The bickering about who is a crook and who isnt is deeply rooted in Western tradition: The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment". It has drowned out the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation into a mere money relation. Marx, Communist Manifesto (1848) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm Jarek >From: elijah wright <elw@stderr.org> >Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org >To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Protection against unethical practices insearchengineoptimization? >Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:41:12 -0500 (CDT) > > >>>they're crooks, nuisances, and annoyances. :) >>>i assume that next you are going to suggest that spammers are just >>>hardworking legitimate businessmen. >> >>You're labeling me without right to appeal. Just because I work in >>search >>engine optimisation doesn't mean I spam and/or support spamming. >>Your mind >>is obviously set and I'm not going to get involved in a ALL SEO = >>spam >>debate which would interest nobody on this list. Please email >>privately if >>you wish to do so. > >you're free to explain how (and why) SE optimization isn't a bit of >crookery or algorithmic deception - and, in fact, i'd strongly >prefer that you do so on the list rather than taking it to private >email. [which actually makes you look, rhetorically, as if you >don't have a set of valid defenses, rather than making you look more >'polite'.] > >a number of folks on the list might find your explanation useful and >instructive. > >--elijah >_______________________________________________ >Air-l-aoir.org mailing list >Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/