As a general rule, whenever Mike Rogers (not to be confused with incoming NSA director Michael Rogers) claims a bill does something particular – like, say, protect your privacy – it's actually a fairly safe assumption that the opposite will end up true.
It is much more plausible to think that the progression from an intention to decide what to do to an intention to do something particular involves the satisfaction of the older intention and thus the birth of a new intention.
"Considering that somebody in particular did something on this album is kind of out of the general concept," the producer began.
"This particular music just did something for us.
"Unless they had evidence that the companies they were dealing with were actually doing something in particular, it's an odd reaction," he said.
While D-Lab may choose to do something a particular way, other institutions should do things in a way that makes sense for them, given their goals and available resources.
"With Twitter particularly, the feedback is so intense and so immediate, it does something very particular to your ego that even the blogs don't," said Xeni Jardin, a partner in the blog site Boing Boing and a usual suspect on Twitter.
There are going to be losses if you do nothing, as we learned on Sept. 11, and there are going to be losses if you do something". For particular criticism, Mr. Rumsfeld singled out Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite television network based in Qatar, whose reports on the American-led occupation in Iraq have often been strongly critical.
