On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: ... > The counter point is what again?
In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men. Massachusetts Constitution, Part The First, art. XXX (1780) Seems almost unrelated, right? I thought for sure you'd understand what is "bad" about your "point", what with being pissed about the tunnel-vision Re: Iraq... warrant-less phone tapping... etc.. "law should be like death, which spares no one." Montesquieu The "counter point" is Freedom, and it's one that's core to a lot of other "good" (in my opinion) ideas. Jack Bauer wouldn't be dumb enough to focus on the brown guy. He's smart, and is looking for "the signs", not some statistical average that would mean *ziltch* (as far as stopping something *really* bad). Which makes sense. Who is more likely to get caught-- the obvious criminal with the beady eyes and mustache, or the one who fits your stereotype for "a good guy", clean cut, smiling in a nice suit? 10% (if that) should be spend on the obvious, obviously. (but I guess it depends on your goals, resources, etc). Do you honestly believe that a cow that didn't want to be seen, would be in the herd? (besides in the "Zebra herd" sense, which sure as hell wouldn't be the herd you'd be focused on, neh?). "I'm trying to hide, so I'm going to be in a place that has a high probability of being searched" -- good thing the bad guys (or cows) are brain damaged, or we'd be screwed, right?!? I love cryptology. Books unjudgeable by their covers. And I'm pretty average, for all my specialness. Not really that smart, I mean. If *I* can put this together, I'm sure others could. And If we're using "statistics" (if you grok) to find the people who want to do us harm, there's something retarded going on there. -- I mean, what are you looking for, Gruss? - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291746 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
