<soapbox on> I'd like to echo Badger's post from (I think) page 3, to wit: that the issues addressed herein are merely symptomatic of a much larger problem (pun intended). And I would cautiously submit that that single problem is the size of the event itself. I am not learned in social sciences, but...

should they not? I aint sayin one way or the other. But I would be interested to know. I also would be interested to know if the folks originating this petition would deem works like theirs worthy. I think it's an important philisophical test. So, Tritical, in your perfect world, does, say, Sol Sys...

No, what I'm suggesting is that the signatories to the petition are, for the most part, collectively marching in lock-step without nary a voice of challenge or dissent to what is arguably a laborious, self-absorbed and ill-defined exercise in stone tossing and arm twisting without so much as a chal...

Badger's comment tells me he has no clue about the amount of *work* that goes into a (large) grant project, all money aside. And your comment suggests a level of presumptuousness that you, quite honestly, aren't fucking entitled to. Now who's being presumptuous ? Sorry if I took it the wrong way, b...

I hesitate to bring this up, for fear of it seeming like one-upmanship, but I hope it will help with some perspective. The project I headed in 2002 received a grant from the org for $14K. I raised an additional $6K. This covered materials and transpo. costs. I also spent 6 months working on nothing...

stuart and sparkletarte: check your zippers - your ignorance of the topic at hand is showing. Who has the balls to ask for money ? I do. And I got it. You can too, if you have the balls. That's the way it works. You gotta have the balls to think up a project that you couldn't pull off on your own. T...