To follow in the same metaphor, "only a fool fights in a burning house".
Your moral high ground will do you (and more importantly) the rest of this country no good whatsoever if the real serial fabricator/narcissist gets into the white house./div>
Thanks, all, for the (multiple) pointers to the committee membership. Write them and complain! It's hard to believe sometimes, but (at least some of them) do pay attention, if only in a self-serving way./div>
Thank you, the 2 or 3 of you who offered interesting and useful analysis of what might be going on here.
The rest of you -- WTF?! Did you actually DO anything besides complain?
I bought 2 shares of CBS (total cost, about $ 90 US). I then wrote an old-fashioned letter (remember those?) to EVERY SINGLE DAMNED MEMBER of the CBS board of directors, explaining why this was a stupid, stupid, business decision. And, as a share-holder, I requested a response.
To mix universes, "There is no try. There is only do, or do not."/div>
I just received a "mail.whitehouse.gov" email (which I usually appreciate), from Sam Franklin, apparently the founder of greenvelope.com, extolling the virtues of the TPP.
I immediately wrote back to the only direct contact I could find for him (info@greenvelope.com), calling "foul" on his white-wash.
I encourage others to do the same. If I actually get a better address for him, I will post it here./div>
I'm intrigued by "comment moderators can be hired for a pittance". If that's really true, I smell an interesting business model. "Farms" of moderators (hopefully better/more ethical than Putin's farms of commenters!) could be offered to troubled newspapers etc. as a cheap service.
*Is* it true? Normally humans are the *most* expensive part of any such loop./div>
Let's take a big step back, for a moment. I suggest (I may be wrong) that the signal-to-noise ratio on the various newspaper-and-other outlets has been, and is continuing to drop.
Frankly, I don't think there IS a good, automated, way to keep decent, non-troll discussions on track, in a way that doesn't scare off the average, non-techie commenter.
I speak to this with some knowledge and history: I built one of the very first web-based discussion systems (http://caucus.com, 1995, with non-web versions back to 1986). This is A HARD PROBLEM, folks.
I think it may be fixable, but not by just waving or wringing our hands at it.
I agree that the lies about "how we value our readers input" are just that, lies. But I suggest that there is a reason they are lying -- they feel helpless, and they may be right./div>
I followed the link to send a comment to ICANN, which in turn sets up and prepares to send an email. When I hit "send", the email bounced back with this error:
: connect to pechora1.icann.org[2620:0:2d0:201::1:71]:25: Network is unreachable
: connect to pechora1.icann.org[2620:0:2d0:201::1:71]:25: Network is unreachable/div>
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Your moral high ground will do you (and more importantly) the rest of this country no good whatsoever if the real serial fabricator/narcissist gets into the white house./div>
intel committee membership?
intel committee membership?
They deserve some calls and letters, calling them out for their cowardice./div>
Sousa was right
... in this case, Sousa was partly right. People singing together is a rarity, where once it was common.
That *IS* a loss. It's not a justification to stop new forms of music. But always beware the Law of Unintended Consequences!/div>
So DO SOMETHING already!
Thank you, the 2 or 3 of you who offered interesting and useful analysis of what might be going on here.
The rest of you -- WTF?! Did you actually DO anything besides complain?
I bought 2 shares of CBS (total cost, about $ 90 US). I then wrote an old-fashioned letter (remember those?) to EVERY SINGLE DAMNED MEMBER of the CBS board of directors, explaining why this was a stupid, stupid, business decision. And, as a share-holder, I requested a response.
To mix universes, "There is no try. There is only do, or do not."/div>
BBC?
TPP and greenvelope.com
TPP and greenvelope.com
I immediately wrote back to the only direct contact I could find for him (info@greenvelope.com), calling "foul" on his white-wash.
I encourage others to do the same. If I actually get a better address for him, I will post it here./div>
Is this fair? Signal/Noise
*Is* it true? Normally humans are the *most* expensive part of any such loop./div>
Is this fair? Signal/Noise
Frankly, I don't think there IS a good, automated, way to keep decent, non-troll discussions on track, in a way that doesn't scare off the average, non-techie commenter.
I speak to this with some knowledge and history: I built one of the very first web-based discussion systems (http://caucus.com, 1995, with non-web versions back to 1986). This is A HARD PROBLEM, folks.
I think it may be fixable, but not by just waving or wringing our hands at it.
I agree that the lies about "how we value our readers input" are just that, lies. But I suggest that there is a reason they are lying -- they feel helpless, and they may be right./div>
ICANN comment didn't work
: connect to
pechora1.icann.org[2620:0:2d0:201::1:71]:25: Network is unreachable
: connect to
pechora1.icann.org[2620:0:2d0:201::1:71]:25: Network is unreachable/div>
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