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If you found that interesting, I recommend Mark Buchanan's 'Ubiquity'. It approaches the stuff of tension within dynamic systems from a maths and physics perspective. It's a decent read.
Alternatively, this chap reckons it's just well-written nonsense. |
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Mawsley wrote: |
If you found that interesting, I recommend Mark Buchanan's 'Ubiquity'. It approaches the stuff of tension within dynamic systems from a maths and physics perspective. It's a decent read.
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Don't really have the time but this reader review seems to cover it quite well:
Quote: | An interesting book along the lines of Blink, Tipping Point. Using several global examples, Buchanan tries to show there is no way to predict future events, earthquakes, market crashes, etc. When we imply we know how major events like these happened, it is always in hindsight. In particular I liked his example using economists predictions. There was NO case where any economist predicted any of the events we have been through. Economics is a particularly good example of his methodology since there is generations of accumulated data to pour over.
Finally he discusses system equilibrium and the idea systems always tend towards a stable state. In fact he says most events are because many of these systems are in fact always on the edge of criticality and we have no way of knowing how, why, or what will cause the turning point that will push complicated systems over the edge and cause upheavals. |
So essentially many social systems are based on equilibrium and random, totally unpredictable perturbations of that equilibrium which can only ever be understood in hindsight.
I'll take that; quite interesting
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Suntan Sid wrote: | nowhere.elysium wrote: | Either way, once Clinton and Trump emerged as the front runners, it was always going to be a race to the bottom. |
It's quite amazing really, that in a country with a population of over 300M, those two were the best they could come up with, tells you everything you need to know about the state of the union! |
Corbyn and Cameron.
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Does anyone on this forum have any idea just how bad racist issues are here in the States, especially the Southern ones?
It makes some of our esteemed BCF right wingers look like tree-hugging fairies!!!
Here's a starter for you. When my wife started middle school, in this reasonable sized Florida town that we live in, hers was the first year that had non-segregated classrooms. The county education board was so concerned that the white parents would pressure the school into separating out the African-American kids that they knocked down the walls of the classrooms and had four teachers teaching her year group in one room instead of four rooms.
Holy shit you're thinking, mentalboy must have grabbed himself a granny (which he did but she's not THAT old, yet...). The year in question ...1980. Remind me again will you, when do the history books say that US segregation ended???
I have a brother-in-law who thinks it perfectly acceptable to refer to the Hispanics on the building sites as LBG's, little brown guys, he's a thoroughly nice chap otherwise!
Wetbacks is another delightful term that gets bandied around without a second thought by many of the rural characters that I've met. They're referring to anyone who might be Hispanic, not just those who came here illegally.
A customer of mine today, and these are the really scary ones who look and seem normal until you talk politics with them, told me she'd voted for the 'lesser of two evils' because he'd 'protect the religious freedoms that Murica was founded on' . Meaning she expected him to enforce her 'conservative Christian' right to worship freely whilst she condemns the LGBT types, pastafarians, abortionists, muslims, immigrants, gun control movement, etc. Probably easier just to have said 'fuck anyone that's not white middle class hetero'.
I bit my tongue and just thought 'ferk you lady, you and your hubby may have made a few bucks in NY but at least I don't live on a trailer park.'
Kids in my wife's classes are genuinely scared that they'll be deported because Mr Trump and his cronies want to scrap birthright citizenship protection given to the children of foreign nationals ( illegal or otherwise).
Murican Whitey is running scared by the fact that in just a few short years they'll no longer be in the majority and is pissed off with government corruption, despite the fact that many don't recognise that the reason it's so grim is down to their collective national attitude towards making money. It doesn't matter to them how you come by it, the end result is all that matters.
It's going to come as a bit of a shock to mr and mrs USA when they finally realise that the reason all their tatty cheap shite comes from China is because they themselves don't want to earn peanuts or pay the going rate for homegrown brands.
For my own part, I would really love to see the stupid pillocks vote in a megalomaniac narcissist and suffer the consequences but I doubt very much that Mr Trump will actually follow through with even half the stuff he promised his faithful followers. Just another BS artist in Washington, as if they haven't got enough of them already. |
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#WhiteVotesMatter
They apparently matter more, since Clinton II looks to have edged the popular vote, but Trump has rekt her on States. They really could do with ditching the archaic man-on-a-horse era delegate system and just have a global[*] one-person-one-vote election for their ersatz monarch.
And yes, I get that the "U"SA is deeply divided by race. It's likely to remain that way while so many "community leaders" are making a good living out of carping on about it.
Perhaps they'd be happier with some sort of triumvirate arrangement? Trump's big on construction, he could build a Blackhouse and a Brownhouse as well.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 204 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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