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[QUOTE]Louis Tully (Character)
Ghostbusters II (1989)

Louis Tully: So the 7 little dwarves had a limited partnership in a small mining operation. And one day a beautiful princess came to live with them. And they bartered housekeeping services for room and board, which was a real good deal for them because they didn't have to withhold social security or income tax or nothin', which you're really not supposed to do, you see, but for the purpose of the story, I think it's okay. [/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063508/components/intel-is-on-the-verge-of-exiting-the-smartphone-and-tablet-markets-after-cutting-atom-chips.html#comments[/url]

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Meanwhile, this is what I was watching before I clicked on Xyzzy's post:

(You are forgiven if you don't watch the whole thing)

[QUOTE][YOUTUBE]E64cP2Kzjag[/YOUTUBE][/QUOTE]Edit: Doesn't seem to want to go through. Is my HTML bad?

nm, about the last part of my last post, must've be a Youtube thing going on then.

[QUOTE=jasong;433238]nm, about the last part of my last post, must've be a Youtube thing going on then.[/QUOTE]
No, you just pasted it incorrectly, no use blaming ZeTube in vain. You paste [I]the code only[/I] (e.g. "H2lKIXmmZHc"; [I]not[/I] the complete link), then select it with mouse and press "YouTube" forum button (or you can do it by typing manually [c] [YOUTUBE]H2lKIXmmZHc[/YOUTUBE][/c] ).

[URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/"]Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight[/URL]
[QUOTE]Finally the pilot came by, and approached the real culprit behind the delay: that darkly-complected foreign man. He was now escorted off the plane, too, and taken to meet some sort of agent, though he wasn’t entirely sure of the agent’s affiliation, he would later say.

What do know about your seatmate? The agent asked the foreign-sounding man.

Well, she acted a bit funny, he replied, but she didn’t seem visibly ill. Maybe, he thought, they wanted his help in piecing together what was wrong with her.

And then the big reveal: The woman wasn’t really sick at all! Instead this quick-thinking traveler had Seen Something, and so she had Said Something.

That Something she’d seen had been her seatmate’s cryptic notes, scrawled in a script she didn’t recognize. Maybe it was code, or some foreign lettering, possibly the details of a plot to destroy the dozens of innocent lives aboard American Airlines Flight 3950. She may have felt it her duty to alert the authorities just to be safe. The curly-haired man was, the agent informed him politely, suspected of terrorism.

The curly-haired man laughed.

He laughed because those scribbles weren’t Arabic, or another foreign language, or even some special secret terrorist code. They were math.

Yes, math. A differential equation, to be exact.

Had the crew or security members perhaps quickly googled this good-natured, bespectacled passenger before waylaying everyone for several hours, they might have learned that he — Guido Menzio — is a young but decorated Ivy League economist. And that he’s best known for his relatively technical work on search theory, which helped earn him a tenured associate professorship at the University of Pennsylvania as well as stints at Princeton and Stanford’s Hoover Institution.[/QUOTE]

Oh what a fiend we have in Cheeses
 

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-36235721[/url]

[QUOTE=only_human;433291][URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/"]Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight[/URL][/QUOTE]
al-Gebra strikes agian! [URL="http://www.ms.uky.edu/~jrge/340/Weapons_of_Math_Instruction.html"]Weapons of Math Instruction![/URL]

[QUOTE=xilman;433294][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-36235721[/url][/QUOTE]

This kind of narrow-escape story is enough to curdle your blood!

Re. the WMI (weapons of math instruction) story: A Homeland Security official remarked how fortunate it was that the fellow's scribblings had been uncovered 'while the differential equations were still partial ... had he had the time to finish assembling them, it could have been disastrous.'

[QUOTE=ewmayer;433324]Re. the WMI [/QUOTE]
Re: the bbc article, I can't imagine someone so stupid, therefore I think the lady who started the false alarm knew exactly what she was doing, and she did it on purpose to delay the flight and cause harm to airline and the rest of the passengers. She has to be punished... Hm... or maybe not... next time when I will fly with my (un)favorite airline, I know what to do to cause them some money/reputation waste...:smile: