Incidents yesterday = 7 below normal Incident count = 20.86
     Report on Ganj Dareh Meeting/will-be-heard participation (R=100%/W=83%):

      Discussion Groups Active: 16,807 Forums & 22,838 Klatsches
     Notable excerpts: Forum for Ganj-Dareh Collective, moderated by Pfic Ira Hayes [Neighborhood Xref=Awaji]. Displayed as full-action video in coordinated poly-panel, including Moderator, Administrator information, and Speaker Panels embedded into background Ripple Paneling showing faces of all zhee-tely attending the meeting.
     Moderator Hayes: Welcome to one and all. We have quite a turnout here, in fact, the entire Collective sits in with us today, a response we haven't seen for quite a while. Not as many as we had before this sad business started, but maybe some good will come out of this after all.
     I call this single-subject meeting to order. Administrator automaton will state the business before us today.
     Administrator: What have we learned? Volume 14, Session 1, specific to Gastarbeiterbande. Conducted as round-robin klatsch with a ten-second limit initially. The floor-token is now available.
     Moderator Hayes: I'll jump in here to tell you that all Bande Gastarbeiter have been arrested by our anshin or the Yojin Suru. I expect that they will be convicted quickly and sent into Exile.
      By: Ley Souslin Frankiwojima [Neighborhood Xref=A]
      .focus panel-in-poly-panel: And that's what they deserve? Or so you believe?
     Moderator Hayes: When they followed the Patterns for Failure, they made that choice. We're just making it zhuhndí.
     Ley Souslin: And you think they had a choice, do you? Do you really believe that we have cured the problems with nature and nurture through our Pattern Languages?
      By: Lon Block Harlon [Neighborhood Xref=Aharon]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: A Pattern Zealot Pfic Ira may be, but I am not. He invokes zhuhndí. So do I, the zhuhndí of Bande Gastarbeiter. Their behavior proves that twisted minds exist. I'm talking parents here, twisting their children likewise, and leaders of cults, twisting their followers. They want company in their delusions — [token expired]
      By: Flag Raiser Mikestrank [Neighborhood Xref=Llwchmynydd]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: People don't do things like that. They wouldn't.
      By: Non Gagnere Memorialphoto [Neighborhood Xref=Dépêche]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: People? People! Have you noticed what people have done to each other through the ages? People will do anything to people.
      By: Ley Brad Johnbookabout [Neighborhood Xref=Ollantaytambo]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Not here, not on Yeibichai. We healed the human condition. That's why the Founders came here. That's why the Founders built a new infrastructure. They healed themselves. They started a new way of living. They started us out to live a different way. Wait, wait, I — [token expired]
      By: Ley Brad Jamesbookwriter [Neighborhood Xref=Tel Miqne-Ekron]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: I'm with you, Ley Brad. Maybe the Founders didn't do it right, not completely right. Maybe they overlooked something. Maybe the equivalent of 75 Gë years hasn't been long enough to overcome millennia.
      By: Ers Powersron Too-Bookwriter [Neighborhood Xref=Cajamarquilla]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: If these twisted souls exist, why didn't we see them before? We are "Open and Accountable," after all.
      By: Thal Senrojoe Iwophotog [Neighborhood Xref=Chios]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Shame drives them. Even children know what society will tolerate and what it won't, and ashamed of parents, relatives, themselves, they hide the abuse, the egomania, the sick thoughts, and we give them privacy to do so.
     By: Kite Balsley Benscienceflier [Neighborhood Xref=Khanty-Mansiisk]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: I won't give up privacy.
      [Kite Balsley requests pulse: out of 483,179 active in forum, 93% agree with him, 7% disagree]
     By: Fa Mariam Abaetes [Neighborhood Xref=Watford]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Anonymity! Restore people's right and ability to go among our virtual selves in an anonymous way. Without fear of reprisal, they will reveal the secrets that are driving them crazy.
     By: Tum Chumen Tabergori [Neighborhood Xref=Diorbivol]
      .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Reveal false accusations, you mean, without fear of accountability.
     By: Ry Ber-brobert Radiator [Neighborhood Xref=Nyiragongo]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Let's not do this argument again. Secrecy versus privacy, privacy versus secrecy. Last time, my in-laws didn't talk to me for days. There's got to be another way to clean this up.
     By: Ry Sperdean Slurpee [Neighborhood Xref=Teihotu]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Wait, wait, let's back up. Do you mean there are people out there who could stalk me through Beobachtung? Watch me come and go? Alhambra, save me from sight-ghouls preying on my visage! Shut down Beobachtung!
     By: Den Harler Butold [Neighborhood Xref=Graubünden]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Not a good idea. Beobachtung benefits us too much, but we could modify the browsing-rendering tools to detect and report such Patterns for Failure.
     By: Jones ee-Vidda Daedalus [Neighborhood Xref=Vastogirardi]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Let's not go overboard here. Maybe we're actually quite close to the right approach, just not close enough. After all, this so-called Le Coeur de la Patrie contained just one-tenth of a percent of the continent's population. Surely, that's not enough to make us start over again.
     By: Kip Relativity Factfiction [Neighborhood Xref=Lost Springs]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: So right, Jones ee-Vidda, we don't demand service levels that high in most of our contracts, though on some we do. Why don't we just view this as a round of quality adjustment? After all, this is the first real competition our way of life has undergone. and what's the point of competition? Improve — [token expired]
     By: Ser Fraian Penicillin [Neighborhood Xref=Kanunsu]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: I think you were saying "Improvement," and I agree. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater, as my great-grandmother used to say. Let's make the incremental improvement that's called for here and let our improved society run — and hope we don't have another such "competition" for a long, long time [tone implies sarcasm here].
     By: Fels Longitudinal Study [Neighborhood Xref=Becotte]
      .focus panel-in-poly-panel: But where do we tinker? Patterns for Good? Patterns for Failure?
     By: Sa Rahflann Quikeremail [Neighborhood Xref=Hasankeyf]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: No, no, no. Beobachtung in every home! I wouldn't mind the world seeing me nude.
      By: Lik Knedmaro Slurpee [Neighborhood Xref=Flora]
     .focus panel-in-poly-panel: Yea, but the world would certainly mind.
     [Lik Knedmaro requests pulse: out of 483,179 active in forum, 42% agree with him, 18% disagree, and 40% abstain]
     By: Mich Eldu Frénoy [Neighborhood Xref=Mawddach]
     .text-only: As I have said before, autant d'hommes, autant d'avis, but that is the point, n'est pas? We all talk, we all decide. I hasten to point out: il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte, and the Founders took that costly first step for us. All we have to do is tweak what they gave us.
     [forum continues]