Assuming that everything genetic can be explained as having an evolutionary purpose
Oh, you and your silly assumptions. "Purpose", ah. Implying intent... very droll.
Anyway, the reason why evolution would retain a range of sleep rhythms is that a monoculture is weaker than a plurality of options: Maybe there is a threat in the morning and an opportunity in the evening, maybe it's the other way around somewhere else,maybe both. If your species can take advantage of the opportunity but not defend against the threat, or vice-versa, you won't be making it big.
Wikipedia has a good article on Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.
OMG that's a real thing? Wow, I gotta see some medical person about this. I find it so very nearly impossible to get to sleep before 1am, I never knew that was a Syndrome.
Making uninterested people listen to a sales pitch is a waste of time.
I once worked at a company that made ads, and my boss explained that making uninterested people listen to a sales pitch is the whole point of advertising. Interested people are going to do the learning effort on their own, it'd be a waste of time to pitch your sale to them, he said.
Hardly any of the tripe you wrote here applies to that site. I just whitelisted them to see and no pop-ups, no-crazy flashing and all i can see are 2 ads on the entire page. One of which is an ars internal ad on the side about an article. The other is a banner at the very top of the page. I plan to leave them permanently in my whitelist. If they screw up with crappy flash of popups then I will remove them from my whitelist.
Well, ftfs: Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads.
No, I don't have to accept those ads. I have ADD and I CANNOT read text that has something flashing next to it.
You don't want me to block your ads? Fine, give a garantee that you will have responsible, ethical advertising, and I'll whitelist you. Otherwise, if your ad servers have given me one of the moving/interfering/noisy ads in the past I've already added them to the black list and they will stay blocked.
If exposure to mobile carrier antenna radio waves was of any danger to public health, there is no way you would be seeing these antennas anywhere near apartment complexes, the FCC or whatever is the appropriate authority is in your country would be all over this.
The fact remains that these bootleggers were adding a chemical that was already known to be poisonous and extremely dangerous to drink. It's like complaining that the government put strychnine in gasoline and since bootleggers were adding gasoline to their drinks the government was solely responsible for deaths. No. These bootleggers put poison in their products to begin with; they knew it was killing people and they did it anyway.
So what's going to happen to all those "at least we aren't killing our own people" arguments offered in defence of various despicable actions carried out in Iraq by armed forces of the United States?
This is about the war on recreational drugs. You could have went with Afghanistan, where the poppies grow, that would have been appropriate. Iraq is about oil reserves, try to keep up.
It was during the Nixon Administration, if I remember correctly. And sadly, there was never a US president who could have used a few bong hits more than him.
I read a news magazine story a few years ago (late 1990s I think) about police plans to pollinate open-air pot fields with a hybrid of cannabis and ragweed, to make people allergic to it. Can't find anything relating to it on-line though.
A lot of skeptics are not denying we're seeing a long time warming, glaciers after all have been receding for some 150+ years.
They are however rejecting that human activity is the primary driving factor
I'll grant you that a lot of the skeptics (though not the ones hosting shows on Fox) have stopped denying the warming AND that skepticism is a healthy position to have in general.
But it just seems like they're moving by increments: There is no warming / ok there is warming but it's not our fault / there is warming and even if it is our fault it's gonna be a good thing.
The only point that remains constant is the "let us pollute all we want" part.
The tools were not neccessarily made by early humans as at the time these tools were likely created, humans were not the only hominids.
You're saying it's possible that another, extinct branch of our tree had boats before our ancestors? I just assumed that whoever got boats first had to be the ones that ended up covering the globe...
Hey, maybe those people are "anxious" about math because they're the ones that never did their math homework!
Maybe they were yelled at and threatened with violence when doing their math homework. Which made them distraught and unable to perform mathematically, which led to bad grades, which led to more yelling.
I know you'll dismiss that, since you're obviously devoid of empathy and compassion, but I thought I'd try to enlighten you anyway.
Let them take away the right to say "Fuck" and you've given up the ability to say "Fuck the Government."
That's not the problem. As Orwell points out in the appendix to "1984", where he discusses "Newspeak", one could say "Big Brother is doubleplus ungood" in Newspeak. But the language for saying why wasn't available. So no one could make a convincing argument against Big Brother. "In Newspeak it was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words were nonexistent."
Watch for this phenomenon. It's real. Especially on talk radio.
Now that's just a conspiracy theory. Clearly, you are a nut, for only nuts react with anything for disdain and mockery when presented with a conspiracy theory.
The purpose of the sensors is to keep tabs to see whether you behaved well with the phone. It's a secret device (to most people) that can only be used against you to Apple's advantage. It demonstrates a lack of trust and good faith on the part of Apple.
Nobody's saying Apple is about to start torturing people... but why is this *not at all* Orwellian, which you're implying?
The adjective Orwellian describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society.
A device to combat insurance fraud is not destructive to the welfare of a free society.
This article's title, the mentioning of the book's name... just gave me an idea... finally an idea...
I wonder... I bet it's possible... to make a Rube Goldberg machine in Blender and literally let its physics handle all the stuff that should be handled by physics in such a device. Holy crap, I finally have an idea of something interesting to keep myself occupied
I don't know how capable Blender is, but that was final assignment in my Maya "particles and dynamics" class. Teach called it "incredible machines", too. Of course, some animation / trickery was allowed, nay, encouraged.
A giant rock has been on Earth for forty years, and just now they're discovering that it's contains organic compounds? Um...did it fall directly into a controlled vacuum?
If you find organic molecules which do not exist on Earth OTHER than on this meteorite, the likely conclusion is that the meteorite is the source, not the recipient.
I saw that movie, it had Fox Mulder innit, and he shot a dragon!:)
you refer to people as "dumbass Texans".. if you're so smart, why not reason with them
Because he's smart enough to know that no amount of intelligent, thoughtfull discussion can sway these people from their emotional beliefs. We're talking about people who go "if evolution was true, why would there still be monkeys?" as if they'd pulled some irrefutable argument instead of profoundly ignorant tripe. You can't reason with them: they're immune to it.
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At this point? Nostalgia, mostly. Keep in mind that when it came out, there was literally nothing else like it.
In many ways, there's still nothing else like it. It is a whole universe, created from scratch.
Not created from scratch. Recycled from other material.
Assuming that everything genetic can be explained as having an evolutionary purpose
Oh, you and your silly assumptions. "Purpose", ah. Implying intent... very droll.
Anyway, the reason why evolution would retain a range of sleep rhythms is that a monoculture is weaker than a plurality of options: Maybe there is a threat in the morning and an opportunity in the evening, maybe it's the other way around somewhere else,maybe both. If your species can take advantage of the opportunity but not defend against the threat, or vice-versa, you won't be making it big.
Wikipedia has a good article on Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.
OMG that's a real thing? Wow, I gotta see some medical person about this. I find it so very nearly impossible to get to sleep before 1am, I never knew that was a Syndrome.
Making uninterested people listen to a sales pitch is a waste of time.
I once worked at a company that made ads, and my boss explained that making uninterested people listen to a sales pitch is the whole point of advertising.
Interested people are going to do the learning effort on their own, it'd be a waste of time to pitch your sale to them, he said.
Hardly any of the tripe you wrote here applies to that site. I just whitelisted them to see and no pop-ups, no-crazy flashing and all i can see are 2 ads on the entire page. One of which is an ars internal ad on the side about an article. The other is a banner at the very top of the page. I plan to leave them permanently in my whitelist. If they screw up with crappy flash of popups then I will remove them from my whitelist.
Well, ftfs: Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads.
No, I don't have to accept those ads. I have ADD and I CANNOT read text that has something flashing next to it.
You don't want me to block your ads? Fine, give a garantee that you will have responsible, ethical advertising, and I'll whitelist you. Otherwise, if your ad servers have given me one of the moving/interfering/noisy ads in the past I've already added them to the black list and they will stay blocked.
Wow, such anger! It's not like she said she was ashamed Bush was from Texas or anything! Geez!
1 teragram is exactly 1 milion metric tons, but it's also approximately 1.1 million funny American tons.
How much is that in standard library of congress units? I'm all confused by this 'tonne' talk :S
If exposure to mobile carrier antenna radio waves was of any danger to public health, there is no way you would be seeing these antennas anywhere near apartment complexes, the FCC or whatever is the appropriate authority is in your country would be all over this.
Wow, that's a lot of faith in the authorities.
The fact remains that these bootleggers were adding a chemical that was already known to be poisonous and extremely dangerous to drink. It's like complaining that the government put strychnine in gasoline and since bootleggers were adding gasoline to their drinks the government was solely responsible for deaths. No. These bootleggers put poison in their products to begin with; they knew it was killing people and they did it anyway.
So, two wrongs make a right?
So what's going to happen to all those "at least we aren't killing our own people" arguments offered in defence of various despicable actions carried out in Iraq by armed forces of the United States?
This is about the war on recreational drugs. You could have went with Afghanistan, where the poppies grow, that would have been appropriate.
Iraq is about oil reserves, try to keep up.
Hey, I have an idea. Let's let the government run our health care system!
Better idea: Stop electing fascists to run your government.
Or tried to spray Paraquat on pot fields in Mexico knowing full well the pot would be smoked by Americans.
Because poisoning Mexicans is just fine and dandy!?
And let me fix that for you.
Ah, the war on some drugs and a friggin' plant and the American people!
Leggo of the bong, and lemme fix that "the war on some drugs and the peoples of the world".
The harm done by the U.S. war on drugs extends far beyond the confines of the U.S.
Don't forget, they tried to poison pot, too.
It was during the Nixon Administration, if I remember correctly. And sadly, there was never a US president who could have used a few bong hits more than him.
They're poisoning people in South America as part of the war on cocaine.
I read a news magazine story a few years ago (late 1990s I think) about police plans to pollinate open-air pot fields with a hybrid of cannabis and ragweed, to make people allergic to it. Can't find anything relating to it on-line though.
A lot of skeptics are not denying we're seeing a long time warming, glaciers after all have been receding for some 150+ years.
They are however rejecting that human activity is the primary driving factor
I'll grant you that a lot of the skeptics (though not the ones hosting shows on Fox) have stopped denying the warming AND that skepticism is a healthy position to have in general.
But it just seems like they're moving by increments: There is no warming / ok there is warming but it's not our fault / there is warming and even if it is our fault it's gonna be a good thing.
The only point that remains constant is the "let us pollute all we want" part.
I say: Tax pollution either way.
They have nice things there... replication, making not perfect copies, but what they don't have is death.
They take random samples and move them to new vats. The ones not taken to new vats have no more materials with which to reproduce.
Anyway, you can't kill that which has no life.
In biology, life is defined as have the following characteristics:
Having these characteristics defines something as being "alive." See, not magic.
Folks in a coma aren't alive? :)
The tools were not neccessarily made by early humans as at the time these tools were likely created, humans were not the only hominids.
You're saying it's possible that another, extinct branch of our tree had boats before our ancestors?
I just assumed that whoever got boats first had to be the ones that ended up covering the globe...
Hey, maybe those people are "anxious" about math because they're the ones that never did their math homework!
Maybe they were yelled at and threatened with violence when doing their math homework. Which made them distraught and unable to perform mathematically, which led to bad grades, which led to more yelling.
I know you'll dismiss that, since you're obviously devoid of empathy and compassion, but I thought I'd try to enlighten you anyway.
Let them take away the right to say "Fuck" and you've given up the ability to say "Fuck the Government."
That's not the problem. As Orwell points out in the appendix to "1984", where he discusses "Newspeak", one could say "Big Brother is doubleplus ungood" in Newspeak. But the language for saying why wasn't available. So no one could make a convincing argument against Big Brother. "In Newspeak it was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words were nonexistent."
Watch for this phenomenon. It's real. Especially on talk radio.
Now that's just a conspiracy theory. Clearly, you are a nut, for only nuts react with anything for disdain and mockery when presented with a conspiracy theory.
The purpose of the sensors is to keep tabs to see whether you behaved well with the phone. It's a secret device (to most people) that can only be used against you to Apple's advantage. It demonstrates a lack of trust and good faith on the part of Apple.
Nobody's saying Apple is about to start torturing people... but why is this *not at all* Orwellian, which you're implying?
The adjective Orwellian describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society.
A device to combat insurance fraud is not destructive to the welfare of a free society.
This article's title, the mentioning of the book's name... just gave me an idea... finally an idea...
I wonder... I bet it's possible... to make a Rube Goldberg machine in Blender and literally let its physics handle all the stuff that should be handled by physics in such a device. Holy crap, I finally have an idea of something interesting to keep myself occupied
I don't know how capable Blender is, but that was final assignment in my Maya "particles and dynamics" class.
Teach called it "incredible machines", too. Of course, some animation / trickery was allowed, nay, encouraged.
A giant rock has been on Earth for forty years, and just now they're discovering that it's contains organic compounds? Um...did it fall directly into a controlled vacuum?
If you find organic molecules which do not exist on Earth OTHER than on this meteorite, the likely conclusion is that the meteorite is the source, not the recipient.
I saw that movie, it had Fox Mulder innit, and he shot a dragon! :)
you refer to people as "dumbass Texans".. if you're so smart, why not reason with them
Because he's smart enough to know that no amount of intelligent, thoughtfull discussion can sway these people from their emotional beliefs. We're talking about people who go "if evolution was true, why would there still be monkeys?" as if they'd pulled some irrefutable argument instead of profoundly ignorant tripe. You can't reason with them: they're immune to it.
What's the real motive?
Pretending to care.
After careful consideration and review, they'll finally decide to do whatever the hell the oligarchy thinks is most profitable, as planned.