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joezydeco
on Sept 21, 2011
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OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location Fo...
Actually, it was just a joke. But glad to see you found some enlightenment in the idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor
dlss
on Sept 21, 2011
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I understood that your comment was a joke - I was commenting on why you made that joke / in what contexts jokes like yours occur to people... and reasoning about steps that companies could take to make such jokes sound flat.
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