if we didn't flip-flop, we would still be living in caves
True, and if we didn't flip-flop, the first sea creatures to attempt to venture onto land would have died because they couldn't have made it back to water so we'd all still be living in the ocean. Flip-flopping is very important!
IMHO, it makes no difference who a sitting or former president is related to or what party he belongs to. When a foreign government attempts to assassinate one, they gotta go. It's a shame so many of people are such big pussies that they will let true acts of war slide by.
No. What's a shame is that so many people will let the fear of being called a pussy goad them into doing something ultimately stupid and self-destructive.
Reminds me of Bush telling the Iraqi insurgents to "Bring it on". Despite appearances on occasion, geopolitics and war are not the high school locker room or the WCW. There are consequences for your actions, and those are what matter. Failing to consider them because only a "pussy" lets consequences stop them is dumb. You can take every reason given for the Iraq war put together, and it was not worth the damage. Just to retaliate for that assassination attempt? Absolutely not.
Also, you probably don't want that little rule about removing governments that try to assassinate the heads of others to apply in both directions.
Yeah, myself and an uncle were both added to a family photo taken around fifteen years ago, using those poor ol' analog techniques. I haven't asked any family members if they actually remember me being there, not that I think it matters either way. I highly doubt only digital manipulation is capable of also altering our memories. Our memories have always been a combination of what is remembered and what we're currently experiencing. If there's any difference, it would be that my family would remember not being able to get the family photo until my uncle and I were in town and able to go to the photographer's, then the added development time.
I think the biggest difference photoshop et. al. make is that they are vastly more accessible than the darkroom. You can do it at home, you don't have to be an expert to do a passable job. Thanks to Photoshop, Moe Szyslak wouldn't have to resort to pasting crude cut-outs of his head onto Homer and Marge's wedding album.
I hadn't seen the full story from the daughter, I'd only heard that a teenager lived but the wife and daughter were killed. I didn't even know the girl who lived was his daughter.
Also, she apparently had a baby brother who was unharmed.
Also, the comments in the link to the full story are retarded. "It says the 3-year old was shot but then says the infant lived? I don't get it!" A 3 year old isn't an infant, morons...
In D2 you could create some pretty ridiculous builds (Like a dagger paladin) and actually have them be relatively successful as long as you were willing to suck
I'll just cut off the quote there and say that as long as there are a wide variety of builds that are viable (which there were in D2 not counting absurdities), then I don't think this is a big problem.
Really? You mean now there's a goal other than fighting until either you or the bad guys are dead?
To make you go slower so it can kill you easier.
It can kill you by hitting you, by zapping you, by freezing you, by burning you...
Er, no, I don't think you get what they mean. They don't mean "We don't have to hurt you through successive attacks in such a manner that you will eventually be slain unless you take action in order to challenge you." They mean kill, like a killing blow, as in who cares if you have full health you die right now.
In D2, because you could pop a Rejuvenation potion that instantly healed you to full whenever you wanted, most of the time attacks that merely hurt you by hitting you, zapping you, freezing you, burning you, were all no big deal. The only attacks that were ever really dangerous at all were those few that would either kill you in one shot, or would do so much damage so rapidly that you'd have to burn through your entire inventory of potions to survive for more than a second or two. Diablo's Lightning Hose, random Multiple Shot+Fire+Lightning enchanted mini-bosses, the necromancer bosses' Corpse Explosion, Duriel's charge if you weren't a heavy armor class... and well not really a whole lot else.
It was a combination of immensely easy on the one hand, and incredibly cheap on the other, with insanely fast transitions that would leave you saying "WTF just killed me?!"
The new system sounds like a huge improvement. By having orbs drop from enemies, this means they can control the pace of health recovery, and it means that slow hurting attacks can be dangerous if you can't get enough health orbs to recover in time. By not letting the player have access to basically 16x their health pool (or more), it eliminates the need for insta-kill abilities just to make the player sweat.
If D3 is able to be challenging without being cheap, maybe I'll actually try playing Hardcore (die once, dead forever, like in the Rogue-likes Diablo inherits from).
It sounds as if they wanted to bring in a strategy angle for the PvE element with this new installment... I remember not needing much strategy at all in Diablo 2, just hack and slash and power through everything. Also, if I'm understanding TFA correctly, there are no potions
You're forgetting part of the "strategy". It was hack and slash and oh noes my health is low pop a big rejuvie potion. Don't attempt Diablo without at least 16 of em!
I'm quite glad about this change. Like the quote from the summary, " We don't have to kill you to challenge you." Since any time you got in any health trouble you could heal to full, almost nothing was a danger unless you couldn't kill it before you ran out of potions. Oh, but then, THEN, you run across the immensely feared and stupidly cheesy Multiple Shot Lightning Enchant Fire Enchant, and you, you idiot, were a Zeal Paladin. You click them once and go SPLAT!
That was "challenge" in D2. A ridiculously cheap insta-death. That's why I'd never play a Hardcore character. I mean I love Nethack, and sure it can hand you some quick nasty deaths, but they rarely if ever feel -cheap-. Pretty much every death in D2 felt that way.
So if the challenge in the new system is "oh noes my health is low can I find/reach a health orb in time", that's a hundred times better to me than "oh noes the boss can one-shot me".
The Taliban rid Aphganistan of Opium, much to the Chagrin of the Americans. That doens't make the Taliban ok, but at least get the facts correct.
Uh my facts are correct you need to check yours, or at least update them past 2001. The Taliban squashed the opium trade when they were in power. When they lost power, they began growing and selling opium like crazy in order to fund their insurgency. Similarly, the Northern Alliance began growing and selling it again too.
if you shoot heroin, you really do support the taliban and al qaeda. especially if you shoot heroin in europe
Well, you might be. The Northern Alliance, our allies against the Taliban, are also growing and exporting as much opium as they can. So there's a good chance that you're supporting them instead, or as well since I doubt the traffickers care which they're buying their opium from or to keep them separated.
Not that this is really that much better anyway. The NA is mostly a bunch of warlords whose major beef with the Taliban was that they implemented the Pashtun's form of authoritarian religious fundamentalism instead of the warlord's tribe's. They are partly responsible for making Gitmo the sick joke that it is by grabbing any random person from the next village over and claiming they are al Qaeda in order to get a reward.
So yeah, I wouldn't use the chance that you might only be supporting the NA instead of al qaeda as a justification for buying heroin.:P
Compared to the years it takes to amortize the Crazy Dictators and Wackadoos financial baggage
Well from the point of view of the energy company, those are what're called "externalities", which is economics-speak for "Who cares? I'm not footing the bill. LOL."
Halliburton doesn't pay for the problems caused by Middle East instability; in fact it profits from them.
Whereas even with government aid they'd still have to sink a lot of the up-front costs for nuclear plants.
Sure from the standpoint of us, the consumer, we get to pay the full cost either way. But we don't build power plants and Halliburton does.
...is how all the animosity has gone out of the relationship between Sega and Nintendo. Not just in the corporate world (where most of it was blustering, anyway) but in the minds of consumers as well. When was the last time you heard someone say, "Sega is way better than Nintendo!" or "Nu-uh, Sega beats the pants off Nintendo!" Even when the Dreamcast came out, it was well received on both sides of the fence.
Eh. I was never that way. Even when I was a kid, it wasn't "Sega is the greatest!" and "No, Nintendo rules Sega drools!" It was "Hey, I have a SNES so you can come over and play Mario World and Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Star Fox" and "Sweet, I have a Genesis so you can come over and play Altered Beast, Golden Axe, and Mortal Kombat with blood n guts!"
Why bicker over which is better when you can enjoy the best of both worlds? Heck even when none of my friends had a Genesis, I still thought Altered Beast was cool and not something to be bitter over.
Actually it does help a little. Pollution can be better controlled at a single point than at many thousands of points. Economies of scale can also be implemented.
And just as importantly, that single point doesn't have to move, and thus doesn't pay an efficiency cost due to having to move the extra mass of any emissions controls.
The Daily Show has been experimenting with making fun of Democrats.
When they sent Lewis Black to cover the Democratic National Convention in 2004, he was absolutely scathing, and it was hilarious.
They didn't just start making fun of Democrats this year. They're just going to be doing it more now that there are more Democrat decision makers.
If the audience didn't like it (maybe it's easier to laugh at yourself when you're on the bottom, but now they're offended?), I agree, tough on them Daily Show needs to keep doing what it's doing.
Though the right to privacy is not expressly mentioned in the constitution
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" is the passive-voice way of saying "The people's right to privacy". It's a prohibition against the government doing all the things that would constitute a violation of your privacy.
So I've always maintained that the right to privacy is not an invention, it was quite specifically put into the Constitution.
If you plan on playing a game under Wine that is purported to do well, you should probably at least check the Gentoo World of Warcraft Howto and browse the performance tweaks section. Applying the registry tweak really does work, if you're playing an OpenGL game.
3D Studio Max is still outsells just about every other piece of 3D software by 2-3x I believe. And I suspect a suspiciously large number of customers at some point in their lives dabbled in illicit copies.
Abso-fsckin-lutely.
A friend of mine, who I met way back when I was trying to get an actual artist to work on a Quake mod, was using a pirated copy of 3ds max. He used it to make models for the mod, and got quite a bit of experience with the software. In that magical time where home-brew gaming powered by a mod-able commercial engine like Quake was coming to the fore, he was eventually able to parlay that into an actual job contracting for a commercial game developer. At which point he went out and dropped the 2k or 3k or whatever it is to buy a legitimate license. No way he could have done that while still an amateur going to school (for a degree unrelated to computer graphics).
So without piracy, he wouldn't have gotten the job, and AutoDesk wouldn't have gotten thousands of dollars. Sounds pretty win-win to me.
Now I personally pirated a copy of 3ds max when I was trying to make models myself before meeting my artist friend. I was, frankly, terrible. Eventually I deleted the program with no intention of buying it. Not that I would have bought it anyway! That's way too expensive of a program to buy just to find out that I suck.:P
Actually, he heard outdated news. At one time they were kicking people off for using wine. They've since reversed that decision.
Just for background, it wasn't so much a decision as it was a mistake. They didn't kick them for using wine, they didn't know it was wine, their software just detected that wow was being run through 3rd party software, and under the (pretty safe on windows) assumption that this means you're trying to cheat, they were banned as blanket policy.
Once Blizzard was clued in that these were just paying customers trying to play the game, they unbanned the accounts and modified their software to identify Cedega and Wine and not flag those users. At that point they even worked with Cedega to help them support WoW better.
While it isn't actual Linux support, it is nice seeing Blizzard go to some effort to help a relatively tiny portion of their customers.
Even when conservatives do come on Stewart or Colbert, it's generally a very uncomfortable interview (polite applause from the audience, host trying desperately to think of something good to say).
Eh, John McCain did pretty well on The Daily Show, and when I saw him a few years ago Bob Dole was absolutely awesome.
But that's The Daily Show, which has a slant sure but is perfectly willing to tear Democrats and liberals a new one whenever its appropriate. I think mostly it's because Stewart and the show came unto their own during a period when Republicans were in power and thus provided the majority of the targets. Stewart is liberal in his politics, but I don't think that dominates the show which is mostly about deriving humor from the news. It's not the same as 'liberal' or 'conservative' talk shows.
Colbert Report, though, is obviously dominated by its slant. There's no avoiding it, as his character is a caricature of a conservative talk show host. He "praised" the President to his face for going with his gut instead of facts, saying "reality has a well-known liberal bias".
But yes, even though they're different shows, I don't doubt that their demographics are largely the same, and that it doesn't include a lot of Republicans.
I am not a biologist, but I do know that traits acquired by the parents, such as the presumed increased intelligence due to cooked food (Which I don't think would actually happen, but who knows?), would not be passed to their children.
The theory would be not that eating cooked food made them smarter.
The theory would be that cooking food made it biologically feasible for their offspring to develop smaller digestive systems and larger, more calorie-hungry brains. However for that to happen the genes would have to be created and expressed. This necessarily means it happened to the offspring of the ones who started eating cooked food.
I guess we'll have to wait for UK to relinquish their claim to the Falkland Islands and Northern Ireland, Israel to relinquish their claim to the Golan heights, Jerusalem and West-bank, and the US to relinquish their claim to California and Texas and parts of the South to the Conferderacy. And I don't want to even get into Cyprus, Kashmir, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Taiwan, Quebec, or the various parts of Africa.
Uh Texas fought for their independence first, and then joined the union voluntarily; really you'd be more right to say we have to wait for all the former Europeans to give the Americas back to the natives. But I don't really want to quibble over history, so I'll just say that my general response is "Yes."
None of that frees China from being the bad guy in the Tibet-China issue.
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That google results page has clearly been photoshopped.
if we didn't flip-flop, we would still be living in caves
True, and if we didn't flip-flop, the first sea creatures to attempt to venture onto land would have died because they couldn't have made it back to water so we'd all still be living in the ocean. Flip-flopping is very important!
IMHO, it makes no difference who a sitting or former president is related to or what party he belongs to. When a foreign government attempts to assassinate one, they gotta go. It's a shame so many of people are such big pussies that they will let true acts of war slide by.
No. What's a shame is that so many people will let the fear of being called a pussy goad them into doing something ultimately stupid and self-destructive.
Reminds me of Bush telling the Iraqi insurgents to "Bring it on". Despite appearances on occasion, geopolitics and war are not the high school locker room or the WCW. There are consequences for your actions, and those are what matter. Failing to consider them because only a "pussy" lets consequences stop them is dumb. You can take every reason given for the Iraq war put together, and it was not worth the damage. Just to retaliate for that assassination attempt? Absolutely not.
Also, you probably don't want that little rule about removing governments that try to assassinate the heads of others to apply in both directions.
Yeah, myself and an uncle were both added to a family photo taken around fifteen years ago, using those poor ol' analog techniques. I haven't asked any family members if they actually remember me being there, not that I think it matters either way. I highly doubt only digital manipulation is capable of also altering our memories. Our memories have always been a combination of what is remembered and what we're currently experiencing. If there's any difference, it would be that my family would remember not being able to get the family photo until my uncle and I were in town and able to go to the photographer's, then the added development time.
I think the biggest difference photoshop et. al. make is that they are vastly more accessible than the darkroom. You can do it at home, you don't have to be an expert to do a passable job. Thanks to Photoshop, Moe Szyslak wouldn't have to resort to pasting crude cut-outs of his head onto Homer and Marge's wedding album.
Damn it! I picked (c) Job Interview because I didn't know what "toture" was.
You ass, now I'm not going to get into Harvard because of your typo!
I hadn't seen the full story from the daughter, I'd only heard that a teenager lived but the wife and daughter were killed. I didn't even know the girl who lived was his daughter.
Also, she apparently had a baby brother who was unharmed.
Also, the comments in the link to the full story are retarded. "It says the 3-year old was shot but then says the infant lived? I don't get it!" A 3 year old isn't an infant, morons...
Anyway... Terrible tragedy.
In D2 you could create some pretty ridiculous builds (Like a dagger paladin) and actually have them be relatively successful as long as you were willing to suck
I'll just cut off the quote there and say that as long as there are a wide variety of builds that are viable (which there were in D2 not counting absurdities), then I don't think this is a big problem.
Really? You mean now there's a goal other than fighting until either you or the bad guys are dead?
To make you go slower so it can kill you easier.
It can kill you by hitting you, by zapping you, by freezing you, by burning you...
Er, no, I don't think you get what they mean. They don't mean "We don't have to hurt you through successive attacks in such a manner that you will eventually be slain unless you take action in order to challenge you." They mean kill, like a killing blow, as in who cares if you have full health you die right now.
In D2, because you could pop a Rejuvenation potion that instantly healed you to full whenever you wanted, most of the time attacks that merely hurt you by hitting you, zapping you, freezing you, burning you, were all no big deal. The only attacks that were ever really dangerous at all were those few that would either kill you in one shot, or would do so much damage so rapidly that you'd have to burn through your entire inventory of potions to survive for more than a second or two. Diablo's Lightning Hose, random Multiple Shot+Fire+Lightning enchanted mini-bosses, the necromancer bosses' Corpse Explosion, Duriel's charge if you weren't a heavy armor class... and well not really a whole lot else.
It was a combination of immensely easy on the one hand, and incredibly cheap on the other, with insanely fast transitions that would leave you saying "WTF just killed me?!"
The new system sounds like a huge improvement. By having orbs drop from enemies, this means they can control the pace of health recovery, and it means that slow hurting attacks can be dangerous if you can't get enough health orbs to recover in time. By not letting the player have access to basically 16x their health pool (or more), it eliminates the need for insta-kill abilities just to make the player sweat.
If D3 is able to be challenging without being cheap, maybe I'll actually try playing Hardcore (die once, dead forever, like in the Rogue-likes Diablo inherits from).
It sounds as if they wanted to bring in a strategy angle for the PvE element with this new installment... I remember not needing much strategy at all in Diablo 2, just hack and slash and power through everything. Also, if I'm understanding TFA correctly, there are no potions
You're forgetting part of the "strategy". It was hack and slash and oh noes my health is low pop a big rejuvie potion. Don't attempt Diablo without at least 16 of em!
I'm quite glad about this change. Like the quote from the summary, " We don't have to kill you to challenge you." Since any time you got in any health trouble you could heal to full, almost nothing was a danger unless you couldn't kill it before you ran out of potions. Oh, but then, THEN, you run across the immensely feared and stupidly cheesy Multiple Shot Lightning Enchant Fire Enchant, and you, you idiot, were a Zeal Paladin. You click them once and go SPLAT!
That was "challenge" in D2. A ridiculously cheap insta-death. That's why I'd never play a Hardcore character. I mean I love Nethack, and sure it can hand you some quick nasty deaths, but they rarely if ever feel -cheap-. Pretty much every death in D2 felt that way.
So if the challenge in the new system is "oh noes my health is low can I find/reach a health orb in time", that's a hundred times better to me than "oh noes the boss can one-shot me".
The Taliban rid Aphganistan of Opium, much to the Chagrin of the Americans. That doens't make the Taliban ok, but at least get the facts correct.
Uh my facts are correct you need to check yours, or at least update them past 2001. The Taliban squashed the opium trade when they were in power. When they lost power, they began growing and selling opium like crazy in order to fund their insurgency. Similarly, the Northern Alliance began growing and selling it again too.
if you shoot heroin, you really do support the taliban and al qaeda. especially if you shoot heroin in europe
Well, you might be. The Northern Alliance, our allies against the Taliban, are also growing and exporting as much opium as they can. So there's a good chance that you're supporting them instead, or as well since I doubt the traffickers care which they're buying their opium from or to keep them separated.
Not that this is really that much better anyway. The NA is mostly a bunch of warlords whose major beef with the Taliban was that they implemented the Pashtun's form of authoritarian religious fundamentalism instead of the warlord's tribe's. They are partly responsible for making Gitmo the sick joke that it is by grabbing any random person from the next village over and claiming they are al Qaeda in order to get a reward.
So yeah, I wouldn't use the chance that you might only be supporting the NA instead of al qaeda as a justification for buying heroin. :P
Compared to the years it takes to amortize the Crazy Dictators and Wackadoos financial baggage
Well from the point of view of the energy company, those are what're called "externalities", which is economics-speak for "Who cares? I'm not footing the bill. LOL."
Halliburton doesn't pay for the problems caused by Middle East instability; in fact it profits from them.
Whereas even with government aid they'd still have to sink a lot of the up-front costs for nuclear plants.
Sure from the standpoint of us, the consumer, we get to pay the full cost either way. But we don't build power plants and Halliburton does.
...is how all the animosity has gone out of the relationship between Sega and Nintendo. Not just in the corporate world (where most of it was blustering, anyway) but in the minds of consumers as well. When was the last time you heard someone say, "Sega is way better than Nintendo!" or "Nu-uh, Sega beats the pants off Nintendo!" Even when the Dreamcast came out, it was well received on both sides of the fence.
Eh. I was never that way. Even when I was a kid, it wasn't "Sega is the greatest!" and "No, Nintendo rules Sega drools!" It was "Hey, I have a SNES so you can come over and play Mario World and Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Star Fox" and "Sweet, I have a Genesis so you can come over and play Altered Beast, Golden Axe, and Mortal Kombat with blood n guts!"
Why bicker over which is better when you can enjoy the best of both worlds? Heck even when none of my friends had a Genesis, I still thought Altered Beast was cool and not something to be bitter over.
That's why I love software. Compile time means the computer is working so I don't have to! =D
Actually it does help a little. Pollution can be better controlled at a single point than at many thousands of points. Economies of scale can also be implemented.
And just as importantly, that single point doesn't have to move, and thus doesn't pay an efficiency cost due to having to move the extra mass of any emissions controls.
It's hard to been as a edgy talking hedgehog when you have to compete with GTA.
Doesn't mean they won't try!
The Daily Show has been experimenting with making fun of Democrats.
When they sent Lewis Black to cover the Democratic National Convention in 2004, he was absolutely scathing, and it was hilarious.
They didn't just start making fun of Democrats this year. They're just going to be doing it more now that there are more Democrat decision makers.
If the audience didn't like it (maybe it's easier to laugh at yourself when you're on the bottom, but now they're offended?), I agree, tough on them Daily Show needs to keep doing what it's doing.
Though the right to privacy is not expressly mentioned in the constitution
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" is the passive-voice way of saying "The people's right to privacy". It's a prohibition against the government doing all the things that would constitute a violation of your privacy.
So I've always maintained that the right to privacy is not an invention, it was quite specifically put into the Constitution.
If you plan on playing a game under Wine that is purported to do well, you should probably at least check the Gentoo World of Warcraft Howto and browse the performance tweaks section. Applying the registry tweak really does work, if you're playing an OpenGL game.
Thanks a bunch for that link. :)
3D Studio Max is still outsells just about every other piece of 3D software by 2-3x I believe. And I suspect a suspiciously large number of customers at some point in their lives dabbled in illicit copies.
Abso-fsckin-lutely.
A friend of mine, who I met way back when I was trying to get an actual artist to work on a Quake mod, was using a pirated copy of 3ds max. He used it to make models for the mod, and got quite a bit of experience with the software. In that magical time where home-brew gaming powered by a mod-able commercial engine like Quake was coming to the fore, he was eventually able to parlay that into an actual job contracting for a commercial game developer. At which point he went out and dropped the 2k or 3k or whatever it is to buy a legitimate license. No way he could have done that while still an amateur going to school (for a degree unrelated to computer graphics).
So without piracy, he wouldn't have gotten the job, and AutoDesk wouldn't have gotten thousands of dollars. Sounds pretty win-win to me.
Now I personally pirated a copy of 3ds max when I was trying to make models myself before meeting my artist friend. I was, frankly, terrible. Eventually I deleted the program with no intention of buying it. Not that I would have bought it anyway! That's way too expensive of a program to buy just to find out that I suck. :P
Actually, he heard outdated news. At one time they were kicking people off for using wine. They've since reversed that decision.
Just for background, it wasn't so much a decision as it was a mistake. They didn't kick them for using wine, they didn't know it was wine, their software just detected that wow was being run through 3rd party software, and under the (pretty safe on windows) assumption that this means you're trying to cheat, they were banned as blanket policy.
Once Blizzard was clued in that these were just paying customers trying to play the game, they unbanned the accounts and modified their software to identify Cedega and Wine and not flag those users. At that point they even worked with Cedega to help them support WoW better.
While it isn't actual Linux support, it is nice seeing Blizzard go to some effort to help a relatively tiny portion of their customers.
Even when conservatives do come on Stewart or Colbert, it's generally a very uncomfortable interview (polite applause from the audience, host trying desperately to think of something good to say).
Eh, John McCain did pretty well on The Daily Show, and when I saw him a few years ago Bob Dole was absolutely awesome.
But that's The Daily Show, which has a slant sure but is perfectly willing to tear Democrats and liberals a new one whenever its appropriate. I think mostly it's because Stewart and the show came unto their own during a period when Republicans were in power and thus provided the majority of the targets. Stewart is liberal in his politics, but I don't think that dominates the show which is mostly about deriving humor from the news. It's not the same as 'liberal' or 'conservative' talk shows.
Colbert Report, though, is obviously dominated by its slant. There's no avoiding it, as his character is a caricature of a conservative talk show host. He "praised" the President to his face for going with his gut instead of facts, saying "reality has a well-known liberal bias".
But yes, even though they're different shows, I don't doubt that their demographics are largely the same, and that it doesn't include a lot of Republicans.
Am I the only one who fails to see how these rodent zombie robots have anything to do with Alzheimer's?
Well I assume it's because having a zombie rat robot come at you is something not even an Alzheimer's sufferer would forget.
I am not a biologist, but I do know that traits acquired by the parents, such as the presumed increased intelligence due to cooked food (Which I don't think would actually happen, but who knows?), would not be passed to their children.
The theory would be not that eating cooked food made them smarter.
The theory would be that cooking food made it biologically feasible for their offspring to develop smaller digestive systems and larger, more calorie-hungry brains. However for that to happen the genes would have to be created and expressed. This necessarily means it happened to the offspring of the ones who started eating cooked food.
I guess we'll have to wait for UK to relinquish their claim to the Falkland Islands and Northern Ireland, Israel to relinquish their claim to the Golan heights, Jerusalem and West-bank, and the US to relinquish their claim to California and Texas and parts of the South to the Conferderacy. And I don't want to even get into Cyprus, Kashmir, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Taiwan, Quebec, or the various parts of Africa.
Uh Texas fought for their independence first, and then joined the union voluntarily; really you'd be more right to say we have to wait for all the former Europeans to give the Americas back to the natives. But I don't really want to quibble over history, so I'll just say that my general response is "Yes."
None of that frees China from being the bad guy in the Tibet-China issue.