Jan. 6th, 2005

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Hopefully this will be a total non-event from the user's perspective.

I am not, however, holding my breath on that account.
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LJ bought by 6A; world fails to implode (despite much insistence that it has).

Seriously. I admit to some amount of skepticism as with any buyout/merger, but I see no evidence yet to think that anything horrible and terrible and awful is going to happen. Most of the things I was most worried about myself (like, are we going to have to move to Typepad-like pricing, which would suck much ass) seem to have been addressed; sure, not completely thoroughly yet, but ferchrissakes it's been less than 24 hours since the announcement. The one thing I haven't seen yet is what happens if 6A decides it wants to be bought by Microsoft or Apple or some other large corporate entity, but it's been asked often enough I'd be at least a little surprised if that doesn't get addressed at some point.

I wouldn't have paid for my accounts for four-plus years if I didn't have some amount of faith in the folks running this company, so I'm giving Brad the benefit of the doubt and believing that he really does have the best interests of this site that he built in mind and sticking around until at least the end of my paid membership in November. I'll re-evaluate then, as I always do. If things have started to suck, I won't renew my paid account. I honestly don't get the rash of panic and threatening to flee for the hills right now I'm seeing in various places. The reason I'm with LJ rather than hosting my own blog is because I enjoy the sense of community; if everyone jumps ship pre-emptively because of what "might" happen someday, that will pretty much destroy what makes LJ special without our new corporate overlords 6A having had to do a damn thing. No?

[Edit:] For those who care, here's the diff of the TOS versions 1.4 and 1.5. (Found in a comment to a locked post elsewhere.)
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Sure seems to me like forcing a debate on voting irregularities in Ohio could at least temporarily replace the hard-hitting piece about Governor Erlich's home life that's currently taking up lots of real estate on the front page of washingtonpost.com. But maybe that's just my screwed-up priorities again.

(You can watch the House debate on C-SPAN and the Senate debate on C-SPAN2.)

Edit: You're right, Ric Keller (R-Florida)! The only reason anyone in the Senate would possibly want to make you discuss seeming irregularities in Ohio is because Michael Moore told them to. Uh. Huh.
And yes, Rep. Boehner (R-Ohio) (huh huh, you said "Boehner"), they all hate the poll workers and want to make them cry. [And hey, look, it worked! Poll worker calls up to whine that the mean ol' Democrats are calling them all liars and cheaters across the board.] Oooh, and Tom "Lemme check with the FAA" DeLay talking about the Democrats "replacing statecraft with stagecraft" and their attack on the institution of our representative democracy. What a tool.

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