I love it: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/social-parasitism-in-ants-13256421
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Owen:**** > > ** ** > > The thing that keeps puzzling me about your appeals here is the hidden > assumption (I think I detect) that there is Somebody In Charge. It’s the > parasitic ant model. There’s a species of ant that makes its living by its > fertilized “queens” putting on perfumes and waving their little antenna > until workers of another species pick them up and carry them to their > queen, where upon the parasitic queen jumps on the back of the true queen, > bites her in the back of the neck to terminate her egg laying, and then > lays eggs which are cared for and raised by the parasitized ants. Faculty > members at universities are particularly prone to the Parasitic Ant > Fallacy. They think that if they just go and complain to the President, > The World Will Change. It’s a harmless fantasy in its place, except that > it leads to disparagement of the people who are actually trying to make > change, and getting muck all over themselves in the process. Viz Obama. > In short, I suspect you of being a closet royalist. So there!**** > > ** ** > > Nick **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Owen > Densmore > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:35 AM > *To:* c...@plektyx.com; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the > bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time**** > > ** ** > > Sorry to bump, but now *another* DST fkup: Europe does not change DST when > the US does.**** > > ** ** > > So today our skype Italian class was shifted, and both Dede and I had to > cancel scheduled events.**** > > ** ** > > If we have to live with time changes, we should at least try to make it > global, we're a pretty global community now and I bet others got hit by > US/Euro/Worldwide differences.**** > > ** ** > > -- Owen**** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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