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- From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:01:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.175602.12196@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.113945.26727@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> >Secondly, you're absolutely correct about one thing: I don't
- >> >think this is a very big priority, in my life. No, I'm not
- >> >insensitive or boorish or stooopid -->
- >>I guess you're just a pretty good actor, then. You sure had me
- >>fooled.
- >
- >Me too. Why is it these idiots always stand up and say:
-
-
- Considering the fact that you commented on NOTHING in particular,
- j'accuse, Ry.
-
-
- >1) Not me! However....
- >
- >2) I don't understand why you think this is a big deal and I
- >don't think about it much but....
-
- A question: is this a BIG DEAL for society? Clearly not.
- Do you want to MAKE it a big deal (i.e. move it to the forefront
- of people's consciousness)? Because, folks, most people out
- there don't consider this a big fucking deal.
-
- >3) Since I don't think its important, and since I don't think
- >about it, here's my completely uninformed opinion which I'm sure
- >you're just dying to hear, since I'm so smart and am going to tell
- >you things with my "shoot from the hip" analysis that in all your years
- >of thinking about this will never have occurred to you.
-
- Not we are privvy to any of *your* wry observations and trenchant
- analysis, Ry. Did you just graduate from the Siskel and Ebert
- School of Criticism?
-
- This is what I'm getting from you right now: "I don't like your
- style." Because, sure as hell you didn't critique the contents
- of what I said. Neither did Melinda, and neither did Mara.
- As such, you're wasting bandwidth.
-
-
- >4) Why are you mad? I'm really on your side! Gosh, how rude of you
- >to reject my great wisdom on this subject, if you'd just shut up and
- >listen to clueless me, you'd realize how smart I am! Pout! scream!
- >whine!
-
- Not me, bub. I never pout, I never whine, and I only scream
- when Mara screams first. Yeah, hey, maybe I came off too
- heavy-handed. So shoot me.
-
- >I guess I see this pattern often enough that I want to shoot quick
- >as soon as I see the not me, so I don't have to listen to the rest.
- >
- >
- >Ry Schwark
- >ry@usl.com
-
- No one ASKED you to "listen" (actually "read"). You CHOSE to
- do so. And this, too, is wasting bandwidth.
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