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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:55:35 +0200
From: Jan van Niekerk <jvnkrk@...il.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall
Street to the FBI and NYPD
So to qualify for a Darwin Award you need a fatally flawed Intelligent
Design.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:48:46 EDT, Jeffrey Walton said:
>
> > Does the Darwin Awards have a category for dumb computer related
> decisions?
>
> Hmm.. for computer related ones? Good question.
>
> The Darwin Awards are for those who remove themselves from the gene pool in
> *spectacular* ways. They disallow entrants for reasons of mental disease
> or
> defect-- so failing to reproduce just because you're a troll living in your
> parent's basement loses twice - it's commonplace, not spectacular, and
> it usually isn't a result of a conscious decision you made.
>
> Having said that. I suppose it *is* possible. Consider the (hiopefully
> hypothetical) example of an expreme overclocker who does something
> predictably
> stupid and ends up with a lapful of liquid nitrogen and a case of severe
> frostbite. Gives a whole new meaing to "shatter attack" ;)
>
> Yeah, *that* would get a Darwin. ;)
>
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