The argument seems to be that the differences between those of European ancestry and those of African ancestry can be explained as a result of Neanderthal DNA in the former. So it would follow that Neanderthals could not jump.

Apologies, it appears that I killed off this message thread. It is an old math joke.
The error lies in the step "Cancelling out the common factor". The problem is that the common factor (A-B) is equal to zero and in "cancelling it out", we divided by zero. That, dividing by zero, is not allowed in mathematics and invalidates everything that follows.

So now a bit of algebra for you:
A=1 and B=1
Thus,
A = B
Multiplying both sides by A,
A^2 = AB
Subtracting B^2 from both sides,
A^2 – B^2 = AB - B^2
Factoring,
(A+B)*(A-B) = B*(A-B)
Canceling out the common factor (A-B),
A+B = B
And, since A=1 and B=1,
2 = 1
How can this be?

I am working on answers to your excellent and thought-provoking questions, but require clarification: does "morality" equate to "political correctness"?

[quote=Billbobboy42]Tried to start PrintShop Pro 4.0 this morning and got the following message:
"Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Just for kicks, would someone please translate?

I rebooted and then Print Shop worked.
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Computers get confused. A bit or a byte gets corrupted and causes something else to get out of cattywhumpus; it all cascades and goes to pot. The only meaningful action is to reboot; you did just fine with that. Don't try to go any further.

Computer programmers live in a world of their own and speak their own language which is intentionally undecipherable to anyone else. But to try to answer your question:

"Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." Means that a program (app) has attempted to call up another program/app or subroutine (the attempted "invocation") but did so in a manner that the second one did not understand. It is not apparent which one of the two has the problem, just that there was a problem. The second program/subroutine answered with an "Exception", i.e. "I don't understand what you are asking."

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object." This says that the first program in calling (invoking) the second program, pointed to an important piece of information (the object) or at least thought it did. The second/called/invoked program looked and did not see what it thought it should see and replied something to the effect of "I did not find the object I was expected at the location at which you pointed."

Maybe the first program was corrupted and pointed to the wrong place. Or maybe the second program was corrupted and could not figure out how to interpret the information/object. Or maybe the object itself was corrupted. Even if you could sort this out and correct it, it is likely that something else also was corrupted. Don't try, just reboot.

FYI, the "object" might be something like a *.jpg image or a text document, etc.

TMI???

Bottom line - reboot.

Beautiful shot HelGol! I too am jealous.

Just for comparison, here is a shot I took ~3 years ago with a rented lens, AF-S VR Nikkor 500mm f/4G ED. Nikon D5100, shot at 500 mm, 1/2,000 sec, f/4, ISO 800. A neighbor and I rented it for 3 days just for fun and this is one of the pictures I took before returning it.

Enjoy that new lens!

Cropped

http://www.dullmensclub.com/

Another reference to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It was all very broad humor. Late in the book it was revealed that millennia earlier an advanced civilization had built the ultimate computer and programmed it to determine the ultimate answer to everything. At the end of the book it was revealed that the answer was "42". Unfortunately the computer was destroyed before it could reveal the question.

42

Maybe they did exist before us, became an advanced civilization, trashed out their world and committed racial suicide before we could ever hear from them.

But wait, is that what we are doing? Will they be able to hear from us and reply to us before we commit racial suicide?

I am confused now, could you please define "intelligence" is the racial sense as opposed to the individual sense?

I am sure that God and George Carlin are both laughing.

Here is a nice video on the Hubble space telescope, 52 minutes long. It begins with the history of how NASA developed it, then lots of pictures and then discussion of the new developments in cosmology enabled by the Hubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFxzwEHG3o

Thanks for sharing Rob. That is awe-inspiring.
Thurman

Subtract one from that. I'm going back to Win7.

Me too - AA5KK