wamsachel

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by wamsachel 10y ago
He's not different, and he openly acknowledges that a lot of his linguistic research was funded by the Pentagon. Edit: He also thought that his activism would get him fired, and so his wife started going back to school.
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by wamsachel 10y ago
I ignored the point because I wanted to (coincidentally because that's what the OP author was doing, imo). I wanted to point out the hypocrisy of the NYT, and to point out that a communication giant complaining about how consumers have
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by wamsachel 10y ago
>alex jones is not an equal but opposite voice to chomsky That's my point! Terrorism isn't a reason to run mass surveillance on everyone, yet here we are. I'm saying that by going after the crackpots, the establishment get
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by wamsachel 10y ago
No...the author of the article was the lazy one, and it's not just this author because as you may have noticed there's a rising cry for companies to help police cyber bullying, truthiness etc. Notice how no one inside the establis
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by wamsachel 10y ago
"the internet is distorting our collective grasp on the truth. " And corporate owned newspapers never did any distorting right NYT? Perhaps if the media had a shred of integrity, people wouldn't be going off to the onion to g
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by wamsachel 10y ago
This is pretty ridiculous. So he wasn't all that worried about 'thruthiness' all through the birther conspiracies or all the other shenanigans throughout his presidency, but all of a sudden him and his pals become implicated
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by wamsachel 10y ago
It's kind of interesting to think about the public concern that'd be generated if this article was instead about the government and the New York Times buddying up to use the Time's bestseller book list to deradicalize people.
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by wamsachel 10y ago
On the Media had a podcast that talked about this: http://www.wnyc.org/story/challenge-fighting-terrorism-onlin... Essentially experts agree that this will do next to nothing to stop individuals from radicalizing. Howe
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by wamsachel 10y ago
>I mean, I don't think it is fair to blame scientists, engineers, workers, etc. - let alone the tools that they use I think it should be fair. It's no secret what these precision guided bombs are being used for, so why should t
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by wamsachel 10y ago
haha, but if they asked hard questions then their press credentials are revoked.
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by wamsachel 10y ago
Spell checkers can pick up on its/it's errors
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by wamsachel 10y ago
I think it's telling that we discuss Manning's violation to oath way more than the war criminals she exposed. But I'm sure everyone is correct in that the people living in the middle east are pouring over the wikileaks lookin
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by wamsachel 10y ago
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by wamsachel 11y ago
You're kidding yourself if you think that this purpose doesn't also extend to the Universities. High School graduates don't design missile guidance systems, nor do they work with FBI to break TOR, etc.
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by wamsachel 11y ago
A book that I thoroughly enjoyed, "The Sports Gene" by David Epstein, he goes into how being a workaholic has been shown to be a genetic trait. As someone who apparently doesn't have the gene, I look at people like Kobe and
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by wamsachel 11y ago
>It almost feels like it never got worse, it just got more exposure and that its always been there, It's harrowing that the 20th century was labeled a century of genocide, when in reality it was the century that started exposing and
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by wamsachel 11y ago
Oh that's cute. The U.S. has essentially upgraded its military forces and gets to beta test it in the deserts of the middle east. Did you think 'Winning the hearts and minds of the people' was an actual mission? And the U.S.
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by wamsachel 11y ago
> unhappy americans with weapons at home, who don't like what Snowden has done. I really doubt this is a big issue.
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by wamsachel 11y ago
You know that when a doctor is done talking with you, he/she leaves the room and looks up a diagnosis on a computer right?
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by wamsachel 11y ago
The word sport came from 'leisure activity' meat-sports took over the term, but does that mean we can't change it back? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...
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by wamsachel 12y ago
It's because for the most part he posts some very educational stuff. So hopefully he just learned his lesson.
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by wamsachel 13y ago
Not saying the NSA couldn't have been involved, but I thought it was the FBI that got Petraeus's google account.