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" Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity. "
Powerful
Technology
Goose
" But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in. "
Process
Worth
Out
" But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. "
Love
Hope
Unconditional Love
" Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. "
Everyone
Age
Say
" Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life. "
Service
Life
Data
" I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. "
Time
Believe
Together
" I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other. "
Think
Information
Adapt
" If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. "
Will
System
Ignorant
" If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America. "
Potential
America
Great
" I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names. "
Thought
Three
Love
" I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. "
Republican
Forward
Day
" I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. "
Behavior
Law
Still
" In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. "
First
First Amendment
Local
" I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. "
Intellectual
Think
Economy
" It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. "
Search
Fantasy
Long
" I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair. "
Despair
Think
Us
" I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms. "
Powerful
Creation
Force
" It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience. "
Think
You
Been
" Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. "
Think
Way
Need
" Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. "
Secret
Happened
Knowledge
" Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. "
Musicians
Relationship
Performance
" Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. "
Believe
Ethics
Will
" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "
Privacy
Window
Government
" Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. "
Relationship
Musicians
Performance
" So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. "
Compass
Waiting
Party
" The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry. "
Entertainment
People
Industry
" The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy. "
Because
Reason
Government
" The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual. "
Power
Individual
Internet
" The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both. "
Surveillance
Internet
Humanity
" The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate. "
Time
Political
Internet
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