I need to inject a strenuous objection to the response "get used to it." which affects me much like the supposed red
flag and the bull. I will stipulate the enormous odds that face whoever will refuse to "get used to it," but we had better remember that just about anyone who has refused to "get used to" hundreds or thousands of hopeless situations throughout most of human history has faced impossible odds except that in quite a few cases they turned out not to be impossible. Yes. this is a tough one. They have all been tough. The truly hopeless response, however, is only surrender. II'll stick with Churchill…Never give in, Never give in Never never never NEVER. Losing the fight is only defeat. Get used to it is surrender. Bob Lancaster On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Thank you doug, for your wisdom AND for your mercy. Nick > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Douglas Roberts > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:02 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] online privacy (again) > > Some forms of ignorance and/or stupidity are worthy, nay, richly deserving of > contempt. And disparagement. We have, IMO, a societal obligation to push > back against stupidity, and arrogance, and studied ignorance. > > But not on this topic. Times are a changin'. Personal privacy no longer > exists if you use internet technologies to communicate, or browse for > information, or to share pictures of your kitties. Or look up bomb recipes. > If you're going to do something online that could come back to bite you, > you'd better become a top-notch expert on anonymizing technologies and > methodology and practices. > > Get used to it, it is the way it is. > > --Doug > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Nicholas Thompson > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > Did you see this odd, avuncular op-ed from the Federal Trade Commission? > > I don’t know whether it reassured me more than it scared the living bejeesus > out of me. “Big-Brother’s Big Brother is looking out for you.” > > I take it back about contempt: If one of you would like to write me an > email, right now, which begins, “Nick, you miserable, feckless, idiot: go > immediately to your browser properties, google profile, registry, WHATEVER, > and do the following N things. And tell everybody in your family to do the > same.” , I would give you a totally free pass on the contempt thing. And be > grateful for it. > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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