Neither "Darwinian" nor "Evolutionist" is in common usage as means of self-identification amongst us. "Evolutionary Biologist" is acceptable, though it does imply too much about qualifications.
Really, the idea of the environment being a sieve (i.e. evolution) is about as controversial as apple pie in scientific circles. Abstract debate is confined to the relative importance of gene flow vis-a-vis genetic drift vis-a-vis punctuated equilibrium et cetera.
Also, this single case is:
-not statistically valid
-only immediately relevant in the non-Mendelian Lamarckian Evolution
-not very relevant to genetic evolution
I haven't RAllTFArticles, but presumably the McNeil fellow argues that the learned meme of bipedalism introduced an environmental pressure that favoured pelvic and knee bones suited for bipedalism and thus caused an actual genetic change in the long run. That's a very tentative change of events and not one I have heard suggested before.
Well, they also make enough criminal decisions (like blackmailing OEMs into not releasing dual-booting systems) to cancel out the stupid decisions as far as Jane Six-Pack is concerned.;)
Of course, the genre hasn't had a timeless classic in a while. This year's Warlords Battlecry III will show up on All Time Best lists, but it's really just a very polished version of 2002's Warlords Battlecry II that already had a safe place on those lists.
2001's Europa Universalis II hasn't been topped by its sequels so far -- Hearts of Iron was too narrow in scope and Victoria too hyper-realistically dull. I have high expectations of Crusader Kings
2002's Kohan is very nice. The upcoming sequel sounds promising.
Majesty was neat for the time, but I suspect it won't get the follow-up it deserves.
1998's Warlords III: Dark Lords Rising is still awesome, whereas Warlords IV was botched and is generally sucky.
1997's Total Annihilation is still the best RTS game of all time.
1999's Imperialism II and 1997's Imperialism are very different from each other and hold up moderately well.
1994's Civilization II 0wnZ.
So does 1994's Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
I am not sure what year it's from, but Heroes of Might and Magic II is neat.
(I haven't tried Galactic Civilizations and Dominions II, but they are very highly thought of on Usenet.)
(Also, I don't think of any of the Age of Wonders or Disciples games as super-great, but they have followings.)
Republicrat Bill Clinton, of course. As you well know, he belonged to the Corporate Party just like George W. Bush after him and George H. W. Bush along with Ronald Reagan before him.
Therefore, the gun will need a really big "Point Away From Face" sign. I'm talking humongous. Really, really, really, really big lettering. Can't be too safe.:)
In the name of all that exists, please stop trying shoving metaphors onto the abstract beauty of computers.
The following things are stupid:
- disabling the backspace key because you couldn't easily erase things with typewriters
- eliminating Undo, Redo, and Repeat because time travel is physically impossible
- having www.airplanetickets.biz take two hours to load because it takes two hours to go to the physical ticket booth
- making directory trees behave like physical drawers
Metaphors do not make things easier to use. If Jane-Six-Pack tosses an empty vodka can out of her armoured utility vehicle, she expects it to disappear. She does not expect it to stay where it landed until it decays in twenty million years.
If computer interfaces were just as tedious as real life, no one would bother with them.
Hmm. Free Trade Agreements tend to encourage unethical business practices. If anything, an FTA between China and US will force US to harmonize its anti-spam legislation with that of China by junking it.;)
A leading bicycle manufacturer announced today that, in the future, bicycles will be free but people will have to pay for the oxygen they'd breathe while biking.
Advertisement:
[Kids, steal money from your parents and buy Nike brand oxygen. Only Nike oxygen delivers the charge you need to push the limit.]
This announcement follows a call by several right-wing thinktanks for a transition from a manufacture-based to a service-based economy.
A number of South American and African nations, who have finally developed a manufacturing sector of their own in spite of IMF loans going primarily to resource extraction are not expected to follow the advice in the near future.
If Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs, all he had to do was cooperate with the inspecters, verify he didn't have them, and there would have been no war. He'd still be alive, running the country, and killing whoever he pleased, whenever he pleased.
Yes, announcing that you don't have significant weapons and appearing weak is a good idea when you have a powerful and belligerent Iran next door.
If Bush cared about American interests, he wouldn't have declared war on an innocent country for no apparent reason other than:
-ease of conquest
-giving in to Al Qaeda's demands of removing troops from Saudi Arabia by getting a new military base in the region
-global domination
-???
-profit!
Don't reform the FCC. Auction off frequencies, with permanent ownership rights, to the public!
Oh, for fuck's sake, do we have to apply the property meme to every fucking thing humanity discovers?
Shiny rock? Mine! Sexy mate? Mine! Territory? Mine! Land between fences? Mine! Prisoners of War? Mine! Novel? Mine! Audio recording? Mine! Right to build a telephone? Mine and mine alone!
OBEY, proles. I own all.
Et cetera.
"The line must be drawn here!"
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Abolishment of private property might be a bit extreme, but can we please stop inventing new forms of it? It's not benefitting anyone.
None of the great innovations, discoveries, or achievements in human history were made for material gain.
Really? Perhaps you also think that it would have been better to design P2P File Sharing Apps with major help from the music industry, since that is mostly what those rare used for anyway.;)
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Neither "Darwinian" nor "Evolutionist" is in common usage as means of self-identification amongst us. "Evolutionary Biologist" is acceptable, though it does imply too much about qualifications.
Really, the idea of the environment being a sieve (i.e. evolution) is about as controversial as apple pie in scientific circles. Abstract debate is confined to the relative importance of gene flow vis-a-vis genetic drift vis-a-vis punctuated equilibrium et cetera.
Also, this single case is:
-not statistically valid
-only immediately relevant in the non-Mendelian Lamarckian Evolution
-not very relevant to genetic evolution
I haven't RAllTFArticles, but presumably the McNeil fellow argues that the learned meme of bipedalism introduced an environmental pressure that favoured pelvic and knee bones suited for bipedalism and thus caused an actual genetic change in the long run. That's a very tentative change of events and not one I have heard suggested before.
Of course, calling someone an "animal" or a "beast" is generally an insult. People are stupid.:)
I am a beastly human animal. Grrrow.:D
Well, they also make enough criminal decisions (like blackmailing OEMs into not releasing dual-booting systems) to cancel out the stupid decisions as far as Jane Six-Pack is concerned.;)
Speaking of Spooked, you can see more of Ross Campbell's art here.
Myself, I an a strategy gaming addict.
Of course, the genre hasn't had a timeless classic in a while. This year's Warlords Battlecry III will show up on All Time Best lists, but it's really just a very polished version of 2002's Warlords Battlecry II that already had a safe place on those lists.
2001's Europa Universalis II hasn't been topped by its sequels so far -- Hearts of Iron was too narrow in scope and Victoria too hyper-realistically dull. I have high expectations of Crusader Kings
2002's Kohan is very nice. The upcoming sequel sounds promising.
Majesty was neat for the time, but I suspect it won't get the follow-up it deserves.
1998's Warlords III: Dark Lords Rising is still awesome, whereas Warlords IV was botched and is generally sucky.
1997's Total Annihilation is still the best RTS game of all time.
1999's Imperialism II and 1997's Imperialism are very different from each other and hold up moderately well.
1994's Civilization II 0wnZ.
So does 1994's Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
I am not sure what year it's from, but Heroes of Might and Magic II is neat.
(I haven't tried Galactic Civilizations and Dominions II, but they are very highly thought of on Usenet.)
(Also, I don't think of any of the Age of Wonders or Disciples games as super-great, but they have followings.)
An EEG is just set of voltages. It doesn't say that you have a mind.
A gif file is just a set of redgreenblues. It doesn't say that there's a picture.
An executable is just a set of ones and zeroes. It doesn't say that there's a programme.
A novel is just a bunch of ink and dead wood. It doesn't say that there's a plot.
If you hook up an EEG to a computer you'll also get time varying voltages.
If you feed a gif into a midi synthesizer, you'll get a bunch of random noise.
Sure I can. Just hook me up to an electroencephalograph. That's my mind right there.
Want to know how spryly I can use it? Give me an IQ "test".
Want to know how much it weighs? Cut my head off, pull it out of the protective skull, and plonk it on the scales.
Of course, that's a bit of a one-time measurement. I'd rather you abstained from it, all things being equal.
You'll disagree with this if you are a mind-body dualist. I am not. The mind is an emergent property of a working brain.
And the inability of IE to deal with elementary CSS2 (like sibling selectors and :hover on all elements) or do the intelligent thing when sent a PNG.
It's an over-the-top insult that the poster knows not everyone agrees with. It is a joke designed to be controversial.
Flamebait would be a more apt moderation.
I think he meant to write SSN# No. Number.:)
Republicrat Bill Clinton, of course. As you well know, he belonged to the Corporate Party just like George W. Bush after him and George H. W. Bush along with Ronald Reagan before him.
Therefore, the gun will need a really big "Point Away From Face" sign. I'm talking humongous. Really, really, really, really big lettering. Can't be too safe.:)
In the name of all that exists, please stop trying shoving metaphors onto the abstract beauty of computers.
The following things are stupid:
- disabling the backspace key because you couldn't easily erase things with typewriters
- eliminating Undo, Redo, and Repeat because time travel is physically impossible
- having www.airplanetickets.biz take two hours to load because it takes two hours to go to the physical ticket booth
- making directory trees behave like physical drawers
Metaphors do not make things easier to use. If Jane-Six-Pack tosses an empty vodka can out of her armoured utility vehicle, she expects it to disappear. She does not expect it to stay where it landed until it decays in twenty million years.
If computer interfaces were just as tedious as real life, no one would bother with them.
Hmm. Free Trade Agreements tend to encourage unethical business practices. If anything, an FTA between China and US will force US to harmonize its anti-spam legislation with that of China by junking it.;)
/me sneezes
Excuse my boldness, sir, but could I please borrow your handkerchief? It appears as though I inadvertently left mine at home.
Geeks like us prevented y2k from happenning with the sweat of our brow. That was the whole point.
(Reuters)
A leading bicycle manufacturer announced today that, in the future, bicycles will be free but people will have to pay for the oxygen they'd breathe while biking.
Advertisement:
[Kids, steal money from your parents and buy Nike brand oxygen. Only Nike oxygen delivers the charge you need to push the limit.]
This announcement follows a call by several right-wing thinktanks for a transition from a manufacture-based to a service-based economy.
A number of South American and African nations, who have finally developed a manufacturing sector of their own in spite of IMF loans going primarily to resource extraction are not expected to follow the advice in the near future.
Given a choice of fighting Iran or the US, I'd take Iran every single time.
Have you considered the logistics of the situation? Iraq and Iran have a very long common border. US is on the other side of the world.
On a level playing field, USA's military is much more powerful than Iran's, but war is not generally waged on a level playing field.
If Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs, all he had to do was cooperate with the inspecters, verify he didn't have them, and there would have been no war. He'd still be alive, running the country, and killing whoever he pleased, whenever he pleased.
Yes, announcing that you don't have significant weapons and appearing weak is a good idea when you have a powerful and belligerent Iran next door.
Maybe he'll support the neonazi party next time.
Why would Moore support the Republicans?:)
If Bush cared about American interests, he wouldn't have declared war on an innocent country for no apparent reason other than:
-ease of conquest
-giving in to Al Qaeda's demands of removing troops from Saudi Arabia by getting a new military base in the region
-global domination
-???
-profit!
Will these diseases target only people who have the American gene in their DNA?:)
Don't reform the FCC. Auction off frequencies, with permanent ownership rights, to the public!
Oh, for fuck's sake, do we have to apply the property meme to every fucking thing humanity discovers?
Shiny rock? Mine! Sexy mate? Mine! Territory? Mine! Land between fences? Mine! Prisoners of War? Mine! Novel? Mine! Audio recording? Mine! Right to build a telephone? Mine and mine alone!
OBEY, proles. I own all.
Et cetera.
"The line must be drawn here!"
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Abolishment of private property might be a bit extreme, but can we please stop inventing new forms of it? It's not benefitting anyone.
None of the great innovations, discoveries, or achievements in human history were made for material gain.
Prison rape isn't funny. It's a tragic human rights disaster.
Really? Perhaps you also think that it would have been better to design P2P File Sharing Apps with major help from the music industry, since that is mostly what those rare used for anyway.;)