Simple answer being that the younger group can't afford attorney fees?

How about just saying that we can't do our jobs right, so you need to be very careful instead, to cover our asses for us.

If only there was a way to flag entire press releases as flamebait... I have a hard time seeing this as anything more than a desperate cry for attention.

Am I missing something here or would it not just be easier to write the actual numbers in this case; let 2^10 represent 2^10 and 10^3 represent 10^3... or would that be too dangerous in possibly invalidating geek credentials over people who don't know what an Exabyte is?

doesn't it seem odd that fair-use only applies when it is in the favor of the party with commercial interests in that information? likewise, fair-use doesn't seem to apply where there is potential revenue to be made..

that is the exact fallacy that was being dismissed. correlation vs causation can't be determined in this case. the key is that there are at least 3 classes of behaviours: learned, instinctive, and discovered.

did your parents teach you how to eat? if you grew up away from your species would you be able to learn to eat by yourself? if you grew up on a planet with entirely new species of plants, how would your instincts help determine which plants are poisonous?

at some point you have to admit that some behaviours are new actions that you just had to figure out for yourself. albeit you might come up with a very similar solution to others before you.

I wasn't aware that we had decoded genomes to that level of detail.

Current research into genomes is primarily through correlation not causation. Right now we can barely figure out the structure of what will be produced, let alone how that will fit into the complex circuitry that makes up a bird's brain; which I might add we also don't understand from an AI standpoint.

I am not trying to say that no behaviours are encoded as "instict", simply that you must be cautious not to underestimate how much is formed anew through emergent behaviours.

i.e. how many ways can a horses leg joints move? might that simplicity be related to horses being able to walk so much sooner than babies? and if not, then why does it take humans so much longer for "instincts" to kick in.

some of these assertions seem questionable, but the asian language relation to math is very true. In math and related subjects you really start to see the value of ideogram based writing systems over purely phonetic alphabets. here is a perfect example from japanese: convex = å http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B8 concave = å http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B9 which is easier to remember or understand?

As a nation dependent on imports to sustain our lifestyles and livelihood it is important to keep in mind our role in the global economy. Name a major US export of your choice and explain why this industry would fare best under your administration. Preferably choose an export that accounts for a net profit: i.e. though we do produce oil we consume far more.