CONTRARlAN

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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
> Consider in the 1800s it wasn't uncommon for a publisher to be paid for a product & make it seem like they were simply endorsing something they truly liked. Since you work in advertising, you should know that that kind of thin
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Focusing on societal efficiency at the expense of other things seems like a good short-term solution, but a lousy long-term one.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Sorry, I was just talking about Stratfor. > Of course it was also revealed that The Interview was a propaganda product aimed at destabilizing North Korea (in anticipation of the upcoming planned unification). I missed all that–can you po
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
> A pretty nasty no-win situation. It's a pretty easy win-win situation–offer both, inform users appropriately. And then provide a third set: a list of the sanitized files not present in the virus-free dump. I think a quick spot che
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Asia's a continent. The character of Jian Yang is a very specific subset of Chinese nationals, namely those who come to work in a very specific industry in a very small part of Northern California. That's like being upset about a
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Your syllogism aside, not all cultural satire is racist, even when people want it to be.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
So, just how specific does cultural satire have to get before you won't declare it racism? I ask, because "Chinese" includes about 56 recognized ethnic groups in mainland China. I don't think we can say whether this char
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Are you offended by the definition of Jian Yang, or the actual character in the show? That's like being offended by Wikipedia's entry on the KKK because it accurately describes their position. Anyway–it's not stereotyping Asi
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
> I don't know, but it's a fascinating experiment, anyone who is not paying for it should be in favor of this experiment -- unless you just hate poor people. What a bizarre statement. It's really easy to read that as two t
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
> If this wasn't exaggeration, we should study the fortunate circumstances by which this calamity has been avoided for 17 years. Leaving aside the truth of their claims at the time–because it's irrelevant–your comment makes the
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
As an aside, it's been my experience that titles are often written not by the person who wrote the article, but by someone who is tasked with writing titles that are intended to attract attention, and not necessarily perfectly reflect
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
I agree with you that they're a private company so they can do what they want with their business–I actually think private entities don't have enough rights on that front in many regards–but that doesn't mean that it isn&#x27
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
That it's easy to do is all the more reason to try to establish controls to prevent abuse. It's trivially easy to sell customer data for profit at the expense of their privacy. It's easy to store personal information without
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Thanks. Looking forward to reading the reply.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
And the Arab Spring was supposed to result in a great liberalization of MENA countries. I don't know whether it's optimism or naiveté–or likely some mixture of the two–but the western public tends to ignore how large changes in te
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Please ask him more here, so we can all benefit from the discussion.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Guessing you're talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Formula_One_espionage_con...
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
I think that's one valid way of looking at it, and many technically-inclined people would be inclined to agree, I'd imagine. But another way of looking at it, and one I suspect most non-technical people would, is that it just take
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
> Did I slight your favorite conspiracy/paranoia/gun rights site? Again, helpful. I have no particular interest in any sites you'd consider one of the above, but nice rhetoric. I was about to take the time to reply to your
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Which is only as secure as the door frame it goes into, which usually means: pretty insecure. Still, I agree with the premise that it's about assumptions, and if people can be made to realize that their garage door openers are inherent
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
It's being talked about like this is a new finding, but it's been discussed on various fora for the better part of a decade. For example: http://forums.radioreference.com/547816-post2559.html The author's qui
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
It's way more complicated than that: http://flighttraining.aopa.org/magazine/1998/November/199811...
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Great question! If you get shafted by your employer during maternity and they pull coverage early, and give you misinformation re: COBRA timing, and it's not an open enrollment window with the state exchange, even if you can convince t
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
That's actually not entirely true, unfortunately. Ask me how I know.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Yeah, this was a supercar made a couple decades ago, which makes the whole thing all the more impressive. Probably a pretty inefficient starter motor on it, and no start-stop on it, obviously.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
I once had a friend show up to help me start a car that wasn't starting–we thought it was the battery but it turned out to eventually be a flaky ignition switch. It took us a good 20-30 cranks to eventually narrow it down to the igniti
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
> We still don't culturally embrace alcohol as a good thing. You don't see the states advertising vodka like they advertise the lottery. I'm having a hard time with this. Something doesn't have to be endorsed by the s
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Commercial-grade technology has about 3m accuracy, but different methods can yield down to 10cm accuracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Prec... And then there's a whole segment of survey-
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Are those environmental stats per capita or area? I ask only because it's by far the largest state in the CONUS, which makes me wonder if that doesn't play a contributing role.
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by CONTRARlAN 11y ago
Or, perhaps you move there because you care about the environment or the poor, and that's how change happens.

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