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26 Jun 2020, 4:31 pm
Scott is basically a left winger with libertarian sympathies, intelligently critical of many parts of the left — he reminds me in that respect of George Orwell. [read post]
21 Sep 2016, 10:00 am
The list of surveillance technologies currently being used by local law enforcement reads like something out of a George Orwell novel. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 4:22 pm
Si por el contrario, lo que se pretende es tener un control del tipo que presagió George Orwell en su muy famosa obra 1984, vamos mal. [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 4:07 pm
Closely tracking the process also lets you know when reporting is timely and can influence decision making as opposed to merely recording decisions after the fact, or worse, engaging in gratuitous scandal-mongering.Finally, not just journalists but anyone who writes nonfiction for a general audience should read and diligently follow the advice in George Orwell's Politics and the English Language. [read post]
21 Jun 2013, 5:55 pm
We may need to establish that people need to encrypt their communications from end to end to have an expectation of privacy for their contents, and retain a property right in their passwords or passcodes.Broader surveillanceIn George Orwell's 1984 the Party required 2-way video surveillance telescreens in every room of every house of the educated class. [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 5:11 am
George Orwell told you long ago — in "Politics and the English Language": "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 3:04 pm
") But the fact remains: if 815 has become a barricaded citadel for ECUSA's elite, akin to the farmhouse in George Orwell's novel, then it is not serving the Church. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 5:30 am
In 1945, George Orwell noted the liberal prohibition in England against criticizing the Soviet Union: “What you said might possibly be true, but it was ‘inopportune’ and ‘played into the hands of’ this or that reactionary interest. [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 6:35 pm
While we are no longer in the 1986 world of the original ECPA, we are also a long way from George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 2:10 pm
The problem of just what the Cold War was was anticipated by George Orwell in 1945. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:20 pm
The problem of just what the Cold War was was anticipated by George Orwell in 1945. [read post]
4 May 2022, 9:01 pm
Although I initially coined the term for grimly humorous dramatic effect, it is more accurate than anyone should want it to be.One of my nephews once wanted to talk to me about George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which he had read in his high school English class. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 4:35 am
“I’ll quote George Buckley, the CEO of 3M,” said MacMillan. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 12:27 am
[Counsel] stated: 'George Orwell's fertile imagination could not supply a clearer distortion of the plain meaning of language to reach such an absurd result.' [Counsel] argued in the petition that this Court's opinion 'demonstrates so graphically the absence of logic and common sense.' [Counsel] wrote in boldface type that 'Ryan Taboada may be the unfortunate victim of a crazed criminal assailant who emerged from the dark to attack him. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 6:58 am
Scott Fitzgerald and George Orwell along with books by John Wyndham and John Steinbeck that will enter the public domain in Canada by the end of the decade. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 6:00 am
All kinds of personal information was allegedly recorded, in a scenario reminiscent of George Orwell’s book 1984, as the court noted. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 12:58 pm
” Although mostly the work of English authors such as Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, and Alan Moore, the idea of a reemerging fascist state that dubiously imprisons and variously tortures its citizens is not unimaginable in the eyes of Americans such as Naomi Wolf.Echoing this possibility, “A Clockwork Orange” is a surreal, often uncomfortable portrayal of a once respectable society in social and legal decay. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 10:18 am
” We even hear silly comparisons likening innovators like Apple to something out of George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
24 Apr 2011, 6:15 pm
As Orwell put it:Now, I find it very rare to meet anyone, of whatever background, who admits to believing in personal immortality. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 12:39 pm
State Urban Development Corporation; my Fifth Amendment rights, ‘land grab’, and even the poignant face of Big Brother looming from giant telescreens in Michael Radford’s 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-four. [read post]
