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PetsWarehouse vs. Mailing List
klaun writes "Salon is running a story about a federal suit against members of an Internet mailing list. Seems a company got a bad review on the list and the owner sued the person that said it and everyone who agreed. But the case grew bigger from there, including a suit against the legal defense fund set up to support members of the list being sued and anyone who linked to the defense fund. The ultimate rub of it all is that it basically worked. Most of the defendants have settled." This is a truly bizarre story.
The only country in the world where you have the right to hold any opinion you want, unless you use a computer to express it. And soon, the only country in the world where it is legal to own an unlicensed firearm, but owning an unlicensed CD player will get you five years in the slammer.
You know, I have never had any problems crashing in any flight simulator that I've ever used. So this begs an interesting question...
Does the Microsoft flight simulator have a terrain data package for Redmond?
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Y'know, reading the two accounts, it's amazing to see that two almost diametrically-opposed accounts of the same things could be written. These guys must really have it in for each other, and (after reading this) I have no idea who's closer to being in the right. Seth doesn't get any points from me because he doesn't put his .sig in the right spot so that it isn't shown when I have "hide sigs" enabled. But on the other hand, most public opinion seems to be in the anti-Michael category. Is that just because Seth got his story out first, or is it because his account is closer to what really happened?
Decide for yourself, I guess. I'll be damned if I can tell what the truth is.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
The simple way you "can tell what the truth is", is that every single other person associated with censorware.org has wanted Michael Sims to stop playing dog-in-the-manger with the censorware.org domain name. And not only has he refused, he's now turned it into a smear-site. Note this does not depend on whether or not you believe I am sane.
It's instructive to look at, e.g. Jonathan Wallace's account, and a public comment by Jamie McCarthy. This isn't objective proof, though, because we all could be ganging-up on Michael Sims (pile-ons have happened, Michael Sims is trying to create one on me).
I categorically deny the accusations of spamming Slashdot and similar. And the way to know the truth of that is simple logic. If he had anything, anything, serious on me, he'd be making maximum use of it. When you break it down, the only thing he has, is much calling me names, and that other people have called me names. In contrast, he still has the censorware.org registration
If you want, we can take this to e-mail.
Good points, and on the balance they are convincing. I just thought it was interesting because I'd read your account a year or two ago, and had only now stumbled onto the other side of the story. I was taken aback by how Michael was able to write a convincing opposing viewpoint - this was not something that I expected, based on my previous reading of your account.
So: I'm not necessarily doubting you, or doubting Michael; I'm just amazed at the different views of the same events that people can perceive, and how convincing (at least when taken independently) they can both be. It makes it tough on bystanders like myself who just want to know who the good guy is, and who the bad guy is.
Oh yeah, and not to forget what's really important in life: thanks for your hard work and perseverance on the censorware front. Hopefully this kind of public sniping doesn't slow you down too much.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and