The same people who are shooting everyone. In fact, we could replace the mod system with remote-control rifles.

You don't know the mad poet of Sanaa, author of al-Azif? Read up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred

Quick summary for the lazy: al-Azif later became known as the Necronomicon.

ia! ia! cthulhu ftagn!

Damn. I was hoping you wouldn't notice - I have a set of tires I would be willing to part with for only, say, $20,000.

Also, tire costs depend very much on the diameter and width of the wheel. Drive an econo-box with small wheels (14" or so) and it's possible you can re-tire your car for less than $200. But 17" or 18" rims can cost you close to $200 a tire - even if you're not buying Pirelli P-zeroes. My 5-year-old Mazda's tires cost rather more than I expected, since it has 16-inch wheels.

OTOH, corporate-santioned illegal action on a massive scale (like, for instance, sabotaging 100 cars across the country) has a tendency to create even *more* negative publicity. :-)

By the way, what were you thinking of? Severing brake lines? Loosening the lug nuts on the wheels? 'Cause slashed tires and potatoes in tailpipes wouldn't really work all that well to sway opinions. Of the cars, at least.

I see your point, but I think I agree with Hognoxious. Why mention Lamarck at all?

I thought the invocation of the L-word was related to the weird question about whether the term 'evolution' was being used in the right way. Which dozens of posters above me have answered already, so I defer to them.

I like this idea! What traits do 'no fish' have? Are they made of antimatter? Could we use them as weapons?

The possibilities abound.

What does Lamarck have to do with it? These fish haven't been passing down traits they've developed during their lifetimes - we've been killing all the big fish, so smaller fish are selectively left to breed. That's Darwinian evolution.

In normal situations, I'd imagine that bigger fish tend to reproduce more often. But when some external force (e.g., thousands of fishers in boats with GPS and big nets) changes things, you get a different outcome.

If we preferred to eat fish that were darker in colour, they'd be getting lighter instead.

Either TaeKwonDood misunderstands evolution, or rushed to post his article a little too quickly...

If you don't have an ethernet jack where you have power, then how on earth are you powering your wireless hub?

Awesome.

Let me try: just because quantum dynamics is kind of freaky doesn't mean that every freaky idea is as good as (or part of) quantum dynamics.

Also, all you've done is redefine the word 'dimension'. That doesn't make you a brilliant physicist, it makes you a new wave grammarian. You're not saying anything new, you're just saying it in ways that are hard to understand.

On the other hand, when people (or trolls? that is the name of the OP) are citing crop circles as evidence of higher dimensions, I should accept that we have abandoned the parlour of common sense.