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Old 01-20-2012, 03:40 PM   #182
Harmon
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Wouldn't it have been easier to just write merchandise than that whole sentence in bold?
Sure, but not as much fun.

Spell-checking impinges, sometimes, on Artificial Intelligence. I know, I know, it's really just an artifact of linquistic ambiguity, but every now & then it seems like Spellcheck is kibitzing what I type... [man, I love Yiddish...]

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Every new advance in technology has created a moral panic--that this technology represented an imminent threat to the creative industry.
I like that term, "moral panic." That nails it.

Of course, sometimes the panic is rational - consider the effect of recorded music on the music sheet industry.
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