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I notice members are extending their personal signature with some political video links. I dont think we should do that, there are enough webforums where you can make others aware of your policital favours and I dont think that this forum is an ideal place to do that. I even believe the forum mediator should van this kind of actions. >>
>>I'm guessing Michel F. will respond, but I just can't resist with a personal reply on this one....
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>>The problem, my good sir, is that your view of "this is not the ideal forum to make others aware" could itself be taken as a political view.
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>>There are people in this industry with varying degrees of face-recognition whose political views are known as part of their professional personna. I know an Entity Framework expert who is as liberal as it gets, and everyone knows it (but I won't hold that against Julie L, since she's so darn smart)...and I have a friend who is pretty well known in the .NET area who DEFINITELY is known for his views....and you only have to know me for 5 seconds to know that I'll only eat the right wing of a chicken.
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>>Then again, there are days when I'd rather quote the Red Hot Chili Peppers than show a 3 minute video of Ayn Rand. :)
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>>But anyway....as is often the case in environments where freedom of expression is a signature theme, unless there's a clear violation of the site's T&C, there's the old line..."if you don't like a political video, then don't watch it". :)
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>You will probably discount this given my own political views, but I did not in fact know Julie Lerman is a lefty. She looks like one, I'll concede that. And yeah, Vermont. Still, I read her every month in MSDN Magazine, have both editions of her EF books, and have watched some of her videocasts. Not once has she mentioned politics. Maybe you got into conversation at an MVP event or something and so know things I don't. Maybe your own views set her off ;-)
You don't read her blog then. She is self-professed. It is kept separate from her professional life, but she doesn't hide it.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
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