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Comment Re:42 (Score 2) 600

No it isn't. Another example of an emergent property is the super fluidity of liquid helium. It is a property of a system that is not a property of its components nor immediately obvious from the properties of those components, but that arises when a large number of those parts interact as a system.

Just because you don't understand a word does not make it technobabble. Jargon yes, babble no.

Comment Re:Obama needs to pardon Snowden (Score 1) 179

The dictionary doesn't do shit. the definition for treason in the US is specifically defined in the US constitution and limited to that definition. As the GP said, it is close to that definition.

Seeing as he did not levy war against the US the only grounds for treason would be if you claimed he was aiding the enemy. Since he did not give the enemy (and which speciously defined group is that anyway?) means to avoid surveillance (if anything we've learned there is no avoiding it at all), it's not anywhere close to the definition given in the constitution.

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