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Idiot.
The Matrix was a distillation of a variety of cyberpunk and RPG ideas dumbed down for mass market consumption.
Mage the Ascension generates a world so much richer than the Matrix ( and did it years ago) that it'll ruin you on hollywood SF for life.
Meme: Introduced in Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene ( in a cursory manner ), explored in depth in Daniel Dennett's (sp) book 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea'. Two books everyone really should read. For a simple analogy that should resonate with the audience here: Meme is similar to Idea just as cout is similar to printf. Yet cout is not used by programmers simply so they can feel cool...
>There are no socialist countries in existance. >There are many capitalist market economies which >are influenced by socialist thought (and they >are worse off for it), but a socialist economy >requires the absence of a market. It's very >unlikely that a socialist economy could survive >even one natural diaster. How could it mobilize >resources faster than the market? Look at how >badly Orissa did, with all the interference that >the Indian gov't puts in the ways of the Indian >market. I'm very impressed by the Indian >people's eagerness to work hard and get ahead. >I'm saddened that they don't know enough about >economics to shun political solutions. Indians seem to have learned the hard way that state interventionism brings nothing but pain and suffering. Unfortunately going about dismantling the massive government apparatus is not easy... >p.s. Read any Indian newspaper, or read India >Today if you want to see how Marxist India >remains. For example, university tenure >committees are full of Marxists; to get tenure >you must espouse Marxist (that is, Nonsense) >economics. Forget India, look at any liberal arts department in the US...
/*Excerpt OK, so in the red corner we have science and engineering in which "there's one right answer-- it can be tested for correctness" and in the blue corner, we have humanities in which "there's a lot of room for intrepretation and 'different but equally viable answers'" So, why, pray tell, would it be the *humanities* which are then described as "small-minded crap"? */ Because this is a techie site? On a less flippant level, because Science and Engineering have produced an immense numbers of usefull things, while the humanities (soc. psych. etc...), Have yet to come up with anything practically usefull or valuable. Given this, empirically it seems reasonable to dismiss the field(s) as possessing little or no worth.
Sorry, transistor miniaturization has nothing to do with LCD's. What it does allow is basically faster cheaper smaller coolor microprocessors/memory, which should be enough for anyone. Of course, basic research at Berkeley's no substitute for proven mass production techniques, but its a start...
But you see... Linux is communist, or at the least Anarcho-Syndicalist. Its not a bunch of freedom loving libertarians starting up a flexible new economy operating system corporation, its a bunch of people producing a good for no reason other than some vaguely defined 'community spirit' and a dislike for microsoft. The fact that it actually seems to be working in a non-coercive manner (unlike the totalitarian socialist states which ended up enslaving 99.9% of the population to meet production quotas), is probably very appealed to latter day Socialist out there in China. The end result of this could reach beyond even the OS community (if China slows down on market reforms, since 'Linux' has provided some imaginary alternative to a modern free market economy...)
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Idiot. The Matrix was a distillation of a variety of cyberpunk and RPG ideas dumbed down for mass market consumption. Mage the Ascension generates a world so much richer than the Matrix ( and did it years ago) that it'll ruin you on hollywood SF for life.
Meme: Introduced in Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene ( in a cursory manner ), explored in depth in Daniel Dennett's (sp) book 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea'. Two books everyone really should read. For a simple analogy that should resonate with the audience here: Meme is similar to Idea just as cout is similar to printf. Yet cout is not used by programmers simply so they can feel cool...
>There are no socialist countries in existance. >There are many capitalist market economies which >are influenced by socialist thought (and they >are worse off for it), but a socialist economy >requires the absence of a market. It's very >unlikely that a socialist economy could survive >even one natural diaster. How could it mobilize >resources faster than the market? Look at how >badly Orissa did, with all the interference that >the Indian gov't puts in the ways of the Indian >market. I'm very impressed by the Indian >people's eagerness to work hard and get ahead. >I'm saddened that they don't know enough about >economics to shun political solutions. Indians seem to have learned the hard way that state interventionism brings nothing but pain and suffering. Unfortunately going about dismantling the massive government apparatus is not easy... >p.s. Read any Indian newspaper, or read India >Today if you want to see how Marxist India >remains. For example, university tenure >committees are full of Marxists; to get tenure >you must espouse Marxist (that is, Nonsense) >economics. Forget India, look at any liberal arts department in the US...
Sorry, transistor miniaturization has nothing to do with LCD's. What it does allow is basically faster cheaper smaller coolor microprocessors/memory, which should be enough for anyone. Of course, basic research at Berkeley's no substitute for proven mass production techniques, but its a start...
But you see... Linux is communist, or at the least Anarcho-Syndicalist. Its not a bunch of freedom loving libertarians starting up a flexible new economy operating system corporation, its a bunch of people producing a good for no reason other than some vaguely defined 'community spirit' and a dislike for microsoft. The fact that it actually seems to be working in a non-coercive manner (unlike the totalitarian socialist states which ended up enslaving 99.9% of the population to meet production quotas), is probably very appealed to latter day Socialist out there in China. The end result of this could reach beyond even the OS community (if China slows down on market reforms, since 'Linux' has provided some imaginary alternative to a modern free market economy...)