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- But he's not diplomatic at all, we don't want him as a spokesperson for Open Source! - It's GNU/Linux, not Linux.

This is diplomatic and charitable. When I see a repeat pattern of GroupOn and Zynga type companies I see someone who knows how to pump and dump.

Actually it's because the site has become so large that I have to be more diplomatic. When it was small I could say harsh-sounding things without worrying about being misinterpreted.

They send a young man to prison for 35 years for uncovering possible war crimes and a bunch of diplomatic fiddle-faddle. He is not eligible for parole until he has served 1/3 of the time.

The people who are destroying diplomatic buildings and killing diplomats are declining to use thoughtful discussion to show that they are anything other than blights on humankind." Allow me to reemphasize this point.

"Even as Washington grapples with the diplomatic and political fallout of Mr. Snowden’s leaks &;&." That statement is a perfect example of the real problem with the US government and many journalists.

But, in my opinion, he wasn't careful enough about the impact of what he was releasing, specifically all the diplomatic communications. He seemed to have a stance that all information should be public by definition.

But he didn't--he released a giant trove of classified diplomatic cables and military logs. These may have been unnecessarily classified, but were not unlawfully classified.

In software politics, there are plenty of people working the diplomatic route. There is no shortage of diplomats, and a few eccentric and unwavering voices is then much more useful to maintain the goals of where we want to actually go without moving the goal in favor of diplomacy.

Instead of leaving because the company is a sinking ship, think of a diplomatic, but still truthful, reason for exiting. For example, focus on what you are going to do next, and supply that as the reason: "I'm much more interested in working on this kind of technology/product/etc.

Brin was less diplomatic about the memo." I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages or so," he said." If you want to get a point across, limit it to a paragraph or so." Are we ever going to have a social network run by people with sufficient diplomatic skill to host a simple birthday party?

If he leaves he'll be arrested, if he manages to get in a diplomatic car the car will be stopped with Assange in it and there'll be a stand off. If Ecuador tries to make him into a diplomat the UK can simply refuse to accept that he is a diplomat. And if they try to use a diplomatic bag then the UK will claim that it's being used for improper purposes and block it.

Think about the massive diplomatic fallout the US government risked yesterday with getting all those countries to deny airspace to the President of Bolivia until his jet ran out of fuel and they could stop-and-frisk his sovereignty. They want Snowden bad, like terrifyingly bad.

The story is about the ingenious use of diplomatic and intelligence resources to accomplish a daring cross-border mission in an innovative way. It is not to provide a balanced summary of the geopolitical structure of the Middle East.

Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them. But leftist activists do not take such an approach because it would not satisfy their emotional needs.

That's where I started but as of today, I'd go even further: * Americans no longer welcome in Europe; you think you can spy on us, torture people, kill innocents, trample over longstanding diplomatic conventions to ground a president of a country, put the full might of your police state to hunt down your own freedom fighters, and then come here and have a good time or do business? Think again.

The basic idea of diplomatic negotiations being secret is that it's not appropriate to publicize your strategy for defending Belgium in case the Germans roll through on the way to France. Unfortunately, in this situation, diplomatic negotiations are being used to end-run around the domestic legislative process. This is the intrinsic downside of allowing diplomatic cooperation to extend beyond its traditional domain of war and peace. [1] In liberal democracies, the organs of foreign policy are designed to be opaque and non-responsive to the public. In the United States, this is by design--stemming from the framers' worry that a democracy wouldn't be able to speak with the required single voice when it came to issues of foreign policy. But the flexibility of the process militates towards keeping it restricted to a narrow domain. [1] There is something fundamentally undemocratic about using the diplomatic process to normalize law between countries.