The word "divine" promotes a scam

I provisionally agree with Randal Leavitt who said:-

"that if we want to live on this planet in comfort then we have to totally get rid of unfounded belief in make-believe gods. If we don't do this we face a never ending nightmare of warfare, as gangs of god following hooligans try to kill each other and their rival gods off. We will live as the Vikings did, following Oden and the Raven into glorious battle day after day after day.

Show me a god that can put a loaf of bread on my table every time I snap my fingers and I may change my opinion. Until we have evidence of gods that can do anything at all we have to cut ourselves free of the paranoid insanity which we call "divine" (or the "Absolute" or "God").

Every time I snap my fingers nothing happens, and as long as that continues I will treat discussions of the divine as attempts to get me to join an army. No thanks. The word "divine" promotes a scam. We have to break free from this trap."

The Long Tail

I first heard of The Long Tail last night on Alan Yentob TV show about Social Networking.

The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix. The term long tail is also generally used in statistics, often applied in relation to wealth distributions or vocabulary use.

The long tail is the colloquial name for a long-known feature of statistical distributions (Pareto distributions). The feature is also known as Pareto tails.

In these distributions a high-frequency or high-amplitude population is followed by a low-frequency or low-amplitude population which gradually "tails off." In many cases the infrequent or low-amplitude events—the long tail, represented here by the yellow portion of the graph—can cumulatively outnumber or outweigh the initial portion of the graph, such that in aggregate they comprise the majority.