I have a degree in biology from a uni in a tropical island country - there are so many non endangered yet critical species the mind boggles to drill down to specifics, the example I gave of monographs and journals was relayed from actual experience and not speculation; but if I must satisfy your laziness, then I shall provide as my example: the family of crustaceans generally known as krill. They are a cornerstone of the food web in sub-temperate and polar waters, with a diverse array of species feeding directly or indirectly from them, such as salmon, blue whales and penguins. They are also not nearly close to being endangered, yet if they did become endangered, the food security of several temperate and sub-arctic countries could be called into question.

Here's a tip, try searching for information at a deeper level than just googling. Maybe ecology monographs and journals on various clades of marine organisms? Did you ever consider that only endangered animals would have layman friendly SEO optimized articles written about their ecological importance, while more mundane species would have just as much if not more data about them, but mouldering away in a university library somewhere, rather than being talked about on the mainstream news sites?

Stop playing semantic games and just admit that there are no real alternative browsers, only wrappers around Apple's version of webkit, or some Frankensteinian monstrosity that offloads processing to the server.. Anyway, I joined this conversation to make a point and now must leave it point made, whether or not the recipient of my words understood them.

It's not the "real" Google Chrome because it's blocked from using it's own fork of WebKit, and cannot use a javascript JIT compiler (neither the builtin Nitro engine, nor any third party one).

No actually, Chrome on iOS uses a slower (and less powerful) version of the webkit engine than Safari does. More specifically, Chrome on iOS is blocked from using the Nitro javascript engine that Safari has access to, and is not allowed to use it's own javascript JIT compiler, due to Apple's guidelines. So no, Chrome on iOS is a shadow of it's form on other platforms. This basically means that Safari remains by design, and not by chance, the best and most performant browser on iOS.

Surely you realize that's just a wrapper around an iOS service? You are either disingenuously misinterpreting the GP to discredit their criticism, or really have no clue about the state of competing browsers on iOS (ie, there are none, only wrappers and bookmark/history syncing).

Slashdot is (or is in the process of becoming) a bastion of conservative techies. Everyone talks a good game about how they're only fiscally conservative, not socially conservative, but bring up racism, feminism or homophobia, and it's like the 1950's with better technology up in here. The people who most need to read and understand what you just said will not, because it is ideologically inconvenient.

Korean pop has been called K-pop (and Japanese pop called J-pop) long before Gangnam Style was a twinkle in PSY's sunglasses.

If one party not only had no interest in catering to white people's interests, not only that but supporting politicians and policies that were openly anti-white, then they would be forgiven for being fucking logical and voting for another party. Also, blacks vote Dem in overwhelming numbers anyway, historically, ever since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act. If the GOP actually had black voters best interests as heart (they fucking don't), then maybe it would be different.

Irrational actions can emerge from rational motives. A (relatively) rational insecurity about the paternity of the estranged wife's unborn child can snowball into killing her and the unborn child. All it takes is the right (or in this case wrong) brain chemistry. I don't know about the ex-husband guy being the prime suspect, but I sure as hell would be keeping track of his movements if I were in charge of that investigation.

OMG, stop talking. Right now. Those quislings, forgiving towards homophobes, willing to sacrifice marriage equality and discrimination protections for their pieces of silver. You'll find that members of GOProud skew white, rich and most often originating from the South. If that's your view of how "gays are split on parties" then that's a very distorted view. There are much more LGBT people (in fact, I doubt there are many T of LGBT people in the log cabin) who are against GOProud than there are GOProuders.

Something tells me Abraham Lincoln and Eisenhower would be Democrats today if they were transported through time to this era. Your skewed view of events makes sense once you mentioned the log cabin. Have a nice time in there (assuming you're LGBT).

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Again I have to ask, why are black people partisan for voting Dem, but LGBTs are not? What is the difference? Also the lgbt vote is not split on parties. It votes liberal, which in nearly every case, is a Democrat rather than a Republican. I don't think further discussion is very useful, because our frames of reference are just too different. Also, I love how you provide an example from the Civil War era to show an example of Republicans doing something for black people, yet gave me hell for mentioning the much more recent Lee Atwater admission.

I'm curious. Which republican politicans support black people and black issues? I really want to know. And what level of seniority do they have in the GOP? Can you rustle up any names? Because all you're doing is recycling boring rightwing talking points without actually discussing anything specific that a republican politician or the GOP itself has done for black people.

Another thing, LGBT people voted overwhelmingly democrat as well. Why is it a smart thing when LGBT voters do it, but black people are dumb for doing the same? And why would it be smarter for black people to vote Republican? What have the GOP ever done for them? There was a president who passed the Civil Rights Act against strident opposition from southern whites. That president was LBJ. Where is the Republican LBJ and what has he done?.

But Meg Whitman ISN'T a ginormous fuck-up, she just inherited a fucked up company and hasn't yet managed to reverse the fucked-upedness fast enough or well enough for the media gurus. She wasn't even the CEO when this deal went through, but immediately one of the first comments on slashdot has to pair her and Carly Fiorina together. I wonder what they have in common...