I'd also like to point out that mankind may be having a detrimental effect on evolution. There are too many efforts lead by humans to rescue species that have been slated for extinction. Who knows, in just a few decades there may be a system in place to protect the earth from asteroids, cosmic radiation, super-volcanoes, global warming, global cooling, apocalyptic epidemics, and other evolution inducing phenomenon. Such meddling could severely limit the speed of evolution, which takes enough millions of years already!
Evolution doesn't have a goal - we can't be detrimental to it - we're just another selection pressure.
For the record, we didn't evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor.
But the fact that monkeys already have more intelligence, more communication, and have some bipedal locomotion (thus freeing their hands) means they are more likely to progress down this path than cats.
For monkeys to develop more intelligence from evolution, there'd have to be some advantage of slightly greater intelligence that offets the costs (e.g bigger head). Evolution doesn't just say "let's make animals more like humans", it just is. If humans died out, monkeys could very well stay like monkeys until the world ends - if there's no selection pressure on them.
Evolution is self-evident. Obvious if something reproduces more and stays alive than something else, there'll be more of them. I can't see why fundies can't grasp this simple application of logic - but I guess if you lack the smarts/logical think to realise god doesn't exist, then you'll lack the smarts to understand other basic fundamentals.
Ahhh, so we've been doing GM for thousands of years then?
Well good. Because now there's nothing new for the "Greenies" (who are more about control and stopping science than helping the environment) to complain about.
Yeah, I find the major advantage of one of these big boxes connected to (get this) two TV things, is the ability to copy, open new tab and paste to bring up google in less than one second.
I know I'm never going to made into a cool black silhouette dancing on a coloured background, but I chose to forgo this delight when I decided I preferred to sit down in my comfortable lounge sitting in a chair than glaring into a tiny handheld. But each to his own I say.
You sound quite arrogant, and my guess is that you grossly overvalue your own work and opinion.
Do you really think that your scrawlings on Wikipedia (which other editors constantly have to fix) are being used by millionaires to make even more millions?
You call people "loathsome" because they have more money than you? Are you delusional? You, along with many other PhDs are giving "academics" a bad name.
I put it to you that you only did a PhD because you are socially, financially and intellectually unable to achieve in life - and there's no problem with this - it takes all types to make a world. But my main problem with you is your hatred and inability to work with other people. I don't use Wikipedia much anymore, but on behalf of them: Good riddance, Wikipedia is better off without you.
"Editing wars" over trivialities such as the deaths of celebrities are of no significance.
Wikipedia was one of the last places to report that Michael Jackson had died, because the editors there thought TMZ was not a reliable enough source. Unfortunately many Wikipedia admins have minimal common sense and no sense of pragmatism.
A site like Wikipedia needs its Aspies, don't get me wrong. But when there's an important and practical decision to be made, perhaps the final should be left to people with better perspective-taking skills.
It's as if producing cyanide has some sort of adaptive advantage to the grass. Why would Gaia do this? It's those evil scientists.
Here's some propaganda from HowStuffWorks, pretending that clover does the same thing:
"Some species of clover developed a mutation that caused the poison cyanide to form in the plant's cells. This gave the clover a bitter taste, making it less likely to be eaten. However, when the temperature drops below freezing, some cells ruptur, releasing the cyanide into the plant's tissues and killing the plant. In warm climates, natural selection acted in favor of the cyanide-producing clover, but where the winters are cold, non-cyanide clover was favored. Each kind exists almost exclusively in each climate area."
Peanut allergies are, I have been told, the reason why airlines no longer hand out little bags of peanuts and hand out little bags of pretzels or "snack mix" which doesn't have peanuts -- when they hand out anything at all, that is. That is also why I always carry my own bags of peanuts.
Actually, under libertarianism the parents would be responsible for what their kids take to school. If parents are neglecting their children, then they need to be punished.
It doesn't, by any means, excuse them from the original decision to force someone to take down their website.
Their back-pedalling now the case has publicity only shows how out-of-touch they are with the world. I'd love to know who was personally responsibly for this decision.
We're all used to national governments trying to get their greasy control-freak hands on our internet, but now councils are doing it! Stick to water supply, sewerage and rates - keep away from the internet. It's none of your business, and you don't understand it. Controlling the internet is controlling our speech.
A redacted version of the cyberweapon has been reproduced below for public analysis:
It is already going to take either divine intervention or h3lp from the M@rtians to get that thing down right side up and in one piece.
Upon reading the phrase "h3lp from the M@rtians", K'Breel, Speaker for the Council, immediately collapsed into fits of laughter and promptly laughed his gelsacs off.
I always knew someone was listening in my times of trouble.
It seems to me the prudent thing for the government to do is to do nothing until some other country figures out a viable solution to the problem.
New Zealand is being used as a guinea pig in regards to Kim Dotcom. We've also rushed through a "three-strikes" Iaw under urgency during the Chch earthquake. Guess Aussie's going to be a guinea pig for some other idea.
3. Someone who invests in the creation of a product has some right to expect to be able to sell their works for a profit.
Not true at all. (Well, what you've said is techinically true, they have a right to expect profit, not to make a profit.)
If I go around making balls of dust from the vacuum cleaner bag, I don't have some entitlement to make money from that. Even if I worked really hard to make them, and even if I hired staff to help me make them. It's something no-one wants and it's something people can make themselves, so I'm not going to make money.
If I paint my fence outside my house, I can't expect people to have to pay to view it. Even though mucheffort went into it.
In short, there's no inherent reason why anyone should be paid for writing a song. There's some rules that governments have made to get these guys money - but now they've forgotten that, and they expect to earn millions for doing nothing.
....and filtering out the really negative posters.
Your post is basically you complaining about things. I'd regard this as negative, but I don't begrudge you posting it.
There's a lot of people here who think they're smart, but they're really not and they have no critical thinking ability at all; this especially comes up any time a discussion veers into talk about America's imperialist actions or politics.
Let me guess... These stupid people tend to be those with opinions different to yours?
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I'd also like to point out that mankind may be having a detrimental effect on evolution. There are too many efforts lead by humans to rescue species that have been slated for extinction. Who knows, in just a few decades there may be a system in place to protect the earth from asteroids, cosmic radiation, super-volcanoes, global warming, global cooling, apocalyptic epidemics, and other evolution inducing phenomenon. Such meddling could severely limit the speed of evolution, which takes enough millions of years already!
Evolution doesn't have a goal - we can't be detrimental to it - we're just another selection pressure.
For the record, we didn't evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor.
But the fact that monkeys already have more intelligence, more communication, and have some bipedal locomotion (thus freeing their hands) means they are more likely to progress down this path than cats.
For monkeys to develop more intelligence from evolution, there'd have to be some advantage of slightly greater intelligence that offets the costs (e.g bigger head). Evolution doesn't just say "let's make animals more like humans", it just is. If humans died out, monkeys could very well stay like monkeys until the world ends - if there's no selection pressure on them.
Evolution is self-evident. Obvious if something reproduces more and stays alive than something else, there'll be more of them. I can't see why fundies can't grasp this simple application of logic - but I guess if you lack the smarts/logical think to realise god doesn't exist, then you'll lack the smarts to understand other basic fundamentals.
Howso?
There's intelligence all around us. Using a stick to get termites out of a mound is intelligence. What exactly are you waiting for?
Was quality of life better?
I'd love to be a kid nowadays!
I feel the same as him. I don't work for free.
So you're greedy.
You don't believe in helping others for the benefit of humanity? You feel the only possible reward for doing work is money?
It's a sad life that you live, AC. I bet you (like the GP) complain about the "1%ers" too.
Ahhh, so we've been doing GM for thousands of years then?
Well good. Because now there's nothing new for the "Greenies" (who are more about control and stopping science than helping the environment) to complain about.
Yeah, I find the major advantage of one of these big boxes connected to (get this) two TV things, is the ability to copy, open new tab and paste to bring up google in less than one second.
I know I'm never going to made into a cool black silhouette dancing on a coloured background, but I chose to forgo this delight when I decided I preferred to sit down in my comfortable lounge sitting in a chair than glaring into a tiny handheld. But each to his own I say.
You sound quite arrogant, and my guess is that you grossly overvalue your own work and opinion.
Do you really think that your scrawlings on Wikipedia (which other editors constantly have to fix) are being used by millionaires to make even more millions?
You call people "loathsome" because they have more money than you? Are you delusional? You, along with many other PhDs are giving "academics" a bad name.
I put it to you that you only did a PhD because you are socially, financially and intellectually unable to achieve in life - and there's no problem with this - it takes all types to make a world. But my main problem with you is your hatred and inability to work with other people. I don't use Wikipedia much anymore, but on behalf of them: Good riddance, Wikipedia is better off without you.
Care to share the definition of "coatracking" with those of us who couldn't find a clue with both hands?
I don't want to be "the Google it guy", but let's just say I did a quick Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and this site came up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coatrack
If you're like me you might have read "co-atracking", but it's actually "coat-rack-ing".
"Editing wars" over trivialities such as the deaths of celebrities are of no significance.
Wikipedia was one of the last places to report that Michael Jackson had died, because the editors there thought TMZ was not a reliable enough source. Unfortunately many Wikipedia admins have minimal common sense and no sense of pragmatism.
A site like Wikipedia needs its Aspies, don't get me wrong. But when there's an important and practical decision to be made, perhaps the final should be left to people with better perspective-taking skills.
It's as if producing cyanide has some sort of adaptive advantage to the grass. Why would Gaia do this? It's those evil scientists.
Here's some propaganda from HowStuffWorks, pretending that clover does the same thing:
"Some species of clover developed a mutation that caused the poison cyanide to form in the plant's cells. This gave the clover a bitter taste, making it less likely to be eaten. However, when the temperature drops below freezing, some cells ruptur, releasing the cyanide into the plant's tissues and killing the plant. In warm climates, natural selection acted in favor of the cyanide-producing clover, but where the winters are cold, non-cyanide clover was favored. Each kind exists almost exclusively in each climate area."
They're even teaching this stuff in public schools!.
Peanut allergies are, I have been told, the reason why airlines no longer hand out little bags of peanuts and hand out little bags of pretzels or "snack mix" which doesn't have peanuts -- when they hand out anything at all, that is. That is also why I always carry my own bags of peanuts.
You barbarian! You murderer!
Actually, under libertarianism the parents would be responsible for what their kids take to school. If parents are neglecting their children, then they need to be punished.
It doesn't, by any means, excuse them from the original decision to force someone to take down their website.
Their back-pedalling now the case has publicity only shows how out-of-touch they are with the world. I'd love to know who was personally responsibly for this decision.
We're all used to national governments trying to get their greasy control-freak hands on our internet, but now councils are doing it! Stick to water supply, sewerage and rates - keep away from the internet. It's none of your business, and you don't understand it. Controlling the internet is controlling our speech.
UK numbers for the council:
Phone: 01546 602127
Text: 07624808798
Complaints: http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/council-and-government/complaints
A redacted version of the cyberweapon has been reproduced below for public analysis:
Upon reading the phrase "h3lp from the M@rtians", K'Breel, Speaker for the Council, immediately collapsed into fits of laughter and promptly laughed his gelsacs off.
I always knew someone was listening in my times of trouble.
Windows is surprisingly ahead of OS X at the OS level,
Why is that surprising?
Apple is renown for wanting to work only with Apple-approved hardware.
It seems to me the prudent thing for the government to do is to do nothing until some other country figures out a viable solution to the problem.
New Zealand is being used as a guinea pig in regards to Kim Dotcom. We've also rushed through a "three-strikes" Iaw under urgency during the Chch earthquake. Guess Aussie's going to be a guinea pig for some other idea.
3. Someone who invests in the creation of a product has some right to expect to be able to sell their works for a profit.
Not true at all. (Well, what you've said is techinically true, they have a right to expect profit, not to make a profit.)
If I go around making balls of dust from the vacuum cleaner bag, I don't have some entitlement to make money from that. Even if I worked really hard to make them, and even if I hired staff to help me make them. It's something no-one wants and it's something people can make themselves, so I'm not going to make money.
If I paint my fence outside my house, I can't expect people to have to pay to view it. Even though mucheffort went into it.
In short, there's no inherent reason why anyone should be paid for writing a song. There's some rules that governments have made to get these guys money - but now they've forgotten that, and they expect to earn millions for doing nothing.
What the hell? Where'd Republicanism come into it?
You're lucky it isn't based on reading comprehension.
I believe Space Bat made it to the moon.
http://www.space-bat.com/
It's the way he said it. If he said it more politely he'd have been modded up.
I've just looked up at the clock! I've spent 1.5hours playing your game!!!
....and filtering out the really negative posters.
Your post is basically you complaining about things. I'd regard this as negative, but I don't begrudge you posting it.
There's a lot of people here who think they're smart, but they're really not and they have no critical thinking ability at all; this especially comes up any time a discussion veers into talk about America's imperialist actions or politics.
Let me guess... These stupid people tend to be those with opinions different to yours?
It's a bunch of cells. It's not murder!