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Yeah, yeah, I know. Journals dropping left, right and center because of - wait a moment. Stop. Think. THEN react, okay?

catrinella seems to have a handle on things, and in some key aspects, actually has gone out to test the waters on the whole 'journal deletion' issue.

But it doesn't come as any surprise to me. No? Come on - it's all over Google News - OH, but that was MYSPACE.

*facesmacks*

The attorney general sent a letter to MySpace on Tuesday requesting names from the Minnesota registry or those on other states' registries who have used Minnesota addresses.

"Due to the anonymous nature of the Internet, social networking sites such as MySpace.com provide sexual predators with unprecedented access to children," she said. "They're really con men using the Net to develop rapport with unsuspecting kids."

MySpace announced last week that it would assist officials in all 50 states and provide this information.

UH. I can see LiveJournal wouldn't want that kind of burden. That's manpower, money and liability for litigation from people who sue after LJ turns over their private information to law enforcement. (Not that they'd WIN, mind...but litigation is $$$.)

From a simple business perspective, LJ is simply getting out of the business while they can. MySpace is going to get hammered by this stuff - make no mistake about it.

What makes sense to me is to actually put some intelligence into the interests update - if you think some words are triggers, for fekking sake, BAN them.

There's plenty of reports on "false positives" - and I hope in the weeks to come, any found in this first round will be remediated properly.

In the meantime, keep reading, keep listening and watch your ass. Your OWN ass, mind.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Journals dropping left, right and center because of - wait a moment. Stop. Think. THEN react, okay?

catrinella seems to have a handle on things, and in some key aspects, actually has gone out to test the waters on the whole 'journal deletion' issue.

But it doesn't come as any surprise to me. No? Come on - it's all over Google News - OH, but that was MYSPACE.

*facesmacks*

The attorney general sent a letter to MySpace on Tuesday requesting names from the Minnesota registry or those on other states' registries who have used Minnesota addresses.

"Due to the anonymous nature of the Internet, social networking sites such as MySpace.com provide sexual predators with unprecedented access to children," she said. "They're really con men using the Net to develop rapport with unsuspecting kids."

MySpace announced last week that it would assist officials in all 50 states and provide this information.

UH. I can see LiveJournal wouldn't want that kind of burden. That's manpower, money and liability for litigation from people who sue after LJ turns over their private information to law enforcement. (Not that they'd WIN, mind...but litigation is $$$.)

From a simple business perspective, LJ is simply getting out of the business while they can. MySpace is going to get hammered by this stuff - make no mistake about it.

What makes sense to me is to actually put some intelligence into the interests update - if you think some words are triggers, for fekking sake, BAN them.

There's plenty of reports on "false positives" - and I hope in the weeks to come, any found in this first round will be remediated properly.

In the meantime, keep reading, keep listening and watch your ass. Your OWN ass, mind.

There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit:

1. Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri, and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre.

2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC's faithful Bible preaching -- thereby committing the unpardonable sin -- otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins.

Irrefragable is a word?

UH.

I did say something about coming to your own conclusions and the opinions of your peers.

All I gotta add is what my mamma always told me - "If two shall gather in His name, they will fight."

WORD.

Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest 'must have' accessory.

But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her 'poodle' didn't bark and refused to eat dog food.

I'd really be suspicious, except for this story.

I've had both. Bottle fed, both even.

I mean, I'm holding the snark back by sheer brute force here. Sheep are STUPID. I mean, totally clueless stupid. Goats have more brains - you can at least hold a conversation with one...and pitted against a dog?

I call bullshit - and I'm sending it to Snopes.

Desperate, yes. But this is a bit extreme...or is it?

Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest 'must have' accessory.

But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her 'poodle' didn't bark and refused to eat dog food.

I'd really be suspicious, except for this story.

I've had both. Bottle fed, both even.

I mean, I'm holding the snark back by sheer brute force here. Sheep are STUPID. I mean, totally clueless stupid. Goats have more brains - you can at least hold a conversation with one...and pitted against a dog?

I call bullshit - and I'm sending it to Snopes.

Desperate, yes. But this is a bit extreme...or is it?

I swear, the only way the shooting in VA could get any more sensational would be if the shooter had been female. Seriously. I have a lot of respect for the authorities there right now, not releasing anything more than gender. Not even wild guesses.

The hyperbole is just amazing. Just.

Go check the number of people killed on the freeways today - if you can. What, that isn't a lot of people in one place? Does it matter?

Dead is dead. Dead is forever.

And dead is very much one life at a time - you remember when one person losing their life MEANT something?

Some folks are not going home tonight. And some folks are going home tonight, less one person they loved very dearly in their lives.

How it happened doesn't matter.

It happens every day.

And every day - every time - it matters. Just not to you - or me - every time.

Keep that tucked away someplace. The same place where you keep your musings on what you would do if you really REALLY got angry at someone. Angry enough to take a gun to a public place to use it.

...and hope you remember it matters.