correct me if i am wrong but it wasnt until the 1700's that humans discovered electricity and began trying to control it and use it.
You are wrong, that's the whole point of the artifact.
Humans had discovered electricity long before, but the knowledge was lost and took thousands of years to be discovered again. They obviously never pushed the tech as far as its been in recent centuries (it took many a genious to get us where we are now), but they had the basis for it...and it somehow got lost.
Now, if archeologist were allowed to dig up a bit more without Dubya bombing everything into oblivion, maybe we would learn much more about how advance early civilisations got.
BTW, your comment reeks of occident-centricism (just made that word up). The way you just assume that nobody could have thought of making a battery before Mr Volta...disgusting. Oh, and I guess aliens had to help the mayas build pyramids huh? 'cause those brown skinned savages could never be that smart...
Suuuuure...since the people living there are not the exact descendants of those that created the artifacts, bombing the shit out of them (the people and the archeological sites) is A-OK!
The cultural legacy hasn't been erased, its been buried. They could still be dug out...or destroyed by the vultures who thirst for blood and oil.
But who cares about culture and history...those SUVs are getting expensive to drive...kill a few iraqis so the price of gas will go down already, huh?
Wal-Mart, for example, has a database TWICE the size of all the U.S. Government, combined.
That can't be right... You mean to tell me that their database is bigger than the IRS, voter registry, shadow government, freemason listing, shadow freemason listing, stonecutters, illuminati, shadowilluminati, illumasson shadow IRS, and the IRA black list combined?
Actually, Aline was the one to fend off the would-be stabber using a state of the art "big rock" (an inuit sculpture). The wife was doing most of the threatening as I understand it;- )
We also had a journalist go and plant a big roung prop with a string sticking out and the word "Bomb" in bold white letters on the PM's summer home's porche...
This notion that someone doesn't deserve their money because you said so is just ridiculous.
Your logic does not ressemble our earth logic.
She doesn't deserve the money, not because I said so, but because unfair prices and wages were had all around. I'm pointing out the obvious, and its only due to a shared dellusion that others do not see it as such.
She works hard enough to convince someone to give her some cash, just like anyone else.
Indeed, and she's very good at what she does. And thanks to her hard work, others who are also very good at what they do get to make money doing what they do (printing album covers, making sexy stage costumes, etc). But she doesn't deserve all the millions. Others who are equally talented and hard working (and who don't deserve millions anymore than her) deserve shares of those millions that she hogs for herself quite selfishly. But she works hard at the hogging, and she's good at the selfishness.
I'm not sure what his[Lance Bass] infraction is.
I grok his wrongness. Maybe in time you will too.
Once again, it's nobody's job to decide who gets the wealth of the very rich.
Tell that to their accountants. Its allways someone's job to decide how to spread the wealth, the question is accountability, greed and fairness. We disagree on those, but I'll call you a blundering retard if you keep pretending that no one is paid to make those choices.
I can only assume that you have a computer.
No, you could spend sometime going through my/. account's records to verify that fact. But I'll spare you the trouble: I have a mac and it is my precioussss.
I have a lot more than I need, as does anyone with the time to post on./, and the notion that it's my fault that it's a terrible world where people die; well, fuck it.
I have more than I need, but less than I want.
Well, the sheer overwhelming pain of the world is too much for anyone to bear, so I get why we resort to self-induced delusions. Ignorance is bliss. But to actually revel in it is obscene. If I was given millions, I wouldn't give it all away to charity, but I would be a much better tipper. The thing is, I do what I can to make the world a better place (I pick up other people's trash, smile politely, and make people laugh (again, check out my many +4funny)), and it sickens me when others willingly make the world a worse place.
Is it his job to stoop in the gutter beside you to clothe the starving children of some starving parent somewhere?
I don't think that's anyone's job.
I don't want everyone to be dirt poor. I want people to stop engaging willingly and conciously in actions that profit from or create abject povrety.
I don't mind that Lance Bass makes a living off getting prebuscent girl's panties wet (well, I do, but its all consensual and shit, so live and let live I say...at least he's not touching them...as far as I know). I mind that he is a tool of a much greater wealth that does this willingly, on purpose, and with great effort, in order to get themselves and their friends so rich that they need to pay lots of other people to figure out exactly how mind-bogginly rich they are. Its greed in action. Unchecked, uncontrolled, unbalanced greed. Its an abuse of power, and to top it off their schemes require total public exposure, wich means I'm exposed to that stuff against my will. If they had limited financial ressources they could not afford to hound me like that, and the world would be a better place for you and me.
What do you want her to do, just not accept a check because it's too much and she's not working hard enough?
I know she works hard, I never said otherwise. She's good at what she does too.
And I can't ask her to do something I couldn't. If I was offered that dough to do something I'm good at, I'd take it. It does bother me that that dough is in the hand of a few soft-core porn publishers that call themselves by other names. It does bother me that the sheep commonly refered to as "the public" take part in this, but what bothers me most is the rationalisation that its a good thing. It is not. It is, has been and will continue to be, but its not good. Capitalism has its good sides, and should not be thrown out the window. It is, however, deeply flawed and will have to give way to something better (or worse) at some time.
Communism has its good sides too (they build their machines to last, not to break down within 5 years to be replaced by newer models), but its past and current forms are even worse than our capitalism (not allways, but often), so I don't want it here. But its profoundly stupid to throw THAT away too because it didn't quite work on the first try (and second and third...at some point someone might get it right, wait and see).
you have a computer. Even if you don't, most of the people I know do, and we didn't get them by lying, cheating, or (ha!) killing babies.
Lies. You had to tell countless lies to get your computer. Most of wich were probably worded as "have a nice day", but even a ritualised politeness is a lie when you don't mean it. Its just a socially required, accepted and normalised lie. Don't mean that it was true everytime you said it (I say it to people I would gladly watch break their bones sometimes).
Honesty is in short demand, and even shorter supply.
I'm sure you're a very kind person, but I don't want my children to have anything to do with someone who will fly so far off the handle every time someone posts anonymously.
I can be very kind, or very cruel. Depends on the circumstances.
And you can go and count the number of times I've done that. You'll see its very rare. Its not the anonimity that launched me off the handle, its the...well, read it again, I was quite clear on what got me mad. The cowardise was just icing on the cake.
Americans enjoy much more freedom to innovate and achieve their own dreams then those in Communist China, and mainly it is because of impartial and fair laws
You spoiled son of a bitch...
Yeah, mod me down I can take the karma hit, I want the karma hit. Anonymous cowards piss me off. And that one got modded UP for this nausiating trolling...I'm hoping that the modding down will come from the same moderators that upped that twisted fuck's post.
Fair and impartial? How drunk are you? The DMCA is fair and impartial? The tax cuts for the disgustingly rich are fair and impartial?
the Soviet commisars, where wealth is stolen from those who are capable and worthy and forcibly redistributed to the benefity of the lazy and dishonest.
You arrogant bastard. You lying, dishonest, hypocrite! I'm choking on my own rage here!
Yeah, Lance Bass deserves his millions of dollars more than the men, women and children who worked 10h days in sweat shops to make his shoes! They are so damn lazy! Working themselves to death just so they can scrounge enough money to keep their children barely fed and clothes! How dare they not pay as much as his highness demands for his crappy music?
I'll be modded down as troll or flamebait for loosing my temper, but fuck it. I would jam dollar bills down your throat until you choked if I ever got the chance. You don't deserve the air you breath if you're going to pollut it so when you talk. Someone needs to show you true pain and suffering, to get you out of your ivory tower and make you smell the sweat and the blood that the poor have to shed to make people like you so damn comfy.
Sure, the extravagance of some pop stars may lead some with a Marxist bent to argue that they don't "deserve" their wealth
Call me names all you want (Marxist? I do have a goatee...) but britney spears does NOT deserve her money. She works hard? Well so do many other whores, and they don't make as much money as her! Sure she got a better deal (duh!), all she does is tease the Johns and they give her cash without her ever needing to deliver the goods. Most other whores don't get that chance; they do it the old fashioned way. Her pimp is better than most pimps, but he doesn't deserve his cash anymore than that little bra stuffer does.
Are you so totally devoid of basic human decency that you really think that Ozzy deserves his wealth more than any other burned out drug addict with a bit of musical talent? You think that most LSD horror story deserve to slowy rot while their unemployability prevents them from earning a living, but that one married into money (he did, Sharon's dad was quite wealthy), so he deserves it?
he fact is that in a market economy, merit is rewarded with wealth
FUCK YOU
What kind of god-given bullshit are you using to justify that insane bit of rationalisation?
99% of people with money never did anything to merit that money, they were born with it. No, being born into money does not merit immense wealth.
The french had it right in 1789: Cut off their heads. The very rich do NOT deserve or merit their wealth. They kill and lie and cheat to get it. They get liposuctions while other starves. They make me sick.
No, I'm no red commie, I don't think that a bureaucracy would be better equipped to manage the mind-boggling riches that vast industrial nations can generate, yes, I enjoy freedoms. Including freedom to earn and spend varying amounts of money. Yes, some people are lazy, and some are freeloaders...but povrety and lazyness are VERY DISTINC ISSUES. Don't you DARE tell me that there are no rich freeloaders out there...don't you dare.
merit is rewarded with wealth, and the motive for any person to work hard is the possibility of this reward.
You disgust me.
No, no and no. I have done very hard work in the past for the sole purpose of benefiting others. I give my time to charities, I volunteer and do hard work, not only for money (gotta eat, gotta work to get the money to eat), but also to help my fellow human beings. Why? Because I know I'm incredibly lucky to have been born in a rich country where its possible to do hard work for good money, and I want to be at least a tad helpfull to others who might be doing hard work for bad money...or for good. I just like to help people (and unlike you, I don't mind if I get nothing in return, a good action is its own reward...sometimes).
Money can be a great motivator, but to worthwhile persons it is not the only one. To sleezy jerks like you it is, but I don't think of people with such low morals as yours as human. More like meatbags (spoiled meat). Lazy people might have gotten that way by being born in a world where no matter how hard you try, you'll never get out of the hole you're in. Maybe they got a learning disability and never got diagnosed because the fucking bastard of a doctor wouldn't see him without first seeing the green stuff? Maybe? Huh? Maybe a billion other stories like that...
Nothing can be certain, there is allways doupt in everything (I think therefore I am, etc etc etc).
How can they be certain that this plant has not been around for long time and it just got noticed?
Because there have been very intelligent people running around england catalogging every single thing they saw and cross-referencing them for hundreds of year now. Making detailed drawings, collecting samples, etc. The guy checked these records, and found no trace of this plant, but found 2 other plants similar to it (lets call them plant a) and plant b)) the guy did genetic tests and proved that this plant was an hybrid of plant a) and plant b). Further tests showed that the new plant cannot reproduce with either plant a) or b), but it is sucessfully reproducing on its on.
Now, the question becomes: How can we be certain that the plant exists at all? Or that you yourself exist (you might be a fictionnal character used to troll slashdot, or a figment of my deranged imagination, a drug induced hallucination, a dream, etc...go watch Fight Club). Hell, how do I know/. is real? It might just be an elaborate hoax designed to cover up DDOS attacks... I could go on.
isn't it a little far out to presume that we have cataloged every plant species known to man?
No, its the complete and total opposite of "far out". We HAVE catalogued all species known to man, that is what makes them known. How do we know something exists? Because it's been observed and catalogued, otherwise, its unknown.
For all he knows somebody took a trip to Costa Rica, tromped around the jungle for a while collecting weed seeds in their shoes and socks, and then left them in the dirt on their way back home.
No, the guy does this for a living. The plant is an hybrid between a native of york and a plant that was imported from italy (possibly by seeds in their shoes or socks). He knows this because, unlike you, he is a man of science (or so the article claims, I take this information on good faith). He took samples, compared them anatomically, then genetically, and once he had all the facts, he made a conclusion and published the results.
Those feeling uncomfortable when the concert began, found their mood turning to anger. [...] During the concert, guests were asked to fill in questionnaires
I know I tend to get a lil' angry when I'm asked to fill in questionnaires while I'm trying to enjoy a concert... ;- )
So why is one "pay-for-placement" and the other isn't?
Because I had been using Google for years before I ever read the results in the "sponsored links" section, whereas the whore-for-placement systems adds just one more tiny frustration in my day, having to make a slight mental effort to ignore the first results and go down to get to what I really want.
I sometimes go for the sponsored links, when I'm looking for something commercial (once every other blue moon), but for my everyday geek searches for futurama quotes and python lyrics, I don't want to be forced to read that commercial site X has great prices on python DVDs, I just want What I Was Looking For.
I would apply, but I'm not black, I'm not gay, and I'm not a woman. So its futile, since I'll be discriminated againts 3 times before they even check to see if I'm qualified.
The scary thing? I'm actually with Bush on the whole affirmative action thing...it is wrong. Discriminating agains a particular racial group, one way or another, is not a good idea. (Even if people from one group discriminated against the other before...if it was wrong that way, its wrong the other way too!)
They are surprised to get so much more men then women to want to be in a show called junkyard wars? What is wrong with this picture? The applications, or the expectations?
Bah, don't wanna get in a quoting war, but I remember vaguely from God Emepror a bit about how his fave clon...er...Golah being blond. But its been a while.
Hell, its not like Herbert was above a lil' detail changing once in a while;- )
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correct me if i am wrong but it wasnt until the 1700's that humans discovered electricity and began trying to control it and use it.
You are wrong, that's the whole point of the artifact.
Humans had discovered electricity long before, but the knowledge was lost and took thousands of years to be discovered again. They obviously never pushed the tech as far as its been in recent centuries (it took many a genious to get us where we are now), but they had the basis for it...and it somehow got lost.
Now, if archeologist were allowed to dig up a bit more without Dubya bombing everything into oblivion, maybe we would learn much more about how advance early civilisations got.
BTW, your comment reeks of occident-centricism (just made that word up). The way you just assume that nobody could have thought of making a battery before Mr Volta...disgusting. Oh, and I guess aliens had to help the mayas build pyramids huh? 'cause those brown skinned savages could never be that smart...
Sigh
Suuuuure...since the people living there are not the exact descendants of those that created the artifacts, bombing the shit out of them (the people and the archeological sites) is A-OK!
The cultural legacy hasn't been erased, its been buried. They could still be dug out...or destroyed by the vultures who thirst for blood and oil.
But who cares about culture and history...those SUVs are getting expensive to drive...kill a few iraqis so the price of gas will go down already, huh?
Sigh...
Nonono, it was Aline with the sculpture...
Wal-Mart, for example, has a database TWICE the size of all the U.S. Government, combined.
;- )
That can't be right...
You mean to tell me that their database is bigger than the IRS, voter registry, shadow government, freemason listing, shadow freemason listing, stonecutters, illuminati, shadowilluminati, illumasson shadow IRS, and the IRA black list combined?
That's quite a DB!
Actually, Aline was the one to fend off the would-be stabber using a state of the art "big rock" (an inuit sculpture). The wife was doing most of the threatening as I understand it ;- )
We also had a journalist go and plant a big roung prop with a string sticking out and the word "Bomb" in bold white letters on the PM's summer home's porche...
Get drunk to simulate the slow response time
I'll drink to that!
: )
Cheers!
And goatees suck!
/. account's records to verify that fact. But I'll spare you the trouble: I have a mac and it is my precioussss.
./, and the notion that it's my fault that it's a terrible world where people die; well, fuck it.
Its not like its a tatoo...
This notion that someone doesn't deserve their money because you said so is just ridiculous.
Your logic does not ressemble our earth logic.
She doesn't deserve the money, not because I said so, but because unfair prices and wages were had all around. I'm pointing out the obvious, and its only due to a shared dellusion that others do not see it as such.
She works hard enough to convince someone to give her some cash, just like anyone else.
Indeed, and she's very good at what she does.
And thanks to her hard work, others who are also very good at what they do get to make money doing what they do (printing album covers, making sexy stage costumes, etc). But she doesn't deserve all the millions. Others who are equally talented and hard working (and who don't deserve millions anymore than her) deserve shares of those millions that she hogs for herself quite selfishly. But she works hard at the hogging, and she's good at the selfishness.
I'm not sure what his[Lance Bass] infraction is.
I grok his wrongness. Maybe in time you will too.
Once again, it's nobody's job to decide who gets the wealth of the very rich.
Tell that to their accountants.
Its allways someone's job to decide how to spread the wealth, the question is accountability, greed and fairness. We disagree on those, but I'll call you a blundering retard if you keep pretending that no one is paid to make those choices.
I can only assume that you have a computer.
No, you could spend sometime going through my
I have a lot more than I need, as does anyone with the time to post on
I have more than I need, but less than I want.
Well, the sheer overwhelming pain of the world is too much for anyone to bear, so I get why we resort to self-induced delusions. Ignorance is bliss. But to actually revel in it is obscene. If I was given millions, I wouldn't give it all away to charity, but I would be a much better tipper.
The thing is, I do what I can to make the world a better place (I pick up other people's trash, smile politely, and make people laugh (again, check out my many +4funny)), and it sickens me when others willingly make the world a worse place.
Is it his job to stoop in the gutter beside you to clothe the starving children of some starving parent somewhere?
I don't think that's anyone's job.
I don't want everyone to be dirt poor. I want people to stop engaging willingly and conciously in actions that profit from or create abject povrety.
I don't mind that Lance Bass makes a living off getting prebuscent girl's panties wet (well, I do, but its all consensual and shit, so live and let live I say...at least he's not touching them...as far as I know). I mind that he is a tool of a much greater wealth that does this willingly, on purpose, and with great effort, in order to get themselves and their friends so rich that they need to pay lots of other people to figure out exactly how mind-bogginly rich they are. Its greed in action. Unchecked, uncontrolled, unbalanced greed. Its an abuse of power, and to top it off their schemes require total public exposure, wich means I'm exposed to that stuff against my will.
If they had limited financial ressources they could not afford to hound me like that, and the world would be a better place for you and me.
What do you want her to do, just not accept a check because it's too much and she's not working hard enough?
I know she works hard, I never said otherwise. She's good at what she does too.
And I can't ask her to do something I couldn't. If I was offered that dough to do something I'm good at, I'd take it. It does bother me that that dough is in the hand of a few soft-core porn publishers that call themselves by other names. It does bother me that the sheep commonly refered to as "the public" take part in this, but what bothers me most is the rationalisation that its a good thing. It is not. It is, has been and will continue to be, but its not good. Capitalism has its good sides, and should not be thrown out the window. It is, however, deeply flawed and will have to give way to something better (or worse) at some time.
Communism has its good sides too (they build their machines to last, not to break down within 5 years to be replaced by newer models), but its past and current forms are even worse than our capitalism (not allways, but often), so I don't want it here. But its profoundly stupid to throw THAT away too because it didn't quite work on the first try (and second and third...at some point someone might get it right, wait and see).
you have a computer. Even if you don't, most of the people I know do, and we didn't get them by lying, cheating, or (ha!) killing babies.
Lies.
You had to tell countless lies to get your computer. Most of wich were probably worded as "have a nice day", but even a ritualised politeness is a lie when you don't mean it. Its just a socially required, accepted and normalised lie. Don't mean that it was true everytime you said it (I say it to people I would gladly watch break their bones sometimes).
Honesty is in short demand, and even shorter supply.
I'm sure you're a very kind person, but I don't want my children to have anything to do with someone who will fly so far off the handle every time someone posts anonymously.
I can be very kind, or very cruel. Depends on the circumstances.
And you can go and count the number of times I've done that. You'll see its very rare.
Its not the anonimity that launched me off the handle, its the...well, read it again, I was quite clear on what got me mad. The cowardise was just icing on the cake.
Americans enjoy much more freedom to innovate and achieve their own dreams then those in Communist China, and mainly it is because of impartial and fair laws
You spoiled son of a bitch...
Yeah, mod me down I can take the karma hit, I want the karma hit. Anonymous cowards piss me off. And that one got modded UP for this nausiating trolling...I'm hoping that the modding down will come from the same moderators that upped that twisted fuck's post.
Fair and impartial? How drunk are you? The DMCA is fair and impartial? The tax cuts for the disgustingly rich are fair and impartial?
the Soviet commisars, where wealth is stolen from those who are capable and worthy and forcibly redistributed to the benefity of the lazy and dishonest.
You arrogant bastard.
You lying, dishonest, hypocrite! I'm choking on my own rage here!
Yeah, Lance Bass deserves his millions of dollars more than the men, women and children who worked 10h days in sweat shops to make his shoes! They are so damn lazy! Working themselves to death just so they can scrounge enough money to keep their children barely fed and clothes! How dare they not pay as much as his highness demands for his crappy music?
I'll be modded down as troll or flamebait for loosing my temper, but fuck it. I would jam dollar bills down your throat until you choked if I ever got the chance. You don't deserve the air you breath if you're going to pollut it so when you talk.
Someone needs to show you true pain and suffering, to get you out of your ivory tower and make you smell the sweat and the blood that the poor have to shed to make people like you so damn comfy.
Sure, the extravagance of some pop stars may lead some with a Marxist bent to argue that they don't "deserve" their wealth
Call me names all you want (Marxist? I do have a goatee...) but britney spears does NOT deserve her money. She works hard? Well so do many other whores, and they don't make as much money as her! Sure she got a better deal (duh!), all she does is tease the Johns and they give her cash without her ever needing to deliver the goods. Most other whores don't get that chance; they do it the old fashioned way. Her pimp is better than most pimps, but he doesn't deserve his cash anymore than that little bra stuffer does.
Are you so totally devoid of basic human decency that you really think that Ozzy deserves his wealth more than any other burned out drug addict with a bit of musical talent? You think that most LSD horror story deserve to slowy rot while their unemployability prevents them from earning a living, but that one married into money (he did, Sharon's dad was quite wealthy), so he deserves it?
he fact is that in a market economy, merit is rewarded with wealth
FUCK YOU
What kind of god-given bullshit are you using to justify that insane bit of rationalisation?
99% of people with money never did anything to merit that money, they were born with it. No, being born into money does not merit immense wealth.
The french had it right in 1789: Cut off their heads.
The very rich do NOT deserve or merit their wealth. They kill and lie and cheat to get it. They get liposuctions while other starves.
They
make
me
sick.
No, I'm no red commie, I don't think that a bureaucracy would be better equipped to manage the mind-boggling riches that vast industrial nations can generate, yes, I enjoy freedoms. Including freedom to earn and spend varying amounts of money. Yes, some people are lazy, and some are freeloaders...but povrety and lazyness are VERY DISTINC ISSUES. Don't you DARE tell me that there are no rich freeloaders out there...don't you dare.
merit is rewarded with wealth, and the motive for any person to work hard is the possibility of this reward.
You disgust me.
No, no and no. I have done very hard work in the past for the sole purpose of benefiting others. I give my time to charities, I volunteer and do hard work, not only for money (gotta eat, gotta work to get the money to eat), but also to help my fellow human beings. Why? Because I know I'm incredibly lucky to have been born in a rich country where its possible to do hard work for good money, and I want to be at least a tad helpfull to others who might be doing hard work for bad money...or for good. I just like to help people (and unlike you, I don't mind if I get nothing in return, a good action is its own reward...sometimes).
Money can be a great motivator, but to worthwhile persons it is not the only one. To sleezy jerks like you it is, but I don't think of people with such low morals as yours as human. More like meatbags (spoiled meat).
Lazy people might have gotten that way by being born in a world where no matter how hard you try, you'll never get out of the hole you're in. Maybe they got a learning disability and never got diagnosed because the fucking bastard of a doctor wouldn't see him without first seeing the green stuff? Maybe? Huh? Maybe a billion other stories like that...
Beware of Monosodium Glutamate! It is evil !
The years of suffering I went through because of that fucking additive...
Nothing can be certain, there is allways doupt in everything (I think therefore I am, etc etc etc).
/. is real? It might just be an elaborate hoax designed to cover up DDOS attacks...
How can they be certain that this plant has not been around for long time and it just got noticed?
Because there have been very intelligent people running around england catalogging every single thing they saw and cross-referencing them for hundreds of year now. Making detailed drawings, collecting samples, etc.
The guy checked these records, and found no trace of this plant, but found 2 other plants similar to it (lets call them plant a) and plant b)) the guy did genetic tests and proved that this plant was an hybrid of plant a) and plant b). Further tests showed that the new plant cannot reproduce with either plant a) or b), but it is sucessfully reproducing on its on.
Now, the question becomes: How can we be certain that the plant exists at all? Or that you yourself exist (you might be a fictionnal character used to troll slashdot, or a figment of my deranged imagination, a drug induced hallucination, a dream, etc...go watch Fight Club). Hell, how do I know
I could go on.
isn't it a little far out to presume that we have cataloged every plant species known to man?
No, its the complete and total opposite of "far out". We HAVE catalogued all species known to man, that is what makes them known.
How do we know something exists? Because it's been observed and catalogued, otherwise, its unknown.
For all he knows somebody took a trip to Costa Rica, tromped around the jungle for a while collecting weed seeds in their shoes and socks, and then left them in the dirt on their way back home.
No, the guy does this for a living. The plant is an hybrid between a native of york and a plant that was imported from italy (possibly by seeds in their shoes or socks).
He knows this because, unlike you, he is a man of science (or so the article claims, I take this information on good faith). He took samples, compared them anatomically, then genetically, and once he had all the facts, he made a conclusion and published the results.
Now stop being a troll and go learn something.
Microsoft could have collected 220 computer specialists telling the world that Linux is bad, and everyone would have to agree.
;- )
Only if they are all named Linus...
and trust me, law enforcement officials don't get off of from violating your privacy and requesting it just for kicks.
No, they get off of beating the crap out of student protesters.
Well known fact.
This is a move that will help in limiting child pornography on the internet.
How?
Seriously, how will it do that, exactly?
Because the kiddie-porn peddlers will go "What? Pennsylvania doesn't want our allready-illegal-ten-times-over stuff?? Well, we'll just stop!"?
Because all child pornography internet sites are hosted within pennsylvania?
I'd like to know how a clueless uneforcable law will help. Please explain.
Those feeling uncomfortable when the concert began, found their mood turning to anger.
;- )
[...]
During the concert, guests were asked to fill in questionnaires
I know I tend to get a lil' angry when I'm asked to fill in questionnaires while I'm trying to enjoy a concert...
So why is one "pay-for-placement" and the other isn't?
Because I had been using Google for years before I ever read the results in the "sponsored links" section, whereas the whore-for-placement systems adds just one more tiny frustration in my day, having to make a slight mental effort to ignore the first results and go down to get to what I really want.
I sometimes go for the sponsored links, when I'm looking for something commercial (once every other blue moon), but for my everyday geek searches for futurama quotes and python lyrics, I don't want to be forced to read that commercial site X has great prices on python DVDs, I just want What I Was Looking For.
Being in a meat body sucks
;- )
Virgin!
Some people with chronic arthritis sting themselves with wasps (or was it bees?) to take down the swelling.
;- )
I wonder if cobra spit is good for eye infections
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"
That's the quote.
And it was an arrogant statement, she was basically saying "I don't care that the peasants are starving."
She was too preocupied with her royal intrigues to care about matters of state.
I would apply, but I'm not black, I'm not gay, and I'm not a woman. So its futile, since I'll be discriminated againts 3 times before they even check to see if I'm qualified.
The scary thing? I'm actually with Bush on the whole affirmative action thing...it is wrong. Discriminating agains a particular racial group, one way or another, is not a good idea. (Even if people from one group discriminated against the other before...if it was wrong that way, its wrong the other way too!)
They are surprised to get so much more men then women to want to be in a show called junkyard wars? What is wrong with this picture? The applications, or the expectations?
when spamfilters come alive... their prime directive will be "eliminate anything that is worthless"
We're DOOMED!!!
Generally, one cannot claim that species evolve for some purpose
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My dad claims the human body evolved so it would fit perfectly on a motorcycle...
Bah, don't wanna get in a quoting war, but I remember vaguely from God Emepror a bit about how his fave clon...er...Golah being blond.
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But its been a while.
Hell, its not like Herbert was above a lil' detail changing once in a while
It brought new depth to the story.
By being many hours longer...
herbert is getting what he deserves: paid
Frank Herbert, author of the Dune books, died in 1986.