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Maybe reinstall iTunes and then try again with the firmware ugrade? Or try and upgrade straight to 3.1?

Error 1013? I hope I'm not the one who just got X-Files heebiejeebies from that. What version of iTunes are you running?

I want to see this so bad.

Incorrect. See: speciation.

My hair always looks better the next day - soft and curly and awesome. Used to call it my "sex hair".

That's what I mean. It's reliable because its processes are - evolution will always occur in biological systems. You just can't predict what will happen. And I have no idea :p

I wouldn't ascribe it as unreliable (the mechanisms of evolution (i.e. natural selection, sexual selection, genetic drift, etc) are pretty well understood, and themselves pretty predictable), but unpredictable? Sure. You'd never be able to PREDICT the product of evolution.

Not a lot with regards to mechanics, but you'll never get to the point where we know enough to ascribe mathematical values to it and say "in this instance this will happen every time." Such is the nature of biological systems.

Law: A scientific law or scientific principle is a concise verbal or mathematical statement of a relation that always applies under the same conditions. Although the term is generally accepted only for widely confirmed observations, not only is there no sharp distinction between a hypothesis and...

Wow. The proof for evolution is incontrovertible. There is no proof for creation. Again, you have no idea what "theory" means in a scientific context.

Or it's just really juvenile unless you're actually married.

Is this guy for real? I'd laugh in your face, for the record.

Again, that depends on whether or not captive conservation is actually of any real benefit.

I'd imagine pretty much anything like semen would sting like a mother.

That's the kind of captivity I don't necessarily mind for highly intelligent animals. There was a place I went to in Palau that was a research station for dolphins, and they had huge seapens where the dolphins spent most of their time - being dolphins. Research was done in closed-off sections of...

In the wild, lions actually do a whole lot of nothing - they sleep most of the day. This is punctuated with a few hours of explosive activity - i.e. hunting - and all the intelligence and mental stimulation that requires and provides. They don't get any of that in captivity. Lionesses in...

I get the same :( when I go and see the tiger and it's pacing back and forth with a blank expression on its face, or the snow leopards which are stuck with their arctic coats in the Aussie heat, on a rock. Re: dolphins and orcas in particular, it's more the mental stimulation of sound, which...

$194?! Crikey, even Coldplay was like $150-odd for silver seated.

I lean towards this perspective except even less so with regards to conservation, as there are serious misgivings about the efficacy of captive studbooks - there's a tendancy to select for characteristics that ensure ease of captivity rather than simulating natural selection, such as good...

Anything by Alastair Reynolds.