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Chomsky is the first name mentioned in that article.

Depends on which way you're counting.

I have to agree with raganwald and say that I have no idea what you mean by the "convenience-privacy continuum" here. Do you mean that more convenient technologies are by nature less private? Or do yo…

I followed your links and read this stuff in the first post. On the Ryan thing, he never claimed to have any inside knowledge, he just read Ryan's statement. "JCT, however, does not have the capabilit…

Thank god. I've never understood why mp3 players were growing to the size of personal cassette players, becoming fragile, or needed full color constantly active screens. The MuVo TX FM ( http://www.a…

That's disagreement, not dishonesty. Dishonesty is easy to show - and a link avalanche is rhetorically a good way to make it seem like you've shown it, at least to people who don't follow the links. P…

He didn't make that claim. He claimed that the asset forfeiture laws are almost always used against "ordinary people," whom he distinguishes from "drug dealers/terrorists/etc."

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure it's not admissible when the government obtains it without warrant and illegally. When evidence is revealed by someone else acting illegally, it's fair game for the govern…

I said "users" for a reason. It's just about choosing the patches that you want to apply, or if something you're running breaks, backing out of the particular patch that screwed it up. It really incre…

I wish I could say that I don't think this is compatible with the GPL, simply because I don't like it, but I can't. This seems like a good move for their bottom line. It'll suck for CentOS users thoug…

Your 'response foreclosure' is confusing to me - I'm not sure on what grounds you decided that the FBI putting mandatory GPS on all cars was unconstitutional, but putting a GPS on any individual car m…

I'm starting to think that maybe why my family enjoys it so much is because we're all constantly dealing, or putting out feelers about deals from the second the first property is purchased, and that w…

In my family, the chance element of Monopoly mitigates the fact that it is unbalanced - because it's a different 1 or 2 people every time. I'm not sure how Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble and Dominoes fall …

I'm sick of people trying to promote the boardgame scene by bashing one of the games that I've watched people enjoy the shit out of, and is the perennial whipping boy around some nerdy quarters. The m…

Didn't negotiate a thing. I was pretty naive about that sort of thing at the time (really was still until the last few years, and I'm 35 now) and didn't know that bargaining was an option. I was just …

The way I read those statistics makes me think that we have the same GDP as we would have expected to have reached by the beginning of 2009, except with 2 years worth of population increase, productiv…

I had a bad asthma attack while uninsured and got hit with a bill that took me 7 years to pay off.

It's a bit insane that both the US and individual citizens apart from each other pay more per capita for health care costs now than the government of a country with socialized health care.

>The US pays more money because it has more health care being provided Reference for this, too, please.

What evidence do you have that demand has recovered?

Glenn Greenwald is a "him":)

You said: >The bolt-cutter quote comes from the president of the Author's Guild, not part of the film industry. I said: >The president of the Author's Guild, Scott Turow, is part of the film i…

More people that I know of use Python and PyQt to program for the N900 than C++.

The basis of reality. Scott Turow is a famous author who has had multiple books made into successful movies.

It's also 'disrespectful' (I'm anthropomorphising wildly) to a lot of animals. Try staring a dominant dog in the eye and see what it gets you.

The president of the Author's Guild, Scott Turow, is part of the film industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29#Bindings

He didn't demonize Malcolm X, he simply ignored your random introduction of him into the discussion, and he didn't demonize Steve Sailer, just accused him of having an agenda and as evidence made an o…

I feel that these results only transform into "politically incorrect truth" when observed through a racist lens. African-Americans also seem to have an aptitude for terrible cancer outcomes, living in…