John Perry
John Perry
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It would make huge economic sense. All the illegal Irish I've met here are quite proud to feel American.
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I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
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When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
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The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
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I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
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We had a little crisis when Matt and Sarah had to replace their shower curtain liner and we said no. But we put the word out and someone found one for them. It's like the Amish - we help each other out. We raise a barn every week.
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The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
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Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
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We believe that the Report on Compliance concludes that CardSystems meets the PCI standard. We are hopeful that MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover will accept this PCI report and validate that CardSystems is PCI compliant. The data security protocols currently in place at CardSystems make it one of the data security leaders among payment processors in the payment card industry.
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Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.