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So as a result of it, you have this very strange situation in which the elites basically got out of the control of the voters.

But it's very important that words are at the center of politics, and all politicians know they have to try and control language.

Politicians try to pick and use words to shape and control reality, but in fact, reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Problem number two was, I couldn't exactly control the sensitivity of my sensors.

So now I could control the thickness, the size, I could do whatever I want with it, and I could predict my results.

200 years of corporate control of intellectual property is being upended by the bottom-up, open-source, peer-to-peer knowledge commons.

Only much later did I realize that she had been saying "QC," or quality control.

Unlike, say, a traditional maker of shoes or cabinets, the worker in an industrial factory has no control, no pleasure, and no true satisfaction or understanding in her own work.

We live in a banana peel universe, and we won't ever be able to know everything or control everything or predict everything.

In rural Uganda, Paul Bolton and his colleagues, using villagers, demonstrated that they could deliver interpersonal psychotherapy for depression and, using a randomized control design, showed that 90 percent of the people receiving this intervention recovered as compared to roughly 40 percent in the comparison villages.

Similarly, using a randomized control trial in rural Pakistan, Atif Rahman and his colleagues showed that lady health visitors, who are community maternal health workers in Pakistan's health care system, could deliver cognitive behavior therapy for mothers who were depressed, again showing dramatic differences in the recovery rates.

Well, in part, because health care in the developed world, the health care costs in the [developed] world, are rapidly spiraling out of control, and a huge chunk of those costs are human resource costs.

What it does is it creates an adversarial relationship between civil society and government over the control and ownership of information.

Well, I don't know if you know about this, but in California, there's a huge amount of plastic that's used in fields right now as plastic mulch, and this is plastic that's making these tiny little greenhouses right along the surface of the soil, and this provides warming the soil to increase the growing season, it allows us to control weeds, and, of course, it makes the watering much more efficient.

So we give this kind of task to adolescents and adults, and we also have a control condition where there's no director and instead we give people a rule.

So what's sometimes seen as the problem with adolescents — heightened risk-taking, poor impulse control, self-consciousness — shouldn't be stigmatized.

The state-regulated mining industry has collapsed, and control over mines has splintered.

Now, I realize that this concept may sound a little Big Brother to some of you, and yes, there are some enormous transparency and privacy issues to solve, but ultimately, if we can collect our personal reputation, we can actually control it more, and extract the immense value that will flow from it.

On TaskRabbit, it gives people control of their economic activity.

That's a lot of control, okay?

And although a lot of people like privacy as their methodology of control around data, and obsess around privacy, at least some of us really like to share as a form of control, and what's remarkable about digital commonses is you don't need a big percentage if your sample size is big enough to generate something massive and beautiful.

So as long as some people like to share as their form of control, we can build a commons, as long as we can get the information out.

These things are weak intentionally, right, because you can always add power and control to a system, but it's very difficult to remove those things if you put them in at the beginning, and so being simple doesn't mean being simplistic, and being weak doesn't mean weakness.

It said many things, but it said this. "I'm afraid the paper fails our initial quality control checks in several different ways."

Companies are losing control.

Companies are losing control of their customers and their employees.

I'm a marketer, and as a marketer, I know that I've never really been in control.

In fact, they have more control over the loss of control than ever before.

First of all, they can give employees and customers more control.

They can give them more control over pricing, which is what the band Radiohead did with its pay-as-you-like online release of its album "In Rainbows."

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