Gunmen open fire outside 'Muhammad Art Exhibit' in Garland Texas

[Caliga]

What's up with the Dutch being so tall?

[Caliga]

Now that I think about it, my great-great grandfather was just shy of 6' tall and he was born in 1868.  He was also 50% Dutch-American.

[Admiral Yi]

It's a genetic adaptation to living five feet below sea level.

[derspiess]

I think on NPR I heard about a recent study on the Dutch being tall and that the only explanation was natural selection with some cultural stuff thrown in.  And apparently the Dutch were comparatively short a couple centuries ago.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Muslims?

Who else would attack this event ?

Art critics?

[Queequeg]

I think on NPR I heard about a recent study on the Dutch being tall and that the only explanation was natural selection with some cultural stuff thrown in.  And apparently the Dutch were comparatively short a couple centuries ago.

Totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution is not super great for a nation's wealth and/or agricultural productivity. The Dutch could be naturally huge, but I wouldn't be surprised of nearby people-say the Belgians-were taller for a chunk of the 19th Century just because the Netherlands were kind of a mess. 

[grumbler]

Totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution is not super great for a nation's wealth and/or agricultural productivity. The Dutch could be naturally huge, but I wouldn't be surprised of nearby people-say the Belgians-were taller for a chunk of the 19th Century just because the Netherlands were kind of a mess.

I'm not completely sure what you are trying to argue here (apparently you think that someone was "totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution" and was either tall or short because of that).  The IR did tend to make city-dwellers shorter for a generation or three, but that wouldn't apply to agricultural workers or town dwellers.  Those made up a huge chunk of the population of the Netherlands. 

[jimmy olsen]

I think on NPR I heard about a recent study on the Dutch being tall and that the only explanation was natural selection with some cultural stuff thrown in.  And apparently the Dutch were comparatively short a couple centuries ago.

Totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution is not super great for a nation's wealth and/or agricultural productivity. The Dutch could be naturally huge, but I wouldn't be surprised of nearby people-say the Belgians-were taller for a chunk of the 19th Century just because the Netherlands were kind of a mess.

Neither Belgium, nor the Netherlands missed out on the Industrial Revolution.

[Queequeg]

Totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution is not super great for a nation's wealth and/or agricultural productivity. The Dutch could be naturally huge, but I wouldn't be surprised of nearby people-say the Belgians-were taller for a chunk of the 19th Century just because the Netherlands were kind of a mess.

I'm not completely sure what you are trying to argue here (apparently you think that someone was "totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution" and was either tall or short because of that).  The IR did tend to make city-dwellers shorter for a generation or three, but that wouldn't apply to agricultural workers or town dwellers.  Those made up a huge chunk of the population of the Netherlands.

I argued the opposite.

The Netherlands were backwards for much of the 19th Century. 

[grumbler]

I'm not completely sure what you are trying to argue here (apparently you think that someone was "totally missing out on the Industrial Revolution" and was either tall or short because of that).  The IR did tend to make city-dwellers shorter for a generation or three, but that wouldn't apply to agricultural workers or town dwellers.  Those made up a huge chunk of the population of the Netherlands.

I argued the opposite.

The Netherlands were backwards for much of the 19th Century.

  Well-played.  I note that it isn't at all clear what you are arguing, and you say that you "argue the opposite."  So long as no one thinks you are being serious with this "Netherlands were backwards" nonsense, it's all good, though.  Real GDP per capita quadrupled in the 19th century in the Netherlands.  The Netherlands wasn't at British levels of industrialization (no one was in the 19th C) but its GDP was growing faster than anyone but the UK's.  Angus Maddison has the Netherlands PCGDP the highest in Europe in 1820;  in 1870 it has fallen behind that of the UK, but is still 50% higher than France's or Germany's. 

If that is "backwards" then backwards is very desirable.

[Queequeg]

 

[Eddie Teach]

So did we find out if the gunmen were Muslim or not?

[Maladict]

So did we find out if the gunmen were Muslim or not?

I think so, one of them for sure.
IS has claimed responsibility, but it hasn't been confirmed by US authorities.

[Razgovory]

So did we find out if the gunmen were Muslim or not?

I don't think any of the security was, and they had guns.

[Admiral Yi]

Military bases in the US have been put on FORCE PROTECTION STATUS BRAVO.

Normal is the lowest, delta is the highest.