Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Larry Sanger on Jimmy Wales
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"No, I don't vote. I have in the past, but . . ." He pauses again, and then says: "It's a rather odd reason why I don't. In Florida, in order to vote, you have to register with your actual address, and for security reasons, for the safety of my family - because there are many, many lunatics - I can't register to vote with my real address. If I could register to vote with a fake address I could vote, but apparently that's a felony." He concedes that "it sounds slightly paranoid. But," he says, "it's not paranoid."
<*cough*>Greg?<*cough*>
QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Wed 26th January 2011, 10:04am) 
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"No, I don't vote. I have in the past, but . . ." He pauses again, and then says: "It's a rather odd reason why I don't. In Florida, in order to vote, you have to register with your actual address, and for security reasons, for the safety of my family - because there are many, many lunatics - I can't register to vote with my real address. If I could register to vote with a fake address I could vote, but apparently that's a felony." He concedes that "it sounds slightly paranoid. But," he says, "it's not paranoid."
<*cough*>Greg?<*cough*>
Yes, bugger-all when teh interwebs remove some of your privacy, eh, Jimbo? Be glad you personally haven't been contributing to that horrible phenomenon, else you wouldn't be able to speak today about it, with such selfrighteous hurtful outrage.
Oh, you would ANYWAY?
QUOTE(SB_Johnny @ Wed 26th January 2011, 12:04pm)
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"No, I don't vote. I have in the past, but . . ." He pauses again, and then says: "It's a rather odd reason why I don't. In Florida, in order to vote, you have to register with your actual address, and for security reasons, for the safety of my family - because there are many, many lunatics - I can't register to vote with my real address. If I could register to vote with a fake address I could vote, but apparently that's a felony." He concedes that "it sounds slightly paranoid. But," he says, "it's not paranoid."
<*cough*>Greg?<*cough*>
You should talk to Danny Wool sometime. He was Employee #2 of the Wikimedia Foundation. He saw some things. I'm led to believe Jimmy Wales was toting a gun to the Bomis/Wikipedia office long before I was ever on his radar. Jimbo's first edits to Wikipedia were about firearms. He has enemies who truly wish him harm, but I certainly hope he doesn't include me among them.
Now, that being said, I think this story of him not giving his actual address is more of a heroic-sounding cover for the actual fact that he'd rather not be easily served papers, he doesn't want you looking up the value of his mobile home on Zillow.com, and that he's too lazy and indifferent to vote.
For those interested in his puffery, a transcript of Jimbo's blathering is here.
To see Jon Bernstein's full article, though... if you're an American, it's going to cost you a subscription to the magazine, costing hundreds of dollars. No thanks.
To see Jon Bernstein's full article, though... if you're an American, it's going to cost you a subscription to the magazine, costing hundreds of dollars. No thanks.
QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 26th January 2011, 8:48pm)
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JW: I don't vote. I have in the past but - it's a rather odd reason why I don't. In Florida in order to vote you have to register with your real, actual address, and for security reasons, for the safety of my family -- because there are many, many lunatics -- I can't register to vote with my real address. If I could register to vote with a fake address I could vote, but that's apparently a felony.
Ha, just realized someone else had already pointed out that quote.
QUOTE(anthony @ Wed 26th January 2011, 3:27pm)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 26th January 2011, 8:48pm)
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JW: I don't vote. I have in the past but - it's a rather odd reason why I don't. In Florida in order to vote you have to register with your real, actual address, and for security reasons, for the safety of my family -- because there are many, many lunatics -- I can't register to vote with my real address. If I could register to vote with a fake address I could vote, but that's apparently a felony.
I guess Wales' ex-wife doesn't vote either.
It's rather a shame that Florida is one of those states that makes voter registration information public. And it's a special outrage that they have a little program that you can request it not to be, if you're any kind of government official-- even a firefighter (who doesn't like firefighters??
).Jimbo could requrest an exception if he could prove he'd ever been a victim of a stalking or hassessment crime, but mere fear of becoming a stalking or harassment victim in the future, doesn't count in Florida.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/pdf/Public...quest_07-14.pdf
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