forbin_meet_hal
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"You're, like, a literrrrrrallll Notzeeeee..." /s
Is 'they' referring to Harper or the leadership committee?
From the work that my blog has linked to (like whitepapers and stuff I've written elsewhere), then absolutely.
She had a real opportunity to educate people about a proper relationship between people and their government, during a time of creeping totalitarianism and collectivism.
Sadly, she also wanted to create a cult.
The chapter about her in Brian Doherty's "Radicals for Capitalism" most certainly bore this out. My favorite part was when she sat her husband down and informed him that the Objectivist philosophy dictated that she should be allowed to bang her assistant.
It had an opportunity to develop narrowly drawn rules that could have formed the bedrock of digital free-speech norms.
Instead, it engages in selective whack-a-mole-style enforcement, with a strong bias that favors a progressive point-of-view.
This is nothing but a ham-handed patch.
I regret that I didn't use that time to learn Japanese or something.
Because saying "We're using x-rays" just sounds too scary right now...
I remember a Fry's newspaper ad that said something like: "$50 1GB DIMM, $0 after in-store discount. (Limit 2 per customer.)"
Kind of similar to the old (and possibly apocryphal) Sun Microsystems legend: Frustrated that too many domestic programmers were spoiled with ample CPU speeds, they hired a bunch of Russian programmers who dealt with the export restrictions on computing gear and thus had learned to write tight, elegant code.