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From: Sylvain Robitaille on 15 May 2007 00:01 the_bmac wrote: > evidently you disagree and have provided an exhaustive list of > examples to the contrary...or not Certainly not exhaustive I'm sure, but pretty good examples to question your claim that "those hoops do a *much* better job of keeping guns out of the hands of people like that Cho fellow down there in Virginia". You're right that I disagree, and I'm pleased you find I made that evident. > did I say that we haven't had murders by nutcases with guns here in > Canada? You claimed that our gun laws "... do a *much* better job of keeping guns out of the hands of people like that Cho fellow down there in Virginia". I gave you three very obvious examples that disagree with your claim. Would you like to provide examples that support your claim? > ... why deal with the truth of my assertion ... By all means, please do deal with the truth of your "assertion". Please show how our "hoops" have done a "much better" job of keeping guns away from the likes of Seung-Hui Cho. Perhaps you'll show that the examples I gave were not "like" Seung-Hui Cho, because they grew up in Canada, not the US? > to suggest that conditions that create whack-job murderers are the > same on both sides of the border is disingenuous at best. I don't recall making any such suggestion. Perhaps you care to refresh my memory with a direct quote? > who do you work for? Check the signature ... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca Systems and Network analyst Concordia University Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Two Ravens on 15 May 2007 00:10 ANC wrote: > ...There IS a 'psychology' that is going on in this group and I'd love > for some expert to examine it and report on it. This place is a Ph.D > thesis �waiting to be written. We had a so-called 'psychologist' give us, (the newsgroup), the benefit of his opinion a short while ago. He metaphorically stamped his feet and sulked, then went on to loudly 'plonk' people, including me. To be fair though, I don't think he was really a professional 'psychologist'. As Floyd Davidson wrote earlier in the thread, its not just this newsgroup its usenet as a whole, it also seems to have become a lot worse since "Google Groups" gave access to those who previously had to be able to operate a news client to post. There doesn't seem to be any consequence to bad behaviour with "Google Groups" access. -- Two Ravens "...hit the squirrel..."
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 15 May 2007 00:22 Keith Keller wrote: >> That's just a two-minute penalty, though. > Tell that to Chris Simon. ;-/ Yeah, ok, he and a few others I can think. It's too bad, though, because I generally liked the way he plays. I obviously could not forgive what he did, and I've been having the same dilemma with Todd Bertuzzi: like the way he plays, but simply can't forget (or forgive) that one brief moment a couple of years ago. Hockey's a rough sport, but these guys are paid very well to play it not only at a very high level of intensity, but also a high level of professionalism. Wow! this is getting progressively further off-topic, isn't it? Do you suppose Chris Simon runs Slackware Linux on his laptop? There! Now we can carry on and it's on-topic! ;-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca Systems and Network analyst Concordia University Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Keith Keller on 15 May 2007 01:08 On 2007-05-15, Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: > Wow! this is getting progressively further off-topic, isn't it? Do you > suppose Chris Simon runs Slackware Linux on his laptop? There! Now we > can carry on and it's on-topic! ;-) If Simon even knows what Slackware Linux is I'd be impressed. ;-) With both Bertuzzi and Simon, I feel like they've taken their punishment, now they're free. If they transgress like that in the future, then the NHL can take their past into account, but if they don't get themselves in trouble then it was probably a one-time thing done in the heat of the moment without thinking. That's a lot unlike some of the regular posters here, who repeatedly (and incorrectly) predict the demise of Slackware: they've repeated their behaviour so often it's hard not to advocate a lifetime ban from the league. I can't *forgive* Bertuzzi or Simon, but I would like to think that I can try not to hold their past actions against them for what they don't do in the present. --keith -- kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information
From: rm on 15 May 2007 01:29
Floyd L. Davidson <floyd(a)apaflo.com> wrote: > rm(a)biteme.org wrote: >>Year round, Floyd takes his trusty .22 out on his polar bear >>hunts. > A *lot* of polar bears have been shot with 22 caliber rifles > around here. ..22 magnums, perhaps. And how many of these shooters lived to brag about it? cordially, as always, rm |