Sayonara

This is called the "Correlation vs. Causation" fallacy.

How do you mean?

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Broadly speaking, mutation takes place in a single individual, but evolution takes place throughout a population over time. Mutations in the DNA of individuals may contribute to evolutionary pressure for the species.

You don't think that might make journalists etc valid targets in the eyes of these militants?

The air is filled with bacteria and spores - you also don't want those settling on your medium and changing your results.

Wouldn't the method be more useful in the long term?

Yeah, problem is you have to combine both to get an idea of what's going on. That's why I was asking for better tracking tools.

Right, so the best option is to wander around wooded areas until you intrude upon a mother and her cubs, then shoot her dead when she tries to protect them.

An exaggeration of what? You don't have any negative rep. Made quite a killing on that one.

Tranq guns own teh bears.

There don't appear to be any negative comments on your reputation thingy. Where did "-150" come from?

Is that assuming it does not leave the barrel of the gun along a planetary radius?

Can I just point out that the reputation system is not a popularity contest. You are supposed to be posting comments that tell the user in question where their strengths and defficiencies lie. The points provide an incentive to take notice, and also let other users gauge how 'authoritative' people are as a source. If people keep posting useless comments that don't tell us anything, post no comments at all, or use the reputation system as a bashing stick for people they don't 'like', then it's not going to work.

Hey Demosthenes. I don't understand why you gave me negative rep for reply #356 but with the comment "right on!". That doesn't really tell me anything dude

I don't know if you noticed, but for the past few hundred posts this thread has been about people demanding reasons why the average member of the public needs a gun, and they have not yet got a satisfactory answer. So if you're going to solicit reputation points (which I'm pretty sure is just going to make people less likely to oblige anyway), try and do it with posts that don't say "hey let's ignore the body of the thread and just repeat the earlier problematic premise".

This is just the same false dilemma as the "I have to have a gun to protect against intruders" one. "Get killed by bear" or "shoot bear dead" are not the only two options.

I'd never have guessed you know each other. Hmmm.

I don't think Mercury actually changes its direction; I think we just overtake it. Or it overtakes us, whichever.

How did such a passable novel get turned into such a mediocre film?

If the target is ten feet away I doubt the bullet would have stopped spinning.

*Aldous Some of it is quite likely, a lot of it isn't. I hope one of the bits that actually comes about is atomic bumblepuppy. I want to play that game

Are you talking to me, Blike, or both?