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by harrumph 11y ago
Nobody deserves a point of view on this until they learn about Luis Posada Carriles living out his life comfortably in Miami after bombing a Cuban jetliner out of the sky with no survivors.
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by harrumph 11y ago
>To argue otherwise is to suggest that the Greeks et al are simply not ready or able to govern themselves, which I have difficulty accepting. And what happens when a new government is elected that is made up mainly of people who actively
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by harrumph 11y ago
>The meeting starts when I get there. Learned it from one of my bosses This is equivalent to saying "I am the most important person in the room every time". Even if it's true, it's a destructive and disrespectful mes
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by harrumph 11y ago
I noticed that most of the "fuck them" answers here are from people who interpret the situation in the most convenient way, that is to say, pointedly ignoring the general case and focusing on the specific. OP says s/he's
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by harrumph 11y ago
I agree it's more commerce than art, but having seen more than my share of this kind of hype presentation and after seeing the video, I think they did a decent job of acknowledging and integrating the surface/environment they were
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by harrumph 11y ago
Amazing bit of projection design work. Also: robot semi-truck = a milestone in the twin, linked curves of heightened production and heightened unemployment. Note to self: fix capitalism soon.
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by harrumph 11y ago
>Nowadays, commerce is king. Everyone is obsessed with ROI, everyone wants to hire an MBA, everything is explained in terms of supply and demand, and every relationship looks like that between a buyer and seller. It is very important to
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by harrumph 11y ago
>I don't even know what that is, and I already know what it is. To paraphrase Shakespeare, pseudoscience by any other name would smell as familiar.
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by harrumph 12y ago
Neat! I do echo the suggestion made to focus on a vertical. Here in Chicago we could really use this as an ad hoc rental marketplace for A/V and audio-music production gear. Film and event production are stuck with sudden needs all the
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by harrumph 12y ago
Makes me once again think well of the late lamented Aaron Swartz.
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by harrumph 12y ago
>I really don't understand how it's ridiculous reading of what you wrote: Let me help: I indicated that a corporate culture exists that openly accepted and endorsed what ALEC does, which necessarily indicates that said culture
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by harrumph 12y ago
>The idea that the entire leadership of Amazon should be replaced because Amazon was a member of ALEC is nonsensical. That's a ridiculous reading of what I wrote. I said, effectively, that the same people who joined Amazon to ALEC a
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by harrumph 12y ago
This is a fair assignment of responsibility only in a world where corporate representation does not extend to that regulatory sphere. But it absolutely does. There is a free market for political results and favorable tax code edits are the
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by harrumph 12y ago
I think RMS is correct here. Corporate membership in an organization whose purpose is to impose market and private mechanisms on whole populations by writing these into state and local law (this is precisely what ALEC does) should be interp