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Perfect is the enemy of good.
This is a dumb saying. Refusing to settle for anything short of perfect is often a bad trait, sure. But if you don't have a "perfect" goal to aim for, what you end up with is going to be worse than it could have been.
And that's what the saying means...
Especially important for technologists and entrepreneurs.
"As a constitutient, I write today to urge you to support the the.." Seriously? C'mon!
Edit: Should be fixed now.
If you want this to pass, don't sign the petition, and don't email or write your congresscritter. Call them . Interact with a human being in their office. Anecdotally, that has a much greater impact. (Source: my cousin and his wife were congressional staffers for several years.)
Congressmen value usable research and testimony. If you can hand them a credible argument for your point, well-condensed, well-organized, well-researched, and give a solid political bottom line (they are all about getting elected, you know) then you're ten miles ahead of the pack.
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There is a hidden agenda in saying that this "fixes the DMCA." It has a morass of serious issues untouched by these modifications.
Such as..? Not disagreeing, but you're begging the question.
If you want this to pass, don't sign the petition, and don't email or write your congresscritter. Call them . Interact with a human being in their office. Anecdotally, that has a much greater impact. (Source: my cousin and his wife were congressional staffers for several years.)
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This is a dumb saying. Refusing to settle for anything short of perfect is often a bad trait, sure. But if you don't have a "perfect" goal to aim for, what you end up with is going to be worse than it could have been.
> Refusing to settle for anything short of perfect is often a bad trait, sure. And that's what the saying means... Especially important for technologists and entrepreneurs.
I detest speaking in platitudes when plain english will do fine.
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Is there a website where we can easily find our rep's phone number?
FightForTheFuture's CISPA page has a good tool for this: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/cispa/
This legislation doesn't entirely fix the DMCA. It fixes some problems but more remain. Copyright is some seriously fucked up shit right now. It has been dominated by big money interests for the last 50 years.
Forward progress is still forward progress.
If you want this to pass, don't sign the petition, and don't email or write your congresscritter. Call them . Interact with a human being in their office. Anecdotally, that has a much greater impact. (Source: my cousin and his wife were congressional staffers for several years.)
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The reason this is, BTW, is that calling isn't scalable. Any idiot can fire off emails or print petitions or print and mail letters (albeit with a budget). Fielding calls is a huge pain in the ass and can be linked - via area code+prefix, among others - to a specific district.
Ah, a budget ... what I would give to have one of those :). More seriously though, I have definite plans to build a click-to-call tool in the next couple of weeks, but this news was sprung on my late yesterday, leading to a mad rush to get that page ready in time for this morning. Next time there's an action like this for FixtheDMCA, there'll definitely be a way to call. And if I build it I'll almost certainly open s…
I'm not sure how you do this on Android, but for the iPhone it couldn't be much simpler[1]. Also, most mobile devices will detect and enable any phone number they find on the page, so just putting it there and easy to find is often enough.
[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/iPh...