Posted by Ann MacCrimmon [81.118.4.16 - Sunfilter5] on 11 October 2004 at 02.07.09 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: This is just...kinda sick. But I wanted to put it somewhere where people could see it.... posted by Hunter on 26 February 2003 at 06.57.01 ZuluTime:

We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software
     to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn,
     and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task
     to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year
     polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it
     is the primary bonding--the childhood, if you will--that has the most
     far-reaching repercussions.
     
      -- Bad'l Ron, Wakener,
      Morgan Polysoft
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      A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath
      is called the listener.
      order paxil paxil online Two things are certain about science. It does not stand still for long,
     and it is never boring. Oh, among some poor souls, including even
     intellectuals in fields of high scholarship, science is frequently
     misperceived. Many see it as only a body of facts, promulgated from
     on high in must, unintelligible textbooks, a collection of unchanging
     precepts defended with authoritarian vigor. Others view it as nothing
     but a cold, dry narrow, plodding, rule-bound process -- the scientific
     method: hidebound, linear, and left brained.

These people are the victims of their own stereotypes. They are
     destined to view the world of science with a set of blinders. They
     know nothing of the tumult, cacophony, rambunctiousness, and
     tendentiousness of the actual scientific process, let alone the
     creativity, passion, and joy of discovery. And they are likely to
     know little of the continual procession of new insights and discoveries
     that every day, in some way, change our view (if not theirs) of the
     natural world.

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