And scaring people by sadistically exaggerating the perils, if only in retrospect, increases his credit.
ECONOMIST: It might win Gordon Brown an election. But then what?
But he accused the Conservatives of "playing politics" and scaring people with "meaningless" statistics about Britain's energy supplies.
Alfred Kahn, one of Jimmy Carter's economic advisers, was once rebuked by the president for scaring people by talking of looming recession.
But as the computing world shifts from PCs to mobile devices, Lookout has been able to trounce multibillion-dollar security giants like McAfee and Symantec without scaring people.
So they have developed ways of scaring people that stop short of threatening lives damaging property by pouring paint on cars, say, or sending fake bombs to laboratory workers.
They focus on scaring people away from piracy, or suing them, or getting into a technological arms race with the DRM crackers a race they are doomed to lose, by the way.
You can, for example, stick a tape in the thing and walk around, annoying old people and scaring cats.
"He was quite eloquent in saying that he didn't give a sh-t if people were scaring him, and he wasn't frightened, and he was going to stand his ground, " she said.
The Fed needs to be able to add to bank reserves without scaring the bejeezus out of people who have been frightened by the QE2 bogey man.
Apparently this is scaring off at least some potential applicants: the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test declined by 9.6% during the 2010-2011 academic year, to 155, 050, from 171, 500 in the previous year, according to the Law School Admission Council.
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