But if you're running for President, making fun of yourself for being dumb is, well, dumb.

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That's a guy that's playing really well for us, but that's a dumb penalty.

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Thor was the big, dumb summer fun movie, while Captain America was the weighty, well-written movie serious fans drool over.

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It was all working so well until that stupid mouse spilled the beans to the deaf, dumb and blind kid, who started buying gold.

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The building efficiency revolution emerges now from the inter-related confluence of the collapsed cost of microprocessors, enabling embedded intelligence in offerings as simple as light bulbs (soon), as well as the development of standards and interfaces for the formerly "dumb" hardware, and the ubiquity of the Internet.

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Having said that, I just -- the only reason I raise this is because I don't want to paper over the fact that once we make all the regulations smarter, eliminate the dumb ones and so forth, there is still going to be some tensions that exist around, well, how much do we value these extra 10, 000 jobs versus these extra 100, 000 asthma cases.

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