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Gratz! : Interesting... fun... How about sky diving? :P

The whole they won't pipe into south east QLD thing? It'll kill the fishin' industry, apparantly. I think we should weigh this up, I mean, fishing is great, but let's put this on a balance - Drinking water <----> Fishing. Hmmm...

That's exactly the way I'll be voting. Doing it otherwise is just plain stupid in my opinion. It would be counter productive to vote based on loyalties. Here's a news flash who those who want to stick loyal to a party: they don't care about you or what you want for your country, they just want your vote (most of the time, I'd be intrigued to hear of a political party which isn't a vote grabber).

Oh great, a chance for 12 year olds to spew out anything bad they've ever heard about George Bush Maybe I should have made a note of no bush bashing to please you. You brought it up and no one had been discussing it previously. Thanks. (And please, for the sake of sanity, no bandwagon bush bashing. We're criticising and/or applauding governments, not individuals [preferrably]).

Of course, but laws must be used in the context of what is being discussed or studied.

I never knew that. I was thinking it was a federal stuff up, but hey, you gotta learn somehow. :P

Conservation of mass generally only applies in chemistry, not nessecarily in cosmology. And the point about being immortal... That's more of a philosophical question, not scientific. According to science, you can never be biologically immortal, but the particles that make up you can exist for longer than your lifespan (and generally have existed for a very long time before hand and will exist for a very long time after).

If that were true, it would be at the top of my 'the saddest moments of the human race' list.

Hey people, ever get annoyed with your local, state or federal forms of government? Ever wan't to give them a wrap for a good descision? Well here's the place to do it! Firstly I'd like to give both parties of my federal government a bashing for thier blatant yet prevelant ideologies of verbally bashing the other party and whining like school girls all for vote grabbing. Anyone with half a brain can see that they are always on the election prowl, looking to remain in or gain the seat of power. I just never bought the idea of each party acting as if the other was intrinsically evil or 'antichrist-like.' On the other hand, I'd like to give my state government a wrap for deciding to abandon a poll to ask the people of Brisbane if they would accept recycled water and start building a recycling plant anyway. Although it is a bit late, it is timely and a good descision because we are running out of water! :ohnoes: Anyway what about you guys, want to give any level of government a wrap or bashing? Here's your chance.

Why so much? I have one every morning, and every night. I also run a lot. Sometimes I just shower because I'm bored... Excuse me while I have a heart attack. Sorry, I'm an Australian. :P :uhh: (perhaps you'll understand this, perhaps not.)

*G'day mate It's actually a contraction. :P Oh, and *Aussie :P Just a bit of nitpicking, sorry.

Well mate, at the end of the day, they're only words and whats that saying? Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. :P Just having a dig mate, I loathe them too.

Wai cool. :P I know a few people here live in Brisbane, as do I. It's kinda big, though... :-w

LOL Cocky, mate. Very cocky. :P

Woah. looks pretty ace, if it will work on my laptop, I'm gonna buy it.

Hence why 'climate change' is a better phrase. The proposed affect of global warming is average temperature increase, which still leaves localised plummets possible. Infact, global warming predicts more eratic weather patterns all round, including wild blizzards and snowing in odd places.

He's hip, he's suave, he's in with the ladies and has colour coordination. He works out every day and has nighmares about fatty food! He's metro-man. He's dirty, he's smelly, he's missing a bloody thong! He's uneducated, chauvanistic and [insert stereotype here]. He's everyone's best mate, and will never turn down a beer, it's plain old hetrosexual man. ... What can say, I was bored. =P~

That's the problem, people defending macroevolution are just as ignorant as the people who don't understand it. If you want to answer a question at least take the time to research a correct answer. It's not hard with so many online resources these days. To be fair, with what I was getting from his post (that for speciation to occur, a male and female would have to have the exact same mutation by chance and find each other to do the deed and spread the gene which would have to alienate those two individuals genetically from the original population) I countered with what I felt I knew well, that speciation rather happens from the schism of a population and the subsequent gene flow from it. I'm trying to do this right but at the same time I know my knowlege on the theory isn't perfect i.e. that there are some parts which I know much better than others and some parts which I don't know at all. (sorry for the double post :uhh: )

Here's something interesting; an experiment of Diane Dodd, of Yale University (I'll dictate from 'Biology, Seventh Edition, Australian Verision') - [dictation] Diane Dodd, of Yale University, divided a fruit-fly population, raising some populations on a starch medium and others on a maltose medium. After many generations, natural selection resulted in divergant evolution: Populations raised on starch digested starch more efficiently, while those raised on maltose digested maltose more efficiently. Dodd then put flies from the same or different populations in mating cages and measured mating frequencies. When flies from 'starch populations' were mixed with flies from 'maltose populations,' the flies tended to mate with like partners. In the control group, flies taken from different populations that were adapted to the same medium were about as likely to mate with each other as with flies from thier own populations. Results: (mating frequencies) Starch population males with starch population females: 22 Starch population males with maltose population females: 9 Maltose population males with maltose population females: 20 Maltose population males with starch population females: 8 The strong preference of starch flies and maltose flies to mate with like-adapted flies, even if they were from different populations, indicates that a reproductive barrier is forming between divergant populations of flies. The barrier is not absolute (some mating between starch flies and maltose flies did occur) but appears to be under way after several generations of divergance resulting from the separation of these allopatric (geographically separated) populations into different environments.[/dictation] All this from an experiment. The trend, to me, is clearly that more time in allopatric populations, the lesser the likelyhood for interbreeding of different allopatric populations. Speciation in progress?

8/10. Uni is ace but I'll be much happier next semester when I no longer have to content with maths or physics units. I just learnt that I don't actually need a pass in the maths class I'm in at the moment which is a weight off my shoulders. I'm seriously horrible at statistics. :wall:

Poor buggers. I expected no less, to be perfectly honest. So who are we playing/thrasing next? :P

OMFGLOLLOL. I'll have to check the scores on the net. I'm tipping we won, ya? :P

I always thought the message was - 'he suffered so we don't have to.'

Exactly what I was going to say. You're desensitized (you spelled it wrong every time in your opening post) to fake violence. You see someone get killed in GTA and obviously you don't feel anything. But rest assured that you're not desensitized to real life violence. If you saw the same thing in real life of course you would react differently to seeing it in a movie. Think nothing of how you perceive things in the movies, because you know it's not real, so you shouldn't expect to feel really emotional about it. Couldn't agree more, thus why what I'm going to post is more based on showing emotion than reacting to a catastrophic event. My parent divorced about 6 years ago now. Nothing new, it happens to many of us. Then came all of the baggage and BS that inevitably reared it's ugly head. Still nothing new, everyone in my situation goes through some. But my way of coping I'd wager isn't the most usual out there. I wrote music, still do. Generally always sad, sobby, angsty, mallicious, sadistic, twisted or horrific music. As a result, I'd say I'm at an emotional loss. I pour all of my emotion into my music and almost acknowlege subconciously if I ever feel some shred of emotion, pick up the guitar and let it out. So yea, I'd say I'm desensitised, to an extent. Or that's how it would appear to be. Music is just my release.