SUO: Re: SUO Procedures
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Murray,
Under the FYSMI ("funny you should mention it") category,
I'd just this afternoon written this awflist to Tim King:
| here's a "lesson of history" (loh) that a few of us old hands on this side
| of the waters learned the hard way, though i'm sure that it's a hard knock
| of categorically imperative force: the silence of the silent majority
| is free to be interpreted by the powers that be any damn way they wish,
| and once that reading is laid down, anybody who speaks up afterwords
| has by that very act elected themselves out of the majority.
|
| so watch out for that.
Jon Awbrey
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Murray Altheim wrote:
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> West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE wrote:
> >
> > Any comments? (silence is taken as consent).
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> Only on that last comment. Silence should not be taken as consent,
> only that people's bandwidth is being taken up elsewhere. Until
> you have some voting one is alone with one's assumptions. I learned
> that one on the HTML WG, where I could never get a vote to be taken
> in several years of trying since those in control of the process
> didn't want to know the real tally and be forced to follow it (and
> straw polls are dangerous when you can't get a real vote; they can
> be used as a weapon to create a false consensus).
>
> Wouldn't it be better to do what is now commonly done in most open
> source projects, i.e., ask for a +- vote from everyone?
>
> Murray
>
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> Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
> Knowledge Media Institute
> The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
>
> Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage: the health and environmental
> costs of war on Iraq, the report estimates that between 22,000 and
> 55,000 people - mainly Iraqi soldiers and civilians - died as a direct
> result of the war.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3259489.stm
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> Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage? ...a euphemism for BushCo.
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