That an orangutan will not try to eat you. Chimps can and will.

An orangutan may try and rape you, though.

I understand that.

The BBC had a programme tracking ospreys a while back. A couple of them just flew to completely unexpected places (more than 500 miles from where they were expected), the more normal ones were much more random than expected too. No one could really figure out why they flew to the places they did when they did.

Had there been some kind of problem where the ospreys were not, it would have been all to easy to assign knowledge to the Ospreys.

Also, as I said above : Plenty of animals do get killed in natural disasters, migratory birds are _very_ affected by storms.

The trouble with stories like this is that animals do a whole host of stuff that we cannot explain, and we connect it to events that happen after the fact.

Situation 1 : Lots of animals are running somewhere. Nothing happens.... they must have just been spooked by something random.

Situation 2 : Lots of animals are running somewhere. There's a tsunami/earthquake/tornado.... they must have known something we don't.

Finding that some animals behave in an odd, unexplained way just before a major natural disaster isn't news - Animals behave in an odd, unexplained way all the time.

There has been lots of genuine research into animal behaviour to try and predict major natural disasters, nearly all of which has been fruitless. Many animals are killed by natural disasters.

Now, if someone actually predicted a natural disaster by using animal behaviour, that might be interesting. Saying that the animals acted weird just before, when looking back, is suspect.

Of course Apple had _some_ DRM free titles by 2007, everyone did. Selling a small portion of your catalogue DRM free is not very useful for me. I don't want to have to check which DRM is on which song.

In 2007, Apple was selling EMI (and EMI only) music DRM free at additional cost. By January 2008, Amazon sold everything DRM free. Apple went DRM free in 2009. Google Fairplay.

This cases has been cited by a more relevant one, Gonzales v. Reich which was about the right to grow your own marijuana in states in which it is legal to use it medicinally : "The government also contended that consuming one's locally grown marijuana for medical purposes affects the interstate market of marijuana, and hence that the federal government may regulate—and prohibit—such consumption."

Anonymous phones exist in the UK. You don't have to give any (true) information to get a pay as you go phone.

In addition, DRM is good for consumers because it ensures that studios will be willing to publish more than zero desirable works in a format.

You seem to forget that studios _have_ to be willing to publish in a format that people will use. The studios being "willing" to publish is irrelevant. If they try to publish works in a format no one uses, they lose their revenue stream. Their entire business model is having as many people as possible buy the content.

I personally started buying music online a few years back. I didn't want DRM.

I've spent probably a few hundred pounds with Amazon, just because when I started buying music online they were the place to offer DRM free. Apple lost me as a customer because of DRM.

they blocked and non-apple DRM like every other company out there and Real had to hack it.

Is this supposed to be a sentence? If so, I don't know what it means, at all. I'm speaking literally here.

but in the end itunes allowed you to use any hardware you wanted as long as the maker coded to a few of apple's API's.

I can just about understand this sentence, I think.

Of course, for men who are circumcised and so who already lost most of their ability to feel what sex is (because of thicker and less sensitive skin as well as no foreskin movement), it doesn't matter much

How on earth would you know what a circumcised man can feel during sex? Do you have any experience of this, or are you just making assumptions?

Technically, a "Lingua Franca" is a language used by two people whose first language is something else entirely. I, for example, can't use English as a Lingua Franca, since it's my first language. I have, however, spoken to a Spanish person (who could not speak English) in French, therefore was using French as a kind of Lingua Franca.

The original Lingua Franca was a trading language used around the Mediterranean from about 1000 years ago, and was originally based predominantly on northern Italian dialects. The term has been applied to other languages like Latin retroactively.

Chinese doesn't even have a word for "no", to give you an idea of how fundamentally different it is.

The "Do not want" meme was caused by the Chinese lack of the word "no" - See here or here for one of my all time favourite things. It makes the new Star Wars films watchable.

Authors don't have control over their work now. There are plenty of spoofs, fanfics, and porn versions of content that the authors hate. Do you think we should ban them too?

"Reptile" is such a broad, catch-all classification it's almost worthless. Dimetrodon, for example, has always been classified as a reptile, but is more closely related to humans than it is to any modern reptiles. Crocodiles are much more closely related to birds (and dinosaurs) than they are to other reptiles like lizards and snakes.

Ok, I'm going to stop replying to myself soon. It used to be brewed in north London between 1936 and the mid 2000's. And I agree with AC above about its "real" beer credentials being a little dubious now.