And I am sure you are ready to provide some quotes from peer-reviewed papers from the seventies that supports your claim. Also, I am sure that you are ready to provide a quick review of the literature back then that will show that this actually was an opinion that was taken seriously. Thank Cthulhu that you are ready for that, lest someone would call you a liar.

I think that generally is what "state's rights" stands for these days. Well, before it stood for "let us allow segregation and slavery", but they don't tend to talk about that now, do they?

In all your conservative subtility, you completely missed his point. Who would have thunk.... Any way to fuck over the "Other" is fine, no?

Well, from a phylogenetic point of view, that is not exactly false. The dinosaurs are out in my yard, clucking andf providing eggs for my breakfast. Take that, velociraptor, I am feasting on your young!

Now if that is not the time for the infinite, recursive facepalm, I do not know what is.

Weaksauce foundation, /. style. The shark, it has been jumped years ago.

I think we should leave the making up of crazy shit to the crazies, whithout adding an extra layer of "crazy shit I suppose they would make up" to it. There's enough bullcrap around without that ;)

Yup, That's why you keep poking with a sharpened stick. God help us if the cronies of your ruling elite shall not be able to profiteer from some war at the ass end of nowhere. Can't have that.

Congratulation on coming over as more moronic as the real mods here. Which, by the way, are heartily invited to die in a fire due to utter incompetence.

Sure, the US-led free world. Note: the free world smiles at you in mild contempt, as adults do when adolescents posture in their usual know-it-all mode.

Replace the margarine with butter and you are fine - Melt some butter until it foams but does not yet brown, stir in fresh, chopped sage leaves, pour over pasta, Add parmesan. Voilà - pasta con burro e salvia. Or fry some chopped onion in it at low-medium heat, add lemon juice - pasta al limone. Or take olive oil instead of butter and fry some garlic in it at low heat, not browning it. Pasta aglio e olio. Those three are 10-minute recipes.

If you need any more tips, feel free to drop me a PM at the cheftalk forums :D

Great! Just as a precausionary note, and please don't be offended if you know this, but given your stated culinary background I better say it: recipes like I gave you are shorthand and assume certain things. E. g. the pasta recipe assumes of course that you season it with salt and pepper to taste when finished cooking, that you fry the onions at medium heat until glassy but not brown. If you need more tips, feel free to hop over to www.cheftalk.com - I am going by GeneMachine on the forums there and I, as well as the whole community there in the Cooking Discussions forum would be happy to supply any info needed. Also, stop that pasta with margarine thing. It is an abomination unto the Lord, blessed be His Noodly Appendages, verily ;)

Dude, we are talking about the Amundsen expedition here. Pretty sure the gulf stream is not following the northwest passage...

Generally, language would be considered a subset of communication. However, if you gather two linguists, you will end up with three definitions of language.

It is generally seen as probably the most important distinctive property of human languages compared to other modes of communication that human languages are open-ended, i.e. capable of forming an essentially unlimited set of expressions. This is not the case for any known animal communication system. There have been several other properties proposed as defining for a true language - for example metalinguistics, i.e. the ability to talk about a language in the language itself