How Stupid Can The Average Person Be?
TheDestroyer
Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">OMG! A wormhole virus!</div> I have alot of computer illiterate friends. These illiterates seem to use Yahoo for their IM purposes. They believe everything it seems. I recieved the following IM via Yahoo last night (the names are removed so that they don't get IMs saying how gullable they are)
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->VIRUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!YAHOO NOW HAS A VIRUS IN MESSAGE SYSTEM AND IT IS NOW ACTIVE ON THE SERVERS BY DEFAULT IF U DON'T SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST AS SOON AS U DELETE THIS MESSAGE A WORM HOLE VIRUS WILL ENTER YOUR HARD DRIVE AND WILL SLOWLY EAT AT YOUR FILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!jUST RIGHT CLICK YOUR BUDDY LIST AND SEND THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR GROUP......sorry guys this is real srry i had 2 i dont want a virus</FADE<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now, first off...don't you think it would be in the news?
Secondly...OMG! A wormhole virus! It has to be real! Wait a minute...WTH is a wormhole virus? It sounds like some mad scientist's mistake when he was f'ing around on his computer, checking out porn or whatever. Now, maybe a worm, maybe a virus, but they arn't the same last I checked.
Sorry, I just had to say something...I get these all the time. I needed a self-esteem boost and whatnot.
Mmmm....common sense....
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->VIRUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!YAHOO NOW HAS A VIRUS IN MESSAGE SYSTEM AND IT IS NOW ACTIVE ON THE SERVERS BY DEFAULT IF U DON'T SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST AS SOON AS U DELETE THIS MESSAGE A WORM HOLE VIRUS WILL ENTER YOUR HARD DRIVE AND WILL SLOWLY EAT AT YOUR FILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!jUST RIGHT CLICK YOUR BUDDY LIST AND SEND THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR GROUP......sorry guys this is real srry i had 2 i dont want a virus</FADE<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now, first off...don't you think it would be in the news?
Secondly...OMG! A wormhole virus! It has to be real! Wait a minute...WTH is a wormhole virus? It sounds like some mad scientist's mistake when he was f'ing around on his computer, checking out porn or whatever. Now, maybe a worm, maybe a virus, but they arn't the same last I checked.
Sorry, I just had to say something...I get these all the time. I needed a self-esteem boost and whatnot.
Mmmm....common sense....
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->WILL SLOWLY EAT AT YOUR FILE<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
YOUR file :O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not any file but <b>YOUR</b> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*me jumps after it*
Yea...thank goodness the wormhole virus only affects your file, not the entire hard drive. I can sleep easier knowing that, since I keep backups of all my files. But since its only my file, and only one, I can spend less time replacing my file rather than my hard drive. My file usually is small, because I was told size don't matter...however, the chic that told me that was a small petite chic that....welll...we wont go into that....but at least the wormhole virus doesnt affect the avi we recorded of ourselfs! Nope, only affects my file!
In answer to the question in the topic title:
More than should be possible x.x
Badly MSPainted Jpeg to come.
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Except mspaint cant save in jpg i thought?
Fell for those ICQ "We're checking for inactive accounts, send this to everyone on your list or your ICQ UN will be deleted from our database"things...
...shut up.
<img src='http://destroyer.evilsquid.net/pics/wormholevirus.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
So if you see that happen...RUN FOR THE HILLS! WORMHOLE VIRUS! OMG!!!!!1!1!1!!
well, crap, it didn't upload the right one, don't I feel stupid.
Huh? MSPaint is what I use to convert HL .bmp screenshots into .jpg and .jpeg files all the time...
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Except mspaint cant save in jpg i thought? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
file
save as
change the file type
Side note, mspaint CAN turn .bmps into .jpgs, IF you have that option installed. I believe it installs itself by default when you first startup your computer with XP/ME/2K etc however, 98 and 95 it is not intially selected, correct me if I'm wrong. I could be. teehee.
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Enjoy.
- Shockwave
<img src='http://destroyer.evilsquid.net/pics/wormholevirus.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
So if you see that happen...RUN FOR THE HILLS! WORMHOLE VIRUS! OMG!!!!!1!1!1!! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Wormhole virus, eh?
The dolts...
R O F L XDDD
Try to guess which parts were in the original diagram. JUST TRY!
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It's not by definition, let's just disprove this OK?...
Say you have a group of eleven people, one has a wage of 20,000€/month and the rest have a sane wage, say around 2000€/month each.
The regular arithmetic average that everyone means when they say average is 4000€, but 10 out of those eleven people earn less then that!
Now, the average you MIGHT(and then certainly should have said) have meant is the median, which by definition has as many samples on either side.
If the distribution is symmetric(and it often is(often gaussian)) then you will have as many people on either side of the average even if you mean the arithmetic one.
It's not by definition, let's just disprove this OK?...
Say you have a group of eleven people, one has a wage of 20,000€/month and the rest have a sane wage, say around 2000€/month each.
The regular arithmetic average that everyone means when they say average is 4000€, but 10 out of those eleven people earn less then that!
Now, the average you MIGHT(and then certainly should have said) have meant is the median, which by definition has as many samples on either side.
If the distribution is symmetric(and it often is(often gaussian)) then you will have as many people on either side of the average even if you mean the arithmetic one. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
If by god someone can unmake my day, you sir have done just that.
Thank you for taking that person's statement literally, it works so <i>very</i> well in context of what this thread is.