July 27, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 07/27/11 More harassment at the Pavilion government building/What the harassment has caused/Internet suppression?
Apparently, the office of Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is in the same building as the Department of Libraries and the Attorney General’s office.
I was at the Department of Libraries earlier today. I printed out a couple of pages, and then I went to the library business office on the first floor to pay for the pages on my way out of the building. As the lady who works in the business office was getting my change, I said “This is a nice office. There’s a lot of room and a lot of windows.”
She said “Yes, it’s a nice office. Sometimes it’s like a little fishbowl, but I like it.”
I had been nothing but pleasant and polite to that woman throughout the entire transaction of asking to pay for my pages and then commenting on what a nice office she had.
As I left the office, I couldn’t help myself from saying what I thought of her behavior. “That’s pathetic,” were the words that refused to stay unspoken by me the second I was out the open door and about to leave the building.
I don’t like it when people are able to goad me into being rude to them. I’m plenty capable of being rude at any time without any pressure; it’s something I’ve been trying to improve for a long time, and I don’t appreciate it when people try to bully me and are able to get me to revert to habits that I’ve been trying to undo.
There’s nothing good in what has happened over the past year and a half. All of it has been destructive. All of it has been divisive. None of it ever had to happen; that’s part of what makes it terrible, too.
There was nothing to have stopped the government from giving money for disaster relief to people who needed it, without those people harassing anybody and endangering people’s lives. Hopefully, agencies such as FEMA were already giving all the disaster relief that was needed in times of disaster to people who needed the help.
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I accidentally transferred most of the above from Word to Weebly along with my first essay of the day when I had put the first essay on Weebly but hadn’t yet published it. It’s been my impression for a long time that everything I do on the Internet gets watched. I think that if I go to a search engine, type one character off the keyboard into the search box and then erase the character without doing any kind of search, somebody sees it. If I put something on a blog page and never publish it for public view but instead delete what I’d first put on the page, it still gets seen by the people who watch what I do on the Internet.
A few minutes after I’d published my first blog page on Weebly today, I got a notice from Weebly on my screen saying that Weebly was encountering problems. Then I heard the librarian say “We’re having Internet problems,” and then there were about 20 minutes of no Internet access for the entire law library, even for the librarian.
2. Newblog2011: 07/27/11 More harassment at the Pavilion government building/What the harassment has caused/Internet suppression?
Copyright L. Kochman July 27, 2011 @ 11:04 p.m.
2. Newblog2011: 07/27/11 More harassment at the Pavilion government building/What the harassment has caused/Internet suppression?
Apparently, the office of Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is in the same building as the Department of Libraries and the Attorney General’s office.
I was at the Department of Libraries earlier today. I printed out a couple of pages, and then I went to the library business office on the first floor to pay for the pages on my way out of the building. As the lady who works in the business office was getting my change, I said “This is a nice office. There’s a lot of room and a lot of windows.”
She said “Yes, it’s a nice office. Sometimes it’s like a little fishbowl, but I like it.”
I had been nothing but pleasant and polite to that woman throughout the entire transaction of asking to pay for my pages and then commenting on what a nice office she had.
As I left the office, I couldn’t help myself from saying what I thought of her behavior. “That’s pathetic,” were the words that refused to stay unspoken by me the second I was out the open door and about to leave the building.
I don’t like it when people are able to goad me into being rude to them. I’m plenty capable of being rude at any time without any pressure; it’s something I’ve been trying to improve for a long time, and I don’t appreciate it when people try to bully me and are able to get me to revert to habits that I’ve been trying to undo.
There’s nothing good in what has happened over the past year and a half. All of it has been destructive. All of it has been divisive. None of it ever had to happen; that’s part of what makes it terrible, too.
There was nothing to have stopped the government from giving money for disaster relief to people who needed it, without those people harassing anybody and endangering people’s lives. Hopefully, agencies such as FEMA were already giving all the disaster relief that was needed in times of disaster to people who needed the help.
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I accidentally transferred most of the above from Word to Weebly along with my first essay of the day when I had put the first essay on Weebly but hadn’t yet published it. It’s been my impression for a long time that everything I do on the Internet gets watched. I think that if I go to a search engine, type one character off the keyboard into the search box and then erase the character without doing any kind of search, somebody sees it. If I put something on a blog page and never publish it for public view but instead delete what I’d first put on the page, it still gets seen by the people who watch what I do on the Internet.
A few minutes after I’d published my first blog page on Weebly today, I got a notice from Weebly on my screen saying that Weebly was encountering problems. Then I heard the librarian say “We’re having Internet problems,” and then there were about 20 minutes of no Internet access for the entire law library, even for the librarian.
2. Newblog2011: 07/27/11 More harassment at the Pavilion government building/What the harassment has caused/Internet suppression?
Copyright L. Kochman July 27, 2011 @ 11:04 p.m.