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1 posted on 02/21/2010 9:21:25 PM PST by stolinsky
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To: stolinsky

Skynet is becoming self aware.


2 posted on 02/21/2010 9:22:28 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: stolinsky

The beating of a butterfly’s wings in a field in Montana affects cyclones in the Indian Ocean.

Complex Systems exhibit patterns of behavior differing from the designed behaviors as they become more complex.

*yawn* Chaos theory — still usable, but plumbed to its depths in the 70s.

Nothing new here.


4 posted on 02/21/2010 9:37:23 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: stolinsky

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.

-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love


7 posted on 02/21/2010 9:53:48 PM PST by Bean Counter (I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
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To: stolinsky

That’s why I own a motorcycle with a carburetor and my furnace in my house has a manually opened pilot valve and NO BLOWER.


8 posted on 02/21/2010 10:26:04 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: stolinsky

Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?

Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.

Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m a little fuzzy on the whole “good/bad” thing here. What do you mean, “bad”?

Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Dr. Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal!

Dr. Peter Venkman: That’s bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.


9 posted on 02/21/2010 10:48:10 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: stolinsky

Heh...giddyup. ;-)


10 posted on 02/21/2010 10:48:18 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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To: stolinsky

The motherboards in my dishwasher and range had to be replaced twice, and once in the washing machine - - all within the last 24 months. This is insane.


12 posted on 02/22/2010 4:55:56 AM PST by Salvey
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To: stolinsky

Complexity is sometimes downright irrational!


14 posted on 02/22/2010 9:35:35 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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