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Comment Sarcasm builds ordered multiple personalities. (Score -1) 389

by NRAdude (#26164253) Attached to: Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia

If you ignore sarcasm and keep a positive attitude at even veiled sarcasm, then you become a masochist. If you look at someone's words in light of that double point of view and fail to distinguish between them or the inflection of of one context carries into another subject, then your responses will give the perception that you a re bipolar. There is a kind of witchcraft that this relates to yet is only comprehended and remedied when it is properly dispelled as nothing more than "Folie a Deux syndrome." There are more people out there that WANT you to have the problems they caste upon you, and there are people that give the illusion that they have problems they pretend to you for a confession of your character to others. It's kind of like politics and taxation all over again; If someone says you owe income tax, then you owe income tax despite having no qualifications: someone is exercising magesterial prowess of perhaps a covertly mingled witchcraft upon you. When I say "witchcraft", that would mean to say as "no foundation" or "by appearance, not evidence, yet effective to continue indistinguishable from illusion and material."
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Submission + - President Bush Gives Self Dictatorial Powers

Submitted by MSTCrow5429
MSTCrow5429 writes: WorldNetDaily (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55 825) reports on National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-51/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20, issued by President Bush, which effectively would give the Presidency dictatorial powers during a declared national emergency, without any Congressional or other oversight, over all levels of government throughout the United States and its territories, as well as over the entire private sector. It apparently is meant to override the National Emergencies Act, which gives Congress the power to check Presidential power during national emergencies. The office of National Continuity Director has been created, without authorization from Congress. Frances Fragos Townsend, the assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, would be appointed as the National Continuity Director during a national emergency. Perhaps most worryingly, the President can now unilaterally declare a national emergency, and proceed to implement directives, answerable to no one, not even Congress.
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Submission + - Slashdot's Firehose: Misplaced democracy?

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PetManimal
PetManimal writes: "The Slashdot Firehose is a 'bad metaphor and a bad idea,' or so says Computerworld's Joyce Carpenter, who has been using the user-directed submission rating system since it was introduced a few months ago. She points to an increase in unworthy submissions — some of which seem to be part of 'viral marketing scams' — and says that they make Firehose unpleasant for everyone:

The increased number of unworthy submissions makes more unpleasant work for the editors as well as members of the community. A bigger hose with more crap in it just means that the editors have to read all that crap — and so do the voting members of the community. That's just more work for everyone.
She also questions whether Zonk and Co. are even using the recommendations that make it to the top of the Firehose ratings:

So far as I can tell, the editors still make the decisions. Good for them. I have no need for democracy in the selection of stories at a site that has done an excellent, if elitist, job of using editorial judgment. That's what makes it such a good site. Drain the hydrant and throw away with the hose.
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