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by u2328 13y ago
| What does it take to get American's outraged about something? Americans can get outraged just fine. The problem is that many people just don't understand exactly what's going on. They're either not very technical, an
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by u2328 13y ago
The backlash exists because most of his writings consist of regurgitated ideas plucked from elsewhere that he attempts to pass off as his own as though he's some sort revolutionary thinker in the modern era. Then he sells tickets to hi
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by u2328 13y ago
Well, I stand corrected. That would, indeed, be a killer feature, if it works well. I suspect it won't, unfortunately.
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by u2328 13y ago
It feels like a sea change over the last year or so. Reddit used to feel pretty progressive, but now, even in the tamest subreddits, it feels like casual racism flourishes. Guess that's how it goes with social networks; they always sta
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by u2328 13y ago
I thought that was a feature for 'Ubuntu for Android' (a different product). I could be wrong, but I don't see that feature available under the 'Ubuntu Phone' list of features.
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by u2328 13y ago
I'm bored by Ubuntu, much less the promise of a Ubuntu smartphone. I thought the appeal of Ubuntu was that it was a freedom-respecting but user-friendly alternative to Windows and Mac. Turn out, their Unity interface ships your desktop
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by u2328 13y ago
I'm a big advocate for the Linux desktop, but at this point, as long as Canonical has Ubuntu ship off desktop search results to Amazon by default, I would even advocate for users to use other operating systems, even Mac OS X. It&#x27
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by u2328 13y ago
Well, you have a point with his vote reauthorizing the Patriot Act, but I still think it's tone deaf to ignore the campaign rhetoric that Obama made during the 2008 election.
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by u2328 13y ago
You don't have to click on these threads if the subject bores you.
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by u2328 13y ago
Really, because there's a lot of video going around of 2007 Obama debating 2013 Obama on domestic spying. 44% of the country cares. Dare not dismiss the a minority opinion just because it's just under the threshold of the majori
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by u2328 13y ago
You're not the only one whose noticed the outright hypocrisy... http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/06...
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by u2328 13y ago
What made you expect that? It's not like Obama campaigned on the promise of reforming domestic spying or increasing+- transparency in government... OH WAIT A MINUTE THOSE WERE SOME OF HIS BIGGEST PROMISES .
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by u2328 13y ago
> Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Lousiana), for example, had pretty much no idea what was going on ".gov is a coke bottle" ".com is the room surrounding the coke bottle." (paraphrasing). I saw that too. She was completely d
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by u2328 13y ago
I'm a big fan of GNOME 3, and strongly prefer it over other desktops. The GNOME guys/gals have been doing a great job, and all the hate it gets is old and tired. If you don't like it, that's fine. There are many other gr
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by u2328 13y ago
That's subjective. I'm a big fan of the user-experience GNOME 3 provides, and I strongly prefer over KDE, OS X, Windows 8, etc... There are many others that agree with that sentiment. You may not like it, and that's fine. The
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by u2328 13y ago
I do agree with that statement, but it doesn't mean they can do a whole lot of damage. From Iraq to Aaron Schwartz, when the US government turns it's big sloppy attention at you, watch out.
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by u2328 13y ago
Congratulations Obama, Feinstein. You've got me throwing in with Rand Paul. Though I could trust you with our civil liberties and privacy, but now I have to get behind the Ayn Rand loving libertarian on this. So be it; policy over part
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by u2328 13y ago
I love the government's response here. "Sure, we can have a debate about state surveillance, but the guy that forced this debate IS A NO GOOD DIRTY TRAITOR!"
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by u2328 13y ago
Cult of personalities, I think. Fascinating, if not terrifying, human trait. People root for their political party like they root for their home team; issues be damned.
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by u2328 13y ago
They've already got it. It's called the NSA.
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by u2328 13y ago
Character assassination. They are going to try and rip Snowden apart. I don't think they'll succeed though.
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by u2328 13y ago
Heh, you're probably right.
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by u2328 13y ago
I agree. It all comes off as super-defensive, 'you guys just wouldn't understand' rhetoric. Not to mention all the insider backslapping. And the consistent claims that Snowden defected to China is clearly taking the situation
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by u2328 13y ago
Hey Europeans, does this mean your love affair with Skype is over?
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by u2328 13y ago
I think 'destroyed' is a strong word, and it's still early. Damaged? That's probably fair. I wonder if that's a major reason the Google-centric 'The Internship' movie kinda bombed this weekend. I mean, it
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by u2328 13y ago
Well, my apologies if I insulted you personally. It was meant to be an attack on the notation that this can be framed as 'terrorism'.
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by u2328 13y ago
Is anybody else reading this guy's twitter account? He comes off like a massive asshole, and he throws around his PhD like Officer Farva. Is this indicative of the people who run the country's intelligence community? It feels li
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by u2328 13y ago
I realize the consequence of throwing support behind Rand Paul, because as an Obama supporter, there's clearly a lot I would disagree with him on. But, enough with the cult of personalities; if he's going to make waves on this iss
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by u2328 13y ago
Well, the proposition was that Democrats and Republicans are the same side of the coin. In terms of state surveillance, that certainly is appearing to be true. On social issues, it's clearly opposite, because I got my gay rights 9 year
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by u2328 13y ago
My statement stands. If he/she was being tongue-in-cheek, then it doesn't apply. If it's the powers-that-be that do it, well, there you are.

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