Ryan sent me this article about the wordpress ’scandal’.
After reading all the comments, about how bad spam was and how we should condemn Matt (Wordpress main developer) I came to one comment that I couldn’t agree with more -
So’s war, world-hunger, air pollution and daytime television. Stating the obvious (over and over) isn’t opinion. It’s weird.
WHY is everyone having such a hard time stepping off the flimsy soap box here? The ignorance and dearth of critical thinking skills in this particular thread is positively staggering. I had hoped the morning would bring some clarity, but instead I see more posts whose comments are just too ridiculous to discuss.
Matt’s motivations (IF they’re any of our business!) are many! If you’re having trouble seeing past whatever comparatively small monetary fee he may have enjoyed as a result of hurting nothing other than some very fragile egos, that’s your problem!
Besides that – what’s more likely to result in effective anti-spam-the-engines tactics? In-geek proselytizing or learning the ins-and-outs by conducting a first-hand experiment?
I don’t feel like he’s done anything terribly unethical. Would I do it? Not my on my site, but perhaps if I was in Matt’s shoes I might. I think everyone needs to chill out and wait till Matt makes an official statement, but my opinion will remain the same.
While Bush & congress fight to keep Terri Schiavo alive, despite her being brain dead for 15 years, 6 month old Sun Hudson was allowed to die without a fight when he was taken off life support against his parent’s wishes.
Geneva, Mar 30 (Prensa Latina) While the US Wednesday defended here the “democratic consequences” of its alleged antiterrorist crusade, Cuba criticized that Washington is spending more money on reinforcing its blockade of Cuba than on tracking finances for the Al Qaida network.
The US delegation has used the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva to praise the foreign policy of US President George W. Bush”s administration.
That government claims the world has become more secure from the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the changes it helped bring about in several countries.
These include upheavals in several former Soviet republics, the result of the White House´s antiterrorist crusade.
Cuban diplomat Claudia Perez Alvarez, representative at the UNCHR, condemned the US reinforcement of its blockade against Cuba, especially when they already dedicate five times more agents to chasing blockade violations than to tracking finances for Al Qaida, which Washington blames for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“The US government intends to destroy the Cuban political, economic, social system by any means,” Perez Alvarez stressed, causing the US representative leave his seat in the meeting.
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