Interesting. I find no mention in there of the fact that the potato made its way the other direction to New Guinea, which is pretty much proof of Polynesian contact of some amount with South America.
The chicken thing is interesting, but hardly shocking.
if people can reach samoa and new zealand and easter island on boats and rafts, why they need a land bridge to get to alaska from kamchatka
The problem is that the people who did all that were polynesians, and they didn't perfect the technology to allow that until about 1300BC.
Your general point that a land bridge is not nessecary is accurate though. For instance, Austrailia was populated before the americas, even though there was never a land bridge there. The abos had to have taken boats.
just look at a picture of icelandic pop singer bjork looking at her picture, seeing her obvious genetic heritage, on iceland, should cue you in on the free flow of of northeast asian genes around the north pole for millenia
I wouldn't try to make generalizations about interbreeding by looking at a single pop singer. *Any* population has a fair amount of variance, so looking at an individual tells us nothing. Even if there were some similar traits, we would expect that from people living in the same climate. Sub-saharan africans and Melanisians have pretty much the same skin color, but are about as unrelated as two peoples get. They just happned to both evolve for a bit at the same latitude.
That's a pretty wild theory, considering that the polynesian expansion is fairly well documented and dated, both through archeology and linguistic study. It sounds like a variation on Thor Heimdal's old discredited theory, with the twist of an extra several tens of thousands of mile migration over land at the front.
There definitely was some contact with South America. This is shown by the sudden appearance of the potato in New Guinea. But that didn't happen until much later (1000 CEish?). Both continents are in the South Pacific, and there's are more or less continuous network of Polynesian islands between them. Occam's razor would suggest that it traveled that way.
There are people who can't be fired, even though everyone knows they're incompetent, simply because the paperwork is a pain.
That's true with pretty much any big company though. Firing someone is a large amount of paperwork with HR and legal, and risks lawsuits. They'd far rather just shuffle the incompetents around until an economic downturn allows them to justify layoffs. Even then, avoiding a layoff is more a matter of playing musical jobs properly than actual competence.
I'm a software engineer. Back in the early 90's My boss sent me on loan to a GE Aerospace facililty (Now Lockheed Martin) in Camden, NJ where all the engineers were unionized. That included my fellow software engineers.
All the scare scenarios I'm reading here are complete BS. They had pretty much the same working environment as me, the same procedures and methods, etc. The only differences between them and me (as a non-unionized engineer) that I can remember were:
They had the right to collectively bargain for what the pay scales were. I was just *told*. (Today I'm not even told, outside of the one I'm in).
When GE sold us to a company with an underfunded pension, I couldn't even complain about it. They sued. I think the settlement got a bit better funding for the pension plan too. Still not great, but if it wasn't for that one division with the union, we wouldn't have even gotten that.
Oh, and I worked there on loan as a non-union person for two years. I was never treated any differently than anyone else by my co-workers. No harrassment, no attacks on my car, nothing.
This is just one person's story of course. But perhaps we should look at the actual real-world experience of unionized software shops before we start listening to scare stories about totally different industries.
Speaking as one of those hard-core democrats, and a Christian as well, I'm curious what "moral principle" you hold that you think I have a problem with?
Particularly the one in my wife's computer - it's a Shuttle box, which runs toasty. It's been rock solid, running 24/7 for more than a year now.
Doing what? If its just displaying the 2D desktop you'd likely never see a problem. I've run nVidia cards with dead cooling fans for years on such systems with no problems.
A better test would be a good 12 hour full-screen WoW (or FPS) session.
Even if yours works, you could have just gotten one of the good ones. If you RTFA, you'll see that not all units are affected. Part of the point is that they know which ones are potentially defective, but are still shipping them mixed in with the good ones and haven't made it easy for customers to tell.
For those of you who don't know, Jenkis was a chemist who ran into the lab with a bucket of water while the rest of the chemists were trying to formulate a plan on how best to put out the phosphorous fire.
It is known so far that the messages are originating from Moscow, Russia (note the fractured grammar, indicating they were written by non-English speakers)...
FBI agent: there's only one country that has english grammar this bad...
Police Detective: The Russians!
Police Detective: I'll start right away tracking down this "potus@whitehouse.gov". That pesky rusky can't fool us with his cartoonishly bad english!
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 ******* wrote: "Dude your troll option don't make sense!... and they made the viking gods armor and spears."
It was smart to *-out his UID, but when you get an email from Odin, its wise to pay attention.
The last one was clearly sent by Anonomyous Coward. The style is a big tipoff, but the witless car analogy was the dead giveaway. As annoying as he can be sometimes, I'm glad to hear you aren't deleting his old posts.
I think thats a false argument, you can teach girls its not good to have unattached sex without teaching them they are in a lower position.
I disagree. First off, I note nothing in here about teaching *boys* the same thing. That's implicitly telling girls they can't do stuff its OK for boys to do. No matter how I phrase that, I guarantee you my daughter would hear "you are inferior".
Secondly, there's no reason to tell them any such thing. I'm pretty sure its not true, and I quit lying to my kids for my own amusement after they figured out about Santa.
Really the Pill? Yea forget the right to vote,
No I do not.
Try this on for size: Compare women's role in soceity before and after 1920 (when the 19th amendment was passed). A bit of change there, but really not much. Unmarried women over 30 are still considered total failures in life. Women in the workplace are still exceptional.
Now compare women's role in society before 1960 (Pill approved by FDA) and after 1975 (Pill court-mandated available to all unmarried women). They are hardly recognizable as the same country.
*sigh* You know you've sunk low when your only friend is an AC, and in the same breath he's implicitly calling your mother, grandmother, and wife a mass-murderer.
I think the damage done by porn is akin to kids being desensitized to violence,
Actually, if that's your position I'd agree totally with you. We probably only disagree as to the severity of the "damage.:-)
Do you really think adolescence are better off since the sexual revolution?
Yes, I really do.
higher rates of pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases beg to differ.
They also beg for citations. Got 'em?
The abortion talk is particularly misleading. First off, nobody knows how many abortions were performed in the few decades when it was made illegal because, well, it was illegal. However, if you ask around quietly, in the right way, you will find that damn near every woman who grew up in that era knows someone who *died* due to a botched abortion. Its just something that you didn't talk about back then. In my book, dying trumps some ill-defined "emotional damage", but I'm funny that way.
There were some good things to come out of the sexual revolution but those were about Gender equality and not sex..
You can't have the former without changing the latter. Society's taboos around sex were designed to keep women down. Probably the single greatest advancement ever in women's equality was The Pill.
Perhaps this is just my 70's showing, but I still fail to see any real tangible harm being done. Even your supposed study shows nothing more than that girls will do stupid shit to get guys attention. (Duh)
Whenever I see this talk all I can hear is "We slipped up and let the sexual revolution happen. Now nobody's feeling guilty so we can't manipulate them anymore. Perhaps we can undo it slowly with a bunch of psycobable."
For example there's this:
I hope you want them to have sex with people with whom they actually have an emotional connection.
As long as nobody gets diseased or pregnant or commits a criminal offense, why is it my business at all how someone else felt about their sex partner at the time? And why earth would *you* care if I care? It most assuredly isn't *your* business.
I'll agree that if someone were to look to pron material for relationship advice, the results would be pretty disasterous (not to mention the immense competition there'd be for the position of Pizza Delivery Boy). However, I'm pretty sure my kids aren't that dumb. They don't seem to be getting their physics from Looney Tunes, or their self-defense pointers from Jacky Chan, so I'll take my chances on this one, if its all the same to you.
That won't be the convention. That will be CNN talking heads talking about the convention.
If you want to really watch the convention, you have to get the party's feed, or watch CSPAN.
For instance, last night I watched Obama's sister speak to the convention on CSPAN. I tried switching over to the networks, and it was just 4 talking heads arguing over the usual triva instead.
A lot of people don't even know Obama *has* a sister. CNN and MSNBC viewers still don't know.
As a dad of 3, I'd like to ask: What exactly about pron is going to injure my children?
I've thought about this a lot, and the best I can come up with is that it could lead to them asking me uncomforatable questions. But frankly, if I couldn't handle a little discomfort, I should have bailed out at the diaper changing stage.
He had 4 Gig. 32-bit versions of Windows can only see about 1.5 Gig. Perhaps they thought the cost of handling support calls about the "missing" 2.5gig would be more than the cost of giving everyone Vista64.
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Interesting. I find no mention in there of the fact that the potato made its way the other direction to New Guinea, which is pretty much proof of Polynesian contact of some amount with South America.
The chicken thing is interesting, but hardly shocking.
The problem is that the people who did all that were polynesians, and they didn't perfect the technology to allow that until about 1300BC.
Your general point that a land bridge is not nessecary is accurate though. For instance, Austrailia was populated before the americas, even though there was never a land bridge there. The abos had to have taken boats.
I wouldn't try to make generalizations about interbreeding by looking at a single pop singer. *Any* population has a fair amount of variance, so looking at an individual tells us nothing. Even if there were some similar traits, we would expect that from people living in the same climate. Sub-saharan africans and Melanisians have pretty much the same skin color, but are about as unrelated as two peoples get. They just happned to both evolve for a bit at the same latitude.
That's a pretty wild theory, considering that the polynesian expansion is fairly well documented and dated, both through archeology and linguistic study. It sounds like a variation on Thor Heimdal's old discredited theory, with the twist of an extra several tens of thousands of mile migration over land at the front.
There definitely was some contact with South America. This is shown by the sudden appearance of the potato in New Guinea. But that didn't happen until much later (1000 CEish?). Both continents are in the South Pacific, and there's are more or less continuous network of Polynesian islands between them. Occam's razor would suggest that it traveled that way.
That's true with pretty much any big company though. Firing someone is a large amount of paperwork with HR and legal, and risks lawsuits. They'd far rather just shuffle the incompetents around until an economic downturn allows them to justify layoffs. Even then, avoiding a layoff is more a matter of playing musical jobs properly than actual competence.
I'm a software engineer. Back in the early 90's My boss sent me on loan to a GE Aerospace facililty (Now Lockheed Martin) in Camden, NJ where all the engineers were unionized. That included my fellow software engineers.
All the scare scenarios I'm reading here are complete BS. They had pretty much the same working environment as me, the same procedures and methods, etc. The only differences between them and me (as a non-unionized engineer) that I can remember were:
Oh, and I worked there on loan as a non-union person for two years. I was never treated any differently than anyone else by my co-workers. No harrassment, no attacks on my car, nothing.
This is just one person's story of course. But perhaps we should look at the actual real-world experience of unionized software shops before we start listening to scare stories about totally different industries.
No, that's the first amendment. The second amendment gives us the right to shoot the sattelite down with our own personal missiles.
English translation: "getting bigger".
I'm suprised you haven't seen the term in some of your spam...
Speaking as one of those hard-core democrats, and a Christian as well, I'm curious what "moral principle" you hold that you think I have a problem with?
Doing what? If its just displaying the 2D desktop you'd likely never see a problem. I've run nVidia cards with dead cooling fans for years on such systems with no problems.
A better test would be a good 12 hour full-screen WoW (or FPS) session.
Even if yours works, you could have just gotten one of the good ones. If you RTFA, you'll see that not all units are affected. Part of the point is that they know which ones are potentially defective, but are still shipping them mixed in with the good ones and haven't made it easy for customers to tell.
An old programming axiom now looks more true than ever:
"Variables don't and constants aren't"
Not to mention the old proverb:
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is not sure.
For those of you who don't know, Jenkis was a chemist who ran into the lab with a bucket of water while the rest of the chemists were trying to formulate a plan on how best to put out the phosphorous fire.
According to About.com:
FBI agent: there's only one country that has english grammar this bad...
Police Detective: The Russians!
Police Detective: I'll start right away tracking down this "potus@whitehouse.gov". That pesky rusky can't fool us with his cartoonishly bad english!
I'm psycic too. I know who sent these:
It was smart to *-out his UID, but when you get an email from Odin, its wise to pay attention.
The last one was clearly sent by Anonomyous Coward. The style is a big tipoff, but the witless car analogy was the dead giveaway. As annoying as he can be sometimes, I'm glad to hear you aren't deleting his old posts.
How is this offensive? You are saying psychics are better than "good". It seems like a compliment to me.
Seriously. I wish more people around here would similarly "insult" me. I might get a raise or something.
Maybe if you paid more attention to her character ...
Let her level her own character. I'm busy.
Those who play on a PvP realm, get what they deserve....
The Kid: "He had it coming, right, Will?"
Munny: "We've all got it coming, Kid."
(The Unforgiven)
I disagree. First off, I note nothing in here about teaching *boys* the same thing. That's implicitly telling girls they can't do stuff its OK for boys to do. No matter how I phrase that, I guarantee you my daughter would hear "you are inferior".
Secondly, there's no reason to tell them any such thing. I'm pretty sure its not true, and I quit lying to my kids for my own amusement after they figured out about Santa.
No I do not.
Try this on for size: Compare women's role in soceity before and after 1920 (when the 19th amendment was passed). A bit of change there, but really not much. Unmarried women over 30 are still considered total failures in life. Women in the workplace are still exceptional.
Now compare women's role in society before 1960 (Pill approved by FDA) and after 1975 (Pill court-mandated available to all unmarried women). They are hardly recognizable as the same country.
*sigh* You know you've sunk low when your only friend is an AC, and in the same breath he's implicitly calling your mother, grandmother, and wife a mass-murderer.
Actually, if that's your position I'd agree totally with you. We probably only disagree as to the severity of the "damage. :-)
Yes, I really do.
They also beg for citations. Got 'em?
The abortion talk is particularly misleading. First off, nobody knows how many abortions were performed in the few decades when it was made illegal because, well, it was illegal. However, if you ask around quietly, in the right way, you will find that damn near every woman who grew up in that era knows someone who *died* due to a botched abortion. Its just something that you didn't talk about back then. In my book, dying trumps some ill-defined "emotional damage", but I'm funny that way.
You can't have the former without changing the latter. Society's taboos around sex were designed to keep women down. Probably the single greatest advancement ever in women's equality was The Pill.
Perhaps this is just my 70's showing, but I still fail to see any real tangible harm being done. Even your supposed study shows nothing more than that girls will do stupid shit to get guys attention. (Duh)
Whenever I see this talk all I can hear is "We slipped up and let the sexual revolution happen. Now nobody's feeling guilty so we can't manipulate them anymore. Perhaps we can undo it slowly with a bunch of psycobable."
For example there's this:
As long as nobody gets diseased or pregnant or commits a criminal offense, why is it my business at all how someone else felt about their sex partner at the time? And why earth would *you* care if I care? It most assuredly isn't *your* business.
I'll agree that if someone were to look to pron material for relationship advice, the results would be pretty disasterous (not to mention the immense competition there'd be for the position of Pizza Delivery Boy). However, I'm pretty sure my kids aren't that dumb. They don't seem to be getting their physics from Looney Tunes, or their self-defense pointers from Jacky Chan, so I'll take my chances on this one, if its all the same to you.
That won't be the convention. That will be CNN talking heads talking about the convention.
If you want to really watch the convention, you have to get the party's feed, or watch CSPAN.
For instance, last night I watched Obama's sister speak to the convention on CSPAN. I tried switching over to the networks, and it was just 4 talking heads arguing over the usual triva instead.
A lot of people don't even know Obama *has* a sister. CNN and MSNBC viewers still don't know.
As a dad of 3, I'd like to ask: What exactly about pron is going to injure my children?
I've thought about this a lot, and the best I can come up with is that it could lead to them asking me uncomforatable questions. But frankly, if I couldn't handle a little discomfort, I should have bailed out at the diaper changing stage.
He had 4 Gig. 32-bit versions of Windows can only see about 1.5 Gig. Perhaps they thought the cost of handling support calls about the "missing" 2.5gig would be more than the cost of giving everyone Vista64.
I'm not sure you can call having names on the list matching 1/3 of the population of the earth a "technical flaw".
What they really need to do to make it useful is get it down to perhaps a couple thousand real concerns.
They are probably having trouble tracking down all the members of Men at Work so they can get royalty agreements. :-)