Liberal morality doesn’t focus on harm reduction and fairness arbitrarily, it focuses on them because they are the only bases for morality that function reasonably when you are trying to consider the claims of people outside of your own ingroup.
Nobody messes with anyone in the tech industry the way [Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads have] messed with Microsoft,” says Enderle. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a major national campaign that disparages a competitor, and the competitor just sits back and takes it. If somebody tried to do that to Oracle, you wouldn’t be able to find the body.
I’ve always had the theory that if you created an ANTLR grammar capable of parsing Confluence’s wiki markup, it would [be complex enough to] become self-aware and launch our nuclear missiles against Russia.
— Me
CreateDebate, founder Bryan Orme informs me, “is a social networking site where users can create a debate about any topic they are interested in.” His concept, in other words, is to compete with the entirety of the Internet.
It’s one of those irregular verbs. I have a religion, you have a mythology, they are cultists.
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rodgerd, with apologies to “Yes, Prime Minister”
