No no no! I learned from a very special episode of Family Matters that racism is what it's called when an individual treats another individual with racial prejudice, and that is all. There is no such thing as systemic or institutional oppression, and there is no such thing as "society" or "culture" which forms rough consensus on all sorts of things including the relative worth of different kinds of people, and which shapes the individual opinions of thousands or millions of people at once. To talk about society, or institutions, or anything collective at all, means thinking about people in terms of groups instead of individuals, which is the very definition of racism!

Sorry, I pooped myself a little bit. What were you saying again?

In other news, Madagascar has shut down all ports.

Feminism gone MAD! Yargle bargle!

Is it better if I append a winking smiley to dick;)?

Well played.

Dick.

Given the way power makes people act, it is really hard to speak truth to them politely. There aren't many nice ways to tell someone they're a dick.

And, if you don't like Scumbag EA memes and blog posts which lambaste microtransactions as a shitty business model, don't click them. Blogging exists as an open, participatory model - a "free market", if you will. And you're welcome to spend your time reading opinions from any niche you like, or refrain from spending that time.

The meme I would use to describe Cliff Blezinski right now: old man yells at cloud

You don't want to know about the core-dump phase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09D8hAcUzms

This is probably because you envision all your clients being charming, pretty ladies.

But they did communicate, by virtue of having come from the same mitosis process. Lots of parallel compute systems don't require inter-node communication after the nodes have received their initial work packet. Remember those "distributed.net" RC5-cracking competition clients? All they needed was to be told what section of the keyspace they were responsible for searching, and then they ran autonomously after that.

Who's talking about neurons? If the 'computation' being performed is that of 'generating a phenotype' rather than something mundane like cognition, then every multicellular organism is a compute cluster, whether it has a nervous system or not. ;)

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies.

Wait, I guess that's like basically just a person.

Perhaps because they're still running plain old 32-bit XP.

know how to program a Rockwell Automation Retro-Encabulator? There's good money in that...