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"Users have apparently said that using the Apple Watch means they tend to use their iPhone much less – probably because they can act on tasks and notifications right away without their phone. One user told TechCrunch that they almost stopped using their iPhone during the day as a result." To labour the point, I personally don't see why I would pay money for an apple watch, it would mean having to upgrade my phone from a 4 to a 6, upgrading my access from prepay, not always on internet, to a dollar high, make the phone company happy, internet always on, plan. but even though I don't want one for what it brings, now I get it, it's what it takes away from your daily experience that's important. And that's the appropriately coined phrase, 'Attention Suck', people can start behaving like people again. I'm not sure it'll stop insta-face-witters being glued to the phone, but for the rest of us we can get back to a world where we look and talk to each other...

In Auckland it got a bit windy, they're worried in Gisborne/Hawkes Bay - rivers rising 5.5m in 4 hours - 9 metre swells - that sort of thing.

batteries, capacitors ?

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Depends what the contract says.

"How the rise of the bicycle saw the fall of the village idiot" ​I like that, probably about the same time, fish realised they needed bicycles

a visually impressive map (http://earth.nullschool.net first noted by another esteemed board member) of the cyclone 'Pam' which is going to pass very close to NZ having just devastated parts of Vanuatu. http://earth.nullsch....27,-31.87,1476

I thought the origin of the term "Expatriate" was more of a description of a contract or clause in a contract, than a person. Ergo a western legal term, unlikely to be replicated in Abrabicanonlegalnonsense or Japanesearcanescrollypaper

Well the god-botherers think we have only two ancestors. Caucasian. I can only guess how that makes non Caucasians feel. Science thinks we came out of Africa and from a linear progression genetically. Now we've found Neanderthal DNA in modern man, we can understand that this progression was not purely linear. Currently, the best answer is that hominids (ape like creatures that demonstrate manly ancestor traits, but not actual apes, they're a bit different) were originally from Africa, but were several or many species. Think seagulls, many similar species. Some interbred, some did not, some travelled, some did not, then some interbred again and so on. Regarding racial variation, look at dogs, or cats, from an initial gene pool, many different forms and colours, indeed, temperaments and capabilities can be bred in a small number of generations. Imagine what fun you could have if you wanted to selectively breed humans..... But to the initial question posed: whilst mathematically, you can work out the likely number of ancestors, for a given number of people, and posit that at a certain point the number of ancestors is finite and therefore all the same people, what you have to take into account is that variation results in diversity. Diversity, results in not only different, but unsuccessful and unrecognisable. So if the rate of diversification is greater than the rate of procreation, the likelihood of being able to pin down certain group of ancestors for all of us, is low. Except in isolated instances, (e.g. Pitcairn Islanders, the progeny of the Mutiny on the Bounty survivors) humans tend to breed like rats and select mates on quite un-genetic grounds. This in my view tends to suggest a pool of ancestors that is wide and varied.

Do you mean, even if they object to being filmed, giving someone, a fully justified thrashing, wot they'd being itching for, all night?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11417218 South African doctors have performed the world's first successful penis transplant, three months after the ground-breaking operation. The 21-year-old patient had his penis amputated three years ago after a botched circumcision at a traditional initiation ceremony. In a nine-hour operation at the Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, he received his new penis from a deceased donor, whose family were praised by doctors. "We've proved that it can be done - we can give someone an organ that is just as good as the one that he had," said Professor Frank Graewe, head of plastic reconstructive surgery at Stellenbosch University. "It was a privilege to be part of this first successful penis transplant in the world." Doctors say the man, whose identity has not been disclosed, has made a full recovery since the operation on December 11 and had regained all his urinary and reproductive functions. In 2006, a Chinese man had a penis transplant but his doctors removed the organ after two weeks due to "a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife". ----------- now this is want I want to hear more about, could be a movie in this, 'Amityville Penis', 'A Penis on Elm Street', 'The Blair Penis Project'

Brave man

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Art, I'll give you art... Below a Photo of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge seemingly enjoying an 'Artwork' of a dead man, presumably a homeless person. Oh the Irony...

Depending on the model, condition and rarity, they could be worth serious dosh. The difficulty is tracking down the nerdalites in the US that'll pay for them.

Nok Nok, who's there? Just my brother and his kids, and his mum and some chickens, some dogs and a buffalo.

Any one noticed Hillary's tighter skin?

On a positive note, the reported feedback from tester groups is that they spend very little time, fumbling for and looking at their iPhone during the day. This watch may not be an end, in and of itself, but possibly a way to minimise the 'attention suck', that is the last 10 years, of the world staring intently at little blue light screens.

Who runs their own email server at home and off limits to the government she so selflessly serves?

Not very convincing sleight of hand. What is more convincing is the awe-struck expressions of amazement and wonder on the faces of the audience. You could hold up an Orange and tell them you just invented it, and they'd believe you, after all you're on TV!

Where's the weasel?

Perhaps the sarcasm was lost, how do you smell colours, slow motion, picture in picture? Ya can't smell vision! Like full colour or monochrome taste! Vector or pixel based touch?

Smell o vision mmmmmmm.....

Ahh I see, so it's not 4 dimensions then, and here I thought it was the Thais being ignorant. It's me that's ignorant