We are born with an innate ability to discern very minute changes in tonality--not perfect pitch, but relative changes in tonality. There are languages that depend on tonality to differentiate phonemes for example. None of them have a phoneme where you say the "ooh" sound at 440hz or anything like that, but rather they have a phoneme where you say "ooh" with a slight falling intonation.
The languages that are grouped together and called 'Chinese' are some of these languages. It makes me wonder if traditional Chinese music uses pentatonic scales (5 notes) to accommodate the inherent changes in tonality in the language when they sing.
RoundUpReady crops were genetically modified using a gene that was found in nature, in fact, right outside the the RoundUp factory. So these genes were already in the wild before people started using them to modify food crops.
I know you didn't state this, but let me put this out there, because there is a lot of confusion about this: there is no RoundUp in RoundUpReady crops. But there is a gene that makes them resistant to roundup, so you can spray with extra strong roundup and kill all the weeds around it with harming the crop. So as a food source RUR crops are OK. The real problem is all that herbicide going in to the soil.
Not only that, but it seems that geneticists are now thinking that mtDNA directs the expression of the genes encoded in the nuclear DNA. So things are MUCH more complex than we once thought (no surprise there).
Ummm...... yes, yes they do. One of Yahoo's services that brings in a lot of money for them is providing backend web services for pages like the pirates of the Caribbean website.
$10 a pop isn't enough to send people out in droves. And besides, this kind of thing isn't like showing up for a shift and putting in your time at a job, it takes someone with a little more (just a little more mind you) motivation than average to get off their butts to do it.
The only large-scale metropolitan areas that I can think of that might have a large enough student population with slightly greater motivation is the Bay Area and the Boston area. Even then the surrounding areas are HUGE, there are plenty of businesses. I'm willing to believe that Berkeley and Palo Alto have been pretty well canvased but I doubt anyone has hit anywhere close to 1% of the businesses in Russian Hill in San Francisco alone, and it's one of the smaller districts.
Exactly, this guy is still trying to advance a permanent Republican domination over the American political scene. He probably won't be working for a specific candidate publicly, but you can bet your your ass that he will be there behind the scenes. It will be obvious who he's working for soon though, as we can expect one or more Republican primary candidates to get swiftboated sometime soon. My guess is that the first to get it will be Giuliani, or possibly Romney.
'Eating right' and 'getting exercise' run counter to what we have evolved to do. For our ancestors to be successful they have had to have the urge to cram their gullets while expending the least amount of calories to do so. What these studies point out is that our bodies are designed this way and that our environment today is vastly different from that of our ancestors. High calorie food was rare to our ancestors, as well as ways of obtaining resources where all we had to do was sit on our butts 8 hours a day. When you have an environment that has both of those things together what you get is a body that's in storage mode. It's because of our evolutionary past that we have this condition today, and if it were just as simple as 'eating right' and 'exercise' than more people would be able to lose weight, but the sad fact is once that weight is on, it's very very hard to get off. Our bodies DO NOT WANT us to lose that weight unless we absolutely have to (which is why we put it on to begin with). No medication is a silver bullet when it comes to weight loss, but neither is 'eating right' and 'exercise'. Medication should be used to break the bodies resistance to weight loss and help us form healthy habits.
Don't be so hard on the guy, after all group selectionist models like what you are espousing are currently on the fringes of sociobiological theory. Though you refrained from making a 'for the good of the species' argument, you still engaged in a form of it. Richard Dawkins has much to say about these types of arguments as does John Alcock who wrote a fantastic book called the triumph of sociobiology. I highly recommend it:
Actually, what this points out is that there are fewer women contributing to the gene pool since the mtDNA is copied over completely from the mother. One possible explanation for this could be the rise of modern warfare where women are military targets. Another explanation could be that this reflects the rising status of women in these societies. It's well known that there is an inverse correlation between a woman's social status and the number of children she has.
Learned fear is one of the primary motivations behind the conscious and the ability to determine right and wrong. I believe the word you were looking for was "conscience", it's an easy mistake to make, but one that does in fact obscure what is a rather interesting point.
For some people, I believe the fear of repercussion does inhibit their behaviors. However, I believe there is a sizable portion of the population that doesn't do bad things because they honestly believe that people shouldn't do them. For me, the threat of the gas chamber as a punishment for murder has no effect on my decision not to kill people. I honestly believe that people shouldn't kill each other, the same with rape. I think were this drug to hit the market, incidents of date rape would not increase, and if they did it would be at most by 1% or 2%.
A CEO (actually any C_O) is differentiated because they have insider information - I.E. information not available (legally) to the general public and the average investor. In this case though, did his position give him access to internal Wild Oats information? If the answer is no, than he's no different from any other investor.
What would you do if bandwidth were suddenly not an issue? I'd still bitch about the internet being too slow. Seriously though, imagine the platform that this kind of bandwidth would provide spammers and malware vendors? When my mother-in-law first got a really fast DSL connection it didn't go any faster than her dialup until I removed all the spyware from her machine.
Then they cruise through life... Who has it so good that they can just cruise through life? Even Paris Hilton's been to jail.
...without a reasoned or complete worldview... No one has a reasonable or complete world view. I'm betting that right now there is a bit of information about the Universe out there that will completely change everything we think the Universe is when we discover it.
...just waiting for the weekends so they can get drunk and think even less. Isn't that what weekends are for?
Dude, get off your high horse. Everyone comes in to this world knowing exactly jack and shit. All a brain is is some tissue on the end of a stick, once I realized that I found that I have nothing but sympathy for every creature who has to figure out this world with only that as their tool.
I run into annoying people quite often. When I try to think of how to tell them in a nice way when they annoy I lack the creativity that I have in other areas in my life. I'm sure many people would appreciate a little explication on how to do this.
"But mom some kid in my class posted on MySpace that I'm a moron, sue him mommy so I can get a PS3 else I'm going to scream my head off for hours.". I have two children of my own, and I know many children in my community and none of them would say something like that. From what I've found, my children's generation is more sensitive than mine, but they are not whiny little brats. In fact, they are more sensitive to the feelings of others and have more respect for each other as a result. Sure there are some really mean SOB's here and there, but not like when I was a child. It might just be the difference of where I'm living now vs. where I grew up, but I am looking forward to my children's generation coming of age and taking over.
That's why we need to be putting great amounts of resources into finding alternative energy sources. It doesn't look like it's going to ethanol, who knows maybe fuel cells. It's ludicrous to ask people to just freely give up their way of life. People go to war to preserve their way of life. Besides, I think most Americans do want something done about climate change. We need to demand from our politicians that they start a new project on this matter akin to the Manhattan project.
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We are born with an innate ability to discern very minute changes in tonality--not perfect pitch, but relative changes in tonality. There are languages that depend on tonality to differentiate phonemes for example. None of them have a phoneme where you say the "ooh" sound at 440hz or anything like that, but rather they have a phoneme where you say "ooh" with a slight falling intonation.
The languages that are grouped together and called 'Chinese' are some of these languages. It makes me wonder if traditional Chinese music uses pentatonic scales (5 notes) to accommodate the inherent changes in tonality in the language when they sing.
RoundUpReady crops were genetically modified using a gene that was found in nature, in fact, right outside the the RoundUp factory. So these genes were already in the wild before people started using them to modify food crops.
I know you didn't state this, but let me put this out there, because there is a lot of confusion about this: there is no RoundUp in RoundUpReady crops. But there is a gene that makes them resistant to roundup, so you can spray with extra strong roundup and kill all the weeds around it with harming the crop. So as a food source RUR crops are OK. The real problem is all that herbicide going in to the soil.
Not only that, but it seems that geneticists are now thinking that mtDNA directs the expression of the genes encoded in the nuclear DNA. So things are MUCH more complex than we once thought (no surprise there).
Ummm... ... yes, yes they do. One of Yahoo's services that brings in a lot of money for them is providing backend web services for pages like the pirates of the Caribbean website.
$10 a pop isn't enough to send people out in droves. And besides, this kind of thing isn't like showing up for a shift and putting in your time at a job, it takes someone with a little more (just a little more mind you) motivation than average to get off their butts to do it.
The only large-scale metropolitan areas that I can think of that might have a large enough student population with slightly greater motivation is the Bay Area and the Boston area. Even then the surrounding areas are HUGE, there are plenty of businesses. I'm willing to believe that Berkeley and Palo Alto have been pretty well canvased but I doubt anyone has hit anywhere close to 1% of the businesses in Russian Hill in San Francisco alone, and it's one of the smaller districts.
Exactly, this guy is still trying to advance a permanent Republican domination over the American political scene. He probably won't be working for a specific candidate publicly, but you can bet your your ass that he will be there behind the scenes. It will be obvious who he's working for soon though, as we can expect one or more Republican primary candidates to get swiftboated sometime soon. My guess is that the first to get it will be Giuliani, or possibly Romney.
I thought what makes someone a nerd is having an odd penchant for publicly stating unwarranted opinions on everything.
'Eating right' and 'getting exercise' run counter to what we have evolved to do. For our ancestors to be successful they have had to have the urge to cram their gullets while expending the least amount of calories to do so. What these studies point out is that our bodies are designed this way and that our environment today is vastly different from that of our ancestors. High calorie food was rare to our ancestors, as well as ways of obtaining resources where all we had to do was sit on our butts 8 hours a day. When you have an environment that has both of those things together what you get is a body that's in storage mode. It's because of our evolutionary past that we have this condition today, and if it were just as simple as 'eating right' and 'exercise' than more people would be able to lose weight, but the sad fact is once that weight is on, it's very very hard to get off. Our bodies DO NOT WANT us to lose that weight unless we absolutely have to (which is why we put it on to begin with). No medication is a silver bullet when it comes to weight loss, but neither is 'eating right' and 'exercise'. Medication should be used to break the bodies resistance to weight loss and help us form healthy habits.
Don't be so hard on the guy, after all group selectionist models like what you are espousing are currently on the fringes of sociobiological theory. Though you refrained from making a 'for the good of the species' argument, you still engaged in a form of it. Richard Dawkins has much to say about these types of arguments as does John Alcock who wrote a fantastic book called the triumph of sociobiology. I highly recommend it:
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Actually, what this points out is that there are fewer women contributing to the gene pool since the mtDNA is copied over completely from the mother. One possible explanation for this could be the rise of modern warfare where women are military targets. Another explanation could be that this reflects the rising status of women in these societies. It's well known that there is an inverse correlation between a woman's social status and the number of children she has.
You mixed your trilogies dude.
For some people, I believe the fear of repercussion does inhibit their behaviors. However, I believe there is a sizable portion of the population that doesn't do bad things because they honestly believe that people shouldn't do them. For me, the threat of the gas chamber as a punishment for murder has no effect on my decision not to kill people. I honestly believe that people shouldn't kill each other, the same with rape. I think were this drug to hit the market, incidents of date rape would not increase, and if they did it would be at most by 1% or 2%.
I thought it was an iRelevant remark.
...without a reasoned or complete worldview... No one has a reasonable or complete world view. I'm betting that right now there is a bit of information about the Universe out there that will completely change everything we think the Universe is when we discover it.
...just waiting for the weekends so they can get drunk and think even less. Isn't that what weekends are for?Dude, get off your high horse. Everyone comes in to this world knowing exactly jack and shit. All a brain is is some tissue on the end of a stick, once I realized that I found that I have nothing but sympathy for every creature who has to figure out this world with only that as their tool.
I run into annoying people quite often. When I try to think of how to tell them in a nice way when they annoy I lack the creativity that I have in other areas in my life. I'm sure many people would appreciate a little explication on how to do this.
I hear you can get a degree in UFology from the correspondence college of Tampa.
Yes, I found that most of my old high school friends on MySpace are pedophiles too.
That's why we need to be putting great amounts of resources into finding alternative energy sources. It doesn't look like it's going to ethanol, who knows maybe fuel cells. It's ludicrous to ask people to just freely give up their way of life. People go to war to preserve their way of life. Besides, I think most Americans do want something done about climate change. We need to demand from our politicians that they start a new project on this matter akin to the Manhattan project.
I think you mean:
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I myself am certain that in no possible world does one equal two. Not even God (should one exist) could make one equal two.
No your not the only whose skeptical about religion here. But "faith" as it is used here is a legal term.
Hell yeah!! He bangs lots of hot chicks and has a huge schlong!! Did I mention he used to be a teacher too? Oh wait... ...that's Ron Jeremy.