I believe ultimately there is some belief that language evolved from music instead of the other way around.
I doubt either evolved from the other, but if they are connected, music would have evolved from language. Other animals have language, however rudimentary; everyone knows that a barking dog is saying "GTFO or I'll eat you!" Also, they've recently found that some species have fairly sophisticated communications abilities, but no other animal has music. Not even birds; a recent study showed that birdsong is not music, but simple communication.
Why would you think that a trait other animals share would have been evolved from a trait that is unique to our species?
The building having nothing at all to protect it probably doesn't have anything at all worth stealing either
Wrong. Most burglaries are in low income areas, because that's where the theives live. A crackhead can take a shelf full of DVDs and sell them for two dollars each, ten DVDs and he has his rock. Almost any pawn shop will buy them, no questions asked, whereas if you take a TV or a guitar there, you're going to jump through a few hoops that may send you to jail.
That said, I miss my Epiphone a lot more than my DVDs:(
Since English isn't your first language, I hope I'm helpful in pointing out that "loose" means "set free". E.g., "he looses his dog every morning. Cry havok, and loose the dogs of war". The word you're looking for is "lose."
I blame Suse, (and they also speak in a different native tongue). When I gave it a try ten years ago, a warning said "you may loose data". I wonder if that typo is still there?
I concur - obesity is almost totally diet-related... I'm actually a type 1 diabetic with a BMI of around 21 - I don't need to lose weight.
And I'd be willing to bet there are no obese people in your family. There are three components to weight gain/loss: amount of calories, how many calories are burned, and your metabolism.
Some people are genetically thin, like me (and I suspect you as well) and some are genetically fat. If you have a slow metabolism, you need to eat less than someone who does the exact same amount of excersize than someone who has a fast metabolism.
If I worked out I'd probably look like I had bulemia.
I think they're studying the wrong thing. Why does music exist at all? What evolutionary advantage does music give us? No other animal has music; there was a story a few days ago that said they disproved birdsong being music.
This study does sort of explain why tunes have a tendancy to stick in one's head (maybe, or maybe they're misreading the data).
Since 2006-ish I've eaten nothing but locally raised, grass fed beef/chicken/pork
Grass-fed chicken?? Grass-fed pork?? You don't know much about farming... or biology in general, do you? Chickens eat grain. Cows eat grass, pigs are omnivores and will eat and thrive on damned near anything. If pigs are given antibiotics because of gut bacteria, maybe the farmers would do better to add a little meat to their diets? A pig on a vegetarian diet would do as poorly as a human on one. Of course, feeding beef to yout pork would be more expensive.
What you feed an animal has a huge effect on how they taste. A freiend of mine raised some hogs a few years ago, and fed them a diet of half hog feed (I have no idea what's in hog feed) and half ice cream mix that a friend who worked at an ice cream factory supplied. It was the best tasting pork I ever ate.
Iceland: 39,770 square miles Illinois: 57,914 square miles USA: 3,794,101 square miles
Iceland: population 320,060 Illinois: 12,869,257 USA: population 314,215,000
A single one of the fifty states (a middle sized state) has more land mass than Iceland, but far fewer people. It's a hell of a lot easier to get broadband in a high density population than out in the boondocks. When you see the scale of the size of the US you can see why it's not as easy here as it is there.
And relativity is no barrier to generational ships.
Radiation is. There is an excellent science fiction novel about a generational ship that covers it well. I wish I could remember the name and author, but it's been a long time since I read it. Part of the plot concerned mutations in people that lived too close to the outer hull.
Decriminalization means the black market disappears.
But it doesn't. If sales are against the law, then the only thing that changes is that users don't go to jail. As long as selling is illegal, there will be a black market. The black market only disappears when sales are legal.
So tMobile is most likely going to be better for me, considering that I have a coworker that gets consistently good signal on his phone.
The phone's manufacturer may have something to do with it. Remember Apple's "you're holding it wrong"? If your co-worker has a Motorola and you don't, it may be the phone. Motorola has shitty programmers but great engineers. They make better radios than anyone. I'm on Boost (which Sprint, your carrier, owns) and when I'm at my friend Mike's house out in the boonies, I'm the only one who can get a signal in his barn (which is pretty much a faraday cage). I get a signal at work when everyone else has to find a window for the same reason -- aluminum wall studs make a partial cage. Your office likely has aluminum studs as well. Can you pick up FM radio there easily? If not, it may have more to do with the phone than the carrier.
There is no way to determine the political bent of an anonymous donor, and any Christian who brags about the amount (s)he gives to charity is going against Christ's teaching to do one's alms in secret.
You can no more gather meaningful statistics on the politics of charitable giving than you can count the number of people who smoke pot. The data are impossible to accurately enumerate.
Your link is especially suspect. Wikipedia says of them "They have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-Christian media bias,[4] and while some have suggested the commentary is conservative-leaning,[5] the site includes columns and commentary from both sides of the political spectrum."
I'm a Christian, but I see no anti-Christian media bias, except at Christmas and Easter when they seem to be afraid of saying the word "Christmas" and at Easter, when the emphasis is on the pagan eggs and bunny and not about the ressurection. I do see a lot of antiChristian (indeed, antitheism in general) here at slashdot, though.
The predomenant religion in the US is the worship of money. Sadly, many mammon worshipers call themselves Christians.
Okay, I've got to throw away my moderation on this topic to respond to this crap.
Excellent. That's how this place is supposed to work! My hat is off to you, sir.
U.S. conservatives (in general) are provably more charitable than liberals.
Provably how? Christ said that when we give to charity, we should do it in secret. I (and likely others) figure this goes for tithing as well, so I seldom write a check on Sunday, preferring to drop cash in the collection bag. That's because they keep track of checks donated so the giver can deduct from taxes (which I never do, and I don't believe charity should be tax-deductable. A tax dodge isn't charity). There's no way to count anonymous donations.
There's no way of knowing the political bent of the guy dropping money in the red kettle. Someone here in Springfield drops a krugerand in one every year, and there's no way to tell if he's conservative, liberal, Christian, athiest, or Bhuddist. Determining whether or not a silent giver is conservative is as impossible as determining how many people smoke marijuana.
Somehow, liberals have gotten a lot of traction out of their position that if you vote to tax rich people, then you are more compassionate than those who prefer to limit government and give of themselves.
Well, I prefer to see government as small as possible, but a gigantic country can't have too small a government. I don't think wanting the rich to pay more is charitable, only wise. We have a huge defecit and are in the middle of the worst recession since the Depression so collections from working people are way down, we have two long wars to pay for, and the rich are paying fewer taxes than any time I've been alive, and I'm 60.
Time and time again it's been proven that wealth doesn't trickle down. Taxes on the rich were slashed to help the economy, and it did exactly the opposite. The same thing happened when Reagan slashed the capital gains tax, there was an orgy of corporate takeovers and layoffs that ultimately led to the Bush Sr. recession.
Then there's the fairness aspect. How is it fair that Romney only paid 14% when a roofet pays over twice that rate? The roofer is putting his life on the line so Romney can get richer! Is this fair?
Finally, trying to call on the teachings of Jesus to support higher taxation is beyond ludicrous. Saying that someone has a moral obligation to be charitable and to help their fellow man is not the same as saying that you should use the force of government to take more and more money away from others.
I can't disagree with that, but my point is that when you're paying less in taxes than any time in your life, and government is deeply in debt yet you're calling for even lower taxes, that goes directly against Mark 12:14-17.
I actually agree with Ryan on one point, but not the way he would like it. I, too, would like to remove the capital gains tax, but unlike Ryan, I'd like to see capital gains taxed as normal income. Conservatives say that taxes are moving money from one hand to another, but it's my tax money going to Romney's and Koch's and BP's pockets. Corporate welfare should end.
What about the father's right in the decision? He gets no say at all?
Of course not, we're second hand citizens, and it's even worse than that. Dad want to keep the child and mom doesn't? Fetus aborted. Mom wants the child and dad doesn't? Baby born, father forced to pay for raising it.
I would love to see things as you logically pointed out, but men have become second class citizens in the US.
This problem is always framed to say "If the government doesn't regulate it then horrible stuff will happen."
You don't read much history, do you? Environmental regulations, banking regulations, etc are almost always instituted because horrible stuff has already happened. Sarbines-Oxley or whatever it's called was enacted because the banks recklessly destroyed the economy in the 1920s. The neocons screaming "deregulate!" got it overturned, and what happened? The banks recklessly destroyed the economy again in 2008.
The EPA regs came about because driving past a Monsanto plant literally burned your lungs, and rivers and lakes actually caught fire from the pollutants.
A healthy free market is indeed a powerful force, and unrestrained is powerful enough to -- you guessed it -- make horrible things happen. You need to keep reins on your mule or it's likely to kick your barn down.
That said, the right picture *is* worth 1,000 words
Am I the only one who questions these old sayings? Draw me a picture that says "a picture is worth a thosand words" without it being a picture of the sentence itself. I don't think it can be done.
Obviously, illustrations can sometimes be beneficial, but more often than not, writing is better.
If we could get rid of traffic lights, stop signs and yield signs, I am sure we could increase gas mileage enough to pay for the system.
The less gasoline is sold, the fewer taxes are collected. It would be good for the motorist, but bad for the city government that would be tasked with paying for it.
I suspect that's why Springfield has twice as many traffic lights and stop signs per capita than the average city -- to reduce your gas mileage and collect more tax (sales tax is collected on gasoline and diesel here, as well as the state and federal motor fuel tax).
not to jump to a conclusion that the study did not demonstrate.
The study demonstrated that there is no correlation between cat ownership and brain cancer. So the headline is, in fact, correct as is and yours is completely incorrect. Your headline would only be correct if there was a slight correlation, but none whatever was found.
My unlimited everything plan doesn't allow tethering either, but I'm only paying $45 per month. TFA says "A plan that includes unlimited everything will cost $89.99 a month." If they included tethering I might be tempted to switch, since it might be possible to get rid of my AT&T DSL bill. But as it is, ninety bucks a monthis way too much money, twice what I'm paying now.
I also wonder why we don't throw "Conception Day" parties instead of "Birthday" parties.
In some societies they do, Thailand for example. If a Thai says he's 25, he's 24 as they count their age from a year before birth. How can you determine the date of conception accurately? Is it possible? IIRC it wasn't a quarter century ago when my kids were born. They could only estimate it and said accuracy was no more than a week.
If everyone was on a mesh network, why would you need the old internet? If everyone was on an ad-hoc mesh network, that would become the network. Had wifi come before the internet was poppular, I doubt there would be any such thing as an ISP today.
Once we are able to mine the mantle we will be able to travel to the stars.
Sorry, but there's that pesky relativity getting in the way. It takes light four to ten years to get here from the ten nearest stars, none of which have shown evidence of earthlike planets. I'm afraid it's going to be centuries, or more likely never, that we travel the stars. Sorry, but there's a reason they call it science fiction.
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I believe ultimately there is some belief that language evolved from music instead of the other way around.
I doubt either evolved from the other, but if they are connected, music would have evolved from language. Other animals have language, however rudimentary; everyone knows that a barking dog is saying "GTFO or I'll eat you!" Also, they've recently found that some species have fairly sophisticated communications abilities, but no other animal has music. Not even birds; a recent study showed that birdsong is not music, but simple communication.
Why would you think that a trait other animals share would have been evolved from a trait that is unique to our species?
The building having nothing at all to protect it probably doesn't have anything at all worth stealing either
Wrong. Most burglaries are in low income areas, because that's where the theives live. A crackhead can take a shelf full of DVDs and sell them for two dollars each, ten DVDs and he has his rock. Almost any pawn shop will buy them, no questions asked, whereas if you take a TV or a guitar there, you're going to jump through a few hoops that may send you to jail.
That said, I miss my Epiphone a lot more than my DVDs :(
Since English isn't your first language, I hope I'm helpful in pointing out that "loose" means "set free". E.g., "he looses his dog every morning. Cry havok, and loose the dogs of war". The word you're looking for is "lose."
I blame Suse, (and they also speak in a different native tongue). When I gave it a try ten years ago, a warning said "you may loose data". I wonder if that typo is still there?
I concur - obesity is almost totally diet-related... I'm actually a type 1 diabetic with a BMI of around 21 - I don't need to lose weight.
And I'd be willing to bet there are no obese people in your family. There are three components to weight gain/loss: amount of calories, how many calories are burned, and your metabolism.
Some people are genetically thin, like me (and I suspect you as well) and some are genetically fat. If you have a slow metabolism, you need to eat less than someone who does the exact same amount of excersize than someone who has a fast metabolism.
If I worked out I'd probably look like I had bulemia.
I've written an unwholy amount of home assignments
Maybe if your screen was a different ratio you would have finished them?
I think they're studying the wrong thing. Why does music exist at all? What evolutionary advantage does music give us? No other animal has music; there was a story a few days ago that said they disproved birdsong being music.
This study does sort of explain why tunes have a tendancy to stick in one's head (maybe, or maybe they're misreading the data).
You're correct, I was indeed thinking of Glass-Steagle. Thank you for the correction.
Since 2006-ish I've eaten nothing but locally raised, grass fed beef/chicken/pork
Grass-fed chicken?? Grass-fed pork?? You don't know much about farming... or biology in general, do you? Chickens eat grain. Cows eat grass, pigs are omnivores and will eat and thrive on damned near anything. If pigs are given antibiotics because of gut bacteria, maybe the farmers would do better to add a little meat to their diets? A pig on a vegetarian diet would do as poorly as a human on one. Of course, feeding beef to yout pork would be more expensive.
What you feed an animal has a huge effect on how they taste. A freiend of mine raised some hogs a few years ago, and fed them a diet of half hog feed (I have no idea what's in hog feed) and half ice cream mix that a friend who worked at an ice cream factory supplied. It was the best tasting pork I ever ate.
Iceland: 39,770 square miles
Illinois: 57,914 square miles
USA: 3,794,101 square miles
Iceland: population 320,060
Illinois: 12,869,257
USA: population 314,215,000
A single one of the fifty states (a middle sized state) has more land mass than Iceland, but far fewer people. It's a hell of a lot easier to get broadband in a high density population than out in the boondocks. When you see the scale of the size of the US you can see why it's not as easy here as it is there.
Cat ownership == cats, cats != cat ownership.
And relativity is no barrier to generational ships.
Radiation is. There is an excellent science fiction novel about a generational ship that covers it well. I wish I could remember the name and author, but it's been a long time since I read it. Part of the plot concerned mutations in people that lived too close to the outer hull.
Decriminalization means the black market disappears.
But it doesn't. If sales are against the law, then the only thing that changes is that users don't go to jail. As long as selling is illegal, there will be a black market. The black market only disappears when sales are legal.
So tMobile is most likely going to be better for me, considering that I have a coworker that gets consistently good signal on his phone.
The phone's manufacturer may have something to do with it. Remember Apple's "you're holding it wrong"? If your co-worker has a Motorola and you don't, it may be the phone. Motorola has shitty programmers but great engineers. They make better radios than anyone. I'm on Boost (which Sprint, your carrier, owns) and when I'm at my friend Mike's house out in the boonies, I'm the only one who can get a signal in his barn (which is pretty much a faraday cage). I get a signal at work when everyone else has to find a window for the same reason -- aluminum wall studs make a partial cage. Your office likely has aluminum studs as well. Can you pick up FM radio there easily? If not, it may have more to do with the phone than the carrier.
There is no way to determine the political bent of an anonymous donor, and any Christian who brags about the amount (s)he gives to charity is going against Christ's teaching to do one's alms in secret.
You can no more gather meaningful statistics on the politics of charitable giving than you can count the number of people who smoke pot. The data are impossible to accurately enumerate.
Your link is especially suspect. Wikipedia says of them "They have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-Christian media bias,[4] and while some have suggested the commentary is conservative-leaning,[5] the site includes columns and commentary from both sides of the political spectrum."
I'm a Christian, but I see no anti-Christian media bias, except at Christmas and Easter when they seem to be afraid of saying the word "Christmas" and at Easter, when the emphasis is on the pagan eggs and bunny and not about the ressurection. I do see a lot of antiChristian (indeed, antitheism in general) here at slashdot, though.
The predomenant religion in the US is the worship of money. Sadly, many mammon worshipers call themselves Christians.
Okay, I've got to throw away my moderation on this topic to respond to this crap.
Excellent. That's how this place is supposed to work! My hat is off to you, sir.
U.S. conservatives (in general) are provably more charitable than liberals.
Provably how? Christ said that when we give to charity, we should do it in secret. I (and likely others) figure this goes for tithing as well, so I seldom write a check on Sunday, preferring to drop cash in the collection bag. That's because they keep track of checks donated so the giver can deduct from taxes (which I never do, and I don't believe charity should be tax-deductable. A tax dodge isn't charity). There's no way to count anonymous donations.
There's no way of knowing the political bent of the guy dropping money in the red kettle. Someone here in Springfield drops a krugerand in one every year, and there's no way to tell if he's conservative, liberal, Christian, athiest, or Bhuddist. Determining whether or not a silent giver is conservative is as impossible as determining how many people smoke marijuana.
Somehow, liberals have gotten a lot of traction out of their position that if you vote to tax rich people, then you are more compassionate than those who prefer to limit government and give of themselves.
Well, I prefer to see government as small as possible, but a gigantic country can't have too small a government. I don't think wanting the rich to pay more is charitable, only wise. We have a huge defecit and are in the middle of the worst recession since the Depression so collections from working people are way down, we have two long wars to pay for, and the rich are paying fewer taxes than any time I've been alive, and I'm 60.
Time and time again it's been proven that wealth doesn't trickle down. Taxes on the rich were slashed to help the economy, and it did exactly the opposite. The same thing happened when Reagan slashed the capital gains tax, there was an orgy of corporate takeovers and layoffs that ultimately led to the Bush Sr. recession.
Then there's the fairness aspect. How is it fair that Romney only paid 14% when a roofet pays over twice that rate? The roofer is putting his life on the line so Romney can get richer! Is this fair?
Finally, trying to call on the teachings of Jesus to support higher taxation is beyond ludicrous. Saying that someone has a moral obligation to be charitable and to help their fellow man is not the same as saying that you should use the force of government to take more and more money away from others.
I can't disagree with that, but my point is that when you're paying less in taxes than any time in your life, and government is deeply in debt yet you're calling for even lower taxes, that goes directly against Mark 12:14-17.
I actually agree with Ryan on one point, but not the way he would like it. I, too, would like to remove the capital gains tax, but unlike Ryan, I'd like to see capital gains taxed as normal income. Conservatives say that taxes are moving money from one hand to another, but it's my tax money going to Romney's and Koch's and BP's pockets. Corporate welfare should end.
What about the father's right in the decision? He gets no say at all?
Of course not, we're second hand citizens, and it's even worse than that. Dad want to keep the child and mom doesn't? Fetus aborted. Mom wants the child and dad doesn't? Baby born, father forced to pay for raising it.
I would love to see things as you logically pointed out, but men have become second class citizens in the US.
This problem is always framed to say "If the government doesn't regulate it then horrible stuff will happen."
You don't read much history, do you? Environmental regulations, banking regulations, etc are almost always instituted because horrible stuff has already happened. Sarbines-Oxley or whatever it's called was enacted because the banks recklessly destroyed the economy in the 1920s. The neocons screaming "deregulate!" got it overturned, and what happened? The banks recklessly destroyed the economy again in 2008.
The EPA regs came about because driving past a Monsanto plant literally burned your lungs, and rivers and lakes actually caught fire from the pollutants.
A healthy free market is indeed a powerful force, and unrestrained is powerful enough to -- you guessed it -- make horrible things happen. You need to keep reins on your mule or it's likely to kick your barn down.
If you'll bare with me for one second:
Sorry, I'm not in San Fransisco, and nudity is illegal here. However, I'm willing to bear with you.
That said, the right picture *is* worth 1,000 words
Am I the only one who questions these old sayings? Draw me a picture that says "a picture is worth a thosand words" without it being a picture of the sentence itself. I don't think it can be done.
Obviously, illustrations can sometimes be beneficial, but more often than not, writing is better.
If we could get rid of traffic lights, stop signs and yield signs, I am sure we could increase gas mileage enough to pay for the system.
The less gasoline is sold, the fewer taxes are collected. It would be good for the motorist, but bad for the city government that would be tasked with paying for it.
I suspect that's why Springfield has twice as many traffic lights and stop signs per capita than the average city -- to reduce your gas mileage and collect more tax (sales tax is collected on gasoline and diesel here, as well as the state and federal motor fuel tax).
not to jump to a conclusion that the study did not demonstrate.
The study demonstrated that there is no correlation between cat ownership and brain cancer. So the headline is, in fact, correct as is and yours is completely incorrect. Your headline would only be correct if there was a slight correlation, but none whatever was found.
My unlimited everything plan doesn't allow tethering either, but I'm only paying $45 per month. TFA says "A plan that includes unlimited everything will cost $89.99 a month." If they included tethering I might be tempted to switch, since it might be possible to get rid of my AT&T DSL bill. But as it is, ninety bucks a monthis way too much money, twice what I'm paying now.
I also wonder why we don't throw "Conception Day" parties instead of "Birthday" parties.
In some societies they do, Thailand for example. If a Thai says he's 25, he's 24 as they count their age from a year before birth. How can you determine the date of conception accurately? Is it possible? IIRC it wasn't a quarter century ago when my kids were born. They could only estimate it and said accuracy was no more than a week.
If everyone was on a mesh network, why would you need the old internet? If everyone was on an ad-hoc mesh network, that would become the network. Had wifi come before the internet was poppular, I doubt there would be any such thing as an ISP today.
Once we are able to mine the mantle we will be able to travel to the stars.
Sorry, but there's that pesky relativity getting in the way. It takes light four to ten years to get here from the ten nearest stars, none of which have shown evidence of earthlike planets. I'm afraid it's going to be centuries, or more likely never, that we travel the stars. Sorry, but there's a reason they call it science fiction.