Thanks - I was cued up to play this game, since I thought the first DS was visually rich. But if it's as self-derivative as this indicates - I think I will break BG2 out again. Butt-kicking - for goodness!
Science, imho, is the process of explaining the present based on deducing the past, and predicting the future based on observing the present. Truth, with a big 'T', is for dogmatists.
Scientific papers represent hypotheses. They get 'modded up' for reproducibility (for experimental hypotheses or claims), falsifiability (no magic, please), consistency with past accepted theories (as General Relativity subsumed Classical Mechanics), and elegance/symmetry.
There's a shocking dark secret to the FF-IE battle, in which IE (through experience) wins. Every time IE has a bug, you only have to patch the offending file(s). Every time FF has a bug, you have to download the entire browser and reinstall.
FF's stats should quote the total number of downloads divided by the number of bugfix releases. 1.0? Download. 1.01? Download. 1.02? Download. Etc. A loyal FF user would count as seven downloads for production versions. Can you imagine IE's user stats if it counted every patch download as a new 'install'? It would be several times the population of the earth.
The current administration, for all its other faults, has recently issued the following argument stating that, oddly enough, the second amendment means what the second amendment says.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
I am all in favor of protecting law enforcement officers, who have to worry about getting shot with their own gun. But one of the worst problems with mechanical devices is failure, which is why so many LEOs carry Glocks. I would not want to carry a potentially life-saving device where someone had intentionally designed a way for it not to work.
That was something one of my professors mentioned as well - the He3 supply on the moon is enormous, based on samples brought back. Getting enough materials to the moon (up the gravity well) to build a base would be prodigiously expensive, though.
And all the corrections others pointed out are valid - I hadn't checked on the shutdown of the fast breeder program. There was an interesting link I came across recently that said Jimmy Carter banned US reprocessing of spent uranium fuel because the amount of plutonium in it was only statistically predictable, and so it would be too easy for terrorists/rogue nations to skim off enough to make a bomb. He hoped that other nations would follow suit, which evidently happened.
The passively-safe liquid sodium design was something Argonne Nat'l labs was working on a while back, but was also never implemented commercially. The liquid sodium could absorb enough heat from a runaway reaction so that the core wouldn't lose structural integrity. But the operator-induced incident at Chernobyl showed that while intelligence is finite, stupidity has no upper limit.
Nuclear fission does split nucleii into fragments. U-235 fission absorbs thermal neutrons (room-temperature kinetic energy) and splits in half, P-239 fission absorbs fast (high-energy) neutrons and splits in half. The resultant atoms form an assymetric distribution called the 'Mae West' curve because it forms two big peaks (mapped # vs Z) that look like mammaries to lonely nuclear engineers that don't see nekkid women that often.
While Uranium/Plutonium do decay naturally (stability of a nucleus is determined by the Nuclear Shell empirical formula, which is a rough analog of the electron shell theory - everybody wants to be Iron Fe/26, the most stable nucleus), there's another form of decay that's an outcome of genuine nucleus splitting. That's is the decay of of these usually-radioactive fragments. This decay is important to the operation of a fission reactor, but only in determining the criticality of a nuclear pile. 'Critical' == exactly as many neutrons are released in any time period as are absorbed, meaning steady power output. Basically, over 99% of the neutrons necessary to keep a steady level of fission events come from 'prompt' neutrons - neutrons that are freed in the splitting of an atomic nucleus. You get one small chunk (which could very well be gold), one big chunk, and a couple free/fast neutrons.
If these 'prompt' neutrons were enough to sustain criticality, then the number of fission events would increase geometrically. Since the time between generations is about a millionth of a section, this means that a reactor core that's 'prompt-critical' would quickly escalate in temperature until the structural integrity of the core failed, and you have a molten slag of Uranium - which is exactly what happened at Chernobyl.
So the way to avoid this, you have to put in neutron-absorbing control rods to keep the number of 'prompt' neutrons below the number necessary to sustain the next generation of fission events. If 'prompt' neutrons were the only neutron source, your nuclear reactor would quickly cool down. But the decay of the fragments (which are ususally radioactive isotopes of stable elements) release additional neutrons. The 'art' of tuning a nuclear reactor is to insert the control rods just enough so that the reactor isn't prompt-critical, but the decay neutrons are just barely enough to make the pile critical.
One of the biggest problems with fusion in general is fuel. The easiest fusion reaction is deuterium-tritium. Deuterium is plentiful - the ocean is full of 'heavy water' where one of the hydrogen atoms in a water molecule has a proton and a neutron. Tritium, however, is radioactive with a pretty short halflife. You have to make tritium by getting Lithium to absorb a neutron, then decay.
Last time I was up-to-date on fusion research, there was only an estimated 300 years of Lithium to sustain the predicted energy needs of the world. However, with fission fast-breeder reactors like they use in France, there would be 5000 estimated years of power. Fission fast-breeder reactors can be built today - it's just that to make them passively safe, you need to use a liquid metal coolant like sodium, and any disaster like Chernobyl (from terrorists, for example) would be catastrophic. Liquid sodium will explode if it gets wet, so it's a huge engineering challenge. Argonne Nat'l Labs has reactor designs like this, but the US population is scared of nuclear power plants (plus, the cost overruns at plants made them economically unfeasible).
[I am a published principal author and presentor of a fusion reactor design (presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Topic of Fusion Energy in Salt Lake City), so I have a tiny bit of credibility. I got out of the field specifically because of the 15-year carrot-on-a-stick paradox.]
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a biometric implant in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelations 13:16-17
(flame not, it's just funny)
And let me spell this out for those in the cheap seats - either candidate will have positive effects on the US; either candidate will have negative effects. Think of me as encapsulating the heroine from Fritz Lang's Metropolis - the Heart bringing the Mind and the Hand together. A man who earns single digits per hour cannot vote for a man married to a $3 BILLION heiress. I'm a busy man; I'll nae be replying any more.
Minus one moderation for a well-thought and well-spoken comment. That counts in my book as "I would like GW to be President, and I am a closet wanker". STFU and begone, you closed-minded nonce. I have opinions, and your -1 moderation is a pimple on my arse. Go whine elsewhere.
If you want a rich white guy who doesn't give a tinker's damn about your opinion to run the country for the next four years, go ahead and -1 me all you like, you autoerotic.
Status quo== time thus. The incumbent wins when there is not a reason to get out and vote. Look at Florida, where my brother lives and got quad-whalloped by the hurricanes this year. When John Kerry visited Florida, it was a campaign stop. When George W. Bush visited Florida, it was the POTUS on an emergency declaration visit.
I just bought a paper yesterday that accuses both sides of fraud - Republican-hired ballot collection agencies throwing out Democratic absentee/voter registration forms, etc.
I think the worst thing that could happen to this country is to elect Pr. GW Bush or Sen. Kerry as POTUS. That'll be just like the 'official' end of the War Between the States; the shooting may have stopped but the feudin' sure ain't. Southern men are gentlemen, and gentlemen do not surrender to no one.
If I am elected President, I will be the peacemaker between all sides on all issues. And I will carry a replica Colt Peacemaker at my side as a symbol of that duty and privilege. Speak softly and carry a big stick, which I do and have and my former wife will attest to.
I'm smart, opinionated and consistent, and can't bring myself to vote _for_ either candidate, so I'm going to vote _against_ both of them by writing my own name in (the real one has a few more vowels). No dangling chads or the-computer-ate-my-vote with a write-in candidate. Hand my real name on a real piece of paper to a real person, or put it in a sealed box like the Romans used to do. Problem solved; next issue please!
I was writing up my open letter/manifesto/whateva on the train - not finished yet or I'd post it. Just wondering how many people are voting _for_ John Kerry, as opposed to voting _against_ GW. I figure a plastic ficus tree would receive the same number of votes as John Kerry, and would be equally reliable on all issues (think 'swaying in the breeze of public opinion').
I was in the city of Boston in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts earlier this year, and a lady next to me at the bar asked, 'What do you think of our Senator (Kerry)?' I told her I didn't know where he stood on critical issues, and she replied 'He's our senator, and neither do we!'. As Stan Lee/Marvel Comics would say: 'Nuff said.
I'm a smart guy (just took Mensa test Saturday - left four blank and guessed on two); I'm barely old enough, and I'm thinking of resurrecting Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose party of which I've actually been a member for nearly 20 years. My political leanings are generally conservative without the religious overtones; I think same-sex civil unions will be viewed in 50 years with the same what-were-they-thinking openmindedness that we currently use to look at the 3/5 vote issue with African-Americans or Women's Suffrage; I think the whole Iraq thing was the right thing to do, done in the wrong way at the wrong time. Got tons of other opinions, and I will write them all down and stand by what I wrote. Any takers?
I mean, how cool would it be to have a POTUS who's a/.er? I run my own website for fun and edit raw HTML with a bloody text editor! I do 90% of my job with 10-yr-old Norton File Manager (Explorer, both kinds, are teh suX0rz), UltraEdit/32 and a green-colored CLI! I once had a license plate proclaiming LOVE for an Operating SyStem, and it wasn't Windows! I have the 1995 Linux Developer's Kit on 5 CDs! GUIs are for wimps; vote for me!
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Please don't google/slashdot my ID/website; I need my feeble ADSL bandwidth for downloading. ;-)
Those megacorps like Mitsubishi ('3 diamonds') are, I believe, called Zaibatsu. They're government-sanctioned co-ops that would be called monopolies or cartels in US law.
So now you know where that "Zaibatsu Monstrosity" name in GTAIII came from.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/za/zaibatsu.html
(zbäts) (KEY) [Jap.,=money clique], the great family-controlled banking and industrial combines of modern Japan. The leading zaibatsu (called keiretsu after World War II) are Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Dai Ichi Kangyo, Sumitomo, Sanwa, and Fuyo.
W. does not have the eloquence to be Denethor. W. is a lost puppy; Denethor is prejudiced and condescending.
W. could be Theoden = "Why should we ride to the aid of those who did not ride to ours? I.e., those French snail-suckers?"
Now, Cheney - he could pull of Denethor, if he were p'ed off. "Go f*** yourself, Saruman!"
But the best pairing -
Bob and Doug MacKenzie as Merry and Pippin
- compare their departure scene in ROTK to the Bob/Doug parting in Strange Brew. Exactly the same scene - except for the hockey stormtrooper uniforms.
Oh - the best casting - anyone but that groupie ho Liz as Arwen. She is an ineffectual waste of space. Uma? Gabrielle Reese? Elle the Body? Fire the Body a warning shot before going with Liz the Useless Wet Dishrag, fer crissake!
Lamarck - behavioural variations produce enhanced survivability. These behaviours are not genetically propagable, and will not appear in the second generation.
Darwin - genetic variations produce enhanced survivability in some cases (decreased or non-viability in others). This enhanced survivability of the parent leads to enhanced survivability of offspring carrying that genetic variant, which leads to an increase in that genetic code in the gene pool, which then over time becomes a predominant trait.
BUT - and it's a big but - it supports Darwinism to the extent that IF there were a genetic mutation which produced the same effects as this dain bramage, AND this brain damage were biologically responsible for the bipedal locomotion (as opposed to it being a conscious choice of a wounded monkey that can't use its arms properly anymore), THEN such a genetic mutation would introduce exclusive bipedal locomotion into a previously-hybrid species.
The argument about whether bipedal is better than quadrupedal is left as an exercise for the reader. Of course, shoes are cheaper with only two feet.
I was in a 'special educational' environment where one factoid stood out - they tested some volunteers' abilities at motor skills, then got them drunk/stoned (where do I sign up for this stuff?).
Then they tested the volunteers motor skills again, and also asked them how they felt. Surprise, surprise, they said they felt drunk/stoned and stunk up the tests.
Then, days later, they repeated the tests/questions. The alcohol recipients said they felt normal and tested normal. But the pot group said they felt normal, but still tested as impaired.
This is why the teacher said MJ will never be legalized in the US - too difficult to set a legal limit on a DUI level the way BAC% works for ethanol consumption.
Also, using Linux, your gift is less likely to become a source of trojaned spam in the future;)
Well, if that's your criterion, then I must trump your linux with my ace of OS/2.
How many OS/2 viruses do you hear of? None! How many OS/2 kernel flaws do you hear of? None! Runs great in low memory, fully 32-bit OS, pre-emptively multitasks 16-bit DOS and Windows apps like a champ.
Most end-users of the "Mom" skill level are incapable of physically replacing/upgrading memory in a home computer at any price.
And then in corporations - add the cost of a desktop technician visit. Easily $100 on top of the memory itself.
So it's unfair just to list the cost of a bare memory module as the net $$ cost of the upgrade.
'got a DHCP response from the wrong place' - 'got railroaded' - 'got owned' - that is an excellent supporting example. Happens all the time. Where did your buddy 'bring up' this machine - a black hat convention wireless network? No properly-administered network has multiple DHCP servers on a single segment, unless it's for redundancy. And since DHCP is a broadcast, that knife vendor must have had a rogue DHCP server on your buddy's network segment (i.e., physically nearby) in order to perpetrate this fictional atrocity. Here's a nice supporting example for you - one of my buddies used Windoze, and left the oven on, and his house burnt down, and his wife left him. Therefore, don't use Windoze or your wife will leave you.
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Thanks - I was cued up to play this game, since I thought the first DS was visually rich. But if it's as self-derivative as this indicates - I think I will break BG2 out again. Butt-kicking - for goodness!
Science, imho, is the process of explaining the present based on deducing the past, and predicting the future based on observing the present. Truth, with a big 'T', is for dogmatists.
Scientific papers represent hypotheses. They get 'modded up' for reproducibility (for experimental hypotheses or claims), falsifiability (no magic, please), consistency with past accepted theories (as General Relativity subsumed Classical Mechanics), and elegance/symmetry.
There's a shocking dark secret to the FF-IE battle, in which IE (through experience) wins. Every time IE has a bug, you only have to patch the offending file(s). Every time FF has a bug, you have to download the entire browser and reinstall.
FF's stats should quote the total number of downloads divided by the number of bugfix releases. 1.0? Download. 1.01? Download. 1.02? Download. Etc. A loyal FF user would count as seven downloads for production versions. Can you imagine IE's user stats if it counted every patch download as a new 'install'? It would be several times the population of the earth.
The current administration, for all its other faults, has recently issued the following argument stating that, oddly enough, the second amendment means what the second amendment says.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
I am all in favor of protecting law enforcement officers, who have to worry about getting shot with their own gun. But one of the worst problems with mechanical devices is failure, which is why so many LEOs carry Glocks. I would not want to carry a potentially life-saving device where someone had intentionally designed a way for it not to work.
That was something one of my professors mentioned as well - the He3 supply on the moon is enormous, based on samples brought back. Getting enough materials to the moon (up the gravity well) to build a base would be prodigiously expensive, though.
And all the corrections others pointed out are valid - I hadn't checked on the shutdown of the fast breeder program. There was an interesting link I came across recently that said Jimmy Carter banned US reprocessing of spent uranium fuel because the amount of plutonium in it was only statistically predictable, and so it would be too easy for terrorists/rogue nations to skim off enough to make a bomb. He hoped that other nations would follow suit, which evidently happened.
The passively-safe liquid sodium design was something Argonne Nat'l labs was working on a while back, but was also never implemented commercially. The liquid sodium could absorb enough heat from a runaway reaction so that the core wouldn't lose structural integrity. But the operator-induced incident at Chernobyl showed that while intelligence is finite, stupidity has no upper limit.
Nuclear fission does split nucleii into fragments. U-235 fission absorbs thermal neutrons (room-temperature kinetic energy) and splits in half, P-239 fission absorbs fast (high-energy) neutrons and splits in half. The resultant atoms form an assymetric distribution called the 'Mae West' curve because it forms two big peaks (mapped # vs Z) that look like mammaries to lonely nuclear engineers that don't see nekkid women that often.
While Uranium/Plutonium do decay naturally (stability of a nucleus is determined by the Nuclear Shell empirical formula, which is a rough analog of the electron shell theory - everybody wants to be Iron Fe/26, the most stable nucleus), there's another form of decay that's an outcome of genuine nucleus splitting. That's is the decay of of these usually-radioactive fragments. This decay is important to the operation of a fission reactor, but only in determining the criticality of a nuclear pile. 'Critical' == exactly as many neutrons are released in any time period as are absorbed, meaning steady power output. Basically, over 99% of the neutrons necessary to keep a steady level of fission events come from 'prompt' neutrons - neutrons that are freed in the splitting of an atomic nucleus. You get one small chunk (which could very well be gold), one big chunk, and a couple free/fast neutrons.
If these 'prompt' neutrons were enough to sustain criticality, then the number of fission events would increase geometrically. Since the time between generations is about a millionth of a section, this means that a reactor core that's 'prompt-critical' would quickly escalate in temperature until the structural integrity of the core failed, and you have a molten slag of Uranium - which is exactly what happened at Chernobyl.
So the way to avoid this, you have to put in neutron-absorbing control rods to keep the number of 'prompt' neutrons below the number necessary to sustain the next generation of fission events. If 'prompt' neutrons were the only neutron source, your nuclear reactor would quickly cool down. But the decay of the fragments (which are ususally radioactive isotopes of stable elements) release additional neutrons. The 'art' of tuning a nuclear reactor is to insert the control rods just enough so that the reactor isn't prompt-critical, but the decay neutrons are just barely enough to make the pile critical.
One of the biggest problems with fusion in general is fuel. The easiest fusion reaction is deuterium-tritium. Deuterium is plentiful - the ocean is full of 'heavy water' where one of the hydrogen atoms in a water molecule has a proton and a neutron. Tritium, however, is radioactive with a pretty short halflife. You have to make tritium by getting Lithium to absorb a neutron, then decay.
Last time I was up-to-date on fusion research, there was only an estimated 300 years of Lithium to sustain the predicted energy needs of the world. However, with fission fast-breeder reactors like they use in France, there would be 5000 estimated years of power. Fission fast-breeder reactors can be built today - it's just that to make them passively safe, you need to use a liquid metal coolant like sodium, and any disaster like Chernobyl (from terrorists, for example) would be catastrophic. Liquid sodium will explode if it gets wet, so it's a huge engineering challenge. Argonne Nat'l Labs has reactor designs like this, but the US population is scared of nuclear power plants (plus, the cost overruns at plants made them economically unfeasible).
[I am a published principal author and presentor of a fusion reactor design (presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Topic of Fusion Energy in Salt Lake City), so I have a tiny bit of credibility. I got out of the field specifically because of the 15-year carrot-on-a-stick paradox.]
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a biometric implant in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelations 13:16-17 (flame not, it's just funny)
And let me spell this out for those in the cheap seats - either candidate will have positive effects on the US; either candidate will have negative effects. Think of me as encapsulating the heroine from Fritz Lang's Metropolis - the Heart bringing the Mind and the Hand together. A man who earns single digits per hour cannot vote for a man married to a $3 BILLION heiress. I'm a busy man; I'll nae be replying any more.
Minus one moderation for a well-thought and well-spoken comment. That counts in my book as "I would like GW to be President, and I am a closet wanker". STFU and begone, you closed-minded nonce. I have opinions, and your -1 moderation is a pimple on my arse. Go whine elsewhere.
If you want a rich white guy who doesn't give a tinker's damn about your opinion to run the country for the next four years, go ahead and -1 me all you like, you autoerotic.
Status quo== time thus. The incumbent wins when there is not a reason to get out and vote. Look at Florida, where my brother lives and got quad-whalloped by the hurricanes this year. When John Kerry visited Florida, it was a campaign stop. When George W. Bush visited Florida, it was the POTUS on an emergency declaration visit.
I just bought a paper yesterday that accuses both sides of fraud - Republican-hired ballot collection agencies throwing out Democratic absentee/voter registration forms, etc.
I think the worst thing that could happen to this country is to elect Pr. GW Bush or Sen. Kerry as POTUS. That'll be just like the 'official' end of the War Between the States; the shooting may have stopped but the feudin' sure ain't. Southern men are gentlemen, and gentlemen do not surrender to no one.
If I am elected President, I will be the peacemaker between all sides on all issues. And I will carry a replica Colt Peacemaker at my side as a symbol of that duty and privilege. Speak softly and carry a big stick, which I do and have and my former wife will attest to.
I'm smart, opinionated and consistent, and can't bring myself to vote _for_ either candidate, so I'm going to vote _against_ both of them by writing my own name in (the real one has a few more vowels). No dangling chads or the-computer-ate-my-vote with a write-in candidate. Hand my real name on a real piece of paper to a real person, or put it in a sealed box like the Romans used to do. Problem solved; next issue please! /.er? I run my own website for fun and edit raw HTML with a bloody text editor! I do 90% of my job with 10-yr-old Norton File Manager (Explorer, both kinds, are teh suX0rz), UltraEdit/32 and a green-colored CLI! I once had a license plate proclaiming LOVE for an Operating SyStem, and it wasn't Windows! I have the 1995 Linux Developer's Kit on 5 CDs! GUIs are for wimps; vote for me!
I was writing up my open letter/manifesto/whateva on the train - not finished yet or I'd post it. Just wondering how many people are voting _for_ John Kerry, as opposed to voting _against_ GW. I figure a plastic ficus tree would receive the same number of votes as John Kerry, and would be equally reliable on all issues (think 'swaying in the breeze of public opinion').
I was in the city of Boston in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts earlier this year, and a lady next to me at the bar asked, 'What do you think of our Senator (Kerry)?' I told her I didn't know where he stood on critical issues, and she replied 'He's our senator, and neither do we!'. As Stan Lee/Marvel Comics would say: 'Nuff said.
I'm a smart guy (just took Mensa test Saturday - left four blank and guessed on two); I'm barely old enough, and I'm thinking of resurrecting Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose party of which I've actually been a member for nearly 20 years. My political leanings are generally conservative without the religious overtones; I think same-sex civil unions will be viewed in 50 years with the same what-were-they-thinking openmindedness that we currently use to look at the 3/5 vote issue with African-Americans or Women's Suffrage; I think the whole Iraq thing was the right thing to do, done in the wrong way at the wrong time. Got tons of other opinions, and I will write them all down and stand by what I wrote. Any takers?
I mean, how cool would it be to have a POTUS who's a
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Please don't google/slashdot my ID/website; I need my feeble ADSL bandwidth for downloading.
;-)
they don't f this up like they did with OS/2.
on national Talk Like a Pirate Day. HARRRR!!!!!
Those megacorps like Mitsubishi ('3 diamonds') are, I believe, called Zaibatsu. They're government-sanctioned co-ops that would be called monopolies or cartels in US law.
So now you know where that "Zaibatsu Monstrosity" name in GTAIII came from.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/za/zaibatsu.html
(zbäts) (KEY) [Jap.,=money clique], the great family-controlled banking and industrial combines of modern Japan. The leading zaibatsu (called keiretsu after World War II) are Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Dai Ichi Kangyo, Sumitomo, Sanwa, and Fuyo.
W. does not have the eloquence to be Denethor. W. is a lost puppy; Denethor is prejudiced and condescending.
W. could be Theoden = "Why should we ride to the aid of those who did not ride to ours? I.e., those French snail-suckers?"
Now, Cheney - he could pull of Denethor, if he were p'ed off. "Go f*** yourself, Saruman!"
But the best pairing -
Bob and Doug MacKenzie as Merry and Pippin
- compare their departure scene in ROTK to the Bob/Doug parting in Strange Brew. Exactly the same scene - except for the hockey stormtrooper uniforms. Oh - the best casting - anyone but that groupie ho Liz as Arwen. She is an ineffectual waste of space. Uma? Gabrielle Reese? Elle the Body? Fire the Body a warning shot before going with Liz the Useless Wet Dishrag, fer crissake!
No chance on Elijah Wood; he's simply much too tall to make a believable hobbit.
Lamarck - behavioural variations produce enhanced survivability. These behaviours are not genetically propagable, and will not appear in the second generation.
Darwin - genetic variations produce enhanced survivability in some cases (decreased or non-viability in others). This enhanced survivability of the parent leads to enhanced survivability of offspring carrying that genetic variant, which leads to an increase in that genetic code in the gene pool, which then over time becomes a predominant trait.
BUT - and it's a big but - it supports Darwinism to the extent that IF there were a genetic mutation which produced the same effects as this dain bramage, AND this brain damage were biologically responsible for the bipedal locomotion (as opposed to it being a conscious choice of a wounded monkey that can't use its arms properly anymore), THEN such a genetic mutation would introduce exclusive bipedal locomotion into a previously-hybrid species.
The argument about whether bipedal is better than quadrupedal is left as an exercise for the reader. Of course, shoes are cheaper with only two feet.
-syrynxx
I was in a 'special educational' environment where one factoid stood out - they tested some volunteers' abilities at motor skills, then got them drunk/stoned (where do I sign up for this stuff?). Then they tested the volunteers motor skills again, and also asked them how they felt. Surprise, surprise, they said they felt drunk/stoned and stunk up the tests.
Then, days later, they repeated the tests/questions. The alcohol recipients said they felt normal and tested normal. But the pot group said they felt normal, but still tested as impaired.
This is why the teacher said MJ will never be legalized in the US - too difficult to set a legal limit on a DUI level the way BAC% works for ethanol consumption.
Most end-users of the "Mom" skill level are incapable of physically replacing/upgrading memory in a home computer at any price. And then in corporations - add the cost of a desktop technician visit. Easily $100 on top of the memory itself. So it's unfair just to list the cost of a bare memory module as the net $$ cost of the upgrade.
'got a DHCP response from the wrong place' - 'got railroaded' - 'got owned' - that is an excellent supporting example. Happens all the time. Where did your buddy 'bring up' this machine - a black hat convention wireless network? No properly-administered network has multiple DHCP servers on a single segment, unless it's for redundancy. And since DHCP is a broadcast, that knife vendor must have had a rogue DHCP server on your buddy's network segment (i.e., physically nearby) in order to perpetrate this fictional atrocity. Here's a nice supporting example for you - one of my buddies used Windoze, and left the oven on, and his house burnt down, and his wife left him. Therefore, don't use Windoze or your wife will leave you.