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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Tue Aug 24 01:09:18 1999
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:51:16 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>You screwed up the quotes.
So? You know what you wrote, and so does everybody else who's
paying attention. Anyone who has anything vaguely resembling a clue
will know from the nesting what you wrote and what you didn't.
Let'em "Check The Archives" if they missed something.
>>>When an entity that large gets to pick and choose its customers according
>>>to its own definition of "moral decrepitude", we are all in deep shit.
>>
>> So? We've been in deep shit for years. If things like this
>>were all we had to worry about, I'd sleep a fuckload easier.
>
>I chose "moral decrepitude" because I knew it would be a hot potato, it
>could just as easily have been "persons with dirty fingernails", "persons
>who need a bath" or "persons who use profanity in public".
>
>Don't read so much into it, it was just an example.
Don't duck the question monkey boy.
If you have a POLICY that says "I serve anyone whose wearing
a shirt", and then you refuse service to me because at that point in
time, you are serving a little old lady whose offended by the fact
that it's not a collared shirt I'm wearing to the table, then YOU are
violating your stated policy, and deserve to get called on the carpet
for it.
Amazon is demonstrating that they have NO commitment to the
open discourse of ideas, that they have no commitment to anything but
their pocket book.
I prefer to deal with organizations--when and where I
can--that do display this commitment.
--
Five seconds later, I'm getting the upside of 15Kv across the
nipples. (These ambulance guys sure know how to party).
The Ideal we strive for: http://www.iinet.net.au/~bofh/bofh/bofh11.html
