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Mar. 20th, 2008 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spatchWell I certainly do feel sorry for those who won't be around tomorrow cause I'm gonna be posting about THE COOLEST MOST AWESOMEST STUFF EVER and it's gonna be great and there'll be a party and there'll also be a cat party for cats and there'll be balloons and dancing girls and popcorn and free ice cream and beer, but I'm going to delete everything at 11:59 pm on Friday night so, like, oh well.
I suppose I should take a few paragraphs here and make a little ahem-hem statement about how the "day of no posting" protest should be called just that: a protest, not a strike, but I'm willing to bet most of those around who are intelligent enough realize that the effects of this are purely symbolic.
And really, as a one-day measure, this activity will achieve nothing that an actual "strike" should, because its very nature is nothing like a strike -- namely, the prolonged and continued deprivation of an industry's revenue, manpower and product by refusing to do that which one is contracturally obligated to do.
If you seek to make a symbolic statement by refusing to voluntarily participate in LJ for one day, by all means, make your voice heard by not making it be heard for once, and more power to you. But if you've got the WGA strike fresh in your mind and believe that you're really gonna show SUP a thing or two by lessening their server load and reducing their bandwidth usage for a day, boy howdy are you are barking up the wrong tree.
But enough of that. Anyway, it was more fun to write things like "THE COOLEST MOST AWESOMEST STUFF EVER" and "a cat party for cats"
I suppose I should take a few paragraphs here and make a little ahem-hem statement about how the "day of no posting" protest should be called just that: a protest, not a strike, but I'm willing to bet most of those around who are intelligent enough realize that the effects of this are purely symbolic.
And really, as a one-day measure, this activity will achieve nothing that an actual "strike" should, because its very nature is nothing like a strike -- namely, the prolonged and continued deprivation of an industry's revenue, manpower and product by refusing to do that which one is contracturally obligated to do.
If you seek to make a symbolic statement by refusing to voluntarily participate in LJ for one day, by all means, make your voice heard by not making it be heard for once, and more power to you. But if you've got the WGA strike fresh in your mind and believe that you're really gonna show SUP a thing or two by lessening their server load and reducing their bandwidth usage for a day, boy howdy are you are barking up the wrong tree.
But enough of that. Anyway, it was more fun to write things like "THE COOLEST MOST AWESOMEST STUFF EVER" and "a cat party for cats"
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:10 pm (UTC)Not that I intend to participate in the "I'm going to do nothing AS HARD AS I CAN and hope they notice!" protest.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:12 pm (UTC)I've been able to avoid all of the stupid stuff LJ has done just by not having an interests list.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:12 pm (UTC)Being a radical has never been easier.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:12 pm (UTC)(I'm doing it mostly for the symbolism, yeah.)
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:13 pm (UTC)I think I shall protest by using all twenty of my voiceposts in one day to record an album.
Also: Because you might miss things on your friends page, I should point you to this, if you weren't aware.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:20 pm (UTC)O SNAP
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:20 pm (UTC)I'm not worried, however. You couldn't stay off LJ for a day for personal edification, remember? You'll be bored out of your mind and joining the cat party for cats at 2pm.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:21 pm (UTC)I was thinking about the bandwidth thing. :-)
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:25 pm (UTC)But does anything ever REALLY get deleted?
You couldn't stay off LJ for a day for personal edification, remember?
That's only because I can't live without an audience. It was much more exciting for everyone for me to fail that day.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:27 pm (UTC)Did I miss my Evite?
Date: 2008-03-20 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:31 pm (UTC)It's no wonder those posts get so many responses. People are so gosh-darned defensive about maintaining their worldviews! What's the big deal, people? I mean, come ON already!
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:46 pm (UTC)My other three sock puppets will be attending your cat party for cats and will bring hats for the cats at the cat party for cats.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 07:59 pm (UTC)Re: Did I miss my Evite?
Date: 2008-03-20 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 08:36 pm (UTC)The thing of a strike though is to show "SEE? SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE CAN'T WORK TOGETHER? SHIT DOESN'T GET DONE!" which is why garbage collectors' strikes are narsty and writers' guild strikes bore you to tears. I don't see that in the LJ boycott.
Frankly it's all semantics, really. Call it a protest or a boycott or whatever, and I wouldn't have had such an entertaining cat party for cats entry (which I am now obligated to follow up on... UNLESS I GO ON STRIKE)
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Date: 2008-03-20 08:37 pm (UTC)Which will be a shame cause they're gonna miss all that awesome fun.
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Date: 2008-03-20 08:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 08:38 pm (UTC)CHICKENS GO IN THE
CHILLCHICKEN ROOMHAVE FUN
HERE'S YOUR GLOWSTICK FOR YOUR WATTLE
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Date: 2008-03-20 08:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 08:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 09:59 pm (UTC)Did you see the "Brief History of LJ" that's been roaming around?
Aha, here's someone who posted it all public-like:
http://codecattx.livejournal.com/350818.html
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Date: 2008-03-20 10:31 pm (UTC)I think the only people who should be allowed to bitch, however, are paying customers, who, you know, give their money to the company in the first place. Whining because you can't get something for free anymore is kind of pointless.
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Date: 2008-03-20 10:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 10:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-20 11:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-21 01:40 am (UTC)I guess I'd rather they not mess things up just so that all my friends stick around, but personally, I'm not terribly worked up. Life is not predictable so I don't feel like I CAN feel cheated, even if I am disappointed they aren't doing a better job to make folks happy.
which is to say, I will be attending the cat party for cats with bells on.
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Date: 2008-03-21 02:50 am (UTC)"Cat party for cats" reminds me of the last time I saw Phantom on stage. A little kid was walking right behind us afterwards going on and on about "this musical called Cats, and um they all dress up like Cats and it's like about Cats, and and and..." It was quite possibly the greatest thing I have ever overheard.
Did somebody say CHICKENS????
Date: 2008-03-21 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: Did somebody say CHICKENS????
Date: 2008-03-21 07:14 pm (UTC)Was that a chicken joke?!
Anyway, the cat party's moved to this abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town! WOOP WOOP
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Date: 2008-03-22 04:17 am (UTC)