Osborne also dismissed the suggestion that he did not regard Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, as not very clever – a claim made in a new book by the Telegraph columnist Matthew D'Ancona.
This is what the clever financiers claimed that their inventions could do.
It is more likely to be clever, he claims, when it isn't defining its own questions, when the answer can be reduced to a simple numeric value and when there is a quality-control mechanism or feedback loop that relies on individual initiative.
He is – I would claim – clever, informed and tolerant.
Critics say they are a way of landing the industry's customers with the risk that something may go wrong: the criteria for a successful transformation are sufficiently nebulous for clever lawyers to claim that they have been met, whatever the outcome.The larger issue, however, is the way IT firms sell financial engineering along with their systems and software.
Why? Through the process of discovery, if a company's internal documents–such as sales forecast models–show that the company knew about and anticipated off-label sales, a clever prosecutor can claim that the company encouraged off-label usage.
While some people are still doubting the legitimacy of the infamous-but-now-retired Geohot's unlock claims, let there be no doubts here: long-time jailbreak icon MuscleNerd and the ridiculously clever planetbeing have claimed a successful unlock, stifling haters with a shot of the handset running Cydia (one of the aforementioned alternative App Stores) while connected to Bell Canada.
He has always been known as a clever handler of claiming stock but in his long career he has had only a few thoroughbreds of outstanding ability and only one--Bold 'N Rulling--that made it to Kentucky.
The truth, Rendell said, is that he bet $20 that a drunken fan could not hit the field with a snowball -- a clever ruse, he claimed, to get the man to stop bothering others and leave.
Now Benedict Cumberbatch looks set to come to the rescue all over again in a very different role: he will play the British magician Jasper Maskelyne – whose clever illusions are claimed to have helped turn the tide for the allies – in second world war epic The War Magician.
