Offering Solutions Rather Than Criticism
from the stop-bashing-your-head dept
Inspired by responses to Let’s Make More Regulations.
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complaints of "Why bother?"
It's terrifying to see how many people believe they can't make a difference.
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We should have "insightful" and "funny" buttons for articles too.
+1 funny
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Could be read either way.
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hmm... glad we agree, too
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Don't you feel like a shit now?
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Jail time.
The solution was already given. Stop bashing your head.
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It was surprising how many professional candidates first response upon becoming unemployed was not to do any activity that would eliminate their unemployment but instead engage for months at a time in the creation of forms and procedures that other candidates were required [in the opinion of the creditor] to complete and follow in order secure a new position. Not surprising most of these forms and procedures were in conflict with the forms and procedures created by other equal minded candidates or that most were completely ludicrous.
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So let's have your solutions!
So indeed, let's hear the solution. -- You MUST consider that for the industry, getting rid of copyright is a complete non-starter, will be rejected out of hand, won't get a hearing, they definitely and entirely won't accept it. -- So with regard to that REALITY, taking it as chiseled into granite, DISH.
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Re: So let's have your solutions!
You are not allowed to bash your head, and he is enforcing that rule.
Criticism would have been "You are not doing it right", or "that club is not big enough" or "you are doing it all wrong".
A Solution would be:
"use that club, its bigger", "use a steel club", "put nails in it", "use a gun".
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Re: So let's have your solutions!
You are not allowed to bash your head, and he is enforcing that rule.
Criticism would have been "You are not doing it right", or "that club is not big enough" or "you are doing it all wrong".
A Solution would be:
"use that club, its bigger", "use a steel club", "put nails in it", "use a gun".
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There can no longer be any doubt.
Darryl is a troll-bot.
Only one question remains; is "a method for wasting peoples time in a digital information sharing system" patented?
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Re: So let's have your solutions!
Translation: You MUST consider that for the industry, not bashing one's own head is a complete non-starter, will be rejected out of hand, won't get a hearing, they definitely and entirely won't accept it.
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that is worst one EVER...
Sorry...
YOU suck Nina... thats freaking HOPELESS !!!!
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i don't know how you did it !!
sorry...
that was the worst comment i ever read, YOU suck... trying to make comics to explain these things to morons ... that's a freaking HOPELESS QUEST !!!! gotta give her credit for trying though
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Its another rule - enforced "stop bashing your head"
He DID offer a solution, and he DID NOT make any criticism.
his solution STOP BASHING YOUR HEAD
So not only is it stupid, it's WRONG....
It is NOT critiscism to say "STOP BASHING YOUR HEAD"
You might even say, it is a RULE
I thought you were against more rules....
Doesn't that cartoon (for want of a better name), state that MORE RULES are better ?
He made a rule, that people are not allowed to bash their heads, and he is enforcing rule by stating "stop bashing your head" !.
When you start telling people what they can do, and what they cannot do, that is making RULES..
Nina dont give up your day job...
You do not appear to really think much through Nina. Makes you lose what little credability you might of had, if any...
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that's a rule... enacted..
Does that guy have any rights over who can or cannot bash their own heads ?
Does he have a patent on it, or copyright.
What if it said "Keep bashing your head" ?
He wants to achieve a result, he wants to bash his head, a solution would be to make it easier for him to do it, but it appears he allready has found that solution, his solution is to use a club.
He had a problem he needed to solve (to bash his head), he developed A METHOD to solve that problem, (using the club). He applied that solution to his problem, and some idiot comes up and tells him it is against 'his' rules and to STOP.
Problem and solution:
it this case, it appears the SOLUTION, is MORE RULES.
Rule 1. Do not bash your head
Rule 2. Do as I say.
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Rule 2. We do not talk about the rules.
Rule 3. Make a logical choice whether or not you are willing to follow stipulated rules.
Rule 34. If it exists, there's porn for it on the internet.
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Darryl talking about himself in the third person like that is kind of creepy.
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Re: Re: Re: Its another rule - enforced "stop bashing your head"
Your and others' comments are criticizing Nina's use of the word criticism by mentioning that the character didn't actually offer any criticism. If I'm interpreting the comic right, I think that's the whole point. The only person in the comic that misinterpreted the suggestion as criticism is the person bashing their head. Again, I'm interpreting that Nina's entire point is that most of the Techdirt community are trying to give rational suggestions to others that are interpreted as criticism.
Second, that is really a stretch to say that offering a suggestion to someone else is enforcing a rule. When I offer a suggestion, you can choose (or not) to follow it. I see no attempt by the character in the final frame trying to force anything on the other.
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"Our nation was founded as an experiment in human liberty."
-John Foster Dulles
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty . . is finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American People."
- George Washington
"I believe that there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation's."
- James Madison
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I see..
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Eh... I've used this argument before...
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