It’s the “Relative” success stupid!!

Success is a relative notion. It’s not how an animal does in an absolute sense. It’s how it does relative to everyone else. Natural selection is like the story of two hikers  that saw a bear charging at them from a distance. One of them starts frantically putting on his running shows. His friend shouts at him that it is useless you can not out run the bear. The first guy shouts back “I don’t have to out run the bear. I just have to out run you.”

From the book: Descartes’ baby

I loved it!!

Godwin’s Law & Abuses of Hitler/Nazism analogy!!

Among the many innovations generated by the Internet is an axiom called Godwin’s Law, which says that given enough time, any online discussion will produce a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler. So common is this phenomenon in cyberspace arguments that it also spawned an informal rule: Whoever first mentions the Nazis loses.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0609030350sep03,1,3533124.column?coll=chi-news-col

Indeed it just takes a simple google search of past few months to realize that Bush, Blair, Saddam, Rumsfeld, Chavz, Ohlmert and Ahmadinejad have called each other Hitler back and forth!!!!! Hey, if we really have this much “Hitlers” floating around we are in trouble! No kidding! Here are results of a random serach :

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1664

http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node/24454

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/413307p-349477c.html