Not true, the vast majority of vertebrate palaeontologists consider dinosaurs to be reptiles (and birds as well). That's cladistics and phylogenetics for you.
Firstly, people that study fossils are called palaeontologists not archaeologists. Secondly, you clearly have no idea what the science of palaeontology is, how it's done, or how new discoveries shift theories (that's called science).
PS. if the above is a standard slashdot troll: move along, nothing to see here, and in soviet russia, trolls slashdot you!
We don't know these animals were tree-to-tree gliders, that's pure speculation. They could have been sophisticated flappers or soarers (as has been argued). The odd thing here is that the fossil is complete and beautifully preserved, you can see exactly how it held itself on the ground, but no one has been creative enough theorise convincingly on how it flew.
I agree about it seemingly lacking the advantages of bi-plane flight.
He has put his name to some very controvesial (and some would say outlandish theories); but I certainly wouldn't call him a crank. On the other side, you have to take what vertebrate palaeontologists say about aerodynamics with a grain of salt, they are genearlly not qualified in aerodynamics, they are geologists or biologists.
Err, no. None of the things were scientifically proven to be diseases, they were defined that way. Alcoholism is not considered a disease in psychology.
Meh, it's a shortcut. Sure it's less efficient in certain circumstances, and maybe harder to understand later on - I would have thought that was bleeding obvious. It's hardly evil.
Assuming that people are "stupid/gullible/apathetic/lazy" just because they might be taken in by a phishing scam is, well, stupid/gullible/apathetic/lazy thinking.
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That would have been interesting except you, sir, are a sad little wanking man.
It is doubleplusgood goodthink to not remember last Thursday.
God yes. How did this back-to-frontedness come about? - it's as dumb as hell.
Not true, the vast majority of vertebrate palaeontologists consider dinosaurs to be reptiles (and birds as well). That's cladistics and phylogenetics for you.
Firstly, people that study fossils are called palaeontologists not archaeologists. Secondly, you clearly have no idea what the science of palaeontology is, how it's done, or how new discoveries shift theories (that's called science). PS. if the above is a standard slashdot troll: move along, nothing to see here, and in soviet russia, trolls slashdot you!
Didn't darwin do that? By showing that it wasn't chance or chaos but natural selection? Huh?
We don't know these animals were tree-to-tree gliders, that's pure speculation. They could have been sophisticated flappers or soarers (as has been argued). The odd thing here is that the fossil is complete and beautifully preserved, you can see exactly how it held itself on the ground, but no one has been creative enough theorise convincingly on how it flew.
I agree about it seemingly lacking the advantages of bi-plane flight.
He has put his name to some very controvesial (and some would say outlandish theories); but I certainly wouldn't call him a crank. On the other side, you have to take what vertebrate palaeontologists say about aerodynamics with a grain of salt, they are genearlly not qualified in aerodynamics, they are geologists or biologists.
Opera is free, it's just not open source.
Err, no. None of the things were scientifically proven to be diseases, they were defined that way. Alcoholism is not considered a disease in psychology.
In graphics and video, no amount of computing power is anywhere near to making humans the slowdown agent.
Or just about anything else.
Meh, it's a shortcut. Sure it's less efficient in certain circumstances, and maybe harder to understand later on - I would have thought that was bleeding obvious. It's hardly evil.
Yes, because the web is a SERIOUS BUSINESS! and couldn't possibly have sites that are advertising/promotional, or simply supposed to look pretty.
Yeah, telling your boss the website you got paid to make doesn't work for 90% of people because you think IE sucks is always a great strategy.
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Yeah but surely "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" are point of reference concepts?
Err, he used it correctly - are we pointing out when people people use word in the correct way now?
My grandmother still uses a "blue chip" monster from 1980. It's gotta be right down there somewhere.
Her secret? Always park the heads, dear.
Assuming that people are "stupid/gullible/apathetic/lazy" just because they might be taken in by a phishing scam is, well, stupid/gullible/apathetic/lazy thinking.
"Another thing that pisses me off is incopetence." "Incopetence" - is that like when you can't cope?
Err, it's a Simpsons reference. "Cromulent" isn't a word - that's the joke (hence the +4, funny).
It's a perfectly cromulent word. A noble linux emboxens the smallest geek.
An internet survey?
I think only one in three Pepsi bottles will have a giveaway. Can't remember where I read that though...