To this. Timely.

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I doubt very seriously that many habitual Slashdot readers will be interested in the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, directed by the Wachowski brothers and starring Natalie Portman.

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“It may be worth noting here that there does not at the present time exist a word in the English language which may serve as a term for all primates. It is unlikely that the classificatory term ‘primate’ will ever come into common usage, in any case, the latter term is already reserved by the [...]

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“They are more like pirates, hijackers, or torturers—three categories of people who have in the past been declared outside the protection of any law.” From this Slate article. Pirates and hijackers, yes. Torturers, no. Torture has almost always been organized by the state and thus legal. I have no idea what he’s thinking here.

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Most of the world watched in horror as the Spurs finally managed to bludgeon a depleted Suns team to death in the Western Conference finals (the entire Eastern Conference playoffs were unwatchable–with the notable exception of a few games in the Bulls-Wizards series). Rarely in sports have you seen such a triumph of pure evil [...]

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