Are they talking about funicular trolleys or actual heavy rail? Because heavy rail generally sees a 4% grade as a maximum due to, well, physics. Since I'm not aware of any fantastic engineering innovations, this must be some sort of light rail--or at least lighter than standard heavy rail.
The parent should be modded down as a troll. Despite the disclaimer, it's nothing more than a rather boring stable of long-debunked Cretinist arguments.
No, it's non-obvious. You missed the point--the cohabiting species have special marks which allow them to choose to mate only with their own species instead of interbreeding. It isn't chance, it's choice.
As for the caterpillar/butterfly thing, it is mysterious, but I'd like to point out that some of the simplest animals on earth go through life stages. Jellyfish, for example, hydrae, and many other invertebrates go through various stages of life. Amphibians do this as well.
As far as I can tell, the reason behind it is a reproductive strategy. The butterfly, and other insects, has hundreds of offspring, only a few of which will survive to adulthood and then have hundreds more offspring.
Humans do not go through such dramatic stages as a butterfly, but a butterfly might be amazed to find out that humans survive for 13 years before reaching reproductive age!
Speaking of "inline", the AOL email client actually screws up the inline reply format (just as Outlook does), making conversations on mailing lists very hard to follow.
I've seen this happen many times with tech illiterates. It's only of interest to journalists, and of no interest to us.
Incidently, doesn't it get frustrating to see journalists misreport things over and over because they have journalism training but no science training, computer training, medical training, [fill in the blank]?
Yeah, well the problem is that we let our current account balance get way out of hand by running up enormous defense budget and tax cut debts (as well as SS and Medicare cost increases). We let credit cards rule the consumer so individuals aren't saving shit either. And it's possible that the tax code also encourages consumerism in big business.
The end result is that China is buying up our debts and propping up the dollar. We can't afford to call their bluff now.
I don't know about that... I use Mac OS X and Win2K every day. I get really aggravated by the Windows task bar on a daily basis.
Windows task bar was a brilliant improvement over what Mac Classic had going at the time (click and hold over the upper right corner to see which apps are running and maybe find your windows).
The Dock is like the next level. I can find my windows, I can keep them in a nice place (the "blinds" feature in OS9 kinda sucked), the animation over the application buttons lets me see which one I'm hovering over and lets me make the dock smaller if I want to stick a lot of buttons on it (or not--it's configurable).
Until MS fires back with something better than the Dock, I'm going to be singing Apple's praises.
Daniel Hannan (Conservative) - for the legislation, claiming problems in US are exagerated and there is little evidence of large companies using patents against smaller ones
Perhaps we Americans should inform this bozo otherwise?
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(If I had RTFA'd, I guess we wouldn't be having this discussion.)
Are they talking about funicular trolleys or actual heavy rail? Because heavy rail generally sees a 4% grade as a maximum due to, well, physics. Since I'm not aware of any fantastic engineering innovations, this must be some sort of light rail--or at least lighter than standard heavy rail.
Don't forget me!
You've got style, man! .Sig included. Thanks for posting this.
:) Xena and Gabrielle were babes.
They'll never keep those names but it's fun for now.
For cogent replies to all his points, check out the Talk.Origins Archive.
As for the caterpillar/butterfly thing, it is mysterious, but I'd like to point out that some of the simplest animals on earth go through life stages. Jellyfish, for example, hydrae, and many other invertebrates go through various stages of life. Amphibians do this as well.
As far as I can tell, the reason behind it is a reproductive strategy. The butterfly, and other insects, has hundreds of offspring, only a few of which will survive to adulthood and then have hundreds more offspring.
Humans do not go through such dramatic stages as a butterfly, but a butterfly might be amazed to find out that humans survive for 13 years before reaching reproductive age!
Speaking of "inline", the AOL email client actually screws up the inline reply format (just as Outlook does), making conversations on mailing lists very hard to follow.
I've seen this happen many times with tech illiterates. It's only of interest to journalists, and of no interest to us. Incidently, doesn't it get frustrating to see journalists misreport things over and over because they have journalism training but no science training, computer training, medical training, [fill in the blank]?
Thank you! (Why is everyone else missing this?)
Yeah, well the problem is that we let our current account balance get way out of hand by running up enormous defense budget and tax cut debts (as well as SS and Medicare cost increases). We let credit cards rule the consumer so individuals aren't saving shit either. And it's possible that the tax code also encourages consumerism in big business. The end result is that China is buying up our debts and propping up the dollar. We can't afford to call their bluff now.
I don't know about that ... I use Mac OS X and Win2K every day. I get really aggravated by the Windows task bar on a daily basis.
Windows task bar was a brilliant improvement over what Mac Classic had going at the time (click and hold over the upper right corner to see which apps are running and maybe find your windows).
The Dock is like the next level. I can find my windows, I can keep them in a nice place (the "blinds" feature in OS9 kinda sucked), the animation over the application buttons lets me see which one I'm hovering over and lets me make the dock smaller if I want to stick a lot of buttons on it (or not--it's configurable).
Until MS fires back with something better than the Dock, I'm going to be singing Apple's praises.
Daniel Hannan (Conservative) - for the legislation, claiming problems in US are exagerated and there is little evidence of large companies using patents against smaller ones Perhaps we Americans should inform this bozo otherwise?