Posts by Che Tibby
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"scientists" + "explaining to the general public".
god i laughed...
mostly because you're right, and because the only scientist i never met who seems to be able to string two coherent sentences together is david hayward.
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This sexist comment has exhausted the very last of my goodwill towards "Robin Draper".
glad russell dropped him out. i was offended on your behalf.
tze ming almost opened a tin of ass-kicking when someone referred to her in the same way on another thread.
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Carbon dioxide dissolves in sea water
you might find that this is causing acidification of the oceans. (dunno how reliable that link is).
and russell. a man could do worse. threaten the waving of consumer guarantee act if martha doesn't arrive in one piece.
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but on the serious side, i think the final stage in the evolution of a god is, "and then we realised that the god was us, and we were the god".
or summin' beautiful and metaphysical.
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God evolved too, probably starting off as an idealized version of particular humans, and then becoming more abstract and powerful as time passes. I wonder what the next phase is?
it learns subcontracting.
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We share a common ancestor, from about 6 million years ago.
i'll own to being a pedant.
shouldn't that read ancestors?
i read somewhere that you need at least 50 individuals in a population to make it viable. otherwise you start to breed fundies.
afaik it wasn't the evolution of a person, it was the evolution of a big group of apes. they found this big black monolith...
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suspect part of what is going on is some sort of reflection of the Republicans having moved too far to the right, combined with their association with a deeply unpopular war, rather than the kids having moved en masse to the left.
i'd be inclined to agree. it occurred to me before that the right-swing among x-ers could be because all their parents were 'far out' former hippies. i know a few conservatives who are in fact, "love matches".
and no-one likes it when their oldies are more hip than they are.
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It's a bit more than that. As Pew points out, it's not the case that young people in America always lean liberal. These guys are more Democrat leaning that the cohort before - and Generation X remains the most Republican-leaning generation in the whole sample. Interesting.
yeah, i'm 'down with that', but afaik broad demographic trends like this are the product of the political atmosphere that makes up a persons young-adulthood.
gen x is republican because the democrats were a bit watery in the 80s, and it was time of high emotional intensity. remember the impact "the day after" had on people? it could be that the end of the cold war and the end of nuclear fear reversed the normal tendency for young people to swing to the more liberal end of the spectrum.
what pew might have discovered is a resumption of business-as-usual in the liberal-to-conservative movement in voting publics.
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rb, nice summary. made me realise how damn tedious this constant need to 'define' successive generations are.
basically what those quotes state is that the 18-25ers are "young people". most people that age are liberal (they typically vote green in nzl), computer-literate, happy to copy and swap tapes, easily access and experiment with drugs like cannabis.
it's just a sign of the times we live in.
oh, no, wait... that's me describing new zealand in the early 1990s...
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i mentioned a few weeks back that i had no internet since moving to new premises.
still have no internet. tomorrow will be 21 days to install telephone line?
and the problem? the telecom "contractor" simply can't be fcked getting it together to install the line to my apartment. he's postponed the appointment three times now.
it is a disgrace.