If want to live in such a "stable" world, where the birth rate matches the FUCKING STARVATION RATE, then that's your opinion. I would rather find a more humane approach to overpopulation.
Avian flu? Mass extinctions due to climate change? Drug resistant infection? Genetically modified foods? I could go on, but i think you're just trolling.
No evidence that one species can evolve into another!? We've seen it happen! Some really cool examples, too... there is a volcanic island where nothing lives in the middle, only around the beach... a species of bird lives there which can reproduce with its neighbours all the way around the ring except in one spot, since the genetic difference between those two extremes are too great. (sorry about the vaguities here... i'm remembering this from school).
There are populations of fish, for example that have been separated due to drought for a million years or so, then rejoined but have lost the ability to interbreed. This is a speciation event. I could go on.
I didn't disagree with a word you said, until this. Show me a single person who is both an aetheist AND against evolution. The problem with religious people is that they have an agenda, and logic usually takes a back seat (you are an excellent example).
There is no such thing as a scientific truth. Declaring something as a truth would be unscientific. In Physics the highest something can be elevated to is a "law". In biology the highest something can be elevated to is a "theory", because you can't empirically test most of it (including evolution) like you can gravity.
The argument that "its only a theory" is put forward by those who do not understand biology sufficiently.
I heard they were going to make an Aliens movie with a reincarnated Ripley. As far as my selective memory serves, it was thankfully shelved before release.
I'm going to do it. This is a great fucking idea! I expect Windows Vista on LSD to be an interesting experience... for those of you not in-the-know, it tends to make you pretty critical of all things man made. I don't think i can ever go to vegas again, for example...
That's misleading. The Java "spec" contains the language and an extensive standard library. The C language spec does not include the standard C library at all since it isn't part of the language itself.
Syntactically Java adds very little to C. It is larger, but not by much. I would say they are both syntactically simple languages. Something like Pascal is much more complicated because they mashed all sorts of common functions right in to the language itself.
If you want to compare the standard C library to the standard Java library, that is another thing. Yeah, Java's is bigger. Doesn't mean you have to learn it all to do the same stuff you would in C, however. Actually, you have to learn a lot less!
In retrospect I think you're probably right, but i don't think the skeletal record is strong enough yet to make a strong conclusion. If hybrids were present in small numbers, we likely just haven't found a specimen yet because we don't have enough skeletons.
Well actually (credientials: BSc physical anthropology) there is still quite a bit of debate as to whether or not they interbred with us. This is why you will sometimes see them referred to as Homo neanderthalensis, and sometimes as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. There is evidence for both. I argued in an undergrad paper that it was biologically possible, but due to cultural and ecological reasons hardly ever happened. Which, in biology, is often enough to designate species (rather than subspecies) status.
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I just picked up the new XFX 7950GT. I know bang/buck isn't quite as good as a Radeon X1900XT, but I bought it for 2 reasons:
1) Passive cooling! My overclocked gaming machine is now quiet enough to sleep beside.
2) No catalyst control center. Good lord, what a horrible piece of crap software that thing is.
No, I can't. I also can't buy a PS3.
No it doesn't. This is like the exact same card, clocked lower. The only thing you're missing is the HDCP decoder.
This Canadian is offended by that statement.
If want to live in such a "stable" world, where the birth rate matches the FUCKING STARVATION RATE, then that's your opinion. I would rather find a more humane approach to overpopulation.
the WHOLE track?! I only wanted the "working overtime" part!
Avian flu? Mass extinctions due to climate change? Drug resistant infection? Genetically modified foods? I could go on, but i think you're just trolling.
What, pray tell, has creation science given us?
No evidence that one species can evolve into another!? We've seen it happen! Some really cool examples, too... there is a volcanic island where nothing lives in the middle, only around the beach... a species of bird lives there which can reproduce with its neighbours all the way around the ring except in one spot, since the genetic difference between those two extremes are too great. (sorry about the vaguities here... i'm remembering this from school).
There are populations of fish, for example that have been separated due to drought for a million years or so, then rejoined but have lost the ability to interbreed. This is a speciation event. I could go on.
I didn't disagree with a word you said, until this. Show me a single person who is both an aetheist AND against evolution. The problem with religious people is that they have an agenda, and logic usually takes a back seat (you are an excellent example).
There is no such thing as a scientific truth. Declaring something as a truth would be unscientific. In Physics the highest something can be elevated to is a "law". In biology the highest something can be elevated to is a "theory", because you can't empirically test most of it (including evolution) like you can gravity.
The argument that "its only a theory" is put forward by those who do not understand biology sufficiently.
I heard they were going to make an Aliens movie with a reincarnated Ripley. As far as my selective memory serves, it was thankfully shelved before release.
you never, EVER want to educate your clergy! Think about that for a second!
and where can i get these "placebos"?
Actually, that is pretty complicated...
About the only way a Libertarian, Green Party, or even Democratic candiate will win will be if they ever fix these things!
I'm going to do it. This is a great fucking idea! I expect Windows Vista on LSD to be an interesting experience... for those of you not in-the-know, it tends to make you pretty critical of all things man made. I don't think i can ever go to vegas again, for example...
That's misleading. The Java "spec" contains the language and an extensive standard library. The C language spec does not include the standard C library at all since it isn't part of the language itself.
Syntactically Java adds very little to C. It is larger, but not by much. I would say they are both syntactically simple languages. Something like Pascal is much more complicated because they mashed all sorts of common functions right in to the language itself.
If you want to compare the standard C library to the standard Java library, that is another thing. Yeah, Java's is bigger. Doesn't mean you have to learn it all to do the same stuff you would in C, however. Actually, you have to learn a lot less!
In retrospect I think you're probably right, but i don't think the skeletal record is strong enough yet to make a strong conclusion. If hybrids were present in small numbers, we likely just haven't found a specimen yet because we don't have enough skeletons.
I agree completely. The percentages though, were totally made up.
Well actually (credientials: BSc physical anthropology) there is still quite a bit of debate as to whether or not they interbred with us. This is why you will sometimes see them referred to as Homo neanderthalensis, and sometimes as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. There is evidence for both. I argued in an undergrad paper that it was biologically possible, but due to cultural and ecological reasons hardly ever happened. Which, in biology, is often enough to designate species (rather than subspecies) status.
My good sir grandparent, you have been told. Well done!
Aw come on, they've indicated that the IE team has reformed and will be working on IE8... its not like last time when the whole thing was mothballed.
I thoroughly enjoyed those percentages you either pulled out of your ass, or were delivered, Joseph Smith style, on a stone tablet from heaven.
Well, step 3 is obviously profit... I think step 2 is to shred all records of step 2's ever having occurred, whatever it is. Therefore...
At least at my U, they made all comp sci students take a logic course. So I'm not that surprised.
No, an auto-rooter is that thing they use to clean drains... wait... no, that's a roto-rooter.