connie_lingus
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Comment · 12 years ago
i don't watch tv so i don't know what you are talking about.
Comment · 12 years ago
i'm sorry, but this simply flies in face of logic.
it is absolutely morally wrong, but it certainly can be effective and has been used throughout history. usually, things that don't work don't last anywhere near that long.
there are all sorts of reasons to oppose it, which of course I do, but saying it cannot be effective just isn't one of them.
Comment · 12 years ago
The CIA report threatens our legitimacy as a world power.
no it does not...almost everyone in the world understand that under certain conditions, torture to get potentially life-saving information is just the way of things.
let me put it this way...if your immediate family was going to be blown up in two hours, wouldn't you say go ahead and torture that guy who you KNOW has information on how to diffuse the bomb?
Comment · 12 years ago
The FBI told Sony they didn't know if the theaters were safe. Seriously, WTF are we paying them for if they can't tell us, with absolute certainty, that our theaters are safe from terrorist attacks on Christmas. That's not very comforting...
uhhh terrorist attacks and terrorism are, by definition, "not very comforting" and in many ways are impossible to stop, thus the word "terror" that is used so prominently in their constructions.
Comment · 12 years ago
Also, the Omnibus budget bill that was passed in the middle of the night that fed pork to every special interest who gave money to the candidates.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think the truth could run in one of two directions. Todays news implied that Iran, China and North Korea were in cahoots and aggressively attacked Sony for months and finally penetrated their bastion. Sony was helpless to defend. That is what the press and FBI seem to be saying.
this narrative just seems way to neat and prepackaged and allows under-informed US citizens to consume it and still feel safe and make sense of the connected world we all swim in every day.
i agree it's being spoonfed via media and politicians, but to me, that's all the more reason to be highly suspect of it.
this event is becoming the ultimate nail to everyone's hammer.
Comment · 12 years ago
no it wouldn't, nor should it.
US companies get hacked all the time...have you not been reading the internet over the past, oh, 10 years?
also, there is still big doubts that the NK's did this.
Comment · 12 years ago
i cant help but be reminded of the support-group addicts from Fight Club while reading the article.
Comment · 12 years ago
> They can't outright claim they did it; because that would be an act of aggression.
really? a nation-state attacking a for-profit multi-national corporation with little more than embarrassing information is an "act of aggression"??
you better read up on your military history my friend.
Comment · 12 years ago
sony should just release the damned thing on christmas day on netflix and let the whole world deal with it at the same time.
Comment · 12 years ago
yes...at a lower level i believe its called "confirmation bias" and we are all guilty of it, no matter how hard we try.
Comment · 12 years ago
an impressive technical achievement, and kudos for the music.
It is also likely that there are considerations of critical importance that I fail to take into account, thereby invalidating some or all of my conclusions.
I have gone to some length to indicate nuances and degrees of uncertainty throughout the comment's text— encumbering it with an unsightly smudge of “possibly,” “might,” “may,” “could well,” “it seems,” “probably,” “very likely,” “almost certainly.” Each qualifier has been placed where it is carefully and deliberately. Yet these topical applications of epistemic modesty are not enough; they must be supplemented here by a systemic admission of uncertainty and fallibility.
This is not false modesty: for while I believe that my comments are likely to be seriously wrong and misleading, I think that the alternative views that have been presented in the threads are substantially worse.