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http://www.pheedo.info/archives/000302.html They appear to have linked interbreedability with diversification and environment suitedness

Evolve into posthumans

You know, as much as I feel America has gone downhill, I can't help but feel that the UK is worse...

Yikes!

What I've really learned is what a divisive force religion can be in international politics. I've always considered the resurgance of imperialism among the neocons as having an almost "Christianity vs. Islam" type of air to it. I'm leaning more towards isolationism. I would like to see us pull out of the region completely and military subsidies to Israel ended, and a neutral stance adopted on the whole Israel issue entirely. Sadly, what the Danish cartoons have shown us is that isolationism is no longer an effecive policy in the highly interconnected world in which we live.

As a libertarian I'm appalled by this story... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002112639_diss08.html In a nutshell: Is this not diametrically opposed to the idea of the First Amendment? I think it is blatantly unconstitutional to have any government oversight of what written works are being published. What was the government's response? So once again, we're getting the "We need to take away your freedom to keep you safe" line. Is anyone else getting tired of this? Give me liberty or give me death...

Bingo! I'm sure many would consider what Dawkins has to say to be "religious hatred".

Help, I'm being assailed by invisible enemies! Scientology will make them go away! I like how Scientologists would purchase, repackage, and resell copies of Dianetics in a giant loop, just to keep it on the New York Times bestseller list.

Yep. Of course, we see convergence between the platypus and the paddlefish as well (certainly much more than we see with a duck, that's for sure!)

Looks like they found a 164 million year old platypus-like mammal (minus the bill) that was aquatic and unlike any other mammal we know of from the time period: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/02/23/jurassic.beaver.ap/index.html

Those of us with constantly changing, evolving beliefs see that as a problem. Why should we be banned from expressing it? And, for the record, libertarians support all kinds of free speech. The ACLU, for example, has defended the KKK, not because they agree with their message of racial intolerance and hatred, but because they believe profusely that they should be free to express any ideas, no matter how controversial.

Dawkins spoke about this in his "The Root of All Evil?" series. Being a free speech zealot of a libertarian, my reaction to this was "WHAT?!" Fortunately I don't forsee this kind of thing ever happening in America.

South Dakota bans abortion... for real this time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202424.html

That was a horrible gimmick some Christians attempted to use to witness to me

Everybody see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biomodeling

Yes, but there's not much economic incentive for anyone to go around planting plants for the good of the earth. With carbon nanotubes, we replace one industry which increases CO2 concentrations with another which decreases them.

Not sure what they mean by "average global temperature" but I'm going to guess that's a series of approximations of Global Mean Surface Temperature. I work for a research group that studies climate vulnerabilities, particularly on the regional scale, and that really is the important issue. If you're interested, my boss has blogged extensively on the vulnerability paradigm: http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/category/water-vulnerability/

Where's the evidence of such circumstances? I believe what the evidence tells me until new evidence says otherwise.

So, I really wonder: Does Bush not remember when Congress gave Clinton line-item veto power, and the Supreme Court struck it down? And how much sense does this request make considering Bush is the only president in history to have never vetoed a bill? http://www.newswatch50.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=BBE62577-345B-446B-B250-072223B4A544

I thought I experienced a significant coincidence on New Year's of 2005. So I thought I'd try to see if it was repeatable, and changed all the variables going into it to create a control, except for the date, this time around, New Year's of 2006, because the new year's component was what I thought was significant. I was lead to believe this by the Global Consciousness Project, but when I looked through their data again, I found out they had misanalyzed it, and the variance "spike" which seemed to occur in each time zone around midnight did not exist. If anyone really cares I can go through my whole methodology and the gory details involved. Anyway, the experiment failed. No repetition of the "significant" coincidence, and thus I was forced to conclude that what I experienced in 2005 was, well, just that, a coincidence, and nothing more. Whatever I had experienced in 2005 was likely a result of one of the variables I changed and had absolutely nothing to do with the date. Hooray for science!

No, but with 8 general purpose registers, your CPU wastes a lot less time shuffling values around when it runs out of register space. That's where the 30% speed boost comes from, but again, that's only for AMD64 code designed to make use of the extra 4 registers.

I'm really hoping that carbon nanotube manufacturing takes off and replaces many materials whose manufacture is presently increasing CO2 concentrations. If you can make it profitable for people to suck CO2 out of the air for manufacturing processes (and expelling O2 as a "waste product") you'll have gone a long way towards solving the problem. Not to mention that nanotube-based products have an immense potential to replace a number of petroleum-based products, especially in the realm of synthetic fabrics.

Although I don't see why anyone would really suspect otherwise... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4729050.stm

That would be me

EM64T is Intel's implementation of AMD64, which is a set of 64-bit extensions for IA32. Since AMD64 has 8 general purpose registers instead of the 4 of IA32, in general code compiled for AMD64 runs approximately 30% faster than IA32.