If there was ever a monument to Internet flame wars both present and past, this is it.

因为不论是过去还是现在，它都是网络论战的一座丰碑。

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In our era of ever-growing interconnection, we can peer deeply into an organization better than ever, learn about its past and present, discuss its behaviors and even advocate for change.

因为在当今相互联系日益密切的时代，我们可以更深入地研究一家公司，了解它的过去与现在，讨论其行为，甚至敦促其做出改变。

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I hasten to add that at no time, past or present, have I ever had even the slightest desire to sleep with a telephone.

但我要赶紧补充一点：我绝不会——过去没有现在也没有——一星半点儿要抱着电话睡觉的念头。

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Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.

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In response Jack Pitney pointed out that leadership almost always seems to be in crisis, if only because people usually think times are more dire in the present than they ever were in the past, which is almost never true.

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Some locals are lamenting the loss of its rough-as-guts decor and ambiance, while others are relieved that its bar-room brawls, sticky floors and ever-present aroma of stale beer are things of the past.

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