Eh, I guess I'll post. Me before my haircut. Now I have short hair. Taken from my webcam.
I never did like that guy's commercials... I just hope nothing serious happened to him (STDs through oral transfer.saliva, etc).
Dear god... I really hope those Chinese hackers never get pissed at the US... Although we probably have some of the best computer defense in he world (aside from maybe Japan XD). I know why they chose the Dalai Lama too - there are (or were, when I heard about it) 2 Dalai Lamas - one that was chosen in the traditional way, and one chosen by the Chinese to be a figurehead. I bet they hacked the real one in order to try to find some kind of dirt or something to bring him down so theirs could be supreme. The Chinese Lama was chosen to try to bring the Tibetans further into Chinese rule. I think. My source is kind of old (I don't even remember where I heard it), but it sounds like something they would do.
Heh, I just turned 21 on March 23, so I'm older than you! HAH! Nah, just kidding. Despite my age, I am basically in love with the fantasy genre (and Sci-fi, but that's another story). I barely get to read any of it, though, what with my major pressing down had on me. KH is a really great series, even though I do get annoyed at all the kiddishness in it (donald/goofy, 100 Acre Wood, etc). I probably know more about this series than 90% of Youtubers. I don't feel old, I feel good.
"Shock" is probably too strong a word for what actually happens. I've felt one myself. All it is is a little zap - probably only twice as strong as a static electricity shock. When we put ours up for our dog, she learned in about 10 minutes to avoid the white flags (marking the edge of the invisible fence), and stayed out of range of it, to this day, even though it no longer works. She also still avoids any white flags, so if we need her to stay out of an area for a while, we can put those down. Invisible fences cost a bit, but it's a reallygood value. One thing, though, let the person the dog already hates (dislikes, whatever), or the person least bonded to the dog, introduce him (her) to the fence. Your dog will stay far away from that person for months, because, in it's mind, that person = electric shock. All in all, though, it is very humane, the pain never lasts, and the dog learns where to avoid very, VERY quickly.
Unfortunately, one hour a year with the lights off isn't gonna change much. I did it, but it's not gonna help much.
Since my lights in my dorm are burnt out right now anyways, I guess I'll be participating. Maybe I won't open my fridge for that one hour... lol.
Yea, I was going to go into purely Egyptian archaeology, but I have been hearing about them closing their borders to foreign archaeologists, so I...
This was a really great movie, with a lot of good scenes. Probably the part I liked best was the Sephiroth fight, simply because of the scope of it. I mean, slashing buildings apart - that's just badass. The one thing that I do not like about this movie, however, is how he fangirls and amateur AMV creators just latched onto it like leeches. I mean, search for "final fantasy AMV" on Youtube and I guarantee 3/4 of them will be advent children, and most of those will suck completely - as if they were using WMM's auto-movie function. This was a really great movie, with a lot of good scenes. Probably the part I liked best was the Sephiroth fight, simply because of the scope of it. I mean, slashing buildings apart - that's just badass. The one thing that I do not like about this movie, however, is how he fangirls and amateur AMV creators just latched onto it like leeches. I mean, search for "final fantasy AMV" on Youtube and I guarantee 3/4 of them will be advent children, and most of those will suck completely - as if they were using WMM's auto-movie function. That and the absolutely HORRIBLE subtitle translations from Japanese.
I have to say, when I first saw the title, I did laugh a little bit. I mean, it's pretty easy to see a mountain up ahead and say "well, I'm not going to drive into that!". After reading it, of course, it all made more sense. That is pretty bad, though. I'm glad no one got hurt and, if what you say is true, then yes, they should definitely investigate the driver.
Yea. I'm in my junior year, going into primarily ancient Mediterranean archaeology. so, Rome and pre-Rome. I don't have a grad school picked out...
Spam much? Do you have something to contribute to this discussion, or are you just spamming nonsense?
Not to be insensitive, but sometimes, obese women don't even know they're pregnant in the first place. That, coupled with the thing someone else mentioned about not knowing you're in labor, would mean that she did this completely unaware. The blood, yes, would be hard to conceal, and why did she leave it in the trash? It's interesting to me that she is not being charged with anything (like.. child endangerment, abandonment (is that a crime? I hope so), etc).
I don't even see them as conceited. Not really. They were basically doing a comedy routine. They were not consciously saying "hey, let's be as conceited and condescending and offensive as possible", they were throwing that "political correctness" bullshit out the window, and saying things that I think most of us would say privately if we heard that a country was shutting down it's military. I understand that it was the wrong time, wrong place, etc., but privately, I applaud their bravery in standing up to the uneducated American public and saying "We don't need to follow political correctnesses stranglehold on America!"
Right. There is a very good example of this - Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis, now that they are no longer considered to be related to sapiens). They were, for those of you who don't know, near-humans who lived in Europe during the last Ice Ace and died out about 30,000 (I think) years ago. They were very short (about 4-5 feet tall), they had stocky arms and legs (to hold in heat), they had incredible pain and cold tolerances (probably - without cloning one and torturing it, we can't really know for sure), and they had very large brow ridges above the eyes. In short, they were hyper-adapted to Ice Age Europe. Were it not for the arrival of humans (who killed them off/interbred with them, depending on which theory you prefer), they would have gone extinct by the end of the Ice Age. They were incapable of adapting, so they died. However, they were the best example of the human races that lived in icy conditions.
Chimpanzees are VERY close. I think they are what we were about 6.5 million years ago (we have definitive human ancestors using tools from about 6 million years ago). They fashion crude wooden tools and have been known to store them for a later date (evidence of a time sense that most animals don't have), and use them to, in part, go after honey, which has no real value or them besides enjoyment. If we were created, what are the thousands of fossils of australopithecenes? Or various species of the Genus Homo (which includes Homo sapiens sapiens - us)? How do you explain the direct evidence leading straight from Australopithecus afarensis to modern humans?
I am majoring in Anthropology with an Archaeology concentration. I have not ever, in all my schooling, found any flaws in the theories of evolution. The only time evolution has not seemed perfectly reasonable to me was during my early years in a Christian school, where they used every misleading fact, generalization, false discovery, or downright misinformation they could find to shove creationism down the students' collective throats. Sure, there are some marginally unreliable techniques, like C14 dates not being reliable in periods of heavy sunspot activity, but we have dozens of other methods to counter those flaws. The only truly unreliable element is the human element, where people might see what they want to see, not what is actually there, as is the case with 3 6 million year old fossils in Africa, any one of which could have led to the Human race. Anthropologists have split into 3 factions over a few skull-cases and teeth. I'm not forming any opinion until more fossils are found. The human element is the only thing wrong with evolution. If we could have machines do our work for us, we would probably get more accurate results (not by much,in most cases, but it might resolve my former example).
Many people believe that one of the primal rules of life is that you "have to be the strongest/fastest/best fed/smartest. My professors like to put it another way - "If you're being chased by a lion, you don't have to be the fastest gazelle in the herd, you just have to be faster than the slowest gazelle." I say that yes, the competitive drive is built into all (or most - I'm not competitive, not that much, anyways) of us, but it's more of a way to keep us all relatively fast, so that only the slow ones get picked off by the lions, as it were. I don't need to be the CEO of Microsoft or the President of the world to feel adequate. I just have to know that I am smarter than someone else. (*coughmybrothercough* - not an intellectual at all)
HadesDragon speaks the truth. I was attending a lecture once, at ASU, about the theories and works of Darwin, for the 200th anniversary of his birth (I think), and there was a guy there who stood up and basically asked her (the lecturer) why she didn't cover ID at all, and she, using a bunch of evidence I don't clearly remember, ripped his argument apart and proved beyond a doubt to me that ID is creationism in a shiny pseudoscientific wrapper. It still makes no attempt to explain how evolution began - it just falls back on the old Christian standby - "God did it".
I mean that a God, any God, would be more... tangible and seem more real than a delusion. Not that he'd force himself, but that it would feel more real. Since most people don't feel this, I prefer the theory that there is no God actively participating in our lives. I'm saying the only thing the laws of nature and physics can't explain yet is the Big Bang and, thus, at this time, it is the only thing that still requires a superior being to make happen. So yea, lets get back on topic.
