[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] License plates and covers.

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Thu Dec 11 22:56:26 UTC 2003


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Russ Johnson wrote:
> Well, ya know, maybe I'm just one of those people that see the word fuck
> as a personal attack. Deal with it.

Deal with your irrationality?  No thanks.

> Vulgarity in itself is hostile by it's very nature. If you choose to use
> it, you will find many people that react strongly.

"Vulgar" is a matter of community standards.  I'm working to reshape that.

> > Identifying a vehicle at speed is how we can protect people from
> > rampaging motorists and at-risk behavior.  A license plate
> > identification has taken many a criminal off the streets.
>
> It IDs the owner of the CAR, not the driver.

No, it doesn't.  The plate identifies the car and the plate database
identifies the registrar and the registration database identifies the
owner and the time and place of the plate identification can identify the
driver.  It's a whole process of identification.

> > > But the public is forced to subsidize "art" in buildings.
> >
> > Huh?!?  The public is "forced" to subsidize "buildings" on art!
>
> Oregon has a law that requires a certain portion of any building funded
> by taxes (i.e. public building) to be dedicated to art for that
> building.

Reread what I wrote.  I'm absolutely not ignorant of the fantastic One
Percent law.  Any public works project needs to spend one percent on
public art.  It's a great way to solve the problem of public art funding
without it getting in the way of arguments about practicality and budget
constraints.  The pragmatists and penny-pinchers wouldn't ever support
public artwork otherwise.

I was jokingly implying that it's really a Ninety-Nine Percent Law where
we have to spend most of our public art money on building more practical
structures.

> > All you wrote was "the sort", but there is no referenced class of
> > "sorts".
>
> If you read my paragraph immediately prior to that sentence, you will
> see that I'm using definition 1 from Merriam-Webster. Sort is a synonym
> for class and kind. Nothing of the kind in reference to the
> camaro/corvette paragraph.

There's no reference to a class to which anything in the rest of your
sentence belongs in the previous paragraph.

> >From the comments I've received, only you seem to be having difficulty
> grasping what I've been typing.

Oh, I'm grasping it, but it's taking more effort on my part than it would
if you were more adept in english.

I think it's a matter of courtesy and respect to be as clear and explicit
as possible.

J.
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