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Comment Re:Uh, don't we maybe NEED that hormone? (Score 1) 404

For the activity I'm describing (i.e. running prey to exhaustion for 30+ miles) women and men differ negligibly in terms of performance, so there's no reason to believe women couldn't/wouldn't help with the hunt. The traits that set humans apart from the animals in terms of long distance endurance are the ability to perspire (better at cooling), our upright stature (helps with respiration since humans can take multiple breaths in a stride, whereas quadrupeds are limited to one breath per stride since their strides facilitate the expansion and contraction of their diaphragm), and superior foot engineering (simply more efficient at its job than other feet). If the whole nomadic party is capable of helping with the hunt the obvious strategy is to set up camp after the hunt is complete without having to go anywhere.

Comment Re:Uh, don't we maybe NEED that hormone? (Score 1) 404

MMmmm, no. Humans did not carry the spoils of hunting back to camp until much later when we invented tools and such. Instead, the whole party would go out hunting together, literally exhausting their prey to death by chasing and tracking. This includes pregnant women. The human body is highly evolved for endurance running. Furthermore, running is not stressful, it is a stress reliever.

Comment Re:The original idea wasn't wrong (Score 1) 652

I write a great new song, perform it a few times while I'm working out the kinks, saving up for studio time, etc. Before I know it, a large media conglomerate has used their performance scouts, on-staff musicians, and fully tricked out in-house studios to steal my song and release it nationally... before mine is even done. I have no legal recourse and, even if I do ultimately release my version, it's forever seen as the cover version.. and that big conglomerate makes a huge pile of money on my work, without me getting a dime.

Sure, that sucks, but your problems didn't start when your song got "stolen", they started when you decided your business model would be to peddle a string of ones and zeroes. While you wouldn't have legal recourse in your scenario, it's not like you are completely helpless in that situation either. A lot of people who bought the hit from the media conglomerate would throw their support to you if they found out you were the original composer. After all, the people who would buy a song (when they could just as easily get it for free since there is no copyright) are the people who are looking to support the creators.

Comment Re:Time to move to a repository system? (Score 0, Troll) 132

I dunno if you're trolling, but I'll bite... ASS, whole lotta ASS all up in your cunt. Fuckin up all that shit and cuntfuckin yourself fist first in the ass. YOUR SHIT IS IN YOUR ASS COMING OUT OF YOUR CUNT! Lol your shitass is cuntwiping all over the place, you shitty assfucker. What in the fuck is with your cuntface asslicker dickfucker brainstem? Is that why all the shit is coming from your cunt?

Comment Conrad Barski remembers... (Score 1) 330

TV Voice: "Do you remember a time when cookies came fresh from the oven? Pepperidge Farm remembers!"
Fry: "Ahh, those were the days."
TV Voice: "Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses? Pepperidge Farm remembers!"

Comment Re:Electrical grids (Score 1) 85

Thanks armchair electrical grid expert. I guess we should all trust you, and not the researchers who actually try to find out the limitations of our various systems. If you bothered to do some simple googling, you would find that the vast majority of the transformers used to distribute power on the grid have a certain ground current tolerance, and as such, if a ground current is produced above this tolerance the transformer breaks in a very expensive way. About a century ago, right when the telegraph was pretty new, there was a solar storm that caused shocks to telegraph operators because the ground current was so high. Just as the article suggests, it is likely we will have a similar event soon and it will probably wipe out a lot of transformers, leaving most of us without power for many months.
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Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook 29

schliz writes "An Australian man has been served a restraining order via Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts by police to reach him by phone and in person. The man was a 'prolific Facebook user' who had allegedly threatened, bullied and harassed a former partner online. He was served both interim and final intervention orders by Facebook, after a local magistrate upheld the interim order indefinitely."

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