I have to side with Johnny Appleseed on this one. Precisely because the Netherlands forbids the "production" and "wholesale" of Canabis the "experiment" didn't work.

Sorry for all the "".

Volume of soild? Add an "e" and it becomes interesting.

Re-coded Y2K fortran code. For free.

I beg to differ as regards animals not wearing "clothing". Certain types of custaceans, for example, carry their house with them. And they don't produce it themselves (unlikely snails) but find them scattered on the ocean floor. Some of them are wearing tin cans nowadays!

It might not be clothing by our standards, but anything you wear is technically "clothing" in my book.

Perchance it wasn't even a matter of warmth. We know some of the first clothing worn was made from leather. Leather protects from abrasion, animal attacks, etc. It basically provides us with a tougher hide.

@Jules: whereas your point is valid, at the same time you have to consider where the video was made. In order to understand the intent of the video maker, one would have to take into account that the same stems from Latin America, where these topics are viewed in a very different manner than, say, in Oz, NZ or even the USA.

As an official NZ advertisement yes, it can (and to a certain extent has to) be viewed as racist. It is my opinion, however, that the actual video maker had an entirely different intent and message.

@Jules: the advert represents the Maori as the real "owners" of New Zealand. It may be young, but you'll never be as old as it is.

Nothing racist about that, quite the contrary. Just like the Aborigenes in Oz, the Maori have been a neglected people, forgotten by the Western world. It is nice to see them brought into perspective.

@Miss C: I just don't see where it "splits". Pic might be unfortunate, but 15 ist just weird. In mine eyes, of course.

I'm trying to figure out the math here. I only see 7 fingers on each hand in the picture.

Yoda as the last one. Pfff... Too easy...

The snowtrooper / Boba Fett bit was interesting, though. She says there is only one small detail in the mask that differentiates the two. Beyond just having an amazingly sensitive tongue, this girl also has an astounding memory.

There has been changes in the nature of things that were first considered a flaw. Or fail as we would say today. Eventually, however, they became the most important survival trait of that species. This we know, in the theory of evolution, as a fact.

I'd be the last one willing to say any particular trait is most "(r)evolutionary", because I do not know what the future holds for a particular species. The day may come when being small of stature can be a benefit.

Evolution has never been a one-way street.

I want it! O.O

I find the sound studio particularly interesting. This seems to be an experiment in order to see, if given the opportunity, how many inmates would grow creatively - and how that would affect prison life in general.

Well, there are plans to that extent, Hola...

That from Clifford Stoll. Wow.

Him, these days:

http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything.html

Back in the old days hackers had something similar to an honor codex. Hacks were performed to still the craving for knowledge. It is sad to see that now, 20 to 30 years later, the majority of hackers (who in most part are script-kids and brute-force phreakers) do so out of financial interest. Just goes to show how the world-wide-web went from a mainly educational establishment to become a part of the mass-media-capitalistic society we reside in today.