Comment Re:Hah! (Score 1) 198
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And funded, to a large degree, by the good people of New York City. One of the benefits of the 9/11 attacks was that Giuliani suddenly decided terrorism wasn't cool anymore and the IRA, seeing its major source of funds dry up, became a lot more willing to negotiate.
So all the hipsters in Williamsburg are going to start taking up ironic retro-prejudice and hang "No Irish need apply" signs in their store windows?
The Indian company Eko Vehicles has announced the development of the world's first production hybrid motorcycle, called the ET-120. In a short time this motorcycle will run on the Indian streets, offering about 280 miles per gallon with a top speed of 40 miles per hour...
...and will seat eight.
If nothing else, this is relevant in so far as illustrating how much behavior and physiology can change by the modification of a single simple and seemingly unrelated hereditary trait.
The long and arduous road of chance modifications to the organisms genome isn't necessary to explain these expressed traits specifically, when these simple modifications can cause entire systems to behave differently. It's whole other way of looking at natural selection.
It's not as though we haven't heard Creationists' arguments hinging upon the expectation that every step in evolution depends on a perfect storm of genetic error...
"Most sad thing about it was that they had camps where they trained 5-6 year old boys to exercise physically and to mentally think without fear of enemy, while learning military tactics and strategies."
[citation needed]
USSR was not nice. But creating zombies? It's just a fantasy. This video might have been taken in Afghanistan or Chechnya, if it's real at all.
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If there were people killing each other over stamps and forcing others to be collectors,
Now there's an idea for a video game.
Just like all the African-Americans that live in Africa, or the Native-Americans that live in India? And yes, I've heard both PC terms used very incorrectly.
Donny you're out of your element!
You'd think the Dutch would have found a better way to make their flour by now.
Holy shit... I just had the best f*cking cage match idea ever.
I see we have a business major chiming in.
She'll come and clean it? WTH you doing talking to my mommy?
Paying $0.89 a minute.
- This is TANGO-FIVE-NINER, tracking a joke at 2-3-0. Requesting permission to engage.
* TANGO-FIVE-NINER, permission granted. Bring 'er down.
Then you have a near-terminal case of Asperger's.
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As the parent poster is probably well-aware, this op/ed comic is poking fun at Anthony Comstock. In the Victorian Era, he was a postal inspector crusading against all forms of interstate vice--from pornography to "women's hygiene" pamphlets. His legacy is as the godfather of everyone who's cried "think of the children" for the last hundred years.
I saw the article today on CBC (Canada's equivalent of the BBC).
Well, that would certainly explain the "C," wouldn't it?
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle