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- Dann Stubbs (dsdmmedia@aol.com) wrote:
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- > It is interesting to see what pieces of my message people use,
- > while overall disregarding the positive pieces.
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- You've consistently failed to make any distinction between the small
- number of "fanatical" Amiga owners and the rest of us. You insult
- everyone. Under those circumstances, your audience isn't obligated
- to search for the positive parts of your messages. It's up to you
- to make yourself clear.
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- > I didn't ask for the guy to take away my right to freedom of speech.
- > Who does he think he is anyway. I thought if he has the nuts to say
- > that privately, that others should "hear" what he is saying.
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- You didn't think at all. The author of the suggestion that you "shut
- up" doesn't have the power to take away your freedom of speech. The
- issue is the publication of private correspondence without the consent
- of the author. In any venue other than the electronic wonderland,
- that's a crime. Here, it is merely in bad taste.
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- > My original intent was to just spread a little light about the
- > bigotry of Amiga users.
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- My bigotry? Everyone's? Am I part of a "fanatical cult"? How much
- light did you think you would spread by telling your audience they
- were a bunch of amateurs because they don't own SGIs?
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- It seems clear that your original intent was to offer a strident
- defense of your own large investment in SGI by knocking down the straw
- man of Amiga chauvanism. You entered this thread by shouting down a
- joke John Foust threw out about Wavefront owners crying when they lose
- confidence in the wisdom of their investment. The incoherent bluster
- of your reply gave John's quip a biting irony it couldn't have achieved
- on its own.
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- No reasonable person would deny that SGI hardware and Wavefront are
- capable tools, nor that attachment to any one platform or application
- to the exclusion of all others is counterproductive and irrational.
- By the same token, and as I've said before, there's no reason to take
- seriously anyone who measures his prowess or his success by the size
- or the power of his equipment.
-
- - Ernie
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