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by spitx 13y ago
Third, public transportation is generally valued more highly here than in other places for a variety of reasons. If various professionals employed by the state were paid in accordance of their value to the society (even if only to
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by spitx 13y ago
Removed from everything in the post, it has to be said the piece is terribly composed. Not as terrible as some of the other recent posts (and related comments) I've seen on HN; it is sufficiently terrible. Here's an example of a t
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by spitx 13y ago
As an Austrian, NATO was never there to protect us. America was admired for setting an example as a great nation where people can live freely. What, in the civilized lands of Stiegl, has ever threatened the free movement and a
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by spitx 13y ago
Let's not get overboard. Europe (alongside EVERY nation that has a respectably digital-ready telecommunications network) spies on it's peoples. It's almost a mark of a nation's jetting into the trillion dollar club. Ame
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by spitx 13y ago
This has got to be 1) a decoy outfit whose entire purpose is meant to deflect criticism from China and Russia - who are in all likelihood the biggest receiving parties of American intelligence attention - which often complain about America&
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by spitx 13y ago
Perhaps its time to heed the advice of the illustrious Christine Lagarde: “Il faut cesser de penser et se retrousser les manches.” (Roughly translated: "We must stop thinking and roll up our sleeves.") In proposing a tax
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by spitx 13y ago
"And then there is France. In the realms of cultural, diplomatic, linguistic or economic policies, the French have long and eloquently insisted on their nation's "exceptionalism." Yet a new form of exception
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by spitx 13y ago
Agreed. It should have read: "The arc of human progress is an illusory one" or "The arc of human progress - as defined by the narrow parameters of decreasing number of recorded human conflicts and genocides, de
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by spitx 13y ago
Animals with highly developed brains never simply accept their fates. After all, they understand that if they manipulate nature in certain ways, at least some parts of their fate can be averted! Your argument has the appe
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by spitx 13y ago
The areas of composite art you mention hardly have a fraction of the sweeping brushstroke of influence and the ability to impress upon society, certain mores and affectations that the more established forms of art (that you refer to in the
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by spitx 13y ago
I'd love to pick up a book that deals with this issue: why and when painters - and more generally artists - have come to adopt this anti-technological outlook. Was it a fear that the pervasiveness of technology would make their craft(s
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by spitx 13y ago
Perhaps I haven't followed you to a T. What specific problems or arguments in philosophy are not easily illustratable, using plain language? I do understand that some thoughts and experiences of the human order may not be easily captur
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by spitx 13y ago
This is Bill Clinton speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative - whose spouse, from all accounts, will most likely be running for the office of President in 2016 - on NSA Security Leaks and Snowden. "They (NSA) have prevented a ver
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by spitx 13y ago
This is Bill Clinton - whose spouse, from all accounts, will most likely be running for the office of President in 2016 - on NSA Security Leaks and Snowden. "I don't see any alternative to trying to track all these groups around t
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by spitx 13y ago
What did you expect here, other than being down-voted, for making some sense or offering an alternate view of things? You are speaking to the "Me Me Me Generation" as Joel Stein puts it. "Lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow.&
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by spitx 13y ago
I was referring to the fact that had they wanted they could have scuttled his efforts even before he arranged to speak to Greenwald and Poitras. If the NSA or BAH were to submit that they were unaware of Snowden's whereabouts or moveme
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by spitx 13y ago
Let's not get cute here. If the United States wanted him extracted (on the way to Hong Kong) or worse, killed during his sojourn in HK, Snowden would have already faced a fate several orders worse than Alexander V. Litvinenko. It isn&#
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by spitx 13y ago
I have heard this sentiment echoed by others - several industry insiders included - before. If this is indeed true that the sales and marketing honchos are exclusively running large tracts of key operations, aren't the resulting misste
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by spitx 13y ago
President Obama on the NSA when interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlThTTJgKYo&t=26m40s (Link takes you to about the 26th minute mark where the issue is mooted) http:/&#x2F
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by spitx 13y ago
I do not wish (or expect) for Snowden to be sentenced with capital punishment if he were to turn himself in. However any attorney or advocacy organization will find it extremely arduous to prove that he did this in good faith. Fleeing only
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by spitx 13y ago
What about Bradley Manning? That's as pristinely analogous a case as it gets to Snowden's, with diametrically opposed approaches the actors took to pursue their causes. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni
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by spitx 13y ago
Did Daniel Ellsberg bolt for a communist nation, sympathetic to his views after releasing the Pentagon papers? No, he turned himself in. Snowden wants all the glory and none of the bruises. If that doesn't demonstrate a lack of selfles
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by spitx 13y ago
CBS' Bob Schieffer on Snowden's junket: "For one thing, I don't remember Martin Luther King, Jr., or Rosa Parks running off and hiding in China. The people who ran the civil-rights movement were willing to brea
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by spitx 13y ago
Why is the slant of the source relevant? This is the opinion of one person. I tabled it to invite dissenting voices to offer sensible and rational critiques of the premise not petty and bitter ideologues who want to silence all dissonant vi
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by spitx 13y ago
You needn't struggle so much to find parallels, if you were to even glance cursorily. While the general validity and the degree to which this writer's experience is shared by others can certainly be debated (which is the reason I
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by spitx 13y ago
kryten: Sounds like London, UK where I currently reside with three children... Does your experience of life in London in recent years (since around late nineties) reflect that of this writer? I think this is one of the few writers (on the
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by spitx 13y ago
The graphic clearly refers to Americans killed in Iraq. Source: http://hbo.vice.com/episode-nine/ep-9-seg-1/infographic
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by spitx 13y ago
Singapore has only recently relaxed (read: suspended) the imposition of mandatory capital punishment for drug trafficking charges. While Western governments and media have long criticized Singapore's draconian laws and its low toleranc
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The rabid far-left elements of Northern Europe and America are not content limiting nuclear power proliferation just in the developed world. Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Operating capacity: 6800 MW Maximum capacity: 9200 MW In March
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by spitx 13y ago
Not one of the nuclear power stations currently planned or under construction are in the Western world (unless you count Slovakia). Not even the traditionally very nuclear-friendly France. Is this just a coincidence or is it the handiwork o

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