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F1 engines have overhead cams for specifically this reason. F1 has displacement limits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_regulations#Engine F1 is not relevant to the world …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history In March 2008, YouTube's bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately US$1 million a day. [...] In June 2008 a Forbes magazi…

The term [devolution], as used commonly, implies some sort of objective heirarchy to evolution Yes. Such an objective hierarchy of species is frequently referred-to in Charles Darw…

what is referred to by "devolution" is just evolution. Dictionaries do not define devolution as just evolution. They define it as retrogade evolution. http://www.google.com/search?…

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(biological_fallacy) I suggest you read the wikipedia link I read it before you gave the link. The discussion page conflicts with the cur…

The existence of high er mammals and high er animals implies the existence of low er mammals and low er animals, and therefore possible de volutionary directions.

So, then, are higher mammals and higher animals misnamed? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22higher+mammals%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22higher+animals%22 The Encyclopedia B…

do you think a chimpanzee carrier makes it okay to inflict What is the test for "okay"? okay to inflict (with reasonably high likelihood) mutations and health problems on animals y…

let's pretend you could find a human carrier to gestate your transgenic Neanderthal baby for you. How about a chimpanzee carrier, as George Church suggested? http://www.google.com/…

I like "descent with modification" when explaining what evolution is to layman. What, then, would de volution be?

All laptop manufacturers stopped using high-quality LCD panels and switched to selling overpriced TN-film based junk It seems so: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?ci…

no-spec.com appears to be in violation of federal RICO laws. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles/2008/smithfield_union_r... Smithfield says the union, the United Food and Commerci…

possibly more [...] intelligent than humans Do you think it is likely that mean modern-Neanderthal (Neanderthal raised in a modern environment) IQ would be higher than mean modern-…

How will we determine if he's competent Why not use IQ testing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation#Treatment_an... There are thousands of agencies in the United States…

Crack dealers are entrepreneurs. Most crack dealers work in large organizations with only one or a few entrepreneurs at the top. Does working at Microsoft or Google make one an ent…

Dup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482106 Turning crack dealers into chief executives (bbc.co.uk) 4 points by RiderOfGiraffes 22 hours ago | 1 comment

What's so scary about the Neanderthals is not that they were bigger or stronger, but that their brain volume was bigger then ours and from the skull shape we can tell the brain was…

if [...] you're inflating the money supply way too much and way too fast, that can be disastrous. Why?

Under the gold standard, there is a feedback loop allowing the market to control inflation Why would one want to control inflation? Inflation does not have anything to do with econ…

(1) A productive society is one with experts. Not according to Henry Ford: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/hnfrd10.txt If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I w…

The company is not what is being called a scheme. What the company was being employed by the city of Paris to execute is being called a scheme: Championed by Paris Mayor Bertrand D…

saying that you know where there is a bicycle standing without a lock, clearly that should be legal. Do U.S. lawmakers know that (facilitating crime should be legal)? http://en.wik…

Many of your concerns were addressed by the author in the comments section: http://richardkulisz.blogspot.com/2007/04/aliens-dont-exist.... He completely ignores that humans actual…