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by pigbucket 16y ago
fellat
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by pigbucket 16y ago
It may be too late in the game to reply to this nonplussing nonresponsive response, but what the hell... >What responsibility am I shirking? If you want the job, then you do the thing. Was "shirking" too severe? You disclaim, patently a
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by pigbucket 16y ago
> If you think it is too much to ask, well, I guess you just don't apply. <shrug> This response seems to me thoughtless, cliche-ridden, and inordinately smug--rockstaresque even. That "I guess you just don't apply" really doesn
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by pigbucket 16y ago
> The chapter on revising is a seven-line excerpt of an interview with Ernest Hemingway The underlying advice of that chapter is: rewrite 'till you've got the words right. The advice lying under the underlying advice is: don't ruin a
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SI Sportswriter on AI Sports Writing(sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
1 points by pigbucket 16y ago|0 comments
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by pigbucket 16y ago
>"Friend" (the noun) has become "friend" (the verb). Hence, his usage is correct. My comment was about the disparity between the title and the substance of the article, not about usage. Sorry for the confusion. But since you've got me t
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Next time the author should write an article about how "friend" became a verb.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I think you're close enough here to the presupposition of both my comments above as makes no difference. That's why I said the EFED recommendations were too weak; that's why I called it an 'inadequate response.' Let me say it again explicit
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I think you're thinking that a bee precautionary label would say something like "Warning: Dangerous to Bees," in which case non-beekeeping farmers might not care. I suspect the label would instead mandate that users apply the product in a p
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by pigbucket 16y ago
It makes a good story if you can spin this as a case of EPA ignoring its own scientists as evidenced by a leaked report. But what the report (a public document according to Theobald) actually recommends is not that the pesticide be denied r
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Claude Paillard Making a Vacuum Tube (video)(vimeo.com)
1 points by pigbucket 16y ago|0 comments
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by pigbucket 16y ago
>maybe it is an issue of a poor title for the piece The simple title of the HN submission works better for me than the original title.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I had intended to applaud the author and assert that this was one of the few examples of essays on good writing that I've recently read that is also itself an example of good writing. So your critical comment comes as a surprise and a chall
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John Draper Donation Drive Verified(webcrunchers.com)
7 points by pigbucket 16y ago|0 comments
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by pigbucket 16y ago
It's an appropriate counterweight, I think, to the unmitigated and much too facile condescension that some have been indulging in lately.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
The focus of a large portion of media coverage here in the United States since the cables were released has been on the political response to Wikileaks' action, on the allegations of Wikileaks' criminality, on the severing of ties with the
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I'm going to take a little bite at this, because I think it's an important question, though I don't think it only applies in the case of your imagined modern definitions. Civil disobedience has never been limited to "we're accepting punishm
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by pigbucket 16y ago
The boy has confessed. He's still entitled to put on a defense, I take it. And he's still entitled to seek support for that defense. In any case, you can break the law, and then argue, in certain places and circumstances, and without self-c
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by pigbucket 16y ago
> All people are foolish in a lot of things. >Stop generalizing. I'm not saying anything. I'm just quoting.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
If you dominate a market, a serious ethical duty devolves upon you to do right by your customers, but Paypal, Visa, and MC, on which donation-supported non-profit orgs like Wikileaks almost entirely depend, have utterly failed to fulfill th
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Good examples indeed! Especially the one about Rosie Parks. Of all the possible examples in the history of the world of disrupting business operations in a way that inconveniences people, I can see why that one came first to mind. Perfect a
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by pigbucket 16y ago
The stuff in parentheses that you cite refers to a crime like the crime of inciting subversion. Why ohyes says "we know he actually committed" such a crime, I don't know.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Accusing NYT of bad citizenship (Lieberman) is similar to accusing people of unAmerican activities (McCarthy). Calling on companies to withdraw services from Wikileaks (Lieberman) is similar to calling on advertisers to withdraw support fro
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by pigbucket 16y ago
My guess is that Walmart is more concerned about finding a cheap way to deal with its parking-lot crime problem, for which it has taken a lot of flak, than it is with national security. Finding a way to encourage vigilance on the part of c
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by pigbucket 16y ago
"For freedom of speech, there's Wikileaks. For everything else, there's Mastercard. And Visa. And, um, Paypal. And Amazon." -- James Ball, on twitter.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I think this is right. While it's amusing to note the apparent heterogeneity in responses from representatives of the state to the leaks ( criminal! boring! dangerous! nothing new! ), looked on as a strategy of noise generation to drown out
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Re: 1. The only reference in the Wikipedia entry to the pressuring of the German govt. by the US consists of this line: "On February 6, 2007, U.S. officials warn the German Government not to issue international warrants." This line was adde
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by pigbucket 16y ago
#1 Sounds plausible, but I know nothing of it; 60% confidence seems a little high to me on conspiracy theory # 2, at least with respect to the following leaked items, which are perhaps not especially surprising, but are a little more than
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Amazon is making two claims of ToS violations: 1. "WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to [the] classified content the material" 2. Use of Wikileaks content could "cause injury to [some] person or entity" The claims ha
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by pigbucket 16y ago
See also the author's earlier articulate, intelligent, and naturally controversial defense of Wikileaks, which depends on the crucial distinction between the (more or less) permanent state apparatus (whose agents are unelected and whose act

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