Try reading Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene", the book in which the term is originally coined. It is more than just "culture" and it is not an old concept; there is much more to it than that. Wikipedia also has a half-decent explanation of it, though I still recommend the book.
I don't think we need to choose to between liberty and and an obese nation. Plenty of Americans want to lose weight, but find it hard. With high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils in so many foods, it's hard to avoid eating thigs that will make us fat. Add to that our high workload, and many people find it hard to exercise enough. I think we should be limiting the amount of high-fat junk foods being available in fast-food joints, schools, vending machines, etc, and teaching our kids better habits regarding diet and exercise. If adults wants to gulp down super-size grease sandwiches every day for lunch, fine. But that doesn't mean we have to let a whole generation of kids go down with them.
I'd have to agree. We've come down pretty hard on those who drink and drive, and rightfully so. When my mom was a kid, and someone would drink and drive and crash their car, people would just say, "Well, it's not his fault, he was drunk." That would be tolerating. We've come a long way since then. In fact, it's hard to think of what more we can do in the bounds of the law to stop people from drinking and driving. Obesity, OTOH, is something we as a nation tolerate.
Oh, well then that's completely reasonable. 2 mobile phones, internet tablet, MP3 player, digital camera, and a laptop. Perfectly respectable ensemble for any red-blooded American.
I hadn't heard of that book, though I did like Rucker's Software/Realware/etc series and other books like Saucer Wisdom. I'll try to pick it up sometime. Thanks for the heads up.
As a non-scientist, I found ANKOS mind-blowing. It was a world-changing book for me, at least the parts I could understand. It challenged everything I thought I knew about predictability, order, chaos, randomness, the search of extra-terrestrial life, and how stuff works in general. I remember having the craziest dreams for the 2 months it took me to read it. Highly recommend.
I was just thinking earlier today of signing up for that. I do a lot of travel and thought the cost might be worth it to cut down on wait time. Guess not.
Every other reference to Wolfram on/. seems to be rather derogatory. He's seen as stealing others' ideas and shamelessly self-promoting. His "A New Kind of Science", at 1200 pages, was self-published and unedited. For these reasons and others, he doesn't seem to have the highest reputation, though despite it all I found ANKOS pretty amazing.
I realize someone is going to mod me flamebait or troll, but I just wanted to say the images remind me of the cellular automata simulations from Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" in that they are semi-ordered but non-predictable. Neat stuff regardless.
I dare say your energy would be even better spent paying your insurance and getting your car inspected. Jim Carrey's character's legal advice in Liar Liar comes to mind, "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"
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So if there are more memes than can be supported by the memosphere, those most fit will survive. That's the whole point, isn't it?
Try reading Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene", the book in which the term is originally coined. It is more than just "culture" and it is not an old concept; there is much more to it than that. Wikipedia also has a half-decent explanation of it, though I still recommend the book.
I don't think we need to choose to between liberty and and an obese nation. Plenty of Americans want to lose weight, but find it hard. With high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils in so many foods, it's hard to avoid eating thigs that will make us fat. Add to that our high workload, and many people find it hard to exercise enough. I think we should be limiting the amount of high-fat junk foods being available in fast-food joints, schools, vending machines, etc, and teaching our kids better habits regarding diet and exercise. If adults wants to gulp down super-size grease sandwiches every day for lunch, fine. But that doesn't mean we have to let a whole generation of kids go down with them.
I'd have to agree. We've come down pretty hard on those who drink and drive, and rightfully so. When my mom was a kid, and someone would drink and drive and crash their car, people would just say, "Well, it's not his fault, he was drunk." That would be tolerating. We've come a long way since then. In fact, it's hard to think of what more we can do in the bounds of the law to stop people from drinking and driving. Obesity, OTOH, is something we as a nation tolerate.
Well, this is from the but-ram-doubler-is-old-news dept.
Oh, well then that's completely reasonable. 2 mobile phones, internet tablet, MP3 player, digital camera, and a laptop. Perfectly respectable ensemble for any red-blooded American.
I don't get it. Any vertical list of positive integers on /. should include ??? and Profit! What gives?
Won't somebody think of the children?!1!
This is the same principle used in noise cancellation filters. Except that they are extracting information from the distortion instead of dropping it.
So, it's the same thing but completely different. Brilliant.
I should use to take a Clear laptop out of the airport?
Let's not worry about what plants crave.
I hadn't heard of that book, though I did like Rucker's Software/Realware/etc series and other books like Saucer Wisdom. I'll try to pick it up sometime. Thanks for the heads up.
As a non-scientist, I found ANKOS mind-blowing. It was a world-changing book for me, at least the parts I could understand. It challenged everything I thought I knew about predictability, order, chaos, randomness, the search of extra-terrestrial life, and how stuff works in general. I remember having the craziest dreams for the 2 months it took me to read it. Highly recommend.
My guess both were
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Would anyone be the slightest bit surprised given their superior skills at security demonstrated thus far?
and none of it came back today.
Precisely which page in any book justifies the existence of the others? If you just want to be a dick, go bother someone else.
I was just thinking earlier today of signing up for that. I do a lot of travel and thought the cost might be worth it to cut down on wait time. Guess not.
Well, I already have an abacus. I guess I'm just years ahead of my time.
Every other reference to Wolfram on /. seems to be rather derogatory. He's seen as stealing others' ideas and shamelessly self-promoting. His "A New Kind of Science", at 1200 pages, was self-published and unedited. For these reasons and others, he doesn't seem to have the highest reputation, though despite it all I found ANKOS pretty amazing.
Interior lights add to the intimidation factor of the Warcart.
Yes. Yes, they certainly do.
I realize someone is going to mod me flamebait or troll, but I just wanted to say the images remind me of the cellular automata simulations from Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" in that they are semi-ordered but non-predictable. Neat stuff regardless.
...the priest says with a slur, "In Soviet Russia, larabee bot overlords welcome YOU!"
There, fixed that for you.
..a, uh, beowulf cluster...I just can't put my heart into it anymore!
I dare say your energy would be even better spent paying your insurance and getting your car inspected. Jim Carrey's character's legal advice in Liar Liar comes to mind, "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"
And I would never consider living outside of one of the many cities designed around the Segway.
Nor does he have time for losers, now that he is the champion.