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When the Intelligent, Fearing interaction with the Ignorant, choose Silence over Contribution.  Thus begins the Censorship of intelligence.

Resist contributing to This, the Worst kind of Censorship!

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When the Intelligent, Fearing interaction with the Ignorant, choose Silence over Contribution.  Thus begins the Censorship of intelligence.

Resist contributing to This, the Worst kind of Censorship!

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Someone’s seen Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, haven’t they?

or is there a Code in the Capitalized Words? in which case, what does that have to do with WIFI in SC? 😉

Someone’s seen Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, haven’t they?

Actually I haven’t, though the poster caught my eye at the video store many months back.

or is there a Code in the Capitalized Words? in which case, what does that have to do with WIFI in SC? 😉

Just an homage to 18th century capitalization, though I stray slightly in that I do not restrict my capitalization to nouns.

Really, this was just a random thought that came through my head today as I contemplated all of the wonderful ideas that do not get shared and stay locked up in peoples’ minds out of distaste or fear of interacting with some elements of society.  I find it applicable to all industries, but especially so to internet based industries due to the diverse anonymous public with which ones ideas are shared.

Actually I haven’t, though the poster caught my eye at the video store many months back.

It’s really funny. Worth renting, or check it out in second-run if you have a repertory cinema near you.

[quote author=“Derek Jones date=“1186469338”]Just an homage to 18th century capitalization, though I stray slightly in that I do not restrict my capitalization to nouns.

Ah, you have to check out the Etiquette Grrls then.

[quote author=“Derek Jones”]Really, this was just a random thought that came through my head today as I contemplated all of the wonderful ideas that do not get shared and stay locked up in peoples’ minds out of distaste or fear of interacting with some elements of society.  I find it applicable to all industries, but especially so to internet based industries due to the diverse anonymous public with which ones ideas are shared.

Well, a lot of things stay locked up due to NDAs and other such realities of your very litigious United as they call them States. But true; it’s a cultural thing in many post-Protestant countries, this idea that to give things away impoverishes you, when in fact it enriches you…which is a whole other thread about Taoism and Slow Culture, but… In some respects the Internet and open-source in general can be thought of as a kind of Taoist impulse…giving away to enrich oneself, in a sense.

When you say ‘some elements of society’ what do you mean exactly? the riff-raff of the general internets? I suppose that’s why academic discussion still takes place largely on listservs and only occasionally on blogs; there’s a lot of ego-fracturing that can happen when you expose things to the broader public who ‘don’t get it’. I personally think it’s a kind of gift that makes you reassess what it is you’re doing (and at the very least, your ability to explain it).

But.. one can be both intelligent AND ignorant,

or… Knowledgeable yet Stupid.

Nice quote Derek…
It is a sentiment of true geekery 😉

Of course everyone posting here is of the utmost intelligence!

Ok folks.

In the spirit of intelligent replies, I’ve decided this message is a sooper-sekret kode from Comrade Derek. If we take the first letter of every word he wrote we see this: 

wti, fiwticsoc. tbtcoi

rctt, twkoc

Obviously, a hidden message.

If we REVERSE the letters we see this:

cokwt ttcr ioctbt. coscitwif, itw

If we then take the reversed letters, and put them in a handy Kligon translator, we see this:

The next version of Expression Engine will be released on August 15 2009.

..and you thought you could fool the keen folks on the EE forum, eh?