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40hz:
But, it seems like there's quite a bit of debasement of the language. Lots of examples out there. C. S. Lewis walks through the example of "gentleman" in an essay and talks about how that word was debased until it had no real meaning anymore. It's rather annoying as it destroys part of your ability to communicate effectively.
-Renegade (July 18, 2013, 01:01 AM)
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Yup. Orwell wrote a whole novel around that.  :o

Too bad it was taken to heart and is "now being used as a blueprint" as so many have have observed.
 :-\

Renegade:
I would have thought though, that if you disagreed with the content of the article, that you could say that here. In this thread. All of this about the site - while I can very much relate to it, and find it nice and juicy - and sure, it gives us context - but it's irrelevant in terms of rebutting the content of the article.
What you're doing doesnt seem to me that different from someone looking at, say, a libertarian site, and saying - oh, look, they're libertarians - everything they say is dodgy biased propoganda.
-tomos (July 18, 2013, 07:12 AM)
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I can be much softer that way. I went on a bit about 2 things in the article, but I'm simply not going to post more about it here. (Mostly here) I'd rather simply stick to lobbing slow softballs, cracking jokes, and ridiculing articles/sites/authors/etc. That way I can avoid anything religious/political and still have some fun. :D

wraith808:
No love for JC?  The most honest president we've had in the last half-century gets no respect.

(And 10 good things he did, even in spite of the propaganda about him as a president)

Renegade:
No love for JC?  The most honest president we've had in the last half-century gets no respect.

(And 10 good things he did, even in spite of the propaganda about him as a president)
-wraith808 (July 18, 2013, 08:46 AM)
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Unfortunately, I don't speak German, and was unable to read the article.

Being illiterate sucks. :(

But for that "10 top" thing... it goes wildly off-topic from this thread, so would probably be better in the Basement. (I have nothing polite to say about #2.)

wraith808:
Unfortunately, I don't speak German, and was unable to read the article.
-Renegade (July 18, 2013, 09:00 AM)
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Oh... I just take for granted translation.  :-[

Translated VersionNSA affair: Ex-President Carter condemned U.S. snooping

By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Atlanta

Ex-President Carter: "The invasion of privacy has gone too far"

The Obama administration tried to placate Europe's anger over spying programs. Not as ex-President Jimmy Carter: The Democrat attacked the U.S. intelligence sharp. The disclosure by whistleblowers Snowden was "useful."

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was in the wake of the NSA Spähskandals criticized the American political system. "America has no functioning democracy," Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the "Atlantic Bridge" in Atlanta.

Previously, the Democrat had been very critical of the practices of U.S. intelligence. "I think the invasion of privacy has gone too far," Carter told CNN. "And I think that is why the secrecy was excessive." Overlooking the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said Carter, whose revelations were long "likely to be useful because they inform the public."
Carter has repeatedly warned that the United States sharply declined due to excessive restriction of civil rights, their moral authority. Last year he wrote in an article in the "New York Times", new U.S. laws "never before seen breach our privacy by the government" allowed the.

Carter was the 39th President of the United States, who ruled from 1977 until 1981. During his tenure, he tried to align U.S. foreign policy that is more about human rights - after his retirement from active politics for his humanitarian work, he received the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize .

In Atlanta, he also expressed his overall pessimistic about the global situation. There is currently no reason for him to be optimistic, Carter said, referring to the situation in Egypt, which had fallen into a military dictatorship. He also lamented the growing political divide in the United States, the excessive influence of money in U.S. election campaigns and the confusing American election rules. The ex-president whose "Carter Center" operates worldwide including election monitoring, announced skeptical whether the United States, the standard that applies when reviewing the Center of elections might be fulfilled.
As a bright spot, however, Carter called the triumph of modern technology that would have caused some of the countries of the Arab Spring of democratic progress. Exactly these developments but are endangered by the NSA Spähskandal as major U.S. Internet platforms such as Google or Facebook lose credibility worldwide.

(On another point... the bit about ruler is funny.  Translations are FUN!)

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