Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
So you're cool with China finding out American stealth bomber plans, right? That's just their fiduciary duty, so to speak? You're OK with Russia having a video bug in the Oval Office? Israel tapping the phones of everybody i
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by Vivtek 13y ago
So if the Air Force starts bombing Germany, you'll say "A military caught killing people, shocking"? How is this intended to sound like a contribution to discussion?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Trust me, plenty of us are pissed while still being from the United States - not that the media will ever tell you that.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Mine? It sucks. I've noted that the 4-hour limit is pretty accurate for actual focused work, but I've drifted into some areas (technical translation) that don't always need a lot of focus. It varies.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, the Post gave us nothing at all. I'd rather take slanted information than none.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
But if they reported on it they might have lost their access!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
We expats abroad are not protected. I guess we're just not loyal enough.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And they can continue to read it as long as they're pretty sure a crime of any kind has been or may soon be committed.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Time and attention management doesn't necessarily preclude a social network. Be creative all you like, but without downtime and some time to laugh the duration of that creativity is going to be sharply limited.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
The only difference is that the N.S.A. does it for intelligence, and Silicon Valley does it to make money. Boy, I wish it were that simple.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Sure, because punishment of nations always helps. You're still wrong when you say there are no Jews here.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"We've been told..." Yes. Yes, we have.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure that this is what has me worried. The government should be using the same tools I could rent from Russian botnet owners and a geolocation service. What has me scared is that the people directing this don'
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Dude, everything is a weapon. Your brain is a weapon. Water is a weapon. Weaponness is not in the thing; it's in the intent of the wielder.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Corporations cannot speak. Only people in them can. Sheesh. No. Nobody is "forcing" me to concede that. Certainly no logical aspect of this situation.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Downvote him all you want, but foreigners buying up the country really is a serious problem here. It's very unfortunate that the only politically coherent party questioning it happens to be antisemitic, but it's still a real issue
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Also, it's widely known that the US president is a Muslim.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well there's a kneejerk reaction if I ever heard one. Is Krugman now a public official?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Not to attack your larger argument, but the Hungarian Jews were not entirely exterminated, although an attempt was certainly made. My wife's father's family is ethnically Jewish, some of them survived the concentration camps, and
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Do please recall that friendly_chap is not a native English speaker.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I will also say that John von Neumann was (ethnically) Jewish, and left because of rampant antisemitism among the academic community at the time. Antisemitism is an endemic problem in Hungary, and it would be foolish of me to pretend it
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by Vivtek 13y ago
They do, actually, because it wins them votes. But the issues with corporatism that the parent is citing are very real ones; Hungarian politicians and business leaders alike (anyone who sees an opportunity to enrich themselves at the expens
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Remember that the population of Hungary is about 1/30th of that of the United States. Correct for population size and you may get more interesting statistics. You would not believe how excellent math education is here, and how import
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Also: they may personally believe that Roma are not the problem - but is that the rhetoric they use to sway voters? Even subtly? Because you started out trying to justify the Jobbik by citing knife attacks, and got widely slapped down for
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Oh, and also I should note: if you have a party rallying in a city populated by an ethnic minority - that's not evidence of a lack of fascism. The KKK holds rallies in South Chicago from time to time - nobody gets hurt, sure, but that
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'll give you that, I know a few Jobbik myself and they're exactly as you describe. And I also remember the party official who discovered last year that he himself was ethnically Jewish and was forced out. But fair's fair, I
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Let's put it this way - you're more likely to encounter overt antisemitism in Chicago than in Budapest.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Jobbik has some good principles. I like the idea of a little pride in Hungary. But the Roma are part of Hungary that you need to have some pride in. You're not Magyars freely riding across the plains any more, if indeed you ever were.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
No, DVDs. It got worse with every DVD player we bought, until we finally just gave up on DVDs entirely.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Headache? Amputate! It will certainly stop the headache.

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