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Comment Re:Get back in your Free Speech Zone (Score 2) 216

But a lot of businesses might decide it is better for their stockholders to change a label and abort a minor marketing program than to fight an expensive court battle and win.

Aren't you kind of saying that "Free speech is for the rich" as stated above? I know not literally, but it all boils down to it.

Comment Re:Actually (Score 1) 614

Well, the great Founding Fathers could have ruled out laws of physics, such as gravity, for instance. Doesn't mean it will automatically cease to exist. Just because you have that concept on a piece of paper (which even some former president openly declared not much more worthy than a piece of toilet paper), doesn't automagically makes it real.

Comment Re:Make it static. (Score 1) 586

Humm, I'm sorry to barge in like this. I'm not a US citizen, I'm from one of the so-called PIGS :)

But it seems you had some people there shouting before those crisis happened, and all they got was embarrassment and getting laughed at. ( check "Overdose: the next financial crisis" on youtube).
It really doesn't matter anymore. We're fscked anyway.

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First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241

Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"

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