To the question about censoring, the scientists who are most interested in this, already knew. Now we can know what to expect.
As far as producing apes of human intelligence, we must recall that evolution does not occur as a path to a specific end. While the absence of this gene might allow the increased brain function, we cannot say now that it necessitates it. What we may find an entirely different result in the long term evolution of apes. They face different tribulations on their reproductive trail than pre-humans faced. They are not competing soley among themselves for the right to reproduce and pass their genes to the next generation. They are competing with extreme external pressures to merely survive.
Aliens from the future. Actually, I learned "How to Build a Time Machine" earlier today and that set the plan in motion. This was actually written by me a few months ago and will, at some time in the future, be passed to alien invaders by my grandchildren, who are building their time machine now...
They'll combine alien technology with my time travel ideas and return the manuscript to the past so that I can know my theories were correct. You've all been had!
of course it does.... It makes you feel like you've traveled a great distance through space to see mars, AND, makes you feel like NASA scientists are a creative group...
The interactive map is actually quite fun - Where can I download the whole thing? - I want to carry it around on my laptop for those moments when the kids are bored.
"(and sometimes perceptible) quality loss of MP3s"
Ha! Play me an mp3 and I can pick it out every time. I don't know about you, but i can hear over 16KHz and I do notice definate loss in quality - most notable in and around the hi-hat. This is why I don't download mp3s. I also don't buy many CDs - very little released by the riaa mafia is worth the price they are asking. Most of what I've purchased over the last several years has been released by smaller companies...
when CDs first came out, I was a purchasing fool - I had a 1,000 piece collection at one time early on, when I ran out and bought all the re-releases of my cassettes and LPs but prices continue to rise while the new bands are less likely to attract my attention and the cost of production has gone down considerably. I won't throug my good money to the Recording industry's polluting executive jet planes.
This should work. Unfortunately, we'll all have to have our IP address tattooed on our asses for identification and then we'll just pass a law making it illegal to spoof ip addresses... Simple. Where do I sign up?:)
"Palentologists [sic] are pretty good at that sort of reasoning which is..."
Not to disagree with you, but.... Not ALL paleontologists are good. Some would be better faith healers than scientists - because they spend their time trying to generate a stir with fanciful ideas rather than good science to fund their research. But there are always good examples of bad examples...:)
"then we dump them back on the third world when we want to get rid of our obsolete junk.
"
No - we do not go over there and dump them on the streets. They send their money to us and ASK us for our discards in exchange, all in the pursuit of profit.
Not true. By your definition, homosexuals would be a different species, as would spinsters, and humans isolated on an island. The definition does not include the "and do" portion.
This is ALL about YRO. Today, it may be wiretapping, but I assure you, they are tapping other stuff. It is only a matter of time before the new McCarthyists are reading and listening to EVERYTHING we do.
2: It is my contention that "to" is not a verb fragment. Were it a verb fragment, it would be a part of the verb contribute. It is not. It is part of a prepositional phrase containing a preposition (to) and a noun (what.) Prepositional phrases indicate or describe relationships. A relationship exists between contribute and that to which a contribution has been made: what.
1: While I may not be able to quote a specific rule off hand, I would advise that prepositions describe relationships which cannot exist between one thing and nothing. It may be possible to construct a proper sentence that ends with a preposition, but every sentence I have seen ending with a preposition has been incomplete or contains an implied redundancy. Perhaps the writer was attempting to use an eliptical construction by deliberately dropping words. To do this properly, one must be certain that the words left out are identical, not similar, to the remaining words. I do not see this in this instance
I don't want to get into a grammatical debate or spitting match, as, though english is my primary language, I am certainly not an expert. I was merely pointing to a common error I encounter that, to me, indicates laziness or an inability to properly convey meanings. Thank you kindly for keeping me on my toes.
The easy solution is to add an object as in the following example:
Were are you going to? incorrect
Were are you going to, Asshole? see the difference?:)
reference: Troyka, Lynn Quitman, "Handbook for Writers," 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990, sections 7 & 9
Agreed. Theft is theft. For this reason, I abide by the rules laid out by the bands whose music I download. Pearl Jam, Phish, Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, etc. My point is, while the RIAA spends so much time and effort fighting the symptoms - napster, kazaa, gnuntilla, what ever they are called, i don't use them -- they could be increasing revenues by providing a product people are willing to buy at a price they are willing to pay. They [riaa] whine about lost profits continually and fight for ways to control control control (read: protect the future of the oligopoly) and dismiss the tools they have at their disposal to increase profits: good product at acceptable price at proper location.
I have to question what the real rub is? control or short term profit.
Maybe it's not shit. Maybe some people REALLY like it. That is not the point. The point is, people are not willing to pay the asking price and are seeking other means of acquisition. This is not the fault of the P2P networks. If the music were of a quality and price that would lure consumers to the store to buy, the p2p networks would decline. Give the people what they want and they'll buy it. Push them less than they want or charge too much and demand will decrease.
"I won't believe that Britney's albums are not selling as well as they used to because everyone wants to get them for free."
Take, for example, my neighbors kid. She's 14 and can't afford a $20 CD so she asked her mom. Her mom says something like: "All her music sounds the same. Just listen to the radio." She asked my son if she could download it at my house. I told her I was doing her a favor, and gave her 3 phish CDs. The good news... now she wants to download phish cds.
The point? Well she wasn't buying CDs to begin with - this is not lost sales. Downloading the legally traded phish stuff does build word of mouth fan base for phish. Maybe it will generate sales for them in the future.
effort? what effort? the effort of trying to conceal the fact that the programmer is being paid less than market value.
and what does the God, family, employer ref have to do with it? How does this help to choose the best programmer? Finally, the correct question would have been "To what open source projects have they contributed?" -- you should never end a sentence with a preposition.
I must agree but a copy of cowboyneal would never be a good as a real clone:
copy
n. pl. copies
1. An imitation or reproduction of an original;
The original is almost always better
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To the question about censoring, the scientists who are most interested in this, already knew. Now we can know what to expect.
As far as producing apes of human intelligence, we must recall that evolution does not occur as a path to a specific end. While the absence of this gene might allow the increased brain function, we cannot say now that it necessitates it. What we may find an entirely different result in the long term evolution of apes. They face different tribulations on their reproductive trail than pre-humans faced. They are not competing soley among themselves for the right to reproduce and pass their genes to the next generation. They are competing with extreme external pressures to merely survive.
Aliens from the future. Actually, I learned "How to Build a Time Machine" earlier today and that set the plan in motion. This was actually written by me a few months ago and will, at some time in the future, be passed to alien invaders by my grandchildren, who are building their time machine now...
They'll combine alien technology with my time travel ideas and return the manuscript to the past so that I can know my theories were correct. You've all been had!
I was going to make virtually the same post with a little more explanation....
Is there some other use for a computer????
"Compare this with the person scraping together $59 for a VCR."
The best DVD player I own, the APEX AD1600, cost me $59.23 after sales tax.
I think it's been /.ed already - I can't get back - And only 14 posts in....
of course it does.... It makes you feel like you've traveled a great distance through space to see mars, AND, makes you feel like NASA scientists are a creative group...
The interactive map is actually quite fun - Where can I download the whole thing? - I want to carry it around on my laptop for those moments when the kids are bored.
"(and sometimes perceptible) quality loss of MP3s"
Ha! Play me an mp3 and I can pick it out every time. I don't know about you, but i can hear over 16KHz and I do notice definate loss in quality - most notable in and around the hi-hat. This is why I don't download mp3s. I also don't buy many CDs - very little released by the riaa mafia is worth the price they are asking. Most of what I've purchased over the last several years has been released by smaller companies...
when CDs first came out, I was a purchasing fool - I had a 1,000 piece collection at one time early on, when I ran out and bought all the re-releases of my cassettes and LPs but prices continue to rise while the new bands are less likely to attract my attention and the cost of production has gone down considerably. I won't throug my good money to the Recording industry's polluting executive jet planes.
I know a Lane in Dallas. Are you he?
This should work. Unfortunately, we'll all have to have our IP address tattooed on our asses for identification and then we'll just pass a law making it illegal to spoof ip addresses... Simple. Where do I sign up? :)
"Palentologists [sic] are pretty good at that sort of reasoning which is ..."
:)
Not to disagree with you, but.... Not ALL paleontologists are good. Some would be better faith healers than scientists - because they spend their time trying to generate a stir with fanciful ideas rather than good science to fund their research. But there are always good examples of bad examples...
"then we dump them back on the third world when we want to get rid of our obsolete junk. "
No - we do not go over there and dump them on the streets. They send their money to us and ASK us for our discards in exchange, all in the pursuit of profit.
Examples:
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"Observed Instances of Speciation" for a lengthy and well written discussion on the topic (that I was forced to read for class and re-visit often).
Evening Primrose (Oenothera gigas)
Kew Primrose (Primula kewensis)
Drosophila paulistorum - the fruit fly
Apple Maggot Fly (Rhagoletis pomonella)
and many others - both natural and forced.
please visit
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.ht
just chiming in to say "ditto"
Not true. By your definition, homosexuals would be a different species, as would spinsters, and humans isolated on an island. The definition does not include the "and do" portion.
This is ALL about YRO. Today, it may be wiretapping, but I assure you, they are tapping other stuff. It is only a matter of time before the new McCarthyists are reading and listening to EVERYTHING we do.
1: While I may not be able to quote a specific rule off hand, I would advise that prepositions describe relationships which cannot exist between one thing and nothing. It may be possible to construct a proper sentence that ends with a preposition, but every sentence I have seen ending with a preposition has been incomplete or contains an implied redundancy. Perhaps the writer was attempting to use an eliptical construction by deliberately dropping words. To do this properly, one must be certain that the words left out are identical, not similar, to the remaining words. I do not see this in this instance
I don't want to get into a grammatical debate or spitting match, as, though english is my primary language, I am certainly not an expert. I was merely pointing to a common error I encounter that, to me, indicates laziness or an inability to properly convey meanings.
Thank you kindly for keeping me on my toes.
The easy solution is to add an object as in the following example:
- Were are you going to? incorrect
- Were are you going to, Asshole? see the difference?
:)
reference: Troyka, Lynn Quitman, "Handbook for Writers," 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990, sections 7 & 9Agreed. Theft is theft.
For this reason, I abide by the rules laid out by the bands whose music I download. Pearl Jam, Phish, Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, etc.
My point is, while the RIAA spends so much time and effort fighting the symptoms - napster, kazaa, gnuntilla, what ever they are called, i don't use them -- they could be increasing revenues by providing a product people are willing to buy at a price they are willing to pay. They [riaa] whine about lost profits continually and fight for ways to control control control (read: protect the future of the oligopoly) and dismiss the tools they have at their disposal to increase profits: good product at acceptable price at proper location.
I have to question what the real rub is? control or short term profit.
Maybe it's not shit. Maybe some people REALLY like it. That is not the point. The point is, people are not willing to pay the asking price and are seeking other means of acquisition. This is not the fault of the P2P networks. If the music were of a quality and price that would lure consumers to the store to buy, the p2p networks would decline. Give the people what they want and they'll buy it. Push them less than they want or charge too much and demand will decrease.
"I won't believe that Britney's albums are not selling as well as they used to because everyone wants to get them for free."
Take, for example, my neighbors kid. She's 14 and can't afford a $20 CD so she asked her mom. Her mom says something like: "All her music sounds the same. Just listen to the radio." She asked my son if she could download it at my house.
I told her I was doing her a favor, and gave her 3 phish CDs.
The good news... now she wants to download phish cds.
The point? Well she wasn't buying CDs to begin with - this is not lost sales. Downloading the legally traded phish stuff does build word of mouth fan base for phish. Maybe it will generate sales for them in the future.
- "The judge called me a no-sock, sandal-wearing hippie. "
You say this like it is a bad thing...effort? what effort? the effort of trying to conceal the fact that the programmer is being paid less than market value.
and what does the God, family, employer ref have to do with it? How does this help to choose the best programmer?
Finally, the correct question would have been "To what open source projects have they contributed?" -- you should never end a sentence with a preposition.
I believe this is the "black marker solution."
I must agree but a copy of cowboyneal would never be a good as a real clone: copy n. pl. copies 1. An imitation or reproduction of an original; The original is almost always better
is usenet the solution to p2p networks? shhhh, but why aren't the RIAA and MPAA going after giganews, easynews, etc?