Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:17:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <3D764E30.FEE9F60@mindspring.com> References: <200209041142.g84BgY182928@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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Dave Hayes wrote:
> >> > There are people who can not do this. I would prefer to have the
> >> > contributions of those people, than the participation of the trolls.
> >> > If I must lose one or the other, let it be the trolls.
> >>
> >> I feel exactly the opposite. If someone can't hit a key on the
> >> keyboard and render the troll powerless, I don't want to be held
> >> hostage to their choices. Good riddance.
> >
> > You're not held hostage to their choices. Feel free to subscribe
> > to other lists as well.
>
> So I can return to a hostage state? No thanks.
I fail to see how this returns you to a hostage state ("you know";
you won't enlighten everyone; it's much more fun to suffer in the
knowledge that you're the only one suffering in the knowledge,
than it is to explain how having to subscribe to a second mailing
list to get postings from assholes holds you hostage...).
> >> Well, people would focus on not being rich. Then they'd be unhappy.
> >> What good is a BMW if you cant brag to your friends because they
> >> all have one too? ;)
> >
> > The same good it was when you *could* brag: it is a means of
> > getting from point A to point B.
>
> Not exactly the same good, you miss the fun in bragging.
A: "I have a new beamer!"
B: "I don't care."
A: "It goes 0-60 in 5.9!"
B: "Don't you work down main street, where the highest speed limit
is 45?"
A: "It has bucket seats with built in butt-warmers!"
B: "You live in California, where the weather varies between luke
warm and warm"
A: "It has 50 more horse poser than your car!"
B: "What kind of gas mileage does it get?"
A: "You're no damn fun at all, you know?!?"
B: "And you're an idiot who just spent $65,000 to get from point
A to point B..."
-- Terry
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