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When I reached this article, my first thought was "That was it?!?"
My second thought was to be reminded of something from Isaac Asimov's science-fiction classic Foundation. In it (*SPOILERS*), an Imperial diplomat visits the beleaguered Foundation. A canny local politicians secretly records everything that the diplomat says, and has the recording put through semantic analysis to determine the exact meaning of what the diplomat had promised.
And when all the meaningless buzzwords and qualifications were cancelled out, it turned out that the diplomat had said...nothing at all.
Which pretty much describes this article, I'm sorry to say.
