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And a male friend of mine pulled me aside and he said, "You want men to talk about violence against women and girls.
So here's a small visual animation, as if the two sides of the brain are sort of clashing against each other to kind of make sense of the duality and the tension.
For example, here we see it successfully playing a game of pong against itself, illustrating its potential for gaming.
The machines would rise up against us.
The price of gold, an asset thought to protect against inflation, did jump, but investors bought other assets that offered little protection from inflation.
The question is whether these sperm are competing against other men's sperm or just their own.
And so you could live on McDonald's and milkshakes, but your body will rebel against that.
And so what I'm arguing against is the shame that's associated with desires.
We need to stop ranking our hard against everyone else's hard to make us feel better or worse about our closets and just commiserate on the fact that we all have hard.
Now, drug development you might think of as a rather expensive but risky bet, and the odds of this bet are roughly this: they're 10,000 to one against, because you need to screen about 10,000 compounds to find that one potential winner.
Henderson's central idea was what you might call the Napoleonic idea of concentrating mass against weakness, of overwhelming the enemy.
" ... and so prejudice my readers against all those things which were the main design of the book."
He knows what kind of surveillance is possible, and so clearly he doesn't want it to be used against him.
When you're discriminated against, you can't always prove you're being discriminated against.
RNG: No doubt, but modern anti-war movements reach back to a long chain of thinkers who had argued as to why we ought to mobilize our emotions against war, such as the father of modernity, Erasmus.
Are there practices that we engage in where the arguments against them are there for all to see but nonetheless we persist in them?
Now we've come up against anonymous companies in lots of our investigations, like in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where we exposed how secretive deals involving anonymous companies had deprived the citizens of one of the poorest countries on the planet of well over a billion dollars.
Imagine being threatened with losing your home sometimes over a debt of just a few hundred dollars, and not being able to find out who you were really up against.
My wish is for us to know who owns and controls companies so that they can no longer be used anonymously against the public good.
CA: But they've made a calculation that it was worth doing this as part of America's defense against terrorism.
CA: I mean, do you think there's a deeper motivation for them than the war against terrorism?
Do you think there's a deeper motivation for them other than the war against terrorism?
But what we saw is, in the post-9/11 era, they used secrecy and they used the justification of terrorism to start these programs in secret without asking Congress, without asking the American people, and it's that kind of government behind closed doors that we need to guard ourselves against, because it makes us less safe, and it offers no value.
I want to help my government, but the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society, and say hey, this is not appropriate.
I am living proof that an individual can go head to head against the most powerful adversaries and the most powerful intelligence agencies around the world and win, and I think that's something that we need to take hope from, and we need to build on to make it accessible not just to technical experts but to ordinary citizens around the world.
But it's also used by people who are working against us and our allies.
What we don't need to be transparent about, because it's bad for the U.S., it's bad for all those other countries that we work with and that we help provide information that helps them secure themselves and their people, it's bad to expose operations and capabilities in a way that allows the people that we're all working against, the generally recognized bad guys, to counter those.
You're probably aware that there have been a spate of those directed against the U.S. financial sector since 2012.
You have the attack against Saudi Aramco in 2012, August of 2012.
But the 215 program is only relevant to threats that are directed against the United States, and there have been a dozen threats where that was implicated.
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