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Comment Missing link is a meaningless concept (Score 2, Interesting) 571

by chickanmonkey on Sunday March 26, 2006 @08:59AM (#14997536) Attached to: Evidence of the Missing Link Found?

Nice headline but since the fossil record is an incomplete record, not just because we haven't found all the fossils out there but also because not all animals that have existed became fossils. So when looking at the tree of life it's perfectly fine to call any fossil we dig up a missing link. But then again it's also safe to say the missing link is still yet to be dug up and in fact never will be dug up. So it's a meaningless term. All this talk of the "missing link" is just rhetoric that keeps people studying and enjoying what is actually being discovered.

Journal Journal: P2P idea

Journal by chickanmonkey on Wednesday January 22, 2003 @04:27PM

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993297

Courts ordered Verizon to hand over gobs of Internet logs to the RIAA

Verizon vice president Sarah Deutsch said in response to the ruling: "It opens the door for anyone who makes a mere allegation of copyright infringement to gain complete access to private subscriber information without the due process protections afforded by the courts."

Journal Journal: New jurnal, old jurnal

Journal by chickanmonkey on Friday January 17, 2003 @12:33PM

Old jurnal http://www.livejournal.com/users/jacksmernov/

Mostly I talk about how I hate my life, but I do it in the form of insain ramblings about effecting extream changes on the world. I don't often write my jurnal entries with the expectation of anyone else reading them so gramatical and other errors will abound.

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