On 24 January 2013 15:23, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> wrote:
On 01/24/2013 07:46 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
Hi, Karl. Could you just answer the question without changing the topic?
You are not very polite.
Blunt, maybe, but i saw no personal insult. And, as a someone for whom the US Second Amendment is Someone Else's Problem, I tire of the comparison of domain names to guns and find it wholly inappropriate. So I'll support John in ridiculing the analogies. Neither speculation nor vanity is unlawful. Nor in many eyes are
they wrong or undesirable.
"Vanity is an excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise."<http://dahlig.deviantart.com/art/The-Seven-Deadly-Sins-VANITY-13310012> Hell, I'm an atheist and I agree with that -- and with at least most of John's characterizations. I tend to see domain speculation as no different from ticket scalping -- an act of re-sale totally devoid of added value. In the case of ticket scalping, the activity is considered unethical and indeed illegal in many jurisdictions. - Evan