Actually my view of it is a bit earthier as I am sure most of those who know will attest, I am a bit of an earthy character. So please allow me not to disappoint.
All of the BS that is in this forum, the manure which has been ripped of any of its nutritional value and thus utterly devoid of content and relevance, spread by the ne'er do wells who have NEVER done a damn thing for us except give a lousy few hundred dollars (at best) and then toss Molotov cocktails, will not launch a single bloody thing into space except my blood pressure.
My attitude is easy to follow. Shut up and do something useful for the organization. When everything you can do in a positive way has been exhausted, write up a report/note/letter giving your constructive criticism and send it to the organization president and then shut up until you find another positive endeavor to undertake. All that has happened here with this policy is valuable time and energy from the VOLUNTEERS who have chosen to take the assault visited upon them hourly in this medium, which should have been spent looking for viable ways to launch anything useful into space, has been wasted by having to write this policy.
Be glad that I could no longer take it. I would have voted to shut this mess off and reveled in the silence. Then I would have been assured that the mindless rot that gets drooled onto the keyboard by the impending senescence of the monstrously inept that visit here and blather would at least have none of the feeding that they get by reading their tripe and congratulating themselves in their continuing delusions that they have accomplished a thing except hurt the organization.
My very best 73's to all who care enough about AMSAT to actually do something for it rather than babble from the depths of the depravity that is surely in most of the ne'er do wells souls.
Bob McGwier Life Member and active engineer for AMSAT since I was 21 years old. N4HY
On 1/15/2010 3:57 PM, Clint Bradford wrote:
... but the "guidelines" are so broad as to be meaningless ...
I see the guidelines as a verbose version of:
Be a responsible citizen of the planet.
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