Andy Grove said @ the WaPo:

“We have gone through months of chaos experimenting with ways to introduce stability in our financial system. The goals were to allow the financial institutions to do their jobs and to develop confidence in them. I believe by now, the people are eager for the administration to rein in chaos. But this is not happening.”

I said the financial system was a chaotic one before. Doesn’t really prove it, but…

As luagha @ 23 said:

“In Systems Administration, one of the things we learn about making changes to complex multilayered computer systems is to only make one big change at once. … What happens when you change ten things at once? You obviously don’t want to be able to return to the prior state.”

Bang On!!!!!!!! Change one thing and you have only small perturbations that can be controlled or backed out. Change more than one and the whole system can become unstable and ‘Crash’ as it were.

In chaotic mathematical constructs, members of the set, when iterated under the conditions of the set become meta-stable, i.e. they tend to settle around a set of (sometimes) wildly oscillating values. Non-members of the set tend to soon ‘blow up’ and tend to +/- infinity.

Buddy @ 44:

“…what does defeat look like, i wonder?”

I don’t know but unless The Won and Co get their shit together, we may find out this year or next.

Ever read Raymond Kraft’s “December 7, 2008″ @ New Media Journal?

http://www.therant.us/staff/kraft/10242006.htm

That maybe fairly prophetic, it turns out.