It is well documented that HIV has mutated, it started as a deadly decease but its high rate of inflicted mortality did not give it a chance to propagate, thus it has become more bening by means of natural selection (you don't kill your host to fast otherwise you will not propagate. Well duh!. More virulent strains died away while more bening ones have sadly thrieved).
Of course people beliving in the quackery that is creationism and its ilk will overlook this stuff screaming at them and will look for the bizarrest of explanations for the now obvious truth (based in the soundest theory we have about speciation).
When massive extintions happen many ecological niches are left vacant and the few species left evolve more quickly to take advantage of those empty places so to speak.
My goodness, you have never seen pigeons, dogs or Darwin's Galapagos finches have you?
The patterns that govern local weather have nothing to do with long term trends.
If you let a stone fall from a high place you may not accurately predict how long it will take to hit the floor, but you are 1000% sure it will hit it....
I hope you save many American jobs with your denialism.
Tell us please, where do al the CO2 we produce (that was not there to start with) go?
How is nature suppossed to deal with that additional CO2 in the athmosphere if we are killing trees (exterminating vast areas of jungle and forests) all around the place? (now deny that one as well).
How is US people, driving inneficient vehicles at 2 milles/gallon suppossed to help the situation...
Global warming is not based in superstition and you know it.
Most probably not, and I venture to say that people like you would not care.
As long as the species you care about (cows, pigs, chicken or carrots, avocados and tomatoes if you are veggie) are easily available via battering farms, many people will not even notice or give a toss.
The panda is almost gone. Lets say thge last one was killed just about now. Would you have noticed?
So it is the fault of the CEO of a given company that customers are too stupid or to lazy to put their money in products and services that are good value for money.
The IT industry was invented by individuals many of wqhich became tremendously rich and powerful, the current climate is mainly fostered by big corporations.
Absolutely, there is a big difference, but I think you are underestimating the little guy.
I saw in excess of 1000 comments, but when I checked initially with my usual filtering I only saw 70 or 80. The rest were clearly spam in the purest sense of the word (check them, they surely were made automatically).
It is the first time I see something that vicious here, I wonder if it is a bunch of different machines 0wn3d by a cracker posting each comments as ACs (thus making too laborious to block based on IP address...).
That is a mistake they are not going to commit again.
MS, by means of its dirty tactics, is alienating many IT companies that although may make business with them are always ready to grasp any oportunity to get out of their shadow.
Since the US instituted these and other insane measure flight occupancy for flights from Mexico to the US has fallen by 30%.
For the first time I am reading and listening to middle class Mexicans that emphatically refuse to be treated like criminals.
No we don't like it, and as much as I regret it (I really wanted to see NY and Las Vegas) iw will follow your kind advice and will not visit your country until those demeaning measures are repelled.
My considerable purchasing power, and the one of as many people I manage to convince, can be used elsewhere.
Uh gee- remember Oklahoma City, The Unabomber? Ring a bell?
Definitely have a need to watch out for who is in the country already. Unfortunately while we happily go along violating our own human rights we don't have the will to concentrate our efforts and resources on those most likely to be terrorists, i.e. people like us.
Keep agreeing with asinine policies that don't make you safer but erode your liberties.
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It is well documented that HIV has mutated, it started as a deadly decease but its high rate of inflicted mortality did not give it a chance to propagate, thus it has become more bening by means of natural selection (you don't kill your host to fast otherwise you will not propagate. Well duh!. More virulent strains died away while more bening ones have sadly thrieved).
Of course people beliving in the quackery that is creationism and its ilk will overlook this stuff screaming at them and will look for the bizarrest of explanations for the now obvious truth (based in the soundest theory we have about speciation).
When massive extintions happen many ecological niches are left vacant and the few species left evolve more quickly to take advantage of those empty places so to speak.
My goodness, you have never seen pigeons, dogs or Darwin's Galapagos finches have you?
The patterns that govern local weather have nothing to do with long term trends.
If you let a stone fall from a high place you may not accurately predict how long it will take to hit the floor, but you are 1000% sure it will hit it....
I hope you save many American jobs with your denialism.
Tell us please, where do al the CO2 we produce (that was not there to start with) go?
How is nature suppossed to deal with that additional CO2 in the athmosphere if we are killing trees (exterminating vast areas of jungle and forests) all around the place? (now deny that one as well).
How is US people, driving inneficient vehicles at 2 milles/gallon suppossed to help the situation...
Global warming is not based in superstition and you know it.
Fucking trolls.
Would you notice if 30% of species dissapeared?
Most probably not, and I venture to say that people like you would not care.
As long as the species you care about (cows, pigs, chicken or carrots, avocados and tomatoes if you are veggie) are easily available via battering farms, many people will not even notice or give a toss.
The panda is almost gone. Lets say thge last one was killed just about now. Would you have noticed?
Human activity:
-Creates enourmous amount of CO2, a gas that undisputably causes green house effect (deny that).
-Depletes vast tracks of forest (now, deny that one Batman). Those are trees, the ones that consume the CO2 in the athmosphere and release oxygen.
So more CO2, less trees to disipate it. CO2 is the main ingridient in Green House effect.
Now tell me I need more data (on top of the enormous body of evidence already gathered by most serious scientists).
Do you want US base multinationals? The workforce has to be multinational as well as the profits transfered to the US economy.
So it is the fault of the CEO of a given company that customers are too stupid or to lazy to put their money in products and services that are good value for money.
Specious logic that of yours.
The IT industry was invented by individuals many of wqhich became tremendously rich and powerful, the current climate is mainly fostered by big corporations.
Absolutely, there is a big difference, but I think you are underestimating the little guy.
There will always be goods and services that you want, that you can't produce, that you will find somewhere else.
There will always be goods and services that you have that others want.
You can put as many obstacles to this reality as you want, you can wish for a rosy world in which these things do not happen.
Reality is that people trade, so I rather prefer that trade is fair and in as many directions as possible.
Yearly all public transport from where I live in the burbs to London (and transport there): 2500 GBP.
Price of a one bedroom apartment in a sos-so area in London: 200000 GBP.
Price of a house with 3 bedrooms, garden, garage close to town centre with cinemas, theatre. shopping center here in the wildernes: 200000 GBP.
To me it looks like the 2500/year is a worthwhile investment.
Because ther are few people that wrap themselves on national flags whne it comes to business.
If most people consider the service good enough then ther is no problem for the provider.
I guess the archetypical US's Wild West ghost town after the gold dried out had the same feeling.
I saw in excess of 1000 comments, but when I checked initially with my usual filtering I only saw 70 or 80. The rest were clearly spam in the purest sense of the word (check them, they surely were made automatically).
It is the first time I see something that vicious here, I wonder if it is a bunch of different machines 0wn3d by a cracker posting each comments as ACs (thus making too laborious to block based on IP address...).
IBM's OS/2 lost because IBM trusted MS.
That is a mistake they are not going to commit again.
MS, by means of its dirty tactics, is alienating many IT companies that although may make business with them are always ready to grasp any oportunity to get out of their shadow.
... it is only that you guys take it to fanatical extremes.
Excesses are generally bad on my book.
But wait 800-1000 years, by then the Red Planet may have been terraformed.
And have you tried offering an alternative?
You may be pleasently surprised.
I am clearly talking about today's Independent India, that nobody on their right mind would even think to invade or attack today.
And neither are many of my co-nationals.
Since the US instituted these and other insane measure flight occupancy for flights from Mexico to the US has fallen by 30%.
For the first time I am reading and listening to middle class Mexicans that emphatically refuse to be treated like criminals.
No we don't like it, and as much as I regret it (I really wanted to see NY and Las Vegas) iw will follow your kind advice and will not visit your country until those demeaning measures are repelled.
My considerable purchasing power, and the one of as many people I manage to convince, can be used elsewhere.
Remeber to scream that many times the day the system fails and you are spirited away to Guantanamo without any legal recourse.
Uh gee- remember Oklahoma City, The Unabomber? Ring a bell?
Definitely have a need to watch out for who is in the country already. Unfortunately while we happily go along violating our own human rights we don't have the will to concentrate our efforts and resources on those most likely to be terrorists, i.e. people like us.
Keep agreeing with asinine policies that don't make you safer but erode your liberties.
Can somebody let a legion of crazy lemmings loose on the USPTO so hopefully they destroy any traces of any patents?
This is abolutely and completely beyond ridiculous. It is no longer any funny....
The US goverment has not done so for some time.
Bush was forced to back track on the steel tariffs due to a WTO ruling.
Nothing to do with the UN.