CopaceticOpus

My name comes from Copacetic, one of my favorite words, and from Opus of Bloom County. I'm most interested in comedy, technology, and language.

I don't know User:GrowlyGenet but I found that person's user page to be a very helpful template. Thanks, random person!

Umph - This product didn't have an existing page, so I created one. I wish I didn't need to use caffeine, but due to my insomnia it is inevitable. Umph is my preferred caffeine delivery mechanism when I am feeling very tired at work.

Penguin Mints - I added a summary of the caffeine content (and other active ingredients) in their products.

The Hartford - Added Aetna, Inc. to list of competitors.

List of notable wagers - Removed redundant reference. Article was orphaned, so I linked to it from the Pascal's wager and Gambling pages.

This is a very common movie convention which I felt was worth tracking. Unfortunately, others did not agree! Some people thought it worthwhile, some people didn't, and it got deleted without my knowledge that it was even under debate. I was able to recover a version of the list using Google. Gee thanks,that really makes me feel excited about contributing.

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Making an attempt to guess a password is a movie cliché. In modern movies, the attempt is typically made at a computer terminal by a heroic character under pressure to access a system or uncover a critical piece of information. However, password guessing scenes predate the computer and can take many forms.

In most cases, the character succeeds in three guesses or fewer. This is only possible because a weak password was chosen. Still, the ease with which the character guesses the password is often criticized as being unrealistic.

Movies featuring an attempt to guess a password include:

• Horse Feathers (1932)
• WarGames (1983)
• Fortress (1993)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Net (1995)
• GoldenEye (1995)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Batman & Robin (1997)
• Swordfish (2001)
• Klatretøsen (2002)
• National Treasure (2004)
• Superman Returns (2006)

Apparently this interesting and enjoyable list didn't cut the mustard either. Again, I recovered the article from Google.

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• Gautama Buddha's wager in the Kalama Sutta
• Wager between Yudhishthira and Shakuni in the Mahabharata
• Pascal's wager
• St. Petersburg paradox
• The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
• Wager between John Pierpont Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale on whether a man could walk round the world and remain unidentified
• Wager between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich in 1980 on whether the inflation adjusted price of natural resources such as copper and nickel would be higher or lower over the next decade.
• The annual Nenana Ice Classic, when the inhabitants of Alaska bet on when the ice will break on the Tanana River.
• Wager on Black hole information paradox: Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne against John Preskill (the wager)
• The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr over whether Internet content in the future will be provided by volunteers as in the Wikipedia model; or provided by paid workers as in traditional news media such as CNN.
• Fictional wager by Mortimer and Randolph Duke on the fortunes of Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine in the movie Trading Places.
• Fictional wager in Around the World in Eighty Days

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