I thought with England being the source of the language and all that whatever they did was the correct way. American English, like all languages, is an evolution of what it's based on.
Some US-isms are just mis-spellings of the correct word that became commonplace. So by your logic, spelling it as theater is the idiot's way.
If they own the copyright, then they are authorised by themselves to make the download. If they get someone else to do it, they are still acting as their agent. They would have to monitor someone else make a transfer.
Not worried about the safety or anything - purely the psychology of breastfeeding from my wife.
Saying that, I know a lot of guys try it. I'm not too convinced though. Plus, the boy might get angry if he doesn't get his full feed - he has a lot of potential to cause me sleepless nights and so must be appeased.
Yahoo, hotmail, and Gmail all offer lots of storage. That amount will only get bigger.
I haven't lost any emails from any (I have accounts with all three - yahoo for 10 years (Shit! Getting old!), hotmail for about the same, Gmail for a year or less.
No good (yet) for video, but handles everything else reasonably, particularly smaller files. Only real limitation is 2.5 GB storage (and counting) and network speed.
However, it saves the probs of HDD failure, CD/DVD failure and degradation.
Large companies with large storage solutions and automated backups are the way forward - at the moment webmail is the easiest to get onto. The key here is backups - they do it all automatically and as storage costs get cheaper and they get richer, the end result is persevering data.
Can it be relied on in the long-term (e.g. they go bust)? - not so sure about that...
My firstborn is now 2 days old, and has been learning the nipple.
From how he manages, boy, is that thing intuitive...
Saying that I thought it was pretty intuitive until I got scared of getting a mouthful of breastmilk....
Depends on a variety of things, including where you live, insurance etc.
One thing is that the scanners themselves are expensive, but once they're running, the more scans you do, the cheaper they become. More use does lead to more breakdown/servicing but on the whole, the cost decreases.
Another thing is that you can do more directed scans. A few images from a pancreas only takes a few minutes, rather than the 30-60 minutes some things need where a variety of imaging modalities are used for a large(ish) part of your body.
Not that many hospitals have them - the waiting time is more due to that than anything else.
Just as an example - I used to work at the regional neurosurgery centre as a junior doctor. I think my quickest scan organised was around 45 minutes. The patient went from the ambulance bay to the scanner. We would routinely do them the same day for a lot of patients where they were needed urgently. The biggest delay was getting them from their local hospital to us.
Another place I worked in had one of the consultant radiologists doing a study on using MR for detection of scaphoid fractures (one of the wrist bones, a bitch to diagnose as it doesn't always show up on x-ray and a missed scaphoid fracture can be a debilitating injury). Very high litigation potential. Rather than the traditional approach which is:
- if clinical exam shows possible scaphoid injury, then wrist is put in cast even with normal x-ray - seen 2 weeks later. If x-rays still don't show healing fracture and painful back into plaster, for another review - if still better at 2,4,6 further weeks (depending on availability of MR locally) then MRI for definitive diagnosis
Which, if you are a young healthy worker who ends up in a cast for 3 months and unable to work when you might not even have a break, is a pain in the ass.
Instead the new idea was:
- splint overnight if late in day - limited (few images only) scan of scaphoid the following morning when the scanner was staffed, or the same day if possible
The scans took less than 5 minutes to do, and a definitive diagnosis was made.
There will only be more MR scanners over the next few years, and limited, directed scans like these could solve a lot of headaches for both doctors (much less chance of missing something) and patients (much less chance of missing something, definitive treatment started earlier).
Diabetes may not be a practical thing to use them for, though. If it doesn't save anough lives/money/time/whatever compared to the current system, it's just an exercise in academic curiosity. I'm sure the bean-counters will figure it out.
The question is though whether this should be viewed like someone using a bot in a regular game (and probably get kicked/banned) or like someone using a bot in an online gambling game (just as illegal as cheating in a casino).
I personally think it's like the former, and they should be kicked/banned. But if you have invested time and money and can feasibly make a profit in the game by selling things in the real world (and it's within the rules) then why not make it the same as fraud?
Sending spam is a crime. Using an open relay is not. Spammers using this are committing a crime, but not the one you point out.
Open networks require a handshake between the router and PC. This is analogous to authorising use.
One says 'Hi, can I use your network'
The other says 'Yes'
The owner of the network authorised this by turning the thing on.
I don't agree with the top post though - I leave my network open, I don't mind people using it. If they abuse it, they get kicked. I use other people's networks to send and receive email and to do the odd bit of surfing.
If I commit a crime on their network, then I am a criminal. But using a network which I have been authorised to use to do legal things is very different.
But most people don't have the right program, and couldn't care less about downloading one. There are enough open WAPs anyway. The other difference is that the open WAP is )in my opinion, and a lot of others') free for use. One which needs to be hacked is illegal.
Of course, doing anything else illegal on the network is illegal too, but not because of the network use if it's open.
Simple security measures reduce unauthorised entry . And they are, by definition, simple. I banned a neighbour who was seriously mooching (200 MB a day) and he hasn't come back. Occasional users are fine as all the local WAPs overlap and the laptop just grabs the nearest.
But they need to charge $4 a song when people now only download the 4 or 5 songs (max) worth listening to on an album.
There are still a lot of people who get the whole album, but now there are a lot more who just pick and choose the bits they like.
Where they would have previously got $15 for an album, now they get $2 or $3 for the chart songs on a lot of cases.
Makes sense to me. I buy songs I like, not albums. I occasionally get an album but by and large I don't see the need anymore - I just spend $10 on ten diff songs rather than $15 on three plus 7 fillers.
I got my wallet stolen a few years back in Dublin. I cancelled it the following morning as soon as I found out (so missing between about 12 midnight and 9.30am.).
The VISA guy said on the phone at the time that the card had not been used.
The next statement I got had about £500 (about $US 1250) worth of use. I only had about £100 credit left on that card - they'd gone way over my limit.
I called and was told it was my problem. After various attempts at insisting I finally got someone to admit some of the purchases were made after it was cancelled.
A cash advance was taken out for £350. You need the PIN for that. I explained that I have no idea what the PIN was, and challenged him to find, at any point in the previous 6 years of having the card, a time when I had used the PIN. He couldn't, as I hadn't - I tore it up the day I got the card and never wrote it down or memorised it.
After several letters and numerous phone calls I eventually had the money refunded, less £50 which they said was for allowing my card to be compromised. Apparently I must have left the PIN with the card, even though this was not the case.
I still have no idea how the money was taken without the PIN, or if it can be found out somehow.
I gave up chasing after the last £50 as I had spent enough time already. I'm still pissed about it though, even though it was now about 9 years ago.
So personally, I don't feel that the added PIN will help.
Royal Bank of Scotland Classic Visa, by the way. Bastards.
You'll never work out what caused her to kill herself, if you haven't already. The problem with suicide is, it's permanent.
There are a lot of different reasons people try to kill themselves. Some, a deliberately unsuccessful attempt as a 'cry for help'. Some, because they have what they perceive as a severe problem, which is temporary. Some, because their problem is permanent. And a host of other variations.
I am for euthanasia. And this fits the 'permanent' lot , thought not in every scenario. The problem is practical - not theoretical. If for some reason a mistake is made, then you ca't go back and change things. (e.g. perceived family pressures due to them being a burden or whatever).
Suicide is quite different. It is generally a reaction to a scenario which seems without hope to the sufferer - whether depression, rejection, financial, or million other reasons.
The likelihood is that your sister came into the group of people who had a temporary problem, which she did not feel equipped to deal with. Maybe a rejection. Maybe a mistake which felt to her like a social disaster. Who knows. Or maybe it was a cry for help, gone wrong (they do happen).
The tragedy is that in this scenario, she would have probably gotten over whatever trauma she perceived to be insurmountable in a matter of weeks or months. But the loss her family have suffered will go no much longer.
Now, it is a hugely stressful situation which is difficult to imagine to anyone else. But life must go on. You have to accept several things:
1. You'll probably never know why. 2. She's dead. She's not coming back. 3. If she were here now, she'd probably admit it was a mistake. 4. It wasn't your fault. Even if someone did something which might have caused her offence - that's not the reason. And even if it was, see point 3 above. 5. Until the family accept her loss, openly and completely, it will continue to tear you apart. 6. You have to stop blaming her for your problems. Marital, academic, or otherwise.
I'm not saying this shouldn't affect you. But life will go on, whether you go with it or not.You don't have to forget her, you just have to get over her death, and get on with your lives.
Counselling may help. Talking about it as a fmily - and agreeing not to get overemotional or confrontational, will help. But you have just told everyone here that you, as a unit, and as a group of individuals, are not coping, are not adapting, are not talking, are not dealing with it.
This is partly a criticism. Again, I'm not trying to offend or tell you how to feel, and I can understand why. But for the sake of all of you, you have to realise that your methods of dealing with this, so far, are wrong, and need to change.
But back to the point. Regardless of all of this, I think that freedom of speech should still allow the subject matter to be displayed, however objectionable.
You can limit the free use to a certain amount. You can also assume that most people aren't going to leave their taps running just because it's free.
I pay a flat rate for water. No-one abuses that (admittedly in Scotland there's no shortage, but it still needs treated and transported).
Does your city provide free water and electricity? Mine doesn't. I pay a separate tax for water (in UK, though I am in fact now in Oz), electricity is private company.
I think the city would do better to spend the people's tax dollars on free water/gas/electricity or even phone before internet access.
Don't get me wrong, I think it'd be great to get free access - but if I just pay $30 a month extra taxes rather than $30 to my DSL provider, there's no difference. I also think that more 'essential' utilities are more appropriate for the government to try and subsidise.
Not much point in free internet if you can't afford to heat your home. Free up people's utility bills and they can put that toward internet if they need it.
On the other hand, the beauty of WiFi is that you can reach lots of people without direct cables - if the gummint can get a nice fat backbone, limit each connection to say 64-128K or so, and reach 4000 people with their new, welcomed super-duper megaWiFiTransmitter overlords, then it might bring the cost per user to very manageable levels. That would make sense.
They just want a solution, and they fo out and find one. Whether that means they hire a contractor, or write the apps in-house, they want a tool which does the job. Simple. They don't - and shouldn't have to - worry about things like this.
Don't blame the companies for this. Especially as there are plenty of ways around it (whitelisting some ActiveX stuff, for example, or allowing company sites privileged controls).
ActiveX etc. are just tools. Some good points, some bad points. Maybe the most suitable in some circumstances - would you want to hire some expensive subcontractor to code something in XUL when there are a million ActiveX codemonkeys who can do the same in a few clicks?
You are quite right to point out that there are flaws, but blaming the businesses is missing the point.
Could someone here (more computationally capable than me) please write a short program that does the following:
1. takes the basic music notes (i.e. quaver, crotchet, etc.) and rests 2. takes the basic tones (A, A#, B etc.) 3. Randomly generates a series of short (3-5 notes, with or without rests in between)
Note that only one octave is required. Other octaves, or keys, are just derivatives.
Note also that the timing can be simplified - a lot of the melodies will be longer duplicates (e.g. 4 beats A followed by 2 beats C is just a slowed-down version of 2 beats then 1 beat).
The program should write all of these, to one big MP3/OGG/Whatever.
Copywrite the result. All new music becomes a derivative work.
If anyone can tell me why this wouldn't work, I'd be glad to know.
If you feel like being a particular smartass, get it to cross-reference previously copywritten works and erase dupes to prevent the counter-suits.
It's on oversimplification. A single celled organism didn't just appear. It started off as random molecules which were generated by the primordial soup. Eventually one of these molecules happened to be a catalyst for it's own formation. This in turn gave rise to more complicated molecules, then eventually groups of molecules.
The beauty of the theory is that until a suitable compound is attained, nature will keep banging it's head off that wall. Like the infinite monkeys theory.
To jump suddenly to the single cell ignores many millions of incremental steps.
I believe that putting what was thought to be the 'primordial soup' - methane, carbon dioxide, a few other chemicals - in a hot electrical environment, in a fiarly short space of time, gives rise to simple organic molecules. To wait for the next human race to appear from this experiment may only be a matter of time.
Have you ever looked at a sex site? The problem is that there are a variety of things that could lead to you viewing them - and not all of them mean you are planning on an extramarital affair.
Maybe she was bored. Maybe she followed the wrong link and her curiosity was piqued. Maybe she got off on it.
The point is, it doesn't necessarily reflect on your relationship - that being said I don't know the details. Who knows, maybe it could spice up your relationship if you actually discuss it - she could have some unmet desire which she feels unable to express to you because of whatever reason.
I'm a UK graduate, so I had 100% of my fees paid. Five year course though with not too much time to work in holidays and stuff (48 weeks of uni for the last few years which doesn't leave much room for a summer job) so I left with about £12500 debt (average for medic grad at that time - a lot less than e.g. the US) which is about $18000 US or about $30000 Australian.
I don't think I'm necessarily getting a raw deal - just that the wage market is as screwed as the justice system when you look at relative wage/punishment for job/crime.
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Pretentious because it's right?
I thought with England being the source of the language and all that whatever they did was the correct way. American English, like all languages, is an evolution of what it's based on.
Some US-isms are just mis-spellings of the correct word that became commonplace. So by your logic, spelling it as theater is the idiot's way.
If they own the copyright, then they are authorised by themselves to make the download. If they get someone else to do it, they are still acting as their agent. They would have to monitor someone else make a transfer.
Not worried about the safety or anything - purely the psychology of breastfeeding from my wife.
Saying that, I know a lot of guys try it. I'm not too convinced though. Plus, the boy might get angry if he doesn't get his full feed - he has a lot of potential to cause me sleepless nights and so must be appeased.
Email.
Yahoo, hotmail, and Gmail all offer lots of storage. That amount will only get bigger.
I haven't lost any emails from any (I have accounts with all three - yahoo for 10 years (Shit! Getting old!), hotmail for about the same, Gmail for a year or less.
No good (yet) for video, but handles everything else reasonably, particularly smaller files. Only real limitation is 2.5 GB storage (and counting) and network speed.
However, it saves the probs of HDD failure, CD/DVD failure and degradation.
Large companies with large storage solutions and automated backups are the way forward - at the moment webmail is the easiest to get onto. The key here is backups - they do it all automatically and as storage costs get cheaper and they get richer, the end result is persevering data.
Can it be relied on in the long-term (e.g. they go bust)? - not so sure about that...
My firstborn is now 2 days old, and has been learning the nipple. From how he manages, boy, is that thing intuitive... Saying that I thought it was pretty intuitive until I got scared of getting a mouthful of breastmilk....
Attack of the 50ft woman!
Depends on a variety of things, including where you live, insurance etc.
One thing is that the scanners themselves are expensive, but once they're running, the more scans you do, the cheaper they become. More use does lead to more breakdown/servicing but on the whole, the cost decreases.
Another thing is that you can do more directed scans. A few images from a pancreas only takes a few minutes, rather than the 30-60 minutes some things need where a variety of imaging modalities are used for a large(ish) part of your body.
Not that many hospitals have them - the waiting time is more due to that than anything else.
Just as an example - I used to work at the regional neurosurgery centre as a junior doctor. I think my quickest scan organised was around 45 minutes. The patient went from the ambulance bay to the scanner. We would routinely do them the same day for a lot of patients where they were needed urgently. The biggest delay was getting them from their local hospital to us.
Another place I worked in had one of the consultant radiologists doing a study on using MR for detection of scaphoid fractures (one of the wrist bones, a bitch to diagnose as it doesn't always show up on x-ray and a missed scaphoid fracture can be a debilitating injury). Very high litigation potential. Rather than the traditional approach which is:
- if clinical exam shows possible scaphoid injury, then wrist is put in cast even with normal x-ray
- seen 2 weeks later. If x-rays still don't show healing fracture and painful back into plaster, for another review
- if still better at 2,4,6 further weeks (depending on availability of MR locally) then MRI for definitive diagnosis
Which, if you are a young healthy worker who ends up in a cast for 3 months and unable to work when you might not even have a break, is a pain in the ass.
Instead the new idea was:
- splint overnight if late in day
- limited (few images only) scan of scaphoid the following morning when the scanner was staffed, or the same day if possible
The scans took less than 5 minutes to do, and a definitive diagnosis was made.
There will only be more MR scanners over the next few years, and limited, directed scans like these could solve a lot of headaches for both doctors (much less chance of missing something) and patients (much less chance of missing something, definitive treatment started earlier).
Diabetes may not be a practical thing to use them for, though. If it doesn't save anough lives/money/time/whatever compared to the current system, it's just an exercise in academic curiosity. I'm sure the bean-counters will figure it out.
The question is though whether this should be viewed like someone using a bot in a regular game (and probably get kicked/banned) or like someone using a bot in an online gambling game (just as illegal as cheating in a casino).
I personally think it's like the former, and they should be kicked/banned. But if you have invested time and money and can feasibly make a profit in the game by selling things in the real world (and it's within the rules) then why not make it the same as fraud?
You mean indipendant?
I was wondering how he FP'd such a long comment...
Sending spam is a crime. Using an open relay is not. Spammers using this are committing a crime, but not the one you point out.
Open networks require a handshake between the router and PC. This is analogous to authorising use.
One says 'Hi, can I use your network'
The other says 'Yes'
The owner of the network authorised this by turning the thing on.
I don't agree with the top post though - I leave my network open, I don't mind people using it. If they abuse it, they get kicked. I use other people's networks to send and receive email and to do the odd bit of surfing.
If I commit a crime on their network, then I am a criminal. But using a network which I have been authorised to use to do legal things is very different.
That's microsoft's new enhanced security.
No internet connectivity.
But most people don't have the right program, and couldn't care less about downloading one. There are enough open WAPs anyway. The other difference is that the open WAP is )in my opinion, and a lot of others') free for use. One which needs to be hacked is illegal. Of course, doing anything else illegal on the network is illegal too, but not because of the network use if it's open. Simple security measures reduce unauthorised entry . And they are, by definition, simple. I banned a neighbour who was seriously mooching (200 MB a day) and he hasn't come back. Occasional users are fine as all the local WAPs overlap and the laptop just grabs the nearest.
www.brisbanebrass.com
It's just a band website, so it's not much use to anyone outside the band.
But it is good, and it only started in 2005!
But they need to charge $4 a song when people now only download the 4 or 5 songs (max) worth listening to on an album.
There are still a lot of people who get the whole album, but now there are a lot more who just pick and choose the bits they like.
Where they would have previously got $15 for an album, now they get $2 or $3 for the chart songs on a lot of cases.
Makes sense to me. I buy songs I like, not albums. I occasionally get an album but by and large I don't see the need anymore - I just spend $10 on ten diff songs rather than $15 on three plus 7 fillers.
I got my wallet stolen a few years back in Dublin. I cancelled it the following morning as soon as I found out (so missing between about 12 midnight and 9.30am.). The VISA guy said on the phone at the time that the card had not been used. The next statement I got had about £500 (about $US 1250) worth of use. I only had about £100 credit left on that card - they'd gone way over my limit. I called and was told it was my problem. After various attempts at insisting I finally got someone to admit some of the purchases were made after it was cancelled. A cash advance was taken out for £350. You need the PIN for that. I explained that I have no idea what the PIN was, and challenged him to find, at any point in the previous 6 years of having the card, a time when I had used the PIN. He couldn't, as I hadn't - I tore it up the day I got the card and never wrote it down or memorised it. After several letters and numerous phone calls I eventually had the money refunded, less £50 which they said was for allowing my card to be compromised. Apparently I must have left the PIN with the card, even though this was not the case. I still have no idea how the money was taken without the PIN, or if it can be found out somehow. I gave up chasing after the last £50 as I had spent enough time already. I'm still pissed about it though, even though it was now about 9 years ago. So personally, I don't feel that the added PIN will help. Royal Bank of Scotland Classic Visa, by the way. Bastards.
Wouldn't that be a quadrantanopia? Or are '-opsia' and '-opia' interchangeable?
I just checked google and find 660 results for quadrantanopia and only 1 for quadrandanopsia. I presume this is your work?
*trainee surgeon, recently did 6 month stint in neurosurgery*
You'll never work out what caused her to kill herself, if you haven't already. The problem with suicide is, it's permanent.
There are a lot of different reasons people try to kill themselves. Some, a deliberately unsuccessful attempt as a 'cry for help'. Some, because they have what they perceive as a severe problem, which is temporary. Some, because their problem is permanent. And a host of other variations.
I am for euthanasia. And this fits the 'permanent' lot , thought not in every scenario. The problem is practical - not theoretical. If for some reason a mistake is made, then you ca't go back and change things. (e.g. perceived family pressures due to them being a burden or whatever).
Suicide is quite different. It is generally a reaction to a scenario which seems without hope to the sufferer - whether depression, rejection, financial, or million other reasons.
The likelihood is that your sister came into the group of people who had a temporary problem, which she did not feel equipped to deal with. Maybe a rejection. Maybe a mistake which felt to her like a social disaster. Who knows. Or maybe it was a cry for help, gone wrong (they do happen).
The tragedy is that in this scenario, she would have probably gotten over whatever trauma she perceived to be insurmountable in a matter of weeks or months. But the loss her family have suffered will go no much longer.
Now, it is a hugely stressful situation which is difficult to imagine to anyone else. But life must go on. You have to accept several things:
1. You'll probably never know why.
2. She's dead. She's not coming back.
3. If she were here now, she'd probably admit it was a mistake.
4. It wasn't your fault. Even if someone did something which might have caused her offence - that's not the reason. And even if it was, see point 3 above.
5. Until the family accept her loss, openly and completely, it will continue to tear you apart.
6. You have to stop blaming her for your problems. Marital, academic, or otherwise.
I'm not saying this shouldn't affect you. But life will go on, whether you go with it or not.You don't have to forget her, you just have to get over her death, and get on with your lives.
Counselling may help. Talking about it as a fmily - and agreeing not to get overemotional or confrontational, will help. But you have just told everyone here that you, as a unit, and as a group of individuals, are not coping, are not adapting, are not talking, are not dealing with it.
This is partly a criticism. Again, I'm not trying to offend or tell you how to feel, and I can understand why. But for the sake of all of you, you have to realise that your methods of dealing with this, so far, are wrong, and need to change.
But back to the point. Regardless of all of this, I think that freedom of speech should still allow the subject matter to be displayed, however objectionable.
You can limit the free use to a certain amount. You can also assume that most people aren't going to leave their taps running just because it's free. I pay a flat rate for water. No-one abuses that (admittedly in Scotland there's no shortage, but it still needs treated and transported).
Does your city provide free water and electricity? Mine doesn't. I pay a separate tax for water (in UK, though I am in fact now in Oz), electricity is private company.
I think the city would do better to spend the people's tax dollars on free water/gas/electricity or even phone before internet access.
Don't get me wrong, I think it'd be great to get free access - but if I just pay $30 a month extra taxes rather than $30 to my DSL provider, there's no difference. I also think that more 'essential' utilities are more appropriate for the government to try and subsidise.
Not much point in free internet if you can't afford to heat your home. Free up people's utility bills and they can put that toward internet if they need it.
On the other hand, the beauty of WiFi is that you can reach lots of people without direct cables - if the gummint can get a nice fat backbone, limit each connection to say 64-128K or so, and reach 4000 people with their new, welcomed super-duper megaWiFiTransmitter overlords, then it might bring the cost per user to very manageable levels. That would make sense.
They just want a solution, and they fo out and find one. Whether that means they hire a contractor, or write the apps in-house, they want a tool which does the job. Simple. They don't - and shouldn't have to - worry about things like this.
Don't blame the companies for this. Especially as there are plenty of ways around it (whitelisting some ActiveX stuff, for example, or allowing company sites privileged controls).
ActiveX etc. are just tools. Some good points, some bad points. Maybe the most suitable in some circumstances - would you want to hire some expensive subcontractor to code something in XUL when there are a million ActiveX codemonkeys who can do the same in a few clicks?
You are quite right to point out that there are flaws, but blaming the businesses is missing the point.
Could someone here (more computationally capable than me) please write a short program that does the following:
1. takes the basic music notes (i.e. quaver, crotchet, etc.) and rests
2. takes the basic tones (A, A#, B etc.)
3. Randomly generates a series of short (3-5 notes, with or without rests in between)
Note that only one octave is required. Other octaves, or keys, are just derivatives.
Note also that the timing can be simplified - a lot of the melodies will be longer duplicates (e.g. 4 beats A followed by 2 beats C is just a slowed-down version of 2 beats then 1 beat).
The program should write all of these, to one big MP3/OGG/Whatever.
Copywrite the result. All new music becomes a derivative work.
If anyone can tell me why this wouldn't work, I'd be glad to know.
If you feel like being a particular smartass, get it to cross-reference previously copywritten works and erase dupes to prevent the counter-suits.
It's on oversimplification. A single celled organism didn't just appear. It started off as random molecules which were generated by the primordial soup. Eventually one of these molecules happened to be a catalyst for it's own formation. This in turn gave rise to more complicated molecules, then eventually groups of molecules.
The beauty of the theory is that until a suitable compound is attained, nature will keep banging it's head off that wall. Like the infinite monkeys theory.
To jump suddenly to the single cell ignores many millions of incremental steps.
I believe that putting what was thought to be the 'primordial soup' - methane, carbon dioxide, a few other chemicals - in a hot electrical environment, in a fiarly short space of time, gives rise to simple organic molecules. To wait for the next human race to appear from this experiment may only be a matter of time.
Have you ever looked at a sex site? The problem is that there are a variety of things that could lead to you viewing them - and not all of them mean you are planning on an extramarital affair.
Maybe she was bored. Maybe she followed the wrong link and her curiosity was piqued. Maybe she got off on it.
The point is, it doesn't necessarily reflect on your relationship - that being said I don't know the details. Who knows, maybe it could spice up your relationship if you actually discuss it - she could have some unmet desire which she feels unable to express to you because of whatever reason.
Just as long as it wasn't goatse.
I'm a UK graduate, so I had 100% of my fees paid. Five year course though with not too much time to work in holidays and stuff (48 weeks of uni for the last few years which doesn't leave much room for a summer job) so I left with about £12500 debt (average for medic grad at that time - a lot less than e.g. the US) which is about $18000 US or about $30000 Australian. I don't think I'm necessarily getting a raw deal - just that the wage market is as screwed as the justice system when you look at relative wage/punishment for job/crime.