The changes the biologists report are similar in kind to the changes Dawkins had software for in The Blind Watchmaker. It is evolution.

The changes the biologists report are similar in kind to the changes Dawkins had software for in The Blind Watchmaker. It is evolution.

The newspaper kiosk at the north end of the town hall in Orford, Suffolk also uses an honor system, and has done for many years.

@8:

Yay for Puritanical, Calvinist beliefs.

That's a little too much enthusiasm, jso - settle down, settle down.

@14, followup: The furore over Meraki's repricing and other tactics - which include forcing firmware updates on users which prevent users with existing licenses from hacking the hardware in ways which are allowed under their licenses - has surfaced on Slashdot.

There is a real upside to devaluing the currency: it devalues the national debts. All those creditors overseas count what they lent us as assets, and in their eyes the assets are becoming worth less. At the same time, what the US invests abroad in the Euro markets rises in dollar terms, and this appreciation ultimately makes it possible to pay the debt off more quickly.

Of course, this also makes the US less attractive as an investment target, because the returns have to be discounted by the rate at which we devalue.

It gets worse, the more I think about it - I'm going to stop thinking about it for a bit.

I drove around Pasadena for several months with a sheet of letter-size paper in the rear window of my car. It said:

WORSE
THAN
NIXON

Some gave me thumbs up, and others the shaft - yes: like the press once gave a certain candidate.

I don't get it. What does this have to do with haircuts?

It took much longer for tobacco's attorneys to fess up. Why would the MPAA do this now? TFA says "the U.S. motion picture industry lost $6.1 billion to piracy worldwide, with most of the losses overseas", which suggests they'd like to balkanize the Internet, and this in turn would surely suit the DeparFEARtment of HomeFEARland SecFEARurity just fine.

Right?