Dr. Dalek

Then again crossword puzzles, chess, and physical exertion can decrease the rate at which the brain decays, and as I recall may encourage the growth of new brain cells. Living for an ammount of time as long as , or even just would give one lots of memory to process and therefore would serve as mental stimulus. Would that keep the brain healthy longer?

Yes, such an event my improve our gene pool by weeding out genetic lines that make one less likely to live out side of civilzation. So future human populations my be stronger in the long term do to what in the short term seems to be a crisis. It does seem like less intelligent people are multiplying, however I don't think this is an immediate threat to soceity. It just means we have more laborors and house servants for the rest of us. Sciencefiction blather. And if humans are getting dumber then how will we be able to build machines of that quality?

How much do fetishes have to do with rape though? I thought fetishes were primarily a masterbation thing. (Not trying to sound lewd)

If I feel lust for someone it is never an old woman.

Excellent point.

Sorry double post, mistake.

I have heard many such stories. I tend to think they are true. Natural Selection dictates that if at any point in the history of the world an animal were to gain an ability to sense something as dangerous as an earth quake, through mutation, it would be more likely for it or its decendants to survive if an earthquake happened in its vicinity and other animals without that ability were wiped out. Animals have been around for maybe a billion years. I'm sure that in that time such a benifical mutation could have happened.

If technology, and business persists to be an important part of our society then it might become a part of our evolution. Multitasking and things that are neccissary in modern jobs and technology use might be selected for, better multitaskers will be more likly to be employed and therefore able to support a family, thus passing on their genes. And heres a Dilbert comic on this subject. Just because its funny.

GOD bless America! From what I've heard it was more a matter of conversions. People never just used the metric measurments. They were always trying to convert the metric to the standard.

I know it's kinda foolish to open that word doctument, but I'm a risk taker! I couldn't copy over his diagrams.

I live in the USA. Recall that when we tried to switch to the metric system it didn't work out so well.

I take this back because I thought at the time that the multinationals were responcible for terminators.

I found a website! Finally http://texnat.tamu.edu/symposia/coyote/p6.htm It seems that coyotes aren't entirly detrimental. They said that like any other preadator they either coexist or compete with other animals. Another website indicates that Coyotes displace foxes and can reduce their population, but foxes are still found in coyote territories. http://www2.bc.edu/~wayjo/OtherWildlife.html So the other preadators don't seem to have much of a problem with the coyotes. It appears, at least in this case, that natural selection has kept up

You have been using yourself alot as an example, so I'll use myself I would never use the Unix system in my daily life for one reason. It is unfamiliar. I don't think in terms of unix, ever since I was a child it has always been 5 o'clock, 4 thirty, two hours, eight minutes. The current system is already well established, people understand it, trying to change it in daily life would be extreamly difficult because it is alien to massive numbers of people who don't work directly with computers. Your system has some advantages, but I don't program computers, I don't telecomunicate with people from asia, and I don't find it difficult to change my clocks by an hour every once and a while. So I guess I'm conceeding to you, your system is superior in many ways, but how would Big Ben look with a Unix face instead of a regular one?

agreed Multinationals should be far more reserved and careful when it come to their actions in the feild of biotech.

Very pessimistic, though not unfounded I recently read of a company developing terminator genes for plants so people cannot constantly resuply themselves with seeds from their own plants. They have to keep buying them from the company over and over Most unnatural I like the idea of trying to increas food production efficency, and even plan to be a genetic engineer, however some people in the feild of bio-industry just irk me with all of their irksome behavior. The 30 meter rule would work great in the USA. I wonder if a crop were to be contaminated with terminator genes, and the non GM grower were not notified of the nature of the adjacent crop, could the farmer sue for property damage?

Definition of fallacy: I see no flaw with my logic. My assertion is that basing a timing system for a human lifestyle on a daily phenominon makes sense because Humans are animals that base there lifstyle of their cycadian rythm. This rythm is a daily cycle that is influenced by night/day, we are not machines, nor do I think we should strive to become machines A day night cycle that we would otherwise follow naturaly is likely to be most compatable with our biology, and psycology. I'm sure that your timing system can easily be used when working in conjunction with computers. However large portions of the earths population are computer illiterate. Such as people living in third world countries and my grandmother. The old system would prove by far the superior to them whose live don't revolve around machines.

Of course; I meant those reasons with the word(s) women replaced with men.

So your suggesting that all human perceptions of time be dependant on a system that works electronically and that we can function by artifically controlling our light. What about a power outage? In my mind this means you are for a heavy dependance on modern technology. Where as my ideal is that civilisation at large uses technology, but is capable of functioning without it. Personally I am against that for various reasnons. For one, I want to be as different from the creature in my avatar as possible. Also most scientific systems of measurement are built around natural phenomino, such as milliter of water is = one gram of water. And C tepeature readings go from 0 = Freezing water to 100 = boiling water. It only makes sense to use natural cycles for timing,

Worldveiw? How is that relivant? At any given moment I only need to know my local time, whats going on in China is irrelivant. It is generaly agreed that humans tend to function better during the day because of partly overcomable cyrcadian rythms (nightshifts) and because the availability of light is greater. So our perception of time is based on when we are active (usualy during the day) and when we sleep (usualy at night) It isn't that complicated to adjust your watch while traviling, or to try to call someone in another country at a time appropriate for them, so why would we ever need to use one planet wide constant for time?

Arn't men raped as well? Would these same things apply in a situation where a man was raped?

Any time system used by humans in general should be based around night and day. They are the principle basis of our cycadian rythm, and day to day lifestyles.

Define "unix timestamps" please.

I once tried to make a conceptual dating system, for my own use. It was essentially build around different periods in human history. Dates from before the first true hominids was treted like BC, in the way that the numbers were negative. I called it BH, Before Humanity. It was originally going to be Before Man but I changed it because there is another, more crude meaning for BM. Then all of the time afterwards was called HE, for Human Era. The H.E. was then divided into three sub-periods. CE for civilized era, which started approximately the time of the fist cities, ME for Machine era, starting the generally agreed on date for the industrial revolution. According to this we would be living during ME. I never showed this to anyone because of a few denotative problems with the system. As you probably realized there was probably civilization in some form or another before the first cities were build. Also there were machines before the industrial revolution.