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  1. Re:Correlation fallacy, much? on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 1

    I know this is bad etiquette, but 'looking at other aphids' means genome sequencing of other aphid species, which can clarify if the same gene / allele appears in other species' genome.

    It would be a very very rare chance by which a highly similar gene / allele mutates and evolves independently in a fungus as well as an aphid.

  2. Re:Movies on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 1

    Is this the very first instance of the noun wikipedia being used as a verb, or is it the very first time I have seen it?

    By the way, and movies aside, read The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins. It has a brilliant explanation of the various evolutionary genetic processes.

  3. Re:Correlation fallacy, much? on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 0, Troll

    By looking at other aphids.

  4. Re:Help in TFA? on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    aLp

  5. Time to rethink and expand the search? on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 1

    Search for Extraterrestrial Idiocy. It will work.

  6. Re:OOXML on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Linux Format article says it can import docx, pptx etc., which means they are Microsoft Office 2007 XML files, and not OOXML, the Published Standard.

    Flawed summary.

  7. moo over on Woman In Cow Suit Arrested For Running Amok · · Score: 1

    that's some real sense of humour.

  8. Re:Hmm. Maybe thats closer to 84 million USD on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It would be "houston, we problem have", to fix the original quote and flawed translation, ijit.

    From my travels, I have learnt that most non-native English speakers use broken English, whether they be in India, the US, UK, Far East, or Middle East. The way you treat your own language shows what respect you have for its proper form.

  9. Re:Plans for KOffice on CD? on Review of KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8 – On Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know about your home country, but I get my CDs downloaded and shipped by Zyxware

    http://www.zyxware.com/requestcd

  10. Re:Damn, that was quick on OpenMoko In Stores On July 4 · · Score: 1

    So have I - from IDA Systems! Phone expected to ship today or tomorrow from their side.

    The screenshots look good enough - we'll need to see what comes preinstalled and what we have to force in. I use the MotoRokr E6 now, which is good but not open, and lacks an application universe.

  11. Hah on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    When I'm stuck without a screen, I use morse code. There is so much of asciipr0n to browse, I never get enough. Or any.

  12. Atheism link on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    My sig points to a chatroom where atheists meet.

  13. Re:Addendum: on Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Investors like Icahn ironically don't give a fuck about ethics. That is why they flock to the likes of Microsoft.

  14. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    I am glad to find One honest non-vegetarian.

  15. Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! on Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation · · Score: 1

    I have installed Fedora 8 under dual booting with XP on my office laptop. I could not afford to let the admin view the installation at bootup, so I have installed GRUB on sda3, and so the Windows bootloader is untouched.

    I always boot the computer through a Super Grub Disc and choose XP or Fedora as I want. SGD can search for and find the partition where GRUB is installed by itself. It always saves the day.

  16. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    I don't need to prove I am healthier than a non-vegetarian who is similarly sedentary. It is obvious.

    Don't try to influence people with your nonsense. Everybody here has a mind of their own.

  17. Re:The universe is self aware. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Existence is self awareness. That which is self aware is all that is real in the universe. Everything else is just junk information, noise. If all self awareness in the universe dies, the universe itself will cease to exist.

    Basically the universe only exists because there are self aware beings capable of perceiving it. The only thing real in the universe are the self aware beings. And God is the collective self awareness of the universe, the universal awareness, or universal soul, or universal mind, however you want to think about it. He does not believe in evolution either. what about gravity? if he disbelieves gravity, will it let him go?
  18. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    no, he uses the argument that vegetarians hate. that only some beings are the chosen few that should not be eaten.

  19. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    and by this you hypothesize that minds somehow are connected, irrespective of time and space differences, and no available clue about how they communicate with each other beyond currently understood means.

    do they use the Force?

  20. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    I am not qualified in quantum mechanics, so I refrain from commenting on it. It seems your education in philosophy gives you some secret insight into it, which makes you say that observation causes existence, not a change in state of existence.

    Try the anthropic principle for a change.

    Oh, and just because *you* do not observe something does not mean it cannot exist, for example a parallel universe.

  21. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Will your consciousness cease to exist when you die? If so, should you be worrying about the fate of your kin or your progeny now?

    Your proposition no.3 is the smoke and mirror of your argument, the crucial link on which it hinges, and it is the weakest.

    Why? Because the conclusion of a regress of your argument seems to point to a creator, and does not therefore reach a conclusion.

    You, sir, are a closet theist.

  22. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    As a vegetarian, I should say this is the sort of thinking that enables non-vegetarians to justify their desire for meat, even when their 'consciousness' raises questions about needless violence.

  23. Re:Well... on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Chat with some atheists here:

    http://smallpophypothesis.net/

    The site is a part of the Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) network. http://richarddawkins.net/

    The book itself is a very good read, and is really eye-opening.

  24. Atheism chat on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    Richard Dawkins' website (The God Delusion) http://richarddawkins.net/ also has a chat feature for atheists.

    Visit http://smallpophypothesis.net/

    You'll need to register. Some mods there are assholes, but otherwise it is OK.

  25. a couple of ideas on Wikipedia Breeds Unwitting Trust (Says IT Professor) · · Score: 1

    well, one of them is rather dumb, but still:

    how about each wikipedia article having a prominent counter of the edits and rollbacks it has received since posting?

    how about giving readers the chance to rank the article on, say, three criteria: authenticity, clarity, depth (OK, these were off the top of my head).

    would that allow some people to judge whether they should trust the article?