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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

You've never heard of a business or charity use "current situation" when 
dealing with problems on the board or a money issue?

I don't believe there's any conspiracy going on right now, just juvenile 
trolling and people whining.

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-Dan Q

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:15:25 -0600, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> As a U.S. citizen, I can only say that the only time I have heard 
> "current situation" used to imply an instability would be in the 
> conspiracy threads on reddit, which is obviously a regional 
> implication.  Since we are dealing with a world-wide audience pretty 
> much everyone here limits their speech to the most common meanings of 
> such words without attempting to imply any sub-text.  You are jumping to 
> the conclusion of a non-standard definition of the words, so it makes me 
> wonder if you are attempting to imply that there is in fact a conspiracy 
> here.  If so, why would you think that from a general news blurb?  If 
> not, then why are you trying to lead others to think there is a conspiracy?
> 
> On 08/20/2018 06:04 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > "Current situation" usually implies instability of some sort, as if a 
> > business is about to shut down due to lack of funds.
> >
> > Probably half of the "trolling" going on right now is because of the 
> > differences between users' *native* languages, rather than the languages 
> > used on the mailing list.
> > As another user pointed out, a for-German-eyes-only post about me used 
> > phrases which Google translated as nonsense with words like "round" 
> > "quick shot" and with "Mr. Quintiliani" and "demolition" in the same 
> > sentence. A German speaker, I forget who, pointed out that these are 
> > literal translations of German expressions which do not imply death 
> > threats.
> >
> > --
> >
> > -Dan Q
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:54:02 -0600, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> "OpenNIC's current situation" means this is the way things are at the
> >> moment.  The news article basically states that FurNIC is being
> >> redefined as a 'peer' to opennic since this is technically what they
> >> have really been for a number of years.  It doesn't change the
> >> relationship between opennic and furnic, it simply changes the wording
> >> to more clearly identify it as what it really is.
> >>
> >> However all of this should have been understood from the news article,
> >> despite it being obvious that English is not their first language.  Did
> >> you read the article before commenting?  Do you need help reading the
> >> English language?  You seem to have a lot to say in English on the
> >> mailing list so I don't understand why you are having an issue
> >> understanding what is being written here, however if you need someone to
> >> help you interpret the text being discussed then perhaps we can help
> >> you?  Otherwise, what exactly are you trying to ask since the answer you
> >> were given apparently did not answer the question you thought you were
> >> asking?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/20/2018 03:34 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> >>> So what's "OpenNIC's current situation" then?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> -Dan Q
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:25:10 +0000, Philipp Schafft 
> >>> <lion AT lion.leolix.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Good afternoon,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 16:05 -0400, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> >>>>> May I ask what "OpenNIC's current situation" is? Is it "democracy" or 
> >>>>> do you just not like certain people on the list including myself?
> >>>> The managers of the FurNIC released a news article that's only 
> >>>> intention
> >>>> is to clarify the relation between OpenNIC and FurNIC as there has been
> >>>> confusion in the past. That's what it is. Nothing else.
> >>>>
> >>>> With best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>
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