Gene Nash

Reply to Michael Moore Isn't the Enemy in Current Events JoeUser Forums

By saying "supposed" I am clearly not talking about the current sorry state affairs, but the ideal to which we need to be held. The truth should be the truth regardless of who is in office. Whether Saddam was a threat or had WMD has nothing to do with liberal v. conservative, nor does a counterpulling lean in any direction affect those facts. To report solely facts, does not preclude investigating to find those facts. <TABLE cellpaddi

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Dharma What would make this fun for you again? Insightful question, Phoenixboi.

Reply to The Canaries Are Dying in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Draginol BTW, can anyone point me to one of these toxic posts? I can think of at least 5 toxic posters off the top of my head. One of them, St. Ying, has already been banned, but he is still a good example of the type of thing I am talking about. They are allowed to move at will from thread to th

Reply to The Canaries Are Dying in Blogging JoeUser Forums

And the ostriches will out. Look, the canaries are dying whether you want to pay any attention to it or not. You can use logic, you can rationalize, you can kill the messanger all you want. The canaries are still dying. You can pump the poison out of the mine or you can stand around and wait till it creeps up your nostrils, down your lungs, before you look around in vain for someone to help you to the shaft elevator. You

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Like someone else said, this is cyclical--the difference this time is that the site is bigger, there are more people, and the disagreements don't appear to be "among friends" like they were in the past. Good line. <TABLE cellpadd

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

the more people who leave, the more those other people are given the power Poetmom, that's exactly the point I was trying to make with my article. Like attracts like. The more "good people" who leave, the exponentially larger percent of the site the venomous become. My concern is that a critic

Reply to Michael Moore Isn't the Enemy in Current Events JoeUser Forums

isn't media supposed to lean left to be antagonistic to a right wing conservative administration? No. Media isn't supposed to "lean" any direction.

Reply to Apple's Dashboard vs. Konfabulator vs. DesktopX in DesktopX JoeUser Forums

As if(Anonymous User) Apple had designed a system like konfabulator way before it existed, and konfabulator only improved on opensource projects such as gdesklets and gkrellm. What apple did was pick up its own idea, add a fancy gui, and make it incredibly easy for anyone who can create a web document to create a widget.</T

The Canaries Are Dying in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well, we lost another blogger. WrecklessEric has deleted all his articles and dropped out. In the old days, miners would carry canaries into the mines with them as a gas meter. The poor little f

hello darkness, my old friend in Art JoeUser Forums

Mr. Dark danced in No key bell salutary grunt Mr. Dark danced in and sat down "What do you want, minister of evil?" "More religious rants?" Ashen Cold Is that flesh or bone? Funny where's the motion when he speaks? "Say your disquiet -- the only wit you have begins with t. -- and leave"

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Alternatively, if you dont want any crtiticism at all, dont allow comments... people have to realise not everyone is going to agree with their statements and opinions... If you cant handle the criticism... dont allow it. Criticism is one thing; outright abuse of the author, another. Some people around

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

there is respect for the opposing view? What, Steven? Like saying "you're not a blogger you're a flogger?" Yeah, that was real respectful. Nothing like the constructive criticism of "how do you live with your own nightmares?" Yep, you have the corner on respect, Steven. Portrait of the blogger as an i

Reply to Breaking a Deal with Lucifer! in Humor JoeUser Forums

Eww. I feel dirty.

Reply to Custacean resurrection! in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

Bob's not dead!!! Yeah! I'm so happy!

Brief Note From: The Journalist Scum in Current Events JoeUser Forums

So you think journalists are scum, eh? We have no standards? There's nothing wrong with Michael Moore because he is just doing what we do? (You might like to ask Michael Finkel, Jason Blair, Stephen Glass, et al about that one.) I'd just like to disinvite thos

No Mo Comments in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm tired of the inanity. For the foreseeable future 90% of my articles will have the commenting turned off. Maybe one of those extra subscription only features available when JoeUser goes alpha will be the ability to subject readers to a quiz before they are allowed to comment. (Good idea, Brad!) I'd like to mak

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm older than you, and I say you can't leave, so THERE. I don't know about Dharma but it scared me!

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Why dont you just blacklist them? or not read anything they write? True, but they can still have a go at you on other people's blogs and comments. Little Whip's suggestion of an "ignore this user" feature that would obliterate them from your sight no matter where you are is looking better and better.</f

Reply to Apple's Dashboard vs. Konfabulator vs. DesktopX in DesktopX JoeUser Forums

And as for the watson thing, have any of you used Sherlock for OS 9? If Apple gave watson the award in 2002, when jaguar came out, which had sherlock 3 I believe, then how in the hell did apple steal it from Watson? I highly doubt when watson came out that apple jumped at the opportunity to steal it from them, which basically wou

Reply to Naked crabs! Oh my! in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

I got up this morning and found him, pink and naked, in the tank. . . . Anyway, Jacques is busy eating his old exoskeleton (it's good for them) and is checking out new shells. His bottom is very...umm...odd looking, like a curly shrimp. Eww. Maybe I don't want a crab after all. <img src=

Reply to I just wanted to say... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

To throw in the towel, to say 'to hell with it all'. I hear you. I'm on the verge of it myself. I thought if I restricted myself to a few "trusted blogs" I'd be safe. I was wrong. The blankity-blanks pop up everywhere. I'm thinking maybe if I just stick to my own blog, turn off the comment

Reply to Welcome to the "Trusted Circle" in Welcome JoeUser Forums

i did apologise in that thread, but i wanted to make sure you knew that i meant it. As you may have figured I have not returned to the article and have no intention to. Filling in the Friday 5s I missed was something I'd meant to do for quite a while. I'm not going to bother. I'm probably not going

Reply to Apple's Dashboard vs. Konfabulator vs. DesktopX in DesktopX JoeUser Forums

I'm shocked by the number of people who are defending this on nothing more (seemingly) than the same old "My OS can beat up your OS" passions and rhetoric.

Reply to Blogging: the new journalism? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Fie on't. (That's Shakespearean for F-U.) BTW, that was directed solely at Mason.

Reply to Blogging: the new journalism? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

difference between blogging and scum, err, I mean journalism You know, we journalists are people too. Some might say people who get so far behind on their child support they have to hide out in the woods with the mountain folk qualify as scum. When you make bigoted remarks you heap abuse not just on t