I have been called to the carpet for using, Caps. It is not polite or within internet etiquette to ‘Cap’ out as it is construed as shouting.
I knew that but, I had the perfect excuse. Broken thumb impaired my ability to keyboard properly, and the Cap lock was much easier on, than off. Everybody would understand, and be accepting.
How can someone accept what they don’t know, and why should they understand? Why should I get to be the exception, and everything’s okay?
Upon first receiving the comment, I must admit to being incensed, and annoyed. I was thinking, of everything here, and that’s the best information they could get from all that I have written?
First impressions can be the most lasting. The shouting was overwhelming, and rather than remain they chose to leave. After all who, in their right minds want to be overwhelmed with shouting?
Over modulation. Distortion. In that, any valid message is lost.
So now, I’ve found a new avenue of transport thanks to that comment giving me impetus for more thought.
It is up to me to find a way to overcome my disability. The disability is mine, not the internet community’s at large.
This is taking a lot longer to write than usual but, should become easier, and faster with time. The disability may mean, a slower output on the keyboard but, it is mine to reconcile, and there are rules that must be paid adherence.
I thank the commenter for taking the time to leave his comment.
Tags: Blog Publishing, broken thumb, Caps, Disability, internet community, Internet Etiquette
……Land of the free. That’s what we teach our kids from grade school, on up. They grow up, pretty comfortable, only to find CONgress hard at work defending that freedom (insert sarcastic laughter, here.)
Your CONgress cannot get their own house in order. Unemployment, Economy, Housing, etc. You know, little things. So, why even try? Go for something else, like killing off the internet as we know it. It is a comfort zone where information flows freely.
Your CONgress is going after that internet comfort zone. They are going to fight freedom of information in the name of Copyright justice. Congress can’t get control of important issues so, in the name of copyright, taking precedence over freedom, they will attempt a grab at control of information via the internet.
The United States already has sufficient Copyright Laws with prescribed penalties for violation. Enforce what exists, that’s why the law is there.
If the concern was truly with copyright, and how to protect it, a review of the current law would be in order. According to some of the ‘Related Articles’ below, the law may be based on false premise, unconstitutional, and that needs more attention than, the band-aid involving the internet, CONgress is proposing..
Why be so concerned over copyright law? Campaign dollars. Lots of them. They will argue it’s all about copyright law but, the legislation does much more by, letting Congress in to control the information. Controlling information is the first step to an efficient dictatorship.
The scales of justice, according to CONgress, tip favorably with copyright law being so much more important than, a silly principle like freedom. Freedom is a nice word but, bottom line, just a word to CONgress. If I was wrong, they couldn’t, and wouldn’t even consider this legislation.
Where does that put Microsoft, and GoDaddy? They have contributed most to legislators supporting these bills. One by percentage, and the other by, dollar amount. Both companies came out publicly against the legislation.
For those in both Houses of Congress aching for the passage of this anti-American legislation, you are demonstrating just how stupid we are for voting somebody equally as stupid in to office. Bundle it!
Don’t get to work on employment, the economy, housing or, anything trivial like that. Throw in a pornography bill with this internet bill. Oh, wait, we have pornography laws. Just trying to help. Bundle it with toothbrush design legislation. You can’t be faulted for voting on a toothbrush. Tell everybody, you couldn’t vote against a toothbrush. It is toothbrush legislation, and it had that other thing with the internet, attached. Come on, get in sync!
When CONgress is in session, It is usually pretty scary because, in the back of my head, I wonder what part of what used to be the United States are they chipping away at, now? What are they taking away, now….in the name of freedom, of course. How are they making the average wage earner’s life more difficult? It is what CONgress does, it’s what we allow them to do.
When do we finally put a stop to it? When do they truly have to become representatives in the true sense of the word? When we begin to change recall laws, making it easier to vote a representative who isn’t doing the job, out of office. Right now!
They need a surprise. Out, now. No, not November, right now……good-bye. When we get to that point in real life, we will have taken back our government for the people, internet in tact.
A couple of the many major web sites, off the net and/or with limited functionality to protest this proposed, brutal anti-American, anti-Internet legislation include our own WordPress, and Wikipedia.
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Tags: campaign dollars, CONgress, Copyright, false premise, freedom of information, Go Daddy, Microsoft, United States Congress
