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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12352)	4/25/2001 2:29:17 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

No need to suffer. Just that I try to keep my computer as free of cookies as I possibly can. I don't mind registering, but I don't want cookies planted on my computer. The times won't operate without a cookie. So I'm just making a small stand for privacy. If I read the Times in the library they don't demand first to plant a beeper on me to track my movements for the rest of the day or force me to tell them where I go in the paper. Why should I agree to that to read it on line? Probably a quixotic quest, and there are a few sites I do allow to leave cookies because they benefit me -- SI being one of them. But not many. Most people, when they install a program like CookiePal (my favorite, Kookaberra software, shareware, used to be $15, may still), and see what is going out about them over the wires are appalled. Thanks for posting it.

To: Lane3 who wrote (12352)	4/25/2001 2:35:59 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Did they ever give their definition of bullying? It's a critical thing to know in understanding the statistics. For example, "Belittling insults about looks or speech were a common form of bullying cited by the subjects." Frankly, I don't consider saying "your nose ring looks SO dumb" to be bullying. According to my dictionary, to bully is defined as "v.t. to intimidate or terrorize. v.i. to be loudly arrogant and overbearing." I think we're dealing with the transient sense here, bullying somebody. Is a belittling insult about looks really bullying? There's a danger, IMO, of minimizing the danger of "true" bullying if we spread the net too wide and call simple rudeness bullying. So I'm curious what their definition was. Does the article give that?