(urth) from National Review Online

[Jeff Wilson]

Son of Witz wrote:
> 
> On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 
>> It's not me I'm worried about, but I can all too easily envision some 
>> heated discussions and spilled drinks leading to an exchange of 
>> assaults, both real and imagined.
> 
> 
> Guaranteed these discussions wouldn't get so pitched in real life face 
> to face.
> Faceless internet communication makes it much harder to recognize a 
> joke, or when you've gone too far, or...

God bless you for your faith in our fellows, Witz, but I've been to too 
many meet-ups where people started showing their ass to have your 
confidence.

I believe it is like the same-birthday exercise; any one person has less 
than a 1% chance of sharing a birthday with any other random person, but 
in a group of twenty the odds are better than 40%.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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