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Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

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Post by aaron695 »

thesadman wrote: post #14

Ugh, do people still waste their time with TIME magazine and their "storied" polls? Sorry, but it is the equivalent of a tabloid because for the last 10 years the quality of articles have been continuously dropping. To see it linked here on HN is unfortunate. Lets spend our time on more interesting topics.

The masses read the tabloids, if they are not on your side then you're the minority.

Which leaves you with the only other options put up with the status quo or leave.

Until we get our seasteading going the tabloids are very important.

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#22

Post by PixelPusher »

orik wrote: post #17
PixelPusher wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bottom line, he's a traitor. Beyond that, most of the laws that helped start this were set into effect years ago. Where were the people crying then? Most people complain about having their privacy taken away when using free online services. All I see are a bunch of ignorant loud mouths who got angry too late.

Yeah because how dare any citizen question it's government, right? /s

Are you serious? You can question everything you want as an ordinary citizen. The moment you sign a contract, specially for the military, you agree to keep your word.

So, right, how dare the government hold someone to their word? You're basically advocating lying and not honoring your promises.

BTW - I basically make a living honoring promises and contracts, otherwise we wouldn't have customers ;)

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#24

Post by ggambetta »

vertis wrote: post #5
brokenparser wrote: post #4

Poll requires Facebook 0/10 would not vote again

Or twitter. Honestly, It's easier than making people sign up for an account (safer too, since they don't leave an unhashed password in their database)

Or twitter:

----------

This application will be able to:

Read Tweets from your timeline.

See who you follow, and follow new people.

Update your profile.

Post Tweets for you.

----------

SRSLY?

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#25

Post by PixelPusher »

MattBearman wrote: post #16
PixelPusher wrote: post #7

No way, I don't vote for traitors. All his US supporters are a bunch of Benedict Arnolds. BTW, just voted for Miley. She definitely made my year.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Traitor (noun) a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle. Damn right he's a traitor, but only a traitor to the US government. To millions of people (like me) he's a hero.

And where were people like you several years ago when the laws were signed that allow the government to tap into network lines?

A hero and their army are useless when they're late to the war.

I don't honor traitors, but go ahead and worship him all you want.

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#26

Post by tjaerv »

vertis wrote: post #5
brokenparser wrote: post #4

Poll requires Facebook 0/10 would not vote again

Or twitter. Honestly, It's easier than making people sign up for an account (safer too, since they don't leave an unhashed password in their database)

Ended up not voting because they are asking for way too many Twitter OAuth privileges (including following and posting with my account, plus updating my profile).

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#27

Post by milesokeefe »

ggambetta wrote: post #24
vertis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or twitter. Honestly, It's easier than making people sign up for an account (safer too, since they don't leave an unhashed password in their database)

Or twitter: ---------- This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. ---------- SRSLY?

Eh, vote then revoke access to the app.

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#28

Post by MattBearman »

PixelPusher wrote: post #25
MattBearman wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Traitor (noun) a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle. Damn right he's a traitor, but only a traitor to the US government. To millions of people (like me) he's a hero.

And where were people like you several years ago when the laws were signed that allow the government to tap into network lines? A hero and their army are useless when they're late to the war. I don't honor traitors, but go ahead and worship him all you want.

Where was I? School

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#29

Post by MattBearman »

lignuist wrote: post #19

Poll 2010: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288... And then it became: http://content.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2010/ So probably this year it will be Miley Cyrus...

Currently (and thankfully) Edward Snowden has 10x more votes than Miley Cyrus

Re: Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

#30

Post by ethana »

aaron695 wrote: post #21
thesadman wrote: post #14

Ugh, do people still waste their time with TIME magazine and their "storied" polls? Sorry, but it is the equivalent of a tabloid because for the last 10 years the quality of articles have been continuously dropping. To see it linked here on HN is unfortunate. Lets spend our time on more interesting topics.

The masses read the tabloids, if they are not on your side then you're the minority. Which leaves you with the only other options put up with the status quo or leave. Until we get our seasteading going the tabloids are very important.

Correction: The mass of baby boomers who still have subscription ;)

Although in TIME's defense, their POY is still better than the Nobel Peace Prize.

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