[ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality

[Scott Castaline]

I second that motion.....
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:57 -0400, Chris Farris wrote:
> This thread is over
> 
> Chris
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >> eoffrey wrote:
> >>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >>>> Geoffrey wrote:
> >>>>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Is that FUD?  Where do you see that this is the issue that 
> >>>>>> broadband providers are concerned with?
> >>>>> Do you really think they'll stop at simply prompting you to go to
> >>>>>  another site?  Come on, look at television.  There's not a 
> >>>>> channel out there that doesn't have pop up commercials during the
> >>>>>  shows now.  It was bad enough when the commercials interupted
> >>>>> the shows, now they're running during them.
> >>>> So, why aren't you advocating a law to restrict TV broadcasters 
> >>>> from displaying pop-up ads on their content?  I understand that you
> >>>>  have pet-peeves (lots of them it seems ;-)), but really now,
> >>>> should everyone of your pet-peeves stimulate a new law (which, btw,
> >>>>  passing new laws isn't cheap either)?
> >>> You know what Jim, I'm not going to get into another pissing contest 
> >>> with you because you seem to enjoy that.
> >> Oh Geoffrey stop that again, it makes you look petty. You respond to 
> >> someone's comments, and when they respond back you point a finger and 
> >> call it a pissing contest.  Nice.
> > 
> > Petty?  Who's the one dropping personal insults with their posts?  Now 
> > that's petty.  You can't have a discussion without attacking the poster. 
> >    I'll be glad to have a constructive discussion about the subject, but 
> > don't go insulting people and throwing words in their mouths.  I never 
> > once suggested a law regarding TV.  If you read it that way, that's your 
> > problem.
> > 
> >>> But, I did not once mentioned creating any laws.  The original post 
> >>> was about a law that was pushed through that would quote: 'allow 
> >>> internet service providers to play favorites among different web
> >>  > sites.'  Seems to me, I'm simply arguing against that law.
> >>
> >> You are arguing against a new law in the present case of "Net 
> >> Neutrality".  But your comments (that I was replying to above) about TV 
> >> Pop-up ads and TV broadcasters clearly implied that if you didn't do 
> >> _something_ to stop them the world could run a muck.
> > 
> > How you turn a discussion against a particular law into one promoting 
> > one is beyond me.  I find it interesting that you trimmed my comment as 
> > to what I stated my solution to the TV problem is and that was:
> > 
> > 'As for television, I simply don't watch it anymore, so the popup ad 
> > folks don't get my eyes..'
> > 
> 
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Scott Castaline aka Bad 2theBone

Hey, I was born crazy, what's your excuse?!?!