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Jack Greene on January 31, 2006 - 10:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
light 299,

We try to keep profanity off this blog.

Sheehan will be able to run against my senator, Feinstein, this June, so yes there is a lot of freedom here.

We are not perfect. But I recall when writing BLACK PRINCE that East Germany had 17,000,000 files on their own people and the democratic nation of Italy, in NATO, illegally, had 17,000 files on people in Italy.

Both were wrong, but there is an element of balance and perspective.

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light299 on January 31, 2006 - 10:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
sorry, that was a quote quickly taken from an IM conversation I was having... will be more mindful in the future
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scorned by the cockroach on February 1, 2006 - 1:57am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Evidently, you have not had them use private information about you to try and screw with someone's life. Trust me, our snoops have plenty of files too.

Is being able to get your name on a ballot really very substantial evidence for the existence of freedom? Heck, the Caesars had a Senate. If Cindy had FREEDOM, she could probably get an audience with the Dear Leader. Even the much maligned (but as Dave would remind us, beloved and esteemed) Saudi Kings sometimes give subjects an audience.

I tend to fallback on the definition of freedom once put forth, on a 4th of July, by radio personality Travis T. Hipp. "If you have to ask permission, you ain't free."

So, we are not feudal serfs, yet. But, we are on our way.

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Jack on February 1, 2006 - 2:04am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Who did you have to ask for permission to post that comment?
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scorned by the cockroach on February 1, 2006 - 7:11pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Jack,

I considered posting an appropriate response to your comment, but it might have annoyed you. Therefore, in consideration of a recently adopted law, I decided just to acknowledge that I had read it.

Thank you very much.

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Jack Greene on February 1, 2006 - 5:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That should be 6,000,000 files on a nations population of 17,000,000 - quite a record for any nation, but says it all about East Germany.
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Gets IT on February 1, 2006 - 12:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Why do they need the hundreds of millions files from Google? And who's we???
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