As a growing legion of gang leaders landed behind bars, the smartest gang members graduated from street crime into more sophisticated acts, such as mortgage fraud.
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The book's hero, Winston Smith, would soon have a much harder time finding a corner in his room to hide from Big Brother.Second, critics fear that smart systems could gang up on their creators, in the way they did in "The Matrix", a 1999 film in which human beings are plugged into machines that simulate reality to control humans and harvest their bodies' heat and electrical activity.
Always be smart about a gang, don't do illegal things.
Like most drug dealers (not the smartest gene pool), gang members got high on their own supply.
Smart says the gangs use social media, such as Snapchat and Periscope, to boast about the wealth that can be made selling drugs; a powerful play to some kids with unhappy home lives who are getting nothing out of school.
Hector Verdugo, a jovial, whip-smart, energetic ex-gang member (also formerly known as "Happy" or "Cuate") was the key.
Junior Smart, 40, was in a gang in his teens and was sent to prison for 12 years.
Solbakken's past success and reports from Denmark suggest that he belongs to the gang of young, smart and technically minded managers who are increasingly making their mark on European football.
He's the gangbanger who won't relinquish his gang affiliations, the smart aleck who's never done drugs or taken a drink.
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