yep, it started 40,000 years ago when aboriginals arrived and started burning the land - they wiped out all the super mammals and countless plant species that couldn't take the regular burnings.
the next most destructive animal to arrive would have to be the cane toad. it out competes native frogs, anything that eats it dies and we still don't have anyway of stopping it.
i find it amusing free market whiners always use the fruits of the free market society to do their whining.
I'm not against regulation, but that regulation has to be there to help the market along and it has to be very well thought out. all too often it's not.
what a load of shit. i agree that a person should lose their license once a pattern of reckless driving is established, but people certainly aren't keeping their license because they are busted drink driving.
i think you need to get off your cell phone and pay attention
no, you can't hold the phone in one hand talk to someone on it and drive at 80mph. you just can't ok, so stop trying to prove your more awesome then everyone else, because your not. if you had a brain you'd realise that if you can't pull over safely and answer the phone, DON'T DO IT. that call isn't more important then the lives of the kids in the car and the lives of all the people driving on the road with you.
and why isn't law enforcement doing anything about screaming kids in the car? i'd have thought that's obvious - because kids scream, it's what they do and there's nothing that can be don about it (by police anyway). douche bags driving around talking on their cell on the other hand, IS something they can fix. it's about controlling the risks you can control.
some how i suspect the main developer behind one of the most influentual technologies of the decade isn't going to be standing in line behind you.
here's how it'll go. while you are queing for that entry level position, you'll see managment greeting him at recieption, shaking his hand and then taking him upstairs to talk with the big boys.
I stole one of our contractors employee's last week.
I think no one should have the right to tell you were you work, but, you shouldn't be allowed leave and take you current employers clients with you over to another firm. if you allow that kind of bullshit, employee's would hold employers to ransom.
things like having agreement not to hire engineers and coders so you don't have to compete for the talent pool is bullshit, i hope they get dragged over the coals.
they won't just pull out, they will fade out. over time features will be added to the windows version and not to the mac version, people will migrate because they want the features. design shops will move to windows because of it. after all what else would keep them on a mac if their core application functions better on windows?
being a public company has nothing to do with it. but that logic apple should be letting flash on the iphone.
browse the web with your eyes open and then tell me flash is dieing.
I think apple has a lot more to lose from this then adobe. if apple allowed flash on it's iwank line, what does it lose? nothing. if it doesn't and adobe pulls it's graphic design products, no one is going to give up photoshop to stay on apple's platform.
deep down i think this whole no flash thing is purely because apple see's how it could dominate their product, and being control freaks they'd cut off their nose to spite their own face.
" It isn't an aberration at all. It is a product of the same culture that brings you pedophilia dressed up cartoon outfits, hugely xenophobic attitudes towards other races, hivemind-like business practices, a deep insecurity of own culture, the equating of product defects with moral defects, institutionalized misogyny, and widespread depression among males."
lol. you've watched one too many anime's my friend. Yes the japanese are more polite then american's in general, but so is every other country. if you explained the retarded nature of this to most japanese people they would think it's stupid as well.
it will be china, india or russia, without a doubt.
australia has the resources but not the population and is too wrapped up in it's provincial image to be a contender. europe is totally fingered so they are out. africa is screwed as well. south america has no hope either.
russia has a massive resource base and large population as well as technical skills, they could rise again if their stars align. china has the same things going to for it, but with less strings attached. they also have a larger manufacturing base then russia and a grip on america with debt.
india is a bit of a dark horse, they have a massive population and a very go get it attitude to match the chinese. they could well be the next ones to rise after china.
religous zealots are the aggressors, not atheists. atheists only object when your religous dogma is being taught as fact or science. the rest of the time we are happy for you to live out your delusions.
"they also ignore that most stock is fed on waste products making it a very efficent industry. not a single bit of an animal is wasted either.
That is totally nonsensical."
using 100% of the animal and feeding it on material that otherwise is wasted makes perfect sense. The question is why can't you understand such a simple concept?
I'm betting your right. vegans always ignore the fact the food chain naturally includes meat eaters, and that meat has 10x the energy of veg meaning you'd have to clear a lot more land to feed the world just on veg. they also ignore that most stock is fed on waste products making it a very efficent industry. not a single bit of an animal is wasted either.
this is what happens when you inject a moral code into what you eat, your unable to see things clearly.
idunno, but eating the dry spittle of some cave dwelling bird seems universally unappealing. if you've ever seen the mess of feathers and shit in a birds nest you'll understand.
i'm not trying to defend haggis, it's aweful, but atleast it's cooked.
the fact is the japanese are into anything and everything, as proof i'll refer you to some crap called "swollows nest". i found the following description:
"The swiftlet lives in dark caves, using a method of echolocation similar to the bat to get around. Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of its own gummy saliva, which hardens when exposed to air."
I doubt any westerner would see that on the side of a cave wall and think "YUM that looks like food"
dont' get me wrong, i love oriental foods ( i went to a japanese resturant just 2 weeks ago). but they are definately more out there when it comes to what they will eat then we are.
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the next most destructive animal to arrive would have to be the cane toad. it out competes native frogs, anything that eats it dies and we still don't have anyway of stopping it.
omg your right, we can never 100% stop crime. all the police should just go home and give up!!!
because some articles will never improve on wikipedia under the current management, that's why.
I'm not against regulation, but that regulation has to be there to help the market along and it has to be very well thought out. all too often it's not.
the real problem in mexico is corruption, but it's so embedded in their culture i can't ever see it changing.
i think you need to get off your cell phone and pay attention
except by the metric, where we actually measure people's ability to drive while talking on the phone?
http://psych.pomona.edu/SRC/Cell%20phone%20study%20summary.pdf
and why isn't law enforcement doing anything about screaming kids in the car? i'd have thought that's obvious - because kids scream, it's what they do and there's nothing that can be don about it (by police anyway). douche bags driving around talking on their cell on the other hand, IS something they can fix. it's about controlling the risks you can control.
unlike your job at burger king, he would have plenty of money put away to not have to worry about unemployment checks.
here's how it'll go. while you are queing for that entry level position, you'll see managment greeting him at recieption, shaking his hand and then taking him upstairs to talk with the big boys.
I think no one should have the right to tell you were you work, but, you shouldn't be allowed leave and take you current employers clients with you over to another firm. if you allow that kind of bullshit, employee's would hold employers to ransom.
things like having agreement not to hire engineers and coders so you don't have to compete for the talent pool is bullshit, i hope they get dragged over the coals.
being a public company has nothing to do with it. but that logic apple should be letting flash on the iphone.
since when have they had trouble defending stupid shit apple does?!
browse the web with your eyes open and then tell me flash is dieing.
I think apple has a lot more to lose from this then adobe. if apple allowed flash on it's iwank line, what does it lose? nothing. if it doesn't and adobe pulls it's graphic design products, no one is going to give up photoshop to stay on apple's platform.
deep down i think this whole no flash thing is purely because apple see's how it could dominate their product, and being control freaks they'd cut off their nose to spite their own face.
you just described my impression of america.
Sorry, i'd love to read and respond to your post, but i'm illiterate so i can't read it.
lol. you've watched one too many anime's my friend. Yes the japanese are more polite then american's in general, but so is every other country. if you explained the retarded nature of this to most japanese people they would think it's stupid as well.
australia has the resources but not the population and is too wrapped up in it's provincial image to be a contender. europe is totally fingered so they are out. africa is screwed as well. south america has no hope either.
russia has a massive resource base and large population as well as technical skills, they could rise again if their stars align. china has the same things going to for it, but with less strings attached. they also have a larger manufacturing base then russia and a grip on america with debt.
india is a bit of a dark horse, they have a massive population and a very go get it attitude to match the chinese. they could well be the next ones to rise after china.
religous zealots are the aggressors, not atheists. atheists only object when your religous dogma is being taught as fact or science. the rest of the time we are happy for you to live out your delusions.
using 100% of the animal and feeding it on material that otherwise is wasted makes perfect sense. The question is why can't you understand such a simple concept?
asia is a continent not a country.
each country has dishs that are odd for sure, but for pure volume of strange, it's hard to beat asians.
this is what happens when you inject a moral code into what you eat, your unable to see things clearly.
idunno, but eating the dry spittle of some cave dwelling bird seems universally unappealing. if you've ever seen the mess of feathers and shit in a birds nest you'll understand.
the fact is the japanese are into anything and everything, as proof i'll refer you to some crap called "swollows nest". i found the following description:
"The swiftlet lives in dark caves, using a method of echolocation similar to the bat to get around. Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of its own gummy saliva, which hardens when exposed to air."
I doubt any westerner would see that on the side of a cave wall and think "YUM that looks like food"
dont' get me wrong, i love oriental foods ( i went to a japanese resturant just 2 weeks ago). but they are definately more out there when it comes to what they will eat then we are.