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Woz on Snowden: "Total hero to me; total hero"
- newman8r 11y agoDoes woz make stuff anymore or is it just speaking engagements?
- zz1 11y agoI don't think he still builds anything, I have read him tell that his know how is completely obsolete today.
- newman8r 11y agoI figured this might be the case.. scary... at the same time, I've recently been revisiting a ton of "abandoned tech" and finding really interesting connections - things that maybe are worth re exploring now. he's got a unique perspective - would be awesome to do a hackathon with him for sure.
- agumonkey 11y agoHe was involved in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion-io http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion-io
- ck2 11y agoWhat I do not understand is why the US is the military for wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia. ISIS is literally at their doorstep, Iran on the other side and their solution is to simply purchase a nuclear weapon instead of drafting an army. And now we are somehow enslaved to re-invading Iraq for a fourth time when it falls again. Meanwhile our entire infrastructure of roads and bridges will fail in the next generation because we dump all our money into the war machine black hole so that the contractors can extract profit from taxpayers.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoAnd now we are somehow enslaved to re-invading Iraq for a fourth time when it falls again. Is about the seventh or eighth invasion of Iraq in the past 100 years for the UK. It seems that we have been in Iraq more often than not.
- mr337 11y ago"What I do not understand is why the US is the military for wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia." Could it be as simple as we are basically protecting OPEC in exchange so they can sell oil to us? I can't find any other reason.
- tim333 11y agoI think there's a worry about some Al Queda / ISIS types taking over and causing havoc with the Saudi trillions. The Saudis may be undemocratic but at least they don't cause too much trouble.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoThey exported and funded their errant knights using those trillions. The main reason the Saudi government has been left alone by the more extreme elements in Saudi Arabia is that they are the main conduit for creating petrodollars, so if they were disrupted, the money hose might stop.
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- leephillips 11y agoI certainly admire Wozniak as an engineer and a person, but there is something obscene about gushing over the cleanliness and opulent veneer of a repressive dictatorship. Americans have been jailed there for taking pictures of public buildings, making comments on Facebook (while in the US), and other normal activity. This oppression makes the news here because it involves westerners; the constraints on the lives of their own citizens must be far worse.