The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by anon:

Regular poster here.

The techniques sound a lot like large group awareness training, with a quick setting change to the southwest.

The one that I'm somewhat familiar with is the Landmark Forum (nee est) -- a group that promises success with the completion of many weekend seminars, all for many $$. The seminars are run so that there's very tight control on bathroom breaks, food breaks, and extremely long days so that judgment is impaired. There's huge pressure exerted by the leaders exploiting the psychology of not standing out in a large group or not letting the group down.

It's profitable. Very Profitable. I'm not at all surprised that they're talking about $10k weekend seminars. The object is to extract as much money as they can from each person, while convincing them that they're undergoing a life expanding change and should get all their friends and relations in it.

Y'all are blaming BB for a quickie blog post? That's a little silly.

Why not blame CNET and Declan? McCullagh has always been a Republican who claims he is a Libertarian, and of course any list he produces of tech-friendly politicians is going to mean "politicians who take bribes from the tech industry". That's the message that should be getting out.

Wow, the photoshoppers sure are quick.

When your roommate is a hoarder (with some other problems), things can get pretty nuts.

Don't dodge the draft, take over the draft. You can determine who stays and goes, try to save as many as you can.

No name for obvious reasons.

I just can't see Harlan Ellison settling if he had any hope at all of victory. The DMCA's safe harbor provisions are pretty clear, and I think AOL told Ellison that they would pay for his lawyers if he went away. Ellison, realizing that he would never be able to gloat about a victory, walked away.

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