2002-12-17 11:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineSome days, there just aren't enough keystrokes in the ol' wrists to address everything, but I'm damn sure gonna try.
First, my own amusement at the comeuppance and pie-in-the-eye the RIAA has earned themselves: http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html
Second, it's been a full morning of burning rickety bridges, courtesy of G.E Nordell, editor of "Working Minds" [irony not intended by him, but heartily endowed by Yours Truly], who had the good sense to spam me with three copies of his newsletter, each more Chicken Little than the last (get out the aluminum foil hats, your PC is rotting your brain with radiation, kids!)
I'm not entirely certain where you've come from (though I'm absolutely certain where you got my address), but if you're looking to spread awareness of your ideas and agenda, a personal note of invitation, rather than three random manifesto emissions, would be much more successful.
I'm afraid that, after a relatively strong start with #25, you began to sound more and more like a paranoid crackpot (#30, particularly) and less like a well-reasoned idealist, and have consequently cost yourself my interest and/or support, independent of your poor choice of infection vector.
Despite my agreement with you on the general decrepitude and incompetence of our governance and some matters of societal structure, I'm staunchly pro-hooker (getting laid by a pro for $20-40 is cheaper than dinner and a movie, and you don't need to make awkward conversation afterward, not to mention the fact that they'll be damn sure to use protection), and I don't feel at any particular risk from the technological gewgaws I choose to surround myself with (on my sub-poverty-level income of $9/hr, thankyouverymuch).
Besides, I can always hit the OFF button.
Much like I have with you, I'm afraid.
Rafe
Lesser Deity & Greater Bastard
(I'm in favor of equal-opportunity hostility - all you have to do is ask for it)
[According to newsletter #27, this letter makes me evil. I'm just fine with that.]
First, my own amusement at the comeuppance and pie-in-the-eye the RIAA has earned themselves: http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html
Second, it's been a full morning of burning rickety bridges, courtesy of G.E Nordell, editor of "Working Minds" [irony not intended by him, but heartily endowed by Yours Truly], who had the good sense to spam me with three copies of his newsletter, each more Chicken Little than the last (get out the aluminum foil hats, your PC is rotting your brain with radiation, kids!)
I'm not entirely certain where you've come from (though I'm absolutely certain where you got my address), but if you're looking to spread awareness of your ideas and agenda, a personal note of invitation, rather than three random manifesto emissions, would be much more successful.
I'm afraid that, after a relatively strong start with #25, you began to sound more and more like a paranoid crackpot (#30, particularly) and less like a well-reasoned idealist, and have consequently cost yourself my interest and/or support, independent of your poor choice of infection vector.
Despite my agreement with you on the general decrepitude and incompetence of our governance and some matters of societal structure, I'm staunchly pro-hooker (getting laid by a pro for $20-40 is cheaper than dinner and a movie, and you don't need to make awkward conversation afterward, not to mention the fact that they'll be damn sure to use protection), and I don't feel at any particular risk from the technological gewgaws I choose to surround myself with (on my sub-poverty-level income of $9/hr, thankyouverymuch).
Besides, I can always hit the OFF button.
Much like I have with you, I'm afraid.
Rafe
Lesser Deity & Greater Bastard
(I'm in favor of equal-opportunity hostility - all you have to do is ask for it)
[According to newsletter #27, this letter makes me evil. I'm just fine with that.]
