Public Acceptance of Evolution

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IT IS 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which suggested that all living things are related and that everything is ultimately descended from a single common ancestor. This has troubled many, including Darwin himself, as it subverted ideas of divine intervention. It is not surprising that the countries least accepting of evolution today tend to be the most devout. In the most recent international survey available, only Turkey is less accepting of the theory than America. Iceland and Denmark are Darwin's most ardent adherents. Indeed America has become only slightly more accepting of Darwin's theory in recent years. In 2008 14% of people polled by Gallup agreed that “man evolved over millions of years”, up from 9% in 1982.

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did anyone in the department of defense actually watch terminator 2?

"US Military 50 Percent Robotic By 2015

The US military will be half machine and half human by 2015, a military expert told an audience on Wednesday.

Speaking before a group at the Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, military expert Peter Singer said the implementation of robot soldiers was near.

"We are at a point of revolution in war, like the invention of the atomic bomb," Singer said.

"What does it mean to go to war with US soldiers whose hardware is made in China and whose software is made in India?"

The US military has already made great strides in unmanning the battlefield. The US uses attack drones and bomb-handling robots, and custom war video games have been used as recruiting tools.

But the introduction of compassionless robots to the battlefield is strangely similar to terrorism, said Singer.

"You don't have to convince robots they are going to get 72 virgins when they die to get them to blow themselves up," Singer said.

Singer also referred to so-called “war porn” – videos captured by robots on the battlefield that gets distributed on the Internet.

"It turns war into entertainment, sometimes set to music," Singer said. "The ability to watch more but experience less."

David Hanson creates robots with human features in hopes to achieve more “empathy.”

"The goal here is not just to achieve sentience, but empathy," Hanson said.

"As machines are more capable of killing, implanting empathy could be the seeds of hope for our future."

here's a cute one:



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screw global warming. i think stopping these killer robots could be our generation's true calling.

i'm on a boat ft. t-pain

you may have already seen this but i had not and found it pretty funny...i think it was from snl..

here is the youtube link. embedding was disabled or sumfin..

if you're in the mood to laugh at bill o'reilly...

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Bill O'Reilly's Right to Privacy

republicans.

skip to 1:25 if you're in a hurry. the shithead in question here is "republican strategist" alex castellanos. look at that cock-sweep above his mouth. i wonder if he can even smell? this isn't an exceptionally stunning clip but i just don't get how this orange faced, purple tie wearing monster gets paid to talk straight gibberish on cnn. instead of reading krugman's quote why not have krugman on the damn show. and limbaugh and co. used to call cnn the "clinton news network"...

here's another gem from the same jerk:





i think he may even have a fake eye..

"snorting like a bull"

Joe Torre's got a new book out called The Yankee Years co-written by Tom Verducci. Might be worth a read, considering the couple of chucklers I've heard already. Apparently, Torre reveals that A-Rod's nickname in the clubhouse was "A-Fraud" which is especially funny given the recent news about him testing positive for 'roids. But, nothing could possibly top what former Yankees trainer Steve Donahue reveals about Roger Clemens' pregame rituals. First, according to Donahue, Clemens would take a whirlpool bath at the hottest possible temperature...

“He’d come out looking like a lobster,” Donahue said.

Then Donahue would rub the hottest possible liniment on his testicles.

“He’d start snorting like a bull,” the trainer said. “That’s when he was ready to pitch.”

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and in an unrelated story:

How did Bush get $700 billion no strings attatched?

What the centrists have wrought

I’m still working on the numbers, but I’ve gotten a fair number of requests for comment on the Senate version of the stimulus.

The short answer: to appease the centrists, a plan that was already too small and too focused on ineffective tax cuts has been made significantly smaller, and even more focused on tax cuts.

According to the CBO’s estimates, we’re facing an output shortfall of almost 14% of GDP over the next two years, or around $2 trillion. Others, such as Goldman Sachs, are even more pessimistic. So the original $800 billion plan was too small, especially because a substantial share consisted of tax cuts that probably would have added little to demand. The plan should have been at least 50% larger.

Now the centrists have shaved off $86 billion in spending — much of it among the most effective and most needed parts of the plan. In particular, aid to state governments, which are in desperate straits, is both fast — because it prevents spending cuts rather than having to start up new projects — and effective, because it would in fact be spent; plus state and local governments are cutting back on essentials, so the social value of this spending would be high. But in the name of mighty centrism, $40 billion of that aid has been cut out.

My first cut says that the changes to the Senate bill will ensure that we have at least 600,000 fewer Americans employed over the next two years.

The real question now is whether Obama will be able to come back for more once it’s clear that the plan is way inadequate. My guess is no. This is really, really bad.

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I couldn't agree with Krugman more. Everything I hear regarding compromises to stimulus sound like they are ruining the nature of the bill. More tax cuts, less essential programs. The fact is, the democrats only need 1 fucking republican to vote for this...and they shouldn't have to bend over and destroy the stimulus bill in order for this to pass.

bill hicks' last performance.

i guess this was a monologue that hicks did for the dave letterman show but letterman's crew thought it was too taboo. i just think it's funny as hell..hicks died a few months after this performance of pancreatic cancer..it sucks, you can see him grabbing and massaging his side-stomach where the pan was..

someone should fucking punch this mormon creep directly in the nose.

glenn beck warning that al gore is aspiring to create a new hitler youth? it must be true. beck is a recovering drug addict/late-life convert to the LDS (mormons). he started out hosting a shitty radio show, then he was on cnn, and now he's on fox...

talk about going out on a limb on this one...he took like three sentences from gore and somehow made the age-old, "conservative comparision to hitler." teaching kids that humans are actively aiding the deterioration of earth? sounds like the same brainwashing tactics the nazi's used to me...

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oh, by the way, News Corp. posted a $8.4 billion loss!!

"News Corp. announced a net loss of $6.4 billion in the final quarter of the year, the company's second fiscal quarter, as it wrote down the value of its TV operations, newspapers and information services to the tune of $8.4 billion.

Commenting on the results company Chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, said the results were a “direct reflection of the grim economic climate.” He said the downturn had been more severe than expected and would likely last longer than predicted. The company would continue its efforts to cut costs across the business."

A-Rod uses Roids

The New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, the year he won both the American League home run title and Most Valuable Player award when playing for the Texas Rangers, two people with knowledge of the results said on Saturday.

According to Sports Illustrated, which first reported the positive test results on its Web site on Saturday, the 33-year-old Rodriguez was among 104 players on a list who tested positive for performance-enhancing substances — in his case for testosterone and an anabolic steroid known by the brand name Primobolan.

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you make the call! pt. 2

krang?



or cheney?

happy anniversary!

that colin sure knew how to spew out shit. talk about failing...

if anytime in your life you fuck up royally, you can always sleep a little easier knowing it could never compare to powell's speech...

Most Frightening Mugshot

Stole this one from the Celtics blog.

Not Exactly sure what it has to do with the Celtics, but rather entertaining.

"We're Learning to Live With Somebody's Depression..."

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

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Just have a heart-attack and die...please! Unfortunately Cheney is evil enough that I'm a little bit worried when he does something like fucking predicts a terrorist attack. It could be political games, trying to simply frighten people of Obama's policies, but Dick scares me. In the word's of David Bowie, "I don't want to live with somebody's depression..."
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Michael: My father is no different that any powerful man, any man with power, like a President or Senator.

Kaye: Do you know naive that sounds Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.

"he's both dude. he's innocent and not guilty..."

i'll bet oj would stab this guy in a heartbeat...

sports.

gooooaaaalllll....

holy sheeit..

batman freaks out on the termnator set!!

Dennis and Callahan really beat the latest Christian Bale freakout to death on WEEI this morning. Apparently a cinematographer walked through the set when they were trying to film a scene:

hahahahahahahaha! This is pure gold. "For fucks sake man your amateur." Can't wait for the remix.

Repairing Robots

There's a World Going on Underground

Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.

Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.

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I found this article google searching how to get into the secret catacombs of Paris. I've been trying for months to get into these and have a couple Parisians on it. Anyways, I'll report back if I ever do. Apparently, there are ridiculous parties there on the weekends. However, I also met someone who got lost down there for three days and someone else who told me rival gangs live in certain parts of the catacombs. Regardless...I gotsta get down there.