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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
"Few people think more than 2 or 3 times a year; I've made an int'l reputation by thinking once or twice a week."
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Facebook lures 500million "intimate strangers" to live online. Mark Zuckerberg, driving force behind it remains private citizen
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Private citizen: Zuckerberg is responsible for turning friend into a verb. But don’t try to friend the 26-year-old CEO: the botton on his profile has been disabled.
Friends without Borders
Nearly 500 million people worldwide live their lives - or versions of them - on Facebook. Is there a limit to how much we’ll share? CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting there isn’t.
Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen. If the website were granted terra firma, it would be the world's third largest country by population, two-thirds bigger than the U.S. More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
EU voted down body scanners in 2008: "degrading measure". Concerns: Effective? Health? Dignity? Privacy? Heavy cost?
Craziness is not rare, neither is Crime. Else, there would be no need for law, law enforcement, etc. etc.. Does Fear lead to solutions, or to panic, shutting out common sense and wisdom? EU Justice Chief has the answer: "We have to have a very clear line on this. We must never be driven by fear but by our values."
MEPs not yet convinced about body scanners, await impact analysis: "legitimate questions"... "Technology has become the new religion in counter-terrorism"... "Violation of dignity"... "no matter how much technology you have, terrorists will manage to circumvent it"... "great cost implications" of using body scanners, and advised against "putting burdens on airport companies" (also tax payers?) without the certainty that such scanners would be useful.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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