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skidoo

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    Comment #9717333

    Who voted that down? Did I disagree with your favorite commercial media journalist? So sorry for the faux paux. So embarrassed. Will make mental note to pick extra cotton from your…

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    Comment #9717317

    ....for me to get a side job at? Because I have no disposable income beyond keeping myself alive. So, great time spent on that app, comrade.

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    Comment #9717301

    Because Flat-Earthers are valid and we should allow their input into a world where microwave ovens can be electronically hacked from a world away and where Kim Kardashian is the be…

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    Comment #9716212

    As far as cost factor, I imagine James Randi's circle might be of assistance: http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html

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    Comment #9716202

    I wonder what Dan Brown would have to say about this.

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    Comment #9716198

    ...Capitalism has a soul?

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    Comment #9715664

    There is not enough popcorn in the world for this right now.

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    Comment #9715618

    Right on. The way I always saw it was that the NSA were the thieves, collecting data they did not own. Snowden, while accused of stealing secrets, actually set them free.

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    Comment #9715600

    If I remember correctly, Snowden himself said in Citizen Four that intelligence agencies use aliases for assets and not targets. Which would mean that if any agents had actually be…

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    Comment #9711228

    The talk of need for separation of Church and State is one thing (and absolutely valid), but I think the largest threat to the world, indeed the largest threat the world has ever k…

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    Comment #9709071

    So this means the NSA will be dismantled as a complete failure and total waste of monies spent, right?

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    Comment #9706936

    I love his remarks on the New Age movement. Spirituality without some form of sacrifice has always struck me as unauthentic.

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    Comment #9704169

    While standing on one foot and facing North, of course.

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    Comment #9703669

    What if there's some weird loophole among the Five Eyes participants that ignores payphones in favor of other landlines and cells?

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    Comment #9703246

    I'm more concerned with the ease in how American corporations can so readily influence foreign governance.

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    Comment #9701739

    We can only hope.

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    Comment #9701030

    You really don't get out much, do you?

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    Comment #9699565

    No it's not. You can support your family without enabling an evil corporation in sneaking billions in tax evasion schemes. Greed destroys. Capitalism destroys. No paint job fixes t…

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    Comment #9697681

    Making money is agenda number one for both companies regardless of what their respective PR departments say.

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    Comment #9697642

    This is why the concept of free global internet bothers me, as I think it would up the ante in terms of surveillance.

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    Comment #9697041

    "Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost." -Neil Gaiman Free speech is all or nothing.