The random mutations that do not improve survivability tend not to get passed on to future generations, the ones that do improve survivability do tend to get passed on.
After a million or so years of you altering its environment slowly but steadily to one that's better suited to the survival of tadpoles than anything else.
"If some psycho starts running around your neighbourhood killing blondes every few weeks (external influence), and never gets caught, so this goes on for 500 years.....then you find out that 98% of the population is brunette or redhead, is this evidence of evolution?"
Yes, it is. Under these circumstances being blonde is more detrimental to survival and reproduction than is being redheaded or brunette, therefore, fewer blondes live to pass on the "blonde gene" to fewer descendents of whom fewer live to pass on the "blond gene",...lather, rinse, repeat. In the meantime, the redheads and brunettes have less and less competition from blondes for food and other resources, so they more easily thrive.
Actually the Fender Broadcaster preceeded the Telecaster, although the only difference is the name. They had to change it because there was a Rogers drum set already using the name "Broadcaster".
But do they convert the other 88% to heat the way that incandescent bulbs convert 90% of the electricity they use into heat with the 10% converted to light as almost a byproduct?
"...I don't think actual moveable type has been much used in the western world since the early 1900s."
The Linotype machine took over a lot of the applications that previously relied on movable type, such as newspapers, by the second half of the 20th century, but job printers were still using movable type at least as recently as the 80s for some tasks.
Is this that thing they were forcing on the banks a few years ago when they were calling it the "know your customer" act or program?
(It was basically a way to get the banks to spy on everybody with an account and send the results to the government, only the banks had to shoulder the entire expense of doing so.)
It means that we'e about to invade Iraq and Ashcroft's first move is to disable Slashdot during the distraction.
Yeah, I'm getting '500' errors. Apparently the slashserver is coming down with the junior version of the flu that everybody's kids are bringing home from school this week.
"Eventually you'll be wasting the time of someone important enough to say 'We'll send you a new modem'."
What would be better and more satisfying would be to get the court to force them to restore the original modem to its pre-"update" condition, and pay to get the manufacturer to certify it.
That link to an above comment was something I "parked" so as to put something else on the clipboard and then I changed my mind about using it but forgot it was sitting there at the bottom of the comment box, and I failed to catch it in preview as well.
"I've wondered that if domain names are found to be property, would they be taxable?"
You may well have hit on what will be an unseen thumb on the scales when this gets decided and it's a shame this story isn't on the main page where you'd stand a better chance of getting the upmods you deserve.
Once the tax thing is established precedent look for everyone from the local dogcatcher on up to the UN trying to get to the trough. Of course the big corporations that would have very large tax bills on their domain names will all have offshore addresses which they're already using to dodge other taxes and they'll be able to buy enough lawyers and congresscritters to get out of domain name taxes as well. In the meantime any site that the government wants to shut down can be seized for failure to pay back taxes on it when they conveniently arrange to misplace the record of the payment, and ten years later when you've finally dragged it through all the courts they'll either have sold it off to someone else or destroyed any value it once had.
The only reason the right wing cares about a national ID is because of that whole "mark of the beast" thing. If Revelations said that when Jesus came back he was going to assign everyone a unique identifier and that this was going to be a good thing, they'd be all for it.
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Browse at -1 for a while, and then get back to us about that.
The random mutations that do not improve survivability tend not to get passed on to future generations, the ones that do improve survivability do tend to get passed on.
After a million or so years of you altering its environment slowly but steadily to one that's better suited to the survival of tadpoles than anything else.
"If some psycho starts running around your neighbourhood killing blondes every few weeks (external influence), and never gets caught, so this goes on for 500 years.....then you find out that 98% of the population is brunette or redhead, is this evidence of evolution?"
Yes, it is. Under these circumstances being blonde is more detrimental to survival and reproduction than is being redheaded or brunette, therefore, fewer blondes live to pass on the "blonde gene" to fewer descendents of whom fewer live to pass on the "blond gene",...lather, rinse, repeat. In the meantime, the redheads and brunettes have less and less competition from blondes for food and other resources, so they more easily thrive.
This is Slashdot. Are you sure that *you* are at the right site?
"...I was just making a witty observation without the wit."
Somewhere there's an empty sig file waiting for those words to move in and take up residence.
Humpty Dumpty wasn't wrong, Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Considering that the voice channel is pretty much defined as being the 2.7kHz between 300 Hz and 3kHz, probably never.
Actually the Fender Broadcaster preceeded the Telecaster, although the only difference is the name. They had to change it because there was a Rogers drum set already using the name "Broadcaster".
Or you could just put a bunch of them in series like the old Christmas tree lights :-)
But do they convert the other 88% to heat the way that incandescent bulbs convert 90% of the electricity they use into heat with the 10% converted to light as almost a byproduct?
The Linotype machine took over a lot of the applications that previously relied on movable type, such as newspapers, by the second half of the 20th century, but job printers were still using movable type at least as recently as the 80s for some tasks.
(It was basically a way to get the banks to spy on everybody with an account and send the results to the government, only the banks had to shoulder the entire expense of doing so.)
Yeah, I'm getting '500' errors. Apparently the slashserver is coming down with the junior version of the flu that everybody's kids are bringing home from school this week.
It also used a whole big bunch of the purchaser's money.
Probably about the time that they realized that capacitors that quickly go bad are worse than no capacitors at all.
Imagine if we'd had to go through that crap with each size and density of floppy.
Absolutely. Those of us who are serious about viciously mocking them are well aware of the differences between W. and H.W.
Were you intentionally referring to the 41st President of the U.S. and father of the current (43rd) President?
What would be better and more satisfying would be to get the court to force them to restore the original modem to its pre-"update" condition, and pay to get the manufacturer to certify it.
Was it never put on the main page (where it most certainly belongs) or put on and then removed?
That link to an above comment was something I "parked" so as to put something else on the clipboard and then I changed my mind about using it but forgot it was sitting there at the bottom of the comment box, and I failed to catch it in preview as well.
You may well have hit on what will be an unseen thumb on the scales when this gets decided and it's a shame this story isn't on the main page where you'd stand a better chance of getting the upmods you deserve.
Once the tax thing is established precedent look for everyone from the local dogcatcher on up to the UN trying to get to the trough. Of course the big corporations that would have very large tax bills on their domain names will all have offshore addresses which they're already using to dodge other taxes and they'll be able to buy enough lawyers and congresscritters to get out of domain name taxes as well. In the meantime any site that the government wants to shut down can be seized for failure to pay back taxes on it when they conveniently arrange to misplace the record of the payment, and ten years later when you've finally dragged it through all the courts they'll either have sold it off to someone else or destroyed any value it once had.
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And now Ashcroft is looking to bone the rest of us.
The only reason the right wing cares about a national ID is because of that whole "mark of the beast" thing. If Revelations said that when Jesus came back he was going to assign everyone a unique identifier and that this was going to be a good thing, they'd be all for it.