Word: absurdities
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...immune from embarrassing moments, whether you drink or not. You are fixated on it because it happened to you. Do you recall every detail of your roommate’s last absurd night? No, because it is over and done with by now. Give yourself the same courtesy and get back in there...
...Arabia and its government who support terrorism, just as there are apparently people in America and in our government who support the use of torture and other measures formerly designated as war crimes, at least when they are used by the US and our allies. It would seem an absurd and intolerable innuendo to suggest on these grounds that any gift made by any American in support of scholarship is tied to torture.Of course, it would be highly objectionable if someone giving money to Harvard were a known supporter of terrorism or anything so vile. Perhaps we should look more...
...judge the damage done by these restrictive practices: on the one hand, Apple is selling a lot of music, and Microsoft a lot of word processing software. But the thanks to the early open standardization of the web, the thought of its belonging to any one company now seems absurd to us—Facebook uses it, Google uses it, universities use it, and each in its own way. Only when we demand that Microsoft and Apple and others play nice with one another—only when they’ve made their specifications into open standards?...
...Chen, meanwhile, creates "independence" controversies even where none would seem to exist: witness his high profile dismantling last month of the National Unification Council, which was created to explore Taiwan's eventual reunification with the mainland. Chen called the body and its governing guidelines, established in 1990, "absurd products of an absurd era." But the truth is that it was a dormant outfit that a fair number of Taiwanese hadn't even heard of until Chen closed it as a way of thumbing his nose at Beijing. Then, as if for emphasis, Taiwan's Defense Ministry last week proposed removing...
...Unless you count counterfeit software as Microsoft products, that claim is absurd?nine out of 10 personal computers sold in China come with pirated versions of Windows, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. But Beijing may have been sending a deeper message to Washington. The signal (as one Western diplomat put it): "We've got our own antiglobalization, antitrade zealots to deal with, so how about you keep yours under control and we'll do the same, because otherwise we're both in trouble...