From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (General Boycott)
Subject: Re: FUCK CLINTON,FUCK GORE,FUCK CLINTON,FUCK GORE,FUCK INTELLECTUALIST
Summary: All roads lead to Totalitaria.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Veep Schemes... run against Clinton in '96? ... '94?!
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:41:00 GMT

In article <168A8E97D.M23231@mwvm.mitre.org>, M23231@mwvm.mitre.org writes...

>Does anyone know the title and publisher of a study of net flame psychology?
>I have heard there is such a study. It is supposed to address why we seem to
>have such intense flame fests on networks, but in person many of the keepers
>of the flame are rather mild, calm, reasonable people. I have a tendency to
>do it myself, so please don't flame me for asking :-). Please respond by net
>mail.
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>JJ

More useful to respond in group this time, since two(+) birds can be 
"studied" at once.

See _Scientific American_ issue September 1991 for an article 
which deals with the phenomena you note, arising as I recall mainly 
as a function of anonymity. (Which makes me wonder if a similar
phenomena goes on in the movie & drama industries where the cast
gets lost in their masks?) Of course, you were asking a rhetorical
question, JJ?

Also see "Infrastructure for the Global Village," *same issue*
by AlGor, definitely of interest:

	"Capitalism and representative democracy rely on
	 freedom of the individual, so these systems 
	 operate in a manner similar to the principle 
	 behind massively parallel computers."

[Ok, impersonal, but system-wise, better than central control.]

	"Suppose that we had a national `colaboratory'
	 linking teams at different geographic locations
	 so that researchers could work together on projects
	 involving computational science."

[Uh huh, "researchers" and "computers" of course.]

	"Luckily, just as we confront this fantastic problem
	 of so-called exformation, all these silos filled with
	 `rotting data,' we see the appearance of the super-
	 computer."
	
[Yearning masses of data longing to be free.]

	"Most important, we need a commitment to build the
	 highspeed data highways."

[A major *new* "Investment."]

	"But although there is much agreement on the need
	 for the national network, there is still controversy
	 over the next step, the creation of a commercial,
	 ubiquitous, fiber-optic system that can reach into
	 almost every American home."

[Almost reach into every home, but not quite... just the intellectualist.
 Made possible by the drudgery of the working class, who'll be put on the 
 next e-drug -- hdtv -- using existing one-way cable. Why supply the 
 next level of fix before it's needed?]

	"It will be up to federal and state policymakers to 
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
	 determine how best to build a universal, high-speed 
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	 network, to reconcile the competing corporate interests
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	 and to create a network that maximizes the benefits 
	 enjoyed by all Americans."
                    ^^^

Yeah right.

And we find that Gore (of Borg) is a Technological-Socialist on the 
surface (and an Intellectualist-Elitist behind the mask). 

The politicians are the experts who will decide how best to build,
the researchers are the experts who will provide the solution, 
and when all is said and done -- those of you who have spent 
time and taxes to see this built can can behold with pride 
the great project, the likes of which have been unseen 
since Babel, the Pyramids, and the Great Wall.


If you want it built -- make digital-data-fiber-networks a new
legal entity separate from telephone and cable. Turn the private
market loose for 5 years *to work in parallel* in the new frontier
and then look at regulation. 

Else...


-= Been lookin for that Exodus Stage Right =-



"Capitalism is parallel..." does not jive with 
"It will be up to federal and state policymakers..."

-= Sleep =-

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