gwion
wild colonial boy
Premium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
1 edit | Noooooo... but sorta close...
... they should say, "the vast majority of the 20% of users, from among the ten percent who don't curse as soon as the redirect comes up and leave, who actually stick around the site long enough to answer the poll, like this.
They fail to mention the 80% of us who don't fill in any surveys or forms, who don't go more than a page deep after getting a redirect, and who just get angry and leave...
That, and it's an abuse of the DNS system and their trust as its administrators; that's the nutshell edition, case closed. Even if 100% of users like it, it isn't "right". It's as if Bush gave me a position as logistics director in Iraq, and I promptly started running my own taxi, shipping and transport operation out of the motor pool, and posting 4x8' ads for it on ammo trucks... at that point, issue's no longer whether or not the Iraqis are pleased with my services, the question's whether I have any business running a private operation and using my position to promote and subsidize it.
They're just plain wrong. There's something called "Google" for those sites that just don't come up when you type 'em in... just like there's always the Baghdad phonebook for that shipping firm.
Not only that, but it reflects harshly on Verisign. If they're that desparate for funding, then maybe they're not fiscally competent for infrastructure responsibilities to be entrusted to them? Or if they don't need it, but are planning to take trust responsibility for internet infrastructure, then abuse that for their own profit, maybe they're not ethically responsible enough to be entrusted with infrastructure respponsibilities???
PS- "...an egg." Hmm... now, excuse me a moment, while Lt. Minderbinder and I discuss this a bit...  that's some catch, that Catch - 22...
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