Nivash

Except that you're arguing from a completely counterfactual premise. Mating across the entire population of a species increases genetic diversity, not the other way around. Two parents with greatly heterogeneous genomes will give birth to an offspring of even greater genetic diversity compared to the overall population. Two homogeneous parents will risk compounding harmful mutations. This is why inbreeding is a bad thing, and why siblings and cousins having children is especially bad because it increases the risk that any familial recessive traits are carried over from both parents, resulting in a genetic disease.

And no, a lot of isolated populations spread across the globe of great heterogeneity between the groups will still not protect as much against a disease as a large population of greatly heterogeneous individuals. In a worst case scenario f an extremely lethal disease this might mean that one of the smaller groups has a larger population carrying a beneficial mutation resulting in more survivors in that group initially compared to the large group, but it also lowers the chance of any group having the mutation in the first place - the more genetic mixing, the greater the chance of a protective trait being either carried over or created

Sure, interbreeding will lead to a higher degree of cosmetic homogeneity because a lot of those traits are recessive or mosaic. But it's just that - cosmetic. The underlying genetics will be more heterogeneous. The real way of lowering genetic diversity is by having one small group significantly outbreed the other groups and over generations achieve considerable numerical superiority and then have it outcompete the remaining groups.

Interracial relationships are the complete opposite of that.

I'm pretty all-or-nothing when it comes to socks. If I put them on for the day I rarely take them off before I got to bed unless they get wet or something. If I'm all by my lonesome on a weekend I typically never really get dressed properly in the first place, so I don't put on socks unless it gets cold.

So I guess I don't wear socks unless I have to but are not bothered by them enough to take them off once I put them on.

And he and his wife attempted to lower the bail by lying to the court, resulting in the wife being charged with perjury. And he has also behaved oddly regarding any feelings of guilt that would be expected in a man who ended up shooting a teenager that turned out to be completely innocent, stating in interviews that it was "God's plan".

All of this is circumstantial of course, although it does put Zimmerman's story of being a model citizen and a victim in a questionable light.

No-one knows. The only story we have is that which Zimmerman gave us seeing how Martin is, well, dead.

This we do know:

- Zimmerman spotted Martin from his car after the latter was returning to the house he was staying at in the same neighborhood.

- Zimmerman for reasons unknown to anyone but Zimmerman decided he was suspicious and thought he was involved in a series of break-ins in the neighborhood. It could be noted that Zimmerman was part of the neighborhood watch. He decided to call 911 and, against the advice of 911, to follow Martin in his car. He brought a firearm with him which goes against recommendations from the police for neighborhood watch members but is legal since he had a concealed carry license.

- At some point he exited his vehicle and followed Martin on foot, again against the advice of 911.

No-one except Zimmerman knows what happened after that but we know that it ended in Martin dead. If there was a scuffle Zimmerman might have suffered some very minor injuries although even this is unclear. There are no witnesses which means Zimmerman's story is unopposed.

- Tomb Raider

- Sleeping Dogs

- Hitman Absolution

- Dark Souls

- Just Cause 2

- Chivalry

- Eurotrucker

I'm very happy so far, that's about a third of my budget but I've gotten lucky with the dailies so it got me more games than I expected.

Now I'm hoping for a pricedrop on Metro Last Light and Far Cry 3. A sale on Company of Heroes 2 would be very nice as well but it might not be happening from the looks of it. If Assassin's Creed III drops below 10 I might pick that up as well.

It's only day two of the sale and I've already used €20 of my €115 budget for Dark Souls, Eurotrucker and now Just Case 2 and Chivalry.

Oh dear.

Different purposes. Surveillance cameras are used to show that someone was there at a give time and, if you're lucky, get enough information to determine who that person was. And even then their scare-factor is more useful than anything you can get from the video.The NSA is obviously not interested in knowing that yes, someone was indeed sitting in front of the TV when the Kinect was on and yes, it was probably they guy who lives there. If they are going to do something like this it would be to be able to sneak a glance at stuff like a notebook on the coffee table or that weird package in the back corner. That takes resolution above even DVD.

I seriously doubt most people even have the hardware requirements though. Assuming that the NSA actually wants it in HD - and they probably do, if they intend to be able to see anything on the video and be able to run image recognition - an h.264 compression leaves you with a file-size of 11 GB per hour. Even DVD quality requires about 4,4 GB per hour. That's a lot of data considering most sessions will likely last more than an hour. And that's assuming Microsoft has actually gone as far as to include compression software in the Xbox One capable of compressing it, and doing so without severely impacting console performance - quite a feat considering how CPU-heavy video compression is and how comparatively underpowered the X1 CPU (and the PS4 CPU, for that matter) are by conventional metrics, what with their low clock speeds.

Most people don't have a fiber connection. This means that the bottleneck will be the bandwidth of their DSL connections, even if you take away any "artifical" bottlenecks imposed by the ISP. Now, the ADSL2+ maximum bandwidth for uploads is a measly 2,5 Mbit/s under optimal conditions. That's 1,1 GB per hour. So for every hour of video a DSL connection would need 10 hours to upload, assuming perfect conditions, and while occupying the entire available bandwidth. Then there's obviously the fact that this speed can only be achieved if you basically have the exchange point as your neighbor, it deteriorates with the length of the copper wire. That's all the standard is capable of. Copper wires aren't exactly built for data traffic. That's why we invented fibers in the first place.

Let me put it this way: if you're on a DSL connection and the NSA want that video in HD, it will never get uploaded before your next session if you use your Kinect 2 more than 2,5 hours a day. It will create a backlog growing larger with every day until the NSA is getting video several months old.

The entire premise is simply insane.

PRISM might be cause for all kinds of concerns but for technical reasons Kinect 2 or any other camera is not really one of them. Why? Because of technical reasons. Just imagine the bandwidth of having to download and process hours worth of HD video from every Kinect 2 owner every day for it to make sense to analyse - it's not possible. Most of those Kinect 2 owners are not even going to have the bandwidth to upload it in the first place, and you can bet that they would notice several gigabytes worth of data being unloaded to some undisclosed location. As would their ISPs. And they would not like it one bit - bandwidth is expensive.

Then there's the fact that video is a very poor medium for mass surveillance because there's no easy way to process it. When dealing with text, all you need to do is a simple keyword search in the collected data. With audio you can do voice recognition but that will both take longer and require much heavier data sets, largely limiting you to targets that already caught your interest. But with video? You would pretty much have to put a guy there to look through all of the video in real time. It's simply far too complex for us to be anywhere near developing computer programs capable of scanning it quickly and accurately. Really, you might have to use a proper AI to get the type of information an intelligence agency is actually interested in.

My personal spending cap is at about €115 which due to the €=$ pricing is the same amount in dollars. I've just upgraded my rig and landed a sweet-paying summer substitute job. I'm literally at the edge of my seat for the sale right now. Man do I hope it is today after the mid-week sales end as the rumors seem to indicate.

I buy most of my games in the Steam summer and winter sales and play them all throughout the the months in-between. Now that I finally have a rig that can run anything, I'm like a kid at Christmas morning.