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Re:Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US... by flogic on Saturday May 04, 2013 @07:00PM (#5656645)
The critical difference is one is a tiger with limited reasoning ability and the other is a human being. So, I can and should be pissed at people in power when they overstep their bounds.
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Re:Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US... by gojomo on Saturday May 04, 2013 @08:41PM (#5656939)
And this being "pissed" achieves what exactly? Does your level of pissitude work as leverage to affect the reasoned-out behavior of these other human beings? If so, through what mechanism?
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Re:Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US... by flogic on Saturday May 04, 2013 @10:08PM (#5657164)
Being pissed leads to me donating money to the ACLU, voting, and voicing my opinions.
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Re:Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US... by mtowle on Saturday May 04, 2013 @10:54PM (#5657276)
One of those might do something.
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Re:Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US... by bubblelamp on Sunday May 05, 2013 @08:51PM (#5660407)
It's asinine to suggest that we remove vocal outrage from our political dialog. It is one of the finest tools of change. Just look at all the faux outrage over "high unemployment" under Bush 43 (average of around 5%), and compare it to the lack of outrage in today's economy. No, I think outrage is not something I'll give up to please supposedly enlightened people like yourself.
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Re:Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US... by mtowle on Saturday May 04, 2013 @10:52PM (#5657272)
>The critical difference is one is a tiger with limited reasoning ability and the other is a human being.

No it's not, it's a system of human beings. Systems make "decisions" quite differently than individuals do. In some cases they have what we might consider far superior reasoning ability compared to the individual, but in others they're even more limited than the tiger.

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