Microsoft could never buy the kind of publicity in the developer community that this kind of announce/recind behaviour will get them for free.

Man, they're good.

Absolutely. This is a rght-wing erotic fantasy. They need their regular apoplectic release.

Nice removal of context. Always a useful way to provide a logical fallacy in the course of rhetoric.

The consensus is that there are species, and that it appears many species are closely related and a good explanation for that is that they share a common ancestor. Evolution is an excellent, abstract, hand-wavy way of explaining this observation, on its own conveniently devoid of useful scientific information but by gum if you don't believe it, whatever it is, you're a kook! Nobody has ever in fact observed speciation taking place, and that's where the consensus breaks down. Ask an evolutionary biologist how speciation takes place, you will probably get an awnser. Ask another one, you will probably get a completely different answer. Nice consensus, if everybody is busy disagreeing.

Here's a question for you, then: how have species changed and diverged over time, and how do they continue to change and diverge? Will you quote Huxley? Gould? have you even read them? Was this taught in school, or was it considered too policially risky to not toe the consensus?

I did give four examples. There are dictionaries available on the internet for those of you who know how to use them. Here's a brief background, chosen at random from a google search.

Anthopology is clearly a post-hoc science, as are sociology, most of behavoural psychology, and a good chunk of medicine.

Find out the difference between a hard science and a post-hoc science and decide for yourself.

Reading the comments here it seems to me that a certain degree of debate is warranted.

Fundies aside, there is no "consensus" at all on evolution. Oh, sure, evolution is an observation of fact, it can only be denied by the willfully blind and they can have their cosy little padded cells. But how does evolution work? Which theory is correct? Is it punctuated equilibrium? Darwin's gradual descent by means of natural selection? How does speciation occur? If high school science is not teaching the debate (and evidently, it does not) then it's not teaching science. Consensus my big red babboon behind.

Teaching climate change as science? I have never heard of any high school teaching a fundamental understanding of post-hoc 'science', and my kids are in or have been through high school. The post-hoc 'sciences' like economics, climate science, political science, criminology, and so forth are not the same as the so-called 'hard' sciences like physics and chemistry. It is important nay, fundamental, to teach how they differ and how we can never have any great degree of confidence in or reliability on the predictive power of post-hoc 'sciences'. A consensus among soothsayers does not have more predictive power than reading chicken entrails, no matter how many win valuable Scandanavian prizes.

If posters here, or political activists everywhere, believe otherwise, there is your evidence of the failure of the school system.

The good old Windows 95 interface idiom used by the likes of Windows XP and Gnome2 was good enough for Jesus in the Bible, it should be good enough for everyone in America and the other part of the world (Alaska and maybe Hawaii, too). Doesn't Microsoft know they will burn in Hell for fiddling with the UI God handed down on Mount Ararat?

Because maintining good oral hygeine is always of the utmost importance.

I am naked under my clothes. Right now. Completely naked. C'mon, put me on the list.

You have it backwards. Sainthood prepared me for parenthood.

"A person born in the US at the turn of the 20th century could expect to live 49.2 years. Their ancestor born in 2003 could reasonably expect to see their 77th birthday".

Wow. Just wow. Any article involving the violation of the known laws of physics is a waste of the electrons it was written in.

The rest is crap, too.

Yes. History was not invented here.

A data cap is not going to solve the problem of your neutral carrier selectively reading and discarding your data. See, an always-on connection is ALWAYS sending data. A zero bit is data just as much as a one bit. A "data cap" is really just charging you for all the one bits that get sent over the line. It does not reduce the amount of data and it has no effect on how fast others send and receive their data -- that's bound by the equipment on Roger's racks. A data cap is just a way for an ISP to reach around and pull money from your front pcket while they're pounding you from behind.

"ISO C" is the name of the internationally-recognized standard C programming language. It replaced K&R C as the de facto and de jure standard development language on many computers decades ago.

In the United States of America, a national standards body called the American National Standards Institute (ANSi), the local member of the International Standards Organization (ISO), ratified and adopted "ISO C" as the de jure standard. That's the way the ISO works: a standard is developed in cooperation with various international bodies, then each national standards body ratifies and proclaims it the local de jure standard. So, for those who are illiterate or ignorant enough to not understand how the tools they claim to use work, "ANSI C" is a local rebranding of "ISO C" for those parochial Americans who have an aversion to anything Forn.

To claim ignorance of this is to proclaim your own ignorance. Hand in your geek credentials at the door and don't let it hit you on the way out.

In these "recovered" tapes, does The Doctor give instructions to not blink? Don't even blink? Blink and you're dead?