Comments on: Dvorak Scores Insulting Award from CWA Dingbats

By: AB CD

AB CD — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:59:08 +0000

Umm, Gore wasn’t in Congress to do anything when the internet was being invented. That he was merely excited about the technology and was trying to attach himself to it is possible, but given his claims about Love Canal and the tax credit, as well as fighting in Vietnam(when he was a journalist,) I think lying is the best explanation.

By: mike Cannali

mike Cannali — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:28:21 +0000

I never liked Gore – always found him stiff and boring – but let’s be fair. I saw the complete audio of his remarks on how he “got it” early and helped push for funding for the Internet. His creating the Internet remarks were taken out of context – how unusual in politics.

By: mike Cannali

mike Cannali — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:18:24 +0000

You should propose this as an general architecture for the individual’s personal elective selection or rejection of information based on content at the desktop. The concept applies to more than rejection or acceptance based on XXX. There are legitmate reasons why essential and emergency services would need catagorization of content on the server side as well.

By: AB CD

AB CD — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:54:07 +0000

>Let’s get something clear and dispel a myth. Gore never claimed to >have “invented the Internet”.

Yeah, that’s because he said:

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

And he wasn’t even in Congress when DARPA was creating the internet.

He also took credit for the Earned Income Tax Credit, and claimed to have discovered Love Canal. Then there’s his Vietnam war stories that never happened, and claiming to have fought tobacco ever since his sister’s death.

By: site admin

site admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:10:18 +0000

Mark, I don’t take these things too seriously. I get more flak from regular readers regarding just about anything. When I write vitreolic material I have to expect return fire. This was pretty funny. I’m going to demand a plaque though!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:05:37 +0000

John,
I am a Christian and would like to apologize for our lack of education. It seems the worst of us often get the platform. However, I would like to challenge you to really keep and open mind, not one in theory only. It is easy to find a mistake and paint all positions with the same brush. Not all that we support is illogical.
For instance? Creationism vs. Evolution. You mentioned it in your blog. No science, right? Tell that to Anthony Flew, the eminent British Atheist. He recently became a Deist, not a Christian, mind you, but a convert to belief that something more than impersonal forces created the world. Why? The science has led him to do so. It seems that life is so precariously balanced in this universe that many cosmologists are coming to the conclusion that the Universe was “tuned” for life, Dr. Flew included. I can only applaud a great intellect for real open-mindedness. However, I realize that many of us have pushed true seekers away because of our lack of thinking. May your mind remain open for truth.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:46:33 +0000

ryno,
I like the way you think.
hawks,
Why did you assume that “Bob” is a man? He / she could be a man in name only.

Let’s get something clear and dispel a myth. Gore never claimed to have “invented the Internet”. He helped foster and promote the concept as a legislator, which is what he said.. I would think though, given Gore’s honesty and track record, that to be given the same award would truly be an honor. I would much rather share the smallest award with Gore then all the “awards” of dubya.

By: ryno

ryno — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:08:35 +0000

Their site, I believe, makes the case that all extreme right-wingers who want to marry church and state so we can live in a more fascist society – their sites must have a .bible or .bbl domain. This way, I could block their narrow minded rhetoric from my kids eyes.
“Why do you need to be saved?” – PLEASE – more like “Why do you need to be saved from our lack of vision and independent thought?”

By: AB CD

AB CD — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:55:35 +0000

How would a .xxx domain work? Does this ban porn from the rest of the net, and if so how are you deciding what goes where? Seems like it would get thrown out with the other laws.

By: Ellis Strange

Ellis Strange — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:48:02 +0000

What can I say in congratulations on your award that hasn’t been said. The CWA has made you a model of everything anyone could hope to be. Of course the Gore analogy is a little unfortunate but what the hell – could have been a Bush analogy.

By: TakeIT2

TakeIT2 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:03:38 +0000

Ruth Parasol made $1.8 billion on PartyPoker.com and had her start in Porn. While Jan LaRue, Esq. is busy with their proselytizing real women are out working. Women work in all kinds of Professional capacities though it seems some professions, their charms and their influence can be made so tawdry by petty jealousy. It’s hard to tell the difference sometimes between lawyers and prostitutes, especially when they are screamers. Sometimes we think thee doth protest too loudly. Kinda makes you wonder who’s sleeping with the enemy. If BS walks and money talks you have to wonder as well who has more influence at ICANN. If the .xxx domain was to be the ghetto paradise saving grace of the Internet we might have another woman to thank for getting us kicked out of it. And people complain there are not enough women in tech. Will the real women of tech please stand up

By: site admin

site admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:51:59 +0000

Looks like it is still posted…try again!

By: GregAllen

GregAllen — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:00:28 +0000

I’m an evangelical Christian and I have seen the wisdom of an XXX domain since I first surfed the net.

It comes from my own personal experience… I was at work, surfing inside AOL (assuming I was safe) and I clicked on a link AND WENT STRAIGHT TO PORN!

(I worked for a Christian organization)

THEN I realized that a co-worker was looking over my shoulder! She saw the whole thing. I was horrified but — thankfully — she kept her mouth shut about it.

I thought then that porn needs to have its own place on the Internet where it can exist legally but easily be blocked from situations where it is inappropriate. .

Besides the XXX … I think there should be an embedded tag in pictures and video clips that identifies itself as porn. That would help when the pictures inevitably get passed out of the XXX domain.

I might be naive but I assume that most pornographers DON’T WANT to get in legal trouble by getting into schools or where ever.

If there was an easy way to imbed an “XXX” tag in their pictures, most would do it, even if it’s just legal CYA.

By: David Costin

David Costin — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:40:32 +0000

Rats! No .xxx domain … now I’ll have no place to post my raunchy Esq. LaRue photos, looks like I’ll just have to put them up somewhere, like, Yahoo or Flicker. Network Solutions says I could however be the proud owner of CWFA.cc, CWFA.bz, CWFA.tv, CWFA.ws, CWFA.de, CWFA.co.uk, or CWFA.name.

By: Bryan Jones

Bryan Jones — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:41:25 +0000

Wow, im a conservative and even I think that these women are nuts. Groups like this make all conservatives look like bible banging prudes. Apparenently Ms. LaRue has very little knowledge on how the internet works, and how viral porn advertising has gotten so bad in the first place. Pornographers have no desire to market their product to “impressionable children” because the kids can’t pay for it anyway. I don’t know of too many 13 year olds with a credit card. What buisness markets its product to those who are unable to buy it. I know that there is free porn on the net, but the .xxx domain would make it easier for parents to keep track of their kids in the first place. After all, controlling what a kid sees on the net is the job of the parent anyway. All kids will see porn sometime. There was porn way before the advent of the net.