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I think killing a fully grown chimpanzee is worse than killing a few week/month old human baby.

So are we seeing overall decreases in Homeland Security spending elsewhere?

This is old news. And going from "Unexplained red rain" to ALIENS!!!!! is a non-sequitur fallacy

There's been all sorts of promising breakthroughs in AIDS research lately. And saying "never" is completely retarded. What happens when we can create seek-and-destroy nanorobots who can obliterate HIV?

Apparently this doesn't count as a national monument/icon:

I don't think we've found any fossils which had mental hardware anywhere approaching the hominid

Like many, I've been opposed to the Department of Homeland Security from the start. I don't think another bureaucracy is the solution to our domestic security problems; I think existing agencies could've been augmented to correct those deficiencies. I think a substantial amount of money which has been pumped through the department has been squandered. I also think that DHS has had a negative impact on our civil rights. Given that, I was somewhat incensed by this story: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/06/no_icons_no_mon.html Is Homeland Security really doing any good, or is it just another tool that our elected officials can use to get money into the pockets of their constituency?

Google for: "site:domainnamehere.com" That's the easiest way. Anything else will involve writing your own spider.

I suspect this November will prove to be an interesting election

Unless they believed in Lamarckian evolution, why would removing a rib from Adam cause his offspring to have fewer ribs?

I meant them silly, not you

Hooray for someone else who needs to read my signature! Sadly I think the "evolution is random" strawman will persist forever

Is anyone else offended by how recklessly this term is bandied about, particularly by those who want you to accept something largely on faith without evidence? I've heard "the truth" used in a few different contexts lately: 1. By IDiots - Harun Yahya offers you an invitation to the truth 2. By 9/11 conspiracy theorist nuts - Despite all claims that they want to know "the truth about 9/11", they don't care to rationally examine the evidence. To them, the "truth" is their preconceived view. Is there anyone claiming to know "the truth" who isn't completely bonkers?

What if the entire universe is just an atom in one of my pubic hairs?

That's the big problem I have with my blanket "non-tetrapod" approach to animals I feel morally OK with eating. I eat squid (ika) and octopus (tako) as sushi, yet when I think about it I realize these are both highly intelligent creatures and maybe I shouldn't feel morally OK eating them...

Harun Yahya is full of shit

Transhumanists (including myself) are all convinced we're going to evolve into posthuman entities. This goes through two stages really. The first is the cyborg stage: technologically augmented humanity. Most people associate the idea of cyborgs with replacing parts of your body with machine parts, or adding implants. But really that's not necessary at all. You can use an externalized brain-computer interface, one which scans the brain passively and can also alter brain state through entirely external processes. The next stage (the one the identity problem is concerned with) involves mind transfer/downloading consciousness, in which you transform from a human entity into a purely informational form (but still manifested in some sort of material capacity, perhaps within some sort of distributed nanotechnological computing platform)

I'm sorry, I'm just really incensed by how people could actually buy into this crap... how do you expain the over 60 bodies matching the passenger list and flight crew roster which were identified and returned to families from the Pentagon wreckage? Were both the airlines and the families in on the conspiracy?

Yep, they do a recursive search throughout the entire path. This is because IE implemented it first (it was originally an icon that would only show up when you bookmarked a site, i.e. added it to your favorites) and that's the behavior Microsoft chose, so everyone copied it

IE is required for the help system of multiple programs as well

It's Syd. He's nuts. Schizophrenic, or perhaps Asperger's syndrome. And doing acid daily probably didn't help.

This month's Time Magazine talked a lot more about the supposed genetic causes. I'm much more likely to believe that... the cause, they allege, is that small groups of brain structures are able to communicate highly effectively, but overall communication between the groups remains stunted. I think this is a difficult balance that natural selection has been trying to tune for sometime. Then there's all the parents convinced that mercury in vaccines is responsible, even though cessation of the mercury additives does not lower incidence of autism, and studies conducted by both the WHO and FDA failed to find any evidence of a vaccine/autism link. I most certainly lean towards a genetic cause.

Look for deals on Dealtime or Slickdeals... I have a 2GB one that cost $60

Good idea

"Denver" is technically a city (i.e. one of many contiguous cities in unbroken urban sprawl), however no one really means that when they say Denver. They mean the Denver metropolitan area which includes some 10 counties. It's all just one big city with a ton of different names. Denver. Aurora. Arvava. Thornton. Westminster. Broomfield. It's all Denver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver-Aurora_metropolitan_area The combined population of these regions is over 2.1 million. I don't know how many people live in Colorado Springs. If Boulder is a social microcosm of Buddhist and liberal stupidity, then Colorado Springs is a social microcosm of Christian stupidity.