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Engineers Make Good Terrorists?
An anonymous reader writes "Engineers' focus and attention to details, along with their perceived lack of social skills, make them ideal targets to be recruited as terrorists, according to EETimes. Planning skills make engineers good 'field operatives' was written up by Raphael Perl, who heads the Action against Terrorism Unit of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He offers that 'Engineers ideally make excellent strategic planners, and they make excellent field operatives. They think differently from how other people think.' That may sound like a stereotype, but Perl claims that 'because of those traits, terrorist groups actively recruit engineers.' He says that Al-Qaeda has widely acknowledged that a significant number of the group's top leadership had engineering backgrounds." This is the second time in just a few months that engineers have been likened to terrorists.
479 bytes? Are you really so committed to efficiency that you'll complain about an extra amount of data that even dial-up users can download with ease? I think your complaints are better suited to the seemingly exponential amount of Web and software bloat these days rather than complaining about a mere 479 bytes.
479 bytes x 100 comments makes how many additional crud kilobytes? How many extra minutes on dialup?
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Based on previous experience, about 0.2.