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Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.

This is a very slippery slope for FB, I feel. No real way to hide from those you want to ignore now.

There's no slippery slope argument that needs to be made. We're already sliding down it.

She's warning others that it's a slippery slope. Show some compassion.

This request illustrates that slippery slope in a way that makes even the NSA nervous.

But this is exactly the slippery slope that the Gang of Four disciples fell down in Java. I think using the phrase "Plain Old $X Object" might be a warning sign.

Those folks should know better than to fall into such an obvious slippery slope. TL;DR: I'm an atheist and I want a refund because someone put a Christian bible in my hotel room.

Let's take this speculative legislation down the slippery slope, shall we? Next stop: full-speed collision with the First Amendment!

We are now on the slippery slope of which there is no return. The minute UK ISPs got the infrastructure in place to block TBP, they got the infrastructure to block any webpage the government want at the touch of a few buttons.

Its been a slippery slope every since. oBDisclaimer: I work at a large registrar and was in the room when the original contracts were being discussed and negotiated.

Is it really a spectrum, or is it a slippery slope leading inevitably to one extreme or the other? Steve Jobs made some important decisions and executed them superbly.

Fractions were pizzas; equations were deformations of the plane; integration was tracing out a shape using a slope. So I'm sympathetic to the author's desire for better visualization and teaching tools.

I wonder now if I was on a slippery slope and got off at just the right moment. I've seen a lot of my ticket broker/scalper friends end up trying to swindle casinos, get caught up in credit card fraud, etc; it becomes easy to feel smarter-than-thou when you're making bunches of money off of others' perceived negligence.

Despite pretty clear slippery-slope arguments, I recognize this isn't a universal opinion. There are many people who would like to curb cyber-bullying at the expense of freedom of speech or curb terrorism at the expense of privacy and civil liberties.

As hnsmurf points out, it would also create a slippery slope where no representative could be reelected if they vote for X, Y and Z policies that are not systemic threats. As our government is not responding to an issue which can literally ruin us all, it seems to me that Buffett's proposal is the lesser of two evils.

A Brayton cycle has a certain efficiency at a given pressure ratio and an airfoil has a certain maximum lift-curve slope and there is nothing you can do about it. Improvements are in "hard engineering"--new materials that can withstand higher temperatures and pressures to eke out slightly more efficiency, etc.

The space shuttle had a million competing goals - from the airforce who wanted a certain glide slope, senators that wanted bits built in their home state, Presidents that wanted a launch on the day of a press conference, scientists that wanted a platform for different experiments, Astronauts that wanted justification for crewed vessels. And of course Nasa that needed to find budgets to keep 'N' Apollo era people employed.

And then when solution B comes biting you in the ass and you come to me to work it out, at least give me the means to sort it out properly instead of forcing me to follow your pricey consultant down the slippery slope of exceedingly horrible workarounds, all of which I have to handhold him through and waste massive amounts of time because he can't use email and needs to do schedule a conference call in several days time with subjects such as "confirm the VPN is working". Because once I'm sufficiently annoyed, I will gladly tell your consultant that something "isn't my job" just so he stops bothering me.