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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 10/09/2007 : 18:09:54
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YO;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100801434.html
George Orwell: the most prescient literary figure of the 20th century.
Yurz Orwellingly, OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 10/09/2007 20:12:44
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2007 : 19:51:09 [Permalink]
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I'm sorry, but I just can't get over how techically cool those things are. Maybe if I could, I could become offended about the loss of my privacy in public places. But really, I just want some for myself!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2007 : 20:55:48 [Permalink]
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Bring a net. 
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2007 : 21:06:05 [Permalink]
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| Your privacy in public places was completely lost at the invention of the telephoto lens and the directional microphone, 'Mooner, decades ago. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2007 : 21:38:10 [Permalink]
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Not really, Dave. I never have considered a public area to be private in the first place.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2007 : 03:09:23 [Permalink]
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Every time I read about these things, my thoughts turn to shotguns. It gives a whole, new meaning to "Bug hunting."
"For every action, there is an equal and opposit reaction." Mechanical flying-bug dectection devices are likely already in the works.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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ENTOMOLOGISTS ENGAGE !
