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forevergreenyon

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About forevergreenyon

forever green, gone yonder.

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    Comment #34900118

    ah, I was thinking in terms of UK laws when I wrote that... I suppose America is still chief imperial hegemon... imma go check myself in. bye

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    Comment #34899720

    I wonder why are such sayings NOT persecuted as libelous; then again I think they have bigger fish to fry now (i.e. bigger crimes to punish i.e. scihub) but it makes sense that the…

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    Comment #34899653

    are you british?

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    Comment #34899449

    what worries me is that it'll realtime correct what I say into what I mean so perfectly that I won't be able to learn to do it on my own. Once our capacity to 'self-correct' (which…

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    Comment #34897750

    so I can sign a contract to get rid of my right to say/write whatever I want but I cannot sign a contract to "sell myself back into slavery"???

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    Comment #34897711

    future online tutorial: "How to 'write' your first "hello world!" program" step 1: find the "hello word!" app in the store step 2: buy it step 3: done! you're now 'programming' you…

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    Comment #34897639

    solution: don't give people that choice... this aligns all corporate-business incentives which are the only ones that matter when considering how to run stores. I'm really worried …

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    Comment #34897180

    this is unnecessary, of course I know this. It's the reason Americans are now engaging in 'health tourism' a.k.a. going anywhere else in the world to get health care, specially whe…

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    Comment #34896311

    I'll venture a guess: For the human individual person, the interests (the goal) is to care for their health; but amazon is a corporation: for them the real goal is profit, not heal…

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    Comment #34874227

    call me old school, but it doesn't make sense to me that people get to live off the work done once, then repeated (recreated or reproduced by technology) while the 'creator' in pra…

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    Comment #34848669

    your mental health?

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    Comment #34848638

    but at some point you must think more deeply about what illusions are in a grander sense... this is a jumping off point into considering your own mind as an illusion. your own self…

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    Comment #34825206

    arguably, this is a good thing

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    Comment #34825193

    this wouldn't be as funny if it weren't somewhat plausible... :/

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    Comment #34823459

    time to make amendments! just like once upon a time it was constitutional to own slaves and now it isn't just think about the monetary cost-savings! (nevermind the human misery)

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    Comment #34808637

    they're families, lineages, of people living off 'having power' (but really, authority and prestige) the time has come for them to remember what power is (without authority)

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    Comment #34807025

    the future of interaction with computers is not programming languages but App stores. Want to print "hello world" in your terminal? gotta buy the app, or be 'subscribed' to your op…

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    Comment #34783868

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    Comment #34781872

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    Comment #34763215

    yes, I admit that I've been trying to think about social interactions through this lens too. but there's a difference between any random group and a corporation. The idea being tha…

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    Comment #34763107

    > Whether the corporation should be considered a person My opinion is that "of course" they are; but that this also poses a challenge to our pre-corporate notion (conceptualization…

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    Comment #34754274

    senators also use money, lots of it, way more than average. so my question is still valid

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    Comment #34754239

    but where's the money in doing this? no money, no nothing.

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    Comment #34754062

    > 2. The federal government then later realized that free breakfast for poor kids was a good thing, and re-implemented it I have a more cynical worldview. they always knew that fre…