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That's just the production company being efficient: select 15 contestants, tell them each they are one of 15, thereby generating happy surprise when "chosen," send camera crew to make "application" videos, all of which will be used - no wasted effort.

Same thing about having to fake imagining seeing his dream car twice - if he hated it, they can use the two takes of fake joy to make it work.

Thanks for doing this AmA. I love the idea of the stick. I'm really turned off by the lack of openness.

It seems you've gone out of your way to make it extremely hard for people to install an open OS on the stick.

And then the version you do sell with Linux pre-installed you have crippled spec-wise compared to the windows version.

Why? And: why?

Thanks.

I agree. And to understand how the hatred of Jews took hold in an otherwise civilized society, it is important to know that Martin Luther - revered founder of protestantisn - wrote the manual for the holocaust. And for 400 years, this hatred and the claim that every Jew was guilty of the hereditary sin of deicide, was preached from the pulpits every Sunday. On the Jews and their Lies

Religiously motivated hatred provided the societal texture for genocide that allowed the Nazis to try to extinguish the Jews with little opposition. Note that at this point, the Vatican encyclical "with burning concern" is sometimes mentioned as evidence that the Catholic Church stood against the atrocities and the "war of annihilation" the Nazis were waging. If you've been told that story, go and actually read the encyclical.

The "war of annihilation" refers to an alleged aggression of the Nazis against the Catholic Church, when the Nazis floated the idea of an independent German Church - like the Anglican Church - that would not be subject to the Vatican's control. It's a fascinating document in revealing exactly where the Vatican's priorities were.

Just like all Americans knew that Saddam had no WMDs and it was just a ploy to start an illegal invasion to... bring freedom to the region.