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Subject: Re: RMS's view on dynamic linking
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
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In-Reply-To: <199702231828.LAA06486@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 23, 97 11:28:24 am
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> 
> > That's not to say that human behavior cannot be categorized - you do
> > have all your basic fear response, sex drive, and pack instinct
> > indices to rely on when you're trying to predict things such as
> > whether one group is likely to jump on another anytime soon, and
> > they're generally not far wrong.  Where it falls down as a science is
> > in basically the same place that political science breaks down - on
> > the smaller (and I daresay more practical) scale where the brownian
> > motion of individual human quirks is too great an influence on events
> > to allow a linear set of rules to operate reliably.  In other words,
> > you just have to pick a basic direction and roll with the random
> > punches as they come from all conceivable directions.
> 
> Someone I respect very much once said "God does not play dice with the
> universe".

I think the reply to that was 'Einstein, stop telling God what to do'...
:)