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Old 05-27-2009, 06:33 AM     Post subject: Mike Tyson's daughter dies after accident #1 (permalink)  
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Old 05-27-2009, 06:46 AM #2 (permalink)  
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It really is too bad.

I dont' care how much of a dirtbag you are.

No one deserves that kind of shit. NO-one.
The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here?
 
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Old 05-27-2009, 02:58 PM #3 (permalink)  
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Yeah, not a fun story....
Such a freak accident too. I went home yesterday and took my cord down off my treadmill and just laid it on the ground instead of hung up....
I'm not usually a paranoid person at all but I have a son who is the same age...it just kinda hits you.

That guys life is one disaster after another, some made by himself some not....
I dont know how close he was to the daughter or if he was involved at all.
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Old 05-27-2009, 03:22 PM #4 (permalink)  
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So basically she was playing by the treadmill and was strangled somehow by the power cord? That's one hell of a freak accident.
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Old 05-27-2009, 03:27 PM #5 (permalink)  
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thats the story....either slipped into it or was playing with it....

A number of years ago a child died in a rural town close to where I live b/c he went to the bathroom at his school, and started playing with those old cloth hand towel driers (the kind that's looped in the unit...where you pull out a new section of clean towel and the used dirty part gets fed back into the unit).
He hung himself on the towel while playing with it...it happens
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Old 05-27-2009, 03:39 PM #6 (permalink)  
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OK, this will sound freakin horrible, but there is a part of me that feels that accidents of this sort, accidents like the towel dispenser, the cord, etc... all are a sort of evolutionary process... such as only the strong survive... maybe it is a way to thin the herd...
 
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Old 05-27-2009, 04:30 PM #7 (permalink)  
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OK, this will sound freakin horrible, but there is a part of me that feels that accidents of this sort, accidents like the towel dispenser, the cord, etc... all are a sort of evolutionary process... such as only the strong survive... maybe it is a way to thin the herd...
or part of the chaos of life. There are 6 some billion of us. We're gonna manage to die in all sorts of almost unreal ways.

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Old 05-27-2009, 10:55 PM #8 (permalink)  
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OK, this will sound freakin horrible, but there is a part of me that feels that accidents of this sort, accidents like the towel dispenser, the cord, etc... all are a sort of evolutionary process... such as only the strong survive... maybe it is a way to thin the herd...
evolution happens to populations, not individuals. its the process by which ecosystems favor certain biological characteristics. random events of small scale are not natural selection
 
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Old 05-27-2009, 11:14 PM #9 (permalink)  
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editing your title b/c one of the owner's of this site is named Tyson
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Old 05-27-2009, 11:16 PM #10 (permalink)  
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OK, this will sound freakin horrible, but there is a part of me that feels that accidents of this sort, accidents like the towel dispenser, the cord, etc... all are a sort of evolutionary process... such as only the strong survive... maybe it is a way to thin the herd...
Yeah, but who was the evolutionary failure here?

I'm all for survival of the fittest if someone is super sick, like with cancer, or some crazy blood disease, I'm also for survival of the smartest/fittest after the kid has been given an appropriate chance to use the tools they need to survive.

At 4 years old, it is just as much of a tragedy for a healthy member of the herd to die, as it is for an unhealthy member to continue living.
The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here?
 
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Old 05-27-2009, 11:57 PM #11 (permalink)  
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between the 3 responses to monty, i like mine best. opinions?

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Old 05-28-2009, 12:58 AM #12 (permalink)  
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between the 3 responses to monty, i like mine best. opinions?
u went the common sense route, i provided a textbook response, and rag waxed philosophical

not sure where im going wit this
 
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Old 05-28-2009, 02:53 AM #13 (permalink)  
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editing your title b/c one of the owner's of this site is named Tyson
LOL i actually thought about this earlier but forgot to change it.

Thanks and i hope it didnt freak anyone out.
 
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Old 05-28-2009, 12:04 PM #14 (permalink)  
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Well... Let's see... three responses...

Chaos of life... I like that idea but it kind of supports the same theory, that the strongest will survive, but yes, many will die in weird and unpredictable ways...

As towards random events of small scale... well... if you add up how many people/children died because of random accidents of this nature... then it is an evolutionary effect imo... true that items such as disease and pesitlence have a much bigger effect, but I do think that the kid who burns his hand on the stove then reaches again towards the burner is one who isn't going to make it... evolution at it's simplest... but you're more correct than I am.

Who? Well Ragnar i think Mike Tyson is an evolutionary failure... physically strong, mental midget. So I think the kid got the short end of the stick being born to him.

But in essence, after re-reading my original post, it comes off kind of arrogant, I guess my real feeling is, I don't really care what happens to Tyson or his kid... and that probably makes me a dick.
 
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Old 05-28-2009, 08:35 PM #15 (permalink)  
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I don't really care what happens to Tyson or his kid... and that probably makes me a dick.
yes it does. kids can't pick their parents and no parent should have to deal with the death of their child.
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Old 05-28-2009, 08:44 PM #16 (permalink)  
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I feel bad for Tyson, no-one should have to lose his child, but I agree, it's his parents evolutionary failure here, not hers, she was probably healthy as a horse, and going to grow up lead a healthy, normal, exploited by reality television based life.
The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here?
 
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Old 05-28-2009, 08:52 PM #17 (permalink)  
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Old 05-28-2009, 11:32 PM #18 (permalink)  
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As towards random events of small scale... well... if you add up how many people/children died because of random accidents of this nature... then it is an evolutionary effect imo...
This misses what the ToE is. It is a description of the process of the biodiversity and descent of life by means of genetic mutations being selected for by nature, and, very importantly, ToE must be looked at through the lens of populations, not individuals.

This shows that small scale events that are indistinguishable from randomness for individuals are not evolutionary events, yet large scale events, like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, play major roles in evolution.

You can be technically correct that small scale randomness plays a part in evolution, but it misses the point of the theory since it says that evolution is essentially anything that happens to individuals, while the ToE can only calculate populations.
 
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wufwugy, idk why but your posts (even when they're spot on) tilt the shit out of me. but then i see your sig., and i love you again.
 
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As towards random events of small scale... well... if you add up how many people/children died because of random accidents of this nature... then it is an evolutionary effect imo...
This misses what the ToE is. It is a description of the process of the biodiversity and descent of life by means of genetic mutations being selected for by nature, and, very importantly, ToE must be looked at through the lens of populations, not individuals.

This shows that small scale events that are indistinguishable from randomness for individuals are not evolutionary events, yet large scale events, like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, play major roles in evolution.

You can be technically correct that small scale randomness plays a part in evolution, but it misses the point of the theory since it says that evolution is essentially anything that happens to individuals, while the ToE can only calculate populations.
Wow. This is like reading poker mathmatics theory.

I'm sure you are correct, my random dickishness was not accurate.
 
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i take that as a compliment given i care for precision
 
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Old 05-30-2009, 12:49 AM #25 (permalink)  
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between the 3 responses to monty, i like mine best. opinions?
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