I distinctly remind JP Raffarin using the same metaphor, and the PS is a usual suspect also. A free fox in a free henhouse!
Econometric literature comparing corporate hardware and software investment over the past 40 years is substantial and indicative. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
- Coder's proverb If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
'Hard disk' is just eccentric, especially when it's 'the hard disk came up with', because it's not at all clear what it means, or who did the coming up with.
(Policy group? Rank and file membership? Collective hive mind? Guiding metaphysical oversoul? Magic eight ball?)
Excellent piece overall though.
Why isn't he running as a candidate?
Why isn't he running for French president (if that's your question)? I think he really believes in, and is well adapted to, the European sphere of politics. I heard him say on Sunday evening he wasn't French, though I thought he had dual nationality: wikipedia says:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 18 he was entitled to German and French citizenship, but he renounced the latter in order to avoid conscription.
That would be an obstacle.
But it's true Cohn-Bendit was expelled from France in 1968, which would not have been possible had he held French nationality.
French Wikipédia says:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit - Wikipédia
il naît en France de parents juifs allemands réfugiés en France en 1933 pour fuir le nazisme. Daniel Cohn-Bendit est apatride jusqu'à l'âge de 14 ans, où il opte pour la nationalité allemande[3] pour, dit-il, ne pas être soumis au service militaire en France. Il se définit toutefois comme « citoyen européen ».
He was "stateless till the age of 14, when he chose German nationality to, he says, not have to accept military service in France". There's a reference to a Télélibre.fr interview where he says this.
root axioms, what's buried so deep in the folders that even the owner isn't sure quite where, therefore difficult to access and tinker with.
i guess you call it the ideology driver!
with RAM as ideas that are bandied about in the short term, with the option of being deeper enshrined.
identity as function of memory.
wasn't it tim leary who'd refer to the brain as hardware and the ideas running through it as software?
hive mind is a bit similar, orthogonal. "I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves." -Harriet Tubman .
Dany the Red (Er...Green), has a very understandable language for young people, the "tu" (tutoiement) of the "we belong to the same group", his short phrases and even his grammatical mistakes, are all signs of the "next door café" way of speaking...
He even uses it with political opponents in public shows (without them wincing, surprisingly), as he conveys the message to those listening.
He gets aways with it, in his ripe age, because he's the Mai 68 figure, it's his signature, there's nothing (apparently) demagogical, it's just like wearing jeans and no tie, a way of living !
His "Let's go beyond the present mess" sort of message should have a durable impact... "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Reading it as "responding with the material lying at hand" rather than "providing the hardwired response", the metaphor makes more sense. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
