Nick wrote
>>I relaxed a great deal about pits after reading an article citing
>> statistics
>> that made it clear that *owners* are far more responsible for their
>> dogs'
>> behavior than I had imagined before becoming a dog owner
>Nick, if you can remember where you read that, there's
Nick Arnett said,
I have a hard time believing that pits are inherently vicious.
They aren't when you are a friend of the little old lady that owns
one. (I knew the `little old lady' when she was young, but then, I
was young at the same time ...)
... *owners* are far more responsible
On 29/12/2007, at 9:46 AM, Doug wrote:
> Charlie, thanks for the essay and the links; good stuff.
*takes a bow* My pleasure. It should be obvious it's one of my
favourite topics (well, I did sit through 4 years of it at
university...), and I'm always happy to talk zoology or evolutionary
b
On 29/12/2007, at 9:25 AM, Trent Shipley wrote:
> Yes. They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a
> worm hole
> skeptic.
"Skeptic" or "Denialist"? *poke* ;-)
Charlie.
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On 29/12/2007, at 3:02 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>
> I relaxed a great deal about pits after reading an article citing
> statistics
> that made it clear that *owners* are far more responsible for their
> dogs'
> behavior than I had imagined before becoming a dog owner
Nick, if you can remember
Charlie, thanks for the essay and the links; good stuff.
Doug
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Yes. They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a worm hole
skeptic.
On Thursday 2007-12-27 20:57, Max Battcher wrote:
> Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention:
>
> http://www.orionsarm.com/
>
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These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly Luddite
"cannon".
--Only STL travel is possible. No FTL, no worm holes.
--No reactionless drives.
--No antigravity.
--The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and
made of computronium.
-
Trent... cool looking game...
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On Dec 28, 2007 3:31 AM, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people
> doing the breeding than the dogs themselves. As for orcas, what's
> wrong with orcas? They're carnivores, they're top predators, they're
> smart. But they're no
I have a friend who ordered a toy kitchen online and when she got it, too
soon before Christmas to get it replaced if there was a problem, it turned
out it had been a return and one piece was broken. So, no play kitchen
for her girls for Christmas, which sucks.
But not as bad as this:
http://
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Charlie Bell wrote:
>>
>>> It's wrong, because they are not "whales".
>>
>> Yes they are. They're toothed whales. Baleen whales (humpbacks,
>> blues, rights, minkes etc) and toothed whales (including killer
>> whales, pilot whales, belugas, narwha
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
>> It's wrong, because they are not "whales".
>
> Yes they are. They're toothed whales. Baleen whales (humpbacks,
> blues, rights, minkes etc) and toothed whales (including killer
> whales, pilot whales, belugas, narwhals, and dolphins) are a clade,
> they're monophyleti
On 29/12/2007, at 12:04 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Charlie Bell wrote:
>>
>>> I used "orcas" just because of their (wrong) name, "killer whales",
>>> since they are more dolphins than whales.
>>
>> I didn't mean, what's wrong with the name "killer whale".
>>
> It's wrong, because they are not
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
>> I used "orcas" just because of their (wrong) name, "killer whales",
>> since they are more dolphins than whales.
>
> I didn't mean, what's wrong with the name "killer whale".
>
It's wrong, because they are not "whales". Ok, a seahorse is
not a horse, a sea anemona is not a
On 28/12/2007, at 11:00 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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> I used "orcas" just because of their (wrong) name, "killer whales",
> since they are more dolphins than whales.
I didn't mean, what's wrong with the name "killer whale". I meant,
what's wrong with killer whales? Why do orcas give whales (
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
>> OTOH, Pitbulls should be called a different species; they are
>> "dogs" in the same way that killer whales are "whales" :-/
>
> That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people
> doing the breeding than the dogs themselves.
>
Yes - but they corrupt the
On 28/12/2007, at 9:08 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>>
> OTOH, Pitbulls should be called a different species; they are
> "dogs" in the same way that killer whales are "whales" :-/
That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people
doing the breeding than the dogs themselves. As fo
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> Yes, and if some disaster were to befall every dog breed except
> Great Danes and Chihuahuas, that would be a speciation event. :-)
> Your point is valid, and shows how tricky defining species can be -
> there are whole groups of beetles of which the member species ca
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