By focusing on the bad apples, Priest says, Madigan was glossing over DefCon's true spirit: smart people getting together to mess around with technology.

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And if the poor thing can't hold the universe together and mess with the laws of physics at the same time, then so be it.

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As for us, we're hoping the company can pull something salvageable together from this mess and figure out a way to compete at a level of increasingly more difficult stakes.

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For the first time in years, both the Democrats and Republicans are working together to fix the immigration mess.

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"By the time you get the thing together it's such a mess, " he says.

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When two name brands get together in fast food, the result is often a mess.

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Together, sadly, they have churned out a cacophonous mess, which not only aims squarely at teen-agers but itself seems painfully adolescent in its squirming refusal to decide what it wants.

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The first being that we can piece together a little tale about who is really to blame for the mess at Autonomy after the takeover.

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