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For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Idiot Detector

May 22nd, 2004 by Funky Dung

This page says it's an ESP experiment. Actually, it's a simple magic "trick" based on misdirection and deception. I wouldn't blog a silly thing like this, except that I'm flabbergasted by the comments people posted after taking the "test". The gullibility and utter stupidity of the posters is astounding. Come to think of it, maybe this is social experiment to test the IQ of the average web surfer.

Clifford Pickover ESP Experiment

"Solution: He removes ALL the cards you initially see and replaces 5/6 of them with similar cards (e.g. King of Hearts for King of Diamonds). He can't fail."

Funky Dung