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I prefer the version "not all that glitters is gold", otherwise it sounds like gold, which glitters, is not gold. Interestingly in Spanish both versions are also popular.
that's the poetic point
"All that glisters is not gold— Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
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Perhaps you're not familiar with Intel's management engine?
If you are suggesting that the IME is being used by the NSA to spy on Americans, there is no [citation needed] big enough for your comment.
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The word order "All that gli[t]ters is not gold" is taken from Shakespeare ( The Merchant of Venice ), so that gives it quite a bit of staying power in English.
Although in the originl he used the word "glister".
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Perhaps you're not familiar with Intel's management engine?
If you are suggesting that the IME is being used by the NSA to spy on Americans, there is no [citation needed] big enough for your comment.
Knowing what I know of enterprise coding standards, the likelihood is greater that it is being abused than it isn't.
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Perhaps you're not familiar with Intel's management engine?
If you are suggesting that the IME is being used by the NSA to spy on Americans, there is no [citation needed] big enough for your comment.
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Can you go into more detail please? I am very much against authoritarianism and the state as a whole, though I am in favour of certain modes of social organisation some consider unorthodox. I think we should educate each generation on the influence of power on people, the benefits and drawbacks of democracy, care for one's fellow man, the societal structure of capitalism, among other things. Edit: preferably via Prie…
I mean it's this spot on earth where the nightmare reality of total authoritarianism lives today. We can look at it from without, to whatever extent possible, and remind ourselves that every generation earns the freedom that it has. Having something concrete like North Korea is much more powerful than a book like Nineteen Eighty-Four, a work of literature about some hypothetical place. What's interesting about total…
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Can you go into more detail please? I am very much against authoritarianism and the state as a whole, though I am in favour of certain modes of social organisation some consider unorthodox. I think we should educate each generation on the influence of power on people, the benefits and drawbacks of democracy, care for one's fellow man, the societal structure of capitalism, among other things. Edit: preferably via Prie…
I mean it's this spot on earth where the nightmare reality of total authoritarianism lives today. We can look at it from without, to whatever extent possible, and remind ourselves that every generation earns the freedom that it has. Having something concrete like North Korea is much more powerful than a book like Nineteen Eighty-Four, a work of literature about some hypothetical place. What's interesting about total…
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I mean it's this spot on earth where the nightmare reality of total authoritarianism lives today. We can look at it from without, to whatever extent possible, and remind ourselves that every generation earns the freedom that it has. Having something concrete like North Korea is much more powerful than a book like Nineteen Eighty-Four, a work of literature about some hypothetical place. What's interesting about total…
Strong disagree. North Korea is a disastrous country run by a truly evil government. However, it does not perform the role you suggest. We merely look on it from the outside in, with all of our small and little prejudices, and selectively picked historical knowledge. From such a vantage point, authoritarian always seems wrong. From the outside, it's trivial to understand and trivial to criticize. From within, from a…
PS Thank you from the recommendations. I've tried some of those and couldn't get in to them. Will try again maybe it's the right time.
PSS > However, it does not perform the role you suggest.
I think that depends on who's looking, and at what. The OP is what really got me. Can't imagine having an app called "Trace Viewer" on my phone. Really brought me in to that day to day. And maybe my perspective on NK is different because I was born in the Soviet Union, and despite leaving at age 5, that has been the backdrop to my entire life.
Random fact that I learned recently, 20% of the North Korean population was killed during the Korean War (1950-1953). Mostly with Napalm. :(