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W3C Bars Public From Public Conference
xk0der writes "Danny Weitzner, one of the W3C's policy directors and event co-chair, repeatedly claimed in a follow up telephone conversation that, by "public," the W3C actually means "closed to the public." Weitzner was the person who personally barred my colleague from entering the conference."
The story is worth a read- it's very strange. Personally I think this guy is just vying to replace Tony Snow at the White House.
In your butt.
When I was a little kid I was confused about this private / public thing... maybe the W3C have the same problem? My misunderstanding came from a misreading/mishearing (I forget which) of this phrase: "public hair".
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Do you think a troop surge makes the local women of Iraq make our boys Cous-Cous? NO! Likewise, sitting at my computer worry about the consortium's decisions on my browsing capacity, I'm not making them any London Broil, saurkraut, curry, spaghetti, dough-poppies, Borchst, hamburgers, or anything anyone in this self-preserving UN of the Internet would want! I'll stick by it...cuz I'm a veteran, a man of my word, unlike you pallid internet junkies who's only act of courage is in an online RPG...ooo, move some bits around, collect virtual gold, miss out on life...ahhh but I digress, why waste my "in the trenches" insights on speaking to you...you are all gone...no wonder the W3C is succeeding in giving you the "new flesh." It (our world, dignity) is over.
For precisely that reason. Nothing is funnier than an AC getting trolled.
It has been a nervous year, with people beginning to feel like Christian Scientists with appendicitis.
there is at least one douchebag in every organization :-(
Given the person's stated background, I'm not even the least bit surprised he reached this conclusion. That being, that as someone's educational background is more exposed to restricted admissions universities such as MIT, the more they want to implement that as an end-run around the public. The only clear misinformation out of this was with the W3C.
Now, could someone have informed him clearly about who foots the bills for the building? It's not like it's run by a organization who insists on a large Far Eastern presence.
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Hey moron...it said it was a public event on W3C site.
And WTF is, "...an event about the public?" Nice job pulling that one out of your ass.
Stop apologizing you troll. There was no reason to bar the report and even one W3C member, stated in the article, thought it would be fine.