Posts Made By: jess tauber

Sounds like a case of Turret Syndrome to me.....

Jess Tauber

Based on the post subject line, for a moment there I thought maybe you had a print-through image of the Virgin or something...

Jess Tauber

If I remember my bio classes right, it all depends on whether there is parental care. Efts are usually on their own.

Jess Tauber

Bill Clinton is the Antichrist- haven't you figured that out YET???!!!

And Bill Foley could have avoided all this trouble if only he'd visited Monica......but that story's on a different page...

I hear that Kim Jong Il is something of a deviate hisself. Maybe that's why Bill could and W can't talk to him. So when the bombs start falling he can pride himself on not having degraded the Presidency by talking with THE ENEMY. Not compromising. Not negotiating. Like any good saint preparing himself to be immolated for his strong and true and just beliefs.

I think we shouldn't make W wait for this most deserved fate. After all, Heaven awaits him and all the other Neocons fixed on the War between Good and Evil.

So stop sniveling and get a grip! - Armageddon is just around the corner- smile, sit back and let it all come down.

Jess Tauber

I've hated Mars myself for some time now. What a waste of resources! Lets go to Europa dagnabbit! At least there they've got a hot tub.

Jess Tauber

Between my eye and my sky (and my Coulter) I haven't seen ANY of these details. Drat!

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Sorry, I thought this was going to be a critique of the President's- wrong forum anyhow!

Jess Tauber

Actually, as a mostly Christian nation, I wondered whether our current cabal of Christ-crazed politicos might have quietly asked Ethiopia to do this for us, since we are otherwise occupied with Iraq (or is that the other way round??) 8)

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I've heard that Terabithia is planning to invade Narnia, claiming that they are developing nuclear weopons. The Narnian president has replied vehemently that they are only developing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, such as crossing dimensional boundaries. They have asked the neighboring nation of Oz to act as a mediator in this dispute, hoping that diplomats will float a trial balloon to bring the parties to the negotiating table. The Narnian ambassador to Oz has stated that he believes, in toto, that the nuclear issue is just a straw man.

Jess Tauber

Animal communication is yearly being found to be much more involved than previously believed. Animal calls can differentiate far more than simple emotional states. There are alarm calls (which can mark different TYPES of threats), food calls (marking different types and qualities of foods), mating calls (nuff said), conflict calls (for rivals, marking who is the agressor and who is the defender, who is winning, appeasement, etc.), and more still.

Not ALL these signals are vocal- many animals mix and match visual, aural, odor, taste and other modalities (some fish have electrical signals!). And the degrees of differentiation vary from species to species both for numbers of basic types and how finely these cut their individual domains into tractable 'chunks' of information.

A scientist named Eugene Morton at the National Zoo a number of years ago came up with what he called 'Motivation Structure Theory' which takes inter-individual conflict calls and showed that they formed a multidimensional spectrum of subtypes which communicated the status and state of the animal from moment to moment during the conflict. He discovered this from comparing many different species' calls (mammals and birds) which he acoustically renormalized for frequency range and time length. Apparently all higher vertebrates share the same underlying system.

Someone really should get to the bottom of such systematicity- then we could communicate with animals on their own terms instead of trying (and usually failing) to force them to use human language, which is a VERY specialized and mutated version of what they have (trust me, I'm a linguist).

Jess Tauber