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prefer; Jefferson's Bourbon; Knob Creek {prefer; *preferred-item; *item-preferred-to+} {*format; *data}
Tell me your preferences -- what things you like more than other things -- and I'll know who you are.
- Sean McBride
prefer; Leningrad; St. Petersburg. prefer; Manhattan; the Bronx. prefer; Oslo; Stockholm. prefer; Switzerland; Germany. prefer; Maine; Massachusetts. prefer; summer in Minnesota; winter in Minnesota. prefer; winter in Minnesota; summer in Florida. prefer; smoked salmon; fried catfish. prefer; oceans; lakes. prefer; walking; driving. prefer; flying; walking. prefer; movies; plays. I suppose that is the format you want. Do you only want one preference?
- Todd
Fascinating -- it's clear that dyads and binary contrastives -- preferring one thing over another -- reveal much more about one's mind, personality and tastes than simple likes -- especially with finely tuned discriminations like you made. And you get the format. But it's infinitely extensible: {prefer; A; B; C; D+} says that one prefers A over B, B over C, C over D, etc. -- each pairwise progression through the list is a unique dyad and part of a hierarchical chain.
- Sean McBride
That one comment tells one much more about yourself than all your previous comments combined. (Assuming that it isn't an invented persona. :))
- Sean McBride
Some things that one might prefer over another: 1. academic fields 2. activities 3. actors 4. actresses 5. albums 6. architects 7. athletes 8. authors 9. bands 10. bars 11. beaches 12. billionaires 13. board games 14. book publishers 15. books 16. bookstores 17. brands 18. buildings 19. cafes 20. card games 21. cars 22. cat breeds 23. celebrities 24. centuries 25. charities 26. cities...
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- Sean McBride
The more preferences the better -- the more data to mine.
- Sean McBride
Syntax note: when including multiple notes on a line, enclosing each note in parentheses makes them more readable for human being and less ambiguous for machine parsing -- for instance: (prefer; one; two) (prefer; blue; green) (prefer; five; six) (prefer; tennis; soccer) (prefer; chess; poker) (prefer; swimming; running)
- Sean McBride
Another more compact syntactic style for handling multiple statements under a single format: prefer; (one; two) (blue; green) (five; six) (tennis; soccer) (chess; poker) (swimming; running)
- Sean McBride
"That one comment tells one much more about yourself than all your previous comments combined." That's funny. I listed some of my preferences, but I can't imagine how the list would say more than actual comments. What would you do with such a list?
- Todd
If you look at the world with an eye of a novelist, personality traits, tastes, behavioral patterns, etc. are much more interesting and revealing about a person than political beliefs. And I am especially noticing lately that a "prefer" or "preference" (with two or more contrastive items) is much more powerful and revealing than a "like" for understanding anyone.
- Sean McBride
What can one do with these lists? Anything you can imagine, I guess. Mine them six ways to Sunday.
- Sean McBride
# Google search tips: useful opening qualifiers
1. best 2. best deals 3. best selling 4. highest ranked 5. highest rated 6. largest 7. leading 8. least expensive 9. most 10. most expensive 11. most highly ranked 12. most highly rated 13. most popular 14. most recommended 15. top 16. top ranked 17. top rated 18. top selling 19. world's best 20. world's leading 21. world's most 22. world's top
- Sean McBride
The best programming language is the one that is empowering the most important innovation in the world.
So Python or C, which means C. ;)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Actually, probably Python at the moment. It's situated at the sweet spot.
- Sean McBride
The JVM should get a mention too.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
More than a mention -- huge.
- Sean McBride
It's just another form of a genetic superiority argument.
- Todd Hoff
Actually, one could use objective and empirical methods to graph how large a role various programming languages are playing in various sectors of the global economy. That would be an interesting Big Data problem to wrestle with.
- Sean McBride
My highly simplified (and simplistic) method for thinking about this: to notice which programming languages are being used to power the new Internet services that I think are the most interesting. Highly subjective, of course. When I think Google, I think Python; Prismatic, Clojure; and so on.
- Sean McBride
Your objective measure would tell you far more about the people and the times they were and the problems they addressed than it would tell you about the programming language. You have hidden variables everywhere yet you are assigning them to one cause. Bad Data.
- Todd Hoff
# sort programming languages by popularity at * in 2013 1. Apple 2. Cambridge (University) 3. DARPA contractors 4. European intelligence agencies 5. Facebook 6. Fortune 500 companies 7. Google 8. Harvard 9. Microsoft 10. MIT 11. Oxford (University) 12. Stanford 13. Twitter 14. US intelligence agencies 15. Yale
- Sean McBride
And: by increase in popularity for the past year, decade.
- Sean McBride
Those lists would be interesting to look at.
- Sean McBride
Who will be the John McCarthys, Larry Walls, Guido van Rossums and Yukihiro Matsumotos of the 2010s and 2020s?
Can't wait to find out, and see what they come up with.
- Sean McBride
What are the fundamental semantic structures undergirding all human symbol systems? How can we best represent and notate them?
We're working on that. (The human race, that is.)
- Sean McBride
CNBC's American Greed: Scams, Schemes, and Broken Dreams (Mouli Cohen) - http://www.cnbc.com/id...
"Dealing in Deceit San Francisco entrepreneur Samuel "Mouli" Cohen starts an internet music company and fraudulently takes in $31 million from celebrities, investors, and a charity dedicated to help the poor. He claims they will make a fortune when his company is sold to Microsoft. But there is no deal. The millions go to fund his opulent mansion, a private jet, and a priceless art collection. When his scam is revealed investors find out the mansion and jet are rented and the artwork is fake. They were all part of his lies."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
I was flipping cable TV channels last night and happened on this episode of American Greed -- it perhaps has some relevance to the topic of financial corruption. An amazing story about psychological manipulation, deceit and large-scale theft.
- Sean McBride
He presented himself as a high-minded philanthropist while ripping off some of the most needy people in San Francisco.
- Sean McBride
His wife. Stacy Cohen, wrote a book -- "The Kosher Billionaire's Secret Recipe" http://www.amazon.com/Kosher-...
- Sean McBride
Really make an effort to watch this documentary -- it is being broadcast today. What I found myself thinking is that the fraud committed by Mouli Cohen (to the tune of $31 million) is trivial compared to the fraud committed by neoconservatives, who manipulated and tricked Americans into spending several trillion dollars on "the Global War on Terror" (including the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars).
- Sean McBride
Also, Bernard Madoff ripped off billions of dollars from his victims, not millions.
- Sean McBride
Twitter: Mouli Cohen https://twitter.com/search...
- Sean McBride
You can watch the episode for free on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- Sean McBride
Odd you should mention American Greed.....I happen to have watched it one night this week when it was about the Jewish mafia in New Jersey......the organ selling Rabbis and the Jewish Charities money laundering ring----and showed the international scope of it----mostly between the US and Israel. I was surprised to see this shown as 'so Jewish' in the way it was presented.....this one...
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- American
I am beginning to think that the American Greed series may constitute an invaluable guide to what has gone wrong in American culture in recent decades -- I need to look into other episodes. I just became aware of it recently.
- Sean McBride
It seems to be rigorously fact-checked -- I don't see how any group could possibly object to it.
- Sean McBride
It strikes me that the mainstream media overall have done a horrible and disgraceful job of covering the cases and issues that have been explored in American Greed. Why aren't the New York Times and the Washington Post on this beat?
- Sean McBride
The sociopathic personalities profiled by American Greed have the potential to crash and bring down the entire American financial and political system. We seem to be breeding them in droves.
- Sean McBride
It seems to be rigorously fact-checked -- I don't see how any group could possibly object to it. - Sean McBride''......I've seen it several times by accident.of channel flipping.. now it sort of interest me. I think they only cover or present cases where there has been a criminal indictment and gulty findings against their subjects.
- American
Lisp - made with secret alien technology - http://lispers.org/
“Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp.” — Paul Graham
- Sean McBride
“Programming in Lisp is like playing with the primordial forces of the universe. It feels like lightning between your fingertips. No other language even feels close.” — Glenn Ehrlich, Road to Lisp
- Sean McBride
“The language God would have used to implement the Universe.” — Svein Ove Aas, Road to Lisp
- Sean McBride
“The greatest single programming language ever designed.” — Alan Kay, on Lisp
- Sean McBride
Extreme syntax | The Endeavour - http://www.johndcook.com/blog...
"Lisp is the result of taking syntax away, Perl is the result of taking syntax all the way."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"Lisp practically has no syntax. It simply has parenthesized expressions. This makes it very easy to start using the language. And above all, it makes it easy to treat code as data. Lisp macros are very powerful, and these macros are made possible by the fact that the language is simple to parse."
- Sean McBride
"Perl has complex syntax. Some people say it looks like line noise because its liberal use of non-alphanumeric characters as operators. Perl is not easy to parse — there’s a saying that only Perl can parse Perl — nor is it easy to start using. But the language was designed for regular users, not beginners, because you spend more time using a language than learning it."
- Sean McBride
Important insight about the evolution of notation schemes:
- Sean McBride
"Symbols can make text more expressive. If you’ve ever tried to read mathematics from the 18th or 19th century, you’ll see what I mean. Before the 20th century, math publications were very verbose. It might take a paragraph to say what would now be said in a single equation. In part this is because notation has developed and standardized over time. Also, it is now much easier to typeset the symbols someone would use in handwriting. Perl’s repertoire of symbols is parsimonious compared to mathematics."
- Sean McBride
"People joke about how unreadable Perl code is, but I think a page of well-written Perl is easier to read than a page of well-written Lisp. At least the Perl is easier to scan: Lisp’s typographical monotony makes it hard to skim for landmarks. One might argue that a page of Lisp can accomplish more than a page of Perl, and that may be true, but that’s another topic."
- Sean McBride
Nice phase: "typographical monotony"
- Sean McBride
How about we split the difference and just say that they are both equally difficult to read and shouldn't be used by professional programmers.
- Cristo
"What if programming notation were more like music notation? Music notation is predominately non-verbal, but people learn to read it fluently with a little training. And it expresses concurrency very easily. Or maybe programs could look more like choral music, a mixture of symbols and prose."
- Sean McBride
You're a nuts and bolts kind of guy -- there is a need for that kind of thing.
- Sean McBride
I need to look at APL and J. (Great comments on a great article here.)
- Sean McBride
Comment: "I think with Lisp it depends on how you name you fns & API. When I’m using well developed Clojure libraries and name my fns in some readable way I can produce code that is almost sentence-like… if you kinda get used to all the parens around, you can then read the code like prose… (and I think this applies to CL too) With Perl, it’s just too maximalist for me "
- Sean McBride
Yeah, I leave all that design and architecture stuff to the guys with big brains.
- Cristo
Check out the big brains on Lispers.... (Pulp Fiction)
- Sean McBride
sort (*, *company (*, board members, employees, leaders, owners), *forum (*, commenters, owners, visitors), *group members, *meeting attendees, *organization (*, funders, leaders, members, owners), *person funders, *project (*, owners, members), *publication (*, owners, writers), *website (*, owners, visitors) by *
A Lispy syntax that does the job with the fewest characters.
- Sean McBride
*ugly
- Cristo
Cristo -- this is for machines to read. It can be made as pretty as you like for human consumption, with a snap of the fingers (or a tiny bit of code).
- Sean McBride
Or you could write it to be easy to read by humans, which is often easy to read by computers. For example, JSON is easier than this.
- Cristo
There is a mindset and aesthetic behind Lisp-style thinking that non-Lispers don't seem to grasp. :) You need a revelation -- a eureka moment or conceptual breakthrough -- to get it.
- Sean McBride
Cristo, he complains that it has too many symbols, and he doesn't like having to use the shift-key to write the "'s that are necessary. I've argued too much about the finer points of JSON vs this stuff, with Sean.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
JSON can't use ' ?
- Cristo
Not valid JSON. It sometimes works, though.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Lisp-style thinking encourages a hierarchical and well-organized multidimensional perspective on the world -- with minimum cruft.
- Sean McBride
Sean, I first experienced LISP in 1984. I'm going to go out on a limb and say a eureka moment regarding LISP is unlikely for me at this point.
- Cristo
I know many really smart people who don't get Lisp but who get many other important things. For some people, the parentheses are an impossible cognitive hurdle.
- Sean McBride
Define LISP-style thinking. Everything should be written in the same format? LISP is great for generating DSL's; why box yourself in.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
The parens are not a cognitive hurdle, they're just annoying and lacking in value after a certain depth.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Sean is a troll with parenthesis surrounding him. He claims some superior insight, but I think it's just academic bullshit. I've implemented this stuff and written tons of Lisp and Prolog. It's not better—just different.
- Cristo
People should use whatever notational systems most turn them on. I am not dogmatic on these issues. And, in any case, notational systems are in a state of perpetual evolution. YAML has already superceded JSON for quite a few people -- it's cleaner.
- Sean McBride
I've never gotten a chub over syntax, but plenty of arguments on various merits and demerits. Mostly it's just a waste of time.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
The above notation permits one to generate 20 lists with 316 characters -- it's convenient -- and its logic is obvious and transparent. (Actually one can generate millions of lists from that expression when the variable names are bound with variable values.)
- Sean McBride
l=[]*20 <- I just generated 20 lists with 7 characters.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Jimminy -- have you ever studied the history of notational systems across all domains, including analytical philosophy, linguistics, symbolic logic and mathematics? -- it's a huge and important subject -- and rapidly evolving all the time.
- Sean McBride
Your notation is utterly devoid of semantics.
- Sean McBride
No, I don't have time for that, nor do I really care about Musical Notation or numerous other notational systems.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I suspected that was the case.
- Sean McBride
Have you studied the history of notational systems across all domains? Has anyone?
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Jimminy -- I assume you have at least mastered OWL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and SPARQL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...?
- Sean McBride
I stopped caring about them 4-5 years ago. I was proficient for a period, but they weren't worth it. Good ideas, ok implementation, but unnecessary. I've moved on from the concept.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
"moved on from the concept"? Which Semantic Web research fronts do you think are most promising?
- Sean McBride
An interesting blog post on some of these issues by John Cook: "Extreme Syntax" http://www.johndcook.com/blog...
- Sean McBride
The core issue for the Semantic Web -- what is the best way to represent, organize and notate all the knowledge and facts in the world? JSON doesn't come close -- it has no notion whatever of semantics. Semantics needs to be baked into the notational scheme.
- Sean McBride
JSON has no intrinsic understanding of objects, properties, values, categories, instances, entities, relations and inferences, which are the core building blocks of semantic structures and systems.
- Sean McBride
I gave up on the idea the the data protocol has to be semantically complete. JSON does have semantics: {} -> Object, [] -> List, "title": x -> key, value, where the key can be a property, category, instance, or relationship, where the value can be an object, list, or string. That's complete enough, while it doesn't have any inherent semantics above and beyond those 3 identities, it is fully functional if you choose to use it as such.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
True: one can use many existing notational schemes to describe and manipulate (often awkwardly) semantic concepts, but I doubt that the world is going to settle on JSON as the scheme of choice. If this were the case, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) wouldn't be furiously churning up new ideas on how to approach this issue.
- Sean McBride
Like I've said, JSON, Thrift, and Proto-Buffers fit all the current needs I have.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
And I respect that. Some people's needs are also completely fulfilled by using COBOL or Basic. But some other people keep inventing new schemes, and that is a useful activity. That impulse produced, for instance, Python, Ruby, Clojure and RDF. These ideas are evolving rapidly. There are always better ways.
- Sean McBride
It's a little different when defining a programming language, than a data protocol though. With programming you're trying to abstract as much of the monotony and simplify the language down to the fewest constructs necessary to still function without losing flexibility. With a data protocol, there is less need to abstract the monotony away; there remain two viewpoints, one tries to be...
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- Jimminy IS Everybody
I like the way you just framed these issues in terms of trade-offs among among simplicity, flexibility, completeness, verbosity, efficiency, readability, etc. I just don't think that we are close yet to sorting out these factors in an optimal way.
- Sean McBride
In response to the question above: the essence of Lisp-style thinking: objects and functions hierarchically nested within other objects and functions, with each modular and standalone object and function clearly demarcated by parentheses. Some people naturally look at the world this way.
- Sean McBride
If we already have all the tools we need to build the Semantic Web in an optimally efficient way, the W3C should disband and stop wasting its time. :) But that isn't going to happen.
- Sean McBride
The only Lisp-specific element in that was the parentheses, the rest is just inheritance and abstraction. I guess you could say something regarding the representation, which is more functional or prototypical than object-oriented. But LISP does not own that model of thinking, just the parentheses.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Yeah, but the W3C doesn't really do a whole lot, they've just been a big CF for the past decade or so. The balls occasionally move in interesting ways, but anymore it's largely outside their domain where the interesting stuff occurs, they just codify it.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
The other key factor about Lisp style: viewing these modular and standalone symbolic expressions as lists of lists. For some people, that model of the world is elegant and beautiful -- it has a certain satisfying conceptual flow.
- Sean McBride
You're right: most of the notational schemes that have been developed "in-house" at W3C haven't caught on -- at least not yet. But W3C is a nexus of interesting activity going on worldwide. It's sorting out and organizing all the best new ideas from many sources, and trying to standardize them.
- Sean McBride
Regarding W3C: the most interesting and influential programming languages, markup languages and notational schemes seem to be created by individuals, not committees -- people with a definite, precise and idiosyncratic vision of how things should be done. For instance: 1. Alain Colmerauer (Prolog) 2. Alan Kay (Smalltalk) 3. Clark Evans (YAML) 4. Dave Winer (RSS 2.0) 5. Dennis Ritchie (C)...
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- Sean McBride
Why this is so: individuals tend to hatch holistic and organic conceptual and syntactic schemes which optimize the relations of parts to the whole. Committees tend to produce sludgy conceptual smorgasbords -- a little bit of this, a little bit of that. The pieces don't fit together beautifully.
- Sean McBride
Creators of great artificial languages need to have a dictatorial temperament -- to a degree. My way or the highway. But they also need to be responsive to smart and insightful feedback.
- Sean McBride
Why Apple is probably going to go downhill fast: it lacks a visionary dictator to replace Steve Jobs. Microsoft is going downhill because Steve Ballmer is a dictator without a compelling vision. Google is rocketing forward because Larry Page is a dictator with an incredibly powerful vision.
- Sean McBride
You left out James Gosling and Dennis Ritchie. From the inside view, there are often many contributors to languages and other projects. There is also often the public view that one person is making all the decisions. That simplifies things for the lay people.
- Cristo
I left out many people (but added Gosling and Ritchie to the list). But the main point stands: most great creative works in most domains are spearheaded by the distinctive and holistic vision of an individual, not a committee.
- Sean McBride
You're spreadheading something, I just haven't figured out what it is yet.
- Cristo
quote; author=Ralph Waldo Emerson; quote=Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.; essay=Self-reliance; date=1841
- Sean McBride
Example: Steve Jobs and Apple.
- Sean McBride
Let me know when you figure it out.
- Sean McBride
Demonizing Mandy Patinkin is a tough sell - http://mondoweiss.net/2013...
'Another soldier in the delegitimization war against Israel'-- that's what the Jewish Press calls Mandy Patinkin for favoring boycott of West Bank settlements and speaking to Peace Now
Mandy Patinkin was cool in the Princess Bride and Homeland. He's a good guy.
- Sean McBride
Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31 - latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/news...
"It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass to Earth on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PDT."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"There is no chance that asteroid 1998 QE2 could collide with Earth this go-around, and its next close approach won't be until 2119. Still, Mainzer said the size of the asteroid, and its potential for mass destruction, should remind us that there are some scary things flying around in space."
- Sean McBride
All it takes is one hit by one object of this size -- finito.
- Sean McBride
The trillions of dollars that have been committed to waging the disastrous Iraq War would have been much more usefully employed developing methods to deal with incoming asteroids.
- Sean McBride
Nested parenthetical expressions of unlimited depth (Lisp-style) provide the best notational mechanism for modeling the world.
All the knowledge in the universe could be represented as a single line of nested parenthetical expressions.
- Sean McBride
IHT Rendezvous: Scientists Agree Overwhelmingly on Global Warming. Why Doesn’t the Public Know That? http://6sen.se/13BUrK8
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We usually don't know what we don't want to know.
- Todd Hoff
The American public usually doesn't know what the owners of the mainstream media don't want them to know. And it often knows things which aren't so. Ignorance by design and social engineering.
- Sean McBride
Comment: "Why doesn't everyone else? Because there has been a deliberate and well funded disinformation campaign from fossil fuel funded right-wing think tanks. This paper gives some additional background. http://abs.sagepub.com/content... It finds that the overwhelming majority of climate denial books - about four out of every five - are largely the products of...
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- Sean McBride
Comment: "If climate scientists seem to agree on global warming, why doesn’t everybody else? Well, duh, because well-funded global-warmers have bullied the media into pretending that there is a controversy, not a consensus. The NYT and many other "respectable" outlets have perpetuated the illusion that there is any kind of scientific disagreement about humans...."
- Sean McBride
Since I no longer have a Fitbit, I'm wondering what the best calorie counting website is. Anybody have a favorite?
LoseIt and I'm sorry you have no Fitbit. I'm finally beating you on steps!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I Google [calories *food] on the fly when I need to know, and compare the top 3 results, which sometimes differ. By the way, Google needs a OneBox for calories.
- Sean McBride
One great thing (among many) about the 5:2 diet: it forces you to learn about the caloric content of foods in minute detail.
- Sean McBride
I am looking for a small dedicated pedometer to track distances walked in place of my bulky smartphone -- is there a better choice than this? "Ozeri 4x3sport Digital Pocket 3D Pedometer with Tri-Axis Technology and 30 Day Memory http://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-4...
- Sean McBride
I was already looking at calorie info on foods before 5:2. Fitbit and other sites allow you to input the food you eat to add up the calories and keep a food diary for you. You can choose your favorite foods so that you only have to look them up or enter the nutrition info once.
- Cristo
Those sites are valuable -- also MyFitnessPal -- but I tend to like to do things my own way with tracking and organizing this data, in my streaming notebook, along with everything else in my life. Once you get a fitness regime figured out and working comfortably and effectively, you can pretty much go on automatic pilot -- it just needs a bit of tweaking now and then.
- Sean McBride
Everything can be done from within vi. All the other stuff is just sugar coating.
- Cristo
vi is great -- as well as some other text editors. I like Textpad and Notepad++. Some people are Emacs devotees. They are incredibly powerful if you know how to use them. I rarely touch word processors (like Microsoft Word) -- too sludgy and slushy. In any case, it's easy to take, manage and retrieve notes with a great text editor.
- Sean McBride
I am betting that driverless cars and smartglasses are going to be huge. Driverless cars will probably be the more revolutionary and impactful technology.
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Those who have been ridiculing smartglasses will probably feel as foolish as those who ridiculed the PC, smartphone and ebook revolutions. Some folks are a bit slow to get what's going on.
- Sean McBride
The implications of driverless cars are many and vast, especially in terms of increasing overall human productivity.
- Sean McBride
I'm also betting that driverless cars and smartglasses will be huge. Not only that, but I'm betting that mankind will travel to other planets and star systems. I'm betting eventually we will transcend material reality as we know it.
- Cristo
Smartglasses: mass acceptance within the next few years. Driverless cars: mass acceptance within the next two decades or so (perhaps sooner). Visiting other planets in our solar system: perhaps Mars in a decade or so. Visiting other star systems: no idea (who knows -- we may discover a shortcut). Transcending material reality as we know it: some mystics have been doing that for millennia.
- Sean McBride
Driverless over the road transport vehicles and taxi's first then personal vehicles ?
- Eric
Probably all at once, if the technology is good to go? Some game-changing benefits: 1. almost no more accidents (people tend to be lousy drivers) 2. enormous energy savings due to increased driving efficiency 3. fewer traffic jams 4. option to work while taking car trips 5. ability to sleep while taking long car trips. Just the tip of the iceberg.
- Sean McBride
Define mass acceptance.
- Cristo
Mass acceptance: the same level of penetration in the general population as laptops and smartphones.
- Sean McBride
Total smartphones shipped worldwide in 2011: 488 million. Total PCs shipped worldwide in 2011: 415 million. How many smartglasses will be shipped worldwide in 2015? We shall see. Will it make the 100 million cut?
- Sean McBride
So by 2018, there will be more than 100 million smartglasses shipped per year?
- Cristo
That's a possibility -- but I am not going to commit to any prediction until I actually mess around with a pair for a few weeks and see what my gut says. I want to make sure that there are no physiological gotchas with the technology (eyestrain, headaches, dissociative fugue states :), whatever).
- Sean McBride
One really neat thing about smartglasses: the ability to read documents (including maps, manuals, clinical data, etc.) with both hands free.
- Sean McBride
I have that ability currently.
- Cristo
Book holders are a bit more bulky and less mobile than glasses -- and the documents they hold don't respond to voice commands.
- Sean McBride
I hate voice commands. Mostly because they don't work, but partially because I don't want to hear you fucking talking to a device. There's enough noise pollution in the world already.
- Cristo
I don't even know what a book holder is.
- Cristo
Mass adoption of driverless cars would have to overcome Americans' innate desire to control a big hunk of metal. Trying to take people's cars away is probably going to be as hard as trying to take people's guns away.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I think you already know my opinion and prediction about smartglasses. They're an abomination that will saturate a niche, but won't become completely mass-market. Fortunately.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I agree that many people are lousy drivers, but what happens when a lousy driver has to take over for a malfunctioning driverless car? I think I also read something recently about a robot surgeon botching a surgery.
- Todd
Google voice commands work perfectly for me with the latest Android -- with astonishing accuracy and speed -- I can talk at normal tempo and volume and almost never have to repeat myself. I use voice commands often, especially in the car or at home -- but never in close public places.
- Sean McBride
Tinfoil -- I'm betting you're missing the boat on smartglasses and driverless cars. But feel free to dig in your heels. :) I've seen this pattern play out many times before.
- Sean McBride
I don't envision people wearing smartglasses all the time -- just when they serve a useful function. One doesn't consult one's smartphone all the time -- just when one needs to.
- Sean McBride
I'll bet that driverless cars will malfunction much less frequently than people. Human drivers malfunction on a regular basis. We're not as smart or attentive as we think we are. We can easily become fatigued or distracted.
- Sean McBride
I had the image of my 90+ grandmother freaking out as her driverless car malfunctioned.
- Todd
How often do human predictors malfunction?
- Cristo
Most of the time for most of them.
- Sean McBride
Sean, your predictions are as much a result of you drinking the Kool-Aid® as mine are of not drinking it. You can claim to be data-driven, but it's just herding cats, entropy wins. We each have our biases, we're probably both wrong, and the future will actually develop in some as-yet unforeseen way. :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
We will be able to reality check our respective smartglasses predictions relatively soon (within a year or two). May the better futurist win. :)
- Sean McBride
Welcome to Google Island, Sean ;) http://www.wired.com/gadgetl...
- Tinfoil 2.0
Umm in the same way IBM smart glasses saturated "mass" marketplace in 2000?!? Those futurists missed it too and as for driverless cars, at staple of Pop Sci magazine since about 1949 along with the flying cars... #waitingformyflyingcar
- WarLord
That Mat Honan article on Wired -- funny -- and raises some serious issues.
- Sean McBride
An important difference between flying cars and driverless cars: driverless cars work -- and they will greatly increase safety, not reduce it.
- Sean McBride
No Sean, there is no difference, every so often we get excited about new tech and seldom the vast population agrees that excitement is justified. Much like a viral video, predicting which of our "exciting new tech" will "go viral" is impossible until well after it has become reality. Frankly Google flirtation with cars give me no confidence of "this time for sure"
- WarLord
Warlord -- what in your mind are the most significant new technologies that have gained mass acceptance over the last four decades?
- Sean McBride
I believe both self-driving, flying, and self-flying cars will occur in the future.
- Cristo
I think so too -- unless we wipe ourselves out first.
- Sean McBride
Also, I believe that saying things will happen in the future is not very valuable.
- Cristo
Well, it's interesting to get various points of view on these kinds of forecasts, and the reasoning behind them.
- Sean McBride
# sort Mondoweiss commenters by *
1. affiliations 2. Arab affiliations 3. Christian affiliations 4. city 5. email address 6. employers 7. ethnicity 8. fame 9. gender 10. Google PageRank 11. highest degrees 12. highest security clearance 13. intelligence affiliations 14. IP address 15. Israeli affiliations 16. Jewish affiliations 17. Klout Score 18. military affiliations 19. Mossad affiliations 20. Muslim affiliations 21. nations of citizenship 22. nations of residence 23. net worth 24. number of accusations of antisemitism 25. number of anti-*topic comments 26. number of anti-Jewish comments 27. number of anti-Muslim comments 28. number of cited sources 29. number of comments 30. number of comments on * 31. number of communications with *nation 32. number of communications with *organization 33. number of communications with *organization-type 34. number of communications with *person 35. number of communications with *person-type 36. number of ethnocentric comments 37. number of Internet searches on * 38. number of...
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- Sean McBride
sort (*, ethnic, religious) groups by number of Mondoweiss (*, articles, commenters, comments, writers, top 10 donors)
- Sean McBride
Why this sorting, sean? are you doing the "devil"'s advocacy or is there an overarching reason?
- Danaa
Danaa -- I think it's a good idea to be fully aware of the kind of data mining that can be performed by various parties today, and no doubt is, not only on Mondoweiss, but on every conceivable domain under the sun. See my main feed https://friendfeed.com/seanmcb... to understand where I am coming from on information processing issues. Some of these data mining technologies are...
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- Sean McBride
Danaa -- the general public is absolutely clueless about these technologies and what can be done now -- and that is largely by deliberation by the people who have developed and control them. It is especially important to comprehend that one has absolutely no real privacy on the Internet, unless you are using state-of-the-art encryption -- and that may be crackable by some parties. All of our Internet activities are an open book to those with the authority (or skills) to read it.
- Sean McBride
By the way, I left some other comments for you back on April 27 -- they are easy to find with the search expression Friendfeed [incomment:danaa group:mondoweiss-on-friendfeed] https://friendfeed.com/search...
- Sean McBride
Where I'm coming from on the lists business: https://friendfeed.com/seanmcb... It's what's happening at the cutting edge of information technology and social science (including political science and practical politics), whether one likes it or not.
- Sean McBride
Thanks Sean, i will consult your main page to get a better idea of where you are coming from. Also thanks for sending me to those older comments of yours - frankly, right after I dropped my own comment, things got hectic busy-crazy again and I failed to return to check on that thread. Your compliment in particular is most appreciated. Those i can use any day. I miss chatting with you,...
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- Danaa
BTW, haven't seen you in evidence at MW in some time. Shortly after your big brouhaha with Mooser, in fact. Speaking of whom, Mooser has also absented himself of late, though he has been seen posting elsewhere. Curious and curioser, as they say. I know MW comments have slowed to a painfully glacial pace. partly deliberately, no doubt, partly, lack of time for moderation (or so I'm...
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- Danaa
Danaa -- I decided to stop commenting on Mondoweiss after running into a brick wall in my efforts to open up a conversation about the role of the worldwide Jewish religious establishment in promoting the fusion of the ideologies of Judaism and Zionism. Getting to the bottom of this issue strikes me as the key to moving Israeli politics in a more positive and less dangerous direction --...
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- Sean McBride
Good luck on your book -- I look forward to reading it.
- Sean McBride
Sean, regarding the unfortunate fusion between judaism and zionism - that's a topic that's is brought up - often enough lately - not just on MW, including in Marc Ellis' series. I am reading a book, in fact, on this very theme right now, and as you know, have commented on this multiple times before. Unfortunately, the current state of affairs on this debate is that there's a desire -...
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- Danaa
Danaa -- I think the trend towards conflating Judaism with Zionism continues to move at a much faster than glacial pace and that that ideology/attitude is becoming a hardened belief system in the Jewish establishment and the world at large (which takes its lead on these matters from the Jewish establishment) -- which means that Zionism now has the potential to retroactively discredit...
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- Sean McBride
Re: Mondoweiss: I still think it's a valuable forum, and I agree with most of the views expressed in it, but I doubt that it will have much success in modifying the views of the Jewish establishment on Israeli politics (not to mention the views of the Christian Zionist establishment -- which is much more hardheaded and stiff-necked than the Jewish establishment, and less open to rational thinking and dialogue).
- Sean McBride
You and I are both bored by ghetto walls of all types -- we barely notice them. I would like to think that most Americans share our views. Most Americans I know do. But militant self-ghettoizers in the world have the power to wreak a great deal of mischief and havoc on all of us. I am predicting mischief and havoc in our future over these issues -- much more than we have already experienced.
- Sean McBride
Read Gilad Atzmon's latest on Veteran's Today: "Take It From the Rabbi’s Mouth." He quotes a treatise/whatever written by 757 Rabbis in 1942, called "Zionism: An Affirmation of Judaism." http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013... The original 1942 article is here: "Zionism: An Affirmation of Judaism," http://a2vigil.org/judaism... But read Atzmon's amplification. A lot of food for thought.
- MRW_8
Thanks for the heads-up, Danaa: "MRW is another commenter who's all too aware of what it means to "come out" as non-Jewish." The worst of it is my own family who now view me as anti-semitic for MENTIONING THE WORD ISRAEL. What keeps their knee-jerkism at bay are my educational degrees, something none of them can match in level, (school) source, or number. Age, I've been reading,...
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- MRW_8
Speaking for myself, and myself only -- I've noticed that if I become too relentlessly angry at one, and only one, factor or player in the world -- especially in global politics -- I need to stand back, take stock and reboot. It is easy to go off the rails when trying to read reality -- there are well-known pitfalls and traps to avoid. Overfocusing on this or that element of the world...
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- Sean McBride
# Converging technologies and research fronts 1. artificial intelligence 2. automated knowledge discovery 3. bibliometrics 4. Big Data 5. biometrics 6. citation analysis 7. cloud computing 8. content analysis 9. corpus linguistics 10. data mining 11. data visualization 12. deep learning 13. face recognition 14. intelligent assistants 15. Internet of Things 16. list processing 17....
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- Sean McBride
MRW -- that article with the introduction by Gilad Atzmon is very important -- not every article that Veterans Today publishes is without merit. The worldwide Jewish establishment has worked hard to define Judaism as messianic Jewish ethnic nationalism -- now it has to live with the consequences, which will probably be appalling.
- Sean McBride
A major factor in play: Zionism has been immensely profitable for the American military-industrial complex.
- Sean McBride
I would actually go to the library (yes, pre-five-years-old) and ask the librarian to look up things ''...MRW.''.....LOL...you too? I remember hearing the adults mention a book written about our town that was some sort of scandal and when I asked about it I got sushed up. and brushed off,naturally making me even more curious ..so I trotted to the local library to find it, whereupon I was once again told by the librarian I wasn't old enough to read the book and couldn't check it out.
- American
'' I've noticed that if I become too relentlessly angry at one, and only one, factor or player in the world -- sean'.......Nothing wrong wth beng relentlessly angry about something ..that's how things get corrected ...but yeah I agree there is something wrong if that's the 'only' thing one is angry about....if people cant connect it to the big picture. RE: US zionism,-- I keep pushing...
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- American
Once you've been indoctrinated into the belief that a particular political movement or nation is the manifestation of a religion -- of the will of God Himself -- it's quite difficult to get one's head and emotions straight on these issues -- even if you are a self-professed rational and secular skeptic. The indoctrination runs deep.
- Sean McBride
I strongly disagree with many policies of the Israeli government and the Israel lobby -- and I know for a certainty that the Israel lobby plays an outsized and sometimes destructive role in American politics -- but by no means do I think that Israel is the only player in world affairs, or even the most important. You need to keep your eye on the ball -- on the big picture -- to see the world whole and in its true proportions.
- Sean McBride
"Shucking and jiving" was a tactic of both survival and resistance. A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, "Oh, yes, Master," and have no real intention to obey. Or an African- American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation. Both would be instances of "doin' the old shuck 'n jive." It has been...
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- pepsi
I kind of agree with American that the "zionism" aspect has sipped into way too many spaces on the US political landscape. One of the memes I've been pushing - including comments on MW American was among the few to take note thereof - is really quite simple: the most unfortunate results of the "sipping-in" corrosive aspects of the enforced zionism in the public sphere is simply...
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- Danaa
BTW, one of the funniest exchanges I had with Keith (who I otherwise rather like) is that in his increasingly desperate attempt to push the empire-uber-ales meme, he has taken to strange reverse-thinking, where the "stupid" effect has actually come from the "empire" and has infected Israel, the vassal to the empire. Interestingly, Chomsky, the ostensible leader of Chomskiite thinking,...
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- Danaa
Danaa -- deep thoughts there. Zionism has produced an immense dumbing down of American foreign and domestic policy that may lead to the collapse of American power -- it has promoted endless self-destructive foreign wars (costing several trillion dollars), the creation of an unconstitutional domestic police state, and the elevation to power in the Congress of Christian Zionists who...
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- Sean McBride
the first people marx/trotsky targeted for genocide were the educated. Same thing with the chinese communists and their soviet advisors. During the arab revolts in palestine in '36 and '38 i believe, british troops slaughtered the educated class of palestine, ensuring short term reactionary decision making against the zionist project. The stupidity in u.s. Gov is not real but enforced...
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- pepsi
Imo.......most every issue we have is linked to our systemic political corruption. We can identify the 'corruptors and their agendas-----the I-firsters corrupted US policy on Isr-ME----WS Elite and greed mongers corrupted US domestic banking and financial policy and so on and on. To get rid of ALL corruption we would literally have to have a big R revolution...so what we do is pull at...
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- American
I remember watching a Richard Pryor comedy special filmed in maybe new orleans in the 70s. At one point he stopped being funny and addressed white racism/jim crow head on. He talked about the underfunding and undermining of black schools, and whites then pointing to the (inevitable) poor performances as proof of black inferiority. Big boos from the white audience. Even phil weiss points...
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- pepsi
Traffic analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Traffic analysis is the process of intercepting and examining messages in order to deduce information from patterns in communication. It can be performed even when the messages are encrypted and cannot be decrypted. In general, the greater the number of messages observed, or even intercepted and stored, the more can be inferred from the traffic. Traffic analysis can be performed in the context of military intelligence or counter-intelligence, and is a concern in computer security."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
Israel hints at new strikes on Syria....warns Syria not to retaliate---http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
Hubris, hubris, hubris........ cult of uber supremist maddness.
- American
What kind of person warns you that he is going to punch you in the face, and that you must not respond?
- Sean McBride
What kind?..a bully.
- American
How to do futurism: pay attention to the smartest, sharpest and most forward-looking people in any field -- if they feel a buzz on something, there's probably a buzz.
This is how the world works -- a few people get something, and then it goes viral. Pay attention to the people with a knack for getting things first, with the most sensitive antennae and best instincts.
- Sean McBride
Forget Google Glass, Recon debuts Android-friendly glasses at I/O | Crave - CNET - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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"Instead, Recon is launching Jet, heads-up display glasses using its own technology. Recon's glasses come with a tiny monitor, like Google Glass, except that it sits near the bottom of the field of vision for the right eye rather than the top. The heads-up display unit includes a dual-core processor; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity; GPS and movement sensors; and a high-definition camera; among other features. That technology lets people wearing Jet-equipped glasses track and film their movements, for example, and upload that data to the Web."
- Sean McBride
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Why the snap of a photo changed my mind about Google Glass — Tech News and Analysis - http://gigaom.com/2013...
"Until I tried them on, I had no interest in wearing Google Glass around town. But the simple snap of a photo with Google Glass on Wednesday without moving my head or hands gave me a new understanding of Glass."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
"I put them on my face and was immediately impressed with how lightweight they felt. Despite their futuristic, clunkly-on-one-side appearance, they didn’t feel very bulky or heavy on my face, and it was easy to see the room around me while wearing them. (Even though they weren’t fitted specifically for my face the way they would be if I purchased them.) The screen felt much smaller and...
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- Sean McBride
"But despite all the drawbacks, speaking the words for the “take photo” command made me realize that even if wearable computing has a pretty dorky image right now, the potential practical applications for real-life people who don’t consider themselves nerds are endless — once the technology gets a little more refined, and we figure out how to use them in public."
- Sean McBride
"I talked to one Google employee who said she sat in her sister’s graduation and streamed video through Glass to family members from afar, and another who said she uses it to take photos of her little kids when her hands are full. I would imagine it could be huge for people with disabilities, or people doing outdoor sports (Kevin mentioned you could take photos of mile markers while running a marathon.)"
- Sean McBride
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013...
"Google Glass, the company’s Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote."
- Sean McBride
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"CNN’s app, for instance, lets people choose which types of news alerts they receive (politics but no sports, for instance), and the time of day at which they are delivered. Then they can read or hear aloud a short summary and watch a video clip."
- Sean McBride
term; Glassware
- Sean McBride
"When people are using Evernote on the Web, they will be able to send notes, like a grocery list, to Glass, so it’s accessible when they need it."
- Sean McBride
"Another new app was built by three of the developers who received an early edition of Glass. It’s a game called Ice Breaker that some people could say bridges the divide between the physical and digital worlds — and others might say creates some socially awkward situations. Glass users see a notification of someone who is also playing the game nearby, and the people introduce themselves and take a picture of one another, rate their conversation and earn points."
- Sean McBride
Early Google Glass users finding 'sense of freedom' - Computerworld - http://www.computerworld.com/s...
"People new to wearing a computer on their face are walking around the conference center, exaggeratedly nodding their heads to activate the devices, and taking pictures and video. They're also checking their email, the weather and flight schedules -- all without taking their smartphones out of their pockets. "I've had this sense of freedom," said Kelly Merrell, director of Android development for Mercury Intermedia. "I realized that with all the notifications I get, I had to keep pulling my phone out and checking it. Now it's no longer an issue. It's made me feel less reliant on my phone.""
- Sean McBride
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"Rachel Roumeliotis, a senior editor at O'Reilly Media, also picked up her pair of Glass this week and has been trying them out at the conference. Asking Glass for directions to get around San Francisco, getting messages and taking videos in her hotel, Roumeliotis said she feels comfortable with Glass."
- Sean McBride
"Glass is designed to take photos and video, send and receive email and even post comments and pictures on social media. The glasses are set up to be controlled by voice, gesture and touch."
- Sean McBride
Many of the anti-Google Glass comments I have noticed have been purely idiotic. I remember many otherwise bright people once claiming that ebooks would never catch on because readers would miss "the smell of paper." :)
- Sean McBride
# Converging technologies and research fronts
1. artificial intelligence 2. automated knowledge discovery 3. bibliometrics 4. Big Data 5. biometrics 6. citation analysis 7. cloud computing 8. content analysis 9. corpus linguistics 10. data mining 11. data visualization 12. deep learning 13. face recognition 14. intelligent assistants 15. Internet of Things 16. list processing 17. machine learning 18. machine translation 19. machine vision 20. metadata 21. metalanguages 22. microformats 23. natural language processing 24. network science 25. neural networks 26. ontology management 27. predictive analytics 28. recommender systems 29. Semantic Web 30. sentiment analysis 31. social network analysis 32. sociolinguistics 33. sociometrics 34. statistical linguistics 35. swarm intelligence 36. text mining 37. traffic analysis 38. voice recognition 39. Web crawling 40. Web science 41. Web scraping
- Sean McBride
How Judeophobia can lead to generalized dementia
"Israeli False-Flaggers Flown in for Boston Shoot-Out?" http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013...
- Sean McBride
Right.
- Sean McBride
Google Now Recovers Apple's Siri Fumble - Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/sites...
Google is blowing past Apple because Googlers are smarter. Apple "visionaries" are saying what, what? Behind the curve of the conversation -- like Frank Whaley in Pulp Fiction.
- Sean McBride
That cutesy Siri voice and personality made it obvious that Apple was off the beam.
- Sean McBride
Apple cultists tend to be easily distracted by peripheral cuteness all across the board -- it's an unfortunate state of mind.
- Sean McBride
On the beam: building the highest level of lean intelligence possible into one's devices.
- Sean McBride
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- Sean McBride
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- Sean McBride
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- Sean McBride
Top Constitutional Experts: Obama Is Worse than Nixon | Global Research - http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-con...
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Some observers have long suspected that Barack Obama holds civil liberties in contempt and harbors tyrannical and despotic impulses. Perhaps they have been right all along.
- Sean McBride
Using the IRS to harass political opponents of any type, on the right or left -- appalling. It should be treated as a major crime.
- Sean McBride
Actually being around for Creep and Watergate, I'm going to say NO. Nixon wasn't playing at despotism he manipulated an election until he won. #shortmemoriesaboutaverybadtime
- WarLord
I must have missed Obama interfering in peace talks before even assuming the presidency the way Nixon did.
- Andrew C (✓)
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One gets the impression that that organ of the mind or soul that cares passionately about civil liberties is entirely missing in Obama's makeup.
- Sean McBride
Sean, if you approach Obama understanding that he embodies a Moderate Republican sensibility an "Eisenhower" kind of Republicanism far more than any Liberal or New Deal Democratic traits it's easier to make those connections... And you are correct I have significant buyers remorse about Gitmo, Drones and wiretaps Not to mention Plan B but let's face it Nixon with Watergate and Reagen...
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- WarLord
I think that civil liberties organ gets removed once it is your responsibility to keep an entire nation safe.
- Todd Hoff
Don't get me wrong -- I still much prefer Obama to any current leading Republican out there.
- Sean McBride
prefer; Google Voice Search; Siri {prefer; *preferred-item; *item-preferred-to} {*format; *data}
Prefers are much more informative than likes.
- Sean McBride
All the knowledge and analytic methods in the world can be integrated and used to interpret and understand any particular document, situation or piece of information.
Imagine, say, 1,000 of the best minds who have ever lived, from all domains, focusing their entire attention on interpreting and understanding any particular document, situation or piece of information.
- Sean McBride
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