Mindless Facebook applications such as these are addicting and can have you spending more time than anyone needs to be spending on a social networking site.
Many scientific groups have protested against what they see as a mindless and unjust application of numbers, and some suggest it may violate Italy's constitution.
The authors describe it as "an exposé of mindless neuroscience: the oversimplification, interpretive license, and premature application of brain science in the legal, commercial, clinical, and philosophical domains".
"An application of justice that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous," he wrote.
Here are two crucial paragraphs from the ruling: An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous.
"An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous," Judge Rakoff wrote.
"An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous," wrote Judge Jed Rakoff, in response to a settlement by Citigroup with the SEC.To cope with the deluge of litigation, banks are falling over themselves to hire ex-regulators, feeding the idea that the law is too chaotic to be understood by anyone outside the system.
Another application of the same principle, driving is something we do that's often mindless and rushed.
A coda to yesterday's post on the State Department: a desperate department official wrote to me, describing the sluggishness with which refugee applications in Syria and Jordan are being reviewed: There is no excuse for this kind of mindless bureaucratic approach.
