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Crowdsourcing vs “Intellectuals” and Totalitarians

From single massive mainframe computers (e.g., IBM 360/370, Multics) to networks of “minicomputers” (e.g., Digital Equipment, Wang Labs, Honeywell) to hordes of standalone Personal Computers, and now tablets, smartphones, and “the Cloud,” compute power has gone from expensive and centralized to cheaper and distributed.  No one that I know of has said that this has …

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Getting out of a gun show alive

So, NH State Rep Deb Stevens (Nashua-Progressive), how DO people evah make it out alive?

Yet another valid question for Debra Stevens, ye of “ravenous gun culture” infamy – how did I ever do it: get out alive after going to 25 (or much more) gun show without even a scratch on my ever delicate skin?  Just like millions upon millions every year? Hmmm, those guns just LAID there – …

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Oh, by the way Kathy Sullivan? About the fact that all Democrats are now Socialists?

OK, so Newsweek was only right about the Left – I dare say that only US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is about the only Blue Dog Democrat (think centrist, even if Left of that center). So, Kathy Sullivan – tell me this: with respect to “truth in advertising” (a form of speech as well, right??), …

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Timberlane Superintendent Metzler: your “free speech” must have my prior approval before I will allow you to freely speak

Seems like the Earl of Metzler is coming up against “the rabble” (normally called students and people paying his salary) more and more.  So he has arbitrarily decided to become like those college campuses that haven’t the foggiest idea of what the First Amendment Free Speech clause is all about.  Instead – he “deigns” to …

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