tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post3052602138176970906..comments2023-11-05T00:19:25.417-07:00Comments on Rifleman Savant: Kurt does it again.Kevin Wilmethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-86813704714227782952013-12-27T09:35:06.635-08:002013-12-27T09:35:06.635-08:00Wonder if David reads this blog... he seems to hav...Wonder if David reads this blog... he seems to have toned down the "do it my way or you're an enabler" stuff lately. (grin)MamaLibertyhttp://www.thepriceofliberty.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-81633741220138725532013-12-25T09:52:28.542-08:002013-12-25T09:52:28.542-08:00It helps, but it hasn't cut out the sting of t...<i>It helps, but it hasn't cut out the sting of the rudeness entirely. Nor, for that matter, the autonomic reaction to resist it.</i><br /><br />ML & Kevin;<br /><br />Glad I'm not the only one that grates on.Joelhttp://joelsgulch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-85654776313722299322013-12-20T08:33:42.978-08:002013-12-20T08:33:42.978-08:00"David is the only reason I ever ran across y..."David is the only reason I ever ran across you in the first place, ML."<br /><br />I'd forgotten that. :) And yes, I do appreciate very much what David has done and does now. And I do understand that he is frustrated and disillusioned, just as so many of us are. Part of that is the fact that it's almost impossible to evaluate the impact of one's efforts.<br /><br />For example, I post the link to my self defense story all over the internet at blogs and fora, offering my book free to those who will request it via email. All I ask is that they send feedback when they've read it. To date, I've given away several thousand of the e-books, and the actual feedback can be numbered in the dozens at best.<br /><br />But does that mean the book has not been read? Or that it has not had some positive effect on those who read it? I'll never know. Is it worth going on with it? I think so.MamaLibertyhttp://www.thepriceofliberty.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-7975373277263320112013-12-20T07:04:29.078-08:002013-12-20T07:04:29.078-08:00And ML, I understand your sentiment, too. Out of ...And ML, I understand your sentiment, too. Out of respect for David's long (and continuing) history of outstanding work, I have developed a mental mantra of prepending the phrase "For those who wish to play the game, " in front of all the "you're-not-doing-enough-if-" phrasing. <br /><br />It helps, but it hasn't cut out the sting of the rudeness entirely. Nor, for that matter, the autonomic reaction to resist it. I would think that David, of all people, could identify with that impulse, and I can't bring myself to hold it against him yet.<br /><br />(Hell, if for this reason only: David is the only reason I ever ran across you in the first place, ML. :-)Kevin Wilmethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-50822421342964003632013-12-20T06:52:47.829-08:002013-12-20T06:52:47.829-08:00Joel: yeah, I hear you. At least there's AdB...Joel: yeah, I hear you. At least there's AdBlock on the desktop, which does get the vast most of it. The problem I've been having lately isn't on the desktop--it's on my smartphone.<br /><br />To wit: Examiner currently has the "distinction" of being the only website I've seen in the iOS browser which has figured out how to auto-launch the <i>App Store app</i> in order to push something in front of whatever it was I actually went there for. It's the popup window, all over again. <br /><br />Oh freakin' <i>joy</i>. <br /><br />Now I do know that some enterprising outfit will come up with some sort of AdBlock equivalent for the mobile OS eventually, but in the meantime this almost certainly means that other marketing teams will follow Examiner's "lead". It's pretty clear, these days, where the first development money goes, among public-consumption web development.<br /><br />And I gotta admit, I must be some sort of dinosaur, because I have never understood how a core marketing strategy could be quite so "<a href="http://rifleman-savant.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-if-nagware-is-model.html" rel="nofollow">piss off the consumer so much they give us money to go away</a>" and yet still be so sustainably lucrative as to enhance the practice over time.<br /><br />I suspect this is wrapped up in the sustained-monopoly problem (thus putting it in the realm of politics), but that's a topic for another day. Kevin Wilmethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-29120326483991635472013-12-19T09:04:34.367-08:002013-12-19T09:04:34.367-08:00I don't look at many of the "Examiner&quo...I don't look at many of the "Examiner" columns, and never comment anymore since it is so screwed up. Don't visit WoG more than once a day either anymore. Got tired of reading that I'm somehow enabling the gun grabbers, or "not doing anything" if I don't use facebook, twitter or write letters to politicians, etc. <br /><br />They want to disarm us because they want to do things to us we won't allow them to do if we have guns. And they already know that. So do we. MamaLibertyhttp://www.thepriceofliberty.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-29707003907227698222013-12-19T06:51:57.218-08:002013-12-19T06:51:57.218-08:00You can get denounced as a lukewarm "butt&quo...You can get denounced as a lukewarm "butt" for mentioning this on WoG, but I've about had it with the whole Examiner site despite the excellent articles. Between the "unresponsive script" errors I get on Linux and those amazingly annoying autoplay videos, I could practically write an essay in the time it takes to read one there.Joelhttp://joelsgulch.comnoreply@blogger.com