I don't think we need the original paper, I learned this in high school biology. Evolution never stops
Evolution can stop. Just stop breeding and clone for reproduction. There you go!
, there is no perfectly evolved thing. The question is whether our current evolution pattern is actually in our best interest, or if the dumb are outbreeding the smart (and on the side, are such things genetics based, or social).
If you had read the article (instead of dismissing a perfectly interesting scientific publication!) you would have understood that these scientists are trying to find which ones of our 30K genes have been evolving in the last few thousands of years and not in the last 50 years.
It's true. There are laws in France requiring radios to play something like 30 percent French songs. But you can say (French or any other language) bad words and show breasts on TV without any problems. And you Brits and Americans, you can't. So whose got the better end of the free speech stick?
On the subject of open sourcing database management system, I would like to mention that eyedb, an OODBMS, has just been released under the LGPL. (I know the main author).
In 2004 a French amateur photographer, Michel Neyrolles, was arrested in Poland and detained for almost a month because he took pictures of some industrial estate. So this Australian bloke is pretty lucky.
Is the prize for sequencing or for sequencing and assembling?
Some companies like 454 have got the technology to quickly sequence large genomes but assembling them is a completely different problem. And anyway we understand (roughly) about (roughly) 30% of the genes of any species that has been completely sequenced (mostly bacteria). I wish there was a prize for technics to annotate genomes accurately.
You are entirely right. We can stop buying DRm'ed music, I know I have. The only problem is that (and this is just a guess) most music is bought by teenagers and they simply don't give a shit! They want their overpriced jeans, shoes and horrible music, come what may. They are by definition imature consumers and the music industry's favourite target. DRM is for them and, unfortunately, will live on.
And this is the reason behind the research into these 4th generation nuclear plants. These would be small plants that can be put anywhere (almost) to generate power for the production (extraction) of hydrogen for instance.
I don't know for the USA, but a chinese SUV is being imported into Europe and it received a 0 rating for safety. So be careful! If you see one on the road, stay well clear.
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No cause there are hardly any white christians in France anymore. True. Most French are atheists.
Would you care to explain why these rioters are running around yellow "Allah Ackbar"? These idiots have seen Palestinian boys do it, so they do it. That's all. They identify themselves with the Palestine events, although they don't understand anything about them. It's like script kiddies thinking they are Linus.
There has always been poor people anywhere. France has succesfully integrated people from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, etc... But all these people were white and in one generation they disapeared in the French crowd. But these black and arabic people cannot just disapear and become white. So, yes they are discriminated against. And that is a problem, like it is in other countries in Europe. That is not a racist comment. The riots had no effect on Paris. AFAIK, a couple of cars were burnt and that's it.
Anti-semitism is a long "tradition" in France, especialy between 1850 and 1950. This is very true. France has probably the dubious privilege of having created the concepts of Nationalism and Racism. Having said that, there has been and there still is many jewish people in important political (i.e. elected by the people) positions: I think 2 presidents and several prime ministers of France were jewish. This cannot be said of many countries (except Israel obviously!).
There is wide spread discrimination in France. If you are from African origin it is harder to find a job. However, this does not explain everything. I went to school (in France) were about half the pupils were arabs. Not one of them was doing any homework or having any interest in learning anything! This was staggering! This is a cultural problem. These kids' parents were simply not telling them to work hard, some parents were telling their kids it's pointless to go to school. How can you explain that the police arrest some 14 years old rioters at 2am? The parents don't give a shit about their kids. Obvious this not the case of all arabic parents, but in my experience, it is prevalent and really sad.
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I don't think we need the original paper, I learned this in high school biology. Evolution never stops
Evolution can stop. Just stop breeding and clone for reproduction. There you go!
, there is no perfectly evolved thing. The question is whether our current evolution pattern is actually in our best interest, or if the dumb are outbreeding the smart (and on the side, are such things genetics based, or social).
If you had read the article (instead of dismissing a perfectly interesting scientific publication!) you would have understood that these scientists are trying to find which ones of our 30K genes have been evolving in the last few thousands of years and not in the last 50 years.
The PLOS biology article is available to everyone via Open Access.
It's true. There are laws in France requiring radios to play something like 30 percent French songs. But you can say (French or any other language) bad words and show breasts on TV without any problems. And you Brits and Americans, you can't. So whose got the better end of the free speech stick?
No, I'm not jealous....
I don't believe you! Maybe some people want to live their life and not work themselves to death.
Did you deliberately use the name of the restaurant on top the world trade center (window on the world) in your post? Just curious.
On the subject of open sourcing database management system, I would like to mention that eyedb, an OODBMS, has just been released under the LGPL. (I know the main author).
In 2004 a French amateur photographer, Michel Neyrolles, was arrested in Poland and detained for almost a month because he took pictures of some industrial estate. So this Australian bloke is pretty lucky.
Soon, we will be able to download music from the toolbar too, probably.
Is the prize for sequencing or for sequencing and assembling?
Some companies like 454 have got the technology to quickly sequence large genomes but assembling them is a completely different problem. And anyway we understand (roughly) about (roughly) 30% of the genes of any species that has been completely sequenced (mostly bacteria). I wish there was a prize for technics to annotate genomes accurately.
You are entirely right. We can stop buying DRm'ed music, I know I have. The only problem is that (and this is just a guess) most music is bought by teenagers and they simply don't give a shit! They want their overpriced jeans, shoes and horrible music, come what may. They are by definition imature consumers and the music industry's favourite target. DRM is for them and, unfortunately, will live on.
And this is the reason behind the research into these 4th generation nuclear plants. These would be small plants that can be put anywhere (almost) to generate power for the production (extraction) of hydrogen for instance.
I don't know for the USA, but a chinese SUV is being imported into Europe and it received a 0 rating for safety.
So be careful! If you see one on the road, stay well clear.
Hwang stood by his work in an interview with a local Buddhist newspaper Saturday. /. that people worry about their karma!
Well, it's not only on
Let's hope Orson Scott Card's personal views will not be reflected in the movie script!
What makes you think they'd be more likely to check the posts than they would their own email?
Emails are plagued with SPAM and it can take time to sort them out. Subscriber's only post would be vey quick to read, especially moderated ones.
I am a subscriber.
I sent an email to tell it's a dupe 20 minutes before the story appeared to everyone.
I was hoping it mattered.
I am disappointed.
Since during the last duped story someone suggested a way to avoid dupes, let me add my idea:
During the time the story is not yet fully released:
Allow subscribers to post.
Automatically give 5 moderation points to all subscribers and allow moderation.
Editors, please check the subscribers posts before releasing the story to everyone.
If all is ok, remove the subscribers posts and release story.
The 15 finalists were from USA, Germany, France, Italy, India, Argentina, Brazil and Japan.
Having carefully looked at the digi-babes, my vote would have gone to the French chick "Lea Duvall".
Obligatory: ... with everyone on MS windows. Albeit unwillingly.
For a long time people have been able to share their documents, music,
The prisoner turned me off chess for ever!
It was unrelated to the riots. It's probably (according to the family) a neighbour's revenge.
No cause there are hardly any white christians in France anymore.
True. Most French are atheists.
Would you care to explain why these rioters are running around yellow "Allah Ackbar"?
These idiots have seen Palestinian boys do it, so they do it. That's all. They identify themselves with the Palestine events, although they don't understand anything about them. It's like script kiddies thinking they are Linus.
This is indeed very important. LA riots: ~50 dead. French riots: 0
There has always been poor people anywhere. France has succesfully integrated people from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, etc... But all these people were white and in one generation they disapeared in the French crowd. But these black and arabic people cannot just disapear and become white. So, yes they are discriminated against. And that is a problem, like it is in other countries in Europe. That is not a racist comment.
The riots had no effect on Paris. AFAIK, a couple of cars were burnt and that's it.
Anti-semitism is a long "tradition" in France, especialy between 1850 and 1950.
This is very true. France has probably the dubious privilege of having created the concepts of Nationalism and Racism. Having said that, there has been and there still is many jewish people in important political (i.e. elected by the people) positions: I think 2 presidents and several prime ministers of France were jewish. This cannot be said of many countries (except Israel obviously!).
There is wide spread discrimination in France. If you are from African origin it is harder to find a job. However, this does not explain everything. I went to school (in France) were about half the pupils were arabs. Not one of them was doing any homework or having any interest in learning anything! This was staggering! This is a cultural problem. These kids' parents were simply not telling them to work hard, some parents were telling their kids it's pointless to go to school. How can you explain that the police arrest some 14 years old rioters at 2am? The parents don't give a shit about their kids. Obvious this not the case of all arabic parents, but in my experience, it is prevalent and really sad.