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Getting the moment the lights went out from some high vantage points & down on the water would have been amazing too.

> I'm not a linguistics expert, but from my vantage point as a computer scientist, it would be hard to conclude that.

Because only from the vantage-point of being right in the middle of that mess, you can truly decide what your personal take on it, your influence will be.

From my vantage point, it's not that geek culture has gone mainstream and brought Thinkgeek with it, it's that Thinkgeek has shifted to a more mainstream focus and away from geek culture.

These assaults are absolutely not new, but from my limited vantage point, previous assaults have mostly revolved around vulgarity.

But, like the tens of Americans who left the US to fight for Hitler in World War 2, al-Awlaki deliberately placed himself outside the protections of his citizenship and from that vantage point tried to wage war on his home country.

But I do think that it isn't quite fair to characterize the solo-founder equation as a formula for failure when the vantage point from which this conclusion is reached is one where there's a huge enterprise and ecosystem behind the startups to provide funding, coaching, guidance and all that might be required in order to succeed.

If it has to do with anything Kantian I'd think it would have less to do with his moral philosophy and more to do with the realm of the noumena and phenomena and his transcendental philosophy as contemplated by a lone man who for the first time sees something of the shape of things from a vantage point above the fog.

Here's an alternative vantage point, my vantage point, one I think makes these kinds of ethical quandaries easier to navigate:* I'm not a "white hat" or a "black hat"* I'm not deliberately involved in any kind of "cyber" conflict* I don't do what I do because I'm battling the forces of evil, or organized crime, or anything elseInstead: I do engineering.