It is time DC is reactiong to violence in the same way people usually react to something as trivial as Janet Jackson's nipple. Excessive violence in the guise of sheer entertainment might be even more harmful to children than excessive sexuality.
At the same time responsible adults should be allowed to have the rights and freedom to enjoy stuff they actually can handle (that is: sex, booze, violent entertainment like games and movies) unlike kids.
Now I'm sure some smartass will come up with a response about adults who can't handle this stuff (alcoholics, gun nuts, porn addicts etc.), but they are in a minority. Children should have the right to be children and grow up in a non-violent environment. And really, children don't know what's best for them. That's the whole point of protecting them from Bad Stuff(TM).
The point of the article was that the hippos' ancestors, the anthracotheres, share a common ancestor with the whales. Hippos aren't that closely related to horses (which are perissodactyls).
Bad jokes aside, as is the common practice in communist countries, you as a rich(?) foreigner are more privileged than Zhoe Average. At hotels, for example, you can have CNN and other 'dangerous' news sources, possibly even non-blocked internet, too. Not sure how this works when you're an individual, though.
Still, Tiananmen is irrelevant in this case. If you, a foreigner, were found circumventing the Great Firewall of China or doing something else that's a serious crime under Chinese law, you wouldn't be secretly dragged to a re-education semi-auschwitz in the middle of the night. You'd probably just get deported and get a life-time ban to the country.
People watch too much TV and they're also ignorant. That explains why the parent was modded as 'insightful'.
Congratulations, you have encountered The Species Problem! You know, the problem is that there actually is no 100% certain way to tell what is a Species.
Yeah, it's easy to say that animals that can't interbreed are different species. If it only were that simple! In the Real World, we have individuals of different populations classified into their own species'. They live in different ecological niches, have different mating rituals etc etc, but if they tried, they would actually produce fertile offspring. So - what is a species, then? Nobody in the field of Biology accepts one one simple definition of a species. Ask some northern hemisphere seagulls - every now and then even they can't tell which gull belongs to their species and which one doesn't.
Of course, this is all too complicated for the Creationists. If a population of a certain species has significantly altered its habits or changed its phenotype, Creationists still call the animal the same as before - because they know where it came from. And this is the Creationist Species Problem: when the Creationist species definition is like this, the result is that there cannot be any new species ever. Just like all those hominine fossils are always either apes or modern humans (funnily enough, the Creationists cant' agree which of these creatures are 'apes' and which are 'humans'). Therefore, by definition, a new species is impossible, according to Creationist logic.
What would you call a new species? If one day a snake was born that had wings and that couldn't interbreed with its close relatives? Sorry, but that's not how evolution works. It isn't a series of impossible jumps, but instead reminiscent of a genetical gradient.
Fossil miniature elephants, even miniature mammoths (yeah, if there ever was a word pair worth the label of oxymoron) have been known for a long time. The last dwarfed mammoths are know from perhaps as late as 8000 years from Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia. Dwarf mammoths are also known from the Channel Islands off California, dwarf elephants from several Mediterranean islands. It's an evolutionary phenomenon known as island dwarfism.
Pegaroro is right: the installation of software is a pain in the @$$ on Linux. It was the biggest one of my few gripes with my newest experiment with Linux (Mandrake 10.0). They are improving on it, too, but Joe User must get his/her easy Redmond-style installation before you can call the process even remotely easy. Remember, Joe and Jane User usually find even the Windows installation process to be rocket science.
Here are some points:
-No command lines, absolutely NO command lines. They scare the bejesus out of people. And they are difficult, really. Remember, I'm brainwashed by Windows and GUIs.
-You need to make getting those needed libraries easy. The easiest way is to make the installer download and install those needed.
-Some kind of standard for installation packages in style of the installer exe in Windows.
You claiming that my post ``sounds quite xenophobic and uninformed'' doesn't make it so. I claim that you only said so because you've been educated to believe that everybody from the USA is a wrong cowbody, incapable of forming rational thoughts.
This comment of yours proves that you're not a EU citizen. Tell me, where can one get such education?
Welsh Dwarf: that's good to hear. My problem might be that I'm not a complete newbie nor a guru, but instead some kind of a more advanced user, who, however, is used to tweak his OS in the Windows Way. That means I can start solving a problem in Windows environment (checking the drivers, the registry and such), a non-cooperative printer for example, but in Linux I just throw my hands in the air with the same problem.
Somehow it feels that to have Linux fully under your control you've got to have a much deeper understanding of how it works than in Windows. Which in the end, if you have the courage and persistence to find out about all that, isn't a bad thing, but can scare away a less experienced user.
If you ever want Linux to become a real destop choice to Joe User, it must get more 'newbieized'. Or, to be more specific, 'windows-ized' (*shudder*). I'm not trolling, but speaking out of experience. Lots of it. I've tried to switch to Linux from Windows many times, but noticed that all too often, if I want to make the OS work the way I want, I have to dive into the dangerous world of config files. YaST is a step into the right direction, and with Novell's decision to set it free I'm sure it's going to get even better.
I mean didn't Hammond and Ian both die on the island in the original book? I the Lost World, they are miracously there.
Yeah, they both died in the original book. However, Hammond stayed dead in The Lost World book. Ian Malcolm was miraculously alive, although somewhat crippled.
1) Who or what decided that walking upright was a valuable goal for the animated stick figure?
In the real World, that would be a spesific selection pressure by natural selection. Remember, this is a simulation.
2) Who or what decided the keeping the center of gravity above a certain level was necessary to achieve that goal?
In reality, that would be our friends the laws of physics.
3) How did the environment that the stick figures 'live' in come into being?
This is irrelevant here, because we are talking about a simulation.
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I know. That's why such behavior shouldn't be encouraged in any way.
Where did I imply violence in children is caused by 'Wolfenstein 3D'?
Porn and violence are not 'beliefs'.
It is time DC is reactiong to violence in the same way people usually react to something as trivial as Janet Jackson's nipple. Excessive violence in the guise of sheer entertainment might be even more harmful to children than excessive sexuality.
At the same time responsible adults should be allowed to have the rights and freedom to enjoy stuff they actually can handle (that is: sex, booze, violent entertainment like games and movies) unlike kids.
Now I'm sure some smartass will come up with a response about adults who can't handle this stuff (alcoholics, gun nuts, porn addicts etc.), but they are in a minority. Children should have the right to be children and grow up in a non-violent environment. And really, children don't know what's best for them. That's the whole point of protecting them from Bad Stuff(TM).
Argh! .NET is goatse's evil cousin!
I got more relevant search results from Google. Tried with these: "fossils", "george w. bush", "al-qaeda", "eiffel tower" and "linux".
Encarta did give me good results, though. Wonder how long it will stay free.
The point of the article was that the hippos' ancestors, the anthracotheres, share a common ancestor with the whales. Hippos aren't that closely related to horses (which are perissodactyls).
...the Firewall circumvents YOU!
Bad jokes aside, as is the common practice in communist countries, you as a rich(?) foreigner are more privileged than Zhoe Average. At hotels, for example, you can have CNN and other 'dangerous' news sources, possibly even non-blocked internet, too. Not sure how this works when you're an individual, though.
Still, Tiananmen is irrelevant in this case. If you, a foreigner, were found circumventing the Great Firewall of China or doing something else that's a serious crime under Chinese law, you wouldn't be secretly dragged to a re-education semi-auschwitz in the middle of the night. You'd probably just get deported and get a life-time ban to the country.
People watch too much TV and they're also ignorant. That explains why the parent was modded as 'insightful'.
But why? We all know how useless they are - even a bunch of those unbearable Gungans can beat a whole army of them.
Congratulations, you have encountered The Species Problem! You know, the problem is that there actually is no 100% certain way to tell what is a Species.
Yeah, it's easy to say that animals that can't interbreed are different species. If it only were that simple! In the Real World, we have individuals of different populations classified into their own species'. They live in different ecological niches, have different mating rituals etc etc, but if they tried, they would actually produce fertile offspring. So - what is a species, then? Nobody in the field of Biology accepts one one simple definition of a species. Ask some northern hemisphere seagulls - every now and then even they can't tell which gull belongs to their species and which one doesn't.
Of course, this is all too complicated for the Creationists. If a population of a certain species has significantly altered its habits or changed its phenotype, Creationists still call the animal the same as before - because they know where it came from. And this is the Creationist Species Problem: when the Creationist species definition is like this, the result is that there cannot be any new species ever. Just like all those hominine fossils are always either apes or modern humans (funnily enough, the Creationists cant' agree which of these creatures are 'apes' and which are 'humans'). Therefore, by definition, a new species is impossible, according to Creationist logic.
What would you call a new species? If one day a snake was born that had wings and that couldn't interbreed with its close relatives? Sorry, but that's not how evolution works. It isn't a series of impossible jumps, but instead reminiscent of a genetical gradient.
Current death toll from Amnesty International's actions in Nepal:9560
What's this?
Fossil miniature elephants, even miniature mammoths (yeah, if there ever was a word pair worth the label of oxymoron) have been known for a long time. The last dwarfed mammoths are know from perhaps as late as 8000 years from Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia. Dwarf mammoths are also known from the Channel Islands off California, dwarf elephants from several Mediterranean islands. It's an evolutionary phenomenon known as island dwarfism.
...in Soviet Russia, the mascot names YOU!
Pegaroro is right: the installation of software is a pain in the @$$ on Linux. It was the biggest one of my few gripes with my newest experiment with Linux (Mandrake 10.0). They are improving on it, too, but Joe User must get his/her easy Redmond-style installation before you can call the process even remotely easy. Remember, Joe and Jane User usually find even the Windows installation process to be rocket science.
Here are some points:
-No command lines, absolutely NO command lines. They scare the bejesus out of people. And they are difficult, really. Remember, I'm brainwashed by Windows and GUIs.
-You need to make getting those needed libraries easy. The easiest way is to make the installer download and install those needed.
-Some kind of standard for installation packages in style of the installer exe in Windows.
...high incidents of on-line fraud as well, such as Africa, Nigeria, Macedonia, Colombia, etc.
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Africa and Nigeria mentioned separately? Didn't know Africa is a country. You always learn something new at
You claiming that my post ``sounds quite xenophobic and uninformed'' doesn't make it so. I claim that you only said so because you've been educated to believe that everybody from the USA is a wrong cowbody, incapable of forming rational thoughts.
This comment of yours proves that you're not a EU citizen. Tell me, where can one get such education?
Welsh Dwarf: that's good to hear. My problem might be that I'm not a complete newbie nor a guru, but instead some kind of a more advanced user, who, however, is used to tweak his OS in the Windows Way. That means I can start solving a problem in Windows environment (checking the drivers, the registry and such), a non-cooperative printer for example, but in Linux I just throw my hands in the air with the same problem.
Somehow it feels that to have Linux fully under your control you've got to have a much deeper understanding of how it works than in Windows. Which in the end, if you have the courage and persistence to find out about all that, isn't a bad thing, but can scare away a less experienced user.
If you ever want Linux to become a real destop choice to Joe User, it must get more 'newbieized'. Or, to be more specific, 'windows-ized' (*shudder*). I'm not trolling, but speaking out of experience. Lots of it. I've tried to switch to Linux from Windows many times, but noticed that all too often, if I want to make the OS work the way I want, I have to dive into the dangerous world of config files. YaST is a step into the right direction, and with Novell's decision to set it free I'm sure it's going to get even better.
Yep. And also, soils get minerals from rock through simple weathering. No need for just glaciers and such.
Yep, we're not monkeys. We're apes.
"#1, Red Hat is anti-american"
Hey, why do you think they call themselves Red Hat??
Beware of the Red Menace!!
I mean didn't Hammond and Ian both die on the island in the original book? I the Lost World, they are miracously there.
Yeah, they both died in the original book. However, Hammond stayed dead in The Lost World book. Ian Malcolm was miraculously alive, although somewhat crippled.
Nit #5: it's Qui-Gon, not Quigonn.
Where are the 'Funny' mod points of the above post?
LOL!
Try to search for "Internet" on Google, and voila: the first two sites to come up are "Microsoft" and "Internet Explorer Home Page".
Does this mean Google thinks M$==Internet?
OK, I'll swallow the bait...
1) Who or what decided that walking upright was a valuable goal for the animated stick figure?
In the real World, that would be a spesific selection pressure by natural selection. Remember, this is a simulation.
2) Who or what decided the keeping the center of gravity above a certain level was necessary to achieve that goal?
In reality, that would be our friends the laws of physics.
3) How did the environment that the stick figures 'live' in come into being?
This is irrelevant here, because we are talking about a simulation.