Well that's not entirely true because of the way genes mix up (the whole idea of dominance and inheritance). This is what might allow two brown haired brunettes to have a blue eyed blonde child: the brown eyes and brown hair is dominant, and when the bits of the couple is mixed, you get two recessive traits (blonde hair / blue eyes).

Of course it's not even so simple as dominant / recessive because genes mix about in all kinds of other ways. So getting a true breeding pair from just one generation of people is not possible.

However, it's highly likely if we had a eugenics program whereby over a long period (say several hundred generations) we attempted to identify, and breed a "smart" race of people, it would happen (in the same way we've bred dogs that are smarter than other dogs).

Yeah see you're starting to stink of b.s.

If you go out into the wilderness, anywhere, there as some common sense things you should do. Like not go alone. And tell people your route. And only go on well known trails. And not eat random mushrooms / berries you find growing by the side of the road, or drink out of random pools of water. And always bring appropriate gear.

If you do that, you will come back alive, and even if something bad happens (like you break your leg), either your buddy will go for help, or people will find you on the trail, or the people who knew you were supposed to check in at the next base camp will send out a rescue party.

It always amazes me that people will be absolute muppets, and go out alone into the wilderness off trail without telling anyone.

You can go into the jungle without going all survivorman.

Why do people always have to take things to extremes?

You can face your fears and do something a little dangerous that is 99% safe without going and doing something a lot dangerous that is not safe at all.

The parents was talking about being too afraid to go out into the jungle.

While I would agree that you shouldn't live completely like it's your last day (you do want to save up for things like, say, retirement), you should conquer your fears for the little things, and you can do this with a sense of balance

Death can come for you anywhere. One day, walking through a cross walk in a major city during the middle of the day, I was nearly hit by an asshole driving around a corner too fast in a very nice BMW. I jumped out of the way just in time but the car hit my groceries.

Live your life. Take reasonable precautions like having a guide take you through the jungle, or going with an instructor if you try something dangerous in the beginning, like rally racing. But always live your life, like today was your last day. The world is on fire, and we never know how long we have left.

(Although in fairness we didn't start the fire)

What's stopping you from making it happen?

You know by choosing to explore the star trek universe, you would have the opportunity to explore both 7 of 9 and the planet of another star. ;)

(And in case you think, oh why would I be sure of exploring 7 of 9? Well in the series she's always exploring her humanity. Maybe you could show her about that particular bit. Although I imagine it would be quite mechanical and not enjoyable at all...)

Funny you know my mom used to say the same thing. Every time I played video games she'd tell me how useless they were and what a waste of time.

Back when I was in high school, I had a buddy who wanted to play FIFA all the time. So we'd play online (this was back in the day when you'd have one modem call the other modem). I wasn't really interested in soccer, but I was competitive, and wanted to beat him at the game.

Fast forward 10 years. I ended up getting transferred to Europe. After work we went to a bar the first week I was there, and small talk one night included this funny sport called soccer. And I knew all the teams, and all the rules. And it helped me out professionally.

Thank you video games.

You were saying?

Sounds great where do I get one? I've got about 3000 wifi access points coming into my apartment I'd like to degrade...

Seriously though, I can see how if you live in the country this maybe requires you to pump additional power into your wifi device. But in any city, wifi range is MUCH bigger than apartment size, and it's a non-issue.

Usually prototypes are a scaled down model. If I were a betting man, I'd say the final model will be more like 300kg...

I'd settle for textbooks available in ebook form on a common platform like kindle, as well as pricing them below $50.

YES!

There is no right to a game designed the way you would want to design it. Your right is to vote with your wallets. If the second companies instituted DRM everyone stopped buying their products, then companies would not see DRM as a valid business model.

Option 6: Slag the tablet. Data destruction assured

But there's opportunity cost to committing for another 2 years.

And are you seriously telling me if she gets an iphone 64 GB 5S it's the same price as if she gets the $20 special?