Archive for the ‘Expositions’ category

unfair

April 10, 2010

adj. not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice —- Recently, the company which makes the Twitter client software Tweetie was acquired by Twitter. Apparently, Twitter announced that they were going to make the client available for free, because I stumbled on to an online forum where a bunch of [...]

coerce

September 7, 2009

verb persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats. —- “A person who maintains that the State should solve, by necessarily coercive methods, any problem that individuals are capable of solving voluntarily, is…the very opposite of a liberal. The essence of tyranny is reliance on external, as opposed to internal, compulsion.” [...]


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