Official Blog Of themolotov.net
This is the official summary of the official entry about how ridiculous making things 'official' is.
I am so sick of all this 'official' crap. It seems that nowadays every po-dunk organization declares it's own 'official' sponsorships of the most ridiculous things. 'The official root beer of San Francisco!' - entirely fictional (I hope), but you get the idea.
All that being 'official' means is that it's sponsored for some reason by an administrative entity of something. There can be political implications for officially sponsoring something, and that is important to me (The official interpretation of the constitution by the US Supreme Court for example), but all of these commercial opporunities for declaring 'official' affiliations is getting really annoying.
The 'Official' Winner of the Not-My-Job Contest - http://www.tonyrogers.com/humor/not_my_job.htm
I know it's supposed to be all in fun, but abuse is still abuse.
comments
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erin
Friday, June 29, 2007
I don't feel right trusting the interpretation of laws that effect me to people that I don't directly elect.
But then again, I'm probably an anarchist.
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Alan
Friday, June 29, 2007
http://www.nascar.com/guides/sponsorship/
Is there such thing as an unofficial sponsor? If not, why is there a need to specify that these are official?
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molotov
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Erin, I don't mean that our interpretations should imply trust or anything. It's important to know the 'official' interpretation of the law (whether or not we agree with it) if only because it will help us avoid breaking it, or plan accordingly.
Alon, I have no idea what an unofficial sponsor would be, really. I am an 'unofficial sponsor' of Linux. If an organization recognizes unofficial sponsors, don't they become sponsors? Maybe unofficial just means people, somewhere, are getting kickbacks but want to stay unaffiliated for political reasons.
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Alan
Friday, July 13, 2007
At least I said <a href="http://alanbeam.net/Blog/135">that</a> <i>before</i> you wrote this...
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Alan
Friday, July 13, 2007
(No html? I guess that's why you have the Parse Bbcode down there, huh?)