Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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