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Anthony Frost wrote:
In message Ian Stirling wrote: In sci.space.policy Robert Carnegie wrote: In article m, Fred K. writes Well, you might of hinted at this in your orginal statement. "Quality" seems to me (baring and further clarification on your part) as a subjective measure. I think the "Quality" is improving now that we have elimiated smallpox and dodo birds. AIUI, the dodo was doing fine until we picked on it, and, conversely, it makes good eating. Either way, I don't see that its Made good eating. Tasted disgusting but was easy to catch and lived at a point where any "fresh" supplies were welcome. See also Kerguelen cabbage... Anthony Hey, there's good news and bad news. Bad news - it tastes DISGUSTING. Good news - there's all you can eat! |
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The earths long term carry capacity for humans ids about 6M
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DESMODUS wrote:
The earths long term carry capacity for humans ids about 6M This 'fact' having been extracted from Mr. D's lower bowel and composed primarily (80%+) of dead bacteria and porphyrins with some undigested fiber content. |
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In article ,
Robert Carnegie wrote: In article , Sander Vesik writes In sci.space.policy Fred K. wrote: Read my comments below... "Ian St. John" wrote in message news:XzYTc.4 ... Gactimus wrote: How many people can the earth support? Bloated, wasteful Americans or semi starved African Pygmies? Ian, you sound like a well educated and thoughtful person. ;- I'm sure you understand that if the answer is Bloated Americans (with all their technology, and capitalistic infrastructure) that you can support many, many persons at a healther level than you can support hunter gatherers. You know that obesity is a medical condition and isn't exactly better for the body than semi-starved? But bloat control is more or less a problem of social programming. It isn't a problem of resource non-availability. One way or another, obesity is solvable. Individuals regularly manage it. I did once, but lately it hasn't been working out so well, body-mass-index-wise. Robert Carnegie at home, at large Ah, that's like the wag who said "Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times." -- Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people. |
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"Paul F Austin" wrote: "Derek Lyons" wrote ... (John Schilling) wrote: Except that cultural inheritance can be decoupled from biological. The most blatant methods and examples involving adoption and compulsory education, but even that isn't absolutely necessary. If a bunch of unmarried, childless men and women in Hollywood produce every television program watched and every video grame played by the fruit of your loins from infancy through adulthood, then exactly whose descendents are we really talking about? That's only a valid question if the parents stand utterly silent and absent from the child's entire life such that the child's only cultural conditioning comes from said media. Try Googling "Nanny wars". There's a current hysteria among the "ordinary folk" who can afford live-in help about their little darlings growing up speaking with a Guatemalan accent. What did they expect? I know they didn't look that far ahead. OTOH a climate where you are a slacker if you only work 60 hours a week, or find a part time job a McDoung's, doesn't leave a lot of time for child care. -- Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people. |
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"Errol Cavit" wrote: wrote in message ... snip There was a study a few years ago which showed that very early North American inhabitants tended to harvest a certain plant by tearing it up by the roots and taking it home, rather than by picking the berries. Killing the plant, in other words. I seem to recall reading in Nature that the resulting debate was rather heated. Even if we found no other evidence, we could date the expansion of humans in the Pacific by dating the wave of extinctions that accompanied us. We have, in part. There are Polynesian rat bones in northern New Zealand from first century AD (under the Taupo ash layer). We're fairly sure the Polynesian's that brought them didn't settle in significant numbers (they were probably explorers, per standard practice), because we would have found evidence of species taking a big hit (again, per standard practice, as you say). At least the Maori did learn from experience (and by necessity), and put cultural limitations on resource gathering when they hit their resource crunch (centuries after settling - they are big islands). What happens is that an equilibrium is reached, societies that consume their resources don't survive, the "primitive" societies that we see have reached an equilibrium, mostly. Now for us, we are in a considerable bind looking for new resources. -- Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people. |
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"Mike Combs" wrote: No, I'm afraid that phrase doesn't work either in terms of being polite. It is possible to be clever and occasionally even cutting or vicious while still remaining polite, but crude words don't do it. More than ten points for style in this case. I started one of my stories with one character saying, "Bite me". The other character responded with, "What? Why how rude!" So he went, "Sorry. Please bite me, sir". hey there was at least one alleged historical character whose message was "Eat me.", And people still gather in groups to do just that. -- Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people. |
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Sander Vesik wrote: snip Yep. The US-anti-hempness is really ... odd. snip Religious crusade^w jihad, don't cha know. -- Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people. |
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In article ,
"Christopher M. Jones" wrote: Wim Lewis wrote: In article , Ian St. John wrote: Really? Can you explain why it is never used for clothing then? Uh....? I have several items of linen clothing. I like it because it lets air through more readily than cotton or silk; on a hot day, this easily makes the difference between being comfortable or not. And it would be boring if everything had the same cottony texture. I don't think I'd like linen underwear, though. I don't actually remember how expensive they were, but IIRC the shirts were comparable to cotton shirts of the same general style and quality in the same store. I'm guessing that the expense of "fine linen tablecloths" has more to do with the "fine" than with the "linen". No, linen really is expensive. Cheap linen anything is basically non-existent. Anywho, Cotton's legendary "breathability" is overrated. Modern synthetics like CoolMax, polypropylene, DryFIT, polyester microfibers, etc. have superior performance at decent price points. Synthetics are not as fashionable though, I guess. People remember the bad polyester. Yech, one hour in a poly shirt in Honolulu. -- Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people. |
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Walter Bushell writes In article , "Mike Combs" wrote: No, I'm afraid that phrase doesn't work either in terms of being polite. It is possible to be clever and occasionally even cutting or vicious while still remaining polite, but crude words don't do it. More than ten points for style in this case. I started one of my stories with one character saying, "Bite me". The other character responded with, "What? Why how rude!" So he went, "Sorry. Please bite me, sir". hey there was at least one alleged historical character whose message was "Eat me.", And people still gather in groups to do just that. rec.arts.sf.written says on these occasions "ObSF" and cites a well-known work in the genre. In this case... did we do it already? Robert Carnegie at home, at large -- I am fully aware I may regret this in the morning. |
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