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by squozzer 13y ago
The phrase, "truthful, but evasive of bottom facts" comes to mind. Read it in some throwaway "how to succeed in business" book from the 1960s.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Well said Reichsminister Goebbels.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I will celebrate by watching "Citizen Kane."
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by squozzer 13y ago
Ultimately, successful revolutions depend on two things -- 1) A general level of dissatisfaction; 2) Someone or something that crystallizes the dissatisfaction into action. And it doesn't always mean open warfare. Rosa Parks satisfied
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by squozzer 13y ago
Good use of the word approximately.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Yeah. Look for the arbitrageurs and destroy them.
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by squozzer 13y ago
What about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? Isn't that why Picard always had to order O'Brien to run a diagnostic on the Heisenberg compensators every third episode?
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by squozzer 13y ago
Time to drink 36 beers?
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by squozzer 13y ago
Not quite. He has to be 35 to be eligible. If The Wiki is correct, that's in 2018. 46th maybe.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Most of the counterpoints raised have their basis in pure conjecture or assumptions. If everyone held themselves accountable for n-th degrees of freedom outcomes, nobody could in good conscience draw a breath. It would, after all, increase
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by squozzer 13y ago
Yeah, here's my take on the labels -- unethical = someone who's more successful at making money / getting laid / achieving their life goals than the person rending judgment. lazy = someone who doesn't seem to sweat
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by squozzer 13y ago
Your assertion (a correct one in my view) probably explains a good bit of the vitriol about Mr. Snowden's recent disclosures.
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by squozzer 13y ago
The Enlightenment. Born 1632, died 2013. Rest in peace.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Maybe he's still there. Or he's renting it out to the government to handle Gitmo / deportation overflow.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Hey, what can one say? Amerika uber alles in the consumer product department. In other news, McDonald's is setting up shop in Vietnam. Now we can REALLY declare victory and go home.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Well, at least he's not stuck in an airport for the rest of his life. Stay in one long enough and even jail begins to look good. But the problem remains -- what are we going to do about PRISM, or even more to the core of the problem, a
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by squozzer 13y ago
My barely-finished-high-school friend figured this out a few years back. He'll enjoy showing me up. Thanks NYT :P
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by squozzer 13y ago
We're being hunted down by our own government. Time to repay the favor.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I'm sure those who signed the following doc were probably accused of egocentrism, among other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_In...
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by squozzer 13y ago
A lot of US-govt types use DMY syntax. A stint in the Armed Farces will teach you how.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Most nationalists, and certainly all government employees, do not make such a distinction.
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by squozzer 13y ago
There's something to that thought -- the phrase "I love treason but hate a traitor" is from Shakespeare, and has been attributed to many leaders (such as Julius Ceasar) but captures the essence of the point.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Don't forget the constant drill-and-ceremony, both in training and once stationed to a permanent post. For those who don't "habla", drill-and-ceremony (D&C) is the "attention, left face, forward march" stuf
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by squozzer 13y ago
Maybe. But someone who would have been disqualified from the presidency might prove useful to those who hold the information. It would explain the 180 on Gitmo, ferinstance.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I think the word "sociopath", like "nihilist" and to a lesser extent "traitor", never had much meaning outside of "someone whose characteristics or actions I do not like". So I question the basis on w
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by squozzer 13y ago
Maybe, but I would say that civilization cannot stand on its' own, it will need defenders. And civilization has been good to most of us most of the time. But I agree with the gist of your statement -- people in positions of power (or i
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by squozzer 13y ago
The author has a romantic notion of technical progress. That's fine, but I'd argue that today's innovations have as much relevance as yesterday's, even though they lack the sex appeal. And as others have pointed out, in
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by squozzer 13y ago
The current uproar will do us no good unless we develop ways to either disrupt the technology or protect ourselves from it. Because even if we win this round, the state will find ways to bring these programs back in some other guise. For ex
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by squozzer 13y ago
"King and Country" meant something once, when patriotism was a two-way street.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I enjoy reading Bond's stuff, he's enviably erudite. But he tends to NOT say what he is (as an identity) now, even though he's pretty clear about what he is not. A somewhat analogous awakening in my life came when I realized

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