[Corpora-List] Hacked email accounts

[Albretch Mueller]

On 8/29/11, Leon Derczynski <leon at dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hanlon's razor certainly has its applications.
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// __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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 "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity (, but don't rule out malice)".
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 Yet, regarding governmental bureaucracies (like people with mental
problems (which nowadays can actually be physically detected)),
specially those under a blanket of secrecy, there is no clear and
conscious line dividing stupidity from malice (craze from reality)
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 Something that I find amazing (and to some extent even amusing) is
how under even so-called "free" societies some bureaucracies
(politicians, royalty, governments, ...) manipulating the rest of us
(apparently) truly believe that they can somehow substitute/patch
-making sense- with bureaucracies and/or syntactic devices a really
good/hilarious example of those kinds of governmental bureaucratic
cr at p, you can find in: "Number: The Language of Science" by Tobias
Dantzig, page 23 in which Dantzig recounts the cheer stupidity of the
British government trying to maintain the use of notched sticks
(resist more modern and way simpler enumeration techniques)
~
 lbrtchx

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