wait for News Corp to de index themselves. Google should take the lead and do it themselves. Put up a letter on the front page of Google that says that Rupert Murdoch does not feel that he is getting enough money from Google when Google sends viewers to his websites where they get to see his advertisements and then de-index every single News Corp site.
While they're at it Google should take out a nice short position in News Corp because I'll bet that once those ad revenues go into the toilet News Corp stock won't be looking so good.
Here's how to get around that if you know that your gear has been damaged by moisture. Buy a can of desiccant packets, wrap iPhone or iPod in a soft cloth and place it inside of can of desiccant packets. Seal can and apply heat to the exterior by wrapping it in warm towels. Do this for about an hour and the moisture inside of the iPhone/iPod will be absorbed by the desiccant packets. At this point your iPod/iPhone may start working again. However if it hasn't the moisture sensor is no longer going to show as tripped because you dehydrated the inside of the case. Worked for me last year when I had an iPod nano get soaked while I was changing a headlight on a wet and rainy night. I took it into the Apple Store, said "hey, this is broken and under warranty" and they gave me a new one.
No kidding. I used to work for a large e-retailer and the PCs out on our warehouse floor looked horrible. They had huge dustbunnies in them and the ones by the warehouse doors were subjected to extremes of heat and temperature that were way outside of spec. That being said the tolerance of Apple gear and I suspect for most of the compact PCs that Dell and other companies sell, for this kind of environment aren't what they were for older equipment. Have you ever taken a Mac Mini apart? Those little fuckers are jam-packed with all kinds of heat producing components and air circulation is critical. It's not like the innards of your homebrew beigebox where you've got tons and tons of room for airflow.
It's not the particulates from the smoke that cause problems on the computers of stoners, it's micro-particulate Dorito and Oreo damage.
There are actually surgeries that they won't even try if you're a smoker. Most operations involving tissue grafts won't heal on heavy smokers because their capillaries are too badly constricted by the nicotine to heal. I just had a spinal fusion, they used cadaver bone to fuse my vertebra together. If I'd been a smoker they would have had to use an autograft and cut a chunk of bone out of my thigh for the bone graft needed for the fusion, which is really painful and makes the operation more complicated. I'm really glad I never mastered the whole "smoking a cigarette without coughing and throwing up" thing. It doesn't matter how old you are; if you're an otherwise healthy 25 year old smoker and need a spinal fusion you're going to get an autograft, and doctors won't even try a free flap tissue graft for plastic or reconstructive surgery.
Back to the original topic, I think that Apple is handling this poorly. If they want to make the case that smoking coats the inside of your computer with lots of tar and micro-particulate crap and therefore you're violating the warranty that's one thing. If they're trying to say that handling a computer coated with nicotine is a HazMat situation they're full of shit and coming off like a bunch of self-righteous anti-smoking fucktards who are trying to cheat their way out of honoring their warranties.
Hmmmm, sounds like they took a page out of Apple's playbook.
Join the military you whiny little shit. You disgust me, really you do, you expect everyone to not only open their wallets but to get down on their knees and kiss your ass because you're a student and earning a degree. Whoooo, aren't you special. I have zero fucking sympathy for you and God help any company that's dumb enough to hire someone who has as massive a sense of entitlement as you do.
So you're one of those guys I used to see who would come in with a resume that had their shiny college experience on it and little or no work experience. I tended to avoid hiring those guys because they felt that their shiny GPA entitled them to a lot more money than they were actually worth and because GPA doesn't say as much about how well you'll work out at a job as prior work experience does.
Any moron can put together systems that have lots and lots of CPUS and lots and lots of cores and lots and lots of Mhz and which deliver impressive SpecInt and SpecFPU numbers and many have. However engineering a system which has great throughput is a lot harder to do.
I'm cautiously enthusiastic about Oracle's takeover of Sun and hope that they don't fuck things up. Not having to deal with Oracle's idiotic processor multiplier licensing price for Sparc CPUs will be a huge improvement.
Well at least MS ESP isn't as bad as Vista, ESP edition. You want to know how bad that was? Well remember that movie Scanners. Yeah, it was kind of like that.
Shut the fuck up you worthless Republican pile of shit. Where were you when George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans were presiding over the most massive expansion in the federal government since Lyndon Johnson was president? Medicare Part D? The Iraq War. The massive deficits. All of this spending happened with a Republican in the White House and you didn't say a goddamned thing about it, because back then, according to your God, Dick Cheney, "deficits don't matter". But let a black Democrat come in, one who actually budgets honestly instead of trying to hide the costs of the Iraq War with budget games and all of a sudden you're whining about the irresponsible spending of Barack Obama and the Democrats. People like you are just too goddamned fucking stupid to live in this country. You should be rounded up and sold into slavery in North Korea or China, the best thing that you could ever hope to do with your life is die from lead poisoning after a short and miserable life slaving away in a communist prison factory.
Yes, we have no input into our government. We don't have elections, we don't vote, we can't influence representatives. Nope, it's completely and totally unresponsive.
Look honey, it's an anarcho-capitalist. Careful, they're shy because they don't often leave the protection of their parent's basement or that of the university computer lab. Anarcho-capitalism is such a beautiful theory, of course so is Marxism. It's just that in the real world it doesn't work. Of course if you try to point this out to anarcho-capitalists they always say, just as the Marxists do when you point out what a disaster communism has been, "Your doin it rong!". As far as private defense agencies, well take a look at Blackwater or the history of the Pinkertons or the Coal and Iron police in Pennsylvania and then come back and tell us all how thugs and armed goon squads working in the private sector are better than thugs and armed goon squads who draw a government paycheck.
Dude, you are like a theological genius. I wish to join your church.
Junk DNA is one of the greatest misnomers in genetics. It basically arose because people didn't understand the purpose of a particular gene, or they found (as in this case) that a sequence was prematurely terminated due to an encoding error, which could only be detected via comparison to another working copy from another source.
This opens up a new field of bug detection: looking for broken code, figuring out what patch is needed and then figuring out what you could do with the repaired gene. This is going to call for vast amounts of computer simulations.
In this case we were led to a solution to the breakage by a similar gene in another species. But there must be millions of broken genes laying about that might re-enable some traits, anything from gills to the ability to smell tyrannosaur breath. (Pedants: Look, its a joke, please don't bother pointing out the time line here, Ok?).
There seems a tendency to assume all "lost things", (genes, knowledge, secrets of the universe, methods of building pyramids, etc) are of immense value, and far superior to knowledge we have today. (Slashdotters will surely have a term for this.) Not everything lost is desirable. This is one example that may well be.
Many species might be expected to genetically re-energize, by natural means, any lost protection in the face of a re-appearing threat. That might take eons. If this discovery leads to a treatment, it will be signal the dawn of genetic dumpster diving on a huge scale.
Why would a seemingly useful adaptation such as this one end up being selected against? So, suppose you have a group of people, one group is descended from people who somehow got their theta-defensin production shut down by a coding error, prematurely terminating the sequence, and another group of people who can still produce theta-defensins, wouldn't the second group have a huge advantage over the first and be naturally selected for? Are there perhaps some people out there who have super-duper immune systems because their theta-defensin production still works. Obviously it happened, but from my understanding of natural selection it seems that the second group would predominate over the first unless there was some disadvantage to theta-defensin production (auto-immune disorders?) that ended up selecting against it.
Yeah, but wouldn't we have like, 300 chromosomes or something?
No, you're a fucking dickhead. See, here's how it works dickhead. The OP was asking for information on a solar charger for his brother who is being deployed to Afghanistan. Now, instead of imparting useful information to solve the problem you posted something completely irrelevant about military pay scales. The only reason why you did this is because you're a fucking dickhead, you had nothing of value to contribute to the OP but you wanted to show everyone how smart you are by posting completely irrelevant facts about military pay and not any information about solar battery chargers.
Well you obviously haven't learned to read, else you might have responded with the information that the OP was looking for. Oh, and have you ever asked yourself *why* people keep making you look stupid?
Would you fucking dildos shut the fuck up about the goddamned BSD kernel already? Jesus Christ, there's a fuck of a lot more to MacOS than the fucking BSD kernel. Don't believe me? Go download and build Darwin and then come back and tell us all how much it is like MacOS without the Cocoa and Carbon programming APIs and Quartz. Let me guess, you're one of the cretins who constantly harps about how Linux was really based upon Minix and blah, blah, blah Linus Torvalds stole everything from Andy Tenenbaum, blah, blah, blah.