jeangenie

It's interesting to note that it's not just comments that can be manipulated but also the stories that are upvoted.

Makes sense. Thanks for responding.

It's also interesting because modern American politics seems to be primarily driven by corporations.

What this says to me is that we should immediately stop pouring money into conflagrations overseas.

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion." William Blake

What makes you think paintings are supposed to be educational? What properties must something fulfill to be educational?

Happen to have any more info for finding this talk from Moglen?

What's your point?

Right to be skeptical of what, precisely?

> uncontroversial, accurate factual description.

Are you so obsessed with minutiae of definitions that you are unable to see that both terms describe reprehensible acts performed by people against other people?

How can you distinguish between two chiral molecules and two identical molecules one of which has been rotated 180 degrees with respect to the other?

> It does represent the will of the people.

So you're saying the UK government held a vote asking "Do you want to be surveilled?" and a majority of citizens answered in the affirmative? I can't remember anything like that happening here in the US.

I have a silly question: how is it determined which side is up and down?

I understand your meaning but that's not what I'm asking.