http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/morning-reading-83106/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/morning-reading-83106/comment-page-1/#comment-4373 Mike Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3160#comment-4373 I would invite the distuptive and abusive people without a doubt. Prestigious events are always so boring without somebody being willing to be an ass. Somebody needs to spike the punch. I would invite the distuptive and abusive people without a doubt. Prestigious events are always so boring without somebody being willing to be an ass. Somebody needs to spike the punch.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/morning-reading-83106/comment-page-1/#comment-4374 Rogers Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3160#comment-4374 This is a personal issue being dressed up as a call for inclusiveness because that argument sells better.Tim O'Reilly <a HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2000/winer_0900.html" rel="nofollow">explained his position</A> several years ago.Taking the personalities out of this and making it general, if you believed that someone was "disruptive and abusive," would you invite them to a prestigious event you were holding? This is a personal issue being dressed up as a call for inclusiveness because that argument sells better.Tim O’Reilly explained his position several years ago.Taking the personalities out of this and making it general, if you believed that someone was “disruptive and abusive,” would you invite them to a prestigious event you were holding?

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