Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 21:25:34 12/03/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 10:13:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 02, 2003 at 01:10:24, Johan de Koning wrote: >>I know you know the I in ICGA and the W in WCCC. > >Yes. "I" somehow equates to "European".. > >This organization is _really_ the ECGA, not the ICGA. And the WCCC is really >the ECCC. World events are held all over the world. Continental events are >held on a specific continent. > >>And I hope you know that 98% of this world's population does not care about >>TG-day, nor about I-day, nor about Halloween, nor about UAb classes. > >This isn't about "UAB classes". It is about taking off for 1.5 weeks from >_any_ job, spending a lot of money to trave, for room and food, and doing >it _every_ year/ every 3 years, since these events are _never_ held outside >Europe. There are other continents on this planet. But my stand here is well >known and won't change anything, except that something will come along to >replace ECGA with something containing a real I.. even if I means Internet. So you can't/wantn't invest the time, the energy, and the money. That's understandable, but it applies to everyone around the globe. (Particularly to those with real jobs. :-) Since North America is a big continent, it also applies to anyone living there at one end and playing at the other end. In that regard there's little difference between for example Boston, LA, Vancouver and Tokyo, Sydney, Johannesburg. There are of course cultural problems. Some people in some places do not fluently speak your native language. Not to mention different foods, different holidays, different ethics on recrational chemicals, recreational weapons, and recreational driving (a panic break on "die Autobahn" cost me to tyres). But again, these problems apply to everyone around the globe. The bottom line is that you have to choose your excuses carefully. An interesting optimization problem is to pick more then one excuse without offending the rest of the world. ... Johan
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