IANAL, but since when does lawyer mean "someone who reinterprets every word in a new and twisted way, just to make profit"? But hey, If they make this new definition of "famous" stick, then we can redefine "lawyer" to mean whatever we want. I'm proposing to redefine it as "Anser fabalis", given that to me the sound of a lawyer is a loud honking, which has the side-effect that we would be legally entitled to cooking them.

> You can't even do decadent well, you're just a bunch of fat, noisy trash.

I lol'ed. How the mighty have eaten themselves into disgrace.

Amen.

The US always had great technology. But the only reason the US is still going strong in technology is all the new immigrants. I don't know a single US born person that has made a career as a scientist or engineer, yet I know quite a few who have gone in science and technology as managers. And from what I read, I don't think my sample is heavily biased.

Or, to sum it up in one word: Oracle.

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery

A bit hand-wavey? You're being kind. Large groups of neurons collaborating to trigger a single event have been proposed to model precise timing, e.g. in movement, and locking behavior has been observed for speeds in the order of 100Hz to 5Hz, but synchronization over such a long period of time? And large groups? You would think that would be totally impossible. It sounds like
1. We don't know how a large group of neurons behave over long periods
2. We don't know what triggers a serial killer
3. ?
4. Publication!

And once again, Oracle succeeds where many others have failed. This time they are going to make Java impopular!

You're probably right. Here's some illustration for some readers that might be wondering about the case. The first random article I got from Wikipedia started like this:

The gudastviri (Georgian: ) is a droneless, double-chantered, horn-belled bagpipe played in Georgia. The term comes from the words guda (bag) and stviri (whistling). In some regions, the instrument is called the chiboni, stviri, or tulumi.

My spell checker rejects gudastviri, droneless, chantered, guda, stviri, chiboni, stviri, and tulum. There is no way a 111k word dictionary contains all these words.

The 25% is indeed an enormous red flag. In standard English texts, more than 50% of the text is made up of words like be, is, a, the, and, etc. I haven't seen any error in that on Wikipedia. That means that more than half of the nouns, verbs, and adjectives have been misspelled.

Mod up parent!!

The same idiot that hopefully has one point left to mod you troll?

But then what's the point of computational simulation, especially: what could Wolfram contribute? Physicists are quite capable of building their simulations, AFAIK.

If nature is truly discrete, you're right, and there would be a given "step size". If it isn't, there are going to be differences. I was replying on the assumption that nature isn't necessarily discrete.