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Submission + - Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid with 150 IQ 6

Hugh Pickens writes: "Neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger have an interesting article in Discover Magazine about the Boskops, an extinct hominid that had big eyes, child-like faces, and forebrains roughly 50% larger than modern man indicating they may have had an average intelligence of around 150, making them geniuses among Homo sapiens. The combination of a large cranium and immature face would look decidedly unusual to modern eyes, but not entirely unfamiliar. Such faces peer out from the covers of countless science fiction books and are often attached to “alien abductors” in movies. "Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in Africa," wrote naturalist Loren Eiseley. "His brain was bigger than your brain” The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the almost irresistible idea that evolution leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessor, yet the existence of the Boskops argues otherwise — that humans with big brains, and perhaps great intelligence, occupied a substantial piece of southern Africa in the not very distant past, and that they eventually gave way to smaller-brained, possibly less advanced Homo sapiens—that is, ourselves. "With 30 percent larger brains than ours now, we can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149," write Lynch and Granger. But why did they go extinct? "Maybe all that thoughtfulness was of no particular survival value in 10,000 BC. Lacking the external hard drive of a literate society, the Boskops were unable to exploit the vast potential locked up in their expanded cortex," write Lynch and Granger. "They were born just a few millennia too soon.""
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Submission + - The End of Free OTA TV? (sfvbj.com) 1

Caldeso writes: The San Fernando Valley Business Journal is predicting (free registration required) that Comcast's purchase of NBC spells the end of free-as-in-beer over the air broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. Currently, the networks are allowed free broadcast rights by the FCC in exchange for showing the daily news, but Rupert Murdoch is one of many who believe that the recent drop in advertising revenues means that quality reporting will no longer be affordable for the networks, eventually costing them broadcast rights.

Comment Audit the --- FED --- FIRST!! (Score 3, Informative) 259

And here's the way it'll happen:

Support Ron Paul's bill http://www.auditthefed.com/ and http://www.campaignforliberty.com/

Why audit smalltime thieves when we could be coming after the GREATEST financial criminals this far into human history!!!

They stole trillions from us and wont tell us what they did with the money.

Comment It's just like they want their "internet2" to be (Score 1) 322

There are pretty much 3 reasons for that, one they're many times oversubscribed with their bandwidth. Just see what the iphone did to AT&T, mobile networks are not
really looking for the next killer app. Two their infrastructure is way not as reliable as people might think, I know of a bunch of NT4 machines that were handling text msgs
at a German network in 2006 and I'm sure there still there. Three and this is what I believe is the most important reason:

They maintain a consumption culture where they are in control not only over the network and the services reachable through it but also the device itself (pay 4 apps, ringtones etc.) while
locking out the competition and keeping their customers in the app store. Locked down devices, usage restrictions, "AUP" "acceptable" use policies, chicanery and arbitrary
prohibitions - your mobile phone experience today is a taste of the "Internet2" joys to be forced on you tomorrow (if you let them).

Comment I'm more worried about Leprosy and Tuberculosis (Score 1) 341

It is the UNNECESSARY quarantining and locking down of the nation that it wont handle. They claim their "swine flu" has killed roughly a 1000 people since
last April when they started the hyping it,

well did you know that according to "CDC" own statistics, in 2006 648 people died from Tuberculosis and 13,000 people were diagnosed with the disease
IN THE UNITED STATES.

http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/reports/2008/pdf/2008report.pdf turn to page 15, table 1.

Myobacter Tuberculosis gives rise to tuberculosis, a deadly disease and what a painful way to die once it has found it's way into your bones.

Related to Myobacter Tuberculosis is another all time favorite Myobacter Leprae which gives rise to: Hansen's disease aka Leprosy. These little bastards
chew up your nerves, very painful until you lose all sensation.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00044418.htm#00001076.gif

Look at table 20, each year in average a 100+ people get it here in the United States with a peak in the 80s of 400+ cases again HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.

There are other Myobacter of course a whole slew of them but they are for the most part very rare thankfully.

I WOULD NOT WANT TO BE AROUND ANYONE who has an open tuberculosis and is coughing. I would NOT want any physical contact with someone who has
untreated leprosy. -> These diseases freak me out

So think about it,

-----> Tens of thousands of people contract major league plague diseases every year here in the United State and not a word of it on the mainstream media, -----

Comment what a stupid way to ask this question btw (Score 1) 511

"after the riots have calmed down" we are not going to have to "cope" with anything, Al Gore and all the criminal scum like him will hang from a gallow
or possibly far worse.

What a retarded mindfucker you are for even suggesting the people would be defeated. And there _is_ a revolution brewing and it is no longer on the horizon
anymore, it's almost within earshot.

Comment Re:Do not want because you do not need (Score 1) 579

I've had "Swine Flu" and it wasn't that bad but maybe I"m not in the targeted race demographics. I'd rather have the disease a dozen
times than all the injections big pharma is so desperate to squirt into my meat.

Fuck them btw, nobody will put anything into me I find the very idea that I would submit to such a debilitating injection is actually highly insulting.

Comment Re:How about Spotlight? That works on shared volum (Score 2, Insightful) 232

Spotlight is the obvious answer if you have OS X. Not everybody in the world is lucky enough to be in that
position, most are stuck on one of the inferior platforms. Your rubbing it in, is not helping it just
alienates people who already have been through enough and have it tough.

Comment Re:Not a black mark (Score 1) 467

Things people worry about it wouldn't even occur to me that people might potentially take offense if I worked for the gaming industry,
maybe implementing Gaming Standards Association standards (learn how backend systems at the casino talk to slot machines)
  http://www.gamingstandards.com/index.php?page=standards/free_downloads_standards

People might not agree with gambling per se, but the technology that is behind the operations of a casino is top of the line and kick
ass.

Comment About your "anecdote" (Score 1) 430

You have to polish your "anecdote" a little dude, nobody is sick twice and then only for 5 days, acute flu symptoms last for 4-5 days each time. The other thing is, whether vaccine work or not is has never been proven and is NOT beyond debate, how dare you btw?!

Comment APPLE! FIX THIS BUG TOO! (Score 1) 353

Ever since I got MacOS 10.6 "Slow Leopard" my OSX experience with Safari has SUCKED.
Every so often Safari freezes up the whole system for up to half a minute

Check this syslog:

Oct 12 16:57:51 un2803-09 Safari[18145]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:22.553759, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 5, Did shrink: NO
Oct 12 17:10:35 un2803-09 Safari[18145]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:6.630163, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 5, Did shrink: NO
Oct 12 17:16:29 un2803-09 Safari[18145]: Periodic CFURLCache Insert stats (iters: 369) - Tx time:0.003914, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 5, Did shrink: NO, Size of cache-file: 167206912, Num of Failures: 2
Oct 12 17:40:45 un2803-09 Safari[18145]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:16.382989, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 5, Did shrink: NO

People have been complaining about that for more than a month now. Hey I just supported your asses by getting
a $2800 Macbook Pro and I _paid_ for the 10.6 upgrade for my old MBP, what do I need to do to get this fixed,
do I have to buy a time machine or get a MobileMe subscription (WTF should I pay to sync to my ipod touch? Oh did
I mention I got a 16Gb ipod touch a while ago too!) .. and come to think of it I have gotten applecare protection plans for everything
I bought from you guys, that's a whooping $350 bucks for a macbook, and it's also those little things that count
like you making me shell out an extra $29 for a display adaptor because you chose to go with some weird-ass standard
nobody has heard of before...

You OWE me to fix this bug, buddy.

Comment You can stick your job up your ass (Score 1) 541

before I take any vaccination shots whatsoever. I haven't ever gone and gotten them in the past why should I do so now just
because Novartis and this government want me to?

they blew it when they just came across as too DAMM EAGER TO INJECT... too DAMM EAGER.

The opportunity for a world-wide injection campaign is out the window and wont be back, possibly for a quiet a while, but most likely
not ever as

PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME are wising up to the extent of the FRAUD

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