Unconfirmed reports have suggested that due to the ever increasing energy prices, and the current political trends by business' to BE GREEN, Fox Sports has been struggling to discover new ways to improve on it's green record while saving significant bucks on energy costs.
An imaginative young system administrator at Fox has come up with a way to combine the traffic generated by hyper-addicted sports fanatics into a heating and cooling money savings bonanza.
By hooking a USB driven fan to the mainframes, this young admin has been able to reduce the amount of energy used to heat and cool the control rooms. To further reduce the need for external heating and cooling this fan has been set to increment much as a page counter. With each visit to a Fox Sports web site, the USB fan engages thus reducing the over-all consumption of or reliance on external heating and cooling. The results have been a significant savings to Fox Sports.
It seems there is currently a delay from the time the page "hit" is registered and the fans engage, thus allowing the system to heat up. The result of these delays are the classic whoops! pages we have all been seeing. It is rumored that as versions 2 and 3 of the software are written, the Whoops! notifications will be seen less and less.
I offer my sincere condolences to the Litteken family, Adam’s friends and the Cottleville community. I can only hope that they can come together and heal from this senseless tragedy.
At times like these I find myself with a lack of words to properly describe the feelings of empathy and sadness that fill me, the depth of those feelings, as painful as they are for me, must be overwhelming to Adam’s parents and close friends, and make my words seem shallow and diminutive to my own ears.
With this said, I hope that the Litteken family will excuse the remainder of this blog, and know that all persons of good spirit support them now in their time of tragedy.
I am appalled and ashamed by the reprehensible comments posted by members of our very own FoxSports community.
DetroitRed, “a message to all the racists who cant wait to delve off topic when its a black guy...sorry he wasn't black”
racefanwfo, “hockey s.u.c.k.s. who cares if the little #### died”
I found these examples on the first 7 pages, along with other posts by our community calling for the death of these posters, while the rest offered support for the Litteken family.
While the three posts I copied from above are bad enough, we have others calling for their death, and discussing racism, and spouting words of hate and disrespect for humanity. As the Litteken family was actually there reading these horrid comments, along with Adam’s classmates, and friends, I decided not to post my comments about our FoxSports community members on the actual story above.
I would expect that an overwhelming majority of our posters, had a true wish to offer words of encouragement and support to those affected by this tragedy, however many of them tainted their posts with comments of hate for posters such as the three I quoted above.
I am not suggesting for one moment that the comments of these three, or any others who may follow their rancid footsteps are to be accepted. I too am angry with them, and pity them for their soulless callow existences, but I do not think that our community members need sully Adams memory with the posts.
I don’t know what if anything can be done to undo the damage that has already been meted upon Adam’s family and friends, they have after all already seen the posts, and for that I am truly ashamed of our community, and offer whatever apologies one could make for the disrespect our community has shown.
I am asking our community, and FoxSports, what if anything can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
I would suggest as a beginning that these posters, the three I noted above, and any others like them, have their accounts terminated at the earliest opportunity, and that such actions as necessary and reasonable be taken to block their ability to return.
I would further suggest that community members that wish to post comments of support not make mention or reference to the posts of these social malcontents while doing so. At least this way, our community moderators can edit and remove the filth deposited by them without having to remove your good intentions.
There is a time and a place for bawdy fanaticism, and strenuous debate laced with colorful language, and testosterone fueled banter, this is not one of them.
I am open to the ideas and suggestions from our community members and FoxSports, on what we as a community can do about these situations, and I hope this blog may inspire the debate necessary to facilitate positive change for our entire community.
