Off By One

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  mel
  April 9th, 2008 on 2:09 pm

  This is the manifestation of wanting a toy, or trophy, or an outlet for your insecurities rather than a child.

  CBC had a news story of a Rabbi who has come to Canada and is being sought by the Israeli police. He commanded a woman to systematically torture her daughter including locking her in a suit case for days, to eat feces, and of course to be beaten… to the point of putting her in a coma. But what else is a woman to do when she thinks that her kid is possessed. I guess a coma is God’s way of showing you the demon has been purged
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  Chris
  April 9th, 2008 on 4:41 pm

  That’s an .. interesting connection to draw there.

  I’m not sure whether that particular religious fever is as tightly tied to this insecurity as your comment would suggest; I tend to ascribe religious sentiment of that kind to a pathetic failure to interact with the real world, since I’m sure that the rabbi doesn’t suffer from insecurities of this kind — he’s just a sociopath.

• Off By One

  An off-by-one error ... often occurs in computer programming when an iterative loop iterates one time too many or too few. Usually this problem arises when a programmer fails to take into account that a sequence starts at zero rather than one..., or makes mistakes such as using "is less than or equal to" where "is less than" should have been used in a comparison.

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