I believe the plant that we eat that has the most fat is the avocado, and those are expensive enough as it is with only a fraction of the population consuming them. That leads me to the following(kind of):
I assume that we will be getting the sugar to power these batteries from corn syrup as it is the cheapest supply of sugar we have available to us. Per acre of corn, if choose to extract energy from it, which would said acre yield more corn syrup or ethanol? If the case is ethanol than we have a problem. Having the food market and the energy market compete for corn right now is already driving up the price of corn in Mexico to the point that many people can't afford it to eat (which is their primary staple). However, if the yield from extracting corn syrup is greater than I wonder if it is great enough that the new demand created by energy consumption would still create an unwieldy state of corn prices. (I hope that made sense, my son daughter is currently screaming because I put her in time out).
The thing about SG is that it has it's base of hardcore fans like ST, but that group is smaller than the hardcore fans of ST. However, SG has lots of average Joe watchers who like it and will go out of their way to press the button on the remote to watch it when it's on. That's something that ST doesn't have.
I agree completely. One of the things that made the show so good was that it was almost like watching an RPG, the characters would collect different bits of technology and information helping to move the overall plot of the series. Part of the reason for watching the show was to find out what kind of new technology or factoid about the SG-1 universe would get revealed, or who would be the next system lord to get blown up or blasted by robot Teal'c. Since season 8, there haven't been any new major revelations, no new technology (they seem to be bringing techs from older episodes to fill in that place), no system lords to kill (the writers don't want to kill off Baal b/c they like to use him as the occasional Goa'uld bad guy when they don't want to bother advancing the Ori plot). Speaking of the Ori, they aren't a new interesting bad guy like the replicators, just a slightly modified form of the Goa'uld. For example: the Goa'ulds are parasites who pretend to be gods, the Ori are ascendant beings that pretend to be gods through memetic parasitism. Cameron Mitchel sucks, they should have just added Vala to the team and not worried about replacing O'Neall. They developed O'Neall's character so well, and made all of the personalities of SG-1 fit together so well that just sticking Ben Browder (who is an awful actor) in there messes up the dynamics. And with the exception of one episode in the last two seasons, the show has taken itself way to seriously.
That being said, I'm looking forward to the movies.
Burrowing, like all behaviors, can't really be traced phylogenically for a couple of reasons:1.As this article shows us, it's hard to find evidence of behaviors that happened yesterday let alone millions of years ago (though under the right conditions burrowing does leave a trace, as the article shows), 2. Behaviors vary more wildly than the average allele. Though there is a large component of genetics at play with behavior, ultimately behaviors are products of the physiological phenotypes associated with said alleles and sensory input. Different environmental inputs yield different behavioral outputs for the same allele. Therefore there isn't an isomorphic relationship between genes and behavior. Behavioral traits tend to pop up independently of each other quite often, so it is impossible to say that there is one node on the evolutionary branch that "sprouted modern burrowing/hibernating reptiles and mammals".
Granted this is coming from what I learned as an undergraduate so there are probably better people in the/. community to comment on this. (That's my way of saying: "Though I may sound like an expert, I very well may be full of crap and would love it if someone with more knowledge would fact check this post").
I've got a friend who lived under Soviet rule for most of his life, he also lived in Canada for a while and he swears up and down that when you add up all the taxes you pay at every level, the USA has the highest taxes AND that USians don't get as much for their tax dollars as they do in Canada.
I'm not a big gamer, or I should say, I'm not as big a gamer as I used to be. But all the games that I play are available for OSX. Even if they weren't I can't fathom the thought of using windows. Just yesterday I helped a friend download some wav files from her portable voice recorder on to her windows laptop. I felt like I was fighting the OS the entire time and I actually found it exhausting.
I thought the acting in the soviet version was quite good. It helps to know some Russian though I think. The Soviet version stayed truer to the book, which I appreciated, though Steven Soderberg version is still a good movie.
The net result is that North America is actually getting greener. 0.12% annually through the 90s and 0.05% annually since 2000.
This may be true, but it's also getting less diverse. Not to mention the destruction of a habitat every time a crop is harvested. Take the state that I'm currently in, Mississippi. It's a very green state, very heavily forested, but with fast growing pines because of timber is the number one industry here. It's very rare to see hardwoods or old-growth in this state. What the lumber industry is doing here is stunting the growth of mature ecosystems. I'm not saying we need to stop harvesting lumber, only that there are other dimensions we need to think about and plan around.
You obviously don't play the guitar. All that metal has as far as chords go are two note chords (not including the octave), mostly fifths and fourths, with an occasional minor third here and there. This is with the exception of some Megadeath and every Metallica ballad (which are the only metal I still listen to). If you want intricate chords listen to jazz. If you want a fast placed tempo check out some bebop.
Everything humans do is "biological" as we are biological entities that have been shaped by a specific evolutionary history. The way this article is framed it reduces down to the stupid nature/nurture argument, which everyone should know by now is a false dichotomy. Like nearly every false dichotomy, this frame elicits an overly simplistic view of the debate. EVERYTHING in nature is the result the interactions between an organism's genes and it's environment (which includes other genes, specific cells/hormones within the organism and as well as the input from the senses). What Hauser argues is that there is a universal human morality encoded by our genes that allows us to parse out the specific morality or our society which is a subset of all possible moralities within universal morality.
You know if anyone from Microsoft heard what you just said they'll come out with some press release saying that people are hesitant to upgrade to Vista b/c 2K/XP was just too good.
This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved black lines) were made between the paradigms that shared papers, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation forced every paradigm to repel every other; thus the layout derives directly from the data.
What Wilson described in Concilience was a picture of our knowledge of the universe as we traverse the different levels of organization, this map has nothing to do with levels of organization, just what papers are getting published under what paradigm.
One of the major, I mean MAJOR themes of that book was to show the importance of reductionism. To explain history it would need to be reduced to the individual psychologies of individuals and the social psychologies of the societies they belonged to.
Others probably aren't even aware of anything other than Microsoft and Mac.
I think for now that's not an issue. Until I can put Ubuntu on my laptop and have it automagically support my wifi card and the proper screen resolution for my screen I won't be recommending it to the lay. The average user should not have to bother with config files. This being said, I don't recommend Windows either, for now Mac OS X is the best operating system for average use. Though I personally love it, I can see why some people don't, but Windows is not a viable alternative and for the moment Ubuntu isn't either (it hurts me to say that b/c I really do love Ubuntu. Given a few more years development I think it will probably be the best desktop solution).
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That's quite amazing. At some point though Apple is going to stop supporting PPC so you'll hit a permanent plateau unless you install yellow dog.
I believe the plant that we eat that has the most fat is the avocado, and those are expensive enough as it is with only a fraction of the population consuming them. That leads me to the following(kind of):
I assume that we will be getting the sugar to power these batteries from corn syrup as it is the cheapest supply of sugar we have available to us. Per acre of corn, if choose to extract energy from it, which would said acre yield more corn syrup or ethanol? If the case is ethanol than we have a problem. Having the food market and the energy market compete for corn right now is already driving up the price of corn in Mexico to the point that many people can't afford it to eat (which is their primary staple). However, if the yield from extracting corn syrup is greater than I wonder if it is great enough that the new demand created by energy consumption would still create an unwieldy state of corn prices. (I hope that made sense, my son daughter is currently screaming because I put her in time out).
"Like a wine fine, you have to let it age a bit."
Same is true for adjective noun order.
I thought he was supposed to be like that stereo-typical middle-eastern electronics store owner? I guess I'm just going by the nose.
The thing about SG is that it has it's base of hardcore fans like ST, but that group is smaller than the hardcore fans of ST. However, SG has lots of average Joe watchers who like it and will go out of their way to press the button on the remote to watch it when it's on. That's something that ST doesn't have.
I agree completely. One of the things that made the show so good was that it was almost like watching an RPG, the characters would collect different bits of technology and information helping to move the overall plot of the series. Part of the reason for watching the show was to find out what kind of new technology or factoid about the SG-1 universe would get revealed, or who would be the next system lord to get blown up or blasted by robot Teal'c. Since season 8, there haven't been any new major revelations, no new technology (they seem to be bringing techs from older episodes to fill in that place), no system lords to kill (the writers don't want to kill off Baal b/c they like to use him as the occasional Goa'uld bad guy when they don't want to bother advancing the Ori plot). Speaking of the Ori, they aren't a new interesting bad guy like the replicators, just a slightly modified form of the Goa'uld. For example: the Goa'ulds are parasites who pretend to be gods, the Ori are ascendant beings that pretend to be gods through memetic parasitism. Cameron Mitchel sucks, they should have just added Vala to the team and not worried about replacing O'Neall. They developed O'Neall's character so well, and made all of the personalities of SG-1 fit together so well that just sticking Ben Browder (who is an awful actor) in there messes up the dynamics. And with the exception of one episode in the last two seasons, the show has taken itself way to seriously.
That being said, I'm looking forward to the movies.
Burrowing, like all behaviors, can't really be traced phylogenically for a couple of reasons:1.As this article shows us, it's hard to find evidence of behaviors that happened yesterday let alone millions of years ago (though under the right conditions burrowing does leave a trace, as the article shows), 2. Behaviors vary more wildly than the average allele. Though there is a large component of genetics at play with behavior, ultimately behaviors are products of the physiological phenotypes associated with said alleles and sensory input. Different environmental inputs yield different behavioral outputs for the same allele. Therefore there isn't an isomorphic relationship between genes and behavior. Behavioral traits tend to pop up independently of each other quite often, so it is impossible to say that there is one node on the evolutionary branch that "sprouted modern burrowing/hibernating reptiles and mammals".
/. community to comment on this. (That's my way of saying: "Though I may sound like an expert, I very well may be full of crap and would love it if someone with more knowledge would fact check this post").
Granted this is coming from what I learned as an undergraduate so there are probably better people in the
I've got a friend who lived under Soviet rule for most of his life, he also lived in Canada for a while and he swears up and down that when you add up all the taxes you pay at every level, the USA has the highest taxes AND that USians don't get as much for their tax dollars as they do in Canada.
Clinton was only preoccupied with that stain for what 3-5 seconds? I believe it was the Republicans who were more preoccupied with it.
I'm not a big gamer, or I should say, I'm not as big a gamer as I used to be. But all the games that I play are available for OSX. Even if they weren't I can't fathom the thought of using windows. Just yesterday I helped a friend download some wav files from her portable voice recorder on to her windows laptop. I felt like I was fighting the OS the entire time and I actually found it exhausting.
I thought the acting in the soviet version was quite good. It helps to know some Russian though I think. The Soviet version stayed truer to the book, which I appreciated, though Steven Soderberg version is still a good movie.
Thank you. I had no clue that existed.
You said assburger, huh-huh-huhu-huh...
You actually have to buy quicktime pro to export anything.
Hell all I need is a single pixel!
Why not, they already have diet XP.
Everything humans do is "biological" as we are biological entities that have been shaped by a specific evolutionary history. The way this article is framed it reduces down to the stupid nature/nurture argument, which everyone should know by now is a false dichotomy. Like nearly every false dichotomy, this frame elicits an overly simplistic view of the debate. EVERYTHING in nature is the result the interactions between an organism's genes and it's environment (which includes other genes, specific cells/hormones within the organism and as well as the input from the senses). What Hauser argues is that there is a universal human morality encoded by our genes that allows us to parse out the specific morality or our society which is a subset of all possible moralities within universal morality.
You know if anyone from Microsoft heard what you just said they'll come out with some press release saying that people are hesitant to upgrade to Vista b/c 2K/XP was just too good.
Indeed a great read.
One of the major, I mean MAJOR themes of that book was to show the importance of reductionism. To explain history it would need to be reduced to the individual psychologies of individuals and the social psychologies of the societies they belonged to.