(urth) from National Review Online

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Apr 1 09:38:03 PDT 2009


Really, this doesn't come up with me.

I must be getting old.



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> 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
> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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