I basically stopped getting my hair cut at around 14, and had a pony tail from then until my late 20's. Then my hair started thinning on top - probably not noticeable to most but I could definitely tell there was less up there than there used to be. Then I got a crop of sebaceous cysts (i have very oily skin which is apparently a contributing factor). I got all those cut out, waited for the stitches to come out, then shaved it all down to a #2 clipper cut. No way I was going with the bald top and pony tail. I'm approaching 40 now and there isn't a lot left on top, although there is enough than when I do my regular cut with a #0.5 comb I definitely feel colder.

I don't think i'd bother with any sort of treatment to put more hair on top, and definitely would never muck around with drugs that tinker with testosterone levels, which I think is the currently available treatment.

I said "peppered", not "littered". I wasn't implying that it happens all the time, but it does happen. The case of helicobacter pylori is the one that springs to mind immediately.

And if you replace "cabals of scientists" with "big pharma funding cabals of scientists" you come up with a statement that is a bit OT, but is anything but pure rubbish ;)

openwrt puts that related/established rule first and it sucks. If I want an internet curfew I want it to take effect immediately, not when the current connection is finished. Same for an IP address that trips up the malware triggers. It has to stop and it has to stop now, not when the payload has finished downloading.

Yeah I guess a "quick howto" isn't quite going to cut it. I wonder if Linus would ever put his foot down and say "no docs = no patch accept".

I think the problem with "certain" in this case is when science makes you so certain that you will not consider any alternate theory. History is peppered with many examples of this.

Suppose you have a string of islands, call them A-E. Birds on adjacent +2 islands can interbreed with fertile offspring, but birds at either end of the string of islands cannot. By the standard definition you can argue that the birds living on A are a different species to the birds living on E, but birds on A and E can breed with C, so the birds living on C must therefore belong to both species.

Just because you have a clear cut _definition_, doesn't mean that applying that definition will get you clear cut results

This makes for interesting reading

Was the use of the word 'prey' instead of 'pray' deliberate?

I like how you edited out my joke so you make your point without looking like a dick. That was clever.

(Do you need the sarcasm pointed out to you or can you get it yourself?)

A creationist most likely believes what he believes because it's what he's been told to believe. In most cases the best you can do is get them to believe something different by telling them to believe it and doing so with more charisma than whoever instilled them with their original beliefs. If you can teach them to _understand_, then you have achieved a wonderful goal, but first you have to get them listen...

"brainwashing" != "brain washing". And I don't think it was that the OP didn't get the pun, it's just that the pun was crap. As I said above, I would have gone with a pun on "dirty mind" if it was my headline.

Agree. A "dirty mind" joke would have gone down far better.

Wikipedia says "Approximately 33% of people with influenza are asymptomatic.", so it would seem that you're wrong from the outset - 1/3 of people will, on average, fight it off without every developing symptoms, even with a complete lack of superpowers.

I don't get flu shots. I've thought about it. And i'm 3 weeks into something I caught that is just lingering on, so maybe right now I wish I had, but there's no guarantee that it wasn't just some non-influenza virus that made my sinuses infected.

Glucose is in plants (and so probably fruit), but "fruit sugar" is basically a synonym for "fructose".

I don't understand... picking apart a film like that _is_ how I enjoy it. Are you cross because I enjoy a film in a different way to you?