"Production companies can no longer use individuals like they have been doing for years, making them do whatever they want 24 hours a day, " Jeremie Assous said.

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Often, while elected officials in the role of chief executive struggle just to maintain services and have no hope of doing anything proactive, public employee unions can ignore the realities on the ground and use both labor laws and their political muscle to achieve wages and benefits that are inconsistent with the economic times.

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As a sometime political activist, Rushkoff feels that he can no longer use Facebook for the kind of frictionless advocacy (and self-promotion) that it provides because doing so exposes his followers to commercial manipulations that are clearly at odds with his own message.

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As Dr Gonthier, and other supporters of the use of computers, point out, there is no reason to think that humans are less fallible than computers when doing long computations or proofs.

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