MAPS is heading towards becoming a de facto totalitarian organization
Hogwash. Membership is voluntary. You do not control my beliefs. You do not control my body. You do not control what occurs in my bedroom. You do not control my inbox. I do. I'm not hurting you. If I'm happy, then leave me alone.
"Reputable" organizations should be held accountable if they don't follow-up on "newsletter" problems. I subscribed to a major news company's "breaking news" mailing list, only to discover their web-based subscription system repeatedly failed to execute my UNsubscribe request. After many unreturned e-mail and website form complaints I finally added this company to my spam filter. I'd have hauled them into small claims court if I was 65-years-old and had such time on my hands.
Consider that it's super easy to send us back to our hunting 'n' gathering days. How many people would need to be lost in society before societal functions break down (production, transporation, communications, etc.).
The notion that not everyone would get killed by a genetic bomb provides little comfort. If it means living in a bad Kevin Costner movie, I might as well grab a hammer and bludgeon myself to death right now.
Re:Americans already do this.
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You forget, the aliens operate on a much broader time-scale than us. A week is but a day to them. Instead of dropping legions of warriors and unleashing bloodshed, or engineering an unpredictable genetic bug, they chose an much easier route... cooking up extremely tasty, yet outrageously unhealthy "fast food" and selling it worldwide.
With half the population dead from heart disease and the other half grossly overweight, it'll be a snap to enslave us or serve us on the dinner table.
Information may not want anything in particular, but I'm pretty sure for any given piece of information, there is at least 1 person in our collective 6 billion that is willing to distribute it on the Web for free. One is all it takes.
Hormel should simply create and sell its own bulk e-mail software and ride the wave. They've been in business since 1891. Who else would know more about Spam?
I'm sorry. I did not realize you were Canadian. As an American citizen, I am not allowed to speak to you because of your corrupting influence. This is our last communication. Goodbye.
Iron Monkey Said: Maybe California can use a few of these to solve their energy crisis - the ultimate in conservation."
The White House said:White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was adamant Monday when asked whether the president would ask Americans to stop using so much energy.
"The president believes that it's an American way of life, that it should be the goal of policy-makers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one."
I say: Iron Monkey, what are you smoking? It's UNamerican to conserve. It is my patriotic duty to be an energy hog. Who needs these new-fangled 'putin machines work'in without 'tricity?
A lifetime e-mail address (or forwarding address) is simply a bad idea. Think about how many marketing databases you get listed in over just a couple years, and how much spam that translates into. Now think how much spam you'll be getting 50 years from now using the same address. Well, ok,/.ers guardedly use their addresses, but the average person uses their address with reckless abandon.
Oh, that's right, science will save us with the development of a magic spam filter that is 100% efficient.
Nurses are a semi-related example. They work set hours, but often if the hospital is not busy, some nurses are regularly put "on call." That means they do not come in to work, but are expected to be available (pageable) to come in if needed. They typically earn a third to a half of their normal hourly wage while on-call.
Huh, and this is different from flying an EP-3 surveillance plane off the coast of China how?
If you're spewing stray radio waves all over the place, whose fault is that? Is it your job to control your communications or our job to keep our ears shut?
Yup. Here's a breakdown of Hot-or-Not by scores. The notes at the bottom of the page indicate Geocities and Ofoto have attempted to block requests from the site. Can't blame 'em really.
You asked:can you explain why I should be forced actively and explicitly, day in and day out, to keep all manner of filth out of my own home?
Response: I'll give you beneifit of the doubt and assume that you were unaware that "filth" gets broadcast on TV when you bought your TV set. Well then... you are free to sell your TV or get a parental lock. (I won't even ask if you pay for cable TV filth.)
You asked:just because I own a television, does that mean I have agreed to have my children potentially exposed to anything anybody might want to say?
Response: Yes, it means you paid for and brought a potentially harmful influence into the house. You are trying to absolve yourself of the inherent responsibility that comes with TV ownership and of raising children. That's sad.
When I have children (about two years from now) I'll have my own solution... a TV set used to display child video tapes and watch adult news reports (locked down at all other times). If I'm still addicted to "my favorite shows" maybe I'll use a digital video recorder to record whatever and watch after the kids are asleep. God forbid I should spend 5-8 p.m. every evening doing non-TV activities with my family.
Let's write a sitcom based on the life of a harried FCC employee who quits his job and moves to the countryside to be a farmer. His name will be "Harry Dick." He'll affectionately call his cat "pussy." And his Shih-Tzu will be a bitch. His wife, uhh, we'll just call her "Deloris."
Your recommendation to "WATCH your kids" works great for kids with conscientious parents who have unlimited time and unlimited patience. What about other kids who are not in this situation?
Response: Too darn bad. It's not the government's responsibility to raise children. The same logic that believes censoring TV makes sense directly applies to censoring the Internet.
Growing up, half my friends had parents who used child locks on their TVs (via cable box). That was fifteen years ago. Today a parent doesn't have to exert much effort to be responsible.
Why doesn't the FCC teach parenting classes instead? It makes as much sense as their current course of action.
The answer to keeping pace with web growth is to have sites like Yahoo be a "guide to guides" instead of "guides to everything." Instead of listing 50 links in a "Cheese" category, list one or two or three links to web sites that are their own mini-portals to cheese.
The content on mini-portals is a million times better than Yahoo's old haphazard system. I gave up submitting non-commercial links to Yahoo because you wait months before being sure they didn't list you, then resubmit and wait months, then resubmit... etc.
Better yet, use extended SSIs to display a disclaimer in the page that will only be shown to users coming from the offending site. Anyone familiar with XSSI can do this (even non-programmers). At least this way your pages can still be used by the innocent ones in all of this (the users).
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Hogwash. Membership is voluntary. You do not control my beliefs. You do not control my body. You do not control what occurs in my bedroom. You do not control my inbox. I do. I'm not hurting you. If I'm happy, then leave me alone.
"Reputable" organizations should be held accountable if they don't follow-up on "newsletter" problems. I subscribed to a major news company's "breaking news" mailing list, only to discover their web-based subscription system repeatedly failed to execute my UNsubscribe request. After many unreturned e-mail and website form complaints I finally added this company to my spam filter. I'd have hauled them into small claims court if I was 65-years-old and had such time on my hands.
The notion that not everyone would get killed by a genetic bomb provides little comfort. If it means living in a bad Kevin Costner movie, I might as well grab a hammer and bludgeon myself to death right now.
With half the population dead from heart disease and the other half grossly overweight, it'll be a snap to enslave us or serve us on the dinner table.
You mean you hope there would be some people immune to it. There are no guarantees.
Ya, it's not like you can beta test a DNA bomb. Think about all of the unintended consequences (bugs) to be discovered once the bomb hits market.
Information may not want anything in particular, but I'm pretty sure for any given piece of information, there is at least 1 person in our collective 6 billion that is willing to distribute it on the Web for free. One is all it takes.
Hormel should simply create and sell its own bulk e-mail software and ride the wave. They've been in business since 1891. Who else would know more about Spam?
I'm sorry. I did not realize you were Canadian. As an American citizen, I am not allowed to speak to you because of your corrupting influence. This is our last communication. Goodbye.
The White House said: White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was adamant Monday when asked whether the president would ask Americans to stop using so much energy.
"The president believes that it's an American way of life, that it should be the goal of policy-makers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one."
I say: Iron Monkey, what are you smoking? It's UNamerican to conserve. It is my patriotic duty to be an energy hog. Who needs these new-fangled 'putin machines work'in without 'tricity?
Oh, that's right, science will save us with the development of a magic spam filter that is 100% efficient.
I wish cDc would just go back to writing stories about Debbie Gibson fighting ninjas. Stick to what you're good at.
Nurses are a semi-related example. They work set hours, but often if the hospital is not busy, some nurses are regularly put "on call." That means they do not come in to work, but are expected to be available (pageable) to come in if needed. They typically earn a third to a half of their normal hourly wage while on-call.
If you're spewing stray radio waves all over the place, whose fault is that? Is it your job to control your communications or our job to keep our ears shut?
Yup. Here's a breakdown of Hot-or-Not by scores. The notes at the bottom of the page indicate Geocities and Ofoto have attempted to block requests from the site. Can't blame 'em really.
When a site gets slashdotted, what kind of bandwidth and/or # of page requests are we talking about?
Response: I'll give you beneifit of the doubt and assume that you were unaware that "filth" gets broadcast on TV when you bought your TV set. Well then... you are free to sell your TV or get a parental lock. (I won't even ask if you pay for cable TV filth.)
You asked: just because I own a television, does that mean I have agreed to have my children potentially exposed to anything anybody might want to say?
Response: Yes, it means you paid for and brought a potentially harmful influence into the house. You are trying to absolve yourself of the inherent responsibility that comes with TV ownership and of raising children. That's sad.
When I have children (about two years from now) I'll have my own solution... a TV set used to display child video tapes and watch adult news reports (locked down at all other times). If I'm still addicted to "my favorite shows" maybe I'll use a digital video recorder to record whatever and watch after the kids are asleep. God forbid I should spend 5-8 p.m. every evening doing non-TV activities with my family.
Let's write a sitcom based on the life of a harried FCC employee who quits his job and moves to the countryside to be a farmer. His name will be "Harry Dick." He'll affectionately call his cat "pussy." And his Shih-Tzu will be a bitch. His wife, uhh, we'll just call her "Deloris."
Response: Too darn bad. It's not the government's responsibility to raise children. The same logic that believes censoring TV makes sense directly applies to censoring the Internet.
Growing up, half my friends had parents who used child locks on their TVs (via cable box). That was fifteen years ago. Today a parent doesn't have to exert much effort to be responsible.
Why doesn't the FCC teach parenting classes instead? It makes as much sense as their current course of action.
So now I'm into buying music of local artists and watching traveling performances. When I want a movie, I rent it.
If the industry doesn't want us to truly own what we buy, them I simply won't buy.
The content on mini-portals is a million times better than Yahoo's old haphazard system. I gave up submitting non-commercial links to Yahoo because you wait months before being sure they didn't list you, then resubmit and wait months, then resubmit... etc.
Better yet, use extended SSIs to display a disclaimer in the page that will only be shown to users coming from the offending site. Anyone familiar with XSSI can do this (even non-programmers). At least this way your pages can still be used by the innocent ones in all of this (the users).
Aren't the people who can afford a $30 web site subscription (for leisure reading without advertising) exactly the audience advertisers want to reach?
Analysis: You missed my point.
That's right, you don't understand my comment.