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From: Steve Firth on 11 Jun 2010 15:57 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > Yes well, there's a great deal that is better than that or than the book > > reviewed. The book itself presents nothing new and appears to offer no > > unique insights. > > > > It was done better a long time ago by Giancarlo Livraghi in his book > > "The Power of Stupidity". > > That would be the one published in May, 2009. Obviously a long time > before 2007. <sigh> Are you really as stupid as that makes you seem? > > http://gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm > > I wonder if there's a book called "The Power of Rancor". Apparently you are as stupid as you seem. FWIW, I've known Giancarlo for some time. He wrote that book, and published it, in the 90s. Unlike you and Daniele he's a charming man.
From: Pd on 11 Jun 2010 16:13 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Yes well, there's a great deal that is better than that or than the book > > > reviewed. The book itself presents nothing new and appears to offer no > > > unique insights. > > > > > > It was done better a long time ago by Giancarlo Livraghi in his book > > > "The Power of Stupidity". > > > > That would be the one published in May, 2009. Obviously a long time > > before 2007. > > <sigh> Are you really as stupid as that makes you seem? You betcha, Steve-o. Only stupider. I took the first page it came up on, where it said "Published May 2009". Duh. > > > http://gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm > > > > I wonder if there's a book called "The Power of Rancor". > > Apparently you are as stupid as you seem. Wrong! Stupider. > FWIW, I've known Giancarlo for some time. He wrote that book, and > published it, in the 90s. Unlike you and Daniele he's a charming man. What a shame his charm is clearly not infectious. -- Pd
From: Steve Firth on 11 Jun 2010 17:07 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > FWIW, I've known Giancarlo for some time. He wrote that book, and > > published it, in the 90s. Unlike you and Daniele he's a charming man. > > What a shame his charm is clearly not infectious. You wouldn't know charm if it dropped on you from a great height. You and Daniele do make me sneer, you clearly each consider yourselves to be God's gift when it comes to being "nice" yet you spend so much time being pompous and stupid that you don't have time to look in that deep dark truthful mirror. Or perhaps you just don't like what looks back at you. Go on, post some more sneering to make yourself look better. That always works.
From: Jim on 11 Jun 2010 17:42 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > You wouldn't know charm if it dropped on you from a great height. You > and Daniele do make me sneer, Bless. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 Jun 2010 21:01
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > > > real-not-anti-spam-addr...(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > > > > > I'd read the book if I were you - it's a lot better than my review. > > > > The best kind of review - made me order it straight away. > > Thank you. For a book like that it was a real pleasure to write a > review, but one always wonders whether anyone's actually reading them. > > I think that for me one of the most important things the book did was > offer the first explanation of systematic atrocity that I could really > accept, even though this explanation came with some other discomfiting > consequences about the kind of people who end up participating in > atrocity (i.e. people exactly like us, not like those other people who > participate in atrocity). A trip to A.N. Other Nazi Atrocity Camp ought to convince anyone of that. Just look around at the totally normal people you see living in the area - just like you and me, they are. And they're just like their parents and grandparents etc - and *they* are the ones wot dun it. (well, assuming you're in Germany, he said, thinking that they're not all there. Not that's really significant, except that while (e.g.) Poles are just /like/ the sort of people wot dun it, they're mostly not actually the descendents of those who conducted that particular set of atrocities.) The really interesting bit is `How come?'... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |