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

To: thames_sider who wrote (15772)	6/6/2001 12:58:31 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The SI TOU are always good for a laugh: siliconinvestor.com . G and h are the funniest, I think: The following actions, among others, may result in removal of messages and/or termination of your membership. g) Posting improper or off-topic messages or posting more than twenty messages in six hours. h) Violating the letter or spirit of the Terms of Use. Enforcement of everything is sufficiently arbitrary to make the whole thing silly. Of course, the admins are, by definition, always right.

To: thames_sider who wrote (15772)	6/6/2001 1:12:50 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Better film analogy: you pay to join a film class in which the principle of the class is that various members or subsets of the class may start up film projects, and that by virtue of paying to join the class every student has the right to work on any film as long as they obey the class rules. Then mid-way during the classs some people say we want to make a film but prohibit other class members from having any input on it because, even though they obey the class rules, we don't like the way they think or act. And the teacher says, okay, and you can do it on your own, don't need to show any reason, don't need my approval, just say "you're not allowed to work on this film" and that's fine. analogy breaks down, of course, as all do at some point, this being the point that a film needs at some point to be put into the can and finished, but threads don't. But the principle of paying to join a class with rules and an agreement of total inclusion, and then being subject to exclusion not by any act or approval of the teacher but at the whim of another student, strikes me as not skookum Charlie.