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If it was a question, it was rhetorical - and irrelevant.

Ok?

Um right, hence the original comment I made.

EU nations spy on the US. That's not up for debate. It is a fact. That's how the world works. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/30/world/us-expanding-its-eff...

Yes it is easy to blow up shopping centers. Hence the Boston Marathon bombing. Hence the surveillance programs that ostensibly identify and investigate and stop potential bombers. …

I think the best solution would be to have the NSA and other security apparatuses stop or significantly scale down their surveillance programs for a few years. Two scenarios would …

... do you think the EU isn't spying on the US? It would be absurdly naive to think they weren't.

> uses the unreasonably invasive tools to save the day and is never brought to account for it by anyone. Except that no one knows about it besides he and Fox, so how can he be brou…

Except, you know, all the movies where the antagonist is actually given a backstory or character development. Example: Safe House where eventually the audience is shown that the re…

The same Bourne movies where the government is portrayed as being nefarious and overreaching and the people they 'look up' in their databases are foreign or domestic spies?

So.. do you have any examples of this? Because I have a counter example: A large part of the drama in shows like Law and Order on the legal side comes from the process of acquiring…

No, I don't think that would be an appropriate headline in that case. But that is somewhat of a red herring/straw man since I am sincerely doubtful that was the first headline they…

If you want 'critical' reporting, I highly recommend Rachel Maddow or Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olberman or Glenn Beck. Pick whichever flavor you want.

He anticipated this point and explicitly acknowledged there are levels of opinion.

As if that was the only headline or angle the NY Times displayed on the front page about that story as that story evolved. C'mon man.

> - note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times 1. As of right now, the story is linked to on the front page in the Opinion box since this is an opinio…

> Maybe because outside... I explicitly acknowledged this in the very next sentence. The difference is that you assert this as a fact (for which you have no evidence) and I state i…

I think your fictional example perfectly captures how flawed your argument is.

It seems that no one who brings this argument up acknowledges the possibility that terrorism doesn't seem like a big threat precisely because of the extreme precautions taken to st…

The video is probably gonna be offputting for some people but it's hilarious. I actually laughed out loud at it.

Currying is like air in functional programming. Here's a small example: map (+ 3) [1, 2, 3] == [4, 5, 6]

I really would like to use this but it seems like it's getting hammered right now. Edit: seems to be working now

And how about the students in different sections not taught by this teacher who have a closed-book no-collaboration final exam?

Is it cheating if you specifically take this class taught by this professor (as opposed to the same class taught by a different professor) because you know her final exam will be o…