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I responded to you personally. What are you talking about?
Jack
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From: "Dale E. Cripps" <
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To: "HDTV Magazine" <
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
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> Jack, I have asked you as politely as I can off this list yesterday not to
> take it upon yourself to set policy for this forum. That is the
> responsibility of Shane and myself as founders and owners of this FREE
> service. It seems that you insist,and with complete disregard for my
> views expressed yesterday, upon placing your politics of "no politics"
> ahead of all other politics, and I reject that out of hand. If this forum
> is no longer of interest to you may I suggest that there are far more
> restrictive forums to be found that adhere to a limited set of ideas
> tightly managed by a set of rules as dictated by that forum's most
> restrictive members. Free thinking must have space for political dialog.
> Dictatorial thinking requires no such space. The later produces little,
> creatively speaking. I am in favor of a creative outcome to all things
> and my politics is to favor open, though certainly not abusive, dialog to
> achieve it.
>
> Now, as a practical matter I don't differ with your view. I wish I did. I
> think that people can shoot their mouth off without engaging their brain.
> I found that true throughout the entire HDTV developmental process and the
> politics about it were absolutely horrendous, and not much better to this
> day. So, I don't want to have us fall into a morass of misinformation due
> to some bias coming from one member or another. So, as I said to you
> yesterday, there is a compromise to my position that puts some restraints
> on endlessly open and headless debates. I said, you will recall, that I
> would open the list up to any dialog or expression for two days following
> any benchmark event, such as 9/11 and this horrendous hurricane. We can
> thank whatever we think is responsible that so few of these tragedies
> occur in one year. But they do occur. You seem to not like this approach
> and so continue here with your attempts at restricting what are in many
> cases very deep unleashed emotions and thoughts. Maybe some are just
> argumentative and bias just to be argumentative and bias, but for two days
> I can tolerate even that. In two days we will all grow weary of the
> uneducated politi-guessing and get ready to move on with the subject we
> seem to love most.
>
> Finally, since this is such a horrendous event and has many watershed
> likelihoods attached to it that can affect the outcome of the HDTV
> transition, I do think that holding to the two day rule is also short
> sighted. But carrying on the dialog here is impractical, so let me point
> you to the new forum and ask you to set up a section call "HURRICANE."
>
> "Ah," you say, "There is no one over there on that forum yet and the
> reason we come and spout off here is because the Tips has a thousand
> readers. We can get our points across to a bigger audience." I hope those
> who might have that idea come to realize the cost to the owners of this
> list and what it took to assemble this group. No one who seeks to abuse
> this list for any reason what-so-ever can prove themselves ever to be a
> friend of mine.
>
> Dale Cripps
>
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>> Let's keep politics off this forum.
>> One problem with email is that people can type whatever they want even if
>> it is wrong or inaccurate.
>>
>> Jack
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>> To: "HDTV Magazine" <
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>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
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>> Personally, I think it's a little too early for financial contributions.
>> The state and national government's handling of this issue is
>> horrendous. I'm sure you guys have been watching the news as much as I
>> am, and I have the added insight of hearing first and second hand
>> accounts of the chaos that New Orleans is turning into. FEMA says they
>> are spending 500 million a day - meanwhile people are still waiting on
>> roofs and trapped in attics, while wading through disease-infested water
>> with dead bodies floating by. There's absolutely no excuse for not
>> having our National Guard troops there in substantially larger numbers,
>> as well as helicopters by the hundreds to get these people out. I will
>> step off my soap box before I even talk about the budget for levee
>> improvement being gutted year after year, but my point is that *today*
>> they don't need money - they need state and federal officials to step up
>> to the plate and do their jobs. I will donate substantially when a
>> relief organization begins to show signs of actually accomplishing
>> something.
>>
>> Joseph - the kind of grass roots response that your people are involved
>> in is what we really need. I'd like to see cities across the country
>> begin to form some kind of disaster preparedness squad, ready to
>> mobilize at the citizen level when the need arises. It shouldn't be
>> necessary, since we have the National Guard, but since citizens can't
>> control the federalization of the Guard, we are subject to political
>> whim as to whether they will be in our country or another. I'm hoping to
>> take a trip down there this weekend (it's about 6 hours away) and
>> brainstorming with friends as to how to make it happen.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jason Burroughs
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf
>> Of Anthony Rizzuto
>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:26 AM
>> To: HDTV Magazine
>> Subject: Re: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
>>
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>> That sounds like a reasonable plan Dale.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf Of
>> Dale E. Cripps
>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 10:11 AM
>> To: HDTV Magazine
>> Subject: Re: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
>>
>>
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>> While I am hardly a defender of existing institutions I would worry that
>> picking a new one simply because it is a new name to us might be
>> choosing
>> the devil we don't know instead of the devil we do know. What
>> organization(s) do we know that is/are capable of mounting the challenge
>> of
>> such a wide-spread catastrophe? Perhaps if we jot down some candidates
>> that
>> can meet the challenge and who can navigate through the red tape we
>> could
>> choose (vote) for one or more from that list and support it/them either
>> individually or collectively.
>>
>> Dale
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>> I would be happy to know of an organization that allowed you to direct
>> your contributions to the Katrina area as well, as I believe the Red
>> Cross uses the money wherever in the world they see fit.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf
>> Of Anthony Rizzuto
>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:53 AM
>> To: HDTV Magazine
>> Subject: Re: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
>>
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>> Yes. I lost confidence in them after 911.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf Of
>> M. Shane Sturgeon
>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:47 AM
>> To: HDTV Magazine
>> Subject: Re: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
>>
>>
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>> Other than Red Cross?
>>
>>
http://www.redcross.org/
>>
>> -- M. Shane Sturgeon
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>> I think there was at least one. When Indonesia took a hit from the
>> tsunami
>> there was a lot of interest by some on this board to donate money to the
>> victims. Katrina was in our back yard. I would be willing to make a
>> donation to the victims of Katrina if I knew the money was actually
>> going
>> to
>> reach those who need it. If there is someone who knows of such a
>> charity
>> please speak up. If there are enough interested, perhaps we could make
>> a
>> joint contribution on behalf of HDTV magazine.
>>
>> Anthony R.
>> Orlando, FL
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf Of
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>> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:07 PM
>> To: HDTV Magazine
>> Subject: Any tipsters from the Louisiana area...?
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>> I can't recall seeing anyone on the list posting from that area; does
>> anyone know of a tipster in that area?
>>
>> Jason Burroughs
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