Dolphins abandon Bay of Biscay Most of the dolphins usually spotted in the Bay of Biscay are missing this year, according to researchers at the wildlife conservation charity Marinelife. The group has been monitoring the whale, dolphin and seabird populations for the last 13 years as part of its Biscay Dolphin Research Programme (BDRP), using the P&O ferry …
If anyone heard them singing the star spangled banner before they left.... I'm sticking my thumb out.
What's the IT angle? The fact that the earth is the biggest and most powerful computer ever surely counts? Combined with dolphins being the second most intelligent part of that computer.
I fear many of the commentators are refusing to maintain the "IT only" policy. Stuart is a prime case, scurrilously using "IT" but in a manner where no "IT" is actually referred to.
In future could all commentators keep their comments directly relating to "IT" and refrain from off topic issues.
There should be no OT in IT
First off, I'm sure you've got a macro to post that, since it's all i seem to recall you ever posting.
Secondly, when our dolphin overlords get back from arming themselves, I will watch with glee as they hunt everyone down with ray guns. Is that enough IT angle for you?
I for one, want to be the first to welcome our new Cetacean overlords.
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Any true IT expert worth their salt is raised on Science Fiction. It's the only thing
which keeps us going between service packs!
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And comedy. Science and science fiction, comedy and the appreciation of real literature. Like this masterpiece of expression here. :-) If you can manage to find science fiction and comedy in one place, you've got gold. Red Dwarf, for starters, although most acute observers will happily inform you that H2G2 was comedy too, if more subtle than the weakly-sitcom-like variety of Red Dwarf. They'll also tell you that H2G2 is required reading/listening, and that if you haven't done it you might as well crawl back into your cave until your species has evolved an appreciation for it, for then you will find the beginnings of a career in true IT professionalism. (Most people who actively hate H2G2 turn out to be Americans, I find, which is odd but can probably be explained by the unique way Douglas Adams writes which is distinctly heavy in British satire and depends on a reasonable understanding of culture.)
Cheers,
Sabahattin
The (Lab) Mice are really just an extension of hyper-intelligent, multi-dimensional beings...
As for man being the third... don't quite re-call that part...
Lets be realistic...
How can someone call a species which has all this fascination with small pieces of coloured paper (which, for their part, are quite unmoved by all this attention), and which actually thinks that it has invented stuff which, as everyone knows, was present even in the first preview version of encyclopedia galactica as ancient history, "intelligent"?
Well, if Adams is correct...
Couple that with the the fact that my last two months were shit (lost my job, high pressure, extreme cognitive dissonance between migrating to Singapore or staying in Malaysia, almost lost something of importance to me)...
I guess at least it would end happily for me.
Although I'd prefer it if I could just somehow open a pan-dimensional portal and get to a better place instead.
Could you please, PLEASE ban for life any loser who whines about "no IT angle" when the section the article is published in is not IT anyway ?
Get their logon and LOCK IT OUT. Get their IP and prevent them from signing up again. Ban them from reading the site even.
Remarks like that only prove one thing : the guy has nothing to do here, he can't understand what he's looking at. So be nice to whatever is left of his brain cells and don't show him the awful letters that so confuse him.
And if he never comes back, well good riddance.
Just because the dolphins are leaving, there's no need to be rude about the "no IT angle" poster....it's not his fault.
Seriously, he's entitled to post and you're entitled to comment on him. But referring to him as a whiner and an idiot is just unnecessarily offensive. Sort of thing I see on footy forums, but I don't expect to see here.
I'm impressed Mark that you can work the keyboard, not having opposible thumbs e.t.c. Or have u guys been developing a squeek n click interface? :)
I'm not surprised they're all going forth and disappearing - would you want to swim alongside a whole load of British, French, Spanish and other European Turds. Oh wait, we do, when we go on that £199 package holiday.
Also, is this study an excuse for the researches to make a regular booze-cruise?
And finally, I bow down in front of my wet grey bottlenosed overlords.
yes, a broader awareness of the world is a wonderful thing. can we please have more stories with a deviant, SF or science angle? also, how about more privacy, human rights and bureaucratic dysfunction articles?
the gentleman is quite likely to be in or from the US, as the philosophy here is "if it doesn't make money, it isn't worthy of attention or effort". the curiosity to enjoy such topics is thus discarded, in favor of learning content that can be more easily monetized.
since a majority here also believe in Intelligent Design and/or Creationism, this guy probably forgot (or never knew about) basic natural selection: "too much specialization usually leads to extinction".
this is good news for the rest of us, as it makes Stuart a short-to-medium-term problem.
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