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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Jeff Couturier</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Couturier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An update for those of you subscribed to comments: Due to heavy traffic, the site I originally used to host the script above has asked me to move it elsewhere. If you used the MANUAL INSTALL method and your banner has stopped working, please use the updated script above. The only change to the script is the hosting location. The WordPress plugin is not effected.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An update for those of you subscribed to comments: Due to heavy traffic, the site I originally used to host the script above has asked me to move it elsewhere. If you used the MANUAL INSTALL method and your banner has stopped working, please use the updated script above. The only change to the script is the hosting location. The WordPress plugin is not effected.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://jeffcouturier.com/2011/10/i-support-the-occupy-movement-banner-project/#comment-1101</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In a completely unregulated free market, we had robber barons, company towns, and the like. No, sir, I don&#039;t think I like your free market, sir. I think your &quot;free market&quot; is a step we took at one time to replace hereditary rule with something that was supposed to be meritocracy. Instead it became plutocracy. When people had had enough of that, they tried to outlaw that. For a while we had unions which were over-powerful, and that wasn&#039;t much good, it had ... interesting pitfalls. There are times where it has been more bureaucracy -- the other sense, meaning rule by clerks. China tried that millenia ago and some still idealize it. Some find it more resembles Gilliam&#039;s _Brazil_. Now because of the guard rails removed to try to pull away some bureaucracy we&#039;ve instead veered back towards plutocracy. Most anyone can see it, but the few who imagine that somehow they will burst forth among the ranks of the monied because they know they are meritous. They don&#039;t realize that it is more like lottery than merit, and even more inheritance than lottery. There are just enough anecdotal exceptions to keep dreams alive, and many of them make heroic stories of merit. Meanwhile, I will have none of your &quot;free market&quot; nonsense. We are in an age of plutocracy in the name of free markets, and to suggest that the plutocrats be given &quot;free reign&quot; to do as they will is assassination of every last bit of hope out there. We don&#039;t need free markets. We need mechanisms to ensure that power is kept in check. Brutalism, autocracy, plutocracy, theocracy, oligarchy, bureaucracy, I&#039;ll have none of their prescriptions, sir.

None of them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a completely unregulated free market, we had robber barons, company towns, and the like. No, sir, I don&#8217;t think I like your free market, sir. I think your &#8220;free market&#8221; is a step we took at one time to replace hereditary rule with something that was supposed to be meritocracy. Instead it became plutocracy. When people had had enough of that, they tried to outlaw that. For a while we had unions which were over-powerful, and that wasn&#8217;t much good, it had &#8230; interesting pitfalls. There are times where it has been more bureaucracy &#8212; the other sense, meaning rule by clerks. China tried that millenia ago and some still idealize it. Some find it more resembles Gilliam&#8217;s _Brazil_. Now because of the guard rails removed to try to pull away some bureaucracy we&#8217;ve instead veered back towards plutocracy. Most anyone can see it, but the few who imagine that somehow they will burst forth among the ranks of the monied because they know they are meritous. They don&#8217;t realize that it is more like lottery than merit, and even more inheritance than lottery. There are just enough anecdotal exceptions to keep dreams alive, and many of them make heroic stories of merit. Meanwhile, I will have none of your &#8220;free market&#8221; nonsense. We are in an age of plutocracy in the name of free markets, and to suggest that the plutocrats be given &#8220;free reign&#8221; to do as they will is assassination of every last bit of hope out there. We don&#8217;t need free markets. We need mechanisms to ensure that power is kept in check. Brutalism, autocracy, plutocracy, theocracy, oligarchy, bureaucracy, I&#8217;ll have none of their prescriptions, sir.</p>
<p>None of them.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Billy Bob</title>
		<link>http://jeffcouturier.com/2011/10/i-support-the-occupy-movement-banner-project/#comment-1100</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a lot easier to remove the power from government, then there is nothing to lobby for.  That was the entire point of enumerated powers in our Constitution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a lot easier to remove the power from government, then there is nothing to lobby for.  That was the entire point of enumerated powers in our Constitution.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Billy Bob</title>
		<link>http://jeffcouturier.com/2011/10/i-support-the-occupy-movement-banner-project/#comment-1099</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Because they&#039;re smart enough to realize we haven&#039;t seen free markets in what, 120 years? 160?   77,000 pages in the Federal Register and you think there aren&#039;t enough regulations?

Stupid people that think government solves problems got us into this mess by handing over obscene amounts of power to government and letting them pick and choose the winners.  Glass-Steagall was to make up for the damage caused by the FDIC.  The FDIC was to cover up the damage caused by the Federal Reserve.

We&#039;re not &quot;missing the history&quot;, we&#039;re just not naive simpletons looking for knee-jerk answer for everything. We&#039;ve actually READ history and UNDERSTAND the perils of free markets.  In free markets, there are no bank bailouts and the bankers control exactly nothing.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because they&#8217;re smart enough to realize we haven&#8217;t seen free markets in what, 120 years? 160?   77,000 pages in the Federal Register and you think there aren&#8217;t enough regulations?</p>
<p>Stupid people that think government solves problems got us into this mess by handing over obscene amounts of power to government and letting them pick and choose the winners.  Glass-Steagall was to make up for the damage caused by the FDIC.  The FDIC was to cover up the damage caused by the Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not &#8220;missing the history&#8221;, we&#8217;re just not naive simpletons looking for knee-jerk answer for everything. We&#8217;ve actually READ history and UNDERSTAND the perils of free markets.  In free markets, there are no bank bailouts and the bankers control exactly nothing.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Telefonsex Cam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Telefonsex Cam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is completely to the point and it is giving the full explanation of subject.thank you. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is completely to the point and it is giving the full explanation of subject.thank you.<br />
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Jeff Couturier</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Couturier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please note my statement at the beginning of this page under &quot;Why am I doing this?&quot; I wrote:

&quot;These little banners are a far cry from actually ungluing your ass from the chair and going to an Occupy protest, but my hope is that they will help get even more people involved. If you do place a banner on your site, thank you. Please don’t stop there. Stand up – literally – for what you believe in.&quot;

A movement has to start somewhere, and has to gain exposure and support in order to be successful in any way. The purpose of demonstrations are to build that exposure and support.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please note my statement at the beginning of this page under &#8220;Why am I doing this?&#8221; I wrote:</p>
<p>&#8220;These little banners are a far cry from actually ungluing your ass from the chair and going to an Occupy protest, but my hope is that they will help get even more people involved. If you do place a banner on your site, thank you. Please don’t stop there. Stand up – literally – for what you believe in.&#8221;</p>
<p>A movement has to start somewhere, and has to gain exposure and support in order to be successful in any way. The purpose of demonstrations are to build that exposure and support.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Ben E.</title>
		<link>http://jeffcouturier.com/2011/10/i-support-the-occupy-movement-banner-project/#comment-1096</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben E.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not that all Occupy supporters are lazy, it&#039;s that they aren&#039;t a movement.  You&#039;ve come up with as good a description for the Occupiers as anyone at the top of this page: &quot;an ongoing series of demonstrations.&quot;  Demonstrations are fine, they&#039;re part of our constitutional liberties here in the states, but a movement requires a goal you&#039;re trying to get to (that&#039;s where the &quot;move&quot; part comes from).

As someone who has supported friends and family who run the gamut from union organizers to Tea Party protesters (and yes, even Occupiers), I would love to see the Occupiers start a real movement and start making a difference, but until they do, I can support those individuals out there, but saying I support their cause-less event is like saying I support Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios, it&#039;s a fun time but it&#039;s just a thing people go to, you either join or you don&#039;t.  I respect what you&#039;re trying to do, but your banner is akin to Liking a product on Facebook, it&#039;s propaganda and advertising, not support.

Personally, I&#039;ll support those in the Occupy protests by continuing to visit with them and continuing to challenge them to really find out what they want to accomplish and start a true movement around that.  As a Cuban-American, I know something about how aimless revolutions turn out, and I encourage you to look to the Communist and Socialist movement groups across this country who are all too eager to take advantage of people trying to &quot;support&quot; a feeling, rather than an action.  Those are the people inciting violence in the midst of protests, looking to claim everyone present as part of their own cause.  They co-opted the student protests in the UK and much of the protests in Greece and unless those of us personally close to the Occupiers help them stand up for themselves (rather than mindlessly follow a complaint) they&#039;ll end up nothing more than inadvertent supporters of groups with radical ends I doubt they&#039;d agree with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not that all Occupy supporters are lazy, it&#8217;s that they aren&#8217;t a movement.  You&#8217;ve come up with as good a description for the Occupiers as anyone at the top of this page: &#8220;an ongoing series of demonstrations.&#8221;  Demonstrations are fine, they&#8217;re part of our constitutional liberties here in the states, but a movement requires a goal you&#8217;re trying to get to (that&#8217;s where the &#8220;move&#8221; part comes from).</p>
<p>As someone who has supported friends and family who run the gamut from union organizers to Tea Party protesters (and yes, even Occupiers), I would love to see the Occupiers start a real movement and start making a difference, but until they do, I can support those individuals out there, but saying I support their cause-less event is like saying I support Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios, it&#8217;s a fun time but it&#8217;s just a thing people go to, you either join or you don&#8217;t.  I respect what you&#8217;re trying to do, but your banner is akin to Liking a product on Facebook, it&#8217;s propaganda and advertising, not support.</p>
<p>Personally, I&#8217;ll support those in the Occupy protests by continuing to visit with them and continuing to challenge them to really find out what they want to accomplish and start a true movement around that.  As a Cuban-American, I know something about how aimless revolutions turn out, and I encourage you to look to the Communist and Socialist movement groups across this country who are all too eager to take advantage of people trying to &#8220;support&#8221; a feeling, rather than an action.  Those are the people inciting violence in the midst of protests, looking to claim everyone present as part of their own cause.  They co-opted the student protests in the UK and much of the protests in Greece and unless those of us personally close to the Occupiers help them stand up for themselves (rather than mindlessly follow a complaint) they&#8217;ll end up nothing more than inadvertent supporters of groups with radical ends I doubt they&#8217;d agree with.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Infinite scroll: use it well, or don&#8217;t use it at all by Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://jeffcouturier.com/2011/11/infinite-scroll-use-it-well-or-dont-use-it-at-all/#comment-1095</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice critique.

I like the solution of a floating DIV as a block for an expandable footer, as well, but I&#039;ve seen that work out poorly. Klout, for instance, got clever and put in a floating header and footer that would relocate to screen top and bottom as you moved about and resized the window. Rendered nice on my Android browser, even, until I started zooming in to work with tiny UI elements. Then they would also zoom and consume about half or two thirds of the screen, depending on how far I zoomed. I&#039;ve also seen the browser just STOP processing the floating DIV relocation requests on many sites, leaving the bar hanging in the middle of the page, usually right over what I want to read/click.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice critique.</p>
<p>I like the solution of a floating DIV as a block for an expandable footer, as well, but I&#8217;ve seen that work out poorly. Klout, for instance, got clever and put in a floating header and footer that would relocate to screen top and bottom as you moved about and resized the window. Rendered nice on my Android browser, even, until I started zooming in to work with tiny UI elements. Then they would also zoom and consume about half or two thirds of the screen, depending on how far I zoomed. I&#8217;ve also seen the browser just STOP processing the floating DIV relocation requests on many sites, leaving the bar hanging in the middle of the page, usually right over what I want to read/click.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Infinite scroll: use it well, or don&#8217;t use it at all by Hot-Wire</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot-Wire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You could put your footer information in a float div that is anchored to the window instead of the page. This works best if it is a small amount of information; that half page of links would be way too much unless you make pop up menus or something with it. (Remember that hover doesn&#039;t work for touch devices.) Otherwise, put that stuff in a sidebar.

Also, consider why your design puts so much information in the footer, which may well be the least accessible part of your page. ... Thinking about it, if the footer was just advertising, people would probably like how infinite scroll makes it go away after half a second.

The designers who think people don&#039;t like to click don&#039;t use tablets enough. What we really don&#039;t like? Waiting forever for the page to render, especially if it&#039;s because of a document.write() from an ad on a slow server. Fix that before you worry about us hurting our fingers from clicking too much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You could put your footer information in a float div that is anchored to the window instead of the page. This works best if it is a small amount of information; that half page of links would be way too much unless you make pop up menus or something with it. (Remember that hover doesn&#8217;t work for touch devices.) Otherwise, put that stuff in a sidebar.</p>
<p>Also, consider why your design puts so much information in the footer, which may well be the least accessible part of your page. &#8230; Thinking about it, if the footer was just advertising, people would probably like how infinite scroll makes it go away after half a second.</p>
<p>The designers who think people don&#8217;t like to click don&#8217;t use tablets enough. What we really don&#8217;t like? Waiting forever for the page to render, especially if it&#8217;s because of a document.write() from an ad on a slow server. Fix that before you worry about us hurting our fingers from clicking too much.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Support The Occupy Movement &#8211; banner project by Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very nice!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very nice!</p>
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