Read / Write Comments | By Vexen Crabtree 1999 Feb 01
Unimaginative people and beurocrats like disclaimers.
All pages are Copyright Vexen Crabtree. All rights reserved. If you want to copy any of my text, then quote and attribute it properly. If you want to put any images I have created on your site, then contact me and ask! There are widely used legal precedents for taking reasonably sized quotations from published material and using them as long as you properly attribute it.
Sources of information should always be checked. No authority, claim or assertion should exist unchallenged or be accepted unconditionally. This is why I provide extensive sources and try to always state where I obtained information from. Nonetheless, sometimes mistakes get through the net. If somebody tells me something then it has first been filtered, translated, stored, recalled, re-interpreted and then re-transmitted by at least two fallible Human Beings. Sometimes I may have been misinformed. I could have read an ill-researched book or somebody could have lied. Perhaps it's a conspiracy to deceive or a popular delusion that has undermined my data. No matter what the reason is, I rectify mistakes upon becoming aware of them. So, please, make me aware using the feedback pages I have put on nearly every page.
I am always appalled at how many spelling mistakes, misconstructed sentences and English eccentricities haunt my writing. It seems everytime I review a page, I spot English errors that need correcting. If you spot some, please let me know. I do not mind the occurence of some Americanisms, just like I will occasionally use Latin, French or German phrases (etc). I try to employ spellcheckers but as I write nearly everything in Notepad, sometimes I forget! Don't judge me too harshly about that, ok! This quote from a school report (10 years ago) is amusing and relevant:
“[Vexen] is quiet in class, but is an industrious worker. His imagination is easily fired and he writes with real flair, using good vocabulary to express himself. He writes at length and presents his work well. Obviously he thinks about things and has an individual mind. His weakness is spelling. I want [him] to use the dictionary, to check spellings and to check his final draft after completion.”Gilliam Tomlinson (1992), English teacher report.
Some of my pages are opinionated, arrogant and immature. Be warned. Such forcefulness comes from my enthusiasm for truth and the advancement of humanity.
I am a provider of information. What people decide to do with that information is out of my hands, and not my responsibility! People should take into account the long term consequences of their actions and I provide information to help with people's lives as best I can. All information provided is given with the intent of improving the secure, stable, truth-centered life, and is not to be used destructively.
If the information on any of my pages offends, insults, etc, someone; then so be it. There are so many people that everything written will insult someone. I do not do it on purpose and any such insult is not an attack on any individual.
I thrive on factual arguments. To argue with strong arguments is my favorite method of learning. I have no problems with admitting that I'm made a mistake. I've made mistakes in the past and will continue to do so. You cannot annoy me by having a differing opinion (only by failing to learn or engage). If you do a contrary web page I'll link it in the relevant place, or quote you. Use the Contact Vexen! page! Anything that makes people think is good.
“I think acceptance of personal criticism is an essential part of self development. I think being able to automatically accept criticism is better than automatically rejecting it.”"On the Acceptance of Personal Criticism" by Vexen Crabtree (2002)
If you want to use an image from my server, copy the image to one of your own stores on the Internet. Do not merely embed my image into your page or profile. When I notice an image getting hits from alien servers, I will rename the image, which means the image on your profile will disappear and break. It steals my (precious) bandwidth when you steal images like that, and is bad netiquette.
Read / Write Comments | By Vexen Crabtree 1999 Feb 01
