From: unsettled on 26 Jan 2007 18:45 T Wake wrote: > I may be wrong, but it doesn't matter any more. You no longer wish to debate > and appear to have reverted to argumentative combinations of insults and > sarcasm. I've merely grown weary of reading constant baseless pontification and smug superiority. You argue and write quite well, unfortunately lacking substance.
From: Eeyore on 26 Jan 2007 18:57 unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > > I may be wrong, but it doesn't matter any more. You no longer wish to debate > > and appear to have reverted to argumentative combinations of insults and > > sarcasm. > > I've merely grown weary of reading constant baseless > pontification and smug superiority. You argue and > write quite well, unfortunately lacking substance. It doesn't lack substance at all, it just goes right over your head. Graham
From: MassiveProng on 26 Jan 2007 18:58 On Fri, 26 Jan 07 12:15:54 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >In article <gpnir29u35mv9n1tgfa9blk3ks9d1kadah(a)4ax.com>, > MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>On Thu, 25 Jan 07 13:31:06 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >> >>>And you people are talking about the wrong decade. >>> >>>I was using VT05s in 1972; IIRC, Hastings was typing on his >>>breadboard in 1971. I'm still pissed off at him for not >>>asking me about the keyboard layout. >>> >> >> >> The FCC had emission regs on ALL radiators since the fifties. > >Now read the regs on gear manufactured for non-home use. > What part of ALL radiating devices do you not understand? If anything, the business/commercial class was LESS tolerant of emissions.
From: unsettled on 26 Jan 2007 19:00 T Wake wrote: > If you feel that a Muslim has a special privileged insight into Islam that > no none Muslim can have, then fair enough. Islam is a religion with cultural trappings. The view from inside is rather different from that on the outside. > I disagree. As an example, when I > was at university I was friends with a professor of comparative religion who > was not a Muslim himself but was highly regarded, by Muslims, for his > knowledge of the subject. I guess if you read a extensively about horses, perhaps spent a lot of time with them, you will know what it feels like to be a horse, to think and act like a horse, and to argue that your understanding about being a horse is on an equal footing with that of an actual horse. You realize both renditions are quite good fiction
From: Eeyore on 26 Jan 2007 19:26
unsettled wrote: > I guess if you read a extensively about horses, perhaps > spent a lot of time with them, you will know what it feels > like to be a horse, to think and act like a horse, and to > argue that your understanding about being a horse is on > an equal footing with that of an actual horse. Whereas in your case you've been studying clowns. Graham |