Elephants and Rhinos have tougher skin. There are multiple species of antelope that have stripes or patterns that may accomplish the same thing. Same with a giraffe. Buffalo have longer hair, so they maybe don't need stripes.
Well that assumes that the evolution to avoid light flashes is primarily to avoid becoming dinner of a spider. Perhaps it's because it screws with their ability to see so much that they can't even see what surface they are about to land on. Maybe it hinders their ability to detect their own "altitude" and rather than crash into a surface they will move away.
I don't understand why this would make sense. Flies like the taste of Zebra, lets assume. The fly would not have likely evolved to not like the taste of zebra, unless something about the taste of zebra made it disadvantageous to want to taste zebra. What is more likely is that the zebra evolved stripes first, and the evolution of the eyesight of flies hasn't evolved to keep up with it.
This is curious because perhaps evolutionary changes in eyesight take much longer to happen than changes in things like skin color. Perhaps the stripes screw with the eyesight so fundamentally that even with extreme amounts of generations of flies with all their possible mutations, they still haven't been able to evolve a response to zebra striping that allows them to go back to munching on Zebras on a regular basis.
The ability of people to "handle" the simplifying of the issue down to the two ideas you have described has no bearing of the truth of those statements. I firmly believe that allowing gays to marry is supporting human rights, and attempting to deny it is bigotry. Whether people can "handle" that or not has no bearing on it's truth.
But it is a reasonable question. However, he's already answered it:
"McAfee, 68, was named by police in Belize as a person of interest in the Nov. 11, 2012, shooting of Gregory Faull, but he fled the small Central American country before he could be questioned.
McAfee denies involvement in the death of Faull, an Orlando contractor and restaurant owner. But he told Reuters in a telephone interview he would not fight a subpoena for deposition in the lawsuit.
'Of course not, because the deposition will be here in America. I've told the police in Belize that I will sit for questioning in any neutral country in the world... I just will not go to Belize," McAfee said.'... The estate is seeking a jury trial and damages in excess of $75,000 on behalf of Faull's 26-year-old daughter." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
A question I would have is, would he agree to a jury trial if he's charged either by Belize or the US.
As the WISE spacecraft was sent up specifically to look for these sorts of possible large planets, and found nothing after an extensive search, it would be amusing indeed. But it's highly unlikely.
Amusingly, Hitler thought the same. This was one of his primary reasons for believing he would have success in invading Russia...the Soviet experience losing the Winter War. But, as they say, "Past performance does not predict future results." We know how that mistake turned out.
Well, go back far enough and the area was Tartar only because the descendants of Ghengis Khan formed the Crimean Khanate, which essentially took over part of the current Ukraine in the 15th century, massacring tons of ethnic Russians in the process.
Baloney. The color-blindness of the IT industry is related to the hiring practices, which as many people here have pointed out repeatedly, is skewed white because many tech jobs rarely get black candidates. How, in any way shape or form, is that any fault of the IT industry in any way? If Craig's list has a job opening for a startup in San Francisco, and they interview 100 applicants, none of whom are white, are you seriously saying this is due to some cultural bias of the recruiters or interviewers?
Or is it much more likely that quite simply, few black folks apply for those sorts of positions?
Why is it that posts which actually shed some light on what is actually happening in the situation are always at the bottom of a thread? This appears to be the sad state of affairs on/. Seriously, even if I disagree with someone, I always just scroll to the bottom of a thread to get something even remotely insightful about something.
Fuck you. I said nothing in my post that advocating restricting what people eat. I never said people shouldn't that choice to shop there; hell, even *I* shop there, because they have things that you can't get anywhere else.
That doesn't change the fact that there's a ton of anti-GMO people out there, who, in my opinion, are mostly followers of pseudoscience. "Full disclosure" of psuedo-science is advocating pseudo-science, which is quite often what the anti-GMO people want.
Take your hate-filled rant elsewhere. I live in San Francisco, recycle, ride a bike, eat healthy, vote for Democrats and even hug a tree now and then. You have no idea what you are talking about.
"No one at the local Whole Foods is trying to impose their beliefs or customs on you our your secular government."
Well, that isn't necessarily true, because many of the same people who shop at Whole Foods are active in the anti-GMO movement. They shop at WH because they fervently believe at GMOs are bad for themselves and everyone else, and many folks are politically active, at least in California, in trying to put anti-GMO statutes on the ballot whenever they can. So while whole foods isn't necessarily doing those things, they certainly cater to people who do.
You can see this on any one of dozens of prison documentaries where they interview guards about their experiences with inmates. It's not rocket science.
Because they don't have as many violent criminals; they don't have facilities set up for solitary; they don't have as many criminals in general.
However, I do believe it's overused here in the US. But I'm mainly opposed to the folks who want to get rid of it in all cases, and there seems to be quite a few.
This. It is a choice, however, prison, for obvious reasons, are full of actual real live psychopaths and sociopaths. Of course most folks in prison aren't either of these, but an inordinate amount are. One can argue that this is a mental illness or a human condition or whatever, but for various reasons the social controls outside have not had an effect of stopping these folks from committing crimes against others. It's simply foolish to believe that the controls in prison will do the same. For some folks, sadly, solitary is the only way to handle it.
I disagree that reform is better. I fully believe that some people simply cannot be reformed.
Do you agree with the following statement? Some people in prison have neither the willingness or ability to be reformed.
It's also very clear that you have no idea what you are talking about, because the American prison system is full of crazy people. By crazy, I mean people with mental illnesses that are not put into the mental health system. Prison is notorious for having a lack of mental health treatment for prisioners. You can say that this should be changed, and of course it could, but in the meantime, locking up the crazy violent repeat offenders who throw their own feces at every guard who walks by is sometimes the only way to death with the situation.
I am using life sentences as an example; there are lots of prisoners who are not in for life who still feel they have nothing to lose, act on a violent impulse and attack someone, or are just plain crazy. Some of these people have to be separated physically from the main popualtion and guards. I do agree its use should be lessened though.
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Elephants and Rhinos have tougher skin. There are multiple species of antelope that have stripes or patterns that may accomplish the same thing. Same with a giraffe. Buffalo have longer hair, so they maybe don't need stripes.
Well that assumes that the evolution to avoid light flashes is primarily to avoid becoming dinner of a spider. Perhaps it's because it screws with their ability to see so much that they can't even see what surface they are about to land on. Maybe it hinders their ability to detect their own "altitude" and rather than crash into a surface they will move away.
I don't understand why this would make sense. Flies like the taste of Zebra, lets assume. The fly would not have likely evolved to not like the taste of zebra, unless something about the taste of zebra made it disadvantageous to want to taste zebra. What is more likely is that the zebra evolved stripes first, and the evolution of the eyesight of flies hasn't evolved to keep up with it.
This is curious because perhaps evolutionary changes in eyesight take much longer to happen than changes in things like skin color. Perhaps the stripes screw with the eyesight so fundamentally that even with extreme amounts of generations of flies with all their possible mutations, they still haven't been able to evolve a response to zebra striping that allows them to go back to munching on Zebras on a regular basis.
The ability of people to "handle" the simplifying of the issue down to the two ideas you have described has no bearing of the truth of those statements. I firmly believe that allowing gays to marry is supporting human rights, and attempting to deny it is bigotry. Whether people can "handle" that or not has no bearing on it's truth.
These are the whimpering cries of a conservative watching the world change around him, unable to have any control over it. It's kindof sad, really.
But it is a reasonable question. However, he's already answered it:
"McAfee, 68, was named by police in Belize as a person of interest in the Nov. 11, 2012, shooting of Gregory Faull, but he fled the small Central American country before he could be questioned.
McAfee denies involvement in the death of Faull, an Orlando contractor and restaurant owner. But he told Reuters in a telephone interview he would not fight a subpoena for deposition in the lawsuit.
'Of course not, because the deposition will be here in America. I've told the police in Belize that I will sit for questioning in any neutral country in the world ... I just will not go to Belize," McAfee said.' ...
The estate is seeking a jury trial and damages in excess of $75,000 on behalf of Faull's 26-year-old daughter."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
A question I would have is, would he agree to a jury trial if he's charged either by Belize or the US.
As the WISE spacecraft was sent up specifically to look for these sorts of possible large planets, and found nothing after an extensive search, it would be amusing indeed. But it's highly unlikely.
That is an amusing site.
Amusingly, Hitler thought the same. This was one of his primary reasons for believing he would have success in invading Russia...the Soviet experience losing the Winter War. But, as they say, "Past performance does not predict future results." We know how that mistake turned out.
Well, go back far enough and the area was Tartar only because the descendants of Ghengis Khan formed the Crimean Khanate, which essentially took over part of the current Ukraine in the 15th century, massacring tons of ethnic Russians in the process.
That, or the fact that it is very expensive to live there.
And there are black enclaves in Silicon Valley...East Palo Alto has roughly the same amount of black folks as white folks...
Baloney. The color-blindness of the IT industry is related to the hiring practices, which as many people here have pointed out repeatedly, is skewed white because many tech jobs rarely get black candidates. How, in any way shape or form, is that any fault of the IT industry in any way? If Craig's list has a job opening for a startup in San Francisco, and they interview 100 applicants, none of whom are white, are you seriously saying this is due to some cultural bias of the recruiters or interviewers?
Or is it much more likely that quite simply, few black folks apply for those sorts of positions?
I actually clicked that. You don't want to go there. Seriously.
tl; dr; stupid, and off topic.
Why is it that posts which actually shed some light on what is actually happening in the situation are always at the bottom of a thread? This appears to be the sad state of affairs on /. Seriously, even if I disagree with someone, I always just scroll to the bottom of a thread to get something even remotely insightful about something.
I disagree.
Fuck you. I said nothing in my post that advocating restricting what people eat. I never said people shouldn't that choice to shop there; hell, even *I* shop there, because they have things that you can't get anywhere else.
That doesn't change the fact that there's a ton of anti-GMO people out there, who, in my opinion, are mostly followers of pseudoscience. "Full disclosure" of psuedo-science is advocating pseudo-science, which is quite often what the anti-GMO people want.
Take your hate-filled rant elsewhere. I live in San Francisco, recycle, ride a bike, eat healthy, vote for Democrats and even hug a tree now and then. You have no idea what you are talking about.
You are smelling the inside of your nose if you do that. Not the outside, which may smell entirely different to someone else.
Right, why would you do that. They are already covered in baby oil.
"No one at the local Whole Foods is trying to impose their beliefs or customs on you our your secular government."
Well, that isn't necessarily true, because many of the same people who shop at Whole Foods are active in the anti-GMO movement. They shop at WH because they fervently believe at GMOs are bad for themselves and everyone else, and many folks are politically active, at least in California, in trying to put anti-GMO statutes on the ballot whenever they can. So while whole foods isn't necessarily doing those things, they certainly cater to people who do.
You can see this on any one of dozens of prison documentaries where they interview guards about their experiences with inmates. It's not rocket science.
Because they don't have as many violent criminals; they don't have facilities set up for solitary; they don't have as many criminals in general.
However, I do believe it's overused here in the US. But I'm mainly opposed to the folks who want to get rid of it in all cases, and there seems to be quite a few.
This. It is a choice, however, prison, for obvious reasons, are full of actual real live psychopaths and sociopaths. Of course most folks in prison aren't either of these, but an inordinate amount are. One can argue that this is a mental illness or a human condition or whatever, but for various reasons the social controls outside have not had an effect of stopping these folks from committing crimes against others. It's simply foolish to believe that the controls in prison will do the same. For some folks, sadly, solitary is the only way to handle it.
I disagree that reform is better. I fully believe that some people simply cannot be reformed.
Do you agree with the following statement?
Some people in prison have neither the willingness or ability to be reformed.
It's also very clear that you have no idea what you are talking about, because the American prison system is full of crazy people. By crazy, I mean people with mental illnesses that are not put into the mental health system. Prison is notorious for having a lack of mental health treatment for prisioners. You can say that this should be changed, and of course it could, but in the meantime, locking up the crazy violent repeat offenders who throw their own feces at every guard who walks by is sometimes the only way to death with the situation.
I am using life sentences as an example; there are lots of prisoners who are not in for life who still feel they have nothing to lose, act on a violent impulse and attack someone, or are just plain crazy. Some of these people have to be separated physically from the main popualtion and guards. I do agree its use should be lessened though.