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Your wish will eventually be granted.

We are working with an extension to our platform to allow tagging content.  A preview of it, although a bit raw and unfinished, can be seen on the Intel tab, when asking a question.  We're still working on exposing the tags in the sidebar, coming up with a sensible tag hierarchy, and allowing searching and cross-linking via tags.

We've had a few other things take top priority right now, but we will soon come back and finish these features.  Look for continued changes on the site!

As always, we love feedback and we love our Member community!

Busy System Admin

I'm all for comprehensive immigration reform.  The problem is that last time we tried it, only one side of the "comprehensive" bargain was held up-- the borders were not enforced.

That's why this time around, so many people want to see the enforcement really proven, before we agree to the rest of the comprehensive package.

In other words, if I could be guaranteed that only a very few people are able to cross the border illegally or work illegally in the country, I'll be a lot more friendly toward the prospect of an organized, legal guest worker program; to things like the DREAM act (or in general, using some common sense when dealing with children of immigrants who themselves did not commit a crime), and so on.

The problem is that "comprehensive" immigration reform is, to the Left, just another word for amnesty.  It's not comprehensive at all.

We will not, cannot agree to that.

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Amy Schley: I had a flippant response here, but I'm getting rid of it.  

Thanks for letting me know this is not a safe place to try to express my feelings on this topic.

I hope a few rude responses do not lead you to feel unsafe to express yourself.

And I appreciate your point.  We far too often accept the cultural value that we cannot deny our feelings-- or that we have no control over our stronger impulses.  Yes, some impulses are difficult to control.  But if you had not controlled yours, you would not be here with us today.

My parting words are: Take heart, because you are a worthwhile person in and of yourself, and independent of the value you may bring to society.  I would say the same to any person struggling with any other issue, including homosexuals.

Busy System Admin

I love Dr. Sowell.

By the way, I have if not the exact same tie, one that looks almost exactly like it from a distance, as the one Dr. Sowell is wearing in this video.

OK, back to the subject-- yes, intellectuals have nearly always presumed to know more than they actually do.  The common cliché is correct: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Busy System Admin

Whose money did they spend to do this "study"?

That's what I want to know. 

Busy System Admin

The Fonz? Who's that?

Peter, you have nothing to be ashamed of.

Edited on Apr 30 at 9:47am
Busy System Admin

Excellent suggestion! Thanks! I can't promise anything yet, but it will make it onto my queue.

Busy System Admin

All,

Thanks so much for the kind words and praise!  Yes, the idea of a membership fee really is brilliant on several levels.  (And it wasn't my idea-- I probably wouldn't have thought it would fly, because we're so accustomed to free Internet accounts everywhere.)

Keep up the great commentary and community, and remember to invite your friends and family-- see the link at the top of the page!

Busy System Admin

CuriousJohn,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.  I'll look into it.

Busy System Admin

It's fixed.  I fixed the exact same thing a month and a half ago, and the fix got lost or overwritten in a recent update.

Busy System Admin

Sorry!  I'm looking into things now.

Busy System Admin

In the programming world, the first guideline from Eric S. Raymond's essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar is,

  1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

I'm sure he wasn't the first to come up with this observation, and it's a little too absolute for my tastes, but it holds some truth.

Busy System Admin

Good suggestions all.  Thanks!

Busy System Admin

Fixed.

We prefer you submit bugs to support@ricochet.com.  It's faster-- I get that email right away if I'm at the computer; whereas I don't visit every page on the website every day.

But thanks for letting us know anyways!

Edited on Mar 8 at 10:51pm
Busy System Admin

I'm sorry!  My fault.  We rolled out some changes yesterday, and they weren't working.  In an attempt to get them to work, I kept clearing cache and doing this and that, and I actually put the server down for a while by mistake.

End result was that we rolled back the changes, and I rolled them back a little too far, thus the missing Inbox link.  It's back now.

Busy System Admin

Yes, I'm sorry for the disruption.   I was testing a second server, and some of you were being served from it while it was active.  It did not have your session information, so it made you log in again.

There is a solution that saves your session information in the database and shares it across servers, but I'm not to the bottom of it yet.

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