When he started carving in the early 20th century, his ducks had what were considered flaws at the time--thin necks that often snapped when handled.
But many Chileans are no longer prepared to ignore what they see as flaws in their hard-won democracy in exchange for political stability and economic growth.
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While he doesn't say just what Facebook's flaws are, he sees the Bay Area rival as entirely assailable through a unique Google approach to the category, much as Google fought past other search engines roughly a decade ago.
The university urged the justices to avoid the case, seizing on what it said were procedural flaws.
The panel was uncompromising in its criticism of what it said were serious flaws in the agency's management.
Then, politely point out what you think are the flaws in that reasoning.
Given what Church sees as the flaws in preserving privacy in the Internet age, he has embraced openness about many aspects of his own history.
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While dads in "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show" had flaws, they were close to what was then thought of as "perfect, " part of an idealized white American family.
At least for now, they seem to prefer viewing him as someone who is good at his job despite some personal flaws--more or less what people used to think about Fatty Arbuckle before matters got out of hand.
They promised updated versions to fix flaws, but did not apologize for what some are calling the biggest failure of a new product launch since "New Coke" 30 years ago.
Every iPhone launch goes through three phases: the warm glow of initial adoption, followed by close attention to flaws and, eventually, acceptance of what it's like to live with the device day to day.
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What is not in doubt is that the subprime crisis has exposed four deep flaws in the practice of securitisation.
What makes this cooperation notable is that it is happening despite the Senate bill's flaws, and despite substantive policy disagreements among conservatives on everything from visas to border security to employer verification.
Don't forget it was those very flaws of character which made Lance the competitor, the one who would do what it took to win and came to consider performance enhancing drugs as part of his job.
Taking advantage of cheaper processing power, the rise of new computer languages and the increasing urgency of the problem, these companies' own complex software seeks flaws in programming grammar, reverse-engineers applications to see that they do what they're supposed to and emulates the malicious hacks they will face once they're put in use.
Because of these and other flaws, the auction process generates prices that are one-third to two-thirds below what might be expected in a truly competitive marketplace.
Sure they had their flaws, but they were courageous and decisive, and could communicate in ways that made it clear what they stood for.
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