11 Jun
2018
11 Jun
'18
8:54 a.m.
Am Montag, 11. Juni 2018 schrieb William Morder:
On Monday 11 June 2018 01:02:45 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
This directly leads to the question: are polititians realy humans or are in realty some
kind of highly evolved parasite?
--
Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA,
CIA ...
Am Montag, 11. Juni 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Our domestic chicken, the humble yardbird, is descended from the jungle fowl
(of which there are several species), and originated in Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Fowl
So, I wonder what feathered dinosaur was the ancestor of our chicken?
Sometimes a species survives by evolving a disgusting taste, and at other
times it survives and multiplies because it tastes so good. Maybe that was
the strategy of the jungle fowl in becoming the chicken.
On Sunday 10 June 2018 22:48:53 William Morder
wrote:
Oh, there has been some reserch on the devolepment of chicken taste in
evolution. I haven't found the link on the original pater, but this almost
as good :-)
https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume4/v4i4/chicken.htm
Nik On Sunday 10 June 2018 10:32:55 Gene Heskett
wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
> > > said William Morder:
> > > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you
> > > | have downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently?
> > > |
> > > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon.
> > > | However, I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that
> > > | repo to my sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my
> > > | sources.list on an external hard drive.
> > >
> > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a
> > > computer show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install
> > > routine that copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote
> > > autoexec.bat with the name of the executable file. In those days
> > > autoexec.bat could run to a couple of pages, with us all trying
> > > to make our machines a little faster and getting use of memory
> > > above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of the
> > > TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we
> > > copied command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So
> > > autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned
> > > machine into a single-game console was troublesome.
> >
> > I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place
> > where dinosaurs still roam the earth.
> >
> > Bill
>
> They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :)
I wonder if they tasted like chicken or turkey, or more gamey like
pheasant?
Bill
I'd have to say that mere mortals like us will never know. Ostrich
maybe?, its pretty ancient.