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First off he was 2 weeks in office when the votes were cast; so whatever he has actually accomplished, if such things exist, they didn't matter. So if you're saying the Nobel Prize is irrelevant and decided by complete morons, as shown by their giving the award to the leader of the terrorist organization PLO, then right on. If you are defending it, well there is simply no remark to describe the depths of your idiocy; it is completly indefensible, no matter how you feel about the people it rightfully makes pissed off. | |
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I think with this case, it's not that he's actually done anything, it's that he HAS inspired people/made them happy/whatever goodness. He could fuck the country up, but the people who voted are filled with warmth just by the sight of him. I think the same people who vote on Dancing For the Stars vote for the nobel prize. Think Jesus. | |
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A moms worst nightmare almost became a reality yesterday, when a babystroller holding a six month old boy rolled onto the traintracks at a trainstation in Melbourne, Australia. Seconds after the babystroller had landed on the traintracks, a train rolled into the station and pushed the baby and babystroller 40 meters along the tracks. The little boy in the babystroller miraculously escaped the ordeal with a bump on his head. The accident was filmed by a security camera at the station. Will try and get a better source, mother should be beat for being a dumb cunt. Edit : link http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/as...pe/#cnnSTCText |
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Video: Police hunt supermarket bottom sniffer - Telegraph
Police are hunting a man who carried out what they describe as 'bizarre' sexual assaults after he repeatedly knelt behind a shelf stacker to smell his behind. pls alert all shelf stackers of this new method of assault, I fear that many bottoms may be sniffed, raise awareness if you care. |
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I can't 100% state that these are all true, but I'll take that chance.
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Wolverhampton voted fifth worst city in the world - Telegraph
Wolverhampton voted fifth worst city in the world It says something about your city when a principle claim to fame is to have the best-known ring road in the country – because a tramp lived on it. Ask anyone about Wolverhampton, including the locals, about what the city is good for and Josef Stawinoga, who lived in a tent on the road for 30 years prior to his death in 2007, is right up there. Along with the football club and, well, not much else. ![]() Damn.. I really live in a shithole, I have a video of me trading shoes with that tramp, fuck that old shitty bastard. |
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Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway | Popular Science
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Sentience and intelligence/conditioning are two different things, which i'm sure you know, but i'm curious about your theory, as i've thought about it a lot myself what our planet would be like with two or multiple sentient species. you think the forerunner would eradicate them or that they would never develop at all?
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I'll throw together a theory for you, bonerboy.
The presence of one species of sentient beings retards the progress of any other potential sentient beings. Use whatever word you want to use for what we are, sentient, intelligent, self-aware, whatever. I'm going to use the term sentient. I'll define it as those special human qualities unique to us in this world: I think therefore I am, theory of mind, language etc. Sentience is an evolutionary milestone. Once a species reaches sentience they became the Apex Predator/dominant species permanently. It gives them the trump card against any other species. A disaster must happen for them to relinquish control. Whether its global warming, viral epidemic, or asteroids. It would be impossible for another to develop at all. To reach the level of sentience a species would have to begin having the ability to think about the future. To plan what future actions would be in the best interest to surviving and thriving in the long term. The fact that another sentient being like humans exist is counter to the best interest of a species that is potentially developing sentience. We own everything. We've saturated the ecosystem. That puts any potential sentient species in direct competition with us. Taking back any ground against us would require aggression. Planned aggression is the first step of sentience. Any planned aggression would be immediately squashed by those that already have sentience. Currently any land or territory gained to other species is that which we give back to them (pussy liberal green faggots). Take a look at the most intelligent (and most potentially sentient) creatures that coexist with us. Those that can be tamed have had any independence bred away from their gene pool. Those that cannot be are partitioned into areas we deem what is fair for them to have. If a band of monkey's started walking out of the woods and doing guerrilla attacks against us what do you think would happen? Like these wild dogs, and other examples including bears and raccoons... evolution will inevitably take the shortest path to successfully adapting to thrive and survive. Rather than take on the species that is already sentient, the best way to survive is to adapt to scavenge the waste that the sentient race provides. ---- There are two exceptions One exception may be the ocean and dolphins, arguably we don't live in the same ecosystem as them. Recent pop culture science argues that they are a lot more intelligent than we may think they are. The more likely exception is sentient life created from sentient life. Genetic engineering or advanced artificial intelligence. ------ If two separate sentient species evolved in different ecosystems (or different planets) come into contact with each other and they mutually believe they are not a threat to each others home ecosystems they can coexist and may even eventually cohabit each others ecosystems. ------ try not to jerk off to this bullshit, blonde |
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Too late.
Is your assertion that "planned aggression" is a prerequisite to all sentient life, then? I suppose your theory makes a bit of sense, as almost every species we've seen (can't think of any exceptions right now) basically try to hoard as many resources as they physically can, whether it's food, land, females, etc and the easiest/default way to do this is through force. Interesting. With dolphins, as intelligent as they be, we may not LIVE in their ecosystem but we certainly dominate it. Apply your "band of monkeys/guerilla attacks" analogy to dolphins and fishing boats and you get the same outcome: quelching. Although, easy to say that now, but as humans would we really want to eradicate behavior like that? Kind of interesting to think about, our track record is usually: Kill any animal that harms humans, but maybe we should really be studying them, try to understand why they're doing it (thinking of Speaker for the Dead right now). Your theory over battling for resources applies to AI/GE too. Eventually they'd see themselves as superior and rationalize we're taking up valuable resources as a fellow sentient species and rebel as well. |
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Exactly, I can't envision any scenario during a species' development to sentient life could skip this part. Unless there was some way in which there was no competition or the species unconsciously wiped out an already existing sentient species... in which case there wouldn't be two at the same time.
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'Space diver' to attempt first supersonic freefall - space - 22 January 2010 - New Scientist
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That is super awesome. That dude is really famous in skydiving circles and unlike a lot of guys who get famous in skydiving for doing crazy shit, he actually has a good head on his shoulders re: risk calculation and is someone I would be very surprised to read a fatality report on.
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