Osama blah blah blah you know the story.

[Valiere]

Occam's Razor, my friends.

[Grandy]

Occam's Razor, my friends.

This is that thing where the simplest solution is always the correct?

[fruckert]

The simplest solution is often the right one.

Note the inclusion of the word often.

Yes, I believe this was the right thing to do.
I consider Bin Laden to have been a very, very evil man, and I think he fully deserved what was coming to him.
I know the world isn't so black and white, but still.

[MissingName]

Unsurprisingly, the organization has promised revenge.

It's closure for the victims of 9/11, but it does very little for terrorism.

And I don't think we need another video of someone getting shot in the head.  If you REALLY want to see something like that, go look up Budd Dwyer.

[Prpl_Mage]

Just for the record, most of his family survived the attack. Just some military person who said that they shot the wife since Usama used her as a meat-shield. Turns out it was pretty much slander since she got hit in the leg.

I won't debate if the man is dead or not. For now I accept that he is dead and forever is gone. If the opposite is proven however - I feel sorry for that Obama person.

[SaiKar]

They shot a ****ing unarmed man

Because the fact that he was not holding a small object made of metal and plastic somehow has anything to do with all that terrorist masterminding stuff he has been up to for a while.

Occam's Razor

This is NOT "The simplest solution is often the right one." It's better stated as something like "If two theories have the same ability to predict a solution, then the theory that makes the least number of assumptions often leads to the correct solution."

The difference is subtle but important. For example, I have never died. Therefore, I will live forever. That's a very simple theory. But if the two theories are "I will live forever" and "I will not live forever," the first theory makes a really big assumption - that the fact that millions of human beings have died and nobody has ever lived over 120ish years or so is not an important thing to consider. The second theory does not make this assumption - it treats this data as important. Therefore, Occam's Razor favors the second theory because it makes less assumptions.

Val's use of Occam's Razor is correct because the theory that Usama is dead makes less assumptions than the theory that he is alive and everyone is jointly lying to perpetuate a conspiracy with no discernable value or purpose.

LERN 2 SCIENCE

[Obvious Sock Account]

Good kill, America.  All hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of them. 

[aboutasoandthis]

Being Air Force I feel a little wierd about this one. I really didn't see any of the crazy parties over this that I saw on tv. (I'm stationed in England right now, and the news casts were all of the states.)

I admit that I'm happy that he's gone. More the feeling one less figurehead that the US has to deal with.

One thing we were ALL celebrating was the fact that he left so much intel unguarded in his house. The information could help bring a closer end to these wars.

[MissingName]

...who the?

[drenrin2120]

Shut up and except it,missingname.

About! Um... You're back! ...?

[A Forgotten Legend]

Accept versus except.
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Accept the trophy?
Except that was not supposed to happen.


Anyway, so that's where you went About!

[Valiere]

This is NOT "The simplest solution is often the right one." It's better stated as something like "If two theories have the same ability to predict a solution, then the theory that makes the least number of assumptions often leads to the correct solution."

The difference is subtle but important. For example, I have never died. Therefore, I will live forever. That's a very simple theory. But if the two theories are "I will live forever" and "I will not live forever," the first theory makes a really big assumption - that the fact that millions of human beings have died and nobody has ever lived over 120ish years or so is not an important thing to consider. The second theory does not make this assumption - it treats this data as important. Therefore, Occam's Razor favors the second theory because it makes less assumptions.

Val's use of Occam's Razor is correct because the theory that Usama is dead makes less assumptions than the theory that he is alive and everyone is jointly lying to perpetuate a conspiracy with no discernable value or purpose.

LERN 2 SCIENCE

/applause

[aboutasoandthis]

Shut up and except it,missingname.

About! Um... You're back! ...?

I actually lurk a lot, and just post in what's interesting. You may see more of me (once the military stops sucking every ounce of life I've got). :p

[fruckert]

I find it odd that apparently I'm the only one who knew this.

[HobomasterXXX]

I totally knew as well