In other words, life is chaos x time in the context of some rules.
As an oversimplified example, fill a conway's game of life world with noise and let it go for a while.

What aquires, for whatever reasons, characteristics that make it easy for it to persist, eventually persists.

I still prefer the genesis definition grow, multiply, populate (adapt for you dawinian newfags).

I boot linux from a vfat formatted USB stick, you case insensitive clod.

You don't do that, you pick the useful idiots, provoke them a bit and then treat them as dangerous.And even if they are dangerous who are they gonna go after? Hackers have all the info on sony execs, but who really owns it? Who really dictate its policies? PHBs make insane amount of money not because they are worth them, they do because they follow the rules of the system.

What can be explained as a propaganda campaign. Expect this controversial piece of fine art to reach you a way or the other.

Well It would have been pure genius to fake a shark to conduct surveillance. That must be one of the lowest attention grabbing creatures in the sea?

- Hey Achmed, what's that dark silhouette approaching?
- Bah, nothing, it's a shark. What were you saying about our new cell?

Microsoft can open source stuff and still keep it under de facto control. They just need to do exactly what google did with android.

Now every PR agency in the US will see how easy it is to promote a product by making it target of real or faked hate groups.
JK they already know the technique.

Let me reply on behalf of those naughty Danish:
THEN, SEND US COAL.

If somebody drone bombed my land, tortured me as a simple suspect, and then released me, and let me immigrate to his places without much fuss, I'd first wonder if I am being set up.

The difference in the steps, AKA quantization noise, is minimal since smoothing is applied. But the DA conversion vs. the groove picked up magnetically is possibly the culprit, together with different compression, while noise and different EQ response are less significant factors (simply adding some vinyl noise and EQ profile to digital does not make it sound like vinyl).
Possibly, the less linear analog chain is somehow more pleasing for the ear.

Then there is the issue of stereo encoding on the single groove, which limits the source material in ways which might actually be good for listening (impossible to have big phase differences in the bass range or the record skips).

I would still not classify vinyl as better than digital, it's just different.
Hipsters should anyway concentrate on more esoteric stuff, like hi end analog tape, or analog satellite HD transmissions (still unrivalled IMHO)

> criminals are dumb
Indeed, They put faith in Cirrus after all the warnings about not trusting the Cloud.

we are talking about a single axis, after all.

> an argument for atheism WHICH I DID NOT MAKE
That was my point, yours is not an argument.
> a derisive description of religion
Deriding something which you admittedly can't or don't want to make sense of, is quite... unusual.

The selfish gene is an interpretation. "Life as a single process" is another interpretation that returns the same result ("tougher times, let's breed more females to increase potential yield and variation, the few males will sure be able to bang more than one"). And in both case contraception and males turning down free rides with no string attached for philosophical reasons ("Bros before hoes") prove that the selfish gene or the single process life is in control of the organism no more than the citizen is in control in a modern democracy: very little.
You are in control, whatever "you" means, deal with it.

> I'm trying to envision a physics experiment whose successful outcome depends on someone being harassed.

The paw you now feel on your leg is from schroedinger's cat. Or not. :P