From: Aragorn on
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 23:37 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody
identifying as Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote...

> Aragorn wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 07 October 2009 22:27 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody
>> identifying as John Hasler wrote...
>>
>>> Aragorn writes:
>>>
>>>> Under restraint, in an isolation cell? What harm can they do
>>>> there?
>>>> :-)
>>>
>>> What could they do there at all except consume resources and suffer?
>>
>> They could become One with the Truth and realize the wrongness of
>> their commitment to the Dark Side, Paddawan. :-)
>
> Do you also think you can beat someone smart? He'll never get it,
> though I suppose he could be beaten to a point where he keeps his
> mouth (keyboard) shut. That'd do nicely.

Considering that Sid's mouth in this case is a stream of bits sent onto
the internet, I'd say "Use the killfile, Luke."

I agree that he will never learn - $DEITY knows I've tried to talk some
sense into his skull, and it has gotten *me* killfiled instead (by at
least one person I know of, but there could be more) - and especially
not when everyone keeps giving him exactly what he wants, i.e. a reply.
It means that you're reading his posts, and that's his game. He's
attention-starved and any attention is good attention in his book.

If everyone were to killfile the idiot, he'd have to eventually leave
out of boredom and frustration, because then the only one still reading
his posts would be Sid/Alan himself.

Law of attraction, or otherwise put: what goes around comes around.

--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
From: The Natural Philosopher on
John Hasler wrote:
> Aragorn writes:
>> Under restraint, in an isolation cell? What harm can they do there?
>> :-)
>
> I wrote:
>> What could they do there at all except consume resources and suffer?
>
> Aragorn writes:
>> They could become One with the Truth and realize the wrongness of
>> their commitment to the Dark Side, Paddawan. :-)
>
> Much like the 19th century practice of locking criminals (often
> illiterate ones) in solitary confinement with a Bible. Many went mad.

a very sane response to such an environment, as RD Laing might have said.
From: John Hasler on
Wanna-Be Sys Admin writes:
> Faced with that decision, it's cheaper to just get an old discarded
> seringe and some cheap bulk draino liquid and inject the guy, and then
> burn the remains. Or, just save on the draino and set him on fire
> until there's nothing left.

And then discover that you got the wrong guy (something governments do
with great frequency and the only valid argument against the death
penalty).
--
John Hasler
jhasler(a)newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
From: The Natural Philosopher on
Aragorn wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 October 2009 23:16 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody
> identifying as John Hasler wrote...
>
>> Aragorn writes:
>>> Under restraint, in an isolation cell? What harm can they do there?
>>> :-)
>> I wrote:
>>> What could they do there at all except consume resources and suffer?
>> Aragorn writes:
>>> They could become One with the Truth and realize the wrongness of
>>> their commitment to the Dark Side, Paddawan. :-)
>> Much like the 19th century practice of locking criminals (often
>> illiterate ones) in solitary confinement with a Bible. Many went mad.
>
> Hey, humor me; I was trying to lighten up the mood, and I was under the
> impression that you were too, since you mentioned Sid in one breath
> with Ted Bundy and Adolf Hitler. (If it weren't for the killfilter, I
> would probably seem Sid invoking Godwin here. :p)
>
> Either way, if you want to be so serious about this, all three people
> you mention here are/were different characters. Ted Bundy was a
> homicidal sociopath for which there /could/ have been hope still in the
> form of treatment, had that been an option in those days. Adolf Hitler
> was a monster and should not even be called human anymore.
>
> Sid on the other hand is just a loser with an attitude to cover up for
> the fact that he's a zillion times more stupid than he thinks he is. I
> do believe that *professional* treatment of his psychosis could be
> beneficial, but of course, the practical problem is that one cannot get
> him to voluntarily commit himself to a mental hospital.
>
> I don't see Sid, even as deranged as he is, being either a serial killer
> or a genocidal "demon in human form" who mass-murders about six billion
> people and starts a world war. He's far too busy annoying us here on
> Usenet to be doing any such things. ;-)
>
in which case we can relax and pat ourselves on the back because we are
feeding his paranioa and reinforcing the fantasy that keeps him glued to
his key-bored.

Its OK Sidney, we hate you, we really are out to get you. I wouldn't lie
to you about something like that.

From: Hans-Peter Diettrich on
TJ schrieb:

>> Hi Dan C/Keith Kellerman/Sam/Aragorn, ad infinitum.
>>
>> Get a life, you dickless headsick creep.
>>
>> Sid
> Fascinating. Aragorn, this clueless individual actually thinks you, I,
> Dan C., and dozens of other people are all the same person! I never
> heard anything so hilarious! Have you?

Well, it has some logic in itself. Even if there exists only one reality
(does it?), every person has its own perception of that reality
(imagination). Sid obviously is the only real person in his perception
(solipsism), and he tries to make his outer world behave as he wants it
to behave. But since his outer world only exists in his own head, he in
fact is fighting and blaming anybody but himself. Poor boy :-(


But - when everything exists only in his imagination - how comes that
KDE etc. exist at all? The only possible explanation: he has invented it
himself, and now he is displeased by his own invention. Possible
solution: undo Linux and Usenet, and reinvent it so that it behaves as
you want it to behave. Retry as often as you like, until all other
fictive persons agree with you. Don't try to change the misbehaved
world, simply extinct and rebuild it! :-]

DoDi