A Fair Championship Chess Match

The reduction in the number of games in a world chess championship match from 24 or so to 12 is a terrible idea. As this match illustrated, the ultimate victor now need only win one or two games and then play for draws.

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Comic Books

When did comic books become "graphic novels"?
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Word Inflation

Another example of appalling word inflation:
1. weather prediction 2. weather forecasting 3. weather prognostication
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The New Calculus: 320,000,000 Invasions of Privacy for 300 Leads

"'The NSA allegedly collected the phone records of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk. It's just bad public policy…and perhaps illegal,' [Eric Schmidt of Google] said. 

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""There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them,' he said."

Wall Street Journal Online (Nov. 4, 2013)

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