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From: lucasea on 10 Nov 2006 00:34 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:e3e99$4553f7c5$4fe76f5$27117(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > >> Getting into a pissing contest never fixed >> bugs and usually made the side effects worse. > > Ah, but for some of us it is satisfying. Finally, you're honest about your reasons for being here. Figured out what "PLONK" means yet? Eric Lucas > I was a participant some years in a newsgroup where a female > participant decided she'd put her name in the title whenever > she replied, so she could skip all the other postings. It > didn't take long till every response in the newsgroup had > her trademark in the subject line, and she was right back > where she had started. There's no program to auto modify > the title afetr the first response, so the outcome is > predictable. BAH, I would suggest the best response is to ignore him. His content:insult ratio is about as low as it gets, save JoeBlows. > More likely it is errors in your machinery/software. Ya think, considering she's using 20 year old technology? Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 10 Nov 2006 00:37 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:e7350$4553fa7e$4fe76f5$27174(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > Ken Smith wrote: > >> In article <e7e64$45515248$49ecf6c$10663(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> [...] >> >>>It amazing to me how far afield from the original conversation >>>this has been taken in order to avoid confronting the valid >>>points that were made. > >> You can't have been around the internet for long in that case. It is >> common for threads to have a relitivistic blue shift because they digress >> so far. > > Shift is one thing, avoidance is another. That shift happens > is common enough. The trouble they took to assure avoidance > is the real surprise. > > snip irrelevant response Here's another translation for you: "avoidance" = "doesn't immediately fall to the ground and kow-tow to unsettled/BAHs irrelevant points, but rather decides to take the discussion onto more relevant paths." Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 10 Nov 2006 00:37 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:9bf85$4553faee$4fe76f5$27174(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > Ken Smith wrote: > > Nothing > > snip Now who's avoiding? Eric Lucas
From: Ken Smith on 10 Nov 2006 00:38 In article <455407DE.DA4262ED(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Ken Smith wrote: > >> In article <45535A63.7B55EF05(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> [....] >> >> The fact that you perceive none exists is due to our >> >> Democrat leadership undermining those policies. The basis of >> >> their yapping is the assumption that the threat doesn't exist. >> > >> >There is no real *threat* ! >> >> That statement is not right. There are many many real threats. Fixating >> on a minor one and ignoring the more important ones is what has really >> happened. > >Do you consider Islam to be a real threat to the USA ? Radical Islam, I think, really belongs somewhat above being attacked by giant mutant squids and a long way below N. Korea. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: lucasea on 10 Nov 2006 00:42
"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message news:ej12bf$ms1$3(a)blue.rahul.net... > In article <1ac67$4554024d$4fe76f5$27303(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> In article <f4p7l21a400mq09lf26tcq86s8gkv3q479(a)4ax.com>, >>> JoeBloe <joebloe(a)nosuchplace.org> wrote: >>> [....] >>> >>>> Name a foreign part in the M1 Abrams. >>> >>> >>> Q401 >>> >>> That was easy. >>> >>> >>Silliness, goofy behavior, excitability, inappropriate >>humor ... the first signs of bipolar disorder. > > Yes, I think you may be right. You should see a doctor, I hear that have > drugs for it these days. Ken, if I were you, I'd just ignore him...his content:insult ration has simply dropped too low to worry about any more. His insults are the pointless ramblings of someone who finds himself in an untenable position, and can only make points by using ad hominem. > BTW: Those in the sci.electronics.design group will have understood the > joke more thoroughly than others. For those: Q401 would be a transistor > and it is very unlikely that there are no transistors in the M1 that are > made outside the country. sci.chem thanks you. Eric Lucas |