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by madair 16y ago
Uh-oh! I thought it had already, I edited to correct, thanks. Now my rhetorical flair in the opening paragraph is all ruined! ;-)
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by madair 16y ago
It doesn't matter whether or not the original commentator asserted that reason or not, Facebook is a public corporation in the United States, it's not a private individual, it's not a private corporation, it's not Zuckerberg. Public corpora
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by madair 16y ago
Yes, corporate censorship based on shareholder considerations is still ethically acceptable to some people . People who question those ethics may be in the minority, but lock-step lassez faire is hardly a universal truth.
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by madair 16y ago
Religious fundamentalism, Muslim, Christian, or other, doesn't just offend us who are not devotees of what we can reasonably consider an artifact of prehistoric human evolution, it restricts us through the tyranny of the majority , not to
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by madair 16y ago
I've had this thought rolling around in my mind for awhile, not sure if anyone's tried it out, of a twitter-like message platform on the torrent protocol. Not that it would necessarily have to have such restrictive content-lengths, although
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by madair 16y ago
Powers choose who to apply legislation to.
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by madair 16y ago
I'm impressed with activism, particularly activists like Assange who get off their butts and do far more than I've ever done. Sure it's not perfect, and sure its hyperbolic. I think you're far, far more concerned about hyperbole than I am.
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by madair 16y ago
Exactly.
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by madair 16y ago
The United States police forces are in severe need of reform, and I'll be calling them Jackboots until the day that reform happens. Kicking in doors for IP claims? Hmmm. (P.S. I love you Raganwald, you rawk, now just please consider the nee
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by madair 16y ago
Maybe by a hundred wikileaks. Maybe by a culture that demands government transparency through fast and cheap Internet distrubution. LOL, no point arguing with a rock. Activism is so dangerous, you're funny.
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by madair 16y ago
Far less than a convincing rebuttal, more like a character assassination. Sure it's hard to prove or even be sure of oppressive campaigns, but more importantly, it's hard to talk about because people who themselves are not experienced with
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by madair 16y ago
Steve Jobs seems in denial about the jackboots kicking in doors over his IP claims. Some people will just never get it as long as it's not their door.
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by madair 16y ago
Stinky implications: it portrays Zuckerberg as a borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver Those dangerous autistics....bring your children inside!
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by madair 16y ago
...and then they evolved... ;-)
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by madair 16y ago
There is actual social effect. Calling out "Luddites!!!" every time an attempt is made to discuss and address the risks and balances to economic and technology progress may be masking self-denial about responsibility and consequences?
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by madair 16y ago
These have worked well on planes and in offices for me for 2-3 years. I bought them for $125 at Amazon after comparing a lot of reviews. http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-ANC7-ATHANC7-Noise-... It seems like this model is supersede
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by madair 16y ago
And that's the point. The limited information mostly points to a person under extreme duress and clearly offended by his management. How is it not a personal attack to conjecture in public about mental illness? Because it's apparently unint
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by madair 16y ago
Doesn't it seem mean-spirited for a well known individual to jump to a conclusion in a public forum that a person suffers from mental illness due to their behavior, all descriptions of which likely only comes from blogs and newspapers? And
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by madair 16y ago
What a mentally ill conclusion to jump to. If this opinion is founded on news and blogs, its not founded on very much at all .
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by madair 16y ago
Ummm, social signaling, it's real, it's deeply ingrained, and shopping for two teenage daughters I can guarantee that it really does come down to signaling in their choice of Apple versus any other. They really don't focus on features nor
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by madair 16y ago
Hopefully someone will fix this misinformation soon, and gaddammit dude, when you're going to accuse someone of attempted murder, do a little fact check and send along a reference link or something for crissakkes
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by madair 16y ago
Perhaps he was a job-hopper.
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by madair 16y ago
I think most people except those who are compromised by Wall St. influence consider Megan McArdle more of an apologist for Wall St. and laissez faire in general than as someone who did any sort of "takedown". Read closely, it's a pretty wea
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Taibbi: Will Goldman Sachs prove that greed is god?(guardian.co.uk)
9 points by madair 16y ago|1 comments
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by madair 16y ago
Petzold has a blog!?!! Hurray! That's the big news here for me :-)
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by madair 16y ago
Analogues, just as right, mostly wrong: "Never join a startup. Never. They make terrible employers." (i.e. god complexes, lies, broken promises, dumb ideas, untested leadership) "Never join a publicly traded company. Never. They make terrib
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by madair 16y ago
I was expecting an article about Facebook Like buttons, and those little Digg buttons scattered all over the web, but this was pretty good too!
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by madair 16y ago
I agree, to a point. This is the world we live in, and we all have to survive, preferably thrive. Going along with wrongdoing, just because that's the way you make it in this world, is a reasonable strategy, sure. But when things are bad en
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by madair 16y ago
What a genius comment. Zing, whammo, ur so funneh haha
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by madair 16y ago
At a certain point one needs to refuse to play an unethical game. Until then, everyone blames everyone else for their own unethical behavior.

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