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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by stcredzero on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:10PM (#7750288)
many people say "people who disagree with me (just) don't understand," but in reality the people who disagree often have just as good an understanding of the basic facts

I have yet to meet anyone who disagrees with the theory of evolution through natural selection who actually understands it well. Security, privacy, and cryptography are complicated subjects where the most potent effects are often epiphenomena. I don't have studies to back me up, but my impression from talking to most non technical people, is that they have only a hazy idea of what is involved.

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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by loup-vaillant on Thursday May 15, 2014 @01:52PM (#7751043)
To further the point, when 2 people diagree about facts (they disagree less often about morality), then at least someone is doing it wrong.

Might be you, might be me. Either way, contradictions are still false.

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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by bunderbunder on Thursday May 15, 2014 @04:49PM (#7752151)
Did you just place scientific theories and political opinions in the same epistemological category?

And here I thought postmodernism was dead.

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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by stcredzero on Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:51PM (#7753182)
No. Scientific theories with cryptography and security. Both of those are closely associated with politics, but have verifiable truth.
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