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Can we please stop spouting this quote all over the place (especially when it isn't even applicable)? You can believe that the folks working at FinFisher under

Can we please stop spouting this quote all over the place (especially when it isn't even applicable)? You can believe that the folks working at FinFisher understand very well exactly what they are doing. Their salary, however, has simply caused them to ignore it. Everyone has a price.

SI_Rob 7y ago
I totally agree that this quote is almost too economic for its own good and that as a consequence, overexposure has brought it to the threshold of fatal banality. However, OP didn't misapply it in this case. Rather, it looks like you may be making the very same point with plain language that the quote makes with sarcastic irony.
- bigiain 7y ago
  The eye-rolling banality is _exactly_ what I was aiming for. "People prioritise greed over ethical behaviour, news at 11..." The fact that people seem bemused by this in 2019, when it was banal and commonplace enough to be "sound bite worthy" back in the the 1940s, is where I was coming from. I have no doubt a scholar of classical language could trump me with an equally appropriate Latin or ancient Greek quote with a similar complaint. People gonna peep. Given a choice between piles of money, and not fucking some other people over, those piles of money win _way_ way too often.
dinodub 7y ago
>be jlgaddis on HN >have pet peeve >tell kids to get off lawn and/or stop using cheeky quote ... >be internet >say "No U!" >then say cheeky quote and step on lawn just because you can Yeah, I think I'll not do what random stranger online tells me to do, simply because I have free will and live in free country To suggest people online don't say something simply because you don't like it... is immature and silly. Welcome to the World. People may do things you might not like, in which case you have to deal with it.
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Can we please stop spouting this quote all over the place (especially when it isn't even applicable)? You can believe that the folks working at FinFisher under

by jlgaddis 7y ago

SI_Rob 7y ago
I totally agree that this quote is almost too economic for its own good and that as a consequence, overexposure has brought it to the threshold of fatal banality. However, OP didn't misapply it in this case. Rather, it looks like you may be making the very same point with plain language that the quote makes with sarcastic irony.
- bigiain 7y ago
  The eye-rolling banality is _exactly_ what I was aiming for. "People prioritise greed over ethical behaviour, news at 11..." The fact that people seem bemused by this in 2019, when it was banal and commonplace enough to be "sound bite worthy" back in the the 1940s, is where I was coming from. I have no doubt a scholar of classical language could trump me with an equally appropriate Latin or ancient Greek quote with a similar complaint. People gonna peep. Given a choice between piles of money, and not fucking some other people over, those piles of money win _way_ way too often.
dinodub 7y ago
>be jlgaddis on HN >have pet peeve >tell kids to get off lawn and/or stop using cheeky quote ... >be internet >say "No U!" >then say cheeky quote and step on lawn just because you can Yeah, I think I'll not do what random stranger online tells me to do, simply because I have free will and live in free country To suggest people online don't say something simply because you don't like it... is immature and silly. Welcome to the World. People may do things you might not like, in which case you have to deal with it.
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