You've been brainwashed into thinking violence is bad. I'm sorry, but the only true way to protect yourself from someone who wishes to do bad to you is to stand up and do bad to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H0guC-2q4U

Tell him to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr-xYtBFbY

Yes sheep, it's the most secure browser ever. Download the binaries and rest at ease. We promise we haven't conspired with Google to install a back-door on our behalf.

Good point. I fear this policy is fast coming to the rest of the West, looking at the demographics.

Gotta love the strawman attacks for someone who has to hide behind the mask of anonymity.

As an alternative, how about embracing merit, as we have in the FOSS movement.

No. That's the first thing you thought.

I'm attacking Affirmative Action, which is the truly racist policy.

I'm sure there are many excellent African aircraft mechanics. The problem is that Affirmative Action and diversity policies can overlook a persons lack of skill and credentials merely to meet some quota.

Gotta love affirmative action and workplace diversity! Who cares if they're not actually the best engineers and mechanics!

http://careers.northropgrumman.com/diversity.html

Agreed, all mathematical objects don't really exist, they're merely declarative distillations of capturing some aspect of the computational processes of our own minds, and thus the underlying computational reality we find our selves embedded within.

That said, you can still use math as valid models and when a computationalist says that the wave function exists, what they really mean is that the underlying mechanism driving the wave function process exists--it's not some weird consequence of another process nor an illusion.

Assuming the paper is true, and I would like to think that it is (the assumptions they make in the paper are consistent with the Computational Universe Hypothesis and the Holographic Principle), it lends credence to the idea that the every day macroscopic reality we experience is in fact nothing more than a mirage, emergent from the process of quantum amplitude flows across the vast configuration space.

According to a purvey of information posted on Wikipedia, Hox transcription factor proteins produced from the expression of the Hox genes activate the transcription of specific genes while at the same repressing the expression of other genes. Hox proteins are themselves regulated by other genes, such as gap genes and pair-rule genes, and there's a transcription factor cascade which controls the whole process for each stage, which has been explored in depth. Apparently, there's been a lot of work in this field since 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOX_genes

...the compiler toolchain and libraries for Ocaml or Haskell are more mature, have support for compiling directly to native machine code and interfacing with platform specific ABIs, and aren't tied to decrepit virtual machines such as the JVM or .NET framework.