Happy birthday!

I've made a habit of copying text that I write to the clipboard before I post, just in case this pops up (although I haven't yet had it fail to post, even when I get the message).

Jennifer, I think that what you're saying applies in part, but not in whole. Human beings are the way they are due to not only the overall environment we evolved in, but our ancestry. As Coda pointed out, fur would not necessarily be selected against. Human beings first began to emerge in areas of t...

Oof... I figure I have around half a century before that sort of thing might apply to my partner and I. With any luck, a bit more progress will have been made by that time. : \

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Laugencroissants.JPG/180px-Laugencroissants.JPG http://www.japan-budo.com/gws/upload/images/ruestung12.jpg http://www.samurai-store.com/img/top/09summer_armor2.jpg http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9291/53553981.png So many Muslims! All after ...

Plasman wrote:I think the only real evolution we'll see in the human race will come from duress, not peacetime. Unfortunately.

Although low evolutionary pressure leads to greater genetic diversity in the short term, since otherwise detrimental mutations are selected against less.

Naw for serious, I was actually thinking about how we stave off evolution by accommodating for our inherent weaknesses The thing is, weaknesses are only relative to an environment. Strong armor is a strength in an environment where there are many other aggressive species, but a weakness in an envir...

May I suppose? You americans are insane. Deeply insane. This is a logo from a british company I did also work for at once. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8783/planmetlogouk.jpg Can't say that the graphic guy was muslim. Whatever you say, Anna Al-Terror . Clearly all symbology that has any sort of...

I'm just making the obligatory "stay in school!" post here. This is the best time to be in school/racking up debt that you're going to find. Being a full time student in a recession means that you're skipping a period where you would have low earning potential anyhow. Also, dem lernin's ar...

I guess I was thinking that if someone had their youth (or rather, their youthful good health) restored, they would probably act much the way they did when they were young. Plus, if people knew that they had a much longer timeframe in which to live, they might think, "Well, I know I really oug...

In the "wild" environment before civilization, but when we were genetically not significantly different than we are today, we lived, short, hard lives. 30 was very old, infections were common and deadly, and we had no concept of an overall increase of human knowledge. None of these things ...

I never played through this on the PC, so it was really fun to be able to run through the game for the first time ^^. The fact that there's still another ending to get/new bosses to fight is just extra frosting on the cake.

Anyone else heading over to Boston? Jennifer, if I get the pig-AIDS, you can give me a giant told-you-so and a stern look, but short of that, I'm hoping to get some major geeking done. If anyone else here is going to be there, give me a buzz!

[...]in other words, what is it about us that makes us worth preserving? That all by itself is just a judgement call. I would judge my existence worth preserving because I like it. I'm willing not to have offspring to replace me if that means I can continue consuming resources, and I believe that t...

It's really silly how many things gender designation is "required" for arbitrarily, when really, it shouldn't be a consideration for anything except when selecting potential reproductive mates. (Even love ought to be genderless!) I think it's more justified there than elsewhere, though. S...

And let's not forget the old saying: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." That's a misquote, actually. The ancient, original saying was "It takes a whole village to raze a child." It was a much more violent time, and children were the most significant threat to primitive...

Just or not, I don't think that the reasoning behind using the 14th amendment to the constitution to oppose a student minority group holds any water (although I would be very interested to read over the justification for the 14th amendment being used). Here's the text of the amendment, which I'll ad...

Some of the comments down below the article are pretty negative as well...

Hey, welcome aboard. ^^

Just checked Steam and I see nothing... where can I celebrate my consumer instincts and purchase this new content?