What about Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, South Vietnam (R.I.P.), Singapore?

Are you kidding, trolling or are you just misinformed? Windowmaker dockapps could retrieve weather infos from remotely accessed sources ten years ago at the least, there were/are dozens of email dockapp, there are dockapps that notify when a website updates and there are even web radio dockapps. Perhaps the 2004 patent granted to surfcast is invalid, for sure the 2011 patent granted to MS is invalid and I hope that this litigation could invalidate it (at least a 2004 patent expires before a 2011 patent).

Dunno, I used dockapps on windowmaker well before they granted the patent to Microsoft.

PC gaming is not gaining anything, it's just shrinking less. Console gaming revenues crumbled in the last two years, pc gaming revenues just shrunk. I'm talking about revenues, because that's what matter to companies, especially when they have to choose between developing for the new generation of consoles or for personal computers.

Neither there is scientific evidence that a wall will crumble or that an electric plant will cause an electric shock when engineers deny qualifications to buildings. Neither there is scientific evidence that you will be eaten by a shark if you dive into the sea of Tasmania, though there could be a "SHARKS no swimming" sign nearby. It's a matter of reasonable risks, often codified with technical rules, norms and laws.
There was an earthquake swarm going on for months when they said there weren't risks. In many Italian towns you cannot drive trucks, and oftentimes even cars, to the center of the city because vehicles produced vibrations can damage old buildings (and that's true), yet after months of strong vibrations they just reassured the population without considering a check-up of the many old buildings of the area, nor of the important buildings (e.g. hospitals, offices) that should work 100% in case of disasters.

If I, as an engineer, certify that a plant is safe when it may be not, I can be jailed. I can't see why the same can't apply to this case.

Don't amass millions of quasi-slaves then.

Given the fact that Einstein never defined "quite childish" the Bible like TFA asserts, you may have a point.

But Iran (nor China for that matter) is not a low-technology country. At the Robocup, for example, they always had good scores, especially in the Robocup rescue contest. Embargoes harm their technology more than religion (to say the truth they're embargoed for that very purpose...). Curiously enough, none ever speaks about Saudi Arabia, that would be a much more fitting example.

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but they forgot the vowels!

As for East Africa, that is Ethiopia, their writing system is not older than Linear A, for sure.

Why do we need to rate researcher quality in the first place? To label a scientist as first grade, second grade, third grade? Can't we just rate every single research instead, we've got a lot of example of (so called) mediocre researchers that had a brilliant idea later in their life, while many young promising scientists produced very little after a good start.

I would not be so sure about this very subject. The European slave afflux was as much, if not more, consistent and surely more prolonged in Northern Africa than in Syria/Lebanon/Palestine, yet the usual modern Libyan or Tunisian is not whiter than a modern Syrian.

This is probably an Egyptian Jew of the I/II century AD from Fayum, he's not significantly darker than a typical Palestinian Arab, he is not even darker than a typical modern Egyptian Arab for that matter...

We can't know for sure. Judes are pretty white, many Levantines are pretty white, by the time Jesus was born there was a lot of Greek, Roman, Hittite and Galatian blood in the area. Arab and turkish invasions happened a few centuries later...

Brazil +India + Taiwan + Thailand = 1.5 billion population 1.5 billion population - Brazil - India - Taiwan = 70 million population That's correct for Thailand population.

Because that kind of theory is somewhat linked to racism, it's an offspring of the polygenist theory which was used by 19th century racists as a basis for their ideas. And as every reader of this thread now knows, just being a suspected racist is a capital crime. So better be not, that is the definition of political* correctness.

*politics is the art of keeping good social relations.

Stop with this non-sense, first of all single genesis is not more popular than multiple genesis, it all depends on the scientific field: e.g. in linguistic the majority favor the multiple genesis of the human language (though its evidence is scarce). Second, we were talking about origins, not genesis, those are different things: the first refers to the polygenist theory, the second to the multiregional theory (which is what challenges the out of africa theory today). Third, isn't this the best demonstration of what I was trying to say?

"He seems to challenge our established thought, God forbid, to the stake, to the stake that rabid unbeliever!"
That's not the best way to spread ideas and scientific reasoning, though it works (and that's what I was saying).