Americans, he observed, don't seem to care that their neighbors hold to false versions of the faith.
He also pointed out several other problems with the machines, including the fact that the majority of voters he observed did not check the paper trail to see whether their votes were recorded correctly — even though that paper record is their legal ballot.
Chinese youth, he observed, don't save much money, have a hard time finding jobs even after earning a college degree, and, most fundamentally, just want to lead happy, healthy, and interesting lives.
Administrative departments, he observed, did not require 'scientific support' but 'applied R&D, to achieve specific predetermined objectives' [ 17].
His concerns are made to seem small, his world deliberately circumscribed: "A sane person doesn't stick around in the hopes of making a dent," he observes, doing a bit of reluctant pro bono work in India.
"Fiction," he observes, "doesn't merely replicate the license you have, within your head, to think what you like.
And as for the area's tainted history, he observed: "I don't think most people are aware, and when the do become aware of it, they see it as sort of a colorful part of the city's past".
"Fortunately, all the smart lawyering in the world doesn't clean up the fact that what Officer Loehmann is saying he observed and did couldn't possibly have happened in under two seconds, unless he's the Flash".
As yet, he observed, "we do not know the ocean well enough.
And, he observed, "we do have the footsteps of Microsoft behind us".
With credit tight, he observed, it doesn't help that many residents have little savings, credit history or verifiable income.
