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Definitely not a traitor as Snowden provided summary document on CIA/NSA global operations which include about 61000 hacks worldwide. The China was mentioned only because their paper got the document. It was not superficially about China. And no details were exposed, no actual harm to USA’s security was done. (The fact that countries hack each other is no news to security of the countries).

And Snowden released this document because NSA/CIA lied about not hacking civil infrastructure — which is gross violation of human rights, a civil liberties’ issue. Snowden is libertarian and thinks that indiscriminate violation of privacy of civilians is a disaster that should not happen — neither in USA, nor globally.

So this Snowden’s actions are both not traitorous and consistent with his libertarianism (which is established as his long time preference as he was Ron Paul supporter in the past).

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Even those cases where NSA did prevent real terrorism, the discovery and prevention was done by conventional surveillance means: narrow court warranties, investigative leads. Nothing useful came from either PRISM or cellphone carriers’ Orwellian programs — this is according to intelligence committee members who saw actual documents that NSA does not provide — unlike this spin on smoke and mirrors as today’s testimony.

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Hi, Phil, nice to see you under your real name.

As reported, Samsung’s global marketing budged is about thrice bigger than Apple’s.

As far as I can see, this totally works. I wonder why Sony and other competitors are too greedy to follow Samsung’s steps and create this huge, dominating brand for high-margin category such as smartphones?

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Nothing to do with camp demon character, and it was not a true demon, it was a man in a costume. The issue here is that they would not allow black to be main human actor, and yet they feel they need to include a black person into this. The result is worse than if they would not have a black person altogother.

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Do you read comments that you reply to?

“… this pattern, though hardly consciously racist on the part of creators, …”

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But the annoying part is that hollywoodish productions keep making creatures based on black people. This green goblin and Jar Jar Binks are examples of that. I am not black myself, so I am not talking from bias on the issue, but this pattern, though hardly consciously racist on the part of creators, somehow worries me as it continues traditions of the old racist Hollywood.

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Do not worry, everything beyond “Avatar B” is at least hundreds years away.

Even “Avatar B” is super complex to achieve as brain can function normally only when supplied with blood with many types living cells and over sixty hormones, which are generated by various organs of the body.

You can not just chemically produce those materials, it is much easier to have actual human organs to generate and infuse it in the blood as it happens with whole human body.

Thus “Avatag B” will have to contain kidneys, spleen, liver, bone marrow (bones itself are not necessary), and other organs, because all of them participate in creation of blood content and hormones. This is not going to be much of android any more.

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