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Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
For some reason, what you're describing here reminds me of the Condottieri during the Renaissance. If there's no intrinsic group loyalty, money has to serve as a poor substitute. Poor because your contractors are only as loyal as long as...
Commented on Who ordered *that*?
Slightly off topic, but the Glorious Revolution ended anything but extremely well & very quickly in Ireland, where it resulted in plenty of murder and crying children right down to the present day....
Commented on Tapeworm Logic
Agreed, though if we take "another human = another planet", then "another biome = another part of the home intestinal tract". Actually - thinking further on this, if we give our tapeworms the power of introspection, they might rationally conclude...
Commented on Tapeworm Logic
There's another weakness in the metaphor that nonetheless supports your broader point: Tapeworms have evolved to, as efficiently as possible, given the hostility of the universe, colonise other humans. Hence all the eggs headed arsewards. Humans, meanwhile, have not evolved...

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Mitch Wagner commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
"... I felt uncomfortable for having worked at my last employer for more than 5 years, and I left after 7. And my disomfort came from worrying about the impression I might give future employeers if I'd stuck with my last job too long because it might be a sign of stagnation." I recently found myself making excuses for still working for the same company that hired me in 1989. I explained that I'd actually been laid off twice in that time, and quit of my own accord once. So I've been hired by the same company four times. And...
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm_MGMqV4uXUu1Qn9fuurQnI7EIa4tXvdA commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
Congrats on the name check and basic rehash of your synopsis in the FT today...
mcrodgers commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
BTW, RISKS-FORUM Digest 27.45 quotes and links to your Foreign Policy article....
eabecerra commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
Charles - I'd like to take a moment to point out that part of the problem may have been pointed out by one of your fellow authors, specifically Norman Spinrad in "Little Heroes." Why, so many upper level types ask themselves, should we treat the common man with any respect, as machines seem able to do the job of everything BUT management? With each passing year - each passing MONTH, for that matter - it becomes that much easier to put another job on the "We can program a chip to do this" pile, and arrange things so that the...
halter.steven commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
Nice reference to this in a Bruce Schneier post: Government Secrecy and the Generation Gap...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
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