Frank,
Ray proposed that UCD "not take sides in public questions/disputes/contests,
not taking sides or even appearing to take sides." Therefore, Ray is saying,
UCD could only support projects with which there was universal contentment
in this community. And since it only takes one person with a keyboard to
manufacture a "public question/dispute/contest", in an area with more than
50,000 residents (at least on UC-list), this proposal is the kind of pipe
dream that flourishes in unrealistic internet communities.
I repeat: this standard is absurd, an impossible test to meet for any one of
the hundreds of organizations that operate in some sort of public-private
interface throughout Philadelphia. Any governmental authority you might
approach to put a chop on your regulatory proposals, will recognize this in
a flash and tune you out.
Anybody who wants to consider developing a regulatory network for UCD needs
to acquire a grounding of knowledge and common sense about how actual
agencies and actual regulators work. It will require real study and real
interaction with real people in the real world.
Pounding out an ever-expanding wishlist of single-issue edicts to a
single-case agency one doesn't really know anything about, is a childish
exercise in imaginary self-importance. Ray can do this if he wants. He can
hold his conversation with nobody, in public, if he wants.
-- Tony West
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [UC] The UCD answer
Umm...Who said *that?* If I missed something, please explain it to me.
Frank
On Jun 1, 2007, at 02:48 AM, Anthony West wrote:
So to set a standard of universal contentment as the benchmark for any
non-profit's legitimacy is absurd, an impossible test to meet.
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