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Usually when "luddites" are mentioned [...] - Being a Somali pirate is a profitable business.
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Usually when "luddites" are mentioned [...] - The music industry cheered as a Swedish court on Friday found the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright law violation.
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Like the luddites who stopped the subway from coming to Fairfax and beyond years ago, they whine and shout and do their best imitations of the boy who cried wolf.
Joel Epstein: A Century City Station at Constellation? You Betcha! Joel Epstein 2011
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It just plays into the hands of all the luddites wanting to ignore obvious climate problems.
Do “Many eyeballs make all bugs shallow”? | Serendipity 2009
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Like the luddites who stopped the subway from coming to Fairfax and beyond years ago, they whine and shout and do their best imitations of the boy who cried wolf.
Joel Epstein: A Century City Station at Constellation? You Betcha! Joel Epstein 2011
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People here who want lower wages for people making less than 150K a year (either through taxation or wage limitation) are luddites.
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And before you start sneering about silly old luddites, this is what it was enthusing about: the BBC is creating pictures that are 16 times sharper than HD.
I have a bad dream… Michele Hanson 2010
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The dream is that all edu-luddites reflect on this and realize that in the words of Wayne Gretzky, "a good player skates to where the puck is, a great player skates to where the puck will be."
Innovation 2010
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This country will never progress as long as these luddites command any political power.
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Maybe a few well known luddites can get away with not doing it, but the rest of can only be helped.
Why aren't they called adults' books Roger Sutton 2009
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