Was he warned of this beforehand? If not it seems a bit sudden; we may have lost a smart contributor as a result. Hell, Clark and Swobe were worse anyway, and the handwriting was written in large letters on the wall for that situation.<div>
<br></div><div>As for social capital, it's easy to see that someone with no social capital does not deserve a chance. Obviously someone with little clout, say, a patent office worker or something, should be taken less seriously. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Don't we need voices of dissent to produce any sort of meaningful dialectic? Otherwise discourse dissolves into masturbatory circumlocution...just my thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>