Often they don't learn anything, a company I used to work for would often manage to sell customers contracts which we knew were technically unable to fulfill. Stupidly we would also write in penalty clauses so when we didn't fulfill those bits of the contract we would pay out thousands of pounds back to the customer.
This went on for all the 5 years I worked there and I came to the conclusion the sales team couldn't care less what they told the customer provided they closed the deal since they'd then get their huge bonuses and drink their champagne safe in the knowledge no one would do anything to stop them.
Well yes, that was my point - H Sapien didn't really have to do much adapting because more of the world was being opened up to it whereas Neanderthals faced their habitabts shrinking and would have had to make adaptations.
If this turns out to have been carried out by elements of the Iraqi military then yes you may have a point otherwise it's terrorism.
Although the war in Iraq has done very little to prevent this sort of terrorism ( and has in fact probably made it more likely ) it's still not a justification for it, in fact it's terrorism like this which is adding to that bodycount of yours in Iraq. In this case it's in the interests of Iraqis just as much as it's in the interests of Londoners that something practical and effective is done to combat this sort of terrorism.
This does not mean invading more Middle Eastern countries and it does not mean blaming entire communities it means cutting whatever popular support the terrorists enjoy, isolating them, tracking them down and bringing them to justice.
"...citizens of London have lived with the treat for years..."
That amused me !
It doesn't look like the death toll is going to be too high so the chances are good that it will be dealt with rationally.
We have had to live with threats and terrorism frmo the IRA for a long time so yes we are used to a bit of bombing every now and again, I think it's a good idea to take note of the way in which that threat was handled.
Thank you, here is a comment from one of the BBC reporters in London
"However, the strange thing is that despite this terrible attack, there really is an air of people just trying to get on with things. As soon as the prime minister stopped talking, the pub erupted in conversation with all the usual talking points - contracts, deadlines and projects"
I just hope we can deal with this in a rational and effective manner and not a huge knee jerk over reaction, I think the press can do a lot to influence this and I really hope they do not do another "Diana" and get totally carried away.
Yes, a lot of the eye witness reports were from Kings Cross, Aldgate and stations in between which are all on the same line so I suspect there was one explosion near Aldgate which everyone else heard as a loud band in the other stations down the line. I am basing this off the London Tube map though so I don't know how far it is between these stations in reality.
If there was a "war" between Neandertals and Humans you would still have to account for why Humans were the winners and not the Neandertals.
Neandertals had been around for a long time and must have been effective hunters and able to use their environment successfully to achieve their goals.
I believe it has been suggested that Neandertals favoured wooded ground since the most effective techniques for hunting in forests favoured the Neandertal physique whereas Humans favoured open grassland where their physique gave them their maximum advantage for hunting.
It seems likely that Humans venturing into forests to do battle with Neandertals are quite likley to end up dead and vice a versa with Neandertals going out into the open so in effect the deciding factor would actually be the environment.
I'm not sure but I think that for creatures adapted to an ice age the end of it may well have proved more demanding as they would then have to try and adapt to a new or changing environment.
Not really, it shows that Neandertals had the right tools to surive in their environment, from what I have read they apparently used to live in wooded areas where they had plenty of cover to lie in wait for animals before jumping out and spearing them with their spears. Throwing spears at animals in woods is probably a less successful strategy than the one they used.
"So the Deep Impact mission could prove to be an acid test. The electric theorists have made their position clear, and there won't be much wiggle room for the conventional "dirty snowball" hypothesis. If water is not observed to explode from the surface at the projectile's impact, a domino effect will be set loose. An absence of water would mean there is no mainstream model left, only the electric model would remain. A single event could thus alter the mindset of all who work in the theoretical sciences: it would mark the end of the imagined "electrically neutral" universe lurking behind every statement we heard from David Morrison"
Oh dear. Looks like convential science wins again eh !
"modifying your wireless phone from its manufacturer's specifications."
The point is though that the phone was manufactured with full capabilities and Verizon have restricted your access to them. By regaining access to the phones full capabilities you aren't modifying from it's factory specs you are just using the phone as it was shipped from the factory.
I live in the UK, so is your objection to milk based on what happens to milk in the dairy farming process or do you think pure unadulterated milk is generally bad for you ?
Well good for you but do you think that that might have something to do with the fact that we are the only mammal who can go around milking other creatures ?
Plenty of animals do eat eggs which is a similar thing except that other mammals can easily get hold of eggs.
Don't worry about me I have no expectation of witnessing miracles in my lifetime.
Maybe if you could find a group of like minded individuals cut yourself off from the rest of the world ( or exterminate the rest of humanity ) on an island or something with enough resources to go around it would work for a maybe a generation or so - maybe less. After that people would form factions and you either go back to democracy with a leader or government or engage in a war with your opponents.
What you are talking about is a dream, it's not practical, it ignores reality and it's never going to work.
Milk is a perfectly rational thing to drink, cows are not that different from humans in that we are both created from much the same components.
The main literature saying that milk is bad for you seems to be sponsored by various animal rights groups who I suspect have another agenda than merely promoting healthy drinking.
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Not yet but that's just an engineering problem, someday soon it will be able to do all that - then what ?
If by "so powerful" you mean "such a bag of shite" then I am definitley blaming Hetfield/Hammet and not the instruments they have abused to create it.
Often they don't learn anything, a company I used to work for would often manage to sell customers contracts which we knew were technically unable to fulfill. Stupidly we would also write in penalty clauses so when we didn't fulfill those bits of the contract we would pay out thousands of pounds back to the customer.
This went on for all the 5 years I worked there and I came to the conclusion the sales team couldn't care less what they told the customer provided they closed the deal since they'd then get their huge bonuses and drink their champagne safe in the knowledge no one would do anything to stop them.
Listen, I have exclusive rights to large areas of prime real estate on Titan - how much of it would you like to buy ?
Well yes, that was my point - H Sapien didn't really have to do much adapting because more of the world was being opened up to it whereas Neanderthals faced their habitabts shrinking and would have had to make adaptations.
I think the answer is "with a fuckin great bomb"
If this turns out to have been carried out by elements of the Iraqi military then yes you may have a point otherwise it's terrorism.
Although the war in Iraq has done very little to prevent this sort of terrorism ( and has in fact probably made it more likely ) it's still not a justification for it, in fact it's terrorism like this which is adding to that bodycount of yours in Iraq. In this case it's in the interests of Iraqis just as much as it's in the interests of Londoners that something practical and effective is done to combat this sort of terrorism.
This does not mean invading more Middle Eastern countries and it does not mean blaming entire communities it means cutting whatever popular support the terrorists enjoy, isolating them, tracking them down and bringing them to justice.
"...citizens of London have lived with the treat for years..."
That amused me !
It doesn't look like the death toll is going to be too high so the chances are good that it will be dealt with rationally.
We have had to live with threats and terrorism frmo the IRA for a long time so yes we are used to a bit of bombing every now and again, I think it's a good idea to take note of the way in which that threat was handled.
Well said, most of us aren't affected by this attack and it's really very cheap to act as though we are.
No, it was the number 30 from Hackney.
Thank you, here is a comment from one of the BBC reporters in London
"However, the strange thing is that despite this terrible attack, there really is an air of people just trying to get on with things. As soon as the prime minister stopped talking, the pub erupted in conversation with all the usual talking points - contracts, deadlines and projects"
I just hope we can deal with this in a rational and effective manner and not a huge knee jerk over reaction, I think the press can do a lot to influence this and I really hope they do not do another "Diana" and get totally carried away.
Yes, a lot of the eye witness reports were from Kings Cross, Aldgate and stations in between which are all on the same line so I suspect there was one explosion near Aldgate which everyone else heard as a loud band in the other stations down the line. I am basing this off the London Tube map though so I don't know how far it is between these stations in reality.
If there was a "war" between Neandertals and Humans you would still have to account for why Humans were the winners and not the Neandertals.
Neandertals had been around for a long time and must have been effective hunters and able to use their environment successfully to achieve their goals.
I believe it has been suggested that Neandertals favoured wooded ground since the most effective techniques for hunting in forests favoured the Neandertal physique whereas Humans favoured open grassland where their physique gave them their maximum advantage for hunting.
It seems likely that Humans venturing into forests to do battle with Neandertals are quite likley to end up dead and vice a versa with Neandertals going out into the open so in effect the deciding factor would actually be the environment.
I'm not sure but I think that for creatures adapted to an ice age the end of it may well have proved more demanding as they would then have to try and adapt to a new or changing environment.
Not really, it shows that Neandertals had the right tools to surive in their environment, from what I have read they apparently used to live in wooded areas where they had plenty of cover to lie in wait for animals before jumping out and spearing them with their spears. Throwing spears at animals in woods is probably a less successful strategy than the one they used.
"haha, the power went out a month ago and the VCR still flashes 12:00, isn't that funny"
I think you've lost your sense of humour.
From that Thunderbolts website:
"So the Deep Impact mission could prove to be an acid test. The electric theorists have made their position clear, and there won't be much wiggle room for the conventional "dirty snowball" hypothesis. If water is not observed to explode from the surface at the projectile's impact, a domino effect will be set loose. An absence of water would mean there is no mainstream model left, only the electric model would remain. A single event could thus alter the mindset of all who work in the theoretical sciences: it would mark the end of the imagined "electrically neutral" universe lurking behind every statement we heard from David Morrison"
Oh dear. Looks like convential science wins again eh !
Oh what, really ?
I think they asked for money up front didn't they ?
Don't you have Orange in the US ?
"modifying your wireless phone from its manufacturer's specifications."
The point is though that the phone was manufactured with full capabilities and Verizon have restricted your access to them. By regaining access to the phones full capabilities you aren't modifying from it's factory specs you are just using the phone as it was shipped from the factory.
I live in the UK, so is your objection to milk based on what happens to milk in the dairy farming process or do you think pure unadulterated milk is generally bad for you ?
Well good for you but do you think that that might have something to do with the fact that we are the only mammal who can go around milking other creatures ?
Plenty of animals do eat eggs which is a similar thing except that other mammals can easily get hold of eggs.
Don't worry about me I have no expectation of witnessing miracles in my lifetime.
Maybe if you could find a group of like minded individuals cut yourself off from the rest of the world ( or exterminate the rest of humanity ) on an island or something with enough resources to go around it would work for a maybe a generation or so - maybe less. After that people would form factions and you either go back to democracy with a leader or government or engage in a war with your opponents.
What you are talking about is a dream, it's not practical, it ignores reality and it's never going to work.
Milk is a perfectly rational thing to drink, cows are not that different from humans in that we are both created from much the same components.
The main literature saying that milk is bad for you seems to be sponsored by various animal rights groups who I suspect have another agenda than merely promoting healthy drinking.