corporalagumbo

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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I had completely the opposite reaction to you. I thought this was a lovely, heartfelt, clearly-written article. I especially enjoyed the final paragraph - "We know that books give people ambitions, expectations, a sense of dignity" - he nai
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Come on, at least give them some credit for using "modern and processes."
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I like the flat button a lot more.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
No form for readers to submit their own?
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
so it turns out that people sound pretty dumb saying aloud a lot of the things we would otherwise tap without hesitation... hmm...
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Ew. What a nasty, mean little article. He's been drinking too much techno-pop koolaid. "Every person - not just children - get access to infinite knowledge." But what about the history of their community's books? The picture books thumbed t
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Plants are just parasites of the sun man. And even the sun is just a rapist of mass energy.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Eh, I find NoScript a bit extreme. Really makes you realise how common Flash elements are... Yeah, generally I have no problems with Flash, and I find having to enable everything or stare at gutted pages irritating. Plus, how do I know what
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
"The pen really has me confused. It would be awesome if it did more than it does. I am a little surprised to realize there is no preinstalled software that transcribes handwriting into written notes nor does any Office application do that."
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Wow, that background animation slowed my Firefox to a crawl. Works quite well on Chrome though. Fancy stuff. HTML5? Edit: Wow, actually a lot going on in this guy's site. The little animated menus bottom left and right of the article. The f
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I assume the former.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I don't know if I would call Swartz a lunatic. I would definitely agree that he sounds highly unstable and that his actions smack of desperation and recklessness. He doesn't sound like a hero to me. He sounds like a very unhappy person who
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
So basically, you have never met Heymann, have no idea what sort of person he is, how he behaves, how he thinks, what values drive him, etc. etc., but you are comfortable portraying him as a moral caricature and confident that there is litt
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I'm surprised I need to explain this. I made the comparison to lynching for two reasons. Firstly, because I think the basic social DNA is the same, though the phenotype is different. To whit: an angry crowd jumps to a snap decision and dema
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
1) You've got the wrong end of the stick mate - it was etherael who tried to make the Galileo comparison - I was pointing out to him how ridiculous that comparison was - and you have mistaken my critique for his original comparison. Aim you
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Ah, so the reason why we know this assertion is true is because everyone knows that such assertions are always true?
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Okay. First of all, I am not afraid of effective collective action. It's right there in what I wrote: I gave what I consider a shining example of powerful, positive effective collective action: the American Civil Rights Movement. (This do
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
>Is the medium particularly important? Yes and no. No, the medium is not important, because groupthink can manifest and has manifested many times at every stage of civilization. Groupthink is of course not unique to the internet. But ye
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Demonstrating a precedent for prudent scepticism about collective action on the Internet.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
If you want to actually learn something about Galileo, try this. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8fKBZlKmU&feature=relmfu
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Tell this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012 Edit: In my opinion, a demand for someone to be fired shares the same social DNA as lynching. Driven by the same forces: an angry crowd demands that a scapegoat be punished to appease it.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Right, well, ignoring the fact that you dodged the question of what you meant specifically by diseases... Yes, you misread the word sad. I wrote with pity. Sorry you didn't pick that up. I've always been of the opinion that the state doesn
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Yeah? Well I'd say it's a huge stroke of luck that the tendency to mob rule and groupthink on the internet has so far mostly been neutralised by short attention-spans and poor central coordination.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Disappointed? Huh? What are you talking about? Aaron was unhappy his entire life. He behaved recklessly, attracted criminal prosecution, and capped it all of by killing himself. Do you find that noble? I don't. I think he failed: failed to
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
E.g. - from user Catfitz: "You've put your finger on something I've felt a long time about life and death of Swartz and his case -- there's an authoritarian arrogance there about hacking and stealing 4 million articles to decide for other p
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
The comment thread, by the way, is fantastic. Entertaining seeing what a relatively non-tech crowd (with a few nuts sprinkled in for good measure) has to say about all this.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Ah yes. Sometimes the mob does have teeth.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Reading this I kept shaking my head and thinking "what a sad little boy/man." Everything about his life makes me cringe: the awkward adolescent photos, his gravitation towards adult "friends," his dependence on a largely analytical basis fo

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