As analogy lets assume during the day at a bank the vault is unlocked with access to those who are permitted but with no guard watching the entrace. OK, yes we should assume the bank is very stupid for not guarding it, but if someone walks in and takes off with a bunch of cash are they innocent?
As a more apt analogy, how about this. The same bank vault has a guard positioned at the front, who checks your identification (ie, you enter your login and password). You enter, and open your safety deposit box (ie, access your account). You then read a paper which someone placed in your box, and thus implicitly giving you access to it. This paper is an internal bank memo which they placed in everyone's deposit boxes for whatever reason, and then they still would expect you not to read it. After reading this memo the bank informs you that because of this illicit reading your application for a mortgage has been declined. Now granted, you could get a mortgage from another company, but it might be at a higher interest rate or require you to put down more of a deposit(ie, you end up going to a crappier or more expensive school). Now doesn't that seem a little extreme just for reading a document someone put in your box?
Actually, I do have a Yahoo account.:)
My Yahoo account doesn't have free POP access, but I downloaded a program like YahooPops http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] which emulates a POP3 server and allows you to check your yahoo mail through thunderbird or your email client of choice.
I completely agree with contacting your representatives to convince them not to support the bill. One interesting thing that i learned in one of my recent government classes, however, is that the staff of a representative doesn't tend to pay as much attention to an email as it does to a written (yes, hardcopy) letter. My teacher is an aide for Mitch Van Yahres in the Virginia House of Delegates, and she said that x amount of letters will always have more weight than x number of emails, simply due to the fact that it takes much more effort to compose and send a letter.
The key to making a politician's office pay attention to emails is to make them relatively personalized. It's simple to send out a generic petition from any number of email addresses, but if each email has a unique story or insight or phrasing, then they will have a much greater impact.
Just my (and my government teacher's) 2 cents worth.
Or as my high school health teacher told me: "insects aren't animals, they're bugs!" He then proceeded to defend that position for an hour, despite a biology book's proof to the contrary.
In most of the confessionals I've seen, the confessor can choose whether to open the panel to talk to the priest face to face, or he/she can choose to remain anonymous.
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As analogy lets assume during the day at a bank the vault is unlocked with access to those who are permitted but with no guard watching the entrace. OK, yes we should assume the bank is very stupid for not guarding it, but if someone walks in and takes off with a bunch of cash are they innocent?
As a more apt analogy, how about this. The same bank vault has a guard positioned at the front, who checks your identification (ie, you enter your login and password). You enter, and open your safety deposit box (ie, access your account). You then read a paper which someone placed in your box, and thus implicitly giving you access to it. This paper is an internal bank memo which they placed in everyone's deposit boxes for whatever reason, and then they still would expect you not to read it. After reading this memo the bank informs you that because of this illicit reading your application for a mortgage has been declined. Now granted, you could get a mortgage from another company, but it might be at a higher interest rate or require you to put down more of a deposit(ie, you end up going to a crappier or more expensive school). Now doesn't that seem a little extreme just for reading a document someone put in your box?
Actually, I do have a Yahoo account. :)
My Yahoo account doesn't have free POP access, but I downloaded a program like YahooPops http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] which emulates a POP3 server and allows you to check your yahoo mail through thunderbird or your email client of choice.
I completely agree with contacting your representatives to convince them not to support the bill. One interesting thing that i learned in one of my recent government classes, however, is that the staff of a representative doesn't tend to pay as much attention to an email as it does to a written (yes, hardcopy) letter. My teacher is an aide for Mitch Van Yahres in the Virginia House of Delegates, and she said that x amount of letters will always have more weight than x number of emails, simply due to the fact that it takes much more effort to compose and send a letter.
The key to making a politician's office pay attention to emails is to make them relatively personalized. It's simple to send out a generic petition from any number of email addresses, but if each email has a unique story or insight or phrasing, then they will have a much greater impact.
Just my (and my government teacher's) 2 cents worth.
If only I had point points to boost this wonderful reference to The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
Or as my high school health teacher told me: "insects aren't animals, they're bugs!" He then proceeded to defend that position for an hour, despite a biology book's proof to the contrary.
In most of the confessionals I've seen, the confessor can choose whether to open the panel to talk to the priest face to face, or he/she can choose to remain anonymous.