Re: Repost in the Correct Echo re: Moderation (fm All Politics)   
     By: Lee Lofaso to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Apr 13 2013 17:49:32   
      
    >  LL>> Here's an idea for you, Damon.  Start a new echo, naming yourself   
    >  LL>> as moderator.  You get to name this new echo anything you want.   
    >  LL>> You also get to write whatever rules you want for this new echo   
    >  LL>> of yours.  Nobody will question your command, as you will be   
    >  LL>> the commander.  Even Bob K. will acknowledge you as commander.   
    >    
    > DG>Wow, what an innovative idea.  Perhaps I'll do that.  Putting on   
    > DG>my jackboots of ultimate free speech and nonoppression in moderation   
    > DG>sounds like a joy.   
    >    
    > Yeah.  You should try it sometime.   
      
   	You know, at first I was thinking that I would have a hard time    
   coming up with any sort of topic that might be broad enough and innovative    
   enough to provide a good topic for the echo.  I'm starting to think that I    
   might have an idea that might actually be worth the effort, though.  I    
   apologize for taking your idea so offensively at first.   
      
    > Oh, methinks he is having too much fun pestering his favorite   
    > moderator rather than be one himself.   
      
   	Yeah.  I can see where he gets his ideas and stuff, but there does    
   seem to be a lot of content from him that is devoted primarily to rubbing    
   his moderator's fur the wrong way.   
      
    > I hate to bust your bubble, but you are no Noam Chomsky.   
    > In order to be like him, first you gotta get yourself kicked   
    > out of Israel (among other places).   
    > "I am the voice of dissent!" - Noam Chomsky   
      
   	I'm actually trying to take special care to make sure that I'm not    
   kicked out of other countries, at this point.  I really like to keep my    
   options open.  I would, however, have to take issue with your claim at    
   least to the point of being 'A' voice of dissent.  Maybe I'm not 'The'    
   voice of dissent, but I certainly seem to voice a lot of it.  How dare you    
   rain on my thunder like that.  ;)   
      
    > Dude, you are starting to sound like JFK -   
    >    
    > "Life isn't fair!" - John F. Kennedy   
      
   	Now that comparison I can take a little bit of pride in.   
      
    > You really have to understand something.  Something very basic to the   
    > nature of man.  Why does a man climb a mountain?  Because it is there.   
    > No other reason.  Starting a new echo is done for the same reason.   
    > That echo is there, just waiting for the moderator to show up.  Just   
    > like that mountain, waiting for some dumb idiot to climb it.   
      
   	Indeed it is.  I'll think further on this issue.  I think the    
   biggest thing standing in my way right now is actually that there is a    
   frigging mountain of tasks that I have before me at this point that are    
   clearly proven to hold a lot more priority than that.  Unfortunately I    
   have not broken myself yet of the great evil timesuck that is    
   procrastination.  I need to get to work on that.  ;)   
      
    > DG>Seriously, though, why does my conduct here stick in your craw   
    > DG>so bad?   
    >    
    > Actually, I find your conduct quite amusing.  Please continue ...   
      
   	Oh I shall.   
      
    > 42.  That is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.   
    >    
    > Thanks for all the fish.   
      
   	No problem.  As a final request before I save this message could    
   you let the female trainers know that I strongly prefer the two-piece    
   suits in their choices for uniforms during all aquatic activities, please?   
      
      
   -The opinions expressed are not necessarily an advocation of any of the   
   aforementioned ideologies, concepts, or actions.  We still have the freedom of   
   speech, for now, and I enjoy using it in a satirical or ficticious manner to   
   amuse myself-   
      
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   revolutionary act." --  George Orwell   
      
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