Praises
• I had a great time especially meeting new furs.

• I loved the raffle even through I still question why the cassette deck. Perhaps I could throw in a wireless router next time.

• Large upper lobby made a great place for lounging and meeting furs.
• Watercolor Panel

• Ranting 2 Panel on Furries and the Media even thought I do not like his kind of humor.

• Raw Sushi and Island Grill, this restaurant is very deceptive (in a good way), I thought with the name and decor I was walking into an expensive $50.00 a plate joint, instead it was super cheap and good. I had Sushi, a very good grilled teriyaki salmon, Miso Soup, and Sake for $21.00 a steal compare to the usual Family restaurant meal the day before (just the entrée and soup) for $19.00.


Minor Issues

o Scheduling of some events, I had to miss some do to going out to eat.
o Cassette tape and to as prizes?
o 2, The Ranting Gryphon I never care for f-bomb in humor or his politics. I do not see him as a superstar but he is not an ass.
o Lack of a con suite with water and munchies
o Bondage Bear, should save the hood till the late evening.

Brickbats
• Hotel
o Lack of amenities: The biggest is no Hotel Restaurant; The only thing offered was a snooty and very unfriendly night club. I do not like well-dressed and intimidating bouncers and haughty dress codes. The place looks like a bad wanabe hot spot joke. In addition, part of the only weight machine was broken.

o Lack of a business center. I wanted to print out pictures before the art jam. The hotel did not have a printer we could use.
o Spotty WI-FI, it did not work in my room but well in the panel room. Perhaps I can set up a few connections in the con suite.
o Room on third floor: I could hear the non-fur customers from the nightclub yelling and screaming on the street into the early morning. All you furs put everybody else to shame with you very good behavior in public.



Gallery
http://pics.livejournal.com/actonrf/gallery/0001xbg3

That’s it I snapped.

Let’s play a little game: in the last year the following posts case a firestorm. What do they all have in common?

A Wi-Fi provider can be penalized   if they do not monitor each user and report child porn transmitted.

A person can be arrested if the click on a link pointing to child porn

A Person can steal anybodies are work by declaring in orphaned  

The answer is they all are false! All created from a blog post form a person who did not researched the facts before posting.

The recent panic on the net is a 2006 piece of legislation never passed called the (so called) Orphan Works act.      (2006) H. R. 5439 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for limitation of remedies in cases in which the copyright owner cannot be located, and for other purposes.

The issue is the person want to use a work but unable to find the owners. I read the law and there are safeguards install that the infringer must use diligence and accepted methods to attempt to find the owner.

I what I find disturbing is how little misinformation on the blogs that can cause a big panic. Luckily this time only nerves of congressional aides are frazzled.  Somebody can case serious damage by using blogs to spread misinformation whether intentional or by carelessness, for example causing a company to go bankrupt.  As somebody who thought blogs was the  answer to the news monopoly  of the (liberal) media but now I see there is a dangerous and darker side to them to where I have to say read with caution  blogs can be untrustworthy or worst because  bloggers  to do not have the checks and balances to screen out mistakes and misinformation.

I am now very skeptical of blog post.

Something to remember

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Joseph Goebbels

The 2006 Law:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/t2GPO/http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h5439ih.txt.pdf